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Walt Disney Imagineering Research & Development, Inc., [1] commonly referred to as Imagineering, is the research and development arm of The Walt Disney Company, responsible for the creation, design, and construction of Disney theme parks and attractions worldwide.
The main features of the plan included the theme park, hotels, campgrounds and motels, convention facilities, the EPCOT city and a satellite community, a golf course, a "swamp ride", an industrial park, a tourist trailer camp, a main entrance, and a "jet airport". In addition, a monorail would run the length of the property, north to south.
The park is divided into six zones or 'worlds'. [1] Two of the six worlds represent global brands such as Cartoon Network and Marvel, while the IMG Boulevard, Lost Valley, Haunted Town and IMG Kid zones are created by the IMG Group. The park is the second-largest theme park in a temperature-controlled environment worldwide.
Wood had devised plans for an American-history theme park as early as 1957, in conjunction with Milton Ted Raynor, who later became president of Freedomland Inc. [5] [6] The new theme park would be themed entirely around American history, in a more historically accurate version of the Disneyland layout, which initially included four distinct ...
The Universal Epic Universe theme park campus is located several miles southeast of the existing Universal Orlando Resort. The larger 750-acre (300 ha) site, situated south of Sand Lake Road and east of Universal Boulevard , [ 4 ] began construction in 2021 that will add new infrastructure including a $315-million, 1.7-mile (2.7 km) extension ...
An amusement park is a contemporary arrangement, designed to combine components of a fair, carnival, and theme park. An early example of an amusement park is the Bartholomew Fair . [ 9 ] By the 18th and 19th centuries, they had evolved into places of entertainment for the masses, where the public could view freak shows , acrobatics , conjuring ...
Disney's America was a proposed Disney theme park in the early 1990s. A site was selected in Haymarket, Virginia, approximately five miles (8.0 km) from Manassas National Battlefield Park and 35 miles (56 km) west of Washington, D.C., accessible from Interstate 66.
Theme Park Studio is an amusement park simulator game developed by Pantera Entertainment. [1] The project began seeking funding on Kickstarter in 2013 and has been released in phases since February 2014. [2] It allows users to design and build their own theme parks featuring roller coasters and flat rides; similar to RollerCoaster Tycoon 3.