Walt Disney, the visionary behind the entire Disney empire, attended only one year of high school. According to Kodak, 4% of all amateur photographs worldwide are taken at Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Walt Disney World is the largest supporter of the "Give Kids the World" program, providing over 50,000 tickets a year and special services and wish fulfillment for terminally ill children and their families. To keep the Magic consistent, the characters that sing during the parades are all lip-synching to prerecorded music. Many of the Cast Members who perform in the parades and shows are often chosen for their looks, personality and ability to dance rather than their singing talent (or lack of any!) As part of Disney's commitment to the environment and the local community, used and excess building materials are sent to the Orange County Distribution Center, where they are distributed to local non-profit organizations. Construction and demolition waste amounts to around 620 tons (or 1,240,000 pounds) a year. Mickey Mouse has about 175 different outfits in his wardrobe, including a scuba suit and a tuxedo. Minnie Mouse's massive "walk-in closet" contains about 200 outfits, including a cheerleader costume and various evening gowns. If you were to stack all of the buttons used by the Costuming Plant Seam Team in one year, you would have a stack 96 times taller than the height of Cinderella's Castle. More than 50 million soft drinks sold annually.10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of french fries and 300,000 pounds of popcorn sold annually. Every year, Walt Disney World: * Uses 194,871 miles of toilet tissue * Uses 24,409 miles of paper towels * Uses 319,353 lbs. of chocolate * Uses 1.2 million pounds of watermelon * Uses 741,150 pounds of sugar * Uses 1.8 million pounds of flour * Uses 245,000 pounds of fruit filling * Uses 38,000 pounds of white icing glaze * Uses 2.9 million pounds of eggs * Uses 606,000 pounds of bananas * Uses 510,000 of grapes * Serves more than 1.5 million soft pretzels * Serves more than 639,000 pounds of macaroni and cheese * Orders more than 3.8 million ballpoint pens * Orders more than 337,000 pencils * Uses nearly 148 million sheets of recycled copier paper * Uses 730,102 gallons of bleach
that's a lot of bleach :-\ hm, you can blame me for that high number in pens.. you should see my stack of WDW pens at home.. ;D
The Tower of Terror is 199 feet tall.... this is because if they had made it one foot taller.. they would have had to put blinking lights on it to warn aircrafts. When the Tower of Terror was being built, it was struck by lightning. Animal Kingdom opened on April 22nd 1998.... the reason why it opened on that particular day was it was because it was EARTH DAY<< Remember that! It will come in handy in the first few days you start at Disney More than 50 million Cokes are consumed each year at Walt Disney World Resort. Guests also gobble 10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of french fries and more than 300,000 pounds of popcorn. Since 1971, an estimated 1.5 million pairs of glasses have found their way into lost and found. Fantasmic- The lagoon at the front of the stage is only 1.5ft deep! The water is filtered, but they deliberately don't filter the algae out, that way the water stays murky and people can't see how deep it really is.
Jungle Cruise! * A total of six lions have been removed since the attractions opening at Disneyland. One from the original ride that simply growled, two lionesses in the veldt that were fighting over a bloody strand of zebra meat, a lion and a lioness that each had a zebra leg in their mouth and looked up from the bushes at the boats, and one lion that was originally dead, and hanging upside down over a fire in the native village. * Originally African Wild Dogs resided in the African Veldt and were barking at the lions but they were removed as well. * The baboons at the safari camp used to live on the termite mounds and were picking bugs from each other's backs. * The native village wasn't a village on opening day but a dense jungle with tikis, masks, and several natives that popped up from the bushes and trees. * Trader Sam used to wear a mask and a gorilla across the way was trying to grab his merchandise. * At Tokyo the attraction's layout is the opposite direction of Florida's. Counter Clockwise. * This was one of Walt's favorite attractions. * An indoor jeep ride with the same scenes of the Jungle Cruise called Jungle Expedition was planned for Disneyland Paris but cut. * At Disneyland the Jungle Cruise was originally supposed to go through a large temple that also housed Indiana Jones and the Lost Expedition which would house Indiana Jones Adventure and a runaway mine cart ride like the Temple of Peril at Paris. The boats would have encountered various booby traps, treasure, snakes, insects, a rolling boulder, and a volcanic cavern, followed by a rocky gorge. * At Magic Kingdom in Disney World, Orlando, the half of an airplane seen along the shoreline is the back half of the Lockheed L-12 Electra Junior seen in The Great Movie Ride as a tribute to Casablanca.
The monorail system could be one of the most expensive rides in Walt Disney World. The price per mile of track exceeds 5 million dollars, that's just for the track! Space and Big Thunder Mountain only move at 26 mph! On average 15 children get lost every day in the Magic Kingdom and have to be reunited with their parents by Cast Members. The longest time that a child's parents went missing was 7.5 hours! There is a program called C.H.I.P. at the Kingdom. C.H.I.P. (Character Hotline Information Program) allows any Cast Member to call and locate any character for a guest! You can see parade float storage and entrance, garbage processing area, the storage area for the electric light boats, Splash Mountain's water recycling building and more from space! The Magic Kingdom does 68 tons of laundery per day and generates 115 pounds of lint!
One of the Transportation Cast Members once told us that a child had been lost (though I think he did say possibly kidnapped!) on one of the buses, and it took them 7 minutes to find him/her through the use of the bus radios. That's pretty amazing lol.
Disney World recycles all the human waste from the parks and hotels.... It's true, the solid and liquids are seperated and the solids are used as fertilizer on the tree farm, where all the trees for the parks are grown. The liquids are then cleaned naturally by growing hydrangas in them and then the water is sent off to the sprinkler system. When you look around, you'll see little signs that say "THIS IS NOT DRINKING WATER!" Now you know what they really mean by that! According to long-time lost and found staffers, the most unusual items turned in have been a glass eye and a potty trainer. Both, incidentally, were claimed (but not by the same person).
Verna Felton who voiced characters such as the Fairy Godmother and the main bad elephant in Dumbo died the die before Walt Disney died.
Over $100 Million is spent on maintaining the Magic Kingdom every year. There is a marker in Epcot showing the exact center of the park. It is located just to the west of Innoventions West (on that path that leads straight to the Land). The six trains at Big Thunder Mountain Railroad are named I.B. Hearty, I.M. Brave, I.M. Fearless, U.B. Bold, U.R. Daring and U.R. Courageous. Each space capsule at Mission: Space is equipped with motion sickness bags. The Walt Disney World Resort is approximately the same size as San Francisco, California. Epcot is the only Walt Disney World theme park that boasts two entrances You may never see Disney Security walking around in the parks, but they are there, in plain clothes.
Fantasmic costs $20,000 per show... in peak times they have 3 shows.... so when one show is cancelled due to weather... I guess they are a little ticked off.
