WDW Facts! Did you know...

[jimmiej]

President Clinton was the first serving president to record his own voice for The Hall of Presidents.

-from WDW Trivia Book by Lou Mongello

 

[jimmiej]

More than 200 topiary figures are on show at WDW.

-from WDW Trivia Book by Lou Mongello

 

[Mister Disney]

The WDW Railroad trains get a whopping 792 feet/gallon of fuel! No wonder we pay so much to go there!

-from WDW Trivia Book by Lou Mongello

Did you also know they burn about 22 gallons of fuel oil an hour?

 

[ricktib]

Did you also know that Spaceship Earth in its entirety can fit inside the Living Seas, with enough room around the outside of it to drive a tractor trailer truck?

Well, of course. Those Hydrolators go a long way down!

 

[ricktib]

Where did you get this info? That seems pretty steep to me. Maybe it's 3 degrees? I mean, 30 would make getting to the castle a serious climb!

Even 3 degrees would be noticably steep. If it's 1/4-mile from the train station to the castle (I'm sure it's not but let's just say), the base of the castle would be almost 75 feet higher than that of Main Street Station.

And I agree - 30 degrees would be 1/3 of the way to being a vertical wall.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

After a great deal of research by Disney Imagineers and Kodak photography experts, the pavement in Epcot was painted a specific, custom pink color, in order to make the grass look greener and pictures look brighter.

 

[crazyj4488]

Did you know that Disney got the FAA to close the airspace above WDW after Sept 11th? This just adds to the magic as you don't even hear aircraft while on property. Man, you really are in another world!!!!

 

[crazyj4488]

Did you know that the Tokyo Pooh ride is the most advanced? It uses a new ride technology which doesn't require a track at all. All the Hunny pots are controlled by a GPS type system and they all randomly travel around the Hundred Acre Wood. Some ride cars go to one area while another goes somewhere a bit different. The system is, of course, designed so that none of the cars will run into each other.

No fair...WDW needs this for their Pooh ride!!!! Heck WDW needs to start making all of their dark ride's trackless.

 

[greenyskp]

Or if it is one that you cannot meet and greet it would be Malificent as the dragon in Fantasmic.

You should be able to meet Malificent as a dragon. You know...they could pick a kid and have him drive a sword into her....



FACT:

Did you know that Disney World recycles all the human waste from the parks and hotels.... It's true, the solid and liquids are seperated and the solids are used as fertilizer on the tree farm, where all the trees for the parks are grown. The liquids are then cleaned naturally by growing hydrangas in them and then the water is sent off to the sprinkler system. When you look around, you'll see little signs that say "THIS IS NOT DRINKING WATER!" Now you know what they really mean by that!

If a guest or Cast Member is hurt or needs medical attention, a Cast Member would request an Alpha Unit. This is so Guests are not alarmed.

Did you know that vomit is called a protein spill in disney world!

A cast of thousands. More than 54,000, to be more precise. That's how many people it takes to create the magic here at the Vacation Kingdom. Not surprisingly, Walt Disney World Resort is the largest single-site employer in the United States.

If you were to wash and dry one load of laundry every day for 44 years, you'd clean as much as the folks at the Walt Disney World Laundry do in a single day. The cast members there launder an average of 240,000 pounds each day. In addition, between 30,000 and 32,000 garments are dry-cleaned daily.

More than 50 million Cokes are consumed each year at Walt Disney World Resort. Guests also gobble 10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of french fries and more than 300,000 pounds of popcorn.

Walt Disney World Lost and Found is one busy place. Every day an average of 100 pairs of sunglasses are turned in at the Magic Kingdom alone. There have been enough "shades" submitted each year in the Vacation Kingdom to outfit every resident of Sun City, Arizona; Sun City, California; and Sun City, Florida. Since 1971, an estimated 1.5 million pairs of glasses have found their way into the "lost" bin.

According to long-time lost and found staffers, the most unusual items turned in have been a glass eye and a potty trainer. Both, incidentally, were claimed (but not by the same person).

The DNA Tower at the entrance to Epcot Wonders of Life pavilion is 5.5 billion times actual size -- just the right size for a human 6 million miles tall.

Disney's Animal Kingdom encompasses 500 acres, the company's biggest theme park. The centerpiece is The Tree of Life, 14 stories high and 50 feet wide at its trunk.

If you wanted to stay in all the guestrooms in all of the hotels and resorts currently open on Walt Disney World property (at a rate of one per night) it would take more than 72 years.

The monorail system could be one of the most expensive rides in Walt Disney World. The price per mile of track exceeds 5 million dollars, that's just for the track. The monorail tracks cost 1 million dollars a mile (for double track). When Disney bought the monorail trains 11 or so years ago, they cost 11 million each, they have 7 of these monorails.

Kodak estimates that approximately 4 percent of all the amateur photographs taken in the United States are snapped at Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland.

Enjoy!

 

[Laurajean1014]

All the trash at Disney World is sorted by hand to pull out recyclables such as aluminum cans (Disney has to recycle a minimum of 25% of its garbage). Another 50% or so is used in incenerators to generate 1/3 of WDW's electricity.

 

[Laurajean1014]

If a guest or Cast Member is hurt or needs medical attention, a Cast Member would request an Alpha Unit. This is so Guests are not alarmed.

 

[Laurajean1014]

More than 50 million Cokes are consumed each year at Walt Disney World Resort. Guests also gobble 10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of french fries and more than 300,000 pounds of popcorn.

 

[DVCconvert]

So, Laurajean1014 --Have you spent much time at the Murf? (MRF)?

 

[Laurajean1014]

Donald Duck - One of America's all- time favorite celebrities turns 71 today. He's short both in stature and temper and wears a sailor hat. He was previewed in 1934 cartoon The Wise Little Hen, the first of 128 in which he was featured. Donald's reverse charm lay in his tendency to fly into a squawking rage whenever things didn't go just right. And his long-term living arrangement with his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie was on the cutting edge."

 

[Laurajean1014]

Yay! For once, clean towers over trash!


A new study set to be released Tuesday shows that family-friendly movies are more profitable than R-rated films, throwing more fuel onto the fire of the long-running debate over sex and violence in entertainment -- and whether it sells.

 

[Laurajean1014]

You may never see Disney Security walking around, but they are there, in plain clothes, and they are called Foxes.

 

[Laurajean1014]

There are Cast Members dressed in black who are placed in various locations throughout the Haunted Mansion attraction to catch "wandering ghosts."

 

[Laurajean1014]

 

[Pollito916]

Did you know that Walt, Lillian, Roy, and even Roy's wife all died in the month of December?

I didn't think Roy was dead?!?! I thought he was the one trying to oust Michael Eisner?!?!

 

[betterlatethannever]

Did you also know they burn about 22 gallons of fuel oil an hour?

So, with the 792 ft/gallon, the train travels roughly 17,500 ft in an hour (~3.5 miles).

Something is wrong with one of the above numbers. A train can do the loop in about 20 minutes. So that is three loops in an hour. I don't know what the actual circumference of MK is but I know it is way more than 1 mile. (3.5/3)

Ed