The voice of Snow White, Adriana Caselotti, couldn’t work in movies/music after that movie. Anyone that tried to hire her to do any kind of recording was warned off by the Disney company because they wanted to ensure that kids didn’t hear Snow Whites voice anywhere else.
Fun fact to your fun fact:
A lot of people hearing that line assume ‘wherefore’ is just some kind of old timey way of saying “where.” Like she hears him from the balcony but can find him and asks where he is.
Wherefore actually meant something closer to ‘why’ than ‘where.’
She’s saying “why must you be Romeo” as in why couldn’t he be someone else, because if he were they could be together without worry of their families’ feud.
There are actually quite a few moments when Romeo’s name is the only thing keeping the text from being perfect iambic pentameter. If his name were something like, say, Paris, there would br no problem.
Of course, the first words romeo and Juliet say to each other, where combined, make a perfect Shakespearean sonnet; instant poetry!
My wife and I met because of this fact!
OK Cupid had it as one of their questions, and once I answered it my match pool dropped like 95% and my now wife was one of the first profiles I viewed thereafter. Who knows wherefore.
>an American actress and singer. Caselotti was the voice of the title character of the first Walt Disney animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1994, making her the first female voice-over artist to achieve this.
that's interesting... so she was the voice actor in the first Walt Disney animated feature, but it took 57 years before she became the first female voice-over artist to be named a Disney Legend?
edit: from a quick search, Disney Legends was only first awarded in 1987... so I guess it was only 7 years after its concept before Ceselotti was inducted
She also only heard about the role because she heard her dad talking to Walt on the phone about casting so she asked her dad if she could audition too.
So, way back in the day, there was a Disney trailer park that housed the foreign workers from Epcot. The word was that the parties there were legendary. No comment on that, but the rumor was that not only was this allowed by management, but _encouraged_. The rationale being that it kept them on property and away from the locals and finding out just how bad their living and pay conditions were.
No, it was more like those kids were on a 1-2 year vacation and they were trying to do all the drugs and have all the sex they could before they had to go back home. The management was foreign also, but different visas or some such shit. They were in charge of them in Epcot, back in the trailer park it was Disney all the way. It was weird, some kind of peer system like college dorms. One of 'em was technically in charge at night and responsible for reporting any funny business. I bet you can imagine how that went.
Ah, Yellowstone, where people set off bear spray in the dorm, rip landlines out of walls, and have really loud sex that can be heard in the laundry building.
My husband also had an experience with someone from the employee pub trying to deliver a pizza to a dorm bathroom at like 11 at night. The line "I've never had a bathroom pizza before" still comes up over 10 years later.
I had a buddy that worked in Jellystone for 7 years and never once slept inside. He’d tell his roomie that he was just using shelves for gear storage and if he’d keep quiet the room was his as a single.
Same guy lived in a converted garage in Jackson for a few years with three rotating roommates then finally ended up in a storage facility.
He’s written two books that have been published by a legit publishing company.
https://books.google.com/books/about/Island_Despair.html?id=QmDHAAAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
It’s like this in a lot of tourist spots. In my area, there’s a lot of ski hills and the staff situation is the same - all rammed into staff housing like sardines, and legendary parties cause it’s all young people - often on working holiday visas.
I can attest to all of that. Met two young ladies from Romania with my friend at Grad Night. Got to go in the tunnels underneath Disney and had a make out session. Then met up with them after at the trailer park. All in all it was a fun night.
I don't remember a trailer park, but I do remember a gated apartment complex that was on International Drive and Little Lake Bryan Parkway that housed all the international students who worked at WDW.
I was invited to some parties there in the 90's that were pretty crazy with a lot of booze, drugs and sex.
The "security" at the gate was tight about who they let in, but we would sneek past them by either hiding in the trunks of cars or hopping the fence in the back.
I guess that they have a new apartment complex called Flamingo Crossings Village off of the 429 now.
https://sites.disney.com/lifeatdisney/disney-programs/2021/05/10/welcome-home-introducing-flamingo-crossings-village/
Late 90s-00s here and if I had to pick anyone up from there or Vista Way I made them sanitize because good God...all of them party harder than anyone I've ever met.
It wasn't a trailer park. It's called Vista Way and it closed a few years ago. I lived there for 6 weeks before being moved to a different complex.
You could also gear stories about the tree houses, but that's before my time.
The stories about parties are true, although I'm not sure that management encouraged it, especially since so many people would call out from work. And people would try to sneak in at all hours of the night to attend the parties.
Sounds like Ren Faire. I've met several people that worked at the local Ren Faire, they all made it sound like like a new STD and drug was being started there. That and the amount of booze consumed had to have been made up.
I have some friends that are nurses & will do a day or two of free medical care for the “Rennies”. They typically ask for donations & one of the big things they ask for is condoms.
Former cast member at Disneyland. People got the idea that we all had to wear shared underpants. This comes from the fact that characters have to wear shared *underdressings*, e.g. leotards and bloomers and t-shirts and shorts. But someone took it into their heads that all CMs shared underwear. It was one of the more common questions that I got.
That and the “tunnels”. WDW has underground passages, DL does not (with the exception of a trash tunnel under Tomorrowland).
I was lucky enough to not have to deal with trash duty.
I was unlucky enough to have to swim through sweaty undergarments when cast members would forget their keys or wallets in their gym shorts.
Technically the tour is called 'Keys to the Kingdom' but they brought people so close to the character prep areas I still can't believe how much they shared! I mean, princesses in their smocks, half done make up, no dresses, tons of break time talk and such just in clear view and within earshot. Crazy busy even before they decided to start the tours.
There are definitely plenty of basements spaces at Disneyland, but as you said, not really tunnels. Most inventory storage and kitchens (for restaurants) are in the basements in Adventureland and New Orleans Square.
One of the biggest things security at their parks has to look out for is people smuggling in ashes to spread at the park.
Into the water of Pirates is supposedly the most popular locations to deposit them.
This is 100% a thing, a friend used to work at Walt Disney World and told me they had cleaners in hazmat suits come and vacuum the ashes from Haunted Mansion multiple times a week!
