Thought of setting up a little trivia game so fire away yours! They can be about anything Disney related!
Here's Mine:
Disney Did You Know? #1
When the character's name Cruella de Vil is rearranged a bit and squished together it becomes the phrase "Cruel Devil", a nice way to describer her!
What a cool idea!
So, here's mine:
Disney Did You Know? #2
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" took almost three years to finish due to the slowness of stop-motion, with the crew averaging 60-70 seconds of footage a week. Hundreds of hand-sculpted heads had to be made for Jack and 10 replaceable faces were created for Sally.
Really? Wow! I never knew that!
Disney did you know? #3
In the original film, Snow White is 14 years old
Love it!
Disney Did you know #4 - Prince Adam (the beast) is supposed to be 11 when he turns away the old lady who then casts the spell on him.
Very interesting these DYKs!
Any more?
Disney did you know? #5
As you approach Phantom Manor from the exterior queue, there are two windows straight ahead of you (on the side of the house). If you look closely at the bottom left corner of the right window, you can see the phrase 'HELP ME" drawn in the dust of the window from the inside.
That's interesting, I will look out for that in October!
Disney Did You Know #6
Sometimes, don't know if this still happens, when night time descends onto Phantom Manor look at the three windows at the front of the house, every now and then a light can be seen wandering past. This is said to be the Bride, Melanie Ravenswood still searching for her Groom with lantern in hand.
Still haven't seen the candlelight effect in person. :(
Disney Did you know? #7
Frontierland railroad station is designed and built so that it could be relocated in one piece
I'm lovin' these! ;D
About my all time favourite disney film...Robin Hood...
As the film was made during Disney's financial slump following the completion of Phase One of the Florida Project and therefore allotted a small budget, the artists reused footage from previous animated features. This is most noticeable during the song-and-dance number, "The Phony King of England"; the characters' movements strongly resemble those from The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Quote from: macca1476 on July 10, 2014, 03:45:40 PM
About my all time favourite disney film...Robin Hood...
As the film was made during Disney's financial slump following the completion of Phase One of the Florida Project and therefore allotted a small budget, the artists reused footage from previous animated features. This is most noticeable during the song-and-dance number, "The Phony King of England"; the characters' movements strongly resemble those from The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
Here's a comparison video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihS970ymuC0
Wow! :o
Disney Did You Know? #9
People dump cremation ashes in the Haunted Mansion all of the time. Ash dumping happens so often that Disneyland had to purchase a special HEPA vacuum that can pick up ashes, but also little tiny bone fragments that are often left behind after a cremation.
Quote from: msRavenswood on July 10, 2014, 05:01:08 PM
Disney Did You Know? #9
People dump cremation ashes in the Haunted Mansion all of the time. Ash dumping happens so often that Disneyland had to purchase a special HEPA vacuum that can pick up ashes, but also little tiny bone fragments that are often left behind after a cremation.
What? Seriously?
I love this post!
#10 - apparently you're never further than 50 steps away from a bin at Disneyland?
Quote from: Mrsya on July 11, 2014, 12:57:16 AM
#10 - apparently you're never further than 50 steps away from a bin at Disneyland?
If only that was true about working water fountains
Disney did you know #11
Similar to the Robin Hood comment - because Fantasia was such a commercial flop, Dumbo was made on a budget and hence is only 64 minutes long
I enjoyed reading through all these facts people, give me more.
As I am a huge Toy Story fan I'll give you a couple facts you probably didn't know,
#1 The movie was originally supposed to be called "You Are A Toy."
#2 In their most productive week during production, Pixar completed 3.5 minutes of animation.
#3 Pizza Planet was originally supposed to be called Pizza Putt, a combination pizzeria/mini-golf course.
Disney Did You Know #15
The railroad station and train at Frontierland uses telegraph morse code to present Walt's famous Disneyland California opening speech from 17th July 1955. This is a nod to the Old West's communication method.
Disney Did You Know #16
Originally in the movie Lilo and Stitch where stitch are flying jumba and pleakly's ship through the mountains, that sequence was originally meant to feature Stitch flying a commercial jet around and through Honolulu city, but after the events of 9/11 the animators felt the need to change the sequence.
