Disney magic kingdom icon logo2/1/2024 ![]() ![]() Before that, when the park was known as Disney-MGM Studios, the park’s icon was the Earffel Tower, a fun non-functional water tower sporting Mickey Mouse ears that was meant to emulate the functional water tower at the Walt Disney Studios in Burbank, California. The Sorcerer’s Hat stood at the park’s hub between 20. It had just Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio before it. It represented artistic energy in a formative time in Disney’s past as it was venturing into relatively uncharted territory of full-length animated features. The Sorcerer’s Hat comes from The Sorcerer’s Apprentice segment in Walt Disney’s 1940 film, Fantasia. It was a handy meet-up point because it was just about at the hub of the park.Īnd it fit the whole theme of the park, which is an immersive entertainment experience in film, television, music and theatre. I know I’m going to take some heat for this, but I regret the decision that was made to remove the Sorcerer’s Hat from DHS back in 2015. ![]() Someone on the show, maybe even Walt Disney himself, would announce “The Wonderful World of Disney.” We’d watch as fireworks went off around the castle and then Tinker Bell would circle around the TV screen, touching her wand for explosions of color on the night sky. There, in front of us – in Technicolor, mind you – Sleeping Beauty’s Castle would appear. With the channel set to ABC, final commercials aired, and 7:00 pm came around, The Wonderful World of Disney would come on. We were in place in front of our big console television at the same time every Sunday. Once we were all * cough* clean, we’d gather in the living room, some on furniture, some on the floor, with a Sunday treat, a bowl of ice cream, in our laps. By the third child the water would be cold, and I suspect the last child came out dirtier than they went in. After running around the fields and forests and streams all week behind our house, Sunday night was bath night – whether we needed it or not. ![]()
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