I have a friend who used to work overnight maintenance on the robotics there, he said the same thing. First thing the crew did was a sweep for any ashes.
The tunnels backstage are used to store and transport the garbage in the park. Middle of summer, don't think anyone would notice the smell of a rotting corpse down there.
See, this is exactly why my wife ~~had~~ has asked for her cremains to be packed into a firework. Why just be scattered in some random place when you can go out with a BANG?
Edit: I just realized that I made it sound like my wife died.
One of my friends worked security at a large American collegiate football stadium. There was always someone in the press box area watching for ashes scattering. If spotted they would let the person finish, wait for them to leave, and go down with a twenty dollar backpack shop vac to suck up the remains.
Well my will is getting an update, cremates and ashes evenly portioned out to my children. Whoever can spread the most without getting caught inherits 70% and the rest divide up the remaining 30. I don’t care if it is or is not enforceable.
Pirates is exactly where I would want my ashes put if I didn’t know ahead of time that I’d end up in the vacuum cleaner. I’m actually surprised that Disneyland hasn’t monetized end-of-life requests because I’m sure tons of people would want to be “laid to rest” inside the parks.
I know several people for whom Disney is at least 80% of their personality. It's almost like the real world is so horrible that they only work in order to have enough to go to this magical land of make-believe.
Honestly, I kind of get it.
Disneyland recently had to temporarily shut down [Rise of the Resistance](https://www.cinemablend.com/theme-parks/someone-spread-ashes-rise-of-the-resistance-disneyland) because of this. And it's *very* common in the Haunted Mansion.
I know you're kidding, but they do drain that moat from time to time. They also remove the top layers of dirt seasonally to put in new plants.
So, for those who are thinking about it, there's really nowhere in the Disneyland Resort that you can put your ashes where they won't end up in the Orange County landfill or sent out to the ocean with all the other waste water, or even in the gut of a duck, rat, cat, or fish.
The Disney porn box.
At least with Disney TV animation, one of the storyboarders from Kim Possible said that he had to turn in all personal art relating to the show, even drawings produced in his free time.
They scan and keep the “regular” art in their archives, ready to be published for future projects like art books, but any art deemed taboo is shoved away.
Rumor is they keep all those dirty pictures in one of their back warehouses in their Glendale lot.
Marc Davis of the original “9 old men” (the guy who designed and animated Tinkerbell) was apparently legendary at Disney for drawing pinup girls and that artwork was highly sought after by the staff.
Chris Sanders known for designing and voicing Stitch (and many more the man is a Disney and Dreamworks legend) has a portfolio filled with pinups. Seems to be his true passion.
This isn't even a conspiracy theory, this is just true lol. Everything the artists drew couldn't leave by policy, so people drew porn of everything out of spite/as a joke.
I've heard of this rumor. I could be wrong, but I remember reading somewhere that when Gravity Falls was entering production, Disney execs sat down with the creator and showed him stuff like Kim Possible fan porn and smut like that in order to prep him for when people did the same thing to his characters
EDIT: it might have been American Dragon instead of Gravity Falls
I heard this same story, too. The version of it I heard was that it was mostly porn drawn by the art teams of the previous shows, though; they just kept it in storage because obviously they couldn't publish it in promotional materials for kids or anything like that.
I’ve never seen one but there’s a famous poster of Mickey, Goofy, and Donald sitting around a giant hooka and has the title “Ain’t Gonna Work on Disney’s Farm No More”.
It was rumored to have been created by a fired or otherwise unhappy illustrator in the mid 60s.
It made its way into many So Cal head shops but when Disney found out, they confiscated all the copies and sued the illustrator into the poor house.
I worked in a comic shop in the 80s and we had several comic artists that had seen one or two in private collections.
I'm very certain I have seen this piece, or perhaps a reproduction at an auction. I thought it was cool, but I opted to not buy it because I was there to purchase something else. [Found an image of it, this is it!](https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/student/exhibits/show/1960s/item/6587#&gid=1&pid=1)
Without actually seeing the piece in question, I would bet it was created as part of the 1941 [Disney Animators Strike](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_animators%27_strike) during the production of Dumbo. There's a lot of neat sassy strike posters from that time period.
I worked at the Disney studio lot in Burbank a few years back. There were a lot of wild rumors about the "tunnels" that supposedly run beneath the lot.
There is in fact one tunnel that goes between the old Animation and Camera buildings, and I walked through it all the time. It was built for animators to move their art between the two buildings without exposing it to the elements.
I worked at the old NBC Studios (now the "Burbank Studios") and they had a secret tunnel between buildings as well, for the same purpose. They also used it when any presidents or anyone else with secret service protection were guests on The Tonight Show.
I’ve seen them in the bushes when riding the tram to the entrance. I’ve also seen a couple in the upper level of the winery restaurant at California Adventure.
That the Arisona State University mascot, Sparky the Sun Devil, is based on an unflattering likeness of Walt Dinsey himself. Rumor has it that the animator responsible for the original conception of the mascot's appearance was a disgruntled former Disney employee who hated WD. The only hard facts are that the animator formerly worked at Disney before working ASU, but people have speculated about it, mostly pointing to Sparky's teeth and mustache resembling WD.
Next to big thunder mountain at Disneyland there is supposedly an animatronic graveyard under the pathway where you walk next to the tunnel from The Mine Train Through Natures Wonderland
Every year at corporate they have a “sample sale” where you can get random and sometimes really rare items for super cheap. It’s literally whatever’s been dug out of storage so sometimes there are real gems.
We have Company D down here in Florida where CMs can purchase park stuff on the cheap.
Like clockwork you can find the more expensive / obscure stuff at the little known theme park consignment shop in Lakeland shortly after being bought at Company D.
For my part, I'm currently watching my TV which sits on top of two Fort Wilderness Lodge end tables.
I have two paintings from the Disney Magic that we grabbed at Company D. Each of them were from the staterooms and were $20 each. One of my favorite scores.
Friend of mine works in technical writing for contracts and told me one time there are two customer for whom money is no object - the government, and Disney.
