Line #100 Trivia/DisneyThemeParks


1	* AllStarCast: Most never receive "billing", as it were -- it would distract from the immersive nature of the attractions -- but an amazing array of name performers and renowned voice actors have contributed to these parks over the years. Some are simply reprising roles from Disney's film, TV, etc. productions, but many others have worked as narrators and even original characters.
2	* BTeamSequel: [[Ride/TokyoDisneyResort Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo [=DisneySea=]]] are the only Disney parks to not be owned by Disney in any capacity. They are instead owned by The Oriental Land Company, with a license from Disney that allows them to use their properties and their Imagineers. This puts both parks in a rather unique position amongst the Disney parks, as because of the different owners, they are not as bound to the same ExecutiveMeddling and restrictions the other Disney parks are prone to, causing both parks to become known as a breeding ground for more ambitious and out-there ideas that would otherwise not be approved by Disney. Inversely, the OLC can veto decisions made by Disney at the other parks -- for example, their version of ''Ride/SplashMountain'' remains the same while the two US versions were announced to be rethemed to ''[[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog Tiana's Bayou Adventure]]''.
3	* CaliforniaDoubling:
4	** Often the Florida parks are advertised with footage from Disneyland Resort. This has only become more common with the homogeneous "Disney Parks" branding.
5	** It was most blatant with the original version of ''Soarin''' at Epcot, which--despite removing the Californian subtitle--still focused only on that region, complete with Disneyland during the finale. Thankfully, when the film was updated in 2016 to be a world tour, it was also given region-specific finale scenes, so passengers in Florida now fly over Epcot at the end.
6	* ContractualObligationProject: Walt Disney Studios park in France was built because the original contracts for Disneyland Paris stipulated that a second theme park would be built at the resort within ten years of the resort's opening. Indeed, the park opened on March 16th, 2002, thirty days before the 10th anniversary of the original park. The obligation of the park's construction (combined with a low budget, as CEO Michael Eisner became notoriously frugal and budget conscious following Disneyland Paris' disasterous opening, which had also affected California Adventure prior) resulted in a total of three rides on opening day and a park size of 25 acres, under a fifth of the size of its neighbor. This, combined with the sub-par to non-existent theming, resulted in guests panning the park upon release, forcing Disney to add a slew of attractions to this day and to greenlight a ''2.5 billion'' dollar expansion to remedy its faults.
7	* ContractualPurity: No swearing, no showing signs of anger unless you're clearly hamming it up for an act, and absolutely no sexual innuendo of any kind, male or female. It's been noted that several guests have attempted to feel up some of the male character actors such as Gaston or Aladdin only to have them [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness immediately break character]] (or at least as much as they can without making a scene) and tell the person to knock if off and leave.
8	* CreatorBacklash:
9	** As the parks have aged, Disney has begun talking more and more openly about old rides that didn't quite work out or simply didn't last for very long, such as Flying Saucers or the Viewliner, respectively. But certain attractions, such as the opening year's circus or the Rocket Rods, will only ever be acknowledged once every blue moon.
10	** Everyone involved agrees that ''Ride/SuperstarLimo'' was a terrible mistake. A generic, uninspired, boring, and cheap-looking dark ride that had to play way too safe because [[RealLifeWritesThePlot unfortunate circumstances caused the original concept for the ride to be scrapped]], and production was too far in development to let it all go to waste. In fact, one of the original ideas before its retheme to "Monsters, Inc.: Mike and Sulley to the Rescue" was to have [[Franchise/TheMuppets Muppet]] characters [[{{MSTing}} riff]] on just how bad the ride was. California Adventure as a whole performing poorly during its opening season certainly didn't help.
11	* DawsonCasting: Due to child labor laws, all the meet-and-greet characters in the parks are played by adults, regardless of how old they are.
12	* DevelopmentHell:
13	** A fifth gate for Walt Disney World following Animal Kingdom has been rumored and teased by insiders, imagineers and executives ever since the ''mid-to-late 90s''. However, while Disney does have the land to build it, no plans for a fifth gate have come to fruition, with Disney being more focused on putting their resources towards expanding their existing four parks over building new ones.
14	** New "countries" for World Showcase have been teased for ''decades'' now. Additionally, there were plans to add a Mt. Fuji-themed roller coaster to the Japan area for a very long time. The idea finally got off the ground (sorta) in the form of ''Expedition Everest'' over at Animal Kingdom. A common misconception is that no new countries have been added either because there's no space or the countries refused to finance the pavilions. In reality, there are actually eight to ten empty plots of land that were intentionally left empty for future pavilions, and the only pavilion that was actually financed by a government was Morocco.
15	** ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' took ''18 years'' from first concept sketch (1951) to actually opening (1969), entering this state several times. The ride's actual exterior was finished in 1963, but the concept shifted from a walk-through attraction to a dark ride midway through development.
16	** ''Ride/RiversOfLight'', the ''Ride/WorldOfColor''-esque night show at Animal Kingdom has the dubious honor of entering this state mere '''days''' before it was supposed to begin previews in spring 2016. No one knows exactly what was wrong with it, whether it was mechanical or something with the programming/choreography, but the opening was postponed and it took until February 2017 for public previews to begin.
17	** A planned major expansion for Epcot has landed into this thanks to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, which forced Disney to cut costs in order to stay afloat due to the lost profits. While some of Disney's plans were able to be completed or were merely delayed by a year or two, the pandemic and the tight budget crunch stemming from it would cause many of the company's plans for the expansion to be put on hold indefinitely until the money situation improves, or get scrapped entirely. Plans affected by the pandemic include a ''Film/MaryPoppins'' ride, a reimagining of Spaceship Earth, and the Play! Pavilion, amongst others.
18	* DoingItForTheArt: This attitude among the cast members is strictly enforced by the rigorous training and crazy work conditions. Most are not going to get rich working at a Disney park, so they're going to stay only if they ''really'' want to work there.
19	-->'''[[http://www.cracked.com/article_21011_6-things-nobody-tells-you-about-working-at-disney-world_p2.html Cracked]]''': To outsiders, this seems like the kind of minimum wage summer job anybody can get. When you see some guy sweating his balls away in a huge furry mascot costume, you don't imagine his job interview was much more intensive than "Are you currently breathing and not a child molester?" But this is actually a very difficult job to get, and a lot of people want it. [...] Those who remain are the ones who are truly into it -- many have known all their lives that this was where they wanted to work. They grew up not wanting to be an astronaut or a cowboy, just wanting to work at Disney.
