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<font color=cc6633>One has Ones hat and One's orf.
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MGM STUDIOS
MGM – INDIANA JONES - When your in line for Indiana Jones you go past a well, I think to the right of the entrance. If you pull on the rope you'll hear someone down in the well.
MGM – MISC - I am sure most people have walked past this. At MGM if you stand looking at the front of the Chinese Theatre turn and go to your left. As you are walking there is a little garden on the right side of the building with busts of famous people. I just saw this on our next to last visit. It was very interesting walking around reading about the stars.
MGM – MISC - Check out the "Singing in the Rain" umbrella that is attached to one of the streetlights near the old Hunchback theater. Grab the umbrella and step on the black square embedded in the cement underneath it for a nice surprise! ( I heard about this - haven't seen it for myself yet)
MGM – HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS - At the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids play area, climb the stairs between the garden hose and the slide coming out of a roll of film. There is a dog nose. Put your hand in the nostrils. The dog sniffs you!
MGM – TOWER OF TERROR I dont know if this has been mentioned but the Tower of Terror at MGM is 199 feet tall. It was supposed to be 200 feet but for a structure 200 feet tall you need lights at the top for airplanes to see. So it is 199 feet tall to keep the spooky feeling.
MGM – MUPPET VISION 3D - the key under the mat in the Muppet ride
MGM – MUPPET VISION 3D- In the pre-show Muppet 3D room at MGM there is a net full of green jello hanging from the ceiling
MGM – THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE - ON THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE BEHIND THE LICENSE PLATE NUMBER "021-429 ON THE CAR DEPICTED IN THE GANGSTER SHOOT-OUT SEQUENCE OF THE THE "THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE?
IT WOULD BE THE DATE OF THE VALENTINE DAY MASSCRE ---FEBRUARY 14,1929 MGM –
MISC - In MGM there is a hidden attractiion, it is Gertie the Dinosaur. She is a tribute to the vaudeville actor and artist Windsor Mackay. About 1912 he decided to spice up his act with a cartoon of a railroad, projected on the screen, and he would interact with it. The audienes thought that this was trick photography. He then decided to come up with Dinosaur Gertie. This was before the concept of the multiplane camera or even cells. He made about 14,400 drawings on rice paper. Each one not only had Gertie drawn on it, but also had the background screnery (Silent movies had 16 frames per second and this ran anbout 15 minutes or 900 seconds). He started this act in 1915, the audiences recognized at this point that Gertie was a cartoon and could not be trick photgraphy. This was the first recognized projected cartoon. Many years later, Walt Disney met Windsor's son. The son was very happy to met Walt, but Walt was even happier to meet him. Walt told the son that "I owe everything I have done to the idea started by your father". There is a small sign near Gertie in the park, but it does not go into this detail
MGM - OMD
One Man's Dream exhibit
here's a couple of facts about Walt's "office". When you are standing in front of the glass window to look into his office, you would be in his kitchenette if you were really in his Burbank office. There were glass doors that opened into his kitchenette by the push of a button.
The room is in reverse of how it was in CA. I have heard lots of speculation that this was due to a photo negative being reprinted incorrectly or something else. The fact is the room WDW was working with had a door on the "wrong" side of the room. So things were placed almost mirror image.
Behind the desk is a briefcase that Walt used to carry home work.
There is speculation that the papers on the credenza behind the desk are papers from Robinson Caruso that have Walt's red grease pencil markups.
The telephone on the desk is the actual telephone that Walt used every day of his life in his CA office.
MGM – INDIANA JONES - When your in line for Indiana Jones you go past a well, I think to the right of the entrance. If you pull on the rope you'll hear someone down in the well.
MGM – MISC - I am sure most people have walked past this. At MGM if you stand looking at the front of the Chinese Theatre turn and go to your left. As you are walking there is a little garden on the right side of the building with busts of famous people. I just saw this on our next to last visit. It was very interesting walking around reading about the stars.
MGM – MISC - Check out the "Singing in the Rain" umbrella that is attached to one of the streetlights near the old Hunchback theater. Grab the umbrella and step on the black square embedded in the cement underneath it for a nice surprise! ( I heard about this - haven't seen it for myself yet)
MGM – HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS - At the Honey, I Shrunk the Kids play area, climb the stairs between the garden hose and the slide coming out of a roll of film. There is a dog nose. Put your hand in the nostrils. The dog sniffs you!
MGM – TOWER OF TERROR I dont know if this has been mentioned but the Tower of Terror at MGM is 199 feet tall. It was supposed to be 200 feet but for a structure 200 feet tall you need lights at the top for airplanes to see. So it is 199 feet tall to keep the spooky feeling.
MGM – MUPPET VISION 3D - the key under the mat in the Muppet ride
MGM – MUPPET VISION 3D- In the pre-show Muppet 3D room at MGM there is a net full of green jello hanging from the ceiling
MGM – THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE - ON THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE BEHIND THE LICENSE PLATE NUMBER "021-429 ON THE CAR DEPICTED IN THE GANGSTER SHOOT-OUT SEQUENCE OF THE THE "THE GREAT MOVIE RIDE?
IT WOULD BE THE DATE OF THE VALENTINE DAY MASSCRE ---FEBRUARY 14,1929 MGM –
MISC - In MGM there is a hidden attractiion, it is Gertie the Dinosaur. She is a tribute to the vaudeville actor and artist Windsor Mackay. About 1912 he decided to spice up his act with a cartoon of a railroad, projected on the screen, and he would interact with it. The audienes thought that this was trick photography. He then decided to come up with Dinosaur Gertie. This was before the concept of the multiplane camera or even cells. He made about 14,400 drawings on rice paper. Each one not only had Gertie drawn on it, but also had the background screnery (Silent movies had 16 frames per second and this ran anbout 15 minutes or 900 seconds). He started this act in 1915, the audiences recognized at this point that Gertie was a cartoon and could not be trick photgraphy. This was the first recognized projected cartoon. Many years later, Walt Disney met Windsor's son. The son was very happy to met Walt, but Walt was even happier to meet him. Walt told the son that "I owe everything I have done to the idea started by your father". There is a small sign near Gertie in the park, but it does not go into this detail
MGM - OMD
One Man's Dream exhibit
here's a couple of facts about Walt's "office". When you are standing in front of the glass window to look into his office, you would be in his kitchenette if you were really in his Burbank office. There were glass doors that opened into his kitchenette by the push of a button.
The room is in reverse of how it was in CA. I have heard lots of speculation that this was due to a photo negative being reprinted incorrectly or something else. The fact is the room WDW was working with had a door on the "wrong" side of the room. So things were placed almost mirror image.
Behind the desk is a briefcase that Walt used to carry home work.
There is speculation that the papers on the credenza behind the desk are papers from Robinson Caruso that have Walt's red grease pencil markups.
The telephone on the desk is the actual telephone that Walt used every day of his life in his CA office.
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