"We believe in our idea: a family park where parents and children could have fun - together."- Walt Disney
 

Don't forget to visit the Very Merry Christmas Christmas Party

Welcome to my Walt Disney World website and welcome to www.BigFloridaCountry.com

WDW's entrance 09-22-2006

WDW's Entrance at night 10-07-2006

WDW's entrance 06-12-2004

A "Walk Around the World" Brick  (can still get but stopped in 2000)

Epcot's Leave a Legacy Program. Ended in 2007

Here is the location map when you are looking for your own tile.

From on top of the Contemporary 04-22-2005, What a View!!!

The Castle from way atop of the Contemporary.

mmmmm. Mickey Ice Cream Bar

Faith would like to welcome everyone to come to Disney

Lori and John taking care of the Zerg 12-2004

At the Boardwalk....Scott Louie Gregg and John 05-13-2005

Lori Carol George Gregg John Loraine Scott

Some quick links to WDW info

407 WDISNEY

1-877-939-3732

WDW Parks      WDW Resorts

WDW Dining      WDW Phone Numbers

WDW Restaurant Menu's

More Menus     WDW for the Large

WDW Florist (delivers to WDW resorts) 8776080066

More Walt Disney Numbers

WDW Passholder's  info

WDW Florida Residents info     WDW Discounts from MouseSavers

WDW Ride Heights    Disney Wilderness Preserve

Epcot's Leave a Legacy Program

The Resorts

WDW Vacation Planning Kit (it's free from Disney)

Mission Space..... Don't miss it. orange or green

EPCOT Center

photo by Steve J

Don't forget to try out Soarin' at Epcot and  Everest at Animal Kingdom

Disney On-Ride's

"I'm doing this because I want to do it better"—Walt Disney

Click the link above to see some of my on ride videos from Walt Disney World. Thanks Steve.

Chronology of Walt Disney World

A scale model of the Walt Disney World resort's original layout

And what the resort looked like around 1977

The Castle and old Swan Boat queue line

How the Castle has changed over the last 25 or so years.

Trees are so small when the park opened

Main Street during one of the E-Ride nights. (now called extra magic hours)

A night on Main Street - Hey Clint

Epcot, one beautiful night.

Click the photo for more images of Walt Disney World

The mission space "barf" bags :)

Mickey Mouse and Roy Disney Jr WDW 11-30-2006

Here's how the "Rivers of America" looked empty.

Thanks Loraine and Gregg. The pictures are great!

Mickey's own power pole

A room being installed during the construction of Contemporary.

Don Rousseau was one of the many people that helped put this building together.

The Polynesian Resort and off property, the Court of Flags were also built the same way.

Crystal Palace at the Magic Kingdom. Great place to eat.

Brian and Steph in front of the fountain at Epcot 2001, Seems like a million years ago now.

Main Street at The Magic Kingdom: Brian, Steph, Louie, and Sabrina. 2001

Mom Dad and myself at Epcot

David resting on line for Big Thunder. Get up were gonna lose our place in line.

Steven & Cecelia at The Wilderness Lodge

Steven and David at Animal Kingdom. African section.

Nicklaus "Boone" at The Wilderness Lodge.....

"Amigo" Nicklaus at Mexico, Epcot

"Viking" Nicklaus at Seaworld

"Hot Dog" Nicklaus at Seaworld

Astronaut Nicklaus at Mission Space

Ouch!! Should have ducked

321 Blast off

Figment

Make sure you see this classic Walt Disney himself built for the World's fair in 1964

Clint & Scott on Tower of Terror at Disney/MGM Studios..... Everyone else fell off

The Mayor of Main Street USA, MK 01-14-2005 Gregg Scott George. What no keys to the city.

Stitch: Escape

Space Mountain coming alive. This was around 1974

Space Mountain's sign mistake. It used to say "It's out of this would", and of course it should have said "world".

Even though the sign was repaired they still replaced it with the whirlpool galaxy picture.

