As CinemaBlend’s resident theme park skilled, I satisfaction myself on my information of parks. If you wish to know what the very best meals at Disneyland is, or why After Hours occasions at Disney World are nice, I am your man. I actually don’t faux to know every little thing, there’s all the time one thing new or a element I’ve missed, however social media has been going loopy just lately after someone identified one thing about Disneyland and Walt Disney World that I actually ought to have observed, as a result of it was staring me proper within the face.
It was just lately identified that there’s one thing concerning the names Disneyland Resort and Walt Disney World which appears so coincidental that it might probably’t presumably be a coincidence (besides it’s).
Disneyland And Disney World’s Names Have An Fascinating Coincidence
A picture has gone viral on Reddit in addition to social media of a information broadcast out of Palm Springs that reveals one thing fairly fascinating concerning the names of Disney’s two U.S. theme parks. Particularly, the identify Disneyland incorporates the letters LA collectively, whereas Walt Disney World options the letters ORL, which means that each parks include the abbreviated names of their areas, Los Angeles and Orlando.
Woah. 😳 from r/WaltDisneyWorld
That is blowing the minds of lots of people, and I get it. That is one thing I actually hadn’t observed both and whereas it’s possible only a coincidence, it’s not an unremarkable one. There’s only one drawback, it is improper.
Disneyland And Walt Disney World Aren’t Situated The place You Suppose
After we speak about the place main landmarks are it’s regular to affiliate them with the biggest metropolis or the metropolitan space close by. Hell, most individuals, together with natives confer with most of Southern California as “L.A.” So, it’s simple to consider Disneyland as being in Los Angeles or Disney World as being in Orlando, however neither factor is definitely true.
Disneyland is situated in Anaheim, CA, which is in Orange County. Orange County is a drastically totally different space a full 25 miles south of L.A. With site visitors, you possibly can count on a drive from L.A. to Disneyland to take you round 45 minutes. And the O.C. is a reasonably conservative space of the state in comparison with the extra numerous and liberal Los Angeles. These items will not be the identical.
Walt Disney World is nearer to Orlando, however you’re nonetheless taking a look at a couple of 30-minute drive in the event you’re within the metropolis to get to the resort. Walt Disney World is situated in two cities. A lot of the resort is situated within the metropolis of Bay Lake, although formally the deal with of Disney World is within the metropolis of Lake Buena Vista.
What’s extra, Disney World is definitely situated within the Orlando Tourism Oversight District (previously the Reedy Creek Enchancment District), and as such there’s an argument that Disney World is a metropolis unto itself.
Sure, I’m being pedantic, however the concept it was in some way deliberate that the resorts would have these names in an effort to embody these letters is foolish. If it was intentional then Worldwide Disney Parks would have names that use related buildings. As an alternative, the one motive the Disney Resort in Paris has town’s identify constructed into it’s that it is known as…Disneyland Paris.