20	* ExecutiveMeddling:
21	** Very prevalent in the late Eisner-era, like so many other things at Disney. The Submarines getting shut down for the first time, the entire fiasco surrounding Journey Into Imagination, the infamous cost-cutting that went into California Adventure, the Paris Studios park and Hong Kong Disneyland, and other problems.
22	** When Walt Disney World was in early development, there were plans for rides based off ''Sleeping Beauty'', ''The Sword in the Stone'' and ''Mary Poppins''. However, Roy Disney felt Florida deserved its own versions of already existing rides from the California Park, thus they got their own ''Snow White's Scary Adventures'', ''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride'' and ''Peter Pan's Flight''. It's been theorized that the reason the former ride was so scary was it being a deliberate WriterRevolt.
23	* ExiledFromContinuity:
24	** Don't expect to see many references to ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' anywhere in the parks. Sora could be seen back when [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI the first game]] came out, but [[http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/4/47/Sora_DLP.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20111030182254 the costume]] [[UnintentionalUncannyValley left much to be desired]]. Sora hasn't appeared in a Disney park since then, and he was the only ''Kingdom Hearts'' character that ever did. The games were playable at Epcot's Innoventions and around the parks, along with other Disney games, but ''Kingdom Hearts'' merchandise is relegated to the Mitsukoshi store at Epcot's Japan pavilion. As the series became more mainstream, Mickey, Donald, and Goofy's ''Kingdom Hearts'' outfits started appearing at meet-and-greets during the late 2010s, and it's become more common to hear Music/UtadaHikaru's songs as ambiance in certain areas. However, as mentioned previously, original ''Kingdom Hearts'' characters like Sora, Riku, Kairi, or members of Organization XIII won't be seen anywhere. This is done to both avoid the characters in question taking away attention from the movie-related cast members, and because [[ObscurePopularity Disney is reluctant to reference characters from a video game series that may not be recognized on-sight]].
25	** While Disney is perfectly willing to acknowledge their animated films, their animated TV shows at Creator/DisneyTelevisionAnimation are a different story. Now granted, that isn't to say the shows are entirely unrepresented, but most of their TV cartoons tend to go unacknowledged outside of the occasional advert and ''maybe'' some merchandise, a temporary meet and greet and/or some small scale, and usually temporary, attraction/show if the show happens to be popular and AdoredByTheNetwork (as is the case with the ''WesternAnimation/DisneyAfternoon'', the Creator/DisneyJunior shows, ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'', ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' and ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017''), but otherwise, nothing more (and they're lucky if they get an advert). The same largely applies to live action Creator/DisneyChannel IP as well (Only ''Film/HighSchoolMusical'' was lucky enough to get a fully dedicated show). It wouldn't be until ''2020'' that a proper E-ticket attraction based on a Disney TV cartoon would open in the form of ''Ride/MickeyAndMinniesRunawayRailway'' (based on ''WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse2013'').
26	* FollowTheLeader: A trope that unfortunately hung around Walt Disney World throughout the 1980s and into the 1990s after Michael Eisner took over. While both decades were periods of unprecedented growth throughout the resort, the reasoning behind it was less "we should deliver the most original concepts we can to the guests" as it had been previously, and more "why are people leaving the resort, and what can we do to prevent that?". And so the Disney-MGM Studios was built so people wouldn't have to leave to visit the (then-unbuilt) Universal Studios Orlando park, Pleasure Island was built so people wouldn't have to visit Church Street Station, Animal Kingdom was built so people wouldn't have to visit Ride/BuschGardens, etc. This logic came back to bite them when they attempted to apply it to Disneyland on the west coast with Disney's California Adventure, built on the reasoning that if the best of California was showcased in the park then people wouldn't have to go out and actually ''see'' California. The only problem is that most of the park's guests were natives of California, who really didn't care for Disney's take on their state.
27	-->'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2L-bZiqckM Kevin Perjurer]]''': Eisner had a simple technique that he often used when he decided on new projects. The technique is known as "jealousy". Whenever Eisner saw another company doing something successfully, he decided that Disney would do the same thing. Moreover, he would take the idea [[SerialNumbersFiledOff and do basically the same thing in basically the same place]]. [[invoked]]
28	* FountainOfExpies: Some of the knockoff "lands" that popped up around Disneyland are so bizarre that [[http://yesterland.com/otherlands.html they have to be seen to be believed.]]
29	* InMemoriam: This is why Walt Disney World has the unique distinction of having "Walt" in its name, as it was added in memory of the late Creator/WaltDisney, who had passed away during the resort's development in 1966.
30	* MagnumOpusDissonance: While Creator/WaltDisney was proud of Disneyland and what it became, he began to resent the fact that the park, combined with his history in animation, pigeonholed him as being seen as only a children's entertainer rather than a true artist and businessman. To that end, his initial plans for what became Walt Disney World heavily focused on his passion project, the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (or [[FunWithAcronyms E.P.C.O.T.]] for short[[note]]not to be confused with the Epcot theme park, which is largely its own thing and only reused the name[[/note]]) -- a futuristic industrial city that would serve as an active blueprint for developing technology. The Magic Kingdom theme park, which was in development right alongside E.P.C.O.T., was just a side project that Walt had little interest in, and only agreed to build because it would be the only way to get funds and eyes on his city. When Walt passed away in 1966, the company concluded that E.P.C.O.T. was impossible to realize in its current state, so the idea was scrapped in favor of completing the Magic Kingdom -- which many agree was for the best, due to the numerous issues present in the plans he left behind (which WebVideo/{{Defunctland}} covers extensively in its [[https://youtu.be/tKYEXjMlKKQ video on the subject]]). Unfortunately, this led to his fears coming true; he and his company are still largely seen as children's entertainment, with the Magic Kingdom as its crown jewel.
31	* MarketBasedTitle:
32	** ''Honey, I Shrunk the Audience'' was renamed ''[=MicroAdventure=]'' when it was exported to Tokyo. As a bonus, while the American and Paris preshows were a narrated slideshow, Tokyo got a specially-shot filmed one in which a Japanese reporter interviewed Dr. Nigel Channing.
