Share your secrets of Disneyland

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<font color=blue>Wants it all....and now HAS IT AL
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I was hopeing people could share any little secrets they know about Disneyland or DCA. Like touch this... and this will happen...,look for....(the parking sign in Indy). You get the idea. I love all those hidden things. I want to make a game of it for our next trip. Please help.

Thanks!:D
 
Stop into the bank on Main Street and you can press a penny for free. They'll even give you a penny and a holder for it.
 
<font color=navy>Here's a few ...

Club 33 - There is a door next to the exit of Pirates of the Caribbean (to the right as you face the exit). This door is the entrance to Club 33, which is an exclusive restaurant only open to members and their guests. The restaurant is over the shops in New Orleans Square.

Railroad-New Orleans stop - The steam engines get filled up with water here, and listen to the teletype machine - it's the beginning of Walt Disney's opening speech on the day Disneyland opened.

Every attraction that's been rebuilt over an old attraction has something of that old attraction - Indiana Jones has an Eeyore sign from that section of the parking lot that used to be there; Star Tours shows the microscope from Adventures Through Inner Space, the foundation for the House of the Future still stands near the Triton Fountains at the entrance to Tomorrowland. Winnie the Pooh has the three animal busts that used to hang above the exit doors of Country Bear Jamboree....

On Tom Sawyer's Island, when you go through the caves there's a "hidden" room with treasure (I don't know if it's still there since the refurbishment).

In Fantasyland, at Adventures of Snow White, touch the bronze apple that stands at the queue entrance and something will happen.

Go to Snow White's wishing well by the castle and enjoy the view of Snow White & the 7 Dwarves - something will happen (every 15 minutes, I think).

When the Rivers of America were first filled, Walt had a vial from every major river in the US and poured water into the river - hence "Rivers of America."

There are telephones in the country store on Main Street - pick one up and listen in on the party line.

In Toontown, near the Roger Rabbit spin ride there are a lot of gags - pull on the doors, open boxes, etc., and see what happens.

The waters for Jungle Cruise, castle moat, Rivers of America, and Fantasia Gardens are all connected.

The Columbia and Mark Twain run on a rail-guide. The Columbia has a little museum below decks - interesting to explore & see how people survived when at sea 'way back when.'

Notice the ground and how it changes from land to land to keep in the theme of that land.

Tiki Room - one of the decorative masks leading to the Tiki Room, along the wall, is upside down.

You can see where Tinkerbell lands from the Casey Jr Circus train attraction.l

At DCA, check out the store called "Off the Page" - the characters have literally come off the pages that are hanging from the ceiling. See if you can find them all. It took my dd & I 20 minutes to find all the characters around the store.

Try to identify all the parts of California on the tiled mural at the entrance to DCA - there is even a Hidden Mickey there.

I have a brick at Disneyland - you can look for that, too :-)

So does Paul Pressler - last time I saw his brick it was broken :eek;

The Tour Guide office used to belong to Marty Skylar - one of the original imagineers at Disneyland - he used to leave his door unlocked so that guests could wander in and talk to him.

At New Orleans Square - look at the balcony to the Gallery - you'll see WD & RD enterwoven in the wrought iron.

:sunny:
 

Mary Jo hit on most of the ones I know.

Make sure you look up at the window above Snow White's Scary Adventure.

There's a bronze plaque in the ground in front of the castle, this was the exact center of the park when it was first built (no longer the center now that Toon Town is there).

Push on the bamboo pole in the Indiana Jones queue (I like to let unsuspecting people with me go in front of me then I push it).

Look for Hidden Mickeys. I'm really bad at these. I know of one on Main Street in one of the windows and one in the Haunted Mansion in the dining room. You can get lists of them on line at hiddenmickeys.org (I think that's the right URL).

That's all I can think of right now!
 
<font color=navy>The bronze plaque in the ground in front of the castle is the time capsule that was buried on Disney's 40th anniversary in 1995 (I was there when they displayed it :) ). As you go through the castle, look down on the ground and before you get to Fantasyland you'll see a brass spike in the ground. That's supposed to be the center of DL, pre-Toontown days....

Oh, and the drawbridge is a real working drawbridge that has been used twice - once when Disneyland opened in '55, and again when Fantasyland was totally rehabbed and opened with a new look (early 1980's, I think).

Other Hidden Mickey - Indiana Jones, as you get to the skeleton room, look to the left immediately, and if you're lucky, you'll catch a sight of Bones - a skeleton w/a Mickey Mouse hat on that says Bones. It took me several tries, and sitting in the back row to see this one.

Other cool things are the sounds of the people who "live" at Disneyland - you can hear them near the locker area on Main Street, and in New Orleans Square near the restrooms.
 
Hidden Mickeys -
Fantasyland - there is a hidden Mickey painted into the design of the mailbox in front of the shop next to Peter Pan's Flight.

Indiana Jones - as you walk through the queue, there is a hidden Mickey on the desk in his office.

Main Street - there is a Hidden Mickey in a photo in the window of the camera store on Main Street. A CM told me about this one and it is very difficult to find. Look at the lens in the photo.

Haunted Mansion - the plates on the table in the Ballroom form a Hidden Mickey.

Frontierland - there is a hidden Mickey on the Rivers of America map near the Mark Twain entrance.

Other things to look for:
Splash Mountain - there is a sign with a funny message at the bottom of the big drop. It is on the right side, just as you enter the tunnel at the bottom.

Haunted Mansion - look for the shadow playing the piano in the attic scene.

Le Bat en Rouge (Villain Shop in New Orleans Square) - there is a cage with the witch from Snow White in the back of the store. Turn the key and wait to see what happens.:earseek:
 
Originally posted by Mary Jo
<font color=navy>The bronze plaque in the ground in front of the castle is the time capsule that was buried on Disney's 40th anniversary in 1995 (I was there when they displayed it :) ). As you go through the castle, look down on the ground and before you get to Fantasyland you'll see a brass spike in the ground. That's supposed to be the center of DL, pre-Toontown days....

That sounds more accurate! I confused myself...not to hard to do.
 
<font color=navy>A Disney Princess ;)

I just remembered this one -- on Soaring Over California, pay attention when they hit the golf ball - there's a hidden mickey on the ball... and I've heard that it's Mike Eisner who hits the ball.
 
I've never noticed this, but I just read in the 2003 Birnbaum's guide that there is a shadow of Sherlock Holmes in the window above Mr. Toad's Wild Ride. I'll have to look for that one next time I go!

When I was there in June my goal was to spot one of the Disneyland cats, and I did! A big orange guy was sleeping in the Alpine Hut in Fantasyland where the Skyride used to be.

Also, make sure you notice the light in the window above the fire station. This was Walt's apartment.
 
I fogot about the Disneyland cats...

I've seen cats on the Jungle Cruise, Tom Sawyer Island, behind the Haunted Mansion, and at the French Market restaurant.
 


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