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50 Things You Didn’t Know About Disneyland

Started by shaun76 · 1 year ago

Post submitted by Victoria

In honor of Disneyland’s 50th anniversary, we present 50 cool, obscure and simply odd things you probably didn’t know about the self-proclaimed Happiest Place on Earth. Many were culled from Mouse Tales by David Koenig (Bonaventure, $19.95). Some were provided by Disney archivist Dave Smith, and others came from 101 ... Continue reading »

41 comments

  • Bull3t

    1 year ago

    Wow, I just read through all of them. The last one definately was believed for some time, and it would have been a very good idea for Walt Disney to do, especially as he had the money to do so.
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  • phoenix2life

    1 year ago

    Wow...this is cool. Most of these facts are well-unknown and really interesting. Especially the tinker bell related one, my kids kinda enjoyed it.

    Thanks,
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  • BeyondRandom

    1 year ago

    Great read..thanks alot...now I want to go even more lol
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  • Kathy

    1 year ago

    I've been reading Disneyland tips for a while and never knew that the Haunted Mansion narrator is the Pillsbury Doughboy. How hilarious.
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  • Chris Anthony

    1 year ago

    These are fantastic. Thank you!

    Kathy, you might also be interested to know that one of the members of the Mello-Men, who recorded "Grim Grinning Ghosts" for the Haunted Mansion, was the stentorian and fabulously-named Thurl Ravenscroft - who's perhaps more well-known as the voice of Tony the Tiger in Kellogg's Frosted Flakes ads.
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  • Richard McLaughlin

    1 year ago

    I worked for Disney in Europe and only heard a few of hese before,

    thubkz
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  • julian

    1 year ago

    nice collection...although it wasn't as funny as i expected it to be...
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  • prelox

    1 year ago

    I didn't know a lot of these facts about Disneyland even though I have been there several times with my family.
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  • A.J.

    1 year ago

    Nice list! A few of these are mentioned at the behind-the-scenes tour of Magic Kingdom. I just got home from a week at Disney; I wish I had read these beforehand to check out some of these while I was there.
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  • Amy

    1 year ago

    This is a great collection of Disney facts... Very interesting. I'm a huge Disney fan!
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  • songboom.com

    1 year ago

    That was a pretty interesting read, I hadn't heard most of those before..
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  • Dave

    1 year ago

    Great list, I learned a lot! However, I'm pretty sure that #32 (George Lucas at the end of Star Tours) is an urban legend; disputed by Mr. Lucas himself.
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  • Ogden Ogly

    1 year ago

    I have been told by employees of the park that the basketball court in the Matterhorn is now used for storage.
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  • M.W.

    1 year ago

    This was so interesting! Thanks for going on a fact finding mission!!
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  • rack88

    1 year ago

    Number 32 is wrong (at least according to wikipedia) is not correct. The person diving away is actually ILM modelmaker Ira Keeler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Tours
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  • Magellan

    1 year ago

    Quite a few ships have circumnavigated the globe, but I believe the Columbia is, to this day, the only ship from any country to circumvent the globe.
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  • admin

    1 year ago

    Thanks to all those pointing out the circumvent issue. lol

    It has been fixed. Now I've fixed it to read, "first U.S. ship to circumcise the globe." ;-)
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  • Jenny

    1 year ago

    I thought disney sucked and was insanely dull. But then again we didn't stay long. But eh.
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  • Hans

    1 year ago

    I could be wrong but many of these seem to be lifted from the Mouse Tales books referenced in one of the items. If you are interested in behind the scenes stories and trivia about the Disney parks I highly recommend buying either Mouse Tales or the sequel or the newest book Realityland by the same author. A title search on amazon or most online book retailers should turn them up. They hold a whole slew of interesting stories similar to the ones in this list.
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    I work at an Accounting firm near Disney Land and the firm has a membership to club 33. I have gotten to eat there a few times and its really nice. Once you are inside the club a glass elevator takes you to the 2nd story dinning room. For lunch there is usually a buffet. Dinner is fairly pricey I think the minimum per person is $50. If you eat dinner you can watch the fireworks from the balcony which looks out onto the dock for the Colombia. Its really cool.
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  • Richard

