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Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress

Stage show at Magic Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.