Disney World adds new venue Walt would hate
The company's founder probably would not be a fan to the latest addition to an iconic part of the Magic Kingdom.
Walt Disney had some very exact ideas on how people should have fun.
He also had some practical rules that made it easier to keep his theme parks in tip-top condition. When the company opened Disneyland in California, that theme park banned gum, ice cream, and cotton candy. That wasn't because the company's founder was against sugar, it was because those items are sticky and created a mess that was difficult to clean up.
Walk around any Disney theme park today and you will see workers with scraping tools to remove gum, which is no longer banned.
The Walt Disney (DIS) founder also had another rule that in place when Disneyland opened in 1995 that carried over when the company opened Disney World's Magic King after his death. He was against alcohol at his theme parks.
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“No liquor, no beer, nothing. Because that brings in a rowdy element. That brings people that we don't want and I feel they don't need it,” he said in a famous Saturday Evening Post interview.
The company, of course, has wildly gone away from that philosophy. Epcot, had been partially built around alcohol, and Walt would likely not love the "Drink around the world" games people play when visiting what he saw as his "experimental prototype city of tomorrow."
