According to a 2005 Disney report, 65,700 jobs are supported by the Disneyland Resort, including about 20,000 direct Disney employees and 3,800 third-party employees ( independent contractors or their employees). In 2018, the park had approximately 18.6 million visits, making it the second most visited amusement park in the world that year, behind only Magic Kingdom, the very park it inspired. Since its opening, Disneyland has undergone expansions and major renovations, including the addition of New Orleans Square in 1966, Bear Country in 1972, Mickey's Toontown in 1993, and Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge in 2019 Disney California Adventure Park also opened in 2001 at the site of Disneyland's original parking lot.ĭisneyland has a larger cumulative attendance than any other theme park in the world, with 726 million visits since it opened (as of December 2018). Construction began in 1954 and the park was unveiled during a special televised press event on the ABC Television Network on July 17, 1955. They founded WED Enterprises, the precursor to today's Walt Disney Imagineering. The park was designed by a creative team hand-picked by Walt from internal and outside talent. After hiring the Stanford Research Institute to perform a feasibility study determining an appropriate site for his project, Disney bought a 160-acre (65 ha) site near Anaheim in 1953. He initially envisioned building a tourist attraction adjacent to his studios in Burbank to entertain fans who wished to visit however, he soon realized that the proposed site was too small. Disneyland is a theme park in Anaheim, California, which opened in 1955 it is the only one designed and built under the direct supervision of Walt Disney, who came up with the concept of Disneyland after visiting various amusement parks with his daughters in the 1930s and 1940s.
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