Post by Dave on Jan 4, 2015 21:49:03 GMT -5
During the parades at Disney World, the second story windows on Main Street open and close automatically just before and after the parade to reveal the speakers that play the parade music.
The giant squid in Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie was constructed of rubber, steel springs, flexible tubing, glass cloth, lucite, and plastic. It had tentacles measuring 40 feet with 2 feelers of 5 feet and took a staff of 28 to operate its intricate remote controls. The film later inspired two theme park attractions.
Each Christmas season Walt Disney World Resort is decorated with more than 11 miles of garland, 3,000 wreaths and up to 1,500 Christmas trees.
Walt Disney led Disneyland's very first Christmas Parade in November 1955.
Ron & Dawn DeFore, two of the children of actor Don DeFore (owner of Don DeFore's Silver Banjo Barbecue restaurant - at one time located in Disneyland) once "filled in" for Walt Disney's grandchildren during the annual Disneyland Christmas Parade.
Soon after the completion of the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World, someone said, "Isn’t it too bad Walt Disney didn’t live to see this?" Mike Vance, then dean of Disney University, replied, "He did see it. That’s why it’s here."
Designed to resemble a turn-of-the-century Nantucket seaside resort, Disney World's Yacht & Beach Clubs are situated on a 25-acre freshwater lake.
It would take more than 20 million 12 ounce cans of Coca-Cola to fill one of the humongous Coke cups at the Home-Run Hotel in Disney's All-Star Sports Resort.
Hidden Mickeys started out as an inside joke by Disney Imagineers in the 1980s.
More than 8,000 construction workers were originally employed to build Walt Disney World.
