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[OhioTony]

bloopers from Pinocchio:
Gepetto paints Pinocchios eyebrows black, dips the brush in water to clean it .Next he dips the brush in red paint and paints the mouth black.

bloopers from Snow White:

Snow White an dPrince Charming are alwys smiling--She hums with her mouth open and a bird kisses him on the teeth

In the mines the diamonds are sparkling everywhere yet the dwarves seem to be picking away at barrren rock

 

[OhioTony]

bloopers from Bambi:
The scene where the mother possum and her babies are hanging upside down--Bambi turns his head and we see the possums as he does ,except the mother ramains on the right and should be onthe left

Falines eyes are blue except in the scene where she is chased by the dogs her eyes are brown

After the fire, a raccoon is licking its young. The child vanishes and the parent continues licking the air

 

[OhioTony]

Bloopers from Peter Pan

The pillow on the bench inside the nursery changes from round to square.

A chair changes from red to blue

Lady and the Tramp

The calendar is very wacky:
It shows Dec 31 as a Thursday as well as Jan 1 a Thursday. The next calendar shot shows November 30 as Friday But Dec 1 as a Tuesday.On the third calendar shot January 31 is Sunday and so is Feb 1

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

I took the Keys to the Kingdom tour and I thought this tidbit was interesting....All of the garbarge disposal is obviously done backstage in a huge thing. To keep the smell from getting into the parks they have a giant air freshener pointed in the direction of the park from backstage that pumps some fresh scent to hide the garbarge. Never even thought why I never smelled garbarge there and they have plenty of it!

they pump a cookie smell, right?? it's near the bakery. i thought i hear this on the tour also!

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

Our KTTK tour guide showed us the ring and told us it was considered part of the ride by the Imagineers. He said it was part of the story: that after Madame Leota killed Cece and Master Grayson didn't turn to her, that she got angry, rushed up to the attic, yanked the ring from Cece's finger, and flung it out the window. Also if you take the chicken exit (same place where KTTK guests enter) there is a rack of keys. There are keys there to every room, except the attic where Cece's body is hid. There is also a hidden Donald on the back of a chair in the haunted mansion ride. Two imagineers created the HM and one wanted you to see ghosts, but the other just wanted you to wonder if you did. Consequently in the first part of the ride you see moving eyes and wonder if someone is watching you, but on the second half you truly see the ghosts.

when i went on the KTTK tour the guide told us that it's pure myth about the ring that was made up. it's actually a post from a gate that used to be there and that was the only one they couldn't get out, so a CM decided to try and pry it out with a screw driver......which intern broke the head of the screw driver off. thus, it looks like a ring and people always ask about it and the CM's tell them about "the ring" story

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

Where or Where do i find the 10K+ Hidden Mickey List?

How long would that take to read and to find?

Anyone have an extra long stay at WDW soon?

there's a book you can purchase called Hidden Mickeys: A Feild guide to Walt Disney World's Best Kept Secrets i bought it at MK in the craft/Art store on the left side of the park. they also sell it at your local Barnes and Nobles or Borders. but this one only has 400 Hidden Mickeys as opposed to 10,000

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

See I always heard that they'd given guests a piece of candy then watched how far they got til they dropped the wrapper, then took the average minus a foot.

when i went on the KTTK tour the CM told us it indeed was Walt who ate a hot dog and counted the steps(originally, of course, in DL) and that's where they put the trash cans.

 

[Laurajean1014]

The Walt Disney Company Corporate Timeline

1900s

1901 - Walter E. Disney is born

1920s

1928 - Mickey Mouse is featured for the first time in the short animated film, Steamboat Willie

1929 - Walt Disney Productions formed

1930s

1937 - Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is released. It is Disney's first full length animated film
1940s

1940 - Walt Disney Productions offers stock as the company goes public to help lower debt. The company also moves its operations from Hollywood to Burbank, CA.

1941 - Disney animation workers go out on strike for five months. Deal to return back to work is finally brokered by federal mediators

1943 - The American Broadcast Company network is formed after the FCC rules that NBC must sell one of its two radio networks. The NBC Blue network is sold to Edward J. Noble for $8 million. Noble made his money as the creator of Lifesavers candy.

