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The Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade has been aired every year since 1983 except the year 2000, when a “Santa Tracking” Special was aired on Christmas Eve instead. The show has not been broadcast live since it aired on CBS in the early 1990’s. In fact, most of the show is taped in late November and early December. 

Look for the 29th Annual Disney Parks Christmas Day Parade on your local ABC Television Network - December 25th.

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Due to the utilidor system running under the Magic Kingdom, large trees were constantly transplanted out of Fantasyland. This highly frustrated Imagineers, who felt Fantasyland should feel more like a forest and provide shade from the hot Florida sun. Their wish came true with the Fantasyland Expansion, which will feature an Enchanted Forest portion, themed to be the outskirts of Prince Charming and Cinderella’s kingdom. It will be home to Under the Sea - Journey of The Little Mermaid, Ariel’s Grotto, Be Our Guest Restaurant, Enchanted Tales with Belle, Gaston’s Tavern, Bonjour! Village Gifts, and eventually the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. Most importantly, there is no utilidor system running under the area, which means trees may grow as big as they’d like!

The Grand Opening of the “New Fantasyland” will take place December 6, 2012.

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Even with President Obama visiting Disney World today (January 19, 2012), no US president has ever seen himself in the Hall of Presidents!

(You can watch the President’s Remarks on Tourism and Travel on Main Street USA at the Magic Kingdom here.)

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The Kilimanjaro Safaris in Disney’s Animal Kingdom is the largest single attraction ever created by Disney at over 100 acres in size. In fact, the entire Magic Kingdom can fit inside this one attraction!

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Spaceship Earth is 164 feet in diameter and could fit completely inside the tank of The Living Seas, which is 203 feet in diameter.

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There’s a long standing rumor that Cinderella’s Castle can be quickly disassembled in case of a major hurricane. Though this rumor is false, the castle was originally built to withstand hurricane force winds.

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The roller coaster for “The Rock ‘n Roller Coaster” was built first, then the attraction’s building was constructed around it!

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The eerie piano in the Haunted Mansion that is apparently playing by itself is actually being played by a ghost whose shadow you can see by looking at the floor in front of it. There are also 3 sheets of music but one is scattered on the floor and only contains staff lines implying that the composer never lived to complete his work and is doomed to haunt the mansion until it is finished. The piano itself is an original by Schomacker Piano Co. built somewhere between 1870 and 1890.

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On your way out, the walkway at Epcot lights up with hundreds of fiber optic lights that twinkle as you walk over them and also illuminate in dozens of different shapes.

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In Disney’s efforts for realism in it’s parks, they hired 13 Zulu craftsman from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa to make the thatched roofs located on the buildings throughout Africa in Animal Kingdom.