Disney CEO Michael Eisner took an especially keen interest in the development of the new town in the early days, encouraging the executives at Disney Development Company to " make history " and develop a town worthy of the Disney brand and legacy that extended to Walt Disney's vision of an Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow ( EPCOT ).

Disney's original vision of EPCOT was for a model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a test bed for city planning and organization.

In Walt Disney's words: " EPCOT ... will take its cue from the new ideas and new technologies that are now emerging from the creative centers of American industry.

Walt Disney's original vision of EPCOT was for a model community, home to twenty thousand residents, which would be a test bed for city planning and organization.

Before the park debuted on October 1, 1982, Walt Disney World Ambassador Genie Field introduced E. Cardon Walker, Disney's chairman and CEO, who dedicated EPCOT Center.

In 1993, plans were made to update and modernize the overall tone of Walt Disney's EPCOT Center, including a major refurbishment of The Land pavilion.

In the spring of 2007 and 2008, Peter and Gordon were featured performers in the Flower Power concert series at Disney's EPCOT in Florida.

Other filming locations at Walt Disney World included Disney's Old Key West Resort, Fort Wilderness Campground, and EPCOT, used heavily due to the wide variety of futuristic and architectural styles available at that theme park.

It is believed that Val d ' Europe and Celebration are descendants of Walt Disney's original plan for The Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow – EPCOT, which was originally intended as Walt Disney's plan for a city of the future.

Concept art and models were featured in the 1982 book " Walt Disney's EPCOT Center ", along with a proposed Africa pavilion.

* Disney's Animal Kingdom theme park features an artificial tree dubbed " The Tree of Life ," which has about 325 carvings of different species of animals.

Disney World opened on October 1, 1971 with only the Magic Kingdom theme park and has since added Epcot ( October 1, 1982 ), Disney's Hollywood Studios ( May 1, 1989 ) and Disney's Animal Kingdom ( April 22, 1998 ).

In 1989, the resort added Disney-MGM Studios, a theme park inspired by show business, whose name was changed to Disney's Hollywood Studios in 2008.

The resort's fourth theme park, Disney's Animal Kingdom, opened in 1998.

was an attraction at Disney's Hollywood Studios ( formerly Disney-MGM Studios ) theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida and Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim, California.

It left a remembered vision that inspired the Emerald City of L. Frank Baum's Land of Oz and Walt Disney's theme parks.

The handprints of Leonard Nimoy in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park

Song of the South was re-released in theatres several times after its original Walt Disney Pictures / RKO Pictures premiere, each time through Buena Vista Pictures: in 1956 ; in 1972 for Walt Disney's 50th anniversary ; in 1973 as the second-half of a double bill with The Aristocats ; in 1980 for the 100th anniversary of Harris ' classic stories ; and in 1986 for the film's own 40th anniversary and in promotion of the upcoming Splash Mountain attraction at three of Disney's theme parks.

The Sorcerer's Hat is the icon of Disney's Hollywood Studios, one of the four theme parks located at Walt Disney World Resort.

Though Disney Studio Chairman Dick Cook was a staunch supporter of Miramax, the brand was less of a priority for Bob Iger, whose strategy was to focus on Disney's branded mass entertainment that can be exploited across Disney's theme parks, television and consumer products.

In late 1984 the heads of Disney's theme park division, Dick Nunis and Jim Cora, presented a list of approximately 1, 200 possible European locations for the park.

The handprints of James Doohan in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a theme park ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios and Disney California Adventure Park, has a replica of Henry Bemis ' broken glasses in the lobby.

In 2001, he became the new voice of Disney's Peter Pan, and has performed that voice in various children's films as well as in recordings for the Disney theme parks.

This ABC show popularized his new Disneyland theme park and began a decades-long series of TV broadcasts of Disney cartoons, which later expanded into the show Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.

The hand prints of Allen in front of Hollywood Hills Amphitheater at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.

