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alt title(s): Disney Land The five (soon to be six) Theme Park resorts owned and operated by the Walt Disney Company. Their best known attractions include state-of-the-art rides and shows based upon the Disney films, as well as spectacular parades, fireworks and other live performances. You want to make sure everyone knows you're going there.
The resorts include:
- Disneyland: Opened July 17, 1955 by invitation only, and the following day to the general public. The original and the only park Walt saw built within his lifetime. Serves as the template for most of the parks worldwide, though fans praise the fact that Disneyland is the only park that had Walt's personal touch. Its companion park, California Adventure, opened in 2001 and is currently being Rescued From The Scrappy Heap. During his visit to the United States, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev's biggest disappointment was the fact that he couldn't visit Disneyland due to security concerns (he publicly wondered if there were missiles hidden there). That the leader of the largest Communist state wanted to go to one of the greatest successes for capitalism ever should say something about A: the Cold War at that point, and B: how much everybody wanted to go to Disneyland.
- Walt Disney World: The largest and most popular of the resorts opened in 1971. Includes four parks: Magic Kingdom, Epcot (opened in 1982), Disney's
MGM Hollywood Studios (1989) and Animal Kingdom (1998). Fans constantly debate which of the four parks is the best, whether they were better in the old days, and so on. Disney World also includes many hotels, two water parks, an all-purpose sports complex, golf courses, and a few shopping/dining/entertainment complexes like Downtown Disney. The actual "Reedy Creek" property upon which Disney World sits is huge, and many guests are surprised to learn that it consists mostly of wildlife preserves and undeveloped natural Florida habitat. This "breathing space" is deliberate, as Walt Disney was particularly upset when the popularity of Disneyland sparked a development frenzy back in Anaheim. The property on which the resort sits on was bought by Roy O. Disney, Walt's older brother.
- Tokyo Disneyland: Opened in 1983 and run by the Oriental Land Company rather then Disney itself. Some recent additions such as Pooh's Honey Hunt and the Tokyo DisneySea park have been regarded as some of Disney Imagineering's crowning moments of awesome.
- Disneyland Resort Paris (formerly known as Euro Disney Resort): Opened in 1992, and going for an even more elaborate look (as well as Darker And Edgier for some attractions). It bombed spectacularly at first, though it eventually gained some legs. Recently, though, its ticket sales have been cannibalized by nearby Walt Disney Studios Paris, which has been regarded as So Bad Its Horrible by many. Both parks are hated by the French people, who oppose the poor (by French standards, anyway) working conditions there and view them as examples of American cultural imperialism.
- Hong Kong Disneyland: The newest of the resorts, opened in 2005. It's very close in design to the original Disneyland, though it's much smaller and only has a few of the iconic Disney attractions. Nonetheless, it's gained notoriety for, in essence, having the exact opposite problems that Euro-Disney did. However, Disney has announced plans for a large expansion that brings unique attractions to the park, some being new twists on old favorites.
- Shanghai Disneyland: After years of planning for a resort in mainland China, the project was approved by the Chinese government in November 2009. The resort is tentatively scheduled to open in 2014.
A rich well of Affectionate (or not) Parody Fuel, often in the form of Souvenir Land. Some of the most popular attractions have been adapted into movies, with Pirates Of The Caribbean being the most successful of them.
Tropes used in the parks include:
- Aborted Arc: The nods to dragons and unicorns in Animal Kingdom were hinting towards a land that they ended up never building, Beastly Kingdom, focusing on fantasy creatures. The only things left of that (so far) are a dragon shaped rock formation near Camp Minnie Mickey, a bridge that looks like the entrance to a castle, and the big dragon who appears on the park's logo to the confusion of many a guest. The concept of including mythological creatures into the park was eventually picked up by Expedition Everest's Yeti, but has yet to be paid off in full.
- Some of the Imagineers behind Beastly Kingdom went to work on Universal Studios' Island of Adventure, and many of the attractions in that park's mythology-themed area, especially the Dueling Dragons coaster, were derived from the Disney project.
- Which is in turn now being partially scrapped in favor of a Harry Potter area.
- The animatronic raven in the Haunted Mansion was originally going to be the "narrator" of the ride, which ended up being much better implemented with the "Ghost Host" being piped in through the Doom Buggy's individual speakers. The ravens, however, are still situated throughout the ride, flapping and beaking as if they were saying something.
- In the super-secret-invite-only Club 33 restaurant, several disuses animatronic animal heads hang from the wall. Walt had planned to be able to speak through them to his guests.
