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  • Essay / Mouse Tales Analysis: A Closer Look Behind the Scenes of...

    "Don't call Disneyland an amusement park, call it a theme park" The first line of the book: Mouse Tales: A closer look behind the scenes at Disneyland, quickly explains how Disneyland is not just an amusement park but a theme park. Walt Disney didn't want his park to be just another ordinary amusement park, he wanted to create a new and different world. A life where you cannot see your own world and its problems. In fact, he wanted it so much that he built twenty-foot walls around the park, so no matter where you are in the park, it's impossible to see the outside world. It was in 1955 but the idea is still the same. This book not only tells you the behind-the-scenes story of how the rides were built, but also some crazy stories told by the cast while working at Disneyland. When the park first opened, there was a twenty-foot pile of dirt between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. . You see, when the workers were building the moat around the castle, the earth had to go somewhere. Over the years it remained a pile of dirt, but Walt was not happy to have this unsightly pile in his house....