1945 - Walt's brother, Roy, becomes president of company

1947 - Walt Disney testifies in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities
1950s

1951 - Leonard Goldstein and United Paramount Theaters buy ABC for $25 million

1953 - Buena Vista Distribution Company is formed to act as Disney film distributor

1954 - Disneyland, the first weekly television series from the studio debuts on ABC


1955 - Disneyland opens in Anaheim, CA at a cost of $17 million. The ABC television network is partial investor in Disneyland. The Mickey Mouse Club airs on ABC for the first time. Howard Hughes offers to sell Disney the RKO studio but Walt and Roy decline the deal
1960s

1960 - Disney buys out ABC's remaining financial interest in Disneyland

1966 - Walt Disney dies from lung cancer
1970s

1970 - Monday Night Football debuts

1971 - Walt Disney World opens in Orlando, FL. Roy Disney dies

1979 - ESPN is launched
1980s

1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens. The Disney Channel makes its debut on cable television

1984 - Michael Eisner becomes the new CEO for Walt Disney Productions. ABC in a deal with Getty Oil acquires ESPN. ABC sells 20% of the sports cable network to Nabisco who in turn later deals the stake to Hearst

1986 - Company changes name from Walt Disney Productions to the Walt Disney Company. Capital Cities Communication, a large broadcasting group, acquires the ABC television network for 3.5 $billion.

1987 - ESPN is awarded the National Football League's first cable broadcasting deal
1990s

1992 - Disney is awarded a National Hockey League expansion team to be called The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim make their league debut. ESPN Radio is launched

1993 - Disney acquires Miramax Films

1995 - Disney announces its intent to purchase Capital Cities/ABC for $19 billion. The deal is the largest media merger in history to the point and the second largest sum of money ever paid for a U.S. company

1996 - Capital Cities/ABC officially becomes part of the Disney Company. Disney.com is launched. Disney gains ownership stake in Major League Baseball's California Angels. Team later changes its name to the Anaheim Angels. Radio Disney is launched

1997 - Knight Ridder purchases Disney's four newspapers (Kansas City Star, Forth Worth Star-Telegram, Wilkes Barre Times Leader, Belleville News-Democrat) for $1.65 billion

1998 - ESPN The Magazine is launched

1999 - Fairchild Publications is sold to Advance Publications. The magazine chains includes such titles as W, Jane, and Women's Wear Daily
2000 - Present

2000 - Robert Iger becomes president and COO

2001 - News Corp. sells Fox Family Worldwide to Disney. Cable channel later becomes known as ABC Family

2002 - ESPN and ABC announce their acquisition of the National Basketball Association's television broadcasting rights

2003 - Anaheim Angels sold to Phoenix businessman Arturo Moreno for just over $180 million

2003 - Roy Disney resigns as vice-chairman of the Walt Disney entertainment
group

 

[Laurajean1014]

The Walt Disney Company owns


Magazine titles include:

* Automotive Industries
* Biography (with GE and Hearst)
* Discover
* Disney Adventures
* Disney Magazine
* ECN News
* ESPN Magazine (distributed by Hearst)
* Family Fun
* Institutional Investor
* JCK
* Kodin
* Top Famille - French family magazine
* US Weekly (50%)
* Video Business
* Quality

 

[Laurajean1014]

The Walt Disney Company owns:

Cable Television

* ABC Family
* The Disney Channel
* Toon Disney
* SoapNet
* ESPN Inc. (80% - Hearst Corporation owns the remaining 20%) includes ESPN, ESPN2,
* ESPN News, ESPN Now, ESPN Extreme
* Classic Sports Network
* A&E Television (37.5%, with Hearst and GE)
* The History Channel (with Hearst and GE)
* Lifetime Television (50%, with Hearst)
* Lifetime Movie Network (50% with Hearst)
* E! Entertainment (with Comcast and Liberty Media)

 

[freakylick]

No its 47.1439 sq miles

Actually (according to Anita Answer @allearsnet) it's approximately 39 square miles.

From her 3/7/05 answers column:
"Walt Disney World property (Reedy Creek Improvement District) currently encompasses approximately 39 square miles. It used to be larger (47 square miles) before RCID gave the town of Celebration over to Osceola County. The Walt Disney Company also owns quite a bit of land in other areas of Florida. "

 

[eeyore45]

Did you know that CRT has 183 seats, and they serve 640 breakfasts daily?!!