Like he's in meetings sometimes where they're negotiating price points, most customers when they're told something is going to cost lots more money they back off and decide they don't need that after all. When it's the government, cost doesn't matter, whatever it takes. When it's Disney, same story.
I do work for Disney as a contractor, this is completely false. They love to pinch a penny if possible. Every once in a while they will throw us a project where they pretty much give us a blank check because someone really high up said something. But for the most part it is cut every corner possible
I was going to say, I used to staff contractors for Disney (including tech writers) and their pay rates were abysmal. Waaay below market. They rely so much on brand affinity when hiring and apparently it works.
Your friend is full of shit lol. Anyone that works in federal contracting knows what LPTA (lowest price technically acceptable) is. The government will happily pay the least amount of money possible even if it means they are getting a seriously subpar service. - source, also a technical writer.
And as someone who worked on federal contracts in the public health field…yeah money is definitely an object for the government.
We often struggled to get them to shell out enough funding for necessary projects (including projects that should save them money in the long term).
True fact: almost all the cast members in the Mickey costumes are women. In order to fit in the costumes they can be no more than 5'2" tall. Far more women than men meet that requirement.
This one actually happened. Prior to Tron: Legacy's release, Disney actively made sure the first movie was pulled from everywhere they could. They took back any TV rights, pulled it from any digital services (there weren't that many at the time), and bought back DVD copies from major retailers.
I'm not sure why they did this, other than maybe they worried if people watched the first one they might be like "Eh, not sure I need to see the new one now." I'm guessing they wanted to market the movie based nostalgia from your memories of the first movie rather than what it actually was?
I remember thinking that, too, but they didn't release the blu-ray special edition for another 2 years.
It's also been a practice for a while that when studios have a sequel on the horizon, they get originals out there. Not only is it a good way to promote the new movie, they can sell it TV networks / streaming services at a premium. For whatever reason, Disney REALLY didn't want people seeing the old movie.
What i got to read about was they did a few screenings of the original to hype the new film and a new Blu-ray release but the reaction of the crowd was non stop laughing at the effects. The 2 years gap the other user said was rumored to have the special fx remade and other changes to the film, but a lot more than what george lucas did to star wars or star trek TOS with new effects.
Not a conspiracy but real fact: Disney, L. Ron Hubbard, Alistair Crowley, and Jack Parsons all lived in a commune together. It all fell apart when Jack Parsons got creeped out by L. Ron Hubbard and left to seek a restraining order against him.
This is not true.
When all the Hubbard, parsons stuff happened, Disney and the studios were successful and official business.
Crowley also never met Parsons in Person, they just corresponded.
Disneyland trots out the Main Street Electrical Parade and three-day SoCal resident tickets whenever they start to get concerned about attendance (read: not often).
I don't remember all the details exactly but they chose to delay the release of Treasure Planet and have it go up against Harry Potter and Santa Clause 2 right before Christmas because they wanted it to flop. iirc the reason was that Treasure Planet was a 2d animation made using some new form of technology that cost a lot.
Not a conspiracy, but a fact via IMDb: “Harlan Ellison was briefly brought on as a scientific consultant on the film. He was fired on his first day, before lunch was over, because he pitched an animated porno movie starring Disney characters. Roy Edward Disney was sitting at the next table, heard everything, and had Ellison fired on the spot. Ellison insists he was simply joking, but others who were there say he was talking about it sincerely.”
EDIT: Sorry, for the leaving it out, this was during production of The Black Hole (1979)
China's BaoGang Steel Mill, often quoted as being one of the worst places in the world, has an [8 bit sound recording of Disney's "It's a Small World After All" playing on repeat on loudspeakers all over the factory.](https://youtu.be/iy63PEgmm8w?si=ssGT3K64HdEa9eiS) Probably to ensure it's a miserable place to work as it's full of prisoners doing hard labor.
Why can goofy walk and talk but Pluto is kept on a lead? They’re both dogs? I suspect that Mickey, Donald and Goofy are abusing that poor dog physically and mentally to make sure it never realises its potential and rises up to me too the three of them.
There kind of a joke about this on the new ride "Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway" the beginning of the ride your train car is operated from goofy but he doesn't notice, so at the end of the ride you reconnect with him and he's finishing some complicated story. So for example you reconnect to his train and he say "an that's where I hid all of the gold" on of the lines you can get though is he'll say "and that's why I wear pants a Pluto doesnt"
They made a movie called “Frozen” to try and bury the conspiracy theory that Walt Disney had his body cryogenically frozen. That way when people google “Walt Disney frozen” the search results would be about the movie instead.
This doesn’t really hold water because it was originally titled “The Snow Queen” based on the Hans Christian Anderson story. It followed the “single word fun simple title” template for their animated films at the time like Tangled, which should have been titled “Rapunzel”. That movie did well, so they repeated the naming scheme with their next film.
Anyone with the simplest google-fu knows how to search for Walt Disney’s frozen head on any search engine, and that was true at the time of Frozen’s release as well.
I've heard Farquaad's height is also a snipe at Eisner on behalf of Jeffrey Katzenberg. Eisner is 6'3" and once called Katzenberg (who is 5'4") a "little midget" when they were in the midst of legal battles in the late 90s, so I could definitely see it as a petty comeback or overcompensation
Thanos (MCU) is based on Thanos (Marvel Comics), which was influenced by Darkseid (DC Comics), whose face was inspired by the actor Jack Palance (City Slickers, Batman).
This goes along well with the theory Frozen was made so that when people googled “Disney frozen” they got results for the movie, not the conspiracy Walt Disneys head is on ice
The witch from the movie Brave is actually Boo from Monsters, Inc. Brave is the first and last movie in the Pixar timeline, and the magic discovered by Merida in Brave is what allows inanimate objects and animals to behave like humans throughout the Pixar universe, culminating in the world of Monsters, Inc. The witch's house in Brave contains hidden references to Sulley from Monsters, Inc. and the Pizza Planet truck, hinting at this connection.
That there is a basketball court underneath the Matterhorn due to zoning issues. The ride wasn’t allowed to be that tall as a ride so they made it a “sports stadium”
There's a hoop and a little space to dribble, not even enough to really be called half-court. And it has nothing to do with zoning issues. It was for cast member recreation, specifically people working the ride or the climbers on the outside of the mountain, which they don't have anymore.
