Creative or not, it's your call!

But the Disney empire was just getting started, and he became fixated in developing the first theme park of its kind ever in the United States. He bought land in Anaheim, California which is 30+ miles from Hollywood.?Construction work started in July 1954, and Disneyland opened in July 1955. Disney then pioneered early television programming, including cartoons in 1954 and Disney's first daily television program, The Mickey Mouse Club. ?

Over the years, Disney also became involved in the music industry, records and the development of numerous other tourism projects. But what really put Disney on the map in Florida was his dream of a theme park to be called "Disney World" near Orlando, Florida. His vision was that it would include a "Magic Kingdom" which at the time was a significantly larger version of Disneyland and include never seen before amenities like luxury and resort hotels, golf courses and the like.

Even more groundbreaking was his vision for an "Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow" or EPCOT. This was to be a prototype community of tomorrow and included new technologies, ideas, materials and systems never constructed at the scale and scope envisioned by Disney. Sadly, Walt Disney never lived long enough to see his dream come to fruition in Orlando. He died of circulatory collapse caused by lung cancer on December 15, 1966, at the age of 65.?His brother Roy finished the building of Walt Disney World, but the futuristic city of EPCOT was changed from a town to another attraction in the park.

In addition to his amazing creativity, Disney had a shrewd business touch. A perfect example of this is the way he cobbled together the land for the park in Orlando. The first purchase of land by Disney was recorded on May 3, 1965. He bought 8,380 acres of land from Florida State Senator Irlo Bronson for a total purchase price of about $1 million, or less than $120 an acre. When it was eventually revealed that Disney was going to build a park in central Florida, the cost of land jumped to about $80,000 an acre. When you consider (according to the research I found) that the average cost of land acquired by Disney for the park was only $182 an acre, his astute approach saved him billions in land acquisition cost alone.

I came across a picture dated November 15, 1965, of Disney and his brother?Roy with then Florida Governor W. Haydon Burns announcing plans to create a Disney theme park in the state.?They could have hardly ever imagined that the park would become the largest one in the world covering 47 square miles.

Source: www.d23.com