33	** Depending on which coast you're on, the ''Little Mermaid''-based dark ride is either named ''The Little Mermaid - Ariel's Undersea Adventure'' (in California) or ''Under the Sea ~ Journey of the Little Mermaid'' (in Florida).
34	** ''Big Thunder Mountain Railroad'' is shortened to just ''Big Thunder Mountain'' in Tokyo and Paris.
35	* MeaningfulReleaseDate:
36	** Mickey's Toontown at Disneyland opened on January 24th, 1993. January 24th is the birthday of Gary Wolf, author of ''Literature/WhoCensoredRogerRabbit'', on which the movie ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' was based.
37	** ''Drawn to Life'' opened to the public on November 18th, 2021. Which was Mickey's 93rd birthday and honored Disney's animators of the hand-drawn/2D animation era.
38	** ''Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind'' opened at Epcot on May 27, 2022, the exact fifth anniversary of the first ''[[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014 Guardians]]'' attraction, ''Ride/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyMissionBreakout'' at Disney California Adventure.
39	* MissingEpisode: In the early '80s, when Disney Channel was new, there was a never-aired show called ''[[http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/Dreamfinders Dreamfinders]]'', which starred Dreamfinder and Figment. The show has been reported to have three episodes, but according to a post on the D23 website from Chief Archivist Emeritus Dave Smith, it never got past the script stage and thus the episodes were not actually filmed before the plug was pulled on the series.
40	* MilestoneCelebration: The Disney Parks has a very unique example when it comes to celebrating a major milestone for the parks and the company itself. Here are a few noteworthy examples:
41	** In honor of Walt Disney World's 20th Anniversary in 1991, they debuted a brand new electrical parade exclusive to the park called Spectromagic.
42	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNfMzgG5U6k Walt Disney World's 25th Anniversary]] (1996-1998) had Cinderella Castle decorated in the infamous "Castle Cake" alongside debuting a new daytime parade called "Remember The Magic" (later renamed to "Magical Moments Parade" after the celebration ended).
43	** For Disneyland Paris' 5th anniversary (which the anniversary's theme was, in fact, carnival-themed), the Sleeping Beauty Castle was briefly rethemed to the Carnival Castle.
44	** A notable example is the "100 Years of Magic Celebration" (2001-2003) which celebrated Creator/WaltDisney's 100th Birthday. The Walt Disney Company decided to honor Walt's Birthday at almost every single Disney Park (notably Tokyo Disneyland and Walt Disney World) by gaining special offerings. A year prior, Tokyo Disneyland debuted a new daytime parade called "Disney on Parade - 100 Years of Magic" which honored Disney's early days and up to the Renaissance Era. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-jPvAyVBHA Walt Disney World Resort was the centerpiece of the celebration]] with Disney Hollywood Studio (formerly "MGM Studios") gaining a giant Sorcerer Mickey Hat which sold pins. Epcot renamed "Tapestry of Nations" to "Tapestry of Dreams" to make it relevant to Walt Disney and Dreams, and the Magic Kingdom created the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WIE1lRjpzc&t=127s "Share A Dream Come True Parade"]] which celebrated Walt Disney's accomplishments on film and animation.
45	** Perhaps the penultimate example of this occurred in 2005 to commemorate not just Disneyland's 50th anniversary, but 50 years of the parks and experiences division as a whole. In addition to Hong Kong Disneyland's grand opening in September, all of the existing parks would open up some sort of new attraction or show to celebrate. This is notably the only time in the park's history that something like this would occur.
46	*** Over at Disneyland Paris, the ''Ride/SpaceMountain'' would be turned into "Space Mountain: Mission 2". This version added updated effects, a new storyline and a new soundtrack. Meanwhile, a clone of Magic Kingdom's popular "Wishes" firework spectacular would begin performing nightly.
47	*** Tokyo Disneyland would debut a new stage show in front of Cinderella Castle called "Rock Around the Mouse". The show pays tribute to the rock 'n' roll culture that was prominent at the time of Disneyland's opening. Over in Tokyo [=DisneySea=], the Raging Spirits roller coaster would open.
48	*** Walt Disney World went all out for the celebration. They would bring one new attraction or show from a different Disney resort to each of their four theme parks. Magic Kingdom would debut the "Cinderellabration" show from Tokyo Disneyland on the stage in front of the castle, and receive the updated ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' ride; Epcot would obtain "Soarin' Over California" from Disney's California Adventure; The then-named Disney-MGM Studios would receive the "Lights Motors Action!" stunt show from Walt Disney Studios Park; and lastly Disney's Animal Kingdom would eventually open up the resort's latest E-Ticket attraction ''Expedition Everest''.
49	*** Finally, the namesake Disneyland Resort would go all out. Not just to celebrate it's golden anniversary, but also to make up for the downturn in quality that occurred during Paul Pressler's presidency. Sleeping Beauty Castle was decorated with several golden structures, each of the remaining opening day attractions would receive a golden ride vehicle, and many deteriorating attractions would receive a sprucing up. Most notably, ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' would add several new scenes featuring characters from [[Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean the film franchise]], and ''Ride/SpaceMountain'' would reopen after a two-year overhaul with updated effects and a new soundtrack. In addition, a ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'' themed recreation of the iconic "Submarine Voyage" would be announced, "[[Franchise/ToyStory Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters]]" would open in Tomorrowland, and a new daytime parade called "Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams" would debut. And to top it all off, a new fireworks spectacular called "Remember, Dreams Come True" would premiere, which honored all of the park's most iconic attractions through the past 50 years. Disney's California Adventure wasn't spared either. A new parade called "Block Party Bash" featuring the Creator/{{Pixar}} characters would debut, and a ''Franchise/MonstersInc'' dark ride called "Mike and Sulley to the Rescue!" would replace the infamous ''Ride/SuperstarLimo''.
50	*** Not even the Disney Cruise Line and ''Theatre/DisneyOnIce'' were safe from this either. The "Disney Magic" would travel across the country to provide sailings around the West Coast. Meanwhile the Disney On Ice show had ''Franchise/TheIncredibles'' take a visit to Disneyland, before having to stop Syndrome's plans of taking over the park.