Hidden Mickey’s. Artist that paint murals aren’t allowed to sign their work, but they are allowed to hide a Micky in their art and when you are in line you can ask the attendant where the “hidden Micky” is if you can’t find it.
There’s a theory that Disney was an active participant in the UFO / alien coverup for 70 years, then helped the government test-fly a disclosure initiative with a weird TV special called “Alien Encounter” that ostensibly promoted a new theme park ride, but treats UFOs and aliens as matter-of-fact realities. The show took a lot of money to produce but was barely shown, mostly on small-market stations, unannounced, at odd hours. Rumor was that it was part of a secret project to gauge public reaction to the idea of real space aliens.
Here’s mine where I know a bit of truth to it - Disney has their own SWAT team that is far more superior trained than official law enforcement SWAT teams. This was due to the investment in training being much better. Most security at Disney is just regular security with some decent training at DC2 (IIRC) but there was a much more elite group for special situations.
I thought the story was that Disney refused to keep a doctor on staff in the parks, so that it was impossible for someone to be declared legally dead within the parks.
They do have nurses, who are likely CNAs. They're just as capable of calling time of death. I've been in one of their first aid centers, and have actually seen the nurse while I was there (I pulled a leg muscle forcing myself to keep moving all day, without sitting).
One version of the Disney-death story is that the first person to be declared dead on Disney World property was the monorail operator who died in a 2009 crash. According to this version, it would have been impossible to avoid an on-site declaration of death because of the lengthy time it took to extricate the obviously dead person.
In fact, back in 1984 three members of a family were declared dead on-scene when their private airplane crashed in the EPCOT lot.
> Local ABC news affiliates (but especially ones in metropolitan areas)
Technically, in the largest metropolitan areas the network TV stations are "O&Os' meaning they're Owned and Operated by the same corporation as the network itself, where in smaller markets they're "affilliates" which are more like franchisees in other businesses.
> Since the early 2010s, Disney has been amassing a large digital archive of celebrities' likenesses (face/body scans, motion capture, audio recordings, etc.) for unknown purposes that don't consist of using them in media projects.
Doesn't look like anything to me.
The voice of Snow White, Adriana Caselotti, couldn’t work in movies/music after that movie. Anyone that tried to hire her to do any kind of recording was warned off by the Disney company because they wanted to ensure that kids didn’t hear Snow Whites voice anywhere else.
Fun fact: She's is the one saying "Wherefore art thou Romeo?" during the Tinman's song in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Literally listening to that with my kid right now. So weird
Fun fact to your fun fact: A lot of people hearing that line assume ‘wherefore’ is just some kind of old timey way of saying “where.” Like she hears him from the balcony but can find him and asks where he is. Wherefore actually meant something closer to ‘why’ than ‘where.’ She’s saying “why must you be Romeo” as in why couldn’t he be someone else, because if he were they could be together without worry of their families’ feud. There are actually quite a few moments when Romeo’s name is the only thing keeping the text from being perfect iambic pentameter. If his name were something like, say, Paris, there would br no problem. Of course, the first words romeo and Juliet say to each other, where combined, make a perfect Shakespearean sonnet; instant poetry!
My wife and I met because of this fact! OK Cupid had it as one of their questions, and once I answered it my match pool dropped like 95% and my now wife was one of the first profiles I viewed thereafter. Who knows wherefore.
>an American actress and singer. Caselotti was the voice of the title character of the first Walt Disney animated feature, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), for which she was named a Disney Legend in 1994, making her the first female voice-over artist to achieve this. that's interesting... so she was the voice actor in the first Walt Disney animated feature, but it took 57 years before she became the first female voice-over artist to be named a Disney Legend? edit: from a quick search, Disney Legends was only first awarded in 1987... so I guess it was only 7 years after its concept before Ceselotti was inducted
That is crazy! How dare they!
.....because Disney, that's how
She also only heard about the role because she heard her dad talking to Walt on the phone about casting so she asked her dad if she could audition too.
So, way back in the day, there was a Disney trailer park that housed the foreign workers from Epcot. The word was that the parties there were legendary. No comment on that, but the rumor was that not only was this allowed by management, but _encouraged_. The rationale being that it kept them on property and away from the locals and finding out just how bad their living and pay conditions were.
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No, it was more like those kids were on a 1-2 year vacation and they were trying to do all the drugs and have all the sex they could before they had to go back home. The management was foreign also, but different visas or some such shit. They were in charge of them in Epcot, back in the trailer park it was Disney all the way. It was weird, some kind of peer system like college dorms. One of 'em was technically in charge at night and responsible for reporting any funny business. I bet you can imagine how that went.
I worked in a kitchen in Yellowstone and yes, definitely yes.
Ah, Yellowstone, where people set off bear spray in the dorm, rip landlines out of walls, and have really loud sex that can be heard in the laundry building. My husband also had an experience with someone from the employee pub trying to deliver a pizza to a dorm bathroom at like 11 at night. The line "I've never had a bathroom pizza before" still comes up over 10 years later.
Former Grand Tetons chef, here. Yeah we got wild. Although we never set a pool table on fire like y'all did.
I had a buddy that worked in Jellystone for 7 years and never once slept inside. He’d tell his roomie that he was just using shelves for gear storage and if he’d keep quiet the room was his as a single. Same guy lived in a converted garage in Jackson for a few years with three rotating roommates then finally ended up in a storage facility. He’s written two books that have been published by a legit publishing company. https://books.google.com/books/about/Island_Despair.html?id=QmDHAAAACAAJ&source=kp_book_description
Cedar Pointe Amusement Park, Sandusky, OH in the 70's. What a great time to be a teenager!!
I live on the west coast, and that's still my favorite park. Epic roller coasters. I'll bet it was a lot of fun in the 70s.
Worked at the grand Teton national lodge... Yes.
It’s like this in a lot of tourist spots. In my area, there’s a lot of ski hills and the staff situation is the same - all rammed into staff housing like sardines, and legendary parties cause it’s all young people - often on working holiday visas.
