"Don't call Disneyland an amusement park, call it a theme park" The first line of the book: Mouse Tales: A Closer Peek Backstage at Disneyland, quickly explains how Disneyland is not just an amusement park but a theme park. Walt Disney didn't want his park to be a normal amusement park, he wanted to create a new and different world. A life where you can't see your world and the problems it brings. In fact, he wanted it so badly that he built twenty-foot walls around the park, so no matter where you are in the park, it's impossible to see the outside world. It was 1955 but the idea is still the same. This book not only tells the behind the scenes story of how the rides were built, but also some crazy stories told by cast members while working at Disneyland. When the park first opened, there was a twenty-foot mound of dirt between Fantasyland and Tomorrowland. . You see, when the workers were building the moat around the castle, the earth had to go somewhere. Over the years, a pile of dirt remained, but Walt wasn't happy about having that unsightly pile in his pocket....