Disney Facts!

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Here are some more Disney Facts for you to end the summer! With school just right around the corner, it's time to hit the books, learn lots, hang out with friends, make new friends, and maybe pull a senior prank or two on your teachers ;)

Let's get moving shall we?

Fact #1321 

Pixar credits its sucess to its "Anti-Disney approach", meaning no songs, no happy village, no love story.

Fact #1322 

In Hercules, the main character with the same name is the only character in the film who's name is not Greek. Hercules is actually Roman. 

Fact #1323 

Kovu, who is a character in The Lion King II: Simba's Pride, means Scar in Swahili.

Fact #1324 

Have you ever noticed that at the end of "A Whole New World", Aladdin and Jasmine are at the Forbidden Palace with fireworks going off. What if it was the same night Mulan saved China?

Fact #1325 (Story by Disney Employee) 

One night I witnessed 'tinkerbell' get stuck on her wire above the castle during the fireworks show in '05. She/he almost got burned up by those fireballs during the Indiana Jones portion of the show. They eventually turned off the spotlight on her and she just hung there until they were able to reel her in back to the Matterhorn.

Fact #1326 (Story by Disney Employee) 

One day, a kid had ate a bunch of pasta with marinara and then promptly threw it all up right in front of the entrance to Big Thunder Mountain. It was a huge pile of watery barf, easily 2 feet wide and 3 feet long. So we called custodial, and set up a couple of trash cans to do our best to block the area off so people couldn't step in it. This dude, wearing all white (white shirt, shorts, shoes) comes running down the path from the exit of the ride to try and get back into the line as soon as he can. We tried to yell at him to stop running, but it was too late. He thought he would be a super cool guy and jump between the trash cans. He didn't count on there being a river of barf. So he jumps, lands in the barf and his legs slip out from under him, and he falls/rolls into all the red marinara barf. It took him a few seconds to comprehend what had just happened, but he eventually let out a blood curdling scream.

Fact #1327 (Story by Disney Employee) 

On the Jungle Cruise, they loaded a boat and sent it out into the jungle, as normal. The skipper got about half way through the trip and out of nowhere, this Korean lady started screaming at the poor guy sitting in front of her. The skipper tried to calm the lady down, but she kept screaming and yelling at him in Korean. Then, she full on attacks him. She lunged at him with claw hands and started scratching at his face and kicking him. He was doing his best to fend her off, but she was on him. When things like this happen, it's what we called a "four shot". The skipper loads 4 rounds into the pistol, fires them all to alert the other boats in the jungle, and hopefully the people on the dock, then radios into the dock that they are having a medical/security issue. Then they just book it as fast as that boat can go back into the dock. The dock stops loading and just sends everyone ahead of the boat into the jungle so that the emergency boat can come right in. So skipper gets the boat into the dock, and when she rounded the corner, basically half the people on her boat were trying to hold this lady down while the guy she attacked was cowering in the back bleeding. Luckily, security had arrived and medical shortly after. It took 3 security officers to eventually subdue the lady, while medical services strapped her down to a gurney. After they had her secured, they escorted her backstage behind tomorrowland to an ambulance. Eventually they got a translator and tried to talk to her and her family, and it turns out that the lady was schizophrenic and had decided that she wasn't taking her medication that day so she could try to better enjoy the park. She just happened to have an episode in the middle of the jungle, and the poor dude sitting in front of her got all the wrath.