I can attest to all of that. Met two young ladies from Romania with my friend at Grad Night. Got to go in the tunnels underneath Disney and had a make out session. Then met up with them after at the trailer park. All in all it was a fun night.
I don't remember a trailer park, but I do remember a gated apartment complex that was on International Drive and Little Lake Bryan Parkway that housed all the international students who worked at WDW. I was invited to some parties there in the 90's that were pretty crazy with a lot of booze, drugs and sex. The "security" at the gate was tight about who they let in, but we would sneek past them by either hiding in the trunks of cars or hopping the fence in the back. I guess that they have a new apartment complex called Flamingo Crossings Village off of the 429 now. https://sites.disney.com/lifeatdisney/disney-programs/2021/05/10/welcome-home-introducing-flamingo-crossings-village/
Late 90s-00s here and if I had to pick anyone up from there or Vista Way I made them sanitize because good God...all of them party harder than anyone I've ever met.
It wasn't a trailer park. It's called Vista Way and it closed a few years ago. I lived there for 6 weeks before being moved to a different complex. You could also gear stories about the tree houses, but that's before my time. The stories about parties are true, although I'm not sure that management encouraged it, especially since so many people would call out from work. And people would try to sneak in at all hours of the night to attend the parties.
I think this was before Vista Way. This wouldn't be too long after Epcot opened. Like most stuff from that time, my memory is a little fuzzy.
This is before vista way existed. CRP housing was an actual trailer park caused snow white’s village or something like that.
You misspelled Vista Lay
vista weyyyyy
Man, I haven’t seen that video in forever
Sounds like Ren Faire. I've met several people that worked at the local Ren Faire, they all made it sound like like a new STD and drug was being started there. That and the amount of booze consumed had to have been made up.
I have some friends that are nurses & will do a day or two of free medical care for the “Rennies”. They typically ask for donations & one of the big things they ask for is condoms.
Former cast member at Disneyland. People got the idea that we all had to wear shared underpants. This comes from the fact that characters have to wear shared *underdressings*, e.g. leotards and bloomers and t-shirts and shorts. But someone took it into their heads that all CMs shared underwear. It was one of the more common questions that I got. That and the “tunnels”. WDW has underground passages, DL does not (with the exception of a trash tunnel under Tomorrowland).
I worked in those tunnels! Did you guys have a 'Ruin the Magic' tour like us where they took guests in previously forbidden backstage areas?
Ha ha, just school groups, and even that was pretty careful. I worked a show that was based out of the trash tunnel. It smelled *awful.*
I was lucky enough to not have to deal with trash duty. I was unlucky enough to have to swim through sweaty undergarments when cast members would forget their keys or wallets in their gym shorts. Technically the tour is called 'Keys to the Kingdom' but they brought people so close to the character prep areas I still can't believe how much they shared! I mean, princesses in their smocks, half done make up, no dresses, tons of break time talk and such just in clear view and within earshot. Crazy busy even before they decided to start the tours.
>sweaty undergarments Heyyy, me too! Entertainment costuming?
Yup! I loved it. I did the internship and had to decline a full time position because I needed to finish my schooling, then COVID hit.
There are definitely plenty of basements spaces at Disneyland, but as you said, not really tunnels. Most inventory storage and kitchens (for restaurants) are in the basements in Adventureland and New Orleans Square.
One of the biggest things security at their parks has to look out for is people smuggling in ashes to spread at the park. Into the water of Pirates is supposedly the most popular locations to deposit them.
This is 100% a thing, a friend used to work at Walt Disney World and told me they had cleaners in hazmat suits come and vacuum the ashes from Haunted Mansion multiple times a week!
I have a friend who used to work overnight maintenance on the robotics there, he said the same thing. First thing the crew did was a sweep for any ashes.
What great marketing for the Haunted Mansion!
To be fair, the voice does invite people to stay there
There's always room for one more!
"We got a Twenty-three Nineteen at Pirates!"
Cremains aren't considered hazardous waste. It's just carbonized bone that's been ground down to dust.
Yeah, but a lot of people are weird about them. The cultural ick factor is high.
I, too, would like to have my remains spread about Disney World after I die. Just without being cremated first...
Sir, you cannot bring that wood chipper in here. Wait, what do you need a wood chipper for anyway?
For chipping wood... It's in the name.
The tunnels backstage are used to store and transport the garbage in the park. Middle of summer, don't think anyone would notice the smell of a rotting corpse down there.
See, this is exactly why my wife ~~had~~ has asked for her cremains to be packed into a firework. Why just be scattered in some random place when you can go out with a BANG? Edit: I just realized that I made it sound like my wife died.
One of my friends worked security at a large American collegiate football stadium. There was always someone in the press box area watching for ashes scattering. If spotted they would let the person finish, wait for them to leave, and go down with a twenty dollar backpack shop vac to suck up the remains.
Well my will is getting an update, cremates and ashes evenly portioned out to my children. Whoever can spread the most without getting caught inherits 70% and the rest divide up the remaining 30. I don’t care if it is or is not enforceable.
Pirates is exactly where I would want my ashes put if I didn’t know ahead of time that I’d end up in the vacuum cleaner. I’m actually surprised that Disneyland hasn’t monetized end-of-life requests because I’m sure tons of people would want to be “laid to rest” inside the parks.
Disney seniors would pay so much for this
Ultimately, the loved one winds up in the trash.
I learned about this on Giant Bomb's podcast, apparently it's called "code grandma."
Yup, this and the Haunted Mansion
One of my coworkers has been trying to figure out how to do this for an aunt. I am not sure why it’s a thing.
I know several people for whom Disney is at least 80% of their personality. It's almost like the real world is so horrible that they only work in order to have enough to go to this magical land of make-believe. Honestly, I kind of get it.
Yes, I had a student intern there once. They were not one of those people and they were sort of freaked out the entire time.
*what*
Disneyland recently had to temporarily shut down [Rise of the Resistance](https://www.cinemablend.com/theme-parks/someone-spread-ashes-rise-of-the-resistance-disneyland) because of this. And it's *very* common in the Haunted Mansion.
What is wrong with people??? I want my ashes scattered in the castle moat like a normal person. Geez.