51	** Compared to Disneyland and Walt Disney World, Tokyo Disneyland really goes all out on their anniversaries. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDMVvJRqMX0 Tokyo Disneyland's 30th Anniversary was known as "The Happiness Year"]] which had their castle decorated in colorful Mickey balloons ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4yiY9SjJrA which gained a special night show]]), [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzCEhWPVAGc a parade sharing the anniversary's name]], and a special morning show at Tokyo [=DisneySea=] called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqETXYh9Duk&t=267s "Happiness Greeting On The Sea"]].
52	** While some of their bigger plans have been hampered, if not scrapped, by the ongoing UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, Walt Disney World also pulled out all the stops for its 50th anniversary, which continued until April 2023. There was a slew of new attractions and entertainment, including a version of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}}'' ride from DLP, in the France Pavilion of Epcot. Southwest Airlines launched a Disney-themed plane, [=McDonalds=] had Happy Meal toys with iconic Disney characters, and there was a special aired on ABC about the anniversary. While originally not part of the 50th anniversary offering, Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's ''Drawn to Life'' stage show (and Cirque's 50th show) also premiered a month after Walt Disney World's 50th Anniversary was officially kicked off which was fitting as the show is a love letter to Disney's hand-drawn animation era.
53	** In 2023, Disneyland Resort joined in the [=Disney100=] festivities, celebrating the company's centennial, by unveiling an updated Toontown, containing an expanded clone of Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway. It also premiered new nighttime shows for each park: At Disneyland, ''Ride/WondrousJourneys'' combines emotionally-resonant elements from the Disney Animated Canon's first 62 movies, and some shorts, including the Blue Fairy and Baymax flying over a temporarily-redecorated Sleeping Beauty Castle. At California Adventure, ''World of Color'': One highlights inspirational moments from various Disney-owned works, both animated and live-action.
54	** Also during that year, Tokyo Disney Resort celebrated their 40th anniversary (''"Dream Go Round"'') with a new parade at TDL known as ''Harmony Go Round'', a new Harbor Greeting at TDS as well as a line of retro-inspired merchandise known as ''Memory Go-Round'' complete with new illustrations of Mickey Mouse in his outfits from past celebrations at TDR (his standard theme park outfit, his stars and stripes outfit, [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Sorcerer Mickey]], his carnival outfit, his blue and whites outfit from TDL's 20th anniversary, his blue and cyan outfit from TDR's 25th anniversary holding a key (which was the main gimmick of the 25th anniversary celebration at that time), his red and gold outfit from TDR's 30th, his blue outfit from TDR's 35th and his colorful outfit from the current 40th anniversary festivities at TDR). TDR also received a small amount of exclusive [=Disney100=] merch.
55	* NoExportForYou:
56	** There's been four video games based on Tokyo Disneyland: ''VideoGame/MickeyNoTokyoDisneylandDaibouken'' (''Mickey's Great Adventure in Tokyo Disneyland'') for the SNES, ''Tokyo Disneyland: Mickey no Cinderella Shiro Mystery Tour'' (''Mickey's Cinderella Castle Mystery Tour'') and ''Tokyo Disneyland: Fantasy Tour'' for the Game Boy, and ''Adventure of Tokyo [=DisneySea=]'' for the Game Boy Advance.
57	** Speaking of Tokyo Disneyland, much of its merchandise is exclusive to Japan, unlike the homogeneous "Disney Parks" branding in the American parks. Japanese merchandise tends to include more obscure characters, such as Huey, Dewey, and Louie, Miss Bunny from ''WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}'', and to a lesser extent Marie from ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''. However, Marie merchandise has also popped up at various resorts in Walt Disney World and Disneyland.
58	** Some parks (such as Disneyland Paris and especially Tokyo Disney Resort) also have Disney characters who can be extremely rare, or exclusive to each park, some not even showing up at all. For example, the characters from ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' have be reported to be spotted only in Disneyland Paris but aren't seen in the other parks [[note]] Kuzko, Kronk, and Yzma actually were meetable at Disneyland and Walt Disney World during the film's original release [[/note]]. Same goes for [[WesternAnimation/TheAristocats Berlioz and Toulouse]] who are only found in Paris, Tokyo and recently Shanghai [[note]] [[https://twitter.com/ParksAndCons/status/1193011248280944641 Toulouse and Berlioz finally made their U.S. debut at Disneyland Park on November 8, 2019 for the Christmas/Holiday celebration]]. Both appear at Tommorowland's Christmas dance party along with their sister Marie[[/note]]. [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Chef Louis]] can only be found in Tokyo Disneyland at Tokyo [=DisneySea=], the [[WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland Cheshire Cat]] has been exclusive in Disneyland Paris for a few years now [[note]] The Cheshire Cat finally made his U.S. debut at Disneyland for 2019's "Oogie Boogie Bash" at DCA for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRneEEOUJwo "Frightfully Fun Parade"]] [[/note]] , and other characters such as [[Franchise/LiloAndStitch Jumba, Pleakley, Gantu, Dr. Hämsterviel, and some of the other experiments besides Stitch]][[note]]the [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments experiments]] in question being [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments0Series Felix]], [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments2Series Sparky, Sample]], [[Characters/LiloAndStitchExperiments6Series Angel, Reuben, and Experiment 627]][[/note]] can only be found during special events in Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris, although Disney in the United States ''eventually'' brought the ''Lilo & Stitch'' costumed characters over to the United States, albeit only for special events (and Angel at Aulani beginning from Valentine's Day 2021).
59	** Speaking of ''Lilo & Stitch'', the interactive attraction ''Stitch Encounter'' (''Stitch Live!'' in Disneyland Paris) has operated in every Disney resort ''except'' for the American resorts, which had ''Ride/StitchsGreatEscape'' in Walt Disney World instead. Given that ride's reception, and Disney having built rides with similar concepts (''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Laugh Floor'' directly across from ''SGE!'', ''[[WesternAnimation/FindingNemo Turtle Talk with Crush]]'' at Epcot and California Adventure, and ''[[Franchise/{{Cars}} Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy]]'' in Disney's Hollywood Studios--all of which are based on more popular Creator/{{Pixar}} [=IPs=]), it doesn't seem like Stitch will show up at the American parks anytime soon.
