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But they do (er… they did) inspire people to find out more about the world, especially its past.
At least, that’s the way it’s worked for my family. And, believe me, we did the parks right.
It’s all there in the lyrics to Wonderful World of Color.
![Grinning face with big eyes :smiley: 😃](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/7.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png)
For countless guests, the castle parks have been a springboard into wider things. Disney didn’t used to simply be content with showing folks IPs they already knew.
It’s one of the important factors that helped make the parks so well-loved in the first place.
And even if we drop history and learning from the equation, the beauty and generational sharing of Rivers of America is such a huge part of DL/MK’s identity up to this point, that I’m truly disappointed (but, again not surprised) that the current corporation doesn’t care.