Some Thoughts about Disney Parks (and secrets? from an insider)

all right well hopefully this works because I've never used the screen recorder for this long but hello welcome again to technology connections - I wanted to make a video about did it oh I was gonna explain the reason why I have so much crap this is this is usually what I when I'm when I first upload a video I like to monitor how it goes for a little while so I tend to keep my Twitter open and the comments and the real-time analytics and the video manager because I obsess a little bit but anyway this little you know this little intrusion into your day is about a little trivia of the Magic Kingdom in Disney World in Orlando so so far I believe only people in patreon know this I've never revealed this on my main channel and probably won't but you can know here because you're extra special because you follow me on technology connections - but I myself was a cast member in 2014 I did not work here at the Magic Kingdom I worked all the way down here that Disney's all-star music resort in the food court but anyway so if you did if you have like no knowledge of Disney because basically there's people that obsess about Disney which I would say I am at least in terms of their history and technology not so much as the company or their media empire but certainly their theme parks I think are delightful but anyway if you're unfamiliar with the way the Magic Kingdom was built so the legend goes that Walt Disney really did not like pier this is what we should do haha let's go on the map and find the thing I hope you enjoy this sort of content because you know I'll probably condense this a little bit but we'll see so this this is Disneyland and I didn't really she seemed out a bit Disneyland is trapped because one Walt Disney built Disneyland he didn't really envision well I guess he didn't really expect because before Disneyland was here this was basically just nothing and when he built Disneyland he only bought basically this rectangle a little less because Paradise Pier wasn't originally this land so I don't know where they're where the boundaries were but you can see it's surrounded by residential areas and especially along like Harbor Boulevard it's a little kitschy the area around Disneyland is just kind of unpleasant and particularly a weird thing I mean it's not I shouldn't say unpleasant it's not like you know it's not like a ghetto or anything but it's not controlled it's uncontrolled by Disney and one of the weirdest things is when you ride the monorail you go along Harbor Boulevard and you just see like the McDonald's and the hotels there and there's a cafe near here called Tiffy's that we ate at once when I was like 10 I've only been to Disneyland twice I spent much more time at Disney World but anyway back to Disney World so when Walt Disney was purchasing the land for Disney World he bought an absolute crap ton it's twice the size of Manhattan and if you don't know the story he had all these shell companies created to disguise the fact that he was that it was Disney that was buying all this land so one of the things they did for the Magic Kingdom is the Magic Kingdom is basically separate from anything infrastructure II anything to do with infrastructure is hidden and for example the parking lot this is the parking lot all the way over here across the seven seas Lagoon which itself is manmade Bay Lake is natural seven seas Lagoon is what they did was they dug out the seven seas Lagoon and built the Magic Kingdom on the second story so if you're unfamiliar with the utilities again going back to Disney legend it is said that Walt Disney saw a cast member from frontier land walking through Tomorrowland maybe I have that backwards but a cowboy in Tomorrowland he really didn't like how that looked so he envisioned so for Disney World he wanted there to be tunnels that you could move about the park out of guest view where people couldn't see it and although Walt Disney died before Disney World opened you know five years before Disney World open that dream of his was put into reality and so why what I want to show you is that surprisingly one of the most central secrets of the tunnels is extremely visible on Google Maps and I don't know if I mean you would think either Google's just got great imagery or Disney just doesn't care but in any case I should say again the seven seas Lagoon here was dug out this was not here and so they built up the Magic Kingdom so every almost everything in the Magic Kingdom is actually above-ground by one story and one way that you can tell if you're ever here at the park whenever you ride a water ride like small world or pirates while pirates it's not really visible but this specifically small world you can tell you have to go down quite a bit to get to the actual water level and that's because that's the actual ground level most of the park has built one storey above but as I ramble on here let me zoom back out I'm sorry if you're getting motion sick I do apologize so guests park here at the transportation and ticket center then take either a monorail or the ferryboat to get to the park itself and part of that is because again Walt Disney wanted the park to feel very isolated and disconnected from reality because he wanted it to be very magical experience that's why it's the Magic Kingdom so nothing is that close to the park as except for really