It was conceived by Walt Disney as a world-culture theme park that combines space adventures with an exploration of 11 countries. The concept behind the Epcot part of Disney World is totally bonkers - the kind of OTT madness only a megalomaniac billionaire dreams up. Has she married a mouse? I hear a woman order a toffee apple and ask: “Please, do you have one shaped like Mickey Mouse?” “Of course! I hope you’re having a magical day,” the shop assistant says. In our hotel, which serves Mickey coffee, there are portraits of Mickey, Minnie Mouse and Goofy, and their silhouettes are on the chandeliers.Įverywhere you look people are wearing Mickey T-shirts, Mickey bumbags, Mickey caps, Mickey babygrows and Mickey ears: rainbow ears, sequin ears, ears in the red, white and blue of the American flag. We arrive at our hotel and the smiling man on the gate says: “Welcome home.” Everything is decked with Disney characters: Donald Duck is on the buses, Mickey Mouse is on road signs, pylons are shaped like Mickey’s ears - a shape that is repeated on cups, washbags, balloons, even the shampoo bottle in our bedroom, on which Mickey’s ears are depicted in bubbles.
Last year it was voted TikTok’s most popular destination, so I wanted to experience it. It is a place where couples propose and that dying children visit. A magic made as real as possible at Disney World in Orlando, Florida, the self-proclaimed “most magical place on earth”. A man approaches one of the Disney rangers and asks: “What’s the question you get asked about them most?” The ranger considers this and replies: “We get asked if they’re real.”įor the past 100 years Disney has permeated our childhoods, shaping our ideas about love ( Cinderella), loss ( Bambi), grief ( The Lion King), kindness ( Beauty and the Beast) and most of all magic. In the Africa section of Disney World’s Animal Kingdom we watch an adult gorilla playing with a young one. Sunday July 09 2023, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
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