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Epcot, stylized in all uppercase as EPCOT, is a theme park at the Walt Disney World resort in Bay Lake, Florida. It is owned and operated by The Walt Disney Company through its Disney Experiences division. The park opened on October 1, 1982, as EPCOT Center, the second of four theme parks built at the resort.
The Walt Disney World Resort (also known as Walt Disney World or Disney World) is an entertainment resort complex located about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of Orlando, Florida, United States. Opened on October 1, 1971, the resort is operated by Disney Experiences, a division of The Walt Disney Company. The property covers nearly 25,000 acres (39 ...
The Walt Disney Company (commonly referred to as simply Disney) is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. Disney was founded on October 16, 1923, by brothers Walt Disney and Roy Oliver Disney as Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio; it also operated under ...
The Walt Disney World Casting Center is the official center for employment and recruiting for the Walt Disney World Resort. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and built by Orlando -based design-build company H. J. High Construction, the building opened in 1989. [1] The Casting Center is located across from the Disney Springs complex near ...
The Extraterrorestrial Alien Encounter (stylized as ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter) was a "theater-in-the-round" attraction located in the Tomorrowland section of the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World Resort. [2] A co-production between Walt Disney Imagineering and Lucasfilm (then separate from The Walt Disney Company), the ...
MyMagic+ is a suite of technologies first implemented at the Walt Disney World Resort that enable a number of services and enhancements to guests of the resort. Influenced by wearable computing and the concept of the Internet of Things, the system is primarily designed to consolidate various functions, such as payments, hotel room access, ticketing, FastPass, into a digital architecture ...
Disney Experiences. Disney Experiences, [a] commonly known as Disney Parks, is one of the three major divisions of The Walt Disney Company. [4][2] It was founded on April 1, 1971, exactly six months before the opening of Walt Disney World. Led by Josh D'Amaro, the company's theme parks hosted over 157.3 million guests, making Disney Parks the ...
Partners (statue) Partners. (statue) Partners is a 1993 copper statue by Blaine Gibson depicting Walt Disney holding the hand of the most popular character he created, Mickey Mouse. The statue is 6 feet 5 inches (196 cm), 7 inches (18 cm) taller than Disney himself. It is the central point of attention as guests enter some of the Disney parks.