Magic Kingdom Park
Magic Kingdom Theme Park is located in Bay Lake, Orlando, Florida, inside the Disney World Park & Resort. The park was constructed as the first theme park among all the four parks on 1st October 1971 at the resort and is operated by The Walt Disney Company’s Parks, Experiences, and Products division. Walt Disney conceived the park, which was created by the designing company WED Enterprises. Its attractions and layouts are inspired by the devoted to Disney characters and fairy tales, and Disneyland Park in Anaheim, California.
Cinderella Castle, related to the fairy tale and fantasy castle shown in the film, represents the park. For the thirteenth year in a row, the park attracted more than 20.9 million tourists, making it the best theme park in the whole world and the frequently visited park of North America in the last nineteen years.
The Magic Kingdom is separated into six “lands” with different themes. The hub is in front of Cinderella Castle, and it’s shaped like a wheel. Pathways radiate from the core across the park’s 107 acres (43 hectares), leading to these six lands. The Walt Disney World Railroad makes stops at Main Street, U.S.A., Frontier land, and Fantasyland as it circles the park’s 1.5-mile (2.4-kilometer) circumference.
Construction and Laws
Walt Disney was heavily involved in the planning of EPCOT, but he passed away before seeing the entire constructed view. Walt Productions then started working on Magic Kingdom in 1967, after Walt’s death. The theme park was designed to be a larger, better counterpart of California’s Disneyland Park.
The Magic Kingdom was created over a network of utilidors (a combination of utility and corridor) that allowed personnel (known as “cast members”) and important guests to enter the park without being seen.
The tunnels were not created underwater due to Florida’s high water table, therefore they were erected at the current grade, which means the park is created on the first level, giving the Magic Kingdom a height of 108 feet or 33 m. The wastes that are acquired by the Seven Seas Lagoon, which was being built at that time, were used to fill in the space around the utilidors. The joints were established at the start of the park’s development and were not expanded to the park’s growth. The tunnels were supposed to be built into all following Walt Disney World parks, but they were shelved due to budget constraints. Future World at Epcot and Pleasure Island at Disney Springs each have a short network of joints or utilidors.
Since the park’s inception, alcoholic beverages have been prohibited, although this policy has recently been altered. For the first time in 2012, the Be Our Guest restaurant began selling wine and beer. Cinderella’s Royal Table, Liberty Tree Tavern, Tony’s Town Square Restaurant, and the Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen were the only places in the park where alcohol was permitted until December 2014, when four additional restaurants, including Cinderella’s Royal Table, Liberty Tree Tavern, Tony’s Town Square Restaurant, and the Jungle Navigation Co. The practice is illegal and prohibited on Disney grounds, and anyone distributing cremated remains is breaking the law.
