- Magic Kingdom: Mickey's Starland
- In
1989 Mickey's Starland, which opened the previous year as Mickey's Birthdayland
and was intended to be temporary, joined the Magic Kingdom as its seventh
permanent land due to its popularity.
- Magic Kingdom: Tomorrowland-Dreamflight
- The attraction If You Could Fly (i.e. If You Had Wings) was completely
redesigned in 1989 and renamed Dreamflight, in conjunction with Delta Airlines
new title as the "official" airline of Walt Disney World.
- EPCOT: Future World-Wonders of Life
-
The fourth new Future World pavilion to be added to the original roster, the
Wonders of Life opened in 1989. This health theme pavilion was planned from
the beginning, but a corporate sponsor was not found until 1986. Located between
the Universe of Energy and Horizons, the feature attractions are Body Wars,
a simulator ride, and Cranium Command, a humorous look at how the brain of
a teenager works--from the inside.
- Resorts: Swan Hotels
- The Walt Disney
World Swan Hotel opened in 1989, and was designed primarily as convention
hotel. This EPCOT area hotel is operated independently, much the same as in
the Hotel Plaza. The Swan is operated by Westin Hotels and Resorts, A huge
pair of namesake creatures, visible miles away tops each.
- Resorts: Hotel Plaza: Travelodge
- The
original Travelodge, which had been named the Viscount since 1984, became
the Travelodge again in 1989.
- Recreation: Typhoon Lagoon
- Typhoon
Lagoon, Walt Disney World's second water-themed park, opened on June 1, 1989.
This may be the most beautiful man-made water park in the world, containing
a fully landscaped 95-foot high man-made watershed mountain with built in
water slides and a 2.5 acre surf pool that can generate waves over 4 feet
high.
- Recreation: Pleasure Island
- In response to the need for late-night and adult-oriented entertainment,
Walt Disney World opened Pleasure Island in May 1989. The 6-acre complex,
located on the shores of Lake Buena Vista just beyond the Empress Lilly,
contains a variety of shops, restaurants, and clubs. The clubs are geared
around various styles of music, as well as a comedy club and the uniquely
Disney Adventurers' Club. Also included is an AMC 10-screen movie theater.
- Studios: The Disney-MGM Studios
- Walt
Disney World's third major theme park, the Disney-MGM Studios, opened May
1, 1989. Providing the first opportunity for the public to visit a Disney
Studio, the park was intended to be partly working studio, partly theme park.
In reality, however, it is mostly a studio theme park. Borrowing on elements
of the Magic Kingdom, you enter the park onto a central main street, but in
this case it is an idealized Hollywood Boulevard of the 1930's. At the end
of the boulevard, the various attraction areas are laid out before you. The
focal point of the park, a full-size recreation of Hollywood's famous Chinese
Theater, sits at the end of Hollywood Boulevard. It contains the Great Movie
Ride, which takes on a tour through audio-animatronic recreations of some
of the most famous movie sets of all time. The park contains many other movie-themed
attractions, including a peek at Disney animators working on future Disney
feature movies.
- Transportation:
Monorails - The first of the New Monorails Vehicles was put into
operation.
- Walt Disney World Resort - Welcomed
it's 300 Millionth Guest.
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