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Fact #2881 

In Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins, when X-R is showing Booster Buzz's space cruiser, he is reading a "Victoria's Circuits" magazine. An interesting reference. 

Fact #2882 

Every employee at Disney World is required to pick up trash whenever they see it. But they are not allowed to just stop, bend over and pick the rubbish up - they have to gracefully pick it up using what is described as a 'swooping' motion.

Fact #2883 

Staff members at Disney parks and resorts are allowed to wear glasses while at work, although there are definite rules to make sure they fit in with the Disney Look. Employees are advised that glasses and sunglasses should be of a 'conservative color and style', while they must also contain no other brands or logos. The company's website states: 'Eyeglasses and sunglasses should not detract from the costume or contradict the theme of the show.' 

Fact #2884 (Employee Story) 

What people forget is that Epcot also has a big load of liquor. Some dejected Epcot refugees try to Drink Around the World, starting at the Mexican pavilion and winding up 11 pavilions later in the U.K. The smart people start at Mexico with a margarita; the dumb ones do straight tequila from the get-go. Because why take the surface streets to Blackout City when the highway is so much faster?Said blackout usually happens in Italy, when our hapless explorers are five countries deep and fresh off a liter of beer in Germany. Every night we find people passed out in the bathrooms, littering the bushes and trees, dropping in the street. And that's why Epcot has a reputation as "the drunk park."

Fact #2885 (Employee Story) 

Plenty of folks try to ride Mission Space and Test Track as many times as possible, in the summer, when it's 90 to 95 degrees in the shade, while drunk. Mission Space, if you aren't aware, is a big centrifuge ride. Don't ride this late in the day: If someone pukes, everyone in the ride wears that dude's tequila-soaked lunch for the rest of the day. Not to mention the sympathy puke.

Fact #2886 (Employee Story) 

The character costumes are in a class all by themselves. They're heavy, they cover your whole body, and they absorb every last drop of the sweat pouring out of every inch of you, so they stink. It's a hot mess. Wearing a full-body costume will also make you go through a total body change: After a few weeks in costume, my sweat started to run clear. Salt just stopped coming out of my pores. You have to change your diet -- you can't eat burgers and fries all the time or you'll pass out.

Fact #2887 (Employee Story) 

Then there are the costumes that seem to have been designed to injure their wearers as much as they delight children. The wig for Megara, for example, was so extreme that girls ended up having to seek medical attention because of the strain on their necks.

Fact #2888 (Employee Story) 

I remember struggling through a parade in July when the heat index was well over 100, and I was in one of those horrible costumes that I had been practically sewn into. Well, before the halfway point I was just trying not to pass out, stumbling along, not going over to interact with the kids along the route. When I finally got to the end, I had tunnel vision and was screaming for someone to get me out. When I had finally been unzipped, I shot out of that costume like I'd been squeezed from a birth canal, and I just laid there on the pavement, shivering and dry heaving until the entire parade had finished.