There is a whole host of cool stuff just posted on the Orlando Sentinel website for its Sunday edition. They are doing a special report (probably a whole pullout section in the real thing -- look for it if you are in Orlando), but anyhow lots of stuff to do on the site today, timed I'm sure for the kickoff of the celebration starting this week. Too much to post here, but I want everyone to know, so you can check it out and come back here to discuss.
Some "newer" news (like the statement in one article that, "With the blessing of new Disney chief Robert Iger, the company's Imagineers are rethinking the traditional theme park model to make attractions more appealing and stimulating to a generation of technologically savvy children"), but mostly just a look at how the resort has grown, and how it affected Orlando and Florida. Check it out... You can start at the front page (www.Orlandosentinel.com), or at any of the articles. I liked the info in "Disney by the Numbers" (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busi...trivia,1,747968.htmlstory?coll=orl-home-promo)
There is a multimedia trivia game, too. They give you twenty facts, and you have to guess which park the fact concerns. I got most of them right, but I have a doubt about one that they said I got wrong. The question was, which park is the smallest of the four. I thought it was Disney-MGM, but they survey said it was MK! (I don't believe that. I thought MGM was smaller.) Can anyone verify that?
Anyhow, go to the site and check it out (or buy the paper), and come back and discuss.
Here is the text of the "WDW Facts and Figures" article, just to get you started:
# 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.
Some "newer" news (like the statement in one article that, "With the blessing of new Disney chief Robert Iger, the company's Imagineers are rethinking the traditional theme park model to make attractions more appealing and stimulating to a generation of technologically savvy children"), but mostly just a look at how the resort has grown, and how it affected Orlando and Florida. Check it out... You can start at the front page (www.Orlandosentinel.com), or at any of the articles. I liked the info in "Disney by the Numbers" (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/busi...trivia,1,747968.htmlstory?coll=orl-home-promo)
There is a multimedia trivia game, too. They give you twenty facts, and you have to guess which park the fact concerns. I got most of them right, but I have a doubt about one that they said I got wrong. The question was, which park is the smallest of the four. I thought it was Disney-MGM, but they survey said it was MK! (I don't believe that. I thought MGM was smaller.) Can anyone verify that?
Anyhow, go to the site and check it out (or buy the paper), and come back and discuss.
Here is the text of the "WDW Facts and Figures" article, just to get you started:
# 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.
