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Resources and bibliography

  • Walt Disney World covers 27, 258 acres (43 square miles) – about the same area as all of San Francisco and two times the size of Manhattan.

  • Since its opening in 1971, WDW monorail trains have registered enough miles to make 30 round trips to the moon.

  • Disney World’s 4 Theme Parks: Opening Year / Annual Attendance TOTAL 58,311,000 visitors per year based on 2018

  • Magic Kingdom: 1971 – 20,859,000 (2018)

  • Epcot: 1982 – 12,444,000 (2018)

  • Hollywood Studios: 1989 – 11,258,000 (2018)

  • Animal Kingdom – 1998 – 13,750,000 (2018)

  • With nearly 21 million visitors in 2018, Disney World's Magic Kingdom is the most visited theme park in the world.

  • Walt Disney World employs more people than every other Disney park combined. If you added up the number of employees at every other Disney property worldwide—Disneyland Resort in California, Disneyland Paris, Tokyo Disney Resort, Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, and Shanghai Disney Resort—you'd still fall around 5,000 people short of the 70,000 folks who work at Walt Disney World in Florida. What's more, each of the park's employees—from its costumed princesses to its front-desk clerks—are lovingly referred to as "cast members." And with that many people putting on the show each day, Walt Disney World is the largest single-site employer in the United States.

  • Each year, Disney visitors consume seven million hamburgers, a half-million pounds of mac and cheese, one million pounds of watermelon, and two million pounds of ketchup. It takes 350 chefs to keep up with the demand.

  • Each year, guests purchase more than 75 million Coca-Cola beverages.

  • To remove trash from the park, the Magic Kingdom uses an automated vacuum collection (AVAC) system that functions in the park's vast underground utilidors, or underground tunnels. To use the system, custodians remove trash and dump it into special processors. From there, it's brought underground and pushed along at 60 miles per hour to a central location where it is processed, compressed, and transferred to a landfill or recycling center.

  • Keeping thousands of cast members squeaky clean takes work—and most of it is done by the folks at the Disney World Laundry. Each day, cast members there do around 285,000 pounds of laundry. If you broke that down to one load of laundry a day, it'd take you 52 years to get through.

  • Expedition Everest is the tallest ride in Walt Disney World at 199.5ft. 

  • An estimated 1.65 million sunglasses have been lost at Disney World since it opened. On average, around 210 pairs of sunglasses are turned in at the Disney World lost and found each day

  • Disney World isn't only about rides and restaurants. In fact, more than 12 percent of the park, or 4,000 acres, is taken up by gardens and other maintained landscapes. That's around 3,000 football fields of greenery. To keep things fresh, each year horticulturalists plant some three million annual plants.

  • Tower of Terror cost $140Million to build, beating Expedition Everest's $100Mil. 

 

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Best Life. 2021. 35 Amazing Facts About Disney World Only Insiders Know | Best Life. [online] Available at: <https://bestlifeonline.com/whimsical-disney-world-facts/> [Accessed 15 January 2021].

 

Disney News. 2021. 150 Amazing Walt Disney World Facts And Statistics. [online] Available at: <https://disneynews.us/walt-disney-world-statistics-fun-facts/> [Accessed 15 January 2021].

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Sheetz, J., 2021. 5 Crazy Cool Disney World Facts We JUST LEARNED. | The Disney Food Blog. [online] the disney food blog. Available at: <https://www.disneyfoodblog.com/2020/05/12/5-crazy-cool-disney-world-facts-we-just-learned/> [Accessed 15 January 2021].

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Magic Guides. 2021. Disney World Statistics - The Truly Fascinating Numbers Behind Disney. [online] Available at: <https://magicguides.com/disney-world-statistics/> [Accessed 21 February 2021].

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2021. [online] Available at: <https://www.bestoforlando.com/articles/facts-expedition-everest/> [Accessed 21 February 2021].

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2018. Theme-Index-2018 global Attractions Attendance Report. [ebook] Theme-Index-2018 global Attractions Attendance Report. Available at: <https://www.aecom.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/Theme-Index-2018-4.pdf> [Accessed 21 February 2021].

 

OTHER WEBSITES USED FOR RESEARCH AND CONTEXT

Maher, M., 2021. Rotoscoping: From Early Animation To Blockbuster VFX. [online] RocketStock. Available at: <https://www.rocketstock.com/blog/rotoscoping-from-early-animation-to-blockbuster-vfx/> [Accessed 26 January 2021].

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TechRadar. 2021. The Evolution Of 3D Games. [online] Available at: <https://www.techradar.com/uk/news/gaming/the-evolution-of-3d-games-700995> [Accessed 26 January 2021].

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3drender.com. 2021. Three Point Lighting Tutorial. [online] Available at: <http://3drender.com/light/3point.html> [Accessed 4 February 2021].

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Scan2CAD. 2021. How CAD Has Evolved Since 1982 — Past, Present & Future | Scan2CAD. [online] Available at: <https://www.scan2cad.com/cad/cad-evolved-since-1982/#:~:text=ADAM%2C%20a%20CAD%20software%20used,the%20world%20of%203D%20modeling.> [Accessed 4 February 2021].

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SVS, N., 2021. SVS: CGI Moon Kit. [online] Svs.gsfc.nasa.gov. Available at: <https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4720> [Accessed 24 February 2021].

 

Youtube: Tower of Terror Ride. 2021. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vbQHmC7AWo&t=152s> [Accessed 24 February 2021].

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YouTube: Magic Kingdom Entrance Loop. 2021. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyWlxq2kOvw&t=66s> [Accessed 24 February 2021].

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Animation Studios. 2021. Passion Animation Studios –. [online] Available at: <http://www.passion-pictures.com/uk/animation-studios/work/?category=gorillaz> [Accessed 1 March 2021].

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2021. Blender Beginner Modeling Exercises - SODA CAN Part 1. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSVJqXoc658&t=434s> [Accessed 1 March 2021].

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2021. Moon Landing in Blender 2.8 - 3D Modeling Process. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVtsIu1ocds&t=1695s> [Accessed 1 March 2021].

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2021. Stylized moon Blender Eevee YouTube. [online] Available at: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOssaQAmVN0&t=215s> [Accessed 1 March 2021].

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