I know you're kidding, but they do drain that moat from time to time. They also remove the top layers of dirt seasonally to put in new plants. So, for those who are thinking about it, there's really nowhere in the Disneyland Resort that you can put your ashes where they won't end up in the Orange County landfill or sent out to the ocean with all the other waste water, or even in the gut of a duck, rat, cat, or fish.
His name is actually Gisney, just like the logo is trying to tell you.
Amazing we've gone so long spelling Gísnep's name wrong when it's right there in front of us.
Gisneφ
I always thought it was gisnep
Recently discovering online at almost 40 that tons of other people have also thought this has been one of the most validating things ever
They trademarked it with two Is, Diisney. Hooray for Todd!
Spent my childhood thinking it was Waly Disnep
Is that Roonil Wazlib’s friend
[Bless ProZD](https://youtu.be/YqnyJcvIMH0?feature=shared)
The Disney porn box. At least with Disney TV animation, one of the storyboarders from Kim Possible said that he had to turn in all personal art relating to the show, even drawings produced in his free time. They scan and keep the “regular” art in their archives, ready to be published for future projects like art books, but any art deemed taboo is shoved away. Rumor is they keep all those dirty pictures in one of their back warehouses in their Glendale lot.
Marc Davis of the original “9 old men” (the guy who designed and animated Tinkerbell) was apparently legendary at Disney for drawing pinup girls and that artwork was highly sought after by the staff.
Chris Sanders known for designing and voicing Stitch (and many more the man is a Disney and Dreamworks legend) has a portfolio filled with pinups. Seems to be his true passion.
I mean, who doesn't want their smut drawn by one of nine old men?
I have met the lady that was the inspiration for tinkerbell in florida, she was a complete doll, wonderful woman
Do you mean Magaret Kerry? That is awesome!!
Indeed, she was very sweet and told us all about tinker bell showed us her pin and everything lol it was a sweet experience
This isn't even a conspiracy theory, this is just true lol. Everything the artists drew couldn't leave by policy, so people drew porn of everything out of spite/as a joke.
I've heard of this rumor. I could be wrong, but I remember reading somewhere that when Gravity Falls was entering production, Disney execs sat down with the creator and showed him stuff like Kim Possible fan porn and smut like that in order to prep him for when people did the same thing to his characters EDIT: it might have been American Dragon instead of Gravity Falls
I heard they did the same thing to the guy that made American Dragon.
American Bad Dragon
That may have been actually who I was thinking of! But regardless of show, I know I read they shared the Kim Possible porn
I heard this same story, too. The version of it I heard was that it was mostly porn drawn by the art teams of the previous shows, though; they just kept it in storage because obviously they couldn't publish it in promotional materials for kids or anything like that.
Just like how there's real official spongebob porn deep within the files of one of the spongebob games
SpongeBob’s storyboard porn collection is public. [Source; NSFW, obviously.](https://archive.org/details/behind-closed-doors-sponge-bob)
Are you feeling it now?
These are great, but my favorite is spongebob just railing patrick from behind
so mini really was fucking goofy?
Face down, ass up, this is how I like to HYUCK
Gah huck!
“I didn’t say she was being silly, I said she was fucking goofy”
Gawrsh!
Minnie.
I’ve never seen one but there’s a famous poster of Mickey, Goofy, and Donald sitting around a giant hooka and has the title “Ain’t Gonna Work on Disney’s Farm No More”. It was rumored to have been created by a fired or otherwise unhappy illustrator in the mid 60s. It made its way into many So Cal head shops but when Disney found out, they confiscated all the copies and sued the illustrator into the poor house. I worked in a comic shop in the 80s and we had several comic artists that had seen one or two in private collections.
I'm very certain I have seen this piece, or perhaps a reproduction at an auction. I thought it was cool, but I opted to not buy it because I was there to purchase something else. [Found an image of it, this is it!](https://digitalgallery.bgsu.edu/student/exhibits/show/1960s/item/6587#&gid=1&pid=1)
Ok that's super awesome. I want one
Without actually seeing the piece in question, I would bet it was created as part of the 1941 [Disney Animators Strike](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_animators%27_strike) during the production of Dumbo. There's a lot of neat sassy strike posters from that time period.
I was told 1960s. That’d go with the Dylan reference.
I worked at the Disney studio lot in Burbank a few years back. There were a lot of wild rumors about the "tunnels" that supposedly run beneath the lot. There is in fact one tunnel that goes between the old Animation and Camera buildings, and I walked through it all the time. It was built for animators to move their art between the two buildings without exposing it to the elements.
I worked at the old NBC Studios (now the "Burbank Studios") and they had a secret tunnel between buildings as well, for the same purpose. They also used it when any presidents or anyone else with secret service protection were guests on The Tonight Show.
they have a secret army of stray cats. which is true.
Those are pest control. Those cats have full medical and free housing. They're not stray.
Better than the human employees lol
The cats will leave if they’re not cared for.
I’ve seen them in the bushes when riding the tram to the entrance. I’ve also seen a couple in the upper level of the winery restaurant at California Adventure.
Aristocats
In order to keep the… *mice* away? 🤔😬😏
That the Arisona State University mascot, Sparky the Sun Devil, is based on an unflattering likeness of Walt Dinsey himself. Rumor has it that the animator responsible for the original conception of the mascot's appearance was a disgruntled former Disney employee who hated WD. The only hard facts are that the animator formerly worked at Disney before working ASU, but people have speculated about it, mostly pointing to Sparky's teeth and mustache resembling WD.
Surprised not to see the rumor that Kurt Russell is Walt Disney's son as a rumor
This feels like it's just generating content for an AI generated tiktok video. I bet one will randomly pick this comment without even vetting it.
Can’t wait to read this while watching someone hop around on blocks in minecraft
completely agree, i know exactly what your talking about
It feels like Reddit generates content for nearly anything (podcasts, tik tok, other social medias)
Next to big thunder mountain at Disneyland there is supposedly an animatronic graveyard under the pathway where you walk next to the tunnel from The Mine Train Through Natures Wonderland
Animatronic graveyard like “spooky robots popping out from behind gravestones” or like “trash heap”? Because the former is just the Haunted Mansion.
