Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress

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Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress is a rotating theater Audio-Animatronics stage show attraction in Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World Resort in Bay Lake, Florida, just outside Orlando. Created by Walt Disney and WED Enterprises as the prime feature of the General Electric (GE) Pavilion for the 1964 New York World's Fair, the attraction was moved to Tomorrowland at Disneyland in Anaheim, California, as Carousel of Progress, and remained there from 1967 until 1973. It was replaced in Disneyland by America Sings in 1974, and reopened in its present home in the Magic Kingdom in 1975. Steeped in both nostalgia and futurism, the attraction's premise is an exploration of the joys of living through the advent of electricity and other technological advances during the 20th century via a "typical" American family. To keep it current with the times, the attraction has been updated five times (in 1967, 1975, 1981, 1985, and 1994), and has had two theme songs, both written...

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