No wonder its hard to get an AR with only 640 slots!!

 

[MissTink]

 

[Minnie's Mate]

I've read that if you look at an ariel shot of MGM, the layout is the largest hidden Mickey. Anyone else hear about that?

It used to be, then they added the giant sorcerrer's hat and ruined it. If you look at the map to the theme park, you can see the eyes, mouth and neck. Or at least parts of them.

 

[Minnie's Mate]

That President Carter was originally wearing a brown suit (which he frequently did during his administration). Mrs Carter came to WDW and saw the Hall of Presients and decided her husband looked dowdy next to the other presidents, so when she went home she sent them one of his blue suits.

Actually, Ms. Carter routinely makes visits to WDW with one of President Carter's suits to deliver it to the Hall of Presidents to be exchanged for the one his audioanamatronics is wearing. She has done this since He was installed in the Hall of Presidents.

 

[Minnie's Mate]

Yeah, that one is not swimming with me.

Maybe, but it is true. Per the menus at the Coral Reef.

 

[Minnie's Mate]

Since 1971, the total miles logged by Walt Disney World monorail trains would be equal to more than 30 round trips to the moon. One dozen new cars were put into service along the 14-mile beamway in 1990 as the original fleet received a well-deserved retirement.

Some of those retired cars were sold to the City of Las Vegas and are used as mass transit along the Las Vegas strip.

One of the pilot cars was auctioned on Disney's e-bay site to a man in my county in Georgia...he was the only bidder and got it for 10K and it is in his back yard. It has a red strip.

 

[Minnie's Mate]

On an illuminations cruise the captain told us that they put the wrong statues on top of the swan and the dolphin. If you look at the swan, there are waves painted on the building. If you look at the dolphin, there is grass painted on the building. The dolphin (fish) should be w/ the waves and the swan should be on the building w/ the grass. They didn't change them to where they are should be b/c they weight too much and it would have cost too mcuh money.
Also, these buildings were designed to have the monorail go through them which would lead to MGM and connect to the other parks but it was too expensive. If you look at the buidlings, there are dark squares in the center of them. The rooms were designed like the Contemporary, where rooms could be taken out individually from the main frame. Which is another interesting tidbit. The rooms at the CR were designed so they could remove each room from the building one at a time so they could update the rooms w/o interupting the rest of the hotel. But then the building settled and they could not move the rooms.

None of this has been confrimed but it's very interesting...

Well, its bannanah leaves not grass, and you are right, they are on opposite buildings.

However, Michael Graves likes squares. He also likes triangles and curves. The roof of the Dolphin has both. The Swan has a curved roof with squares protruding through the curves. The black square was just a way to incorporate a square on both buildings. Having them line up with one another is just what architects call having the details "talk to one another". Actually, there are also squares on the wings that run perpendicular to the main part of the buildings. This would mean there would be monorails criss-crossing the cresent lake between the two hotels if the squares were for future monorail tunnels. He has also used black squares on many of the buildings he designed during the same period that he designed the Swan and Dolphin.

As far as making the rooms removable, as an architect, that seems cost prohibitive. In view of a recent multimillion dollar renovation to the two hotels, they would have taken advantage of this option if it were available but they didn't.

 

[Minnie's Mate]

Some dates of Disney Interest:


January 1994: Inaugural Walt Disney World Marathon

April 1, 1995: Blizzard Beach water adventure park opens

June 1995: Michael Eisner announces Disney’s Animal Kingdom

July 1995: Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings Pavilion opens

January 1996: Inaugural Indy 200 at Walt Disney World

January 1997: Walt Disney World Resort celebrates 25 years

September 1997: Downtown Disney opens

March 1997: Disney’s Wide World of Sports opens

April 22, 1998: Disney’s Animal Kingdom opens

June 1998: DisneyQuest opens

July 30, 1998: Disney Cruise Line launches first ship, the Disney Magic

Downtown Disney was open long before 1997. I've been going since the late 1980's. I think it originally opened in the mid-1970's.

 

[Firegoalie23]

No RCFD stations are in trailers, We have 4 permanent structures as stations.
Downtown disney may have been renamed in 1997, but was originally Disney Village marketplace. Also, Thursday nights have been cast member nights at PI for Years!!!!