It all started with the American Park, open Walt disney in 1955 in California. Park leisure cost then $ 17 million and at first consisted of 16 attractions, and input cost 1 dollar. Gradually the number of attractions increased to 60, at the entrance visitors began to meet not only Mickey mouse and snow white and Sleeping Beauty, but also Pinocchio and Winnie the Pooh. Those wishing to visit the Park is built early in the morning, and ticket price rose to 56 dollars. For the first 25 years of its existence in the American Disneyland was visited by 200 million people.
July 17, 1950 in Anaheim, South of Los Angeles, the American «king of multiplication» successful businessman Walt Disney spent транслировавшуюся on television lush ceremony of opening of the «Disneyland», grandiose theme entertainment Park for children (and their parents), embodied in the life of the magic country handsome heroes of his famous cartoons.
The idea to create the children's Park came to Disney when he had walked with her daughters in the Park. While the children rode the carousel, a father patiently sat on the bench and waited, when my daughters нарезвятся. During these walks and he came to the conclusion that America is not enough places where it would be interesting to children and adults alike. And then Disney decided to create such a place by itself.
The construction of the first «Disneyland» in California were spent $ 17 million, but very soon all the investments paid off tenfold. For the first 25 years of existence, the Park was visited by more than 200 million people. In 1963 Disney has started implementation of a more ambitious ideas - so-called «project X». With the help of his people he found a suitable plot of land in Florida and bought it. Started construction of a new Park, which got The name «The Walt Disney World». It opened in October 1971.
In 1983 your «Disneyland» appeared in Tokyo in 1992 in Paris. On the streets of «Disneyland» walk of Mickey mouse and Donald Duck in full size, together with the other cartoon characters and accompanied by the orchestra. Monorail trains, wagons with horses or the cable cars, offers wonderful views of the entire area can be found in parks everywhere. And they parks striking are well maintained and clean.
All initiations in the Disney parks in addition to the Park in Orlando begin with the phrase "To all who come to this happy place - welcome." («Everyone who came to this happy place -- Welcome!»)
Full quote: «to All who come to this happy place - Welcome! Disneyland is your country. Here are raised up great memories of the elderly, and here the young can breathe the challenge and promise of the future. Disneyland is dedicated to the ideals, dreams and real events that made America... with the hope that it will be a source of joy and inspiration for the whole world!