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Welcome to our Walt Disney Wiki page! On this page you will learn about many things in Walt Disney's life. You will learn many things about his life like his childhood, and his adulthood. You will also learn about his movies like what the first and last movies he made. You will learn about his parks like how he came up with the idea and when they opened and you will learn about his characters like the first character he ever made. We hope you enjoy our page! = __History!__ = = [|Xtranormal on Walt Disney] = =__ Movies! __= = media type="custom" key="12309916" = = = =** __Characters!!!!!!__ **=

Walt Disney’s first successful cartoon was Oswald the rabbit. (to see a picture of Oswald see the photo peach) He looks very similar to Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse as first created as a doodle. Walt Disney was doodling on a train when he drew a mouse. He named the mouse Mortimer Mouse. When he told his wife Lillian she thought that Mortimer was a hard name for little kids to pronounce so they changed Mortimer to Mickey

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This is a paragraph on more information on Walt Disney’s parks. When Walt first came up with the idea to create his amusement park, his employees laughed, and tried to discourage him about it. But Walt didn’t let this stop him. The first public announcements of Walt’s plans were announced in the Burbank Daily Review. The first park made was the Magic Kingdom, formerly called Fantasyland. Walt wanted to create it because he wanted to be “a place where all dreams come true.” When the magic kingdom opened, it was a great spot for tourism, having as many tourists as the Grand Canyon every year.

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**__ Fun Facts!!!!!!!! __**
 * Minnie’s role was being a feeder (side role, side kick) for Mickey
 * Pluto’s first role in Disney was a blood hound who chased after Mickey in the “Chain Gang”. After that his name was Rover and he was Minnie’s dog. Eventually he was Pluto Mickey’s Dog!
 * Goofy used to be an extra. He had several names; Dippy the Dawg, Dippy the Goof and then Goofy!!!!
 * Donald starred in 128 cartoons because he was so funny
 * Walt Disney joined Red Cross and drove an ambulance for a year. Instead of his ambulance being covered in camouflage it was covered with Disney Characters.
 * Walt Disney wanted the Magic kingdom to feature “a large Sleeping Beauty castle and a fantasy village”
 * Walt Disney also wanted fantasy land (Magic Kingdom) to be a place “where all of the stories and everyone’s youth to have become reality for youngsters, for all ages to participate.
 * The parks are located in Anaheim, CA, Orlando, FL, Tokyo, Paris Hong-Kong, and Shanghai.

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__**Great Websites to Research more on Walt Disney**__ __ J __[|ust Disney] [|Walt Disney Wikipedia] __W__ [|alt Disney's Biography]

__**Sources:**__ IMDB.com __Noth American Biographies__ "Walt Disney" Volume 3 __The Encyclopedia of Walt Disney's Animated Characters__ Author: John Grant alldisneycharacters.com about.com