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Where was Disney World before Disney built it?
Geez.
It didn't exist.
Moving Disney World, and all it encompasses, is a logistical impossibility.
First, they'd need to find 27,000 available acres, or roughly 43 square miles, in a location where people will not only want to visit, but which would be suitable to Disney's needs. With regards to people wanting to visit, anyplace which gets snow is out of the running right from the start. No one's going to wait on line for Pirates of the Caribbean when there's a foot of snow on the ground.
There are more than 36,000 hotel rooms within the confines of Disney World, and there are some 300 restaurants.
The Magic Kingdom took a year and a half to build, and that's just the theme park. The resort, in its entirety, took four and a half years. In 1971, the cost of building the Magic Kingdom was $400 million. or roughly $2.8
billion today. Factor in exponential cost increases and the cost to build Disney World today would far exceed that. Also, you have to add to that the costs for Disney's other attractions, including Epcot, Disney's Hollywood Studios and the Animal Kingdom theme park, as well as the costs for the remainder of the resort, which
aren't figured into that $400 million.
Now, you have to pay for the removal of, literally,
everything within the Magic Kingdom, from Mr. Toad's Wild Ride to Cinderella's Castle. After you pay to remove it, not you have to pay to relocate it. Much of it is over 50 years old and likely wouldn't travel well. Besides, how do you move the Haunted Mansion or Space Mountain?
Disney would take an absolute bath on selling off their resort properties and hotels, simply because they won't be needed and, therefore, wouldn't command a premium price.
So, you'd have to shell out untold millions and millions of dollars just to shut Disney World down, and you've yet to spend a nickel building its replacement somewhere else.
Florida has more to offer tourists than just Disney World, so anywhere they would move it would have to have other attractions. There are 1,197 miles of coastline in Florida, which means you're never more than an hour or so from any body of salt water. Cape Canaveral is a big tourist draw, as are Universal Studios and, to a somewhat lesser degree, Sea World in Orlando. The Keys are just a few hours south. Anything in Kansas rival Key West? I don't believe there is.
Disney's not going anywhere. They can't...