Disney Phychology Secrets?

[ToonTagTrolleyDollie]

Heey
I'm not sure if this is in the right place but lets just go for it, hey?
I know there are little things disney do like you're never more than 40 paces away from a trashcan because thats how long they calculated it takes to eat a hotdog, but are there anymore?
I really love learning little things like that so i was wondering if you guys know any or if theres a book could you let me know as well?
Love you guys xxxxxxxxx

 

[Cinderella<3]

Animal Kingdom's entrance is built on a slope due to the fact that Disney has no control on how active the animals will be. The slope makes people walk slower giving them a better chance of being able to see some animal action!

 

[idoeyes1]

MAgic Kingdom is also built on a slope. You have to walk uphill to get to the castle. In the morning you are so excited to get there, you don't notice you are walking up hill. But at the end of the day it helps people leave more comfortably. Learned that on the KTTK tour!

 

[mrseace711]

I love reading tidbits like this Keep them coming

 

[BDL]

This was included in the History Channel's Modern Marvels about Disney World... About how Cinderella's Castle was designed with forced perspective to give the allusion that it is hundreds of feet high. But it is 189' high.

The reason behind this, was that Walt wanted to maintain the belief that the guests were in a magical place. He felt that the feeling would be lost if, a blinking beacon was attached at the top (At the time, in FL, any structure over 200' had to have the beacon in order to warn planes). So as you look up, the windows and turrets look smaller, not because you are looking further away, but because they are smaller.

 

[chartle]

I know there are little things disney do like you're never more than 40 paces away from a trashcan because thats how long they calculated it takes to eat a hotdog, but are there anymore?

I read that Walt would observe how long someone would hold a piece of trash before tossing it on the ground thats how he came up with the trash can spacing.

OK one more. The lake between the MK and its parking lot is to try to insulate you as much as possible from the outside world.

The Story goes Walt saw a young family leaving the park early, around 5:00 PM. He asked why and they said while riding the Skyway, they saw traffic building up and they wanted to beat the rush.

Thats also why he bought so much land in FL. He wanted to keep the real world as far as possible from the parks.

 

[Jeff_G]

The entire Magic Kingdom is actually on the 2nd floor, its 14ft above ground level. One of the issues Walt Disney didn’t like about Disneyland is that cast members from one land were seen walking through another. Underneath the kingdom are utilidors that allow cast members to travel from one area of the park to another.

 

[WDWPrincess1208]

You will never get wet from the rain when walking underneath Spaceship Earth...the water is actually collected in the spheres and recycled back into the World Showcase Lagoon.

 

[Buzz_gator]

You will never get wet from the rain when walking underneath Spaceship Earth...the water is actually collected in the spheres and recycled back into the World Showcase Lagoon.

really????

 

[Michellynn]

You will never get wet from the rain when walking underneath Spaceship Earth...the water is actually collected in the spheres and recycled back into the World Showcase Lagoon.

Wow...that is fascinating! Never would have even occurred to me that they could do something like that!

 

[mrseace711]

The entire Magic Kingdom is actually on the 2nd floor, its 14ft above ground level. One of the issues Walt Disney didn’t like about Disneyland is that cast members from one land were seen walking through another. Underneath the kingdom are utilidors that allow cast members to travel from one area of the park to another.

I watched that on a show I believed called something like myths and truths of WDW. I cant remember but it was on the travel channel. Very interesting

 

[LaLalovesWDW]

The next time you pass a popcorn stand, look at the top of it for a big hole on the side. This is hole is where all of the aroma of the popcorn is funneled out of which is why you smell it from hundreds of feet away. By the time you get there, you have already made up your mind to get popcorn.

On the KTTK tour we also learned that the only full-scale building at WDW is the Exposition Hall which was built to obscure guests view of Contemporary Resort and really make us feel like we're in a different world.

Also, the different colors of the ground is designed for the many of us that are so busy looking at the sights we do not necessarily recognize a curb, a step, or dip. So they color code the group to notify us (even peripherally) that there is a step up/step down, etc.

 

[dawnn12]

anymore?

 

[Cinderella<3]

The only part of Magic Kingdom without music playing is in between the Indy Speedway and the Mad Tea Party. The reason is because there was no natural way to link Tomorrowland with Fantasyland.

Also notice the streetlamps as you walk down main street. The lamps start off as gas lamps, but by the time you reach Casey's Corner they become electric lamps.

 

[MonorailPilotMulan]

Picture the space between the Haunted Mansion and Big Thunder Mountain Railroad for a moment. All of the architecture between these two landmarks along the Rivers of America follows a specific timeline in American history. Notice how it starts with the 16th Century Gothic style Haunted Mansion. As you walk towards Frontierland, you'll find that the buildings are becoming more and more modern including the Hall of Presidents (which is more true to the classic Colonial American style of the late 1770s) and continues through the early days of pioneers towards the beginning of Frontierland and works it's way into the Industrial Revolution by the time you get to BTTR. Pretty cool huh?

 

[MonorailPilotMulan]

Also, I thought I had heard that Main Street apparently gets wider as you walk towards the castle, giving the appearance that it is longer than it is when you are walking towards the castle and allowing Guests to feel like it's a shorter walk at the end of the night when you're towards the Train Station.

 

[gcferg]

The next time you pass a popcorn stand, look at the top of it for a big hole on the side. This is hole is where all of the aroma of the popcorn is funneled out of which is why you smell it from hundreds of feet away. By the time you get there, you have already made up your mind to get popcorn.

Same is true for the bakery on main street. The smell of fresh baked cookies is vented out onto the street so that everyone who walks by can smell them.

 

[Sandy61]

My husband just now told me he swears he saw a tv show somewhere that showed how trash is sucked from the bottom of the trash cans to tubes in the tunnels below. He said when we went in June he noticed them changing the trash bag in the can and was disappointed. So I guess this one is not true...yet!

 

[olympia]

it's very interesting. there is a lot of things that we don´t know. It's very curious

 

[chartle]

My husband just now told me he swears he saw a tv show somewhere that showed how trash is sucked from the bottom of the trash cans to tubes in the tunnels below. He said when we went in June he noticed them changing the trash bag in the can and was disappointed. So I guess this one is not true...yet!

There is a tube system that moves the bags of trash around and I guess your DH just assumed it sucked it out from the trash cans.

Others have thought the same some posted that a CM once had to move a trash can to prove that it didn't happen.