WDW Facts! Did you know...

[ryley26]

ron miller is the only person to have name in the windows above mainstreet twice. He is up there once for being president and once for being married to walts daughter

 

[Ziggie]

Post all WDW Facts here. I'll start...


Fact: Walt Disney is not preserved and/or frozen to be brought back to life when techology advances and we would come up with a cure for lung cancer. Walt Disney, was actually cremated on December 17, 1966, two days after his death.

 

[disneydreamer98]

Thanks for the pictures!
As far as the part that says "ashes scattered in paradise" next to Sharon Disney Brown Lund's name....is "paradise" referring to WDW???? That's one of the names I call it!

 

[MissTink]

Very cool pics. What do they mean by 'scattered in paradise'? Where is that?

 

[Simba's Mom]

If you continue the scale of Spaceship Earth to a real golf ball, it would take a golfer to be 3 miles tall!
I hope I'm right on this. Think I remember right.

 

[pbharris4]

Did you know you can't buy chewing gum at any of the gift shops on Disney property?
Only120 more days
Linda

Actually, you can't find gum anywhere on Disney Property not even the gas stations are allowed to sell it.

 

[dooley]

Actually, the airport won't even sell gum anymore...

 

[Ziggie]

You're quite welcome for the pics

As far as the "paradise" part goes, no one actually has revealed where that exactly is. There has been speculation that it was Disneyland, but others have said no to that idea.

The plaque contains space for a total of eight names. Disney's parents, Elias Disney (1859 - 1941) and Flora Disney (1868 - 1938), are buried in Forest Lawn's Great Mausoleum.

 

[MissTink]

Did you know CM's use the utilidors to get from place to place. Walt Disney was very concerned with themeing and "the show." He did not want a CM in a Tomorrowland costume walking through Main Street or an Adventureland CM in Fantasyland. The 'utilidors' allow each CM to show up where he/she belongs without walking through the other lands.

 

[MissTink]

Did you know that Cindy's Castle DOES have an apartment built into it. When it was first built Walt and Roy's family were asked if they would like to have it set up for them. They declined and the room was used for storage for many years, prior to its current use as a "green" room for performers at the castle.

From the center of the castle, an elevator with a special key, goes to the famous "secret" apartment inside the castle.

 

[MiRi]

Did you know that in the Haunted Mansion there are two Hidden Mickey's.

The most popular one is the way plates are set up on the table in the Ballroom Scene. This Hidden Mickey was created by CM's. Overnight, maintenace would put it back to "normal" until they finally gave in because the CM's kept putting the plates back to the Hidden Mickey. Now, the plates are glues together in the HM form.

There's another HM in the graveyard. There's a crypt to your right that is right next to the Opera Ghosts. In that crypt is a ghost. That ghost's left hand is a HM.

I can't post the URL. But look in HiddenMickeys. org for the pictures.

 

[ryanmilla]

I think it was posted on these boards before, but there is a ring cemented in the ground outside the exit of the Haunted Mansion. Many people stop to take a look at it, thinking someone dropped their ring.

 

[Carrie772]

You know...I have looked and looked for that ring. Never found it!

 

[tmq2766]

did you know every time I pass by splash Mt I have to pee

OMG that was probably the only time I have actually laughed out loud while reading the DIS. SERIOUSLY!!!!!!!!

 

[Dznefreek]

Did you know

there is a ring cemented in the ground outside the exit of the Haunted Mansion. Many people stop to take a look at it, thinking someone dropped their ring.

It is actually a post that was removed and what remains resembles a ring.

 

[MommytoMJM]

In order for Mickey to wea the Sorcerer's Hat in MGM, he would have to be 350 ft tall for the scale to be correct....

 

[michfediuk]

Then what was I doing sitting in a hotel room for 2 days during Hurricane Frances?

I was actually there on September 11th in Alien Encounter when the parked closed. it was scary not knowing what was going on. We are leaving in 2 days, so hopefully all will go well on this trip.

 

[Mister Disney]

I think it was posted on these boards before, but there is a ring cemented in the ground outside the exit of the Haunted Mansion. Many people stop to take a look at it, thinking someone dropped their ring.

You know...I have looked and looked for that ring. Never found it!

Actually, thats because it really is NOT a ring. As you exit ....you walk towards the horseless hearse. Prior to hearse, there is a space where there "used" to be gates, if you look down in the middle of the walkway there is a metal circle with a small imperfection in it that makes it look like a "diamond ring" This circle is actually where the gate's "locking rod" would have gone into the ground.

 

[FanOfStitch]

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?

 

[7thdwarf/dopey]

HiYa Tink!





DID YOU KNOW THAT WALT DISNEY SUGGESTED 50 DIFFERENT NAMES FOR THE 7 DWARFS
IN _SNOW WHITE & THE 7 DWARFS_? WE ALL KNOW AND LOVE DOPEY, SNEEZY, BASHFUL,
GRUMPY, HAPPY, SLEEPY, AND DOC. BUT, CAN YOU IMAGINE A DWARF NAMED "DIRTY"?
I'VE COMPILED A LIST OF ALL THE DWARF NAMES TAKEN OUT WITH WALT'S TRASH.

THEY ARE:
* AWFUL
* DIRTY
* FLABBY
* SNOOPY (yes, Snoopy! he could've been a dwarf!)
* SCRAPPY
* HOPPY
* WEEPY
* CRANKY
* SNEEZY-WHEEZY
* HUNGRY
* LAZY
* DUMPY
* THRIFTY
* NIFTY
* SHIFTY
* WOEFUL
* DOLEFUL
* WISTFUL
* SOULFUL
* HELPFUL
* GOOPY
* GABBY
* BLABBY
* SILLY
* DIPPY
* GRACEFUL
* NEURTSY
* GLOOMY
* SAPPY
* CRABBY
* DAFFY
* TEARFUL
* GASPY
* BUSY
* DIZZY
* SNAPPY
* HOTSY
* JAUNTY
* PUFFY
* STRUTTY
* BIGGY
* BIGGY-WIGGY
* JUMPY
* CHESTY
* BIGGO-EGO