Disney Facts!

Facts 2431-2460

We are nearing the 100th update mark! 

I can't believe I've almost updated this book 100 times. It's hard to believe that I've found so many facts about Disney. Since the book limit here on Wattpad is 200, I may have to stop there, and if I find more facts in the future, I may just make a second book ;) 

Only time will tell from here.

Enjoy the facts!

Fact #3431 

R2-D2 and C-3PO appear as hieroglyphics in the Ark's chamber in Raiders of The Lost Ark.

Fact #3432 

Sean Connery, playing Indiana Jones father, at the time was only 12 years older than Harrison Ford.

Fact #3433 

Since western audiences tent to move their eyes to the right, Geoffrey Rush, Captain Barbossa from Pirates of the Caribbean, requested that when he's sharing the screen with his cast mates, he wanted to stand on the left side of the screen as much as possible. 

Fact #3434 

The title for Star Wars Episode 7 has been announced and confirmed. It shall be called The Force Awakens. The trailer is rumoured to be released in a couple of weeks.

Fact #3435 

Marilyn Monroe makes an appearance in the music video for “Zero to Hero” from “Hercules”.

Fact #3436 

The old heretic in “Hunchback of Notre Dame” is Jafar from “Aladdin” in his old man disguise.

Fact #3437 

In "Toy Story 2," there's a single frame which takes a lighthearted joke at Canada. The "How to Defeat Zurg" is priced $4.95 American and $50.00 Canadian.

Fact #3438 

Epcot was originally intended to be a model community and the home of some 20,000 residents. The diorama of Walt Disney’s vision is on display in the “PeopleMover” ride.

Fact #3439 

In the window of the “Hall of Presidents” are two lanterns. They reference the poem “Paul Revere’s Ride,” in which the revolutionaries would light one lantern if the British came by land and two if by sea.

Fact #3440 

There are various backstage tours at Disney World that show you behind the scenes of the park. These include a tour of the Epcot Gardens, where the special hybrid fruits and vegetables are grown, like Mickey-shaped watermelon.

Fact #3441 

Smellitizers’ are hidden at spots all around Disney parks and emit scents that suit the setting. In Main Street, the air smells of baked cookies and vanilla, the line for “Pirates of the Caribbean” smells salty, and “Soarin’” smells like fresh citrus.

Fact #3442 

There are over 800 hidden Mickey Mouse heads hidden in Disneyland and Disney World.

Fact #3443 

In the queuing area for the “Dinosaur” ride in Animal Kingdom, you can see three pipes overhead. The formulas on the pipes are chemical formulas for ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise.

Fact #3444 

Space Mountain's rockets only go 30mph but they use imagineer tricks to make it feel like it's going 100-million-mph, including banked curves, dips, darkness, and actual air blasts from fans inside the mountain that give the illusion of a higher velocity.

Fact #3445 

Squeezed between Main Street Magic Shop and the Main Street Cinema, Fine Tobacco sold cigarettes, cigars & pipes, and handed out complimentary matchbooks. And, the wooden Indian you've seen on Main used to sit out front.

Fact #3446 

There's an abandoned mine shaft in Frontierland, and until 1977, it was actually in service as part of the Rainbow Caverns Mine Train, a cargo-car train that would take you on a quarter-mile journey through the Frontierland wilderness and into an only-accessible-by-train cave with black lights, neon-colored waterfalls, and glowing pools of luminescent water.

Fact #3447 

Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc. appears as a small figure in Frozen.

Fact #3448 

There's a "backdoor" entrance that connects Epcot Theme Park to Disney's Disney's Hollywood Studios. You can travel from one park to the other by ferry boat or on foot. 

Fact #3449 

Order the avocado margarita at the Mexican Pavilion. It’s so secret it's not even on the menu.

Fact #3450 

If you let a Disney Staff member know it’s your birthday you get a button, and other Staff members surprise you with fun stuff throughout the day, like balloons. 

Fact #3451 

Arrive 15 minutes before the park opens and you will be able to see the Train Station Welcome Show.

Fact #3452 

Stay 30 minutes after the park closes so you can indulge in the magic of The Kiss Goodnight, this plays every 30 minutes, and it is a breathtaking display of lights on the Cinderella Castle for 2 minutes, while music from When You Wish Upon a Star slowly builds up. 

Fact #3453 

There are 11,324 tiles on the spaceship earth ball. 

Fact #3454 

Although they are different rides on opposite coasts, the track layouts of Indiana Jones (Disneyland) and Dinosaur (Disney’s Animal Kingdom) are nearly identical.

Fact #3455 

On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon delivered his infamous “I’m not a crook” speech to a convention of Associated Press editors in the ballroom of Disney’s Contemporary Resort.

Fact #3456 

The steam engines of the Disneyland Railroad run on old French fry oil. After a few days’ use in kitchens throughout the park, waste oil is stored in tanks and then shipped off-site to be converted to a biodiesel the trains can run on. 

Fact #3457 

An unbilled Jean Shepherd, the narrator and author of the stories that became the holiday movie classic A Christmas Story, voices the Father (“John”) in the current 1994 incarnation of Walt Disney’s Carousel of Progress.

Fact #3458 

After Innovations at Tomorrowland, as your walking down the exit ramp and once you reach the bottom, instead of turning right to go back into Tomorrowland, turn left and you should be in a huge orange space. Stand on the small circle outlined in the middle and your voice gets all echoy. 

Fact #3459 

In 1998 Tomorrowland changed from a futuristic white kind of style, to a bright steampunk look.

Fact #3460 

If you look around Tomorrowland, there's an unusual amount of cabage planted in the gardens of the theme park.

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