10 Classic Theme Parks That Influenced Walt Disney’s Creation of Disneyland

Walt Disney certainly did his research before embarking on creating a theme park of his own.

Copenhagen's famed Tivoli Gardens amusement park in December 2017. Tim Schnupp/Tribune News Service/TNS

By Brady MacDonald From The Orange County Register

Walt Disney spent more than a decade dreaming up Disneyland during his travels to European amusement parks and sent his Imagineers on a series of road trips to visit popular attractions across the United States that influenced the development of the Anaheim, California, theme park.