Disney Did You Know #17
In Monsters Inc, Boo's real name is Mary, after her voice actress Mary Gibbs. You can see it written on a drawing in her room
Disney Did You Know #18
There's a McDonalds inside Disneyland Park at DLP. Does anybody know where it is?
Disney did you know #19
Mines more like a question to make it more interesting, I'm sure someone will get it right, but I will post the answer tomorrow some time if they don't.
We all know that Disneyland park is called just that, but there are at least two places in the park where it is incorrectly called by another name. Can you tell me the incorrect name and somewhere it is on display?
This does not include any of the parks previous names such as Eurodisney.
Quote from: captain rocket on July 19, 2014, 11:44:03 AM
Disney did you know #19
Mines more like a question to make it more interesting, I'm sure someone will get it right, but I will post the answer tomorrow some time if they don't.
We all know that Disneyland park is called just that, but there are at least two places in the park where it is incorrectly called by another name. Can you tell me the incorrect name and somewhere it is on display?
This does not include any of the parks previous names such as Eurodisney.
Isn't one at the exit of Main Street station where it says something like 'exit to the magic kingdom' or something.
I'm not sure about the other one..
I know one!
When exiting Main Street Station, there is a sign that reads "We hope you enjoy your day at the Magic Kingdom"
But that isn't a mistake, Walt Disney always referred Disneyland as the Magic Kingdom.
I can not get enough of these!!!! best thread Idea ever and I need MORE!!!!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Wall-E is named after the great man Walt himself! Walter Elias Disney.
Incidentally - I was born on his birthday! I've always been a big kid, that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it :-)
Disneymaniac, Disneyland in California is sometimes referred to as the Magic Kingdom, but this is informal and as far as I know there are no signs proclaiming that Disneyland California is the "Magic Kingdom as there are in Paris! You are all correct about Main Street Station but where is the other sign that I mentioned?
Oh okay, what's the other one? I don't know!
Just off to work, will post tonight if no one can get it!
OK as no one has come up with the answer, here it is!
Oddly, it is inside the Princess Pavilion. I never even noticed it until I was editing some photos recently. It is at the bottom of the Royal proclomation which I believe is inside the front entrance ( I am not a regular in the Pavilion!) and says something along the lines of her Royal Highness being delighted to grant an audience to visitors to the Magic Kingdom. Who knows there may be more somewhere!
Quote from: Sulley's Arms on July 18, 2014, 11:30:59 PM
Disney Did You Know #18
There's a McDonalds inside Disneyland Park at DLP. Does anybody know where it is?
really?! i'm going to look into this!
Quote from: stormflm595 on July 25, 2014, 01:42:18 PM
Quote from: Sulley's Arms on July 18, 2014, 11:30:59 PM
Disney Did You Know #18
There's a McDonalds inside Disneyland Park at DLP. Does anybody know where it is?
really?! i'm going to look into this!
I can't believe loads of people haven't been on saying "...it's obvious. For some!"
BTW, I've never seen it, but it is definitely there ;)
Have no idea, please share where it is!
Maybe backstage for the staff?
Hmm, that's a difficult one, I sure didn't notice the golden arches inside the park last time I went. :o
My guess would be back stage then, but I doubt that's the case. What are we missing?
Don't know why I'm thinking of Café Hyperion.
I google mapped it and the location for the Village one comes up and then one inside the park, somewhere in Frontierland :o I've never noticed it, maybe it's hidden extremely well or it used to be a Mcdonalds and got changed to something else? Or it could have been one of those stands where they sell a product of Mcdonalds inside the park, such as the fries which they have or used to have in WDW?
I had to take a look on Google Maps for this mystery McDonalds, and there is one located in Frontierland...
As that sounds a little crazy, I did a little search and came across this:
"Disney has signed on with McDonalds. They will open 2 McDonalds restaraunts at Walt Disney World and 1 at Disneyland Paris. They will start selling McDonalds french fries at the WDW parks, first at a restaraunt in Frontierland."
