12 surprising things you didn’t know about Disneyland

7. George Lucas Among First Visitors

At 11-years-old, George Lucas was among the first guests to visit the park on opening day in 1955. Years later, in 1987, the attraction Star Tours opened, which was based on Lucas’s movie franchise Star Wars. Since then, Disney has bought Lucasfilm for $4 billion, to which Lucas stated, “For the past 35 years, one of my greatest pleasures has been to see Star Wars passed from one generation to the next. It’s now time for me to pass Star Wars on to a new generation of filmmakers.”