1971 Walt Disney World Fantasyland Cast Member Handbook

Welcome to Fantasyland! We return to our 50th anniversary series where we see the Magic Kingdom as brand new Disney Cast Members learned about it back in 1971. Again, Walt Disney World is set to open. You have thousands of new Cast Members, most of whom have never seen a Disney theme park, and you need to orient them to that experience. The only problem is that the park isn’t open or ready yet either. So how do you give them that understanding? Enter a series of handbooks put out by the University of Walt Disney World. In these printed materials, Cast Members were introduced to the setting in which they would work. There is one for each of the lands of the park, plus the resort. In this podcast, we’ll look at Fantasyland. We’ll overview legendary attractions like “it’s a small world” and Cinderella’s Golden Carrousel. But we’ll also reminisce about attractions long forgotten like The Fantasyland Skyway, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and The Mickey Mouse Revue. On opening, this was the biggest land in the Magic Kingdom with more than twice the number of attractions than found in any other land at that time. If you yearn for the Walt Disney World of yesteryear, or you want to know what this land were like back in the early days of the park, this is your podcast, as we continue our efforts to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World.

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