- Adaptation Displacement: Some people complained that Jack Sparrow wasn't in the Pirates Of The Caribbean ride, not realizing that the movie was based on the ride instead of the other way around. To appease them, Disney put Sparrow in the ride, along with Barbossa (replacing Paul Frees' iconic pirate captain), the image of Davey Jones, and snippets of Klaus Badelt's movie score. Reactions from longtime fans of the ride were...mixed.
- Conversely, Splash Mountain is probably much better known by now than Song Of The South.
- Adaptation Distillation: The philosophy behind designing the "dark ride" version of an animated film is that, instead of rehashing the plot of the film, you should try to recreate the dominant visual/emotional impact of the film using a handful of pivotal scenes taking place in immersive environments. Hence (for example), the bulk of the Peter Pan ride consists of two rooms occupied by models of London and Neverland surrounded by fiber-optic stars, over which riders "fly" in vehicles suspended from an overhead track. The film's actual plot is compressed into a few brief scenes toward the end of the ride.
- All There In The Manual: A lot of attraction backstories rely on promotional items and books on the parks to understand.
- The Artifact: The elaborate Pocahontas sequence in Fantasmic! Ironically the original version which had Peter Pan sequence seemed much less dated.
- Artifact Of Doom: The Shiriki Utundu idol in Disney Sea's Tower of Terror. Also a mystic gem in the Indiana Jones sequence of the Great Movie Ride at Disney Hollywood Studios.
- As Long As It Sounds Foreign: The chanting in Tapestry of Nations/Tapestry of Dreams is a fictionalized version of African languages giving it the World Music feel it needed without being very specific of it's origin.
- Battle In The Center Of The Mind: The show Fantasmic! involves the Disney Villains attacking Mickey Mouse in his dreams.
- Beware Of Hitchhiking Ghosts: "The Haunted Mansion" ride is the Trope Namer.
- Beneath The Earth: Disney Sea's Journey to the Center of the Earth, the portion of Disneyland Paris' Phantom Manor where the Doombuggies are buried alive and you see a bunch of corpses rising from their underground graves.
- Big Boos Haunt: The Haunted Mansion again, with its "999 Happy Haunts".
- The Big Easy: New Orleans Square.
- Bigfoot Sasquatch And Yeti: The Matterhorn Bobsleds and Expedition Everest star Yetis.
- Call An Employee A Cast Member: Just one of many show-biz terms used to set park operations apart from a typical business.
- Chaotic Good: Figment in the current version of ''Journey Into Imagination". The whole point of his mischief is trying to prove to Dr. Channing that imagination isn't something to keep controlled and confined, but to be set free.
- Cirque Du Soleil: Two of their non-touring shows are on Disney resort property, though they charge separate admission and are not beholden to the Mouse: La Nouba at Walt Disney World and ZED at Tokyo Disneyland.
- Comic Trio: The Hitchhiking Ghosts are generally portrayed like this in Fanon with Ezra (the skeletal one) as the schemer, Gus (the bearded convict) as the dumb one and Phineas (the carpetbagger) as the powerless one.
- Cool Old Guy: Dreamfinder, Ben Franklin and Mark Twain in "The American Adventure", and the Sage of Time from Tapestry of Nations.
- Crowning Music Of Awesome: Many examples, including the scores to Illuminations, Tapestry of Nations, "Fantasmic!", "Horizons", and the Jeremy Irons version of Spaceship Earth.
- Death Mountain: Big Thunder Mountain and Expedition Everest's Forbidden Mountain fit the role pretty well.
- Dem Bones: Found in Pirates of the Caribbean and Phantom Manor. Cheerier skeletal characters are in both versions of the Mexico pavilion's boat ride in a Day of the Dead scene.
- Dis Continuity: There never was a replacement for Main Street Electrical Parade called Light Magic that involved Celtic remixes of Disney songs and stepdancing characters.
- Nor was there a replacement for Journey into Imagination that removed Dreamfinder, reduced Figment to a cameo and insulted the guests' intelligence right at the beginning of the ride.
- Disney Acid Sequence: Some straight from the movies, and some unique to the parks.
- This Troper recalls a recent trip to Disney World where the Winnie the Pooh ride broke down in the middle of the Heffalump and Woozle room. Needless to say it caused a few sleepless nights afterwards.
- Although my sister, the cast member, happened to think it was the best thing that ever happened to her.
- Disney Princess
- Doing It For The Art
- Dork Age: Disneyland had one in the mid-90s through 2003 when it was run by Paul Pressler, a man who thought people came to the parks for shopping and dining, cutting off a lot of the upkeep budget, closing down classic yet expensive to maintain rides (like the Submarines, Skyway and Motorboats), an ugly rusty colored redo of Tomorrowland and the poor replacement of the Main Street Electrical Parade with Light Magic. This was also the era in which California Adventure opened...
