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The monorail, which brings guests to Magic Kingdom and Epcot, has been around since Magic Kingdom first opened in 1971, the first of the four Disney parks.
Designed under the Mark IV model, the monorail was one of the ways Walt Disney wanted to give guests a way to leave the real world behind while they visited Disney. It’s only one of two ways to get to the park—the other being a ferry—since it’s separated from the parking lot by the Seven Seas Lagoon.
The monorail was designed by imagineer Bob Gurr, who based it on the monorails at Disneyland.