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Nope, that one's not gonna fly, Alex. Walt Disney never opened a theme park in Florida ... and that was NOT his goal there. His goal in Florida was a futuristic city, and he didn't give a fig about the theme park that was to pay the bills.
Unfortunately, the man died ... and we have only results to go by. Disneyland, built in the midst of a teeming metropolis ... with a customer mix tilted heavily toward regular, repeat customers from a saavy, urban market ... grows and thrives and changes and succeeds as an art form and beloved icon as no other Disney park ever will. DisneyWorld becomes a financial juggernaut, but suffers from a heavy tourist mix by too often throughout its history becoming stagnant and ill-maintained and is, more often than not, substandard artistically.
The only part of that vast complex to even remotely come from Walt Disney's intention was Epcot Center ... DisneyWorld's biggest artistic success.
But intentions tell nothing ... and we can glean nothing from Walt Disney's intention to build far away from the teeming metropolis except that he died, and he never did so.
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