- Drill Sergeant Nasty: General Knowledge from the now gone Cranium Command show.
- The Dumbledore: Dreamfinder was somewhere between here and The Obi Wan to Figment until the attraction was updated to remove him.
- Ear Worm: Most attractions with some sort of musical theme are like this, especially It's a Small World.
- It's even worse at Christmas time! They mix in "Jingle Bells" as well! This troper had the combination in her head until Valentine's day.
- "It's a great big beautiful tomorrow/Shining at the end of every day!" - Yeah, this has been going on since October.
- Early Bird Cameo: Disney's done this with whole rides. The Sleeping Beauty Castle walkthrough at Disneyland opened several years before the movie, It's Tough to be a Bug opened a few months before A Bugs Life and Countdown to Extinction featured Aladar and the Carnotaurus from Dinosaur about two years before the movie came and the attraction was renamed for the movie.
- Easter Eggs: Entire books have been written about the so-called Hidden Mickeys, inconspicuous images of Mickey Mouse or his silhouette placed in various unexpected locations around the parks. It is also very common, when one attraction is closed and replaced with another, for the Imagineers to include an unobtrusive tribute to the old attraction in the new one.
- Ensemble Darkhorse: Figment over at Epcot, the Hitchhiking Ghosts in the Haunted Mansion.
- Everythings Better With Dinosaurs: Probably the only reason Epcot's Universe of Energy has a massive Dinosaur sequence, which itself was based on Disneyland's Primeval World diorama that serves as the finale for the Disneyland Railroad.
- Everythings Better With Monkeys: The plans for Mystic Manor at Hong Kong Disneyland involve a mischievous monkey in addition to supernatural occurrences.
- Everythings Better With Princesses: They were all over the place, especially shows and parades, even before the big marketing push about them started.
- Everythings Better With Sparkles: "it's a small world" contains a very high ratio of glitter to total surface area. Many of the parade and stage show costumes ramp up the glitter quotient as well.
- Evil Elevator: The Tower of Terror, of course.
- Extremely Dusty Home: In the Haunted Mansion.
- Excuse Plot: Many, many attractions.
- Expansion Pack - Well, Toon Town and California Adventure.
- And well before either, New Orleans Square and Bear Country/Critter Country
- Fantastic Voyage: Body Wars. Was taken further in "Adventure Thru Inner Space", which went down to an atomic scale.
- Fluffy The Terrible: Several examples:
- The giant cobra on the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland (named, in fact, Fluffy)
- Harold the Yeti on the Matterhorn.
- Bucky, the fire-breathing dragon in Fantasmic!
- And now the new model is called Murphy—actually a reference to the many problems it experienced when it was first unveiled, but still a cutesy name for something that can spit a plume of fire 20 feet long
- Space Mountain has been given a temporary overlay for Halloween, called "Ghost Galaxy." Its star is the charming fellow seen in the background here
 ◊. His name is Bob.
- Frivolous Lawsuit: Too many to count; hardly any are successful.
- Gangplank Galleon: Pirates of the Caribbean.
- With Krem Quay in the form of the Blue Bayou portion in California, Tokyo and Paris.
- Ghost In The Machine: Cranium Command's premise
- Gold Digger: Constance the ghost bride in The Haunted Mansion.
- Gone Horribly Wrong: The "plot" of several thrill rides.
- Green Aesop: Contained in Epcot's The Land pavilion and almost the entirety of the Animal Kingdom park.
- During the 1970s, the burning cabin on Tom Sawyer Island was changed to fake fire as people complained it wasted energy. The actual energy was trivial compared to Disneyland as a whole, of course.
- Hula And Luaus: The Enchanted Tiki Room and Walt Disney World's Polynesian Resort. Also the long gone Tahitian Terrace at Disneyland.
- There's apparently going to be a Disney resort in Hawaii. My inner-seven-year-old is wondering what took them so long while my outer adult-self is confused and mildly horrified.
- Hurricane Of Puns: Happens with glorious frequency on the Jungle Cruise.
- I'm Going to Disney World!: Trope Namer.
- Incredible Shrinking Man: A Bug's Land, a part of California Adventure themed to the movie A Bugs Life, is built to make guests feel bug-sized, with giant shamrocks, benches made of popsicle sticks, and restrooms disguised as a giant box of tissues. Honey, I Shrunk the Kids became the basis for a playground/set walk-through (Hollywood Studios) and the 3D show Honey, I Shrunk the Audience (Epcot/Disneyland/Disneyland Paris/Tokyo Disneyland). Before all of these, however, the trope was taken to the maximum possible severity in the long-gone Disneyland ride Adventure Thru Inner Space, in which riders were "shrunk" small enough to travel inside an atom.
