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New Year's Eve
is traditionally the busiest day of the year
at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and
Disneyland in Anaheim, California, where the
parks stay open late and the usual nightly
fireworks are supplemented by an additional
New Year's Eve-specific show at midnight. A
variety of one-day bands are brought in to
entertain the masses during the Disneyland
New Year's Eve celebrations, for example, and
once midnight rolls around on December 31, a
special fireworks show lights up the sky.
The fun doesn't start or stop with the New
Years Eve celebrations, however. The holiday
season at Disneyland runs from early
November through early January, and the
resort is particularly festive during this
period..
Walt Disney
World Resort (also known colloquially as
Disney World), is the world's largest and
most-visited recreational resort. Located
approximately 21 miles (34 km) southwest of
Orlando, Florida, United States, the resort
covers an area of 30,080-acre (47.00 sq mi;
121.7 km2) and includes four theme parks,
two water parks, 23 on-site themed resort
hotels (excluding eight that are on-site,
but not owned by the Walt Disney Company),
including a campground, two health spas and
physical fitness centers, and other
recreational venues and entertainment. It
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).
The resort was
inspired by the dreams of Walt Disney, who
wanted a park on the East Coast to
supplement Disneyland in California (Disney
World's Magic Kingdom was designed similarly
to Disneyland). However, Walt envisioned
Disney World to be much different from
Disneyland's one day visit. This included
entertainment, uniquely-themed resort
hotels, and a much wider variety of sports
and recreational opportunities. In fact,
Walt's original plans for the Florida
property were far more ambitious: he also
wanted to construct a real planned city of
approximately 20,000 residents, the
"Experimental Prototype Community of
Tomorrow", which would serve as a test bed
for city planning and organization. Walt
died in 1966 before his vision was fully
realized, and his plans for Disney World
eventually evolved to what it is today.
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