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In the early 1960s Disney sought to replicate Disneyland in Orlando, but on a much grander scale, as a regional resort.
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Disney World in Orlando, Florida, and all Disneyland parks in Anaheim, California, were closed, but resort hotels remain open for its guests.
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Tokyo Disneyland makes money, but Euro Disney in Paris (of which it owns 39%) nearly went bankrupt and remains heavily indebted.
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Disneyland was open 24 hours one night in 1987, but this will be the first time both parks stay open nonstop.
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But Disneyland was the first example of really taking a brand that lived in film and, to some extent, in toys and blowing it out across all dimensions.
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But in this postwar environment, when kids became the center of our lives, Disneyland was the perfect vacation because it was built around the child, the child's needs, actually even the child's scale because Main Street was scaled down to about 80 percent of normal height.
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But like karaoke, which originated in Japan and is a country-wide obsession, Disneyland gives the often-reserved Japanese people a place to unleash their rowdy side.
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There's also the more expected bits -- things like keeping track of your motorcar's location in order to retrieve it after a long, confusing day at Disneyland, but the real magic here is the promise of what's to come.
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