60	** On the flip side, there are several attractions in Disneyland and Walt Disney World that have either stayed exclusive to the United States throughout their entire existences (whether they're still operating today or not), or have been exported to non-U.S. parks, but only run in the States today. This includes the ''Matterhorn Bobsleds'' (Disneyland-exclusive, though ''Expedition Everest'' is similar in concept), ''Walt Disney's Ride/CarouselOfProgress'',[[note]]first opened in the 1964/65 New York World's Fair, then ran in Disneyland from 1967 to 1973, then at Magic Kingdom from 1975 onwards[[/note]] ''Ride/TheEnchantedTikiRoom'',[[note]]Ported to Tokyo, but the Japanese version has since been changed to completely different versions exclusive to there, so the classic version is currently U.S.-exclusive. Also, the infamous UnderNewManagement version ran in WDW throughout its entire lifespan.[[/note]] and the aforementioned ''SGE!'' and ''Laugh Floor'', among many others. In addition to all ''that'', Walt Disney World is the only Disney resort to have water parks and miniature golf courses[[labelnote:*]]but not ''regular'' golf; there is Golf Disneyland over at Disneyland Paris[[/labelnote]].
61	* TheOtherDarrin: Occasionally, if new dialogue is needed for a character and the original voice actor is unavailable or has passed away, one of Disney's usual actors will fill in for them.
62	** Takashi Aoyagi ([[WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse Mickey's Japanese voice actor]]) provided the voice of Mickey Mouse for over 20 years (1991-2018) with his last performance being the "Dreaming Up! Parade" made to celebrate the park's 35th Anniversary in 2018. He would later retire from voice acting and was replaced by Creator/TakanoriHoshino at the parks beginning in mid 2019. It's more notable in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR4WCphhYkk&t=132s original soundtrack for the parade]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht00y4Sxxjs&t=950s compared to another soundtrack from 2019.]] Creator/BillFarmer also [[MultipleLanguagesSameVoiceActor didn't reprise his role as Pluto]] for the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_8WlV1lsEs&t=342s "Dreaming Up! Parade".]]
63	** Creator/YukoMizutani (Japanese voice of WesternAnimation/MinnieMouse) also voiced the character for almost 20 years until her passing in mid 2016. Her performance as Minnie is still heard for "Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights" alongside Takashi Aoyagi.
64	** In general, some of the Japanese voice actors for Disney Characters besides The Sensational Six at the Tokyo Resorts would frequently get newer voice actors for future parade and shows in recent years. Notably Pinocchio who had three different child actors ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6lUz8LPiiI Jubilation!]], Happiness is Here, and Dreaming Up!), The Mad Hatter who had two different voice actors ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hj-h1RXFcI&t=601s Happiness is Here]] and Dreaming Up), and Marie who would alternate between a grown women and a child voice actress.
65	* TheOtherMarty: Takashi Aoyagi's voice lines for Mickey Mouse for the "Dreaming Up! Parade" would get rerecorded by Takanori Hoshino in early to mid 2019. These voice lines would later get used for future performances of the parade when Mickey and Minnie's redesigned heads were fully rolled out at the Japanese parks.
66	* ParodyRetcon: The ''Jungle Cruise'' was supposed to be an African safari ride, with animatronics replacing the inconvenient live animals. Nobody took the ride seriously, so Disney embraced it by switching to a PlayedForLaughs version where the tour guides are intentionally funny as a sort-of stand-up comedy routine on water.
67	* PopCultureUrbanLegends:
68	** A very persistent rumor is that a ride (usually an older one) is getting closed down and remade, and it's (almost) always false. Journey Into Imagination seems to be the most popular subject of this rumor thanks to its wildly popular first incarnation and the resultant heavy dose of TheyChangedItNowItSucks from those who dislike the revamped version.
69	** The Haunted Mansion has been subject to several rumors over its timespan:
70	*** One of the singing busts in the graveyard section bears an uncanny resemblance to Creator/WaltDisney, causing many people unfamiliar with the ride to assume it's him; it's actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft Thurl Ravenscroft]] (and yes, that's his voice singing).
71	*** One rumor was that Disney would put in characters from the 2003 movie adaptation in the ride, much like how ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' put in Jack Sparrow and Barbossa from the films into the ride. This never came to pass, likely due to the film not being a smash hit like ''Pirates''.
72	*** There are also plenty of rumors about Walt Disney's cremains being stored in an urn somewhere in the ride, as well as that the ride is haunted by his spirit. While the latter will probably depend on your belief in the supernatural, Disney has vigorously denied that the former is true. On a similar note, the ride is a very popular place for relatives of deceased Disney-lovers to dump their cremains (much to the chagrin of the ride's operators, who have to clean up the ashes).
73	** A fairly persistent one is that the Matterhorn will either sink or fall over if the Submarine Lagoon is drained. A quick Google search will easily debunk this, as the lagoon has to be drained for refurbishment, and it obviously hasn't affected the Matterhorn. This has happened [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2e/2e/6a/2e2e6a67f7ed36af2b239ae992e60796.jpg as late as 2014]].
74	** The ''Skyways'' closed because someone fell out of them and died. While people ''did'' fall out of Disneyland and Magic Kingdom's ''Skyways'', not all of them died, and the closing was officially attributed to the aging metal components. The one person who did die was a Magic Kingdom janitor who was on the loading platform when the attraction was turned on for the day and grabbed hold of the bucket, eventually losing his grip and falling to his death. The other two incidents involved a female Magic Kingdom cast member who suffered a similar incident to the janitor, and the other was a Disneyland guest who intentionally jumped in a failed attempt to scam Disney.
75	** One of the most persistent and well-known rumors is that Disney intends to follow up on their current theme parks in California and Florida by constructing a third US Disneyland park in Texas, despite there being no official plans to do so. The rumor would eventually become so persistent and infamous that [[https://www.dallasnews.com/news/crime/2015/02/16/disney-executive-north-texas-theme-park-would-not-make-sense/ Disney themselves would come out to address and debunk the rumors in 2015]], stating that a Texas Disneyland park will never happen and that it doesn't make sense financially, given the high costs to build such a park and that it would only drive visitors (and profits) away from Disneyland and Walt Disney World. Despite this, speculations and rumors regarding Disneyland Texas continue to circulate today.