- Intercontinuity Crossover: Disney World's "Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)." The new management? Iago and Zazu.
- Fantasmic! is an even better example, with several Disney Villains from various films attempting to attack Mickey Mouse via his dreams, and a few good guys helping him out.
- I Will Wait For You: The original backstory to the ghost bride in the Haunted Mansion, taken further in the French version.
- It Will Never Catch On: A running gag in the current version of Carousel of Progress, thanks to its Technology Marches On plot.
- Jungle Japes: A major portion of Adventureland and Animal Kingdom.
- Legion Of Doom: Key part of Fantasmic, especially in the Florida version. Though the inclusion of Frollo into a group including demons, witches and pagan gods is rather confusing...
- Walt Disney World also currently has the villains in a "Halloween Villain Mix and Mingle." Maleficent and Captain Hook seem to be an item (?!), and Frollo is there again, dancing. And reminding us why it's probably okay Disney doesn't acknowledge that film's existence anymore and ruin it.
- Mad Scientist: The Timekeeper starred a robotic one voiced by Robin Williams.
- Mega Corp: An intergalactic one in the form of X-S Tech in the now-gone Alien Encounter attraction at Magic Kingdom.
- Disney itself falls into this with the amount of power that they wield at Disney World. Just look up "Reedy Creek Improvement District" and be astounded at the amount of power that the state of Florida gave Disney for its operations there. There's a reason why snarky Floridians call it "America's Vatican".
- Root Of All Evil declared Disney to be more evil then SCIENTOLOGY. Well, it is a whole lot bigger, wealthier, and influential, and thankfully hasn't caused anyone's death. On purpose. That we know of.
- Memetic Mutation: They're going to add a loop!
- The WDW Magic community has The Ladder, whose presence at any construction site is a good sign for the upcoming attraction or, in it's initial appearance during Mission Space's construction, being the epic ride itself.
- Merchandise Driven: If it's a popular movie or other Disney property that sells a lot of merchandise, odds are you can expect to see an attraction based on it—if not now, then certainly in the near future. Whether this is a good or a bad thing is hotly debated.
- Mine Cart Madness: Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.
- Narm: Parts of the new Judi Dench narration in Spaceship Earth, especially "The Roman Empire was the first World Wide Web" and "Remember how easy it was to learn your ABCs? Thank the Phoenicians."
- While "The American Adventure" has been deservedly lauded as a Crowning Moment Of Awesome for the Disney Imagineers of the early 80's, it's attempt to condense every American historical event since the Pilgrims landed into a forty-five minute effects extravaganza has... not. (See also Unfortunate Implications.)
- Name Drop: Disney owns trademarks on pretty much everything in the park, as well as quite a few sponsors, and they'll be sure to remind you and use the names every chance they get.
- Nightmare Fuel: At a kids park? Buddy, you better believe it!!
- Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The Pirate Zombie Robot part, anyway—audio-animatronic pirate skeletons on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride.
- Noble Savage and The Savage Indian: Disneyland capitalized on the popularity of The Western with a full-blown Indian Village in the early days. Tom Sawyer Island featured a burning cabin and arrow-studded settler. As attitudes changed, the Indian Village closed in the 1970s and the burning cabin went through a series of new back stories — river pirates, a moonshiner accident, and finally a careless settler endangering an eagle nest (seriously). The fire is finally out and the cabin is just a cabin.
- Furthermore, you hear the narrator of the Railway train ride tour blabber on and on about "the spirit of Pocahontas" as you pass through the remains of the Indian Village.
- Old Shame: Splash Mountain is based upon Song Of The South, a movie they otherwise don't like talking about.
- Oracular Head: Madame Leota at The Haunted Mansion as well as the Shrunken Ned fortune telling machine at Disneyland's Adventureland.
- Ominous Pipe Organ: The Haunted Mansion's Ballroom scene. The Disneyland organ is the actual prop from Disney's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea movie. Dreamfinder also played on in the Tales of Terror sequence of the original Journey Into Imagination.
- One Woman Wail: The Bride's singing throughout Phantom Manor.
- Our Ghosts Are Different: The Haunted Mansion's spirits are said to be from all over the world, with the Mansion itself serving as a supernatural boarding house/retirement center. But in the Tower of Terror, the ghosts seem to be permanently stuck in the hotel as a result of the elevator accident. Then in Phantom Manor, we've got the ghostly villain taking on three forms throughout while tormenting the bride into old age.
