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Old 09-17-2005, 07:22 PM   #1
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The other day, on the Disney site that has all the videos, I was watching one on Hong Kong Disneyland and they mentioned that this new Park has Four Lands and then they mentioned that the original Disneyland had Five Lands and proceeded to name them. Main Street was included as a Land.

Being the detailed person that I am, I still say that Main Street USA is made up of the three individual sections (Town Square, Main Street and The Hub). I consider Toontown, New Olreans Square and Critter Country as "Sections" rather than Lands. And Main Street as a Land not only has the rides, that were listed as attractions in the original guide books that were mentioned above, but also The Main Street Cinema (which originally cost a dime to enter) was an attraction from opening day. The Opera House was not yet open, so it can't be counted as an attraction from Opening Day.

But the Horse Drawn Trollys, The Fire Engine and the Putt Putt Cars were listed as Main Street Attractions. And the Train had it's Main Entrance Station on Main Street. Don't forget that Walt designed the Park as a giant "theater" that you were walking into to become part of a "Movie Experience".

The Ticket Booths were the same as the old Ticket Booths outside the old theaters of that day (before multiplexes when there was only one theater in one building) and the area just past the entrance, before you go through the tunnels, was the "Lobby" and Walt even wanted red velvet curtains over the tunnel entrances that would open and close as people went through them, but that idea was not feasable and he was talked out of that. But Main Street was always envisioned as "the Preview of Coming Attractions" because you could look down and see the Castle with the Carrousel through the entrance and when you got to the hub, you could look in any direction and see into the four remaining "Lands" or "Movies" you were about to interactivly experience when you entered them.

Walt was a genious and so far ahead of his time. Interactivity long before people even thought of having home computers and virtual interactivity and stuff like that.
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