Chapter 14: Orlando
Guo Feng was also led by the staff to his new team, the Magic, and the staff began to show Guo Feng Orlando and began to introduce the beautiful city. [Ran^Text^Library] []
Orlando is located in the central part of the U.S. state of Florida and is one of the best leisure tourism cities in the world. Orlando has a number of lakes in the city, the streets are very clean, the original residents are very friendly, and the climate and temperature here are also the best places for travel, camping, water sports, honeymoons and family trips, with more than 26 million tourists visiting Orlando every year. Orlando has the world's largest Disneyland park on par with Los Angeles Disneyland, and there are also the Orlando Museum of Art, the Orange County History Museum and nearby Harry Gardens in the Lockhaven area, and the largest sea world in the United States is also located in Orlando. Walter Disney World, Universal Studios, Islands of Adventure and countless other attractions have made it one of the best places to visit in the hearts of Americans. The beauty of Orlando lies in its colorful, novel, dynamic and pleasant warmth. Orlando may be small, but there's a big world in a small city.
Orlando, formerly known as Jennigan, was a modest settlement next to Fort Ganlin, a U.S. military base during the war against the Seminolet Indians. After the end of the Second Semino, outsiders began to move here, and the soldiers who died in Lake Iola began to move here. The town of Reeves is named after him. At the beginning of the 20th century, Orlando developed into a thriving agricultural city known as the "City of Orange Peels." The success of citrus farming led to the development of railroads and real estate, but in the late 1950s, Orlando had another endless source of money: the beginning of the space age. Glenn Martin, now known as Marietta Defense Systems, began manufacturing missiles, and the establishment of the Cania Villar and Kennedy Space Centers on the east coast of Florida brought good income and jobs. Due to the abundant sunshine here, it was naturally the first choice for the construction of Disneyland. After its completion in 1971, the city grew rapidly and became a famous metropolis. But it's not just these theme parks that attract visitors. Orlando has also quietly built its own high-tech corridor, Florida's Silicon Valley. In short, you have to admit that Orlando, which was once lagging behind, made a wise move to replace citrus cultivation with tourism and high-tech industries. This "community of tomorrow" has proven its foresight and is where it is today.
Located in the southeast corner of the city, Orlando International Airport is the largest airport in Central Florida. Despite the small population of the city, the city's airport is very luxurious. 6 floors, an airport subway, 129 gates, and multiple stores about Disney World Orlando. And there are flights from almost all major airlines, as well as charter and discount routes. Orlando Airport has the second-most passenger routes in the United States, after Atlanta. If you're going to Florida for a combo ticket, the inevitable destination is Orlando. The package includes a combination of theme parks, hotels and airline tickets. If you want to take a bus directly from the airport to Disneyland, you can take Highway 417 to Highway 536 or take bus 111 directly. Amtrak Passenger Service has direct connections from Orlando to Miami, Gainesville, and northern cities. Amtrak Passenger Station is located 1.6 kilometers south of downtown Orlando.
The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is a collaboration between Warner Bros. and Universal Studios, located on the site of the 787-acre theme park in Orlando by the two major film studios, Hogwarts Castle and the snow-covered Hogsmeade Village. It is scheduled to be completed in 2009 at a cost of billions of dollars. Located in the Adventure Island Theme Park and Universal Studios Florida Theme Park at Universal Studios Orlando, Florida, USA, the three-part adventure island theme park officially opened on June 18, 2010, consisting of Hogwarts Castle, Hogsmeade Village and the Forbidden Forest. In 2014, Diagon Alley and the magic train connecting the two parks in the Universal Studios Florida theme park opened. At Hogwarts Castle, you can visit Dumbledore's office, the Defence Against the Dark Arts classroom, the Gryffindor common room, and the ride-on game "Harry Potter Forbidden Journey". The park's service area and shopping outlets are located in Hogsmeade Village, where there are a variety of specialty shops and restaurants referencing the original Harry Potter books. For example, the Three Broomsticks Bar - a restaurant that sells drinks and food such as "butterbeer", which is loved by wizards in novels; Jokowi's Joke Shop – sells all kinds of mischievous toys; Duke Honey – a candy store selling sweets such as "Chocolate Frog" and "Bibi Duo Flavored Bean"; Devis-Bans – a gift shop selling a variety of merchandise such as "wands", "broomsticks", etc.; Owl Post Office - Allows you to send letters with the "Hogwarts" postmark.
Orlando's Walt Disney World is a sprawling amusement park with the latest electric rides and 13.5 million visitors a year. There's a western-style and adventurous snowy mountain ride, where visitors take a luxury tour train through the wilderness of the pristine west, through mysterious caves**, past the gold rush town of 1849, into a gold mine tunnel, earthquakes and landslides follow one after another, tourists are terrified, and geysers suddenly spew water vapor into the sky. Disney World also has classic trains and carriages, Robinson Tree House, Horror Haunted House, U.S. Presidential Palace, Mickey Mouse World, Snow White, submarine underwater wonders, 360-degree stereoscopic movies, space capsule landing on the moon, strange vitality electrical appliance exhibition hall, Oriental Aircraft roaming the world, Peter spaceship, high-altitude colorful fireworks, etc., all colorful.
