But first lol: I dream of someday visiting Ireland. It looks so lovely and so nice over there, Scotland too. I am Irish and Polish, yet I have no desire to visit Poland. I guess if I were offered the trip I'd go...but Ireland appeals to me more lol. Plus, I LOVE the way they talk. heh.
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Okay, here they are. These are just some of many many facts that I remember from all my reading on Disney over the past years rofl. These are just from my memory.
There are over 6,000,000 spots in the All Star Movies Resorts, 101 Dalmations section.
The Magic Kingdom produces 115 lbs of lint daily
70,000 fish were dumped into Bay Lake at the opening of WDW
In Big Thunder Mountain there is a goat eating dynomite. If you keep your eyes on that goat as you go down the spiral, you might feel the g-forces. (I have done this and it feels SO weird! It's awesome!)
The Magic Kingdom has reached well over 40,000 people in one day
Walter Cronkite is the original voice of Spaceship Earth
In the 1964 World's Fair, It's A Small World was presented on the UNICEF platform
General Electric sponcers The Carousel of Progress
The vehicles used in Spaceship Earth are called Time Machines
The Grand Floridian is based off of the Hotel Del Coronado in CA and the tapping of "Some Like It Hot" took place at the Hotel Del Coronado
All of
Disneyland in CA can fit into the Kilimanjaro Safaris at Animal Kingdom.
All of Disneyland in CA can fit into the Epcot parking lot
The Contemporary resort is built with the "honey-comb effect" and is the only "A" formation building at WDW.
The Contemporary has been sinking into the ground and continues to do so
Splash Mountain is 52 feet high or 5.2 stories
Summit Plummit is 120 feet high and is the tallest water slide in the US
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster takes you from 0-60 mph in 2.8 seconds
Imagineers are not allowed to have dyed hair or wear any rings
The WDW Cleaning crew is tested on a daily basis. Employers will place certain items in obscene places to see if the cleaning crew picks it up.
There are no plastic cup lids at the Animal Kingdom to protect the animals
All of the materials used at the Animal Kingdom are enviromentally safe
The frog in Splash Mountain replaced Uncle Remus because of the controversy of the movie
Song of the South was produced in 1945 and was later banned because some people thought the movie protrayed slavery in a light, happy manner.
I'll write more at another time maybe. lol.
Wales rox
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