if you trawl the internet there is some amazing Disney world facts - would love to hear about any you guys know (maybe some CM exclusives!) * Every year 19,000 cars are locked at Disney World with their keys in them, and 1,500 of them have their engines still running! * Textile Services, washes about 69 tons of laundry a day. They get about a ton of lint every day. * Mickey has over 175 different outfits, from a scuba suit to a tuxedo. Minnie has even more, about 200, including a cheerleader outfit and evening gowns. just a few of my favourites!
*The Matterhorn Bobsleds uses two lakes as a natural braking system *Rock 'n' Roller Coaster DLRP Walt Disney Studios Park Each of the five trains carries a different soundtrack: Dude Looks Like a Lady, Love in an Elevator / Roller Coaster, Walk This Way / Rock This Way, Nine Lives and Sweet Emotion. a few that i know of
* 6000 different types of food are served at WDW * The WDW resort has more than 750 watercrafts, 12 monorails and aprox 200 busses * There's 12,250 parking spaces at MK parking lot, and by 10am each Christmas day they will be full. In all parks ther's 32,539 parking spaces * The WDW Resort is located on a 46 square mile site (30,000 acres) about twice the size of the island of Manhattan. Yet, only 7,100 acres are developed. * The MK occupies 107 acres, Epcot covers 300 acres, Disney Hollywood studios is 154 acres and AK 500 acres * There are 19 WDW Resorts with a total of more than 27,000 rooms * The MK can hold more than 100,000 people * Approximately 46 million people visit WDW anually * Monorails carry approximately 150,000 passengers each day. On the average, 200,000 guests ride the various forms of "mass transit" every day. * In busy times there's 60,000 cast members employed by the WDW Resort * Illuminations costs $17,000 every night
*3 million chocolate covered Mickey Mouse ice cream bars are sold every year at WDW. *The 4 official WDW colours are lagoon blue, mint green, pumpkin orange, and lavender. *WDW has over 2000 acres of grass to mow which is about 450 000 mowing miles annually, or 18 trips around the earths equator (WDW mows their lawns 3 times a week) *There are enough Disney character t-shirts sold in WDW ever year to put Mickey Mouses smiling face on the chest of every person in Chicago *It was Walt Disney's own idea to use topary in each of his parks. *On February 27th 1992 , cast members planted more than 50 000 pine trees across 50 acres to form a hidden mickey for the parks 20th Anniversary. *Each year enough ketchup sachets are handed out that they would stretch from MK to Minneapolis, Minnesota if laid out end to end. *WDW is 80 times the size of Monaco. *The world famous turkey legs sold throughout the parks come from 40-50 pound turkeys. *The total volume of water in Bay Lake and Seven Seas Lagoon is 2385 billion gallons. *WDW purchases over 3.8 million pens a year. *If you stacked all of the buttons used by the costuming planet seam team in one year, the stack would be more than 96 times the hight of Cinderella's Castle. *Louisa will know this one well - the names of the two crocs that you meet in the Jungle Cruise are called Ol' Smiley and Ginger (and Ginger snaps as well) *Space Mountain is the only attraction in MK to be loacted outside of its perimeter. *There is a picture of Walt Disney himself on the left wall of the daughters room in the 3rd scene of the Carousel of Progress.
Jungle Trivia...whoop! I miss Old Smiley and Ginger they were always looking for a handout... or a foot Now for some Holiday trivia...seeing as it's nearly Christmas * The "Icon" trees range in height from 45 feet to 70 feet. * The "Icon" trees range in weight from 28,000 pounds to 32,000 pounds. * Each tree has more than 5,500 lights twinkling from the branches. * The holiday trees located at the Magic Kingdom® Park, Epcot®, the Disney-MGM Studios, Disney’s Animal Kingdom® Theme Park are all 65 feet tall. * The largest base section weighs 18,000 pounds and is 26 feet wide. * The "Icon" trees are transported to their locations by flatbed trucks and lifted into place with a 70-ton crane. * There are more than 1,500 decorated trees located throughout the Walt Disney World® Resort. * Disney's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa features a 40-foot holiday tree in the lobby. The tree glows with 45,000 LED lights. * The holiday tree located in front of Disney's Contemporary Resort is 70 feet tall and is decorated with approximately 77,000 clear mini-lights * The holiday tree located in the lobby of Disney's Wilderness Lodge is 50 feet tall with a five-foot base. * Disney's Animal Kingdom Lodge is decorated with a lobby tree, a 50-foot traditional style Christmas tree, which has an authentic African décor. The tree is decorated with handmade African baskets, reproductions of traditional African masks and authentic African fabrics. * The holiday tree located near the entrance to Once Upon A Toy at the Downtown Disney® Marketplace is decorated with a toy theme featuring toys from the shop. * Overall, the Walt Disney World® Resort is decorated with approximately 8.5 million lights, approximately 15 miles of garland and more than 300,000 yards of ribbon. * The largest wreath at the Walt Disney World® Resort is 25 feet in diameter. This wreath is located on the Cirque du Soleil building at Downtown Disney® West Side. * Both the Disney Magic® and Disney Wonder® feature a 20-foot tree and themed decorations in each of the ship’s restaurants. * Between the two ships there are 25 trees. Along with the terminal, this means Disney Cruise Line® uses approximately 25,950 holiday lights. * The ships are decked with 1,260 feet of garland, which sparkles with 14,700 lights. * Each ship features 40 custom-decorated wreaths lit with approximately 6,000 lights. * More than 3,600 yards of ribbon are used to decorate the wreaths, garland and trees at Disney Cruise Line®. * The Disney Magic® is the only ship that has a holiday tree on its mast. There are more than 1,000 ornaments on this lobby tree alone.
