Welcome aboard Pink Monterelle. I'm your pilot, Michelle Valladolid, and next to me is my co-pilot, Noah Viadolid.

Hey, everybody.

Last time, we talked about Disney's reaction to the various theme parks popping up all over the country.

This time, Disney goes to the world's fair.

Walt wanted to plus Disneyland with all sorts of things, but he lacked the capital to do so.

He and his imaginers had filmed actor Buddy Hedson doing a dance routine from four angles in front of a wall marked with measuring lines,

and had built a little dancing man who did that same routine.

Walt wanted to go bigger, but he just didn't have the money.

Two events happened that shaped the Disney Company for decades to come.

The first was the release of the smash hit movie Mary Poppins.

Mary Poppins funded Mapo, M-A-P-O, the animatronics and technology arm of wed.

On the Walt Disney World Monorail I drove, Blue Delta in 1989, there was a big red light labeled

Mapo. I knew from being a Disney geek what Mapo was. I just didn't know why the emergency light was labeled Mapo. I knew from being a Disney geek what Mapo was. I just didn't know why the

emergency light was labeled Mapo. The pilot who let me drive for what seemed to be a mile-long

stretch didn't know either, just that the Mapo was the emergency light. During the pandemic,

new guys at Imagineering were getting rid of what they said was useless old stuff, manuals,

models, etc.

Essentially, getting rid of Mapo.

Fortunately, someone called animatronic genius and all-around sweet guy Garner Holt, and he went to Disney

and rescued all of that important history.

The second event to take place was the New York World's Fair, which wasn't an official world's fair.

To be an official world's fair, the event must be regulated and approved by the Bureau

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