Ebook: The Thinking Fan's Guide To Walt Disney World: Magic Kingdom

The Thinking Fan'sGuide is different kind of guidebook for adifferent kind of theme park experience. Aaron Wallace avoids the ephemera ofprices and menus to explore the heart of the Disney experience, the attractionsthemselves. He provides a lighthearted but scholarly look at the history, lore,and literature that inform the designs and storylines of every ride andattraction in the Magic Kingdom's Adventureland, Frontierland, Liberty Square,Fantasyland, and Tomorrowland, as well as the Walt Disney World Railroad, theSorcerers of the Magic Kingdom game, the Celebrate a Dream Come True andSpectroMagic parades, the Wishes fireworks show, and Main Street, U.S.A.itself. Far from being mere "amusements," these 36 attractions provide acomplex, multi-layered narrative that can be experienced and appreciated justlike a great novel, play, or film. TheThinking Fan's Guide will fascinate Disney buffs with the sometimessurprising insights it offers into old favorites while offering newcomers tothe Disney magic a much richer experience. If you are ready to immerse yourselfin the magnificent achievement that is Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, thisis the guide for you.