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Fun Fact
Snow White was the first film ever to have a complete merchandising campaign ready to roll on the day the movie opened! Movie fans were able to purchase Snow White mementos from Sears and Woolworth’s.
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Fun Fact
The original Disneyland Monorail was a round trip sightseeing ride with no stops.
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King Louie (the orangutan voiced by Louis Prima) was one of the characters created especially for Disney’s The Jungle Book, for he doesn’t appear in Rudyard Kipling’s original story.
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Dumbo
“It’s like 64 minutes, and it’s so concise in its storytelling. I learned a lot from it, as a student at CalArts and a young animator at Disney.” -Pixar’s John Lasseter on Dumbo
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Clearing up Lion King Confusion
The Lion King is a 1994 American animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Released to theaters on June 15, 1994 by Walt Disney Pictures,[2] it is the 32nd film in the Walt Disney Animated Classics. The story, which was influenced by the Bible stories of Joseph and Moses, the Epic of Sundiata, and the William Shakespeare play Hamlet, takes place in a kingdom of...
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Fun Fact
At Disney’s Muppet*Vision 3-D, the 3-D glasses are actually called … 3-D glasses. But at It’s Tough to be a Bug they are called Bug Eyes, and at Honey, I Shrunk the Audience they are called Safety Goggles. Park guests also wear 3-D glasses (or Carnival Games Goggles) for Toy Story Midway Mania!
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Fun Fact
instead of Disney’s California Adventure, Disney considered building DisneySea - a contrasting park to Disneyland, to be built in Long Beach next to the RMS Queen Mary (which Disney at the time owned). The park was to have led to a permanent West Coast ship in the Disney Cruise Line
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The attractions that originated in Walt Disney World and were duplicated in Disneyland is Space Mountain, Country Bear Jamboree, Mickey’s House, and Innoventions
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Fun Fact
Riding in the very first sled down Disneyland’s Matterhorn in June 1959, were Walt Disney, his wife Lilly, their daughters … and U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon. When Vice President Nixon and Walt were waiting for the official first ride on the Disneyland Monorail, an empty train came by. In his excitement, Walt couldn’t wait. He grabbed Nixon and jumped on board, leaving...
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Fun fact
To finance Disneyland (July 17th, 1955), Walt Disney sold a vacation home and even borrowed against his life insurance.
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Pianist Richard Carpenter and guitarist John Bettis performed music at Coke Corner on Disneyland’s Main Street U.S.A. during the summer of 1967. Because they routinely deviated from the selections of turn- of-the-century tunes they were asked to perform … the pair were sacked after four months. Richard went on to have great success with his sister Karen - as The Carpenters. Many of...
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The Enchanted Tiki Room: Walt’s inspiration for the Tiki Room — the first show featuring fully synchronized Audio-Animatronics figures — came from a small mechanical birdcage that he found at a New Orleans antique shop. He was so fascinated by the birds in the cage that he bought two of them — one to display and one to take apart. One of the original birdcages can...
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