76	* ProductionThrowback: Disney has practically made an art form of this. If a ride is remade, expect some reference to the original to be present somewhere in the new version, typically in the queue area. It would actually be easier to list the rides that ''don't'' follow this trope. Some notable examples:
77	** In the most recent incarnation of the Imagination pavilion's ride (''Journey into Imagination with Figment''), one of the offices in the Imagination Institute Sense Lab belongs to one "Dean Finder", a call-back to [[EnsembleDarkhorse Dreamfinder]] from the original version of the ride.
78	** In ''Test Track'', the emblem to the pavilion's original ride, "World of Motion", is visible in the queue.
79	** In the Floridian version of ''The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh'', various references to the site's former occupant, ''Mr. Toad's Wild Ride''. These include pictures in Owl's house of Mr. Toad handing over a deed to Owl and Pooh meeting Moley. In the Californian version, the mounted heads from ''The Country Bear Jamboree'' can be seen if you turn around after exiting the Heffalumps and Woozles room.
80	** In the new version of ''Star Tours'', the previous version's host, REX, can be seen in a crate bound for his home factory (with a "DEFECTIVE" label stamped on it). He also shows up as a DJ in ''Ride/StarWarsGalaxysEdge''.
81	* PropRecycling:
82	** Various animatronics from closed rides. Dozens and dozens of ''Ride/AmericaSings'' characters were moved to ''Ride/SplashMountain'', and before that, some of the geese were moved to ''Ride/StarTours'' to become droids. Various bits of ''World of Motion'' have shown up in everything from ''Ride/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' to just hanging around the California Adventure backlot section for atmosphere. It was necessary in the case of ''Splash Mountain'' to do a lot of reprogramming to make the ''America Sings'' animatronics "forget" their old routines.
83	** When ''Ride/JourneyIntoImagination'' went down for its first refurbishment, most of the props were removed from the ride and sold off. However, they kept the Dreamfinder's vehicle - it used to sit in the rafters of the [=MouseGear=] store in the Innoventions area of the park for several years, but has now been moved to the Walt Disney Archives.
84	** The infamous ''Ride/SuperstarLimo'' at California Adventure was retooled into a ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc''-themed dark ride, ''Mike and Sulley to the Rescue!'', using the same layout and ride vehicles with different paint jobs, and putting the "celebrities" animatronics into CDA suits (with the exception of Regis Philbin, who was redressed as a Randall animatronic).
85	** An accused but not confirmed case of this happened with the Hall of Presidents, when people noticed that the Donald Trump animatronic looked so [[OffModel weird]] that there was some speculation the Imagineers had been preemptively making a Hilary Clinton face, but then out of [[ChristmasRushed time crunch]], or [[WriterRevolt other reasons]] decided to just modify that one instead of making a new face. For the 2021 opening a [[https://blogmickey.com/2021/08/disney-appears-to-fix-donald-trump-animatronic-in-hall-of-presidents/ significantly better]] version was installed alongside the new Joe Biden model.
86	* RefittedForSequel: Various ideas that weren't implemented in certain parks sometimes get redeveloped into concepts for future attractions in other parks.
87	** In Epcot, a pavilion based on Africa (It was specifically to be called Equatorial Africa) was meant to be placed between China and Germany. It would be right by the drawbridge that is used to bring out the Illuminations globe. The concepts developed for this area would later be developed into the Africa section of Animal Kingdom.
88	** Disney's America was a theme park concept to be outside of Washington DC but never took off the ground due to historians protesting its proximity to a civil war battlefield and the possible Disneyfication of American history. One of the planned areas was "Victory Field" that was based on America's military defense history. Concepts developed for this are would later develop into ''Soarin''', which would be installed in California Adventure first before being expanded to other parks.
89	** In the '70s, an additional, {{Steampunk}} land called Discovery Bay was supposed to be added to Disneyland. It would have been inspired by Creator/JulesVerne, Creator/HGWells and the film ''Film/TheIslandAtTheTopOfTheWorld'', but the project fell through when the film bombed at the box office. The idea of a steampunk, Victorian sci-fi land would later be resurrected as both Discoveryland (Paris' Verne-honouring version of Tomorrowland, which also includes the ''Hyperion'' airship from the film) and Mysterious Island at Tokyo [=DisneySea=]. Likewise, the characters of Professor Marvel and his dragon companion from a proposed Discovery Bay attraction would later be reconceptualised, respectively, as the Dreamfinder and Figment from ''Ride/JourneyIntoImagination''.
90	* ReleaseDateChange: The COVID-19 pandemic and parks' subsequent closure in March of 2020 caused different projects in parks around the world to have their opening dates changed:
91	** The ''Beauty and the Beast'' mini-area and dark ride at the Tokyo resort had been ready to open in the spring of 2020, but didn't open until the last week of September, as Oriental Land Company decided to hold off on opening until they were able to get capacity back up.
92	** Avengers Campus in California was set to open in the summer of 2020, but the resort stayed closed until April 2021, and therefore it missed its date. It finally opened in June of 2021.
93	** EPCOT's renovation has seen big delays. The France pavilion expansion and its ''Ratatouille'' ride missed its summer 2020 date, and despite the latter being complete by the time the parks shut down, it didn't open until October of 2021 [[note]]The actual pavilion was opened in February due to the bathrooms at the next-door Morocco pavilion being renovated[[/note]]. Disney made the call to repurpose its opening to celebrate the resort’s 50th anniversary after the pandemic hit. The ''Guardians of the Galaxy'' ride also missed its summer 2021 date and opened in 2022.
94	** Tokyo [=DisneySea=]’s Fantasy Springs expansion was pushed from 2022 to 2023 due to the pandemic.
95	* ScienceMarchesOn: This is the reason why ''Donald's Dino Bash!'' was established in Dino Land U.S.A. at Disney's Animal Kingdom in 2018. It's been known for a long while now that many dinosaurs had feathers and birds are dinosaurs themselves, rendering the featherless depictions of coelurosaurs in the attraction obsolete (particularly ''{{Ride/Dinosaur}}'').
