Disney Facts!

Facts 3631-3660

It's the return of the employee stories! Haven't posted some for a while. I found some new ones you all might enjoy!

Fact #3631
The Black Pearl was built in the shipyard of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia.

Fact #3632
This year, D23 announced they are releasing a new Lion King TV movie and series called "The Lion Guard". Starring a new lion cub named Kion, it's set to release next year in 2016.

Fact #3633
James Earl Jones and Ernie Sabella will be reprising their roles as Mufasa and Pumbaa in the new spin off series/movie of The Lion King.

Fact #3634
Rob Lowe and Gabrielle Union will be voicing Simba and Nala in the new Lion King cartoon.

Fact #3635 (Employee Story)
I had to call security once because a mom had tied her 2 year old to a trash can with one of the backpack leash things, so that she could go on Indiana Jones Adventures.

Fact #3636 (Employee Story)
I worked in monorails. About a year or so ago a guest got off at Epcot Station and then told the CM at unload he was going to be sick. The CM opened up the trash can so he could puke in it easier. The Guest then proceeded to take off his cloths and took a massive dump in the trashcan. People man...

Fact #3637 (Employee Story)
I did the college program twice, both times as a character performer. Once as Frozone, just after my line was closed, a make-a-wish family came over and of course me and Mr Incredible posed for lots of pictures and signed everything they had. One father who had just been told he couldn't see us started complaining really loudly and making a scene and asking where he can get one of these magic passes that the make-a-wish family had. The father of the make-a-wish family turned to the a-hole dad and calmly said to him "I'll trade you this pass for the last twelve months of my son's chemotherapy". The other dad shut up immediately.

Fact #3638 (Employee Story)
When I was there I worked on main street as part of my college program. The one thing that really caught my attention was this lady wanted to buy a huge pin set we had framed and on display for the haunted mansion but not for sale. She leaves and I move positions and then I see her just run out of the store with the frame. It was insane.

Fact #3639
I was taking my paycheck to cash it at the Cast Member's bank, which is behind the real bank on Main Street. As I walked up, the gate that leads out to the street slammed open, and Donald Duck stomps through, followed by Minnie, Goofy, and a few other Characters. Donald ripped his head off, slammed it on the ground, and yelled, "Stupid Kid, Kicked me in the Balls!"

Fact #3640 (Employee Story)
My housemate during my college program was given "water duty" during grad night. Basically, hiding in the catwalks above one of the rides with a super soaker and spraying anyone getting frisky on the ride below.

Fact #3641 (Employee Story)
A Jungle Cruise skipper dressed up as Indiana Jones, ran through the Aladdin show, grabbed the Genie's lamp and exclaimed "This belongs in a museum!" and ran away.

Fact #3642 (Employee Story)
Saw one woman drag her kid through a ride queue as he vomited. Didn't stop and let him puke in one spot. Nope, made a string of puke inside this building. Puke on the walls, puke on the floors, puke on the paintings, puke everywhere. We're pretty fast at cleaning up puke. This lady shut down the ride for about 15 - 20 minutes due to the spectacular pukepocalypse this woman and child caused.

Fact #3643 (Employee Story)
While screening, an Asian man comes in with a Segway (not allowed) goes right past me and ignored everything I say. He has like 12 people with him (all Mexican) and talks only through them. His friend states that I may not check his things and his Segway is his disability device. The Asian guys manner suggests he is used to being treated like a king. He doesn't look me in the eye, wearing business attire, says he knows a CEO etc. I tell him to stay there while a lead comes out. He starts heading very slowly to Disneyland gate trying to sneak away. I walk up to him and he tells me that I will get Disney in big trouble for what I'm doing. Security ends up coming and spends two hours with him before they escort him out of the resort. The Asian man and the Mexican group with him reveal cameras and microphones all on them and say they are making a lawsuit case out of this exchange. Nothing came of it...

Fact #3644 (Employee Story)
Some big lady on an ECV kept snatching her bag from me just as I was about finished, and it made me investigate it more and I found tequila at the bottom. She said she forgot it was in there and chews me out.

Fact #3645
The Falcon's flight gear sports a Stark Industries logo. This indicates they are the manufacturer.

Fact #3646
In The Winter Soldier, Nick Fury relates a story of his grandfather being an elevator operator. In real life, Samuel L. Jackson's father was an elevator operator.

Fact #3647
Chris Evans and Scarlett Johansson wrote their own dialogue for several scenes they had together in The Winter Soldier.

Fact #3648
In Winter Soldier, during the agent Sitwell interrogation, Sitwell mentions specific persons of interest to HYDRA. One of these people is Stephen Strange. Stephen Strange in the comics is the real name of Doctor Strange, Sorcerer Supreme.

Fact #3649
The mall/shopping center in which Black Widow and Captain America visit in order to find the origin of the encrypted USB stick is called the Tower City Center in Cleveland, OH. The front of the building and its concourse were used in The Avengers (2012) as the opera hall in which Loki confronts German opera patrons.

Fact #3650
Joe Russo is a big fan of a YouTube channel called Screen Junkies. One of their segments is called Honest Trailers. Russo was aiming The Winter Soldier to be Honest Trailer-proof. Thankfully, he succeeded.

Fact #3651
Before his death in The Avengers (2012) and subsequent resurrection in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. (2013), Marvel considered revealing Phil Coulson as a HYDRA agent.

Fact #3652
Iron Man 3 is the only Iron Man film not to feature any songs by AC/DC.

Fact #3653
There were supposed to be more hotels around the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World. Original plans called for hotels with a Venetian theme, a South Asian theme, and a Persian theme.

Fact #3654
There are more than 20,000 different colors of paint used in Walt Disney World.

Fact #3655
In the very last Buzz Lightyear room where you are still able to shoot, look forward at the top left corner, there's a planet with Mickey on it.  This same planet is also on the map of planets in the waiting area just as you enter.

Fact #3656
The Foyer is the only spot in the Haunted Mansion in which you can take a flash photograph.

Fact #3657
Walt Disney originally considered making the film 2000 Leagues Under The Sea as an animated feature; the detailed pre-production sketches by artist Harper Goff, as well as Goff's enthusiastic suggestion that it be done as live action feature, convinced him otherwise.

Fact #3658
The interiors of the Nautilus were designed by Roland Hill, who subsequently designed the Disneyland "Sleeping Beauty's Castle."

Fact #3659
2000 Leagues Under The Sea was Disney's first movie to have a 2 hour time slot on television.

Fact #3660
Richard Fleischer was surprised at being considered for the director's chair for 2000 Leagues, as he was the son of Disney's biggest competitor, Max Fleischer. He approached Walt Disney to inquire if Disney knew who he was. Disney told him that he was well aware of who he was and hired him because he thought he was the best man for the job. Richard Fleischer also asked his father if he minded having his son working for his rival but Max Fleischer made no objection and even asked Richard to tell Disney that he thought he had made an excellent choice for his director.

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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did!