Random WDW Info - I Never Knew!

[Luv2Roam]

Anyone walking back into Morocco may notice a large entrance, with two much smaller keyhole type entrance open passage doors on either side.
This is in reference to the biblical story comparing the likelihood of a rich man entering heaven against that of a camel passing through the eye of a needle.
The keyhole door passages are the eye of the needle.

The Eiffel Tower replicia in France is there to draw guests into the store below (looking for the tower base). Worked on us the first time around!

 

[Drummer71]

Tell me this ain't a guy:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=976280&highlight=tink

Its not a man. For the last time TINKERBILL DOES NOT EXIST! Now since I said that a tinkerbill probably fell down dead somewhere. clap if you beleive in tinkerbills.....

The reason her legs are so big is probably because she needs to have enough muscle to hold herself up, guys arent the only ones that have muscle.

 

[Sylvester McBean]

Its not a man. For the last time TINKERBILL DOES NOT EXIST! Now since I said that a tinkerbill probably fell down dead somewhere. clap if you beleive in tinkerbills!

to quote austin powers about that picture..."that's a man, baby." or a woman that recently had a sex change operation.

 

[Drummer71]

Anyone walking back into Morocco may notice a large entrance, with two much smaller keyhole type entrance open passage doors on either side.
This is in reference to the biblical story comparing the likelihood of a rich man entering heaven against that of a camel passing through the eye of a needle.
The keyhole door passages are the eye of the needle.

The Eiffel Tower replicia in France is there to draw guests into the store below (looking for the tower base). Worked on us the first time around!

That's so cool. I'll have to check that out when I'm down there.

On the travel channel they said something aobut the Eiffel Tower replica having elevators running up it like the real one, but you have to be like seven inches to ride in them.

The waterfall in Canada was put there to hide a huge genorator.

 

[TDC Nala]

but you have to be like seven inches to ride in them.

 

[AKQJ10]

The original name for The Contemporary was The Contempo.

Actually, it was going to be called the "Tempo Bay Resort"

 

[SueM in MN]

I think that the apartment in the castle was built for Walt's brother and other family, but as everyone knows Roy died a few months after the park opened, and it's never been occupied.

There was a plan for an apartment, but the space was never actually completed into an apartment. It was used as a space for telephone operators, then storage, and now is a dressing/resting room for the castle show performers.

 

[kitchenfairy]

Hey thanks for all the interesting tidbits everyone,and my dh thinks I'm the only one who is obsessed with WDW! Now that I have read through all 18 pages and have satisfied my disney monster, I'm going to bed. Night all!

 

[2giddy4wdw]

Its not a man. For the last time TINKERBILL DOES NOT EXIST! Now since I said that a tinkerbill probably fell down dead somewhere. clap if you beleive in tinkerbills.....

The reason her legs are so big is probably because she needs to have enough muscle to hold herself up, guys arent the only ones that have muscle.

I'm with everyone else, there are Tinkerbills. And um yeah my nephew works for Disney and has told me that they have used men for this before. And if you think that is a woman flying in that picture...then boy is she ugly. I enlarged the picture and I wouldn't want to look like her. Also why do you have to have muscular legs to hold you up when you are flying? They are attached at their backs, not their legs!!!!

Then again, who cares if she is a bell or bill. I still think it's awesome when she flies!!!! I think we need to let this one rest!!!

 

[cpthook]

That ones not true. The rides themselves are shut down at night. That said some of the animatoric figures to remain in motion at night. They are put in a non-show sleep mode and continue to move slightly.

I had no clue thats awesome sorry for the wrong info.

Here is a few more I know for a fact about

*It would take one person, eating two hamburgers at every meal,4,109 years and 215 days to eat the number of burgers served at wdw each year.

* More than 100 pairs of sunglasses are turned into wdw's last and found every day. Enough each year to cover the eyes of every single resident of Sun City California and Sun City Florida.

*To keep the 200 or so props in THE HAUNTED MANSION looking untouched and dusty, Disney buys five-pound bags of Theartical dust ,known as "Fuller's Earth", in large quantities. There has been enough dust since the atractions opening in 1971 to bury the mansion completely!

 

[ImagineEar]

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[Drummer71]

I'm with everyone else, there are Tinkerbills. And um yeah my nephew works for Disney and has told me that they have used men for this before. And if you think that is a woman flying in that picture...then boy is she ugly. I enlarged the picture and I wouldn't want to look like her. Also why do you have to have muscular legs to hold you up when you are flying? They are attached at their backs, not their legs!!!!

Then again, who cares if she is a bell or bill. I still think it's awesome when she flies!!!! I think we need to let this one rest!!!

She would have to have muslces in her legs so she can keep herself up in a pose to make her look like she is flying rather than her just hanging there.

I agree with you on one thing though, we should elt this subject rest.

 

[Drummer71]

*The Swiss Family Robinson Tree House is unofficially classifeied as Disneyodendron eximus, a genus that means "out of the ordinary disney tree." The tree wieghs 200 tons.


*BTMRR took 650 tons os steel to build.

 

[alliebug]

Just subscribing so I can come back and read more later.

Thanks for all the great trivia. I wish I had something to add, but I don't.

 

[SuperGurl]

According to the book Building a Dream: The Art of Disney Architecture, the 2 hotels built/owned by the Tishman company were originally planned for the hotel area in Lake Buena Vista (by the other DD hotels).
The part Michael Eisner didn't like was that the plans were for 2 huge, but very ordinary (un-interesting) hotels. Eisner, who had always been interested in architecture) wanted more interesting hotels and vetoed the project, eventually leading to a competition between Micheal Graves, Robert Venturi and Alan Lapidus (who designed the original planned resorts) to design 2 resorts.
Disney didn't sue Tishman; Tishman sued Disney for $375 million for "racketeering" and $1 billion in punative charges for not completing the hotels as originally planned. The suit was eventually dropped and Tishman agreed to build the hotels as Eisner/Disney wanted. A new location was chosen near Epcot (possibly the "better" location was part of the deal to drop the suit).
Graves was the winner of the competition (even though the Swan and Dolphin broke a major "rule" of Disney parks - which was not to distract a guest's attention).

This is true. I also read this in Disney War (this is a very interesting book by the way)

 

[SuperGurl]

Tell me this ain't a guy:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=976280&highlight=tink

I think Tinkerbill does exist LOOK HERE

 

[princessarielle]

I know a person that works at the Disney Archives and they said that there is no TinkerBill and there has never been one.

Well the OP is probably getting frusterated because this is supposed to be a forum about Random WDW info and here we are debating over Tinkerbells and Tinkerbills. lol

If there are not Tinkerbill's then one of the girls isn't so pretty because I've seen a very close up picture that someone has taken and it was NOT a girl!

Also, if you look at the legs on the swan's in the Spectro parade they look kinda manly.

Lori

 

[sunny04]

Also, if you look at the legs on the swan's in the Spectro parade they look kinda manly.

DH and I have discussed this too. Those swans have to be men!

 

[Joanna71985]

DH and I have discussed this too. Those swans have to be men!

Not true. I happen to know some of them, and there are some females.

 

[LaLa]

Tell me this ain't a guy:
http://www.disboards.com/showthread.php?t=976280&highlight=tink

OMG, that picture is hilarious!