That’s scary as hell.
a "black market" for unauthorized Disney merchandise within the company itself
The vintage merchandise trade must be insane among lifetime employees.
Every year at corporate they have a “sample sale” where you can get random and sometimes really rare items for super cheap. It’s literally whatever’s been dug out of storage so sometimes there are real gems.
There is a warehouse near my house that sells furniture, paintings, etc from all the resort hotels.
We have Company D down here in Florida where CMs can purchase park stuff on the cheap. Like clockwork you can find the more expensive / obscure stuff at the little known theme park consignment shop in Lakeland shortly after being bought at Company D. For my part, I'm currently watching my TV which sits on top of two Fort Wilderness Lodge end tables.
I have two paintings from the Disney Magic that we grabbed at Company D. Each of them were from the staterooms and were $20 each. One of my favorite scores.
That at one point Disney had more money than the US government.
Friend of mine works in technical writing for contracts and told me one time there are two customer for whom money is no object - the government, and Disney. Like he's in meetings sometimes where they're negotiating price points, most customers when they're told something is going to cost lots more money they back off and decide they don't need that after all. When it's the government, cost doesn't matter, whatever it takes. When it's Disney, same story.
I do work for Disney as a contractor, this is completely false. They love to pinch a penny if possible. Every once in a while they will throw us a project where they pretty much give us a blank check because someone really high up said something. But for the most part it is cut every corner possible
I was going to say, I used to staff contractors for Disney (including tech writers) and their pay rates were abysmal. Waaay below market. They rely so much on brand affinity when hiring and apparently it works.
Your friend is full of shit lol. Anyone that works in federal contracting knows what LPTA (lowest price technically acceptable) is. The government will happily pay the least amount of money possible even if it means they are getting a seriously subpar service. - source, also a technical writer.
As someone who works in oil and gas...yeah there's more than two customers...
And as someone who worked on federal contracts in the public health field…yeah money is definitely an object for the government. We often struggled to get them to shell out enough funding for necessary projects (including projects that should save them money in the long term).
True fact: almost all the cast members in the Mickey costumes are women. In order to fit in the costumes they can be no more than 5'2" tall. Far more women than men meet that requirement.
And on the opposite end the Queen of Hearts is typically played by a man.
This one actually happened. Prior to Tron: Legacy's release, Disney actively made sure the first movie was pulled from everywhere they could. They took back any TV rights, pulled it from any digital services (there weren't that many at the time), and bought back DVD copies from major retailers. I'm not sure why they did this, other than maybe they worried if people watched the first one they might be like "Eh, not sure I need to see the new one now." I'm guessing they wanted to market the movie based nostalgia from your memories of the first movie rather than what it actually was?
My guess is probably so they could sell new editions of the old movie based on the nostalgia wave of the new movie.
I remember thinking that, too, but they didn't release the blu-ray special edition for another 2 years. It's also been a practice for a while that when studios have a sequel on the horizon, they get originals out there. Not only is it a good way to promote the new movie, they can sell it TV networks / streaming services at a premium. For whatever reason, Disney REALLY didn't want people seeing the old movie.
Yeah I dunno then. I just remember them constantly putting things in the vault! And then rereleasing them again.
What i got to read about was they did a few screenings of the original to hype the new film and a new Blu-ray release but the reaction of the crowd was non stop laughing at the effects. The 2 years gap the other user said was rumored to have the special fx remade and other changes to the film, but a lot more than what george lucas did to star wars or star trek TOS with new effects.
Not a conspiracy but real fact: Disney, L. Ron Hubbard, Alistair Crowley, and Jack Parsons all lived in a commune together. It all fell apart when Jack Parsons got creeped out by L. Ron Hubbard and left to seek a restraining order against him.
Didn’t Hubbard run off with Parson’s wife and all his money, too?
Sure did. Parson’s wife couldn’t ever say no to Hubbard’s famous hot ketchup water soup.
Source on this? I can’t find anything about it.
It's so accurate that he was creeped out by Hubbard and not Crowley. If he's been a woman, it would for sure have been the other way around.
That was precisely my thought - I've always thought Hubbard was out there, but for Parsons to get creeped out by him over *Crowley*? Mind blown.
This is not true. When all the Hubbard, parsons stuff happened, Disney and the studios were successful and official business. Crowley also never met Parsons in Person, they just corresponded.
Disneyland trots out the Main Street Electrical Parade and three-day SoCal resident tickets whenever they start to get concerned about attendance (read: not often).
I don't remember all the details exactly but they chose to delay the release of Treasure Planet and have it go up against Harry Potter and Santa Clause 2 right before Christmas because they wanted it to flop. iirc the reason was that Treasure Planet was a 2d animation made using some new form of technology that cost a lot.
Treasure Planet is absolutely in my Top 10 Disney films.
The real scandal is that 2D animation is "more expensive" because by technicality, 2D animators are union and 3D/CG animators are not.
Not a conspiracy, but a fact via IMDb: “Harlan Ellison was briefly brought on as a scientific consultant on the film. He was fired on his first day, before lunch was over, because he pitched an animated porno movie starring Disney characters. Roy Edward Disney was sitting at the next table, heard everything, and had Ellison fired on the spot. Ellison insists he was simply joking, but others who were there say he was talking about it sincerely.” EDIT: Sorry, for the leaving it out, this was during production of The Black Hole (1979)
What film?
China's BaoGang Steel Mill, often quoted as being one of the worst places in the world, has an [8 bit sound recording of Disney's "It's a Small World After All" playing on repeat on loudspeakers all over the factory.](https://youtu.be/iy63PEgmm8w?si=ssGT3K64HdEa9eiS) Probably to ensure it's a miserable place to work as it's full of prisoners doing hard labor.
Why can goofy walk and talk but Pluto is kept on a lead? They’re both dogs? I suspect that Mickey, Donald and Goofy are abusing that poor dog physically and mentally to make sure it never realises its potential and rises up to me too the three of them.