96	* ScrewedByTheLawyers:
97	** [[http://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1262449/000119312510008732/dex1057.htm A perpetual licensing deal]] that Creator/MarvelComics signed with Ride/UniversalStudios in 1994 prevents Disney from building anything Marvel-related in Walt Disney World and Tokyo Disneyland, their two biggest theme park markets. However, they are free to build Marvel attractions in their four other resorts. How, you ask? Well, originally, the licensing deal extended to California as well,[[note]]Universal has no parks in France so the deal was not extended there, and at the time of the deal neither company had a park in China[[/note]] but when Universal got into a dispute with Marvel over the profits of the license, Universal Studios Hollywood let the rights lapse back to Marvel in 2008... one year before Disney purchased the company. God knows what happened to the poor sod in Universal who made ''that'' call. Disney has found a [[LoopholeAbuse loophole]] around this contract by using Marvel characters that Universal doesn't own the license to: the Franchise/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy and Film/DoctorStrange2016. A ''GOTG'' rollercoaster opened at EPCOT in 2022. However, Marvel is not as popular in the Japanese market as it is stateside ([[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff except]] for ComicBook/SpiderMan), so the IP missing from the Tokyo resort is not as big of a missed opportunity as it is in Florida.
98	** And on that note, Disney also made a deal with Universal that they cannot use the characters the latter is using in their parks anywhere east of the Mississippi, which in turn means that while Disney World may not get a dedicated Marvel-themed land, other parks like Disneyland will. As of now, Disney's California Adventure will get the Avengers Campus, which was originally scheduled to open sometime in 2020, but as mentioned above, delayed due to the [=COVID19=] pandemic until June of 2021. Plans have also been made to include similar Marvel-themed experiences in the international parks, including Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Paris.
99	** Disney is also unable to use ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' in their parks due to ''Ride/TheSimpsonsRide'' operating over at Universal. However, Universal's licensing rights to the franchise are set to lapse in 2028, 20 years after the ride opened. Plus, just like Marvel above, there's the possibility of Disney opening their own ''Simpsons'' attractions outside the US since the ride hasn't been cloned in Universal's other international theme parks.
100	** Ever wonder why Tokyo Disneyland's Western River Railway (its equivalent to the Disneyland Railroad) doesn't circle the entire park like its American and French counterparts do? Well, blame Japanese law for that. At the time of the railway's opening in 1983, if Tokyo Disneyland were to have a full-fledged railway with multiple stops, it would've had to follow the same rail regulations that mainline railways do, including having to charge fees and to run on a timetable. Disney and the Oriental Land Company would find a way around this law by [[LoopholeAbuse only including one station]]. Funnily enough, Japan would end up repealing this law a few years later in 1987, meaning if Disney and the OLC had been just a little more patient, they could've had a full-fledged railway in Tokyo like the rest of the parks.
101	* SeriesHiatus:
102	** In an unprecedented move, Disney announced in 2020 that their parks in California, Florida, and Paris would close on March 15th due to the [[UsefulNotes/Covid19Pandemic COVID-19]] pandemic. The parks in Japan, Hong Kong, and Shanghai have also gone through a series of closures due to the outbreak. Shanghai was re-opened the second week of May, and Tokyo in early July. Hong Kong re-opened in June, closed again in July following a surge in cases, then re-opened in September, only to close ''again'' in December for the same reason, & reopened hopefully for the last time the following February.
103	** The American and French parks were originally scheduled to re-open at the end of March, but once it became clear that the virus was going to stick around for longer than most thought by the beginning of April, their closures were extended to "until further notice". Then, Disney World and Disneyland were scheduled to open beginning in mid-July (and began phased reopenings of Disney Springs), but California state regulations resulted in Disneyland canceling their plans, and many criticized Walt Disney World for not doing likewise. Ultimately, the Florida parks indeed reopened beginning July 11, followed by Disneyland Paris on July 15.
104	** While Walt Disney World and Shanghai Disneyland remain consistently open as of 2022, Disneyland Paris shut down again on October 29th, 2020 due to a COVID surge, as did Hong Kong Disneyland on December 2nd. Hong Kong reopened for a third time on February 19th, 2021, while the original Disneyland Resort in Anaheim finally reopened for the first time on April 30th, as California relaxed restrictions on theme parks. (In the meantime, Disneyland served as a COVID vaccination site from January 2021 onward, while Downtown Disney and the Buena Vista Street area of California Adventure were reopened.) Paris was able to reopen on June 17th, with no notable changes accounted for, thus allowing all parks to be open & operating simultaneously for the very first time since January 26th, 2020 (with the exception of the Typhoon Lagoon water park in Florida).
105	* SimilarlyNamedWorks:
106	** The spinning teacup ride based on ''WesternAnimation/AliceInWonderland'' is named Mad Tea Party. California Adventure also featured a nighttime ElectronicMusic event named... Mad T Party. The fact that nearly everyone just refers to the former as some variant of "the teacup ride" as opposed to using its name keeps this from being much of a problem, however.
107	** Adventureland is not to be confused with the film ''Film/{{Adventureland}}'', the Long Island theme park on which it is based, or any of the many other theme parks with the same name.
108	* ThrowItIn: [[Creator/WaltDisney Walt]] didn't have the landscaping ready for Tomorrowland when Disneyland opened--so he instructed his staff to leave the native California desert shrubs, and put little signs in front of them giving the plants' scientific names.
109	* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/DisneyThemeParks Has its own page.]]
110	* WhyFandomCantHaveNiceThings:
111	** For a while, shouting "Andy's coming!" at a cast member portraying a ''Franchise/ToyStory'' character would cause them to 'hide' and flop to the ground. This became such a common but annoying request, one believed to even be risking damage to the costumes, that Disney explicitly forbids cast members from doing it. If you try the trick now, the cast members will likely look around in concern but won't drop to the floor, or the handler will simply tell you that Andy is [[WesternAnimation/ToyStory3 away at college]].
112	** Tokyo Disney Resort used to have pin trading as the other parks did. However, Tokyo ended up suspending the practice sometime in the early 2000s due to Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo [=DisneySea=] becoming flooded by obnoxious pin traders and pin display mats.
