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Population - Between 1970 and 1992, the Greater Orlando Area population has grown from 453,270 to 1,143,472. |
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Air Traffic - Jumped from 1 million passengers in 1970 to 21.1 million passengers in 1992. |
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Hotel Rooms - Hotel rooms grew from 5,922 in 1970 to 79,706 as of April 18, 1994, with a 1993 average occupancy of 75.7%. |
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Labor Force - Grew from 185,844 in 1970 to 728,116 as of March 1994 in Greater Orlando. |
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Florida Tourism - Increased from 23 million visitors in 1970 to over 41 million visitors in 1993. |
Costuming: More than 3,500 different designs make up a working wardrobe of about 2 1/2 million pieces. Approximately 13,000 costume pieces are manufactured each year. About 175,000 yards of fabric are used each year. There is a one-million-yard fabric inventory of 2,000 different types in our California warehouse. More than two thirds of the Cast Members don their costumes every day. If you were to wash and dry one load of laundry every day for 33 years, you’d clean as much as the folks at the Walt Disney World Laundry do in a single day. The 400 workers launder an average of 120,000 pounds each day. In addition, between 30,000 and 32,000 garments are dry-cleaned daily. Mickey Mouse has more than 150 different costumes and Minnie Mouse has more than 175 different sets of costumes.
Design: From the air-the unique "Mouse Trap" on the 6th hole at the Magnolia Golf Course looks like the famous corporate symbol; there is a Mickey Mouse shaped pool at Shades of Green on the Walt Disney World Resort; the famous mouse is the model for the courtyard and area in front of the Chinese Theatre at the Disney-MGM Studios; the "Mickey Forest," with nearly 33,000 trees, forms the likeness of the most famous Walt Disney World Resort resident on approximately 40 acres just west of the Magic Kingdom; and Mickey Mouse is profiled as a putting and chipping practice area at the Bonnet Lakes Golf Club. Spaceship Earth in Epcot weighs 16 million pounds-more than three times that of a Space Shuttle fully fueled and ready for launch. How many stones are there in Cinderella Castle in the Magic Kingdom? None! The whole shell of the building is fiberglass. The Magic Kingdom is home to three of Florida’s highest "mountains"! Big Thunder Mountain in Frontierland rises 97 feet, Space Mountain in Tomorrowland rises 180 feet, and Splash Mountain in Frontierland rises 87 feet. Disneyland Park was built on citrus-grove land in a county named Orange. So was the Walt Disney World Resort.
Entertainment: The spectacular nighttime parade at the Magic Kingdom, "SpectroMagic," has 73 costumed performers and 35 tech drivers; 200-300 lights per costume totaling approximately 18,000 lights; and 6 units-Magic, Music, Wonder, Fantasy, Dreams, and Imaginations containing 37 floats and drivers. Electroluminescent panels operate when current excites phosphorus fiber optics and chase light. The chief difference between the "Main Street Electrical Parade" and "SpectroMagic" is the use of ten different colors of lights plus white.
Foods: Each year Walt Disney World Guests consume almost 8 million hamburgers, 5 million hot dogs, 5 million pounds of French fries, more than 275,000 pounds of popcorn, more than 50 million Coca Cola drinks, and ketchup from more than 31 million packets. Each year, so many ketchup packets are handed out that, if laid end to end, they would stretch from the Magic Kingdom to Minneapolis. There are more than 6,000 different food items available including both snack and meal items. It would take one person, eating two hamburgers at every meal, 2,505 years and 208 days to eat the amount served at the Walt Disney World Resort each year. More than 35 varieties of cheeses are used by theme-park and resort chefs. More than 5 1/2 million pounds of potatoes are used to make French fries each year-that’s enough to circle the world with a ribbon of julienne strips 2 1/2 times!
Merchandise: There are enough of the famous "Mouse Ear" hats sold each year to cover the head of every man, woman, and child in Pittsburgh. Enough Disney Character T-shirts strike the fancy of Walt Disney World Guests each year to put Mickey Mouse’s smiling face on the chest of every Chicagoan.
Transportation: The Walt Disney World Resort has monorails, ferryboats, motor launches, courtesy trams, bus services, and water taxis. On the average, 200,000 Guests ride the various forms of "mass transit" every day which are busiest 8:00am-10:30am. The Walt Disney World Resort has more than 750 watercraft. There are 13.7 miles of monorail beamway for 12 monorails, and 160 miles of paved roads for 170 buses. The buses cover almost 8 1/2 million miles every year. That’s enough to drive around the earth (at the equator) more than six times each week!
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