Located in Walt Disney World, there is a futureland theme park. It is a science fantasy-themed amusement center that covers an area of 105 hectares and is divided into two parts: Futuristic World and World Window. There are 6 buildings and 8 pavilions in the future world, namely the Planet Express, the Energy Pavilion, the Earth Pavilion, the Power World, the Fantasy World, the Journey Under the Sea, the Computer Curiosity and the Future World. Visitors take the sightseeing train from prehistoric times to the 21st century, as if they become a swarm of electron beams, flying through the time tunnel, into outer space, and enjoy the joy of traveling in space. Visitors can also take a stage train to the desolate world and see how fossil fuels are formed, the rumble of volcanic eruptions, the smell of lava flames, and the sound and smell of electric primitive dinosaurs. The fantasy world uses high-tech means to show the world of infinite changes in light, and to introduce various optics, which is a very vivid popular science education.
A visit to Orlando is not to be forgotten with a visit to the famous Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. On the eve of the launch of the Space Shuttle, hundreds of thousands of tourists flock to the area, camping near the launch base and waiting to witness the launch. NASA has a visitor center in the Ground Passage here, as well as the Air Force Space Museum, which displays many historical materials about space flight. During the tour, visitors can see the lunar landing rover, various spacecraft and rocket exhibition halls, rocket assembly plants, rocket launch pads, space shuttle launch pads, space command stations, rocket launch simulation rooms, etc. In the face of these great creations of mankind marching into space, everyone can hardly suppress the excitement in their hearts, but the explosion of the space shuttle "Columbia" has cast a sad color on this magnificent space center. The scenery of Orlando is stunning. Walking on its streets, you can see huge light box signboards in the shape of Uncle Sam, mermaids, cellos and so on. Colorful luxury tourist hotels, some roofs build rockeries, dangerous rocks, some roofs are green trees, like gardens, some facades are like ancient castles, elegant style, some halls are splendid, rich in modern style. One of the great things about Orlando is the mild, sunny weather that comes with it all year round. As its nickname "The Sunshine State" suggests, Central Florida maintains a comfortable average annual temperature of 22.2 degrees Celsius, with a dry climate for Chicago travel agencies from October to May. Orlando is a great place to visit all year round.
When the staff introduced the good place here to Guo Feng, Guo Feng didn't have the heart to listen, he was a little melancholy now, because he was separated from Li Chuanfeng and a few of them, and now he really didn't fit in, so they came to the stadium in Orlando, and the staff took Guo Feng into the stadium and began to introduce the history of the stadium, Guo Feng suddenly cheered up, this is the best way to understand the team.
Amway Arena used to have many names, such as Orlando Arena, TD Water House Center, etc. It is a large sports and entertainment complex located in the heart of Orlando and is currently the home arena of the NBA Orlando Magic. Perhaps people are more familiar with the name TD Water House Center. That's right, because since 1999, the Canadian financial corporation Toronto Division has successfully purchased the naming rights of the venue, changing the name of the stadium from "Orlando Arena" to "TD Water House Center". On December 7, 2006, Amway announced that it would be the new sponsor of the venue, with Amway paying $1.5 million over four years or $375,000 per year. Eventually, Amway was able to secure the new naming rights for the venue. Although, at present, Amway Arena is still the Orlando Magic's playing arena, but the future of the arena is uncertain. Since 1999, the Orlando Magic and the City of Orlando have been in discussions about renovating the arena or tearing down the TD Water House Center to rebuild the stadium. In recent years, arenas and city officials have been reported for tax evasion and have been widely criticized for being much smaller than other newly built venues. As a result, some media broke the news that the Orlando Magic team is likely to move out of the city, but team officials vetoed this statement. However, the stadium rankings are indeed at the bottom of the NBA league. On September 29, 2006, the City of Orlando and Orange County reached an agreement to initiate a $1.1 billion improvement plan, including a $480 million construction of new venues. The Magic will provide $114 million in cash and a $100 million upfront deposit. On July 26, 2007, the plan was approved, and the new venue is expected to be completed and put into use between 2010 and 2010. Once the construction of the new arena is completed, the Amway Arena may be sold or demolished. The new name became legal on December 12, 2006, when the Orlando City Council formally approved the name change application. The city councilors who voted unanimously approved the name change agreement between Magic and Amway, at which point the Water House Center would no longer exist. The Magic's home stadium was owned by the City of Orlando, but when the contract was renewed in 1998, the city relinquished the naming rights to the arena to the Magic. The 17-year-old arena was originally called Orlando Arena, and later the naming rights of the arena were acquired by Mizuya Company, which specializes in securities brokerage. After reclaiming the rights to name the arena, the city of Orlando perfunctorily named the building "The Arena," which they knew would not take long. Magic boss Richard? DeVos was one of the co-founders of Amway, and in 1959 he joined a partnership with his partner, Jay? In the basement of his home, Wen Anluo created this direct selling company together. With this relationship in mind, it was only natural for Amway to buy the naming rights to Magic's home stadium at a fairly cheap price of $1.5 million over four years, or $375,000 a year. When the company named the arena, it paid $1.7 million a year, most of which went to the Magic. Under the new naming contract, the City of Orlando's revenues will be further squeezed, but they will not have to spend a portion of their naming rights revenue on arena maintenance, as they did before. A new arena is currently being built in Orlando, and Amway has the right of first refusal to name the new arena. From now on, the Amway logo will be painted inside and out of the Magic's home stadium, and the same logo will appear on live television broadcasts of the team's games. "We are thrilled to receive an additional revenue from the arena, which will host more than 150 events annually and we believe it will continue to be the center of sports, entertainment and cultural activities in the City of Orlando," said Orlando City Superintendent Johnson. ”
After listening to the explanation, Guo Feng also had a preliminary understanding of this team. Then came the history of the team, and the staff began to talk about the history of the team.
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