A WATERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY; JAPAN TO ADD SEA PARK.Byline: Dave McNary Daily News Staff Writer Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney Co. and its Japanese partner announced Wednesday they will go ahead with plans to build a $2.6 billion aquatic theme park next to their highly successful Tokyo Disneyland Tokyo Disneyland (東京ディズニーランド . Oriental Land, which owns and runs Tokyo Disneyland under a licensing agreement with Burbank-based Disney, will open Tokyo DisneySea Tokyo DisneySea (東京ディズニーシー in the fall of 2001 with construction starting next year. The companies had announced a year and a half ago that they were considering building DisneySea but held off on a final commitment. The facility will be divided into seven ``ports of call,'' including Mediterranean Harbor; Mysterious Island, featuring a volcano; Mermaid Lagoon, based on ``The Little Mermaid''; 1,001 Arabian Nights Arabian Nights: see Thousand and One Nights. Arabian Nights compilation of Middle and Far Eastern tales. [Arab. Lit.: Parrinder, 26] See : Fantasy , based on ``Aladdin''; Lost River Delta A delta is a landform where the mouth of a river flows into an ocean, sea, desert, estuary, lake or another river. It builds up sediment outwards into the flat area which the river's flow encounters (as a deltaic deposit ; science-fiction themed Port Discovery; and American Waterfront, with replicas of turn-of-the-century harbors in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and Cape Cod Cape Cod, narrow peninsula of glacial origin, 399 sq mi (1,033 sq km), SE Mass., extending 65 mi (105 km) E and N into the Atlantic Ocean. It is generally flat, with sand dunes, low hills, and numerous lakes. . In the early 1990s, Disney considered building an aquatic theme park in Long Beach as a ``second gate'' to be operated with Disneyland. But after some community resistance, the company opted instead to build a California Adventure expansion in the Disneyland parking lot scheduled to open in 2000. Disney, which already receives royalties from Tokyo Disneyland, will use its Glendale-based Imagineering to design and install the new theme park. Terms of licensing agreement for DisneySea were not disclosed. Tokyo Disneyland, which opened in 1983 and has drawn more than 200 million customers, was the first Disney theme park to be built outside the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. . Disney had reached the agreement with Oriental Land in 1979 and decided to license its name rather than invest in the property because it was in the midst Adv. 1. in the midst - the middle or central part or point; "in the midst of the forest"; "could he walk out in the midst of his piece?" midmost of building the Epcot section of Disney World in Florida. Disney began in 1992 to work on the DisneySea concept and design work for the second gate and reached a basic agreement 18 months ago with Oriental Land. Universal Studios is also planning a theme park for Japan with a 2001 launch date. The $1.6 billion facility will open in Osaka and include rides based on movies such as ``Back to the Future'' and ``Jurassic Park.'' Another Disney theme park Disney plans to open its ninth theme park in 2001. Name Location Opened Disneyland Anaheim 1955 Disney World Orlando, Fla. 1971 EPCOT Orlando, Fla. 1982 Tokyo Disneyland Tokyo 1983 Disney-MGM Studios Orlando, Fla. 1989 EuroDisney Paris 1992 Animal Kingdom Orlando, Fla. 1998 (x) California Adventure Anaheim 2000 (x) DisneySea Tokyo 2001 (x) (x) projected CAPTION(S): 3 Photos, Box PHOTO (1--3--color) Tokyo DisneySea will feature the AquaSphere, above, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, top left, and Renaissance Fortress, top right. BOX: Another Disney theme park (see text) |
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