WDW Facts! Did you know...

[OKW Lover]

Different version of a repeated nugget...


People have already mentioned that Walt’s name is the only one on the windows of the Main St. buildings that faces Cinderella Castle. The version of this story I’ve heard is that Roy did this so Walt is the only one who has a view of the castle. Roy wanted his brother to have the best view in Magic Kingdom

Thanks,
Jared

Actually this isn't true. At least the part about Walt being the only one that faces the Castle. There are at least five other names on the windows that fact the castle.

 

[OKW Lover]

Can't win them all...

I too was going to mention the modular design of the rooms in the Contemporary (too bad someone beat me to it), and the fact that the building has settled to the point where the rooms are basically “stuck” in place.

Thanks,
Jared

The rooms were indeed modular and were made at a near-by location, but they were never meant to be removed. All the plumbing and electrical connections prevent that, not settling of the frame. BTW, the rooms at the Poly were made the same way.

 

[Tyffni]

Okay, so this is isn't WDW, but I couldn't resist!

Did you know that Hong Kong Disneyland ticket prices will be based on seasons? There will be one price for regular and one price for peak.

Did you know at Hong Kong Disneyland there are different prices for adults, children, and seniors and the senior ticket is the cheapest? My guess would be because of the respect their culture has for the eldery.

Did you know the price of an adult ticket during peak season at Hong Kong Disneylands converts to approximately $37.95 U.S. Dollars?

Did you know that much of summer is their value season and you can get a park view room at the Hong Kong Disneyland Hotel for approximately $205 U.S. Dolllars per night?

Hmm...I'm thinking it might be cheaper to go to there than to WDW!!!!

 

[AKQJ10]

Here's a couple more far ya:

There are 13 shops on Main Street, USA (Camera Center, Crystal Arts, Disney & Company, Disney Clothiers, Emporium, Harmony Barbershop, Main Street Athletic Club, Main Street Cinema, Main Street Confectionary, Main Street Gallery, Main Street Market House, The Chapeau, and Uptown Jewelers.

The name of the field house at Disney's Wide World of Sports is called "the Milk House"

The largest ballroom at WDW can be found at Coronado Springs

In early concepts for World Showcase, the location that American Adventure now occupies was going to be a large fountain

There are 40 seats in a Star Tours starspeeder

Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster’s entrance features an electric guitar 45 feet tall.

 

[carlossanta]

Walt referred to the central attraction in any land as its "weenie". Thus, Cinderella castle is a weenie.

Explains all those hot dogs.

 

[strmtroopr96]

BUMP

 

[Laurajean1014]

Walt referred to the central attraction in any land as its "weenie". Thus, Cinderella castle is a weenie.

Explains all those hot dogs.

Hmmm, why would he call it a "weenie."

 

[crazy4wdw]

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.

I believe that Downtown Disney was originally called Disney Village at Lake Buena Vista.

 

[kaytieeldr]

Over 1.5 million pairs of sunglasses have been lost at Walt Disney World since 1971

 

[philaround]

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

I don't know if anyone addressed this issue yet since I have not gotten all the way thru this thread yet. Roy [Walt's brother] is dead and Roy [Walt's nephew] is not dead.

 

[philaround]

Maybe if the castle was directly on the equator?

Ted

Please!!!!!!!!!!!

No!!!!!!!!!!

It is hot enough in Florida let's not move the place to the equator just to see Tink every day at noon.

 

[Tyffni]

Here's a couple more far ya:

There are 13 shops on Main Street, USA (Camera Center, Crystal Arts, Disney & Company, Disney Clothiers, Emporium, Harmony Barbershop, Main Street Athletic Club, Main Street Cinema, Main Street Confectionary, Main Street Gallery, Main Street Market House, The Chapeau, and Uptown Jewelers.

I know there have been many changes in the Michael Eisner era down Main Street (I still remember the arcade...I miss it ), but I don't how (if at all) the buildings were changed structurally. Were there 13 originally???

 

[philaround]

Also the plumbers could only get the water-fountins or the toilets working by opening day and made Roy choose which one he wanted...he of coarse had to choose toilets. So on opening day there were operating water fountins, which caused many to belive that it was a ploy to sell more soda.

Actually this was not Roy for WDW but Walt for DL opening in 1955. About one month before opening Walt was told that due to a recently ended plumbers strike there was not enough time to get both bathrooms and water fountains finished in time for opening day. Walt thought about this for a few minutes and said "Finish the bathrooms, the guests can always buy something to drink I don't want them peeing in the street.''

 

[philaround]

That is quite petite for men. Sort of like a jockey's build.

Tink is a man............................... oh my!

I've been told this many times by many people. I know that the original Tink at MK was a male gymnist from, I believe, Romania. He retired a few years ago [at age 78]. I don't know for sure if the new one, or ones, are still male or if there are females playing Tink now.

 

[philaround]

just subscribing to this thread. just move along now, nothing to see here.

 

[Tyffni]

I've been told this many times by many people. I know that the original Tink at MK was a male gymnist from, I believe, Romania. He retired a few years ago [at age 78]. I don't know for sure if the new one, or ones, are still male or if there are females playing Tink now.

I don't know who is playing Tinkat WDW, but I know there have been at least 2 female Tinks at DL.

 

[philaround]

Where did everyone go?
How about some more trivia.

 

[strmtroopr96]

Bump

 

[Lancer]

1. WDW breaks even on gate receipts and make their profit through food and souveniers
2. In the MK when you walk on the little path around the castle from one land to another, their are motion sensors in the landscaping that lower the music from the land you are leaving and increases the volume to the land your going to.
3. for those that remember a big granite ball in MK. It weighed 50,000 lbs but you can spin it with one hand because it was supported by water pressure. if the ball was removed, the water would shoot like a thousand feet or more in the air.
4. The top windows on the castle are only two feet tall
5. The thatch roofs on some of the buildings in MK were originally dyed drinking straws.
6. I forgot the exact figure but the reason they dont extend the monorail to all parks is that it costs something like $50,000 to go from one concrete support to the next
7. The funneral wagon outside the haunted mansion was used in the John Wayne movie "the sons of katie elder"

 

[Carrie772]

Neat! Thanks for the cool trivia. I just love this stuff. I love to hear it, but I can never remember any to tell!