How to Change the World (According to Walt Disney) 

This quote from Walt Disney is one I always think of when people try to say he was all about the money. I think Walt, like many of us, wanted what he did to have a positive impact on the world, and entertainment was simply his medium to do so 💜
Obviously, some of these concepts never came to fruition, like Granny’s Farm from So Dear to My Heart (though we did get a miniature horse corral in that spot for a little while in the early years, and a replica of the train station from the movie showed up as well in Frontierland). We also never got the botanical gardens where guests could take home exotic birds and fish, but we did get variations of that idea of tropical wildlife in Adventureland. The crystal palace glass structure idea was also reused in Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom.
The concept of “Edutainment” is no secret to those who have studied Disney history, but I think it's interesting to view Disneyland through that particular lens. The Jungle Cruise originally had a very educational script with only one joke in it. Besides Liberty Street and Edison Square, which later (sorta kinda) became the Carousel of Progress and Liberty Square in Walt Disney World, that same street where it would have been located that ran parallel to Main Street USA was also going to be an international marketplace (not unlike Epcot World Showcase is today). Main Street and Frontierland themselves are historically educational by being faithful period recreations, and Tomorrowland was basically a (sponsored) science fair for many years. Fantasyland brought great works of literature to life, and all of the various modes of kinetic transportation had stories as well, both historical (wagons and horseless carriages) and innovative (monorail, submarine).
(Note: This was created to be short-form content that unfortunately is slightly too long for RU-vid's shorts standards, my apologies for it being vertical and not horizontal 😊)
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