the contemporary that's probably the closest guest facing area to the park itself everything else is pretty far now if you're a cast member that works at the Magic Kingdom you park on the north side of it and this is where things this this is what's really easy to be revealed so how do you get to work well the entrance to the utility ORS which is what they're called is right here and what's so weird if you get your 3d view going on here and you take a look from the back you can clearly see this area which really you're not supposed to see and so I just I've always thought this is very weird how well rendered this is so when you are if you work at the Magic Kingdom and anybody who works at Disney for any reason if it's a college program which is what I was there he take you go through what's called traditions and they you board traditions is done at back here at Disney University which is one of these buildings I think yeah here you go Disney University so you take it you take basically a class here and then they give you a tour of the Magic Kingdom and they show you the utilities so anybody that works at the Magic Kingdom they take a shuttle bus that drives up here drops them off right here and then they will walk into this kind of like a loading dock type thing but this is actually the entrance to the quote-unquote tunnels so if you can imagine this tunnel continues all the way forward to the very front of the park it doesn't go underneath Main Street but it goes under the Emporium if I'm not mistaken and it does go underneath Cinderella Castle there is an elevator that brings people up into the castle itself and then it branches off in two directions so it also goes this way towards Tomorrowland and this way underneath Liberty Square I do not believe it goes to frontier land there's a map somewhere I'll put a link in the description but the other thing right the other thing that you can that sort of gives a clue as to how the park is built if you are walking this way from fantasy from the old Fantasyland through the new Fantasyland you're gonna notice it's more noticeable this way I think that you're going down there's quite a bit of a drop in elevation here because what was originally Mickey's Toontown this was an expansion done later and this is ground level and you can you can even see probably that this road here is at the same level as the park so whenever you come this way you have to go down a ways to get to it but anyway well what else can I talk about that I happen to know because I'm because I'm an insider oh so if you're so if you ever want to see this area first of all you can take the keys to the kingdom tour which I don't know how much it costs now it is really cool if you're interested in seeing behind the scenes of the Magic Kingdom but they will take you into the utility ORS and you can see them they're not they're not really that exciting I mean it just looks like service corridors in a hotel except it's a little bigger but they are you know they do allow a lot of really great things to happen and that's why the Magic Kingdom's theming is never it's pretty much always perfect because people move around through these utility ORS the only thing that happening to me and this is the thing that just kind of sucks from a human resources standpoint is that if you if you work say at the Emporium which is on the south end of the park you have to park here and then you go to this area which is called West clock is this marked no Center Drive and Reims Road okay well internally they refer to this as West clock and I believe that's because sometimes you actually clock in here because you are given you are paid for some of the time it takes you to get to your work location because it takes quite a while this walk through the tunnels I'd say it's probably 5 to 10 minutes to get from this end to the Emporium which is kind of like the other end of the tunnel if you're going straight through but the thing and I keep saying the word tunnel it's not really a tunnel because the this is Florida if you dig like 2 feet into the ground you've hit water so the entire park is on the second story again that's how the seven seas Lagoon was made because they took soil out of the lagoon built it up here where the park was built and then basically didn't they carved out channels going this way that way and that way and then built the park on top of that and I thought you know most of it's not that remarkable but what is remarkable is the moat you know you go the tunnels go right straight through the moat and you'd never know they're there and in you know it's it's kind of like an open secret again just like the elevators of the Haunted Mansion but it still is just hilarious to me that this area is rendered so well on Google Maps because like even like these trucks so much of this is rendered in 3d how do they do this Google knows everything uh-huh what else can I show you that I know from my Disney trivia because I do collect all sorts of information I had yes so one thing the fireworks if you're ever here for the fireworks show you may notice that they closed the railroad whenever they do the fireworks and that is because the fireworks are launched from way back here I think you can see right here yeah so this is actually the launching pad for all the fireworks and you know when you're a guest if you're on Main Street you it looks like they're