History of the Los Angeles Angels team general manager, under whose watch the Angels eventually won their first World Series Championship. Although Disney did not technically acquire a controlling interest in the team until after Autry's death, for all practical purposes it ran the team (the Autry loyalists on the board acted as "silent partners") through its Anaheim Sports subsidiary, which also owned the NHL's Mighty Ducks of Anaheim at the time. Disney, of course, had been a catalyst for the development of and population growth in Orange County, having opened its Disneyland theme park in Anaheim in 1955. Autry had named Walt Disney himself to
Walt Disney Studios Park by the Earffel Tower, a water tower similar to one that was installed at the Walt Disney Studios lot in Burbank, California. On February 27 2018, Bob Iger announced a Transformative Multi Year Expansion, opening in phases from 2021 to 2025, which will completely transform the park. The cost of this expansion is 2 billion euro. It will feature new Marvel, Star Wars and Frozen themed areas, all surrounding a new man-made lake. Initial plans for a second theme park, named Disney-MGM Studios Europe or Disney-MGM Studios Paris, were scheduled to open in 1996, though these plans were cancelled around