Her show inspired an adventure ride at Disney's Epcot which ran for over 5 years at the theme park, as well as two Disney Channel movies Kim Possible: So the Drama and Kim Possible: A Sitch in Time.

Hench went on to design many iconic elements for Disney's theme parks, including Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland, Space Mountain, and contributed to attractions such as the Mickey Mouse Revue.

The handprints of Neil Diamond in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park

Ohana is a key theme in Disney's 2002 film, Lilo and Stitch and the succeeding television series based on the film.

On February 14, 2009, The Walt Disney Company debuted " The American Idol Experience " at its Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park at the Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.

He has also homered in The Ballpark at Disney's Wide World of Sports, near Orlando, Florida, a usually minor-league and Spring Training park that hosted a regular season series between the Rangers and the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in May 2007, although he did not hit a homer at the two regular season games the Cubs played at the Tokyo Dome in 2000 vs. the Mets.

* Disney's River Country: The first water park at the Walt Disney World Resort.

After Disney's Animal Kingdom — an African-and-Asian-themed animal preserve and park — opened, any plans for an African Pavilion were dropped.

In the mid-1990s, The Walt Disney Company planned to build a history-themed park, to be called Disney's America, in Haymarket, but the plan was scrapped due to opposition from a variety of groups, including one led by noted historian David McCullough.

A replica of the little boy's toy telephone is on display in one of the gift shop windows at the Hollywood Tower Hotel in Disney's California Adventure park.

The park would have been amalgamated into the Disneyland Resort and converted into Disney's America, which had previously failed to be built near Washington, D. C.

The handprints of Maureen O ' Sullivan in front of The Great Movie Ride at Walt Disney World's Disney's Hollywood Studios theme park.

* 1998 – Disney's Animal Kingdom opens at Walt Disney World near Orlando, Florida, United States.

In addition, the Disney-controlled town of Celebration, Florida, which was built with many of Walt Disney's original ideas, which have evolved into a form of New Urbanism, was deannexed from Bay Lake and the District to keep its residents from having power over Disney by providing for separate administration of the areas.

Disney's vision was not realized as funding and permission to start work on his Florida property would not be granted until he agreed to build the Magic Kingdom first.

The model community of Celebration, Florida has been mentioned as a realization of Disney's original vision, but Celebration is based on concepts of new urbanism which is radically different from Disney's modernist and futurist visions.

Dinosaur Gertie's is a soft serve ice cream location at Disney's Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World, Florida.

Both Spanish sites were located near the Mediterranean Sea and offered a subtropical climate similar to Disney's parks in California and Florida.

The Band and Choir also make a trip every four years to the Walt Disney World Resort in central Florida to participate in Disney's Magic Music Days Program.

In 1938 after Disney's success with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Paramount gave the Fleischers permission to produce a feature film and Fleischer studio relocated itself from New York to Miami, Florida in order to avoid organized unions, which became a threat to the studio after a five-month strike occurred among Fleischer Studio workers in late 1937.

However, some could say that Disney's Celebration, Florida, as an example of a private company responding to the market for urban-oriented development.

Two red telephone boxes are on display at the World Showcase area of Disney's Epcot in Orlando, Florida, One is on display at English Gardens a Place for Weddings in Winter Park close to downtown Orlando, Florida.

In more recent years, New Urbanism has set the stage for new cities, with places like the idyllic Seaside, Florida, and Disney's new town of Celebration, Florida.

* Disney's Venetian Resort, an unrealized project for Walt Disney World, Florida

occupied the Theater in the Wild at Disney's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida from 1999 to 2006.

Humphrey is currently the spokes-character for Disney's Wilderness Lodge Resort at Walt Disney World in Florida.

* Lake Buena Vista, Florida – Disney's Animal Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort

* Disney's Animal Kingdom, a theme park at Walt Disney World, Florida, U. S.

Magic Kingdom opened as the first part of Walt Disney's planned Florida Project on Oct. 1, 1971.