Here are a few "WDW Facts and Figures"
 

Disney World bought about 150,000 gallons of paint -- enough to cover nearly 7,500 average sized homes in 2004
Estimated daytime population in 2003: 200,000
Number of buses: 263
Number of miles buses travel annually: nearly 18 million
If you were to stack all of the buttons used by the Costuming Plant Seam Team in one year, you would have a stack 96 times taller than the height of Cinderella's Castle.
Number of trees, shrubs and flowers: more than 7 million
Daily water usage: 15 million gallons
2,000 acres of turf. At three mowings a week, that adds up to 450,000 mower miles per year, or 18 trips around the Earth at the equator.
Largest working wardrobe in the world with more than 1.5 million operational garments in use and over 7,000 different garment types. In addition there are over 2 million pieces of entertainment costumes. Each day the costuming plant processes between 27,000 and 31,000 garments.
More than 50 million soft drinks sold annually.
10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of french fries and 300,000 pounds of popcorn sold annually.
Uses 194,871 miles of toilet tissue
Uses 24,409 miles of paper towels
Uses 319,353 lbs. of chocolate
Uses 1.2 million pounds of watermelon
Uses 741,150 pounds of sugar
Uses 1.8 million pounds of flour
Uses 245,000 pounds of fruit filling
Uses 38,000 pounds of white icing glaze
Uses 2.9 million pounds of eggs
Uses 606,000 pounds of bananas
Uses 510,000 of grapes
Serves more than 1.5 million soft pretzels
Serves more than 639,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese
Orders more than 3.8 million ballpoint pens annually
Orders more than 337,000 pencils annually
Uses nearly 148 million sheets of recycled copier paper annually
Uses 730,102 gallons of bleach annually
$1.7 million worms are ordered each year to feed animals at Disney's Animal Kingdom.
214,000 bandages were provided to guests during the year 2004
In 2004, Walt Disney World recycled 18,322,000 pounds of paper products.
 

And one last thing.........each year 19,000 cars are locked with their keys in them and 1,500 of them have their engines still running! Remember your keys!!!

Magic Kingdom Tunnel system. Utilidors

A Cast Member Disney pin made up to look like the old ticket books.

Some of my collection

Thanks Gregg!!!! Another great addition to the collection.

Magic Kingdom

Astro Orbiter
Big Thunder Mountain Railroad
Space Mountain
Splash Mountain
Country Bear Jamboree (At Christmas time has a special show)
Dumbo the Flying Elephant
The Enchanted Tiki Room -- Under New Management
The Hall of Presidents
The Haunted Mansion
Jungle Cruise
Mad Tea Party
Pirates of the Caribbean
Swiss Family Treehouse
Tomorrowland Indy Speedway
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress (See this classic)
Frontierland Shootin' Arcade
The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacre Farm
Cinderella's Golden Carousel
"it's a small world"
Peter Pan's Flight
Snow White's Scary Adventures
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
Liberty Belle Riverboat
Stitch's Great Escape!
Tomorrowland Transit Authority
Tom Sawyer Island
Walt Disney World Railroad
Mickey's PhilharMagic

Monster's Inc Laugh Floor

Epcot

Mission: Space
Ellen's Energy Adventure
Innoventions
Journey Into Your Imagination With Figment
Living with the Land
Spaceship Earth
The Seas with Nemo
Body Wars (building shut down)
Honey, I Shrunk The Audience
Test Track
The American Adventure
Gran Fiesta with the Three Caballeros (Formally El Río del Tiempo)
Maelstrom
Soarin'

Animal Kingdom

Maharajah Jungle Trek
Primeval Whirl
TriceraTop Spin
DINOSAUR (Formally Countdown to Extinction, CTX)
Kilimanjaro Safaris
Kali River Rapids
It's Tough to be a Bug
Expedition Everest

And now Finding Nemo - The Musical

Disney-MGM Studios

The Great Movie Ride
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror"
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith
Star Tours
Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular! Show
Toy Story Mania (Formally Who Wants To Be A Millionaire - Play It!)
Jim Henson's Muppet Vision 3-D
Voyage of the Little Mermaid show
Backlot Tours
Playhouse Disney Featuring Bear in the Big Blue House
Lights, Motors, Action!™ Extreme Stunt Show

Beauty and the Beast - Live on Stage

Fantasmic!!!!

WDW Tours Links

My great friend Daniel bought this pass for me back in 1984. Found it in my old wallet. What a find!!!

I still owe him for it, hahahaha

If your a Florida resident you are lucky enough to buy one of these.

Fast Pass system tickets

Special Re-Entry Pass

Special Rider Switch Pass

 

 

Epcot Webcam

 

 

Special pass given to everyone that helped with the major fires during the year of 1998.

This pass was good for three months unlimited entrance to all the parks in Florida.

It was a very generous gift. Thank You Disney!

Don't miss this special Christmas park openings.

Disney dollars!!!!

Mission Space

Disney's Song of the South. Great movie. 

 

 

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The words to Dixie

Earnhardt Page

Song of the South

Disney's Space

Animal Kingdom's EVEREST 

Mystery Fun House

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