Well... I guess it's one less summer with no Disney World :(
Fact #3421
If you look closely at the Magic Kingdom sign in Disney World before you enter the park, at the bottom left there should be a spot where it displays what the population of the park is. It's a whooping 800,000,000!
Fact #3422
On the way over to the Haunted Mansion, if you're walking there from Peter Pan's Flight. On your right, you should be passing by a small bridge with a river under neath it. Go over there and take a look around. If you're lucky, you'll spot Pascal from Tangled!
Fact #3423
Originally the land for Disney World was purchased by Shell Corporations, meaning the Disney Company pretended to be a different corporation to buy the land at a cheaper price.
Fact #3424
In 1977 a 4 year old boy drowned in the moat surrounding Cinderella's Castle.
Fact #3425
In 1999 a 65 year old part time custodian was killed when he fell 40 feet off a Skyway Gondola into the flowerbeds near the Dumbo ride.
Fact #3426
After being fined by the OSHA, Disney was working on a safer routine for the Indiana Jones Stunt Show when a performer fell 25 feet onto concrete.
Fact #3427
In 2005, Walt Disney World reported that there had been 773 injuries for their employees. 270 of them were different characters at the park.
Fact #3428
The day before the very first voice recordings for Donald Duck, his voice actor Clarence Nash got into a helium accident, making his voice all high pitched. That didn't stop him from going to rehearsals, creating the voice we all know and love.
Fact #3429
While Walt Disney loves Mickey Mouse, it's actually been discovered that his favourite Disney character was Goofy.
Fact #3430
Also if you want to work as a Disney Princess at the parks, you cannot be older than 28.
Fact #3431
Disney cast members only have their first name engraved on their name tags because Walt Disney, when he was alive, ran a first name basis at the Walt Disney Studio.
Fact #3432
In 2004, Disney auctioned off a chance for someone to have a name engraved on a grave stone at the Haunted Mansion in Disneyland. The winner, Carly Sharp, paid $37,400 on eBay, making her the attractions 1000th ghost.
Fact #3433
Pocahontas holds the world record for the largest movie premiere with over 100,000 people attending the premiere.
Fact #3434
In Inside Out, while Joy and Sadness are Imagination Land, if you pay close attention and look hard enough, you'll find the Pixar ball!
Fact #3435
Star Wars Rebels takes place between Episodes 3 and 4 of the Star Wars films.
Fact #3436
The official timeline of Star Wars Rebels is 14 years after Revenge Of The Sith and about 5 years before A New Hope.
Fact #3437
Zeb was based off of the original design for Chewbacca.
Fact #3438
Chopper was based off of R2-D2 artwork.
Fact #3439
Rebels was inspired from the original trilogy so much that they recycled their sound effects raging from Ty-Fighter sounds to the clashes of the lightsabers.
Fact #3440
The voice of Emperor Palpatine in Star Wars Rebels was also the voice of Darth Maul in Star Wars: The Clone Wars animated series, and the voice of Star Killer in both Star Wars: The Force Unleashed video games.
Fact #3441
Many famous Star Wars actors reprise their roles for the series including characters such as C-3PO, and Darth Vader.
Fact #3442
Disney renewed Star Wars Rebels for season 2 just two days before the series premiere of the show.
Fact #3443
Walt Disney's favourite Disney song ever was "Feed The Birds" from Mary Poppins.
Fact #3444
In Mary Poppins, some of the nannies lined up in front of the house at the beginning of the movie were actually men in costume.
Fact #3445
Though the Sherman Brothers claimed they made the word up themselves, a 1949 song called "Supercalafajaistickespeealadojus" would seem to say otherwise. The writers of the song, Barney Young and Gloria Parker, sued for $12 million. They lost because lawyers were able to present evidence showing that the nonsense word had been around, in some form or another, for decades. Indeed, the Sherman Brothers later claimed that their made-up word was a variation on a similar word they had heard at summer camp back in the 1930s: "super-cadja-flawjalistic-espealedojus."
Fact #3446
Tomlinson, the actor who portrayed the stodgy Mr. Banks, also provided the voice for the talking parrot on the end of Mary Poppins' umbrella. Tomlinson also did a couple of voices for the "Jolly Holiday" scenes, including a jockey and a parrot.
Fact #3447
The nanny who leaves the Banks family at the beginning of the movie, making way for Mary Poppins, is Elsa Lanchester. Horror movie buffs know her better as the Bride of Frankenstein.
Fact #3448
Due to the popularity of the movie, a Mary Poppins ride was scheduled to be installed at the Magic Kingdom instead of Peter Pan's Flight, a hit attraction at Disneyland. Roy O. Disney canceled the project, feeling that East Coast guests who had never gotten the chance to visit Disneyland would want to be able to ride the same rides.
Fact #3449
Wondering what happened to the "Feed the Birds" snowglobe from the movie, Disney archivist Dave Smith hunted through company storage to see if he could dig it up. He located it in a janitor's closet. The janitor told Smith that he had spotted the snow globe in a trash can, but felt it was too pretty to throw away.
Fact #3450
For Brave, filmmakers wanted to change the Cinderella Castle logo that shows at the beginning of every Disney movie into Castle DunBroch. They also considered adding a bagpipe to the Pixar logo!
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