Originally Posted By ssWEDguy I've been backstage at the Magic Kingdom many times. Most things back there are well planned, and you can see why they are they way that they are. And then there's the Pluto CM parking lot. It's on the east side of the MK, backstage, on the east side of the perimeter road, past the backstage monorail beam. There's nothing else around it, north or south. You can't walk from there to any part of the MK. You have to take a circulator bus to get to the MK itself, just like taking the circulator bus from the main CM parking up north, way behind the MK. I've always wondered why the Pluto lot is where it is. What kind of mutant justification went into it's creation? Then the other day I was reading the LP discussion on the early plans for resorts at the MK. 5 resorts were planned, and 2 built initially (Poly and Contemp). The GrandFlo eventually came along, but the other 2 resorts were never built. 4 of those resorts were to be on the Seven Seas Lagoon. Poly, Contemp, GrandFlo (Asian) and the never built Venetian. (Would have been halfway between the Contemp and the TTC.) Then there was the Persian. It would have been on the east side of the MK, to the north of the Contemp. And it would have faced to the east, out onto Bay Lake rather than the Seven Seas Lagoon like the rest. Then it hit me. The Persian would have been right about where the Pluto parking lot is. I'm betting the area was excavated originally back before the MK opened, in anticipation of the Persian Resort. Then the resort never happened. And then I'm guessing that somewhere along the line some bean counter decided that that big flat space could at least ba a parking lot instead of just sitting there vacant. What do you think? Does anyone know more about this?