This was posted in October of 1997 over here... http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/secrets/Parks.html (http://www.hiddenmickeys.org/secrets/Parks.html)
When we visited in 2002, I think the Cowboy Cookout Barbecue (or somewhere near) had food that seemed very McDonalds-like
Given that it's supposed to be in Frontier Land (note: I certainly wouldn't have guessed that), the Cowboy Cookout Barbecue is a likely candidate. It is certainly structured like a McDonalds restaurant, even if the interior is very different. :) No Golden Arches either if memory serves.
Disney and McDonald's parted ways when "Super size me", came out and people realised shock horror fried food is bad for you :o. That's why you don't get disney toys in happy meals anymore.
Factoid however many "The Lion King", was originally going to be called "The king of the jungle", until some genius realised that lions don't live in the jungle.
McDonalds is on Main St USA, but behind the Liberty Arcade. As I said before, I've never seen it myself, or even caught a waft of their unmistakable aroma, but it is there, and for CMs only.
Thank you for the reply Sulley's Arms! I was getting agitated. So that's why we never noticed it, it's for Cast Members Only. Well that's a very interesting fact or DYK, thanks for sharing!
How did you know? Do you know a friend that is a Cast Member who ate there?
Quote from: DisneyManiac on August 21, 2014, 12:31:06 PM
Thank you for the reply Sulley's Arms! I was getting agitated. So that's why we never noticed it, it's for Cast Members Only. Well that's a very interesting fact or DYK, thanks for sharing!
How did you know? Do you know a friend that is a Cast Member who ate there?
Sorry about the anguish I may have caused!
This wasn't intentional, merely that I forgot I'd posted and didn't realise there had been any response to it!
I know somebody that was once seconded to DLP, so saw a number of backstage secrets... ;)
Disney Did You Know? #20
The Tower of Terror or The Hollywood Tower Hotel is located off a side street from Hollywood Boulevard that has it's own name!
It's called Vine Street.
Disney Did You Know? #21
In the "repair shop" scene of the Star Tour queue line, if you look over the guard rail there is a large pile of broken machine parts. One of the larger pieces is the top section from an Imperial Speeder Bike as seen on Endor!
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Disney Did You Know? #22
Littered all throughout the Tower of Terror are references to classic Twilight Zone episodes.
In a glass case you will spot a Golden Thimble with a sign saying "Looking for a gift for Mother?" this is a reference to "The After Hours" an episode where a woman goes for Floor 9 of a department store with only 8 floors! When she takes the elevator, the arrow points past the last number - just like the service elevators you ride!
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Disney Did You Know? #23
Sir Mickey's gift shop is based on the short cartoon "Mickey and the Beanstalk" - hence the beanstalk growing outside the shop and throughout the interior. If you look up to the rafters you will see the eyes of massive giant peering in!
Disney Did You Know #24
Did you know that on POTC at DLP, the room with the skeleton hanging on the chandelier (through the entrance route) is directly above the scene near the end of the ride with the 'drinking' pirate(s)? If you look carefully enough you can see each from above / below...
Quote from: Magic M on August 28, 2014, 06:22:21 PM
Disney Did You Know? #23
Sir Mickey's gift shop is based on the short cartoon "Mickey and the Beanstalk" - hence the beanstalk growing outside the shop and throughout the interior. If you look up to the rafters you will see the eyes of massive giant peering in!
Eeeeek!!!
I'm gonna have to go in there when we go in November!!!! I LOVE Mickey and the Beanstalk... I've never gone into the shop before, but definitely going in next time!!! :) :) :)
Quote from: msRavenswood on July 08, 2014, 09:14:34 PM
What a cool idea!
So, here's mine:
Disney Did You Know? #2
"The Nightmare Before Christmas" took almost three years to finish due to the slowness of stop-motion, with the crew averaging 60-70 seconds of footage a week. Hundreds of hand-sculpted heads had to be made for Jack and 10 replaceable faces were created for Sally.
wow my investment in a Hoodie was justified then:D
Disney Did You Know #25-
Did you know that Tom Hanks is Walt Disney's distant cousin?
(not sure if this has been posted sorry!)
Disney Did you know #26
Pixar deleted the nearly complete Toy Story 2 by accident whilst in production. It was an accident and luckily a copy was saved on a computer not connected to their network. apparently it was only about 10GB in file size