Disney had something to promote himself, he was trying to build Disneyland theme park in California.
Firstly there's the lad or lass whose idea it was to turn a swashbuckling Disneyland theme park ride into a film.
Thousands more are now being moved to make way for another, more conventional, theme park: Disneyland.
As Meeusen tells it, haphazard development around the park left Disneyland isolated in the middle of an urban area.
It gives Disneyland a worthy companion park (finally) and also serves as an incentive for fans who are accustomed to the much larger Walt Disney World Theme Park to make the trek out West to check out the original.
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Even Walt Disney travelled to Europe in the 1950s, searching for inspiration for what would become the world-famous Disneyland, his first theme park project in California.
They deny that the area will become one giant theme park, a sort of Disneyland in Africa.
On Thursday, Disneyland, America's first theme park, turns 50.
You've heard of Disneyland, Legoland and Alton towers but now a new theme park has opened which the owners say is perfect for beating the credit crunch.
There was a measure of agreement from archrival Singapore, where Renton de Alwis, head of the National Association of Travel Agents Singapore, said Hong Kong Disneyland would be another attraction in the region for locals looking for theme-park experiences.
There are, of course, great examples of visionary leaders taking the time to learn: Walt Disney visited Tivoli Park in Copenhagen to learn first-hand about family amusement parks before creating Disneyland.
Behind a high fence a robot glides on a monorail around 20 solar panel arrays attached to steel poles, like WALL-E on a Disneyland ride. (See video below.) The robot, made by Menlo Park, Calif.
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