The author did pose the same question that I had, which was:
However impressive the end result, the Disney Corporation declined to duplicate the system installed for the Magic Kingdom either in its additions to Disney World such as Epcot Center or Disney-MGM Studios or in the European and Japanese parks; whether this was due to prohibitive cost, as one backstage guide has suggested, or for other reasons is not clear.
I've always wondered why it was never duplicated at any of the other parks.
The next of trivia is well-known among Disney fans, especially if one has see any of those Travel Channel/History Channel/etc documentaries:
The 1.25 miles of Magic Kingdom tunnels cover an area of nearly 400,000 ft2, arranged in a rough hexagon with a central corridor allowing a short cut between the main wardrobe (under Fantasyland) and personnel (under Main Street U.S.A.) areas. The system incorporates Disney World’s sophisticated automatic vacuum collection garbage collection system, the first in the United States and the largest in the world, capable of collecting and compacting three tons per hour through pneumatic tubes. It also includes covered access roads for deliveries, emergency vehicles, and the Brinks armored truck; the digital animation control system (DACS) that every second synchronizes over 72,000 individual functions of the Audio-Animatronics figures in the Magic Kingdom, not to mention doors, lifts, lighting, curtains, detection and alarm systems; dressing rooms for the employees, or “cast members”; “costume stores” for their uniforms; cafeterias; and everything else that would be unseemly to appear aboveground.
There are lots more fascinating stuff to be found in that article.
Zz.
[Edit: The link no longer provides a free access to the article. Sorry.]
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