113	** For many years, visitors with disabilities could acquire a unique card known as the Guest Assistance Card, which permitted them to bypass the regular line and access the ride through a backstage entrance. Unfortunately, unsavory individuals would catch on to this system and would either [[ObfuscatingDisability pretend to be disabled]] or hire [[LoopholeAbuse handicapped tour guides]] in order to abuse the system and bypass the queues without being disabled. This abuse would eventually lead Disney to scrap the DAC entirely in favor of the cumbersome and less convenient Disability Access Service (which functions more like the Fastpass system) in 2013, much to the dismay of disabled visitors.
114	* WorkingTitle:
115	** Walt Disney World went through several working names during its development, such as "Project X", "Florida Project" and "Disney World". It would ultimately be referred to as "Walt Disney World" InMemoriam of Walt Disney.
116	** ''Kali River Rapids'' in Disney's Animal Kingdom was originally going to be named "Tiger Rapids Run". This name was used in the 1998 application ''VideoGame/TheWaltDisneyWorldExplorer – [[UpdatedRerelease Second Edition]]'' for one of DAK's slideshows in the program.
117	* WriterRevolt: Done on the occasions when Imagineers are forced to tear down a ride to build a new one. They'll often sneak in a ShoutOut to the original version.
118	** Occasionally, the shout out will be in a totally different attraction. At the Magic Kingdom version of 'The Haunted Mansion'', a tombstone for Mr. Toad is at the ride's exit.
119	* YouLookFamiliar: Martin Short has appeared in four different Disney attractions over the years, the first being the ''Monster Sound Show'' at Disney's Hollywood Studios, then ''The Making of Me'' and ''O Canada!'' at Epcot (in all of which he stars as himself), and later in ''[=CineMagique=]'' at Walt Disney Studios Paris, in which he plays a character called "George".
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121	'''Miscellaneous Trivia''':
122	* Creator/SteveMartin worked at the Main Street Magic Shop at Disneyland in the 1960s, learning comedy and borrowing a few acts from ''The Golden Horseshoe Revue''.
123	* As far as celebrities hosting Disney attractions go, Creator/MartinShort is the only one to have hosted something in both halves of Epcot: ''The Making of Me'', a short film in the former Wonders of Life pavilion in Future World where he gives the audience TheTalk, and the current version of the Circlevision film ''O Canada'', which pretty much has NoFourthWall ([[DontExplainTheJoke partly because the theater it's shown in is circular]]).
124	** And speaking of hosting, as seen in [[https://youtu.be/dKvzCmSACHw?t=84 this Yesterworld episode]], Creator/KurtRussell also got his start in a Disney park, in Disneyland.
125	* UsefulNotes/HenryKissinger once took a break from his day job and sold popcorn on Main Street USA. Nobody recognized him.
126	* In the ''Haunted Mansion'' in Disneyland, when you enter the Portrait Room, the floor lowers as to have you go through a hallway under the train tracks and into a building outside the berm, saving space. In Disney World, on the other hand, the ceiling rises (there's more room in Disney World, so the room doesn't ''have'' to move, but they wanted to keep the gags).
127	* The skeletons inside Disneyland's ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' attraction, when it first opened, were real human remains. Walt Disney was dissatisfied with artificial prop-skeletons available at the time, so he acquired actual skeletons for the ride prior to his death. All the real skeletons have long since been laid to rest - the skeletons in the ride now are artificial, save one; the [[http://disneydose.com/pirates-of-the-caribbean-has-a-real-human-skull/#axzz38bkYpid9 skull on the headboard]] is the last real skull.
128	* In the mid-1970s, Creator/MichellePfeiffer played Alice in the Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade.
129	* The gold parts of the outer façade of "it's a small world" in Disneyland are covered in 24K gold leaf. The facade's construction used up ''all the gold leaf available in the entire United States'' at the time. Although much, ''much'' more expensive at the outset than gold paint would have been, it has long since paid for itself by never needing to be replaced or retouched.
130	* ''The Main Street Electrical Parade'' has temporarily returned to Magic Kingdom twice since originally being replaced by ''Spectromagic'', most recently in 2010; they brought it back for the summer until popular demand saw them change it to an open-ended run. [[BlatantLies That's what they told everyone at least]]. The not-so-well-kept secret was that ''Spectro'' was in desperate need of refurbishment, and since they needed to get the ''Electrical Parade'' out of California Adventure because of concerns over crowd control before ''Ride/WorldOfColor'' opened, they figured bringing it back to Florida was the best way to handle both situations. The parade ended up staying at the Magic Kingdom for six years, until it moved back to Disneyland for another limited run during the early 2017 refurbishment of the ''Paint the Night'' parade. The former ''Spectro'' floats were eventually demolished, leaving Magic Kingdom without a nightly parade. (The Sebastian prop from ''Spectro''[='=]s Little Mermaid float was reused for ''Festival of Fantasy'', the current daytime parade.)
131	* The front of Disneyland's Sleeping Beauty Castle was originally intended to be the back. When the scale model was created, the designers weren't entirely satisfied with the original front and decided to turn it around; Walt preferred the result.
132	* Almost all of the windows on Main Street USA in both parks are call-outs to one Disney staffer or another. The one exception is "Benjamin Silverstein, M.D."; there was no person by that name, but having a Jewish name listed meant that Disneyland had a place to hang Hanukkah decorations.
133	** The window for park designer Ken Anderson, listed as "Ken Anderson Bait Co.", is a friendly jibe at Ken's hobby - Ken was an avid fly fisherman, and you don't use bait when fly-fishing.
134	** In Adventureland, [[http://s1177.photobucket.com/user/micechat/media/SAMLAND/2011/2011-10-26%20Adventureland%202/IMG_2184.jpg.html this]] window advertises banjo lessons taught by Harper Goff, a designer and art director for Disney and the man behind the Nautilus. This is a reference to Goff being resident banjo-player in Creator/WardKimball's Dixieland band "The Firehouse Five Plus Two", whose music can be heard around New Orleans Square.
135	* The former "The Magic of Animation" building in Disney's Hollywood Studios used to also be the home of the Florida subdivision of Walt Disney Animation Studios, and several films in the Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon, most notably ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'', ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', and ''WesternAnimation/BrotherBear'', were produced in the building (and given that "The Magic of Animation" was a walkthrough attraction and had a section where you can tour the building, it was one of the only opportunities in which the greater public could get to see Disney making their films in real-time). The division would be folded back into the main offices in California in March of 2004.

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