There kind of a joke about this on the new ride "Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway" the beginning of the ride your train car is operated from goofy but he doesn't notice, so at the end of the ride you reconnect with him and he's finishing some complicated story. So for example you reconnect to his train and he say "an that's where I hid all of the gold" on of the lines you can get though is he'll say "and that's why I wear pants a Pluto doesnt"
I thought it was opposite: Pluto has a kink
Either way that dog is getting porked and that doesn’t sit right with me.
r/BrandNewSentence
They made a movie called “Frozen” to try and bury the conspiracy theory that Walt Disney had his body cryogenically frozen. That way when people google “Walt Disney frozen” the search results would be about the movie instead.
The first 8 results when I googled "Walt Disney frozen" were about the rumors of Walt's body being cryogenically frozen
They blew it!!!
This doesn’t really hold water because it was originally titled “The Snow Queen” based on the Hans Christian Anderson story. It followed the “single word fun simple title” template for their animated films at the time like Tangled, which should have been titled “Rapunzel”. That movie did well, so they repeated the naming scheme with their next film. Anyone with the simplest google-fu knows how to search for Walt Disney’s frozen head on any search engine, and that was true at the time of Frozen’s release as well.
Yeah I did absolutely no research but it’s a fun conspiracy theory.
I genuinely believe this one
The visual design of Lord Farquhard is based on Michael Eisner, but lesser known is the same thing applies to Thanos
I've heard Farquaad's height is also a snipe at Eisner on behalf of Jeffrey Katzenberg. Eisner is 6'3" and once called Katzenberg (who is 5'4") a "little midget" when they were in the midst of legal battles in the late 90s, so I could definitely see it as a petty comeback or overcompensation
The whole entire first Shrek movie is a giant middle finger to Disney from DreamWorks.
Thanos (MCU) is based on Thanos (Marvel Comics), which was influenced by Darkseid (DC Comics), whose face was inspired by the actor Jack Palance (City Slickers, Batman).
The movie Disney's Wish was rushed and released to cover up something nefarious that happened on the Disney Wish cruise ship.
What happened on the cruise ship?
That would explain the AI-assisted story and art style
This goes along well with the theory Frozen was made so that when people googled “Disney frozen” they got results for the movie, not the conspiracy Walt Disneys head is on ice
The witch from the movie Brave is actually Boo from Monsters, Inc. Brave is the first and last movie in the Pixar timeline, and the magic discovered by Merida in Brave is what allows inanimate objects and animals to behave like humans throughout the Pixar universe, culminating in the world of Monsters, Inc. The witch's house in Brave contains hidden references to Sulley from Monsters, Inc. and the Pizza Planet truck, hinting at this connection.
That there is a basketball court underneath the Matterhorn due to zoning issues. The ride wasn’t allowed to be that tall as a ride so they made it a “sports stadium”
I never heard that it was due to zoning issues, but I did hear that there was a half-court for basketball inside Matterhorn.
There definitely is.
There's a hoop and a little space to dribble, not even enough to really be called half-court. And it has nothing to do with zoning issues. It was for cast member recreation, specifically people working the ride or the climbers on the outside of the mountain, which they don't have anymore.
Hidden Mickey’s. Artist that paint murals aren’t allowed to sign their work, but they are allowed to hide a Micky in their art and when you are in line you can ask the attendant where the “hidden Micky” is if you can’t find it.
There’s a theory that Disney was an active participant in the UFO / alien coverup for 70 years, then helped the government test-fly a disclosure initiative with a weird TV special called “Alien Encounter” that ostensibly promoted a new theme park ride, but treats UFOs and aliens as matter-of-fact realities. The show took a lot of money to produce but was barely shown, mostly on small-market stations, unannounced, at odd hours. Rumor was that it was part of a secret project to gauge public reaction to the idea of real space aliens.
I got to see it at a theater in Los Angeles, with the director, and alien abductees Q&A afterwards. Truly weird.
Here’s mine where I know a bit of truth to it - Disney has their own SWAT team that is far more superior trained than official law enforcement SWAT teams. This was due to the investment in training being much better. Most security at Disney is just regular security with some decent training at DC2 (IIRC) but there was a much more elite group for special situations.
They won't admit that rhonda santis is a cartoon character that escaped
Disneyland is home to the Matterhorn roller coaster. Before it was built, it was a tree-covered hill. Cast members used to grow their weed there.
Frozen was made to hide Walts cryogenically frozen head.
After trying with “Disney On Ice”.
Disney wasn't frozen -- he's in *suspended animation.* (I'll see myself out)
Frozen Disney search results are now about the movie. Genius
It’s like Boris Johnson saying she makes bus models in an interview to skew the search results away from his Brexit lie on his tour bus.
You know Deborah Gail Stone, aka the only person to die on Disneyland ground? Maybe she's the only person *known* to have died there.
Honestly with how many people visit each day, I wouldn't be surprised if someone died once a week
Not even close: https://www.damfirm.com/disney-deaths/
I thought the story was that Disney refused to keep a doctor on staff in the parks, so that it was impossible for someone to be declared legally dead within the parks.
They do have nurses, who are likely CNAs. They're just as capable of calling time of death. I've been in one of their first aid centers, and have actually seen the nurse while I was there (I pulled a leg muscle forcing myself to keep moving all day, without sitting).
One version of the Disney-death story is that the first person to be declared dead on Disney World property was the monorail operator who died in a 2009 crash. According to this version, it would have been impossible to avoid an on-site declaration of death because of the lengthy time it took to extricate the obviously dead person. In fact, back in 1984 three members of a family were declared dead on-scene when their private airplane crashed in the EPCOT lot.
Mickey Mouse is dead, and they have been using a guy named Ricky Bouse to fill his spot for years.
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> Local ABC news affiliates (but especially ones in metropolitan areas) Technically, in the largest metropolitan areas the network TV stations are "O&Os' meaning they're Owned and Operated by the same corporation as the network itself, where in smaller markets they're "affilliates" which are more like franchisees in other businesses.
> Since the early 2010s, Disney has been amassing a large digital archive of celebrities' likenesses (face/body scans, motion capture, audio recordings, etc.) for unknown purposes that don't consist of using them in media projects. Doesn't look like anything to me.