coming from behind the castle and they are but they're coming from way behind the castle so if you're anywhere else in the park the sight lines are a little screwed up but from Main Street which is where most people want to watch the fireworks you'll see the fireworks back here but this causes two snarls because one they have to close the train because the train goes very close to the launching pad but also if your shift is over and it ends when the fireworks happens you can't leave this area they won't let you in fact I believe they don't even let you in you have to stay in the utility wars I didn't work at the Magic Kingdom so I don't know for sure but some of my roommates did and it was kind of just like the most inconvenient thing if you had a shift that ended right when the fireworks were happening because for safety reasons they don't let you leave so for the for that fifteen minutes you just had to just sit there and wait also let me turn this back around because this is like the normal perspective I find it a little humorous that small world and the Haunted Mansion are really right next to each other they're like about as different as you can get between attractions so if you welcome back - I had to interject because I completely forgot to mention it thing let's go back to here and what I was gonna say was if you want to see the utility or entrance better okay okay Wow my computer stressing out right now screen recording with premier open and Google Maps ah anyway if you want to see I'm I completely forgot this I'm such an idiot you can see the utility or entrance this area here from the railroad if you're careful I'm too low of an angle so I got to see so this the Disneyland railroad or the Disney World railroad only has two or three stops so if you ride from the Frontierland station to the Fantasyland station pay close attention because when you pass once you pass the little Native American the show seen here which I fight it's weird I only just noticed this it's like completely isolated from everything and you don't both the riverboat and the train go through the scene but this is pretty much the most remote thing you're supposed to see at Magic Kingdom so that's humorous but anyway right after you pass this and the railroad track is straight for this section if you look to your right through these trees you can see this area and not well obviously but because this retention pond or whatever this is is not forested you can actually see this area so if you so if you're very careful ride the train once you pass the Native American scene and you're going straight keep your eyes peeled look to your right look through the trees and you can see this area and also I should provide more context this is the back of small world so small world actually extends behind the utility ORS and behind the you told or entrance and then this area here this is all relatively new this is the be our guest restaurant and I suppose this area here is the enchanted tales with Belle and then here so when you're in New Fantasyland and you go by guest ons tavern you're pretty much almost on the edge of the Magic Kingdom so this new area where the under the sea journey is with a little mermaid this is again the show building for the attraction but much of the line gets extremely close to the edge of the park boundaries but the other thing I wanted to mention too when you ride the railroad after this point you'll go under this bridge and this bridge here is where all the cast members go so depending on timing you might see a bus go over this way it looks just like all the other Disney buses that guests take to and from their hotels but also this is this is the like high security giant barrier thing that the buses have to go through and you can actually see one of them up by the front of the park here so depending on if you take the monorail you might see a bus or some other vehicle go through this huge metal barrier thing because this path goes actually where it does oh this way this path goes behind Main Street so if you were coming this way you would see that anyway back now we're gonna go on this is a very long video so you know I hope you're just fine with chilling but now I'm gonna go on a little bit of a rant about why about my feelings towards Disney and and oh man so bad the other thing the other thing I keep seeing this picture go around unlike Facebook of a water bridge and they're like oh my god a water bridge there's there's been one at Disney World forever and it's just like just no one know this is here buses go under it like and you can see it from the monorail the seven seas Lagoon and Bay Lake are connected by this water bridge that world drive goes underneath so you'll see boats occasionally going over the roadway and you know that's that's pretty neat but I know it's not it's funny because I keep seeing this post going around that's like Oh water bridge so amazing and yet there's one in like the biggest tourist destination possibly in the world but anyway I'm about to go on a bit of a rain about the this the animosity towards Disney parks and why they are considered artificial and why I don't really like that argument then the video will finally end I if you I noticed a couple of people who are like just in the comments that said they've never really wanted to go to Disney World before and you know I I understand if you want to avoid