Disney Facts!

Facts 481-510

I found a bunch of new Disney facts on buzzfeed. I am so excited to show you guys all of these wonderful facts. I hope you Disney Freaks enjoy ;)

Fact #481

Iconic Muppet performer Frank Oz, came up with the name Mike Wazowski.

Fact #482

Bill Murray was the first choice to voice Sulley. He reportedly tested for the role and was interested, but when the producers were unable to make contact with him after the test, they took that to mean "no."

Fact #483

Boo was originally written to be six-year-old. She was rewritten to be toddler because the writers felt it would make her more dependent on Sulley.

Fact #484

In the original script, Sulley was a janitor and not a scarer. Also, Mike's character did not exist.

Fact #485

There are over 2.3 million individual strands of hairs on Sulley.

Fact #486

Because each individual strand of hair had to be animated, it took an average of 12 hours to render a single frame of Sulley.

Fact #487

This was the fourth movie that John Goodman and Steve Buscemi costarred together in.

Fact #488

The song Boo sings while in the restroom is "Beauty and the Beast."

Fact #489

The scene where Sulley thinks that Boo has been crushed in a trash compactor, is a direct reference to the Looney Tunes short Feed the Kitty.

Fact #490

Roz was voiced by Bob Peterson, who also did the voice of Dug in Up.

Fact #491

The short film Mike's New Car, was originally supposed to be a scene in the film.

Fact #492

Randy Newman, won his first Oscar for the film's closing song "If I Didn't Have You." He had previously been nominated fifteen times in the Best Score and Best Song categories.

Fact #493

Pixar created a special trailer for Monsters Inc. to show specifically before Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Fact #494

Walt Disney was orignally going to name Disney Land, "Mickey Mosue Park".

Fact #495

If you look carefully in the planters between Redd Rockett's Pizza Port and Space Mountain, you will notice a few large, blue eggs among the plants. There is scant information about these eggs online, but a couple of reputable sources have indicated that they are meant to be dinosaur eggs.

Fact #496

There is a secret bathroom located in the lineup of Indiana Jones Adventures. The reason why is that when it first opened, each guest that went in the line waited at least 3 hours to get on the ride.

Fact #497

Standing in the scene above on top of a treasure chest is a LEGO Captain Jack Sparrow. You can only really see it if you're looking for it, and once you see it, it sticks out like a sore thumb on each subsequent ride-through.

Fact #498

In Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin, in the second room of the ride where Zurg stands and turns (revealing and concealing targets with his cape), there is a small "Z" on his chest that does not look like the other targets. But it is a target, and it's worth 50,000 points.

Fact #499

Behind the projector in the Indiana Jones Adventure queue is a sign with a picture of Eeyore on it. The best way to see this sign is to get to the end of the projection room of the pre-show and turn around to look for it.

Fact #500

The telegraph office at the New Orleans Square Train Station "plays" Walt Disney's opening day dedication of Disneyland in Morse Code.

Fact #501

To the right of Sleeping Beauty Castle in Snow White Grotto. If you listen into the Wishing Well here, you will hear an 'echo' of Snow White singing.

Fact #502

In Pocahontas during the sneak attack by the Indians, the Settlers are clearly shown using muskets. However that type of musket wasn't invented until 1610 and the movie is based in 1601.

Fact #503

In the scene where Kekata reads the smoke to find out more about the white men, he compares them to "ravaging wolves." The wolves then circle Kocoum, and Powhatan stops them with his arm. This foreshadows the end of the movie, when Thomas (a white man and "wolf") kills Kocoum, and Radcliffe attempts to kill Powhatan.

Fact #504

Tiana's dad James received a US Army Distinguished Service Cross. It is assumed he was bestowed this honor posthumously. The Distinguished Service Cross is awarded to soldiers for acts of extraordinary heroism. It is also very unlikely, as black soldiers seldom received any medals until the full integration of the Armed Forces, post World War Two.

Fact #505

This is Disney's first 2-D film in which all of the voice actors do both the speaking and singing parts since Beauty and the Beast (1991).

Fact #506

There are at least two references to "Bananas Foster," in The Princess & The Frog, however this dish wasn't introduced until 1951.

Fact #507

Main Street is based on 1910 America, while Tomorrowland was designed to represent 1986 - both were chosen because they were Halley's Comet years.

Fact #508

"It's A Small World" never stops. It plays 24/7.

Fact #509

At Epcot, the huge building in Germany's pavilion next to the Biergarten has set empty since 1982. Originally set to be the "Rhine River cruise", the attraction was never built.

Fact #510

There are 3 water fountains in Future World. They will talk to you as your drink! The trash cans inside the Electric Umbrella dining facility will converse as well when they receive waste.

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