Random WDW Info - I Never Knew!

[YoungChuck72]

awesome stuff keep them coming

 

[YoungChuck72]

does anyone know where i can get a disney trivia book...like the one you all are gettin some of this stuff from i would really enjoy one Please and

 

[Mickey&Donald]

Search Amazon! You'll be overwhelmed by the sheer number of them.

 

[mollygirl13]

In the Contemporary Resort, there is a 5 legged goat on the mosaic. It took me MANY years to find it and I finally did! It is on the Monorail side of the mural at the very top of the mountain-look up when you are coming up the escalator. Here is a picutre of it:

 

[MsLeFever]

Okay. I know a CM personally and I just aked him and he said that there are no men that dress up as girl charecters. Have you personally seen a man getting into a girl charecter's costume?

Someone's probably already addressed this - but to add my 2 cents - I had a friend (male) who proudly played the Queen of Hearts!

 

[MsLeFever]

*The skippers in jungle cruise have one day to learn a 200 pg script. Also the skipper really does not drive the boat.
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200 pages? That must be REALLY big font since Hamlet (a four hour play) isn't usually more than 100!

Maybe 200 lines?

 

[MsLeFever]

In MGM there is a Mickey statue on the information kiosk named Crossroads of the World. Mickey stands on a spinning globe balanced on it's tower; his right ear is made out of copper for use as a lightning rod.

I also read something about that particular Mickey being the only one at WDW where the ears aren't balanced - like even with each other.....

 

[Todd&Copper]

Original plans for the MK -Seven Seas Lagoon area feature three nearby hotels - the Polynesian, the Contemporary, and a Persian-themed resort which was never built.

Regarding the "hidden Donald" chair in HM - the chair was originally designed to be part of a Museum of the Weird attraction that featured creepy personified furniture. I don't think it looks much like Donald, but it DOES look like a face.

On the American Adventure, the media used in the production are true to the times they reflect. For the colonial and revolutionary era, there are paintings; for the Civil War scenes, we get to see early photography; for the "age of inventions" we have moving pictures & cartoons; as we move past WWII, we get color photography and film.

 

[Costumesaremylife]

The day the Polynesian opened they had a wave machine set on another island so that there would be waves to surf. The waves were taking away too much of the sand and it was never used again.

--According to the Boat driver

 

[Pinkdiamond816]

Has someone compiled a neat little list of these....or should I start copy pasting everything? These are great!

 

[nittanyliongirl02]

So, I was just looking through some stuff and came across this website with info pertaining to the ins and outs of the underground MK tunnels. Pretty interesting if you ask me!
http://www.ekday.com/blog/files/8036d653b430ffa276d8767dde659c06-28.html

 

[jjarman]

I have an odd fact that I have not seen or heard before.

You know in the movie It's a Wonderful Life when George is sitting in the bar and praying. There is a lady singing in the background. She has a very high soprano voice. That is the lady who did the voice of Snow White in the Disney movie. I heard this on a talk radio show about trivia for It's A Wonderful Life.

 

[kenny]

That sounds very much like what we heard on the KTTK tour. It seems that the metal was collected and used for amunition, so the shutters were held up with leather straps. Of course over time, the leather stretched, and the shutters were crooked. Also, the stretch of different coloured stones in the streets of Liberty Square was to represent how people would just throw their slop water out the window, and it would run along the street. Not horse urine, because as you know, horses will urinate anywhere, not in a trough. It's not a depression in the street, so it isn't actually a trough.

Has anyone actually seen the leather strap shutters at disney? I heard about this and look when we were there in December but all the shutters I saw were hung straight.

 

[Donald is #1]

Has anyone actually seen the leather strap shutters at disney? I heard about this and look when we were there in December but all the shutters I saw were hung straight.

Look at the building with Columbia Harbour House in it. That building has the leather strap shutters.

 

[AmyBWV99]

Sure it's an old thread -- but this is one rumour that I expect is completely false. The United States ranks 4th in the world for sales of Guinness behind Great Britain, Ireland and Nigeria. I doubt the Rose & Crown accounts for the highest sales of Guinness in the world.

I can see it as completely accurate. I'm not sure there is a busier bar in all the world than that place. Especially one that stays open 365 days a year and is open an overage of 10.5 hours a day.

 

[ufgator]

Here are some I learned on our last trip.

From a bus driver:
- Disney runs 300 buses a day on property.
- They are using/testing used coconut oil from the restaurants to run some of the buses
- Disney has hybrid buses on order.
- There will be new bus computer system, where buses will be told to go where they are most needed. It will be more efficient.

Other ones:
- The chef at the California Grill is also responsible for banquets and catering.
- People think the deer in FL are small, but during mating season, they find large deer at one of the resorts (can't remember which). And the females will sometimes hide at the resorts because it's the only way they can escape the males.

This was already mentioned, but I was also going to say that they water down the roofs in MK for the fireworks so nothing catches on fire. My friend was on the train that circles MK, and they had to stop the train because of stuff from the fireworks. Some trees (I think it was trees) caught on fire.

Another one that most people know about is when they shoot off the extra fireworks around 10:30 pm. It's a loud boom, and I have heard it before. But I had never seen it until last week. We were still eating at Bistro de Paris at 10:30 pm. We looked at the window and saw what looked like a huge fireball/bomb going off. I thought maybe this wasn't in the park, but I guess it is.

 

[pta-mom]

Boy, can I relate!! There are times I need to hide at the resort to escape the males too....two DS's & one DH!! LOL!

 

[party of 3]

Boy, can I relate!! There are times I need to hide at the resort to escape the males too....two DS's & one DH!! LOL!

 

[nittanyliongirl02]

Just got done watching Modern Marvels--Walt Disney World on the History Channel. It was chock full of interesting Imagineer info. Catch it if you get the chance!

 

[arielsleepingbeauty]

Just got done watching Modern Marvels--Walt Disney World on the History Channel. It was chock full of interesting Imagineer info. Catch it if you get the chance!

I watched it last night. Imagine if they didnt continue after Walt's passing.