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A dad in Texas couldn’t find an amusement park that would accommodate his daughter with special needs so he sold his homebuilding business and built a completely accessible amusement park for kids with special needs called Morgan’s Wonderland.
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Going to Disneyland is a feat that requires months of pre-planning and budgeting. But one man gets to go every single year for free, and he has been since 1955.
Dave MacPherson has a lifetime pass to Disneyland for a very special reason: he was the park’s first-ever customer.
On July 17, 1955, Dave was a 22-year-old college student in Long Beach, California. He was at home watching Disneyland’s opening festivities on television when he got the idea to be the first person to enter the park on opening day. He switched off the T.V. and traveled 10 miles by motorbike to get to the park. He arrived at 2 a.m., and sure enough, he was first in line. Over the course of the night, 6000 other people joined the line behind him.
Photo Credit: Thisdayindisneyhistory
After Disney’s family members and celebrities entered, Dave became the first actual customer to buy a ticket and set foot inside the park.
Image taken from a newscast in 2005 celebrating Disneyland’s 50th anniversary. This is color footage from 1955 of Dave MacPherson and his original ticket
Photo Credit: Thisdayindisneyhistory
Dave doesn’t know what happened to his historic admission ticket. He did, however, keep a copy of the complimentary card that came with it. The complimentary card allowed Dave to enter the park for free on July 18, 1955. He didn’t get to use that card because he had to ride his motorbike back home to Long Beach.
Image taken from the same newscast, showing Dave MacPherson at Disneyland in 2005.
Photo Credit: Thisdayindisneyhistory
But thankfully, he was also awarded with a lifetime pass to the legendary amusement park, which he has taken advantage of every single year since—and Dave’s still going strong!
MacPherson says about his luck, “”You might say that 1955 was a very good year for a youthful Scotsman!”
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Going to Disneyland is a feat that requires months of pre-planning and budgeting. But one man gets to go every single year for free, and he has been since 1955.
Dave MacPherson has a lifetime pass to Disneyland for a very special reason: he was the park’s first-ever customer.
On July 17, 1955, Dave was a 22-year-old college student in Long Beach, California. He was at home watching Disneyland’s opening festivities on television when he got the idea to be the first person to enter the park on opening day. He switched off the T.V. and traveled 10 miles by motorbike to get to the park. He arrived at 2 a.m., and sure enough, he was first in line. Over the course of the night, 6000 other people joined the line behind him.
Photo Credit: Thisdayindisneyhistory
After Disney’s family members and celebrities entered, Dave became the first actual customer to buy a ticket and set foot inside the park.
Image taken from a newscast in 2005 celebrating Disneyland’s 50th anniversary. This is color footage from 1955 of Dave MacPherson and his original ticket
Photo Credit: Thisdayindisneyhistory
Dave doesn’t know what happened to his historic admission ticket. He did, however, keep a copy of the complimentary card that came with it. The complimentary card allowed Dave to enter the park for free on July 18, 1955. He didn’t get to use that card because he had to ride his motorbike back home to Long Beach.
Image taken from the same newscast, showing Dave MacPherson at Disneyland in 2005.
Photo Credit: Thisdayindisneyhistory
But thankfully, he was also awarded with a lifetime pass to the legendary amusement park, which he has taken advantage of every single year since—and Dave’s still going strong!
MacPherson says about his luck, “”You might say that 1955 was a very good year for a youthful Scotsman!”
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You’re probably asking yourself, ‘How did these two pull off this amazing feat?’ Well, we’re going to explain that to you right now.
If you’ve ever set foot on Disney World’s property, you know that you have to navigate a sea of humanity. It’s PACKED with people pretty much all the time.
But Shane Lindsay and Kristina Hawkins somehow managed to pull off the incredible achievement of riding all 46 rides at Disney World during a recent visit. And they did it all in 18 hours without FastPasses.
Ride 1 Msv @Parkeology #parkeologychallenge #oxygenfree @epic_disney #epicdisneyescape pic.twitter.com/vnFoJYd89G
— Parkeology Shane (@FamedNaturalist) April 24, 2019
The couple knew the odds were against them, but they couldn’t resist. Lindsay started the Parkeology Challenge, a competition that calls for participants to ride every ride at the four Orlando theme parks (The Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom).
Lindsay and Hawkins documented their stop on every ride on Twitter. They began their quest in the Magic Kingdom at 7:51 a.m. on a Wednesday morning and completed their excellent adventure just before closing time at 2:00 a.m. on Thursday. They said their longest wait was an hour long for Animal Kingdom’s Flight of Passage.
Ride 9 alien saucers. DHS complete! @Parkeology #parkeologychallenge #oxygenfree @epic_disney #epicdisneyescape pic.twitter.com/nQPL2eKK9n
— Parkeology Shane (@FamedNaturalist) April 24, 2019
The Parkeology Challenge was created in 2014 and since then only 6% of the 325 teams that have dared to try have completed the mission. Lindsay and Hawkins have completed the challenge before, but this was the first time they did it without a FastPass or a MagicBand, which allow you to skip over those neverending lines of people waiting to get onto rides.
Proof of motion @Parkeology #parkeologychallenge #oxygenfree @epic_disney #epicdisneyescape pic.twitter.com/OLCyxSTw1J
— Parkeology Shane (@FamedNaturalist) April 25, 2019
Hawkins said of the experience and resulting viral attention, “It’s mostly just Disney street cred, I would say. It was almost like we broke the internet, the Disney internet, everyone was freaking out.”
Ride 46. Seven dwarfs. Magic kingdom complete @Parkeology #parkeologychallenge #oxygenfree @epic_disney #epicdisneyescape pic.twitter.com/43RTXhMziE
— Parkeology Shane (@FamedNaturalist) April 25, 2019
We still can’t believe this happened!! @Parkeology #parkeologychallenge #oxygenfree @epic_disney #epicdisneyescape
— Parkeology Shane (@FamedNaturalist) April 25, 2019
Impressive! A job well done!
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When the Six Flags Over Texas theme park opened in 1961, it had a section dedicated to the Confederacy where actors would hunt through the crowd for Union “spies” and “execute” them by firing squad, and where boys and girls could sign up to defend the South as soldiers and nurses.
In Hidalgo, Mexico, there’s an amusement park attraction that offers visitors a fake illegal border crossing experience. 00
A NJ amusement park had a hole in the fence that kids would use to sneak in and avoid paying admission. The owner knew, but didn’t repair it because he felt the kids couldn’t afford admissions, but would spend money in the park anyways.
A Mexican amusement park offers a fake US-Mexico border crossing attraction, complete with fake smugglers and fake border patrol agents. The aim is to dissuade would be migrants from making the trip. For 3 hours, tourists endure sirens, chases and the fake border patrol yelling threats.