    1 year ago

    My uncle started out in 1956 as a Jungle Cruise boat tour guide and went on to the board of Directors. I remember his office when he was a Supervisor as being above a saloon in Frontierland. I lived just a mile from the park and my Uncle arranged for me to always have books of tickets, so my friends and I actually went to the park as you would the local city park. We used to play hide and seek on Tom Sawyers Island. My uncle had arranged for me to play the part of Tom Sawyer at the Island one summer, I looked just like him, red hair and freckles. The job was to sit at the dock and greet people going to the island and other promotionals. But my parents divorced that May and I had to move back east with my Mother. Ruined my chance at stardom.....lol
    Ron Domingiez was a close friend of his throughout their careers at Disney. He told me that when Disney bought the Domingiez family groves, part of the sales agreement was that family members had eternal free passes and that any family member who wished could get a job at the park.
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  • blah

    1 year ago

    im doing research on walt disney for a speech, and this was neat to read
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  • jd

    1 year ago

    i got to go again lol!
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  • TexasPhoenix

    1 year ago

    Ther are more than 10 in this list.
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  • Joe Philipson

    1 year ago

    very interesting list, thank you!
    did you know if it's your birthday and you go to the sheriff's station they give you a sticker to wear throughout the day? the staff of the theme park then harass you and embarrass you throughout the day. too much fun.

    I didn't know that about walt disney not being frozen, always thought he was. He's buried in the same place as my grandparents.
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  • DaMan Conner

    1 year ago

    I loved Disneyland but only got to visit twice. The only thing that bothers me about it is everything is so so overpriced. Like a throw away camera going for $20 when you can get one at the neighborhood drug store in your town for $5.
    They need to chill with the pricing or less people will be going.
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  • lia

    1 year ago

    thanku
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  • Guy

    11 months ago

    Disneyland was created a little before I was. And living in Southern California all my life, I have been a frequent visitor of Disneyland. I very well remember the A, B, C, D, & E tickets. My hat is off to the creator, Walt Disney, for all joy that he caused. These facts were very interesting and mostly new to me. Thank you.
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  • Andrew

    9 months ago

    thats nice i got a A+ by useing this
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  • LAUREN

    9 months ago

    I BELEIVE YOU HAVE NUMBER 29 WRONG. YOU DONT NEED A RECEIPT BALLOON VENDORS DONT GIVE RECEIPTS. YOU NEED TO HAVE THE REMAINS OF THE POPPED BALLOON
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  • Georgia

    8 months ago

    I stumbled on this and gave it the thumbs up! I love stuff like this :) Excellent work.
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  • Tucson Bass Player

    8 months ago

    I have never been a Disney Bug but I read every word feeling older every minute. Thanks for sharing, Great post!
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  • KatrinaKryptonite

    6 months ago

    gahh.. now i wanna go back to disney land D:... that was great tho :D! I knew about the name talking thing backwards in that ride(which is btw my FAVORITE) and i thought the plastic house was hilarious XD!
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  • auto_insurance

    6 months ago

    This sure brings back lots of memories. I didn't know half this stuff til now. Great list of info.
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  • ana

    6 months ago

    lol at number 14!

    sounds exactly what he would do.
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  • EMAN

    5 months ago

    I EMMANUEL FROM WEST NEW YORK, NJ IS GAY. IM GAY. I THINK GAY DISNEY CHARACTERS ARE HOT. LIKE PETER PAN. BECAUSE HE HAS A HOT BIG PETER. DESTORY THE WORD. THATS ME. YOU KNOW WHERE TO GE ME AT (AIM )
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  • helen

    5 months ago

    i love this place
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  • bdaygurl

    1 month ago

    I've always felt that "It's a Small World" should have some type of marker for each culture, so people will know part of the world they are looking at. last time I was at the park, the european tourists behind me was mumbling "is that from from hawaii? or africa?"
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  • pamelae13rideout

    1 week ago

    Let's face it, cutting through these days is tough and it takes some chutzpah. In the era of the ad-zapping DVRs, perhaps the biggest risk is not taking one at all. If you are uncomfortable trying to do something fresh, then marketing is probably a bad career choice. Imagine the chutzpah it took to tell the board of a conservative insurance company that their new spokesperson www.geonlineservice.com was a duck? Ten years later that same duck has increased shareholder value by a zillion and made Aflac a household brand. So the next time you are reviewing campaign ideas, keep in mind that one you are certain you could never sell to the CEO might be the campaign that makes you and your company famous.
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  • danna

    2 days ago

    Actually I was aware of few of these things on Disneyland, my last cruise there was quite interesting so when I like a specific destination I also want to know more about it. Disney is just great, if I were a parent I would insist in going back there but for now I am interested in experiencing more of this world so this year I am booked for Carnival cruises.
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  • borellus

    16 hours ago

    Nice post! Learned a lot about Disney from this
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