That was why WDI went into overdrive to quickly "grow" Disney-MGM out into a full-size Disney theme park experience. When the studio theme park opened in the spring of 1989, it was immediately mobbed. However, Eisner had vastly underestimated how popular the concept would be. Using about the same amount of acreage as Disneyland, as well as the same basic design of the Anaheim theme park, Disney-MGM Studios theme park came to life. With Eisner's encouragement, the Imagineers greatly expanded their initial concept for Epcot's "Entertainment' pavilion. A half-day attraction is something like WDW's Typhoon Lagoon Water Park, where guests could spend the morning or afternoon there, and then go off and visit some other section of the resort for the rest of the time. He felt it could serve as the basis of a half-day attraction. It was Disney's then-CEO Michael Eisner who first realized that the history of motion pictures really couldn't be crammed into a single Epcot pavilion. Once inside, guests could have chosen between taking a ride through a show titled "Great Movie Moments" (Walt Disney Imagineering's first pass at the attraction that eventually became Disney-MGM's Great Movie Ride) or they could wander through an interactive display designed by Disney veteran Ward Kimball, which revealed the wacky way a Mickey Mouse cartoon was put together. Guests would have entered under a theater marquee and pushed themselves through the turnstiles at an old-fashioned movie theater ticket booth. This Epcot addition, which was to have been built between the "Land" pavilion and the "Journey into Imagination" pavilion, was supposed have featured an exterior that looked like a giant blue sky that hid the show building. Next: Why the Giant Sequoia Needs Fire to Grow, exploding plants disperse their seeds with high pressure bursts, and TED Ed’s Symbiosis and a surprising tale of species cooperation.The Disney-MGM Studios theme park, which first officially opened its gates for visitors back in May 1989, was initially planned as an Entertainment pavilion that was proposed for Epcot's Future World section. Then explore the tumbleweed’s classic image in American pop culture with this tumbleweed supercut by Duncan Robson, a short video commissioned by the Columbus Museum of Art: Learn more from the Deep Look video above: Why do tumbleweeds tumble? When the rains come, an embryo coiled up inside each seed sprouts. A microscopic layer of cells at the base of the plant - called the abscission layer - makes a clean break possible and the plants roll away, spreading their seeds. Gusts of wind easily break dead tumbleweeds from their roots. Starting in late fall, they dry out and die, their seeds nestled between prickly dried leaves. Inside each flower, a fruit with a single seed develops. Seedlings, which look like blades of grass with a bright pink stem, sprout at the end of the winter.īy summer, Russian thistle plants take on their round shape and grow white, yellow or pink flowers between thorny leaves. Tumbleweeds start out as any plant, attached to the soil. They’re invasive Russian thistles that flower, die, dry up into a spiny skeletal ball, and roll. They also cause accidents when they roll out onto roadways.Īs it turns out, tumbleweeds are not native to the United States. They’re neighborhood nuisances that create fire hazards. But for people who live in dry parts of western North America, the tumbleweed is, in fact, a weed that can block doors or clog waterways as they gather in piles. When we think of a desolate plain or a foreboding frontier town in the wild west, we might think of the iconic tumbleweed rolling through the scene.
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