101 Things You Never Knew About Walt Disney World
by Kevin Yee

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You might have heard a few interesting facts about Walt Disney World over the years. Perhaps you've heard that the windows on the second story of the buildings on Main Street honor individuals of note in WDW history? Or that the company plane Walt used to survey the eventual WDW property from the air now lives at the studios park? It's all true... but these are only two of the interesting facts pointed out in this book. And those are only two of the best-known examples. Many of these stories deal with much more obscure, yet equally interesting, pieces of history of the theme parks. You haven't heard all these stories before!

Do you know the nods to now-removed attractions at Mission: Space, Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin, American Idol Experience, and Animal Kingdom's Discovery River? How about tributes to the Living Seas, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, El Rio Del Tiempo, Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, Alien Encounter, or the Main Street Electrical Parade? Do you know where in each of the four parks the opening date of the park is commemorated?

Not enough yet? How about Walt Disney's first office as a new arrival to Southern California, McDonald's former sponsorship of Dinoland, Bob Hope, or the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim?

There are tributes to Imagineers Marty Sklar, John Lasseter, Herb Ryman, Joyce Carlson, Leota Thomas, Blaine Gibson, Fulton Burley, Winston Hibler, Rick Rothschild, Harper Goff, Morgan Evans, and dozens more. Can you find them all?

The second edition greatly expands the roster of tributes. In fact, the individual items are no longer numbered, and the list wouldn't stop at 101 if the numbers were still present. There are more like 250 items explained here! This edition also adds photographs of many of the items in question, introduces a section on mistakes/gaffes in the attractions, and even serves up a section on the hidden tributes in Universal Studios Florida and Islands of Adventure.

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