This just in from Jim Korkis about his latest book:
[In the five previous volumes of this Secret Stories series of books, hundreds of tales have been shared about the storytelling elements at the Walt Disney World theme parks, the WDW resort hotels, the water parks, the shopping areas and much more.
This book is
designed to help Disney guests understand what they are seeing and why it is
there. This volume concludes the first
fifty years of the
As WDW enters
its next fifty years, extreme changes are happening so quickly that it is more
than challenging to try to document them. In the blink of an eye, the Confectionery on
Epcot has begun
its massive transformation into four “neighborhoods”: World Showcase,
World Celebration, World Nature and World Discovery. Not only has the
Magic Band been upgraded and made no longer complimentary for resort guests,
So
it seemed an appropriate time to conclude the Secret Stories series of
books with this volume and let others document the next fifty years. As with
previous volumes, this book shares the rarely told stories of WDW including:
Ariel
the Little Mermaid at the
The
detailing in the Art of Animation resort includes subtle references to the
Disney-Pixar animated feature Cars, how pin trading began at WDW, the
back stories of some of the locations at Disney Springs, Grand Floridian fun
facts and much more fill the following pages.
Things
that were advertised but never built like Dick Tracy’s
The exciting thing about Walt Disney World is that it is a living entity and constantly growing so there is always something new to discover and this book will help remember many of the things before they are changed yet again.]