crowds if you if you come in like February you won't have many crowds at all and the thing about Disney World is Magic Kingdom is great and delightful but what but what you're really what you really love what most people my age really love is Epcot because Epcot Epcot is Epcot and yes future world is crumbling and really needs help and it's starting to get it but Epcot because you could just spend days at Epcot not even doing anything it's one of the most pleasant like in World Showcase it's just one of the most pleasant places to be and Epcot is also enormous so this I believe I the area around World Showcase looking here is about a mile so Epcot is really really really big and I I had heard and I don't know if this is true but that the parking lot for abcott is the largest single story parking lot in the world because it was built to address the capacity of the park and the capacity of Epcot is enormous and I don't believe it has ever Bowl because there's just so so money so much room I mean you look at all the pavement here in futureworld and then imagine in World Showcase you just got all this all this room but anyway I did want it I didn't want to bring up one thing about the Disney parks that I feel I feel very strongly about and there are people that don't like the Disney parks because it's artificial and there are and you know Epcot gets a lot of hate for this because Epcot is supposed to be like a permanent World's Fair you have all the different pavilions from different countries around the world and Disney specifically they have the International College Program so most of the people that work in these pavilions are interns from the actual countries that they represent so if they do a wonderful job of making this as real as they can though it is artificial but my problem with people having the argument of the parks are artificial therefore it's not a real experience you know people some people are like if I'm gonna travel I want to go to Spain or I want to go to Italy I don't want to see some recreation of it in Orlando ok that's fair but I don't like people's arguments that this this experience is artificial therefore it's not worth having because you know for one thing I think I understand that argument but I also think it's just kind of dubious because if you are well for one thing there's a they call this one man's dream and of course Walt Disney did not create Disneyworld single-handedly there were thousands of people that contributed to this but all of those people spent so much time and effort making this incredible experience that I think I mean yeah it's very expensive and the consumerism aspects of the company are like they distasteful they put a bad taste and I think anybody's mouth but they created this experience they did a fantastic job with this experience and there's nothing else like it and if you will avoid going there simply because it's cool and unquote artificial and quote unquote not real well I I almost feel that that disrespects the creativity of the Imagineers and even even just like the the people that work there the cast members that are there day in and day out they're there to create this experience for their guests and yet you know if you're if you're gonna call that not worthy of experiencing because it's artificial I don't know how I feel about that so much you know we create things for the enjoyment of others and the theme parks theme parks in general are like this but specifically the Disney theme parks which are rooted in storytelling and are probably the most elaborate theme parks you'll find especially when it comes to theming and pleasantness just you know I I won't lie it's not like they're not artificial of course they are but I don't like hearing that as a justification of avoiding them because it just it's like well you know you go to an art gallery that's all artificial like you see this because I guess it's because people feel that this experience is sort of manufactured and it's there it mean to be honest it exists to make money for the Walt Disney Company but I think that's where most of the animosity comes from it's not necessarily from just the you know it's it's not necessarily the knee-jerk this is artificial not where the experience of having of doing things but um wow I realize I'm now recording this for like 19 minutes so I'm probably going to shuffle the order of this around a little bit but anyway dude to do I'm just gonna yeah I think we're just gonna zoom out and end this and this but thanks thanks for watching thanks for supporting the channel both of them and thanks for everybody on patreon and if I don't know how good I am at this sort of video so please tell me and also yes my microphone I need to get better I'm going to buy better microphones right now I'm just talking into my pass cam dr-05 which has a lot of noise for whatever reason so I apologize if this sounds bad but I'm gonna be I'm eventually gonna be don't you worry things are gonna get better in fact I might even go on Amazon right now and buy a couple things but anyway thanks so much for supporting the channel and I will see you later

Channel: Technology Connextras

Views: 128,553

Keywords: Walt Disney World, disney world, magic kingdom, disneyland, disney, disney parks, tunnels under magic kingdon

Id: 6_gXZ2wcVzM

Length: 25min 2sec (1502 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 25 2018