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This Plus-Size Guide to Disney’s Magic Kingdom will let you know the type of seating for each attraction, how I fit, and even some tips to make your Magic Kingdom day even more magical and comfortable. No need to worry, Disney is very accessible for those of us who are plus-size. You want to experience the magic yourself, or you want to take your kids for the first time, or someone has invited you but you have concerns about fitting on the rides. They were kind of ticked off.When you think of Walt Disney World, more than likely the Magic Kingdom and the majestic Cinderella Castle will pop up in your mind. “But the funniest thing was the bees would come up and try to pollinate or try to get honey from our shrubs and our poppies. They can nest up there, that’s fine,” Bishop says. “The minute we got the trees up, the birds were there. The goal was to fool guests, but what about Mother Nature? She also used the Black Forest as a model using Florida-friendly lookalike plants. “Sadly, the artists in the movie can put a sycamore leaf on an oak bark tree and you’re like ‘Oh, that’s going to be hard to make that work,’ ” Bishop says. Imagineers used scenes from 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” for inspiration, even though the Disney classic didn’t worry too much about being horticulturally correct. They’re double-, triple-welded so there wouldn’t’ be any chance of anything flying off or injuries,” she says. The trees, placed by a crane, are an engineering feat, Bishop says. There are 350 fake shrubs amid 20,000 real ones on the mountain’s base and 55 synthetic trees versus 150 live oaks, cedars and birches. Other not-so-natural sights on the Mine Train site: poppies, shrubs and trees. “We folded it over so it kind of hid - what I call the hairpiece, the toupee - the base that the grasses are in.” “We were able to use a heat gun and we melted the grass,” Bishop says.
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