Fort Wilderness Junction (also referred to as the Buffalo Junction Resort) was to be a 600-room hotel at the
Walt Disney World Resort
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in
Florida
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between
Fort Wilderness and
Disney's Wilderness Lodge.
Plans for the hotel were announced by the Walt Disney Company as part of the "Disney Decade," an ambitious plan by the company to significantly expand and develop its theme park and resort properties in the 1990s. The hotel would have been similar to the Boardwalk area near
Epcot, but themed to the Old West, with horses on sawdust-strewn streets, and would have a copy of the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show from
Disneyland Paris
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.
In response to a national economic recession in 1992, Fort Wilderness Junction and several other "Disney Decade" projects were postponed indefinitely.
References
*Vaughan, Vicki. (1992, September 7). Disney decade revamped by recession. ''Orlando Sentinel,'' p. 14.
*Vaughan, Vicki. (1990, January 15). Disney shows off big plans for '90s. ''Orlando Sentinel,'' p. A1.
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Unbuilt Disney resorts