Travel Reference
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Did You Know?
Fun Facts
• Walt Disney World employs 60,000 cast members, making it the largest
single-site employer in the United States.
• Mickey Mouse has more than 175 outfits, ranging from scuba gear to
formal wear. But he's second banana to Minnie, who has 200.
• The number of Disney T-shirts sold by the parks each year could plaster
the image of Mickey Mouse on the chest of every Chicagoan.
• Since 1971, the total miles logged by Walt Disney World monorail trains
would be equal to more than 30 round-trips to the moon.
• Mowing the lawn at WDW is no joke. The staff mows 450,000 miles each
year—the equivalent of 18 trips around the Earth's equator.
• The WDW Laundry handles 240,000 pounds of laundry
a day!
To get the
equivalent, you'd have to wash and dry a load every day for 44 years.
• More than a million pounds of watermelon are served every year at Walt
Disney World Resort (watch out for flying seeds!).
• Walt Disney World gift shops sell about 500,000 character watches annually.
Not surprisingly, most of them are Mickeys.
• According to Kodak estimates, about 4% of the amateur photographs
snapped in the U.S. are taken at Walt Disney World.
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MELT
AWAY BAY
This 1-acre bobbing wave pool is fed by waterfalls of melting “snow” and features rela-
tively calm waves.
RUNOFF RAPIDS
Another tube job, this one lets you careen down any of three twisting-turning runs, one
of which sends you through darkness.
SKI
PATROL TRAINING CAMP
Designed for tweens and teens, it features a rope swing, a T-bar drop over water, slides
like the wet and slippery
Mogul Mania
from the Mount, and a challenging ice-floe walk
along slippery floating icebergs.
SLUSH GUSHER
This super-speed slide travels along a snow-banked gully.
Note:
It has a 48-inch height
minimum.
SNOW STORMERS
These three flumes descend from the top of Mount Gushmore and follow a switchback
course through ski-type slalom gates.
SUMMIT PLUMMET
Read
every
speed, motion, vertical-dip, wedgie, and hold-onto-your-breast-plate warning
in this guide. Then, test your bravado in a bullring, a space shuttle, or dozens of other
death-defying hobbies as a warm-up. This puppy starts pretty slowly, with a lift ride to
the 120-foot summit. Then . . . well . . . kiss any kids or religious medal you may be
carrying. Because, if you board, you
will enter
the self-proclaimed world's fastest body