- In fairness, Tower of Terror is based on an intellectual property that Disney had to license, so discrepancies could arise from that situation.
- Oven Logic: In the last part of the current version of Carousel of Progress.
- Although, it wasn't intentional. The oven was programmed to automatically set the temperature if it hears numbers spoken and the father was talking about the Grandmother's score in a video game.
- Overprotective Dad: The Phantom of Phantom Manor took this to incredible extremes. After discovering his daughter was to leave town after getting married, he's determined to stop the wedding at all costs. He dies in an earthquake that ravages the whole town, but his spirit goes on to murder his son-in-law to be from beyond the grave and decides to make his now depressed daughter suffer for the rest of her life in the abandoned house.
- Parental Bonus - Disneyland Has (or at least used to) have a few areas where parents could take a breather and enjoy some relatively tasteful atmosphere and fine dining, complete with (gasp!) alcoholic drinks. Oh, and the Submarine Pool (before the submarine was added), used to have comely Mermaids in there to wave and smile at passing men. There also used to be a working Pharmacy and a shop selling women's underclothes.
- Now you have to pass over into California Adventure if you need a drink after so much Disney Magic. The Magic Kingdom has a very, very strict "no alcohol, EVER" policy. Guests in Florida can pop over to one of the nearby hotels.
- But doesn't the German pavilion at Epcot serve alcohol?
- Yup. The "no alcohol, EVER" policy does not extend to the non-Magic Kingdom parks. As a matter of fact, Drinking Around the World (guests attempt to try the signature alcoholic beverage of each country in World Showcase) is a popular extra-curricular activity for some guests.
- Politically Correct History: Pretty much any attraction with a historical setting, although Pirates of the Caribbean and the Hall of Presidents are major offenders. Upper management seems to think that people don't come to theme parks to be disturbed or have their consciences bothered, and they're probably right.
- POTC is noticeable for once containing scenes that were considered less politically correct (pirates chasing wenches, a naked girl hiding in a barrel) that have since been replaced by "family friendly" versions (women chasing pirates away with brooms, Jack Sparrow hiding in a barrel).
- Polly Wants A Microphone: The Enchanted Tiki Room.
- Replacement Scrappy: Nigel Channing at Epcot's Imagination pavilion, who replaced Dreamfinder, a tough act to follow even for Eric Idle.
- Ribcage Ridge: The T-Rex skeleton at Big Thunder Mountain
- Right On Queue: The lines at especially popular attractions range into the truly absurd, especially for newer rides. Various methods have been attempted to combat this, like adding interesting things to look at during the wait including puzzles (The Indiana Jones ride has old hieroglyphs you can decode), short films that help set up the plot, and finally the Fast Pass system.
- Rodents Of Unusual Size: Well, what else would you call the costumed versions of Mickey, Minnie, etc?
- Slippy Slidey Ice World: The Matterhorn, Expedition Everest and the Blizzard Beach water park.
- Souvenir Land: Parodied by Chester and Hester's Dino-Rama, though the area itself would grow to be hated by park fans.
- Stuff Blowing Up: Mostly in shows, and not just fireworks displays.
- Sure Why Not: The names of the hitchhiking ghosts (Ezra, Phineas and Gus) originally came from cast members and were so popular in the Mansion's fandom that Disney eventually adopted them as official ones.
- Temple Of Doom: The Indiana Jones attractions. At Disney Sea, it's complimented by the Raging Spirits coaster.
- The Hub: Disneyland is regarded by some as the Trope Maker and Trope Namer.
- Theme Park Decay: The No-Longer-MGM-But-Hollywood Studios park has geared most of it's more recent attractions ("Playhouse Disney Live", a giant pin-trading kiosk placed awkwardly in front of the park's original iconic building, the inevitable "High School Musical" live show) towards pre-teens and very young children. This seems very odd to some visitors, given the movie-making theme of the park at large. Meanwhile, the rides and shows that actually fit the theme are (while still good, and fan-favorites) getting on in years.
- Also, both California Adventure and, oddly, Disney World's version of Tomorrowland seem to have a lot of tenuously linked rides and shows based upon Pixar movies. Granted, that's where there's room for them, but it's still odd.
- Theme Park Version - The characters were already Theme Park Version 's of the original stories, and then they go through an additional layer of this when they're actually put into the theme park...
- The Talk - Yes, "The Making of Me" was real. While this site does not include the film, it does have a photo of the hilarious disclaimer outside the theater. Still to be answered: Is the middle of an overwhelming Disney World vacation really a good time to have this subject brought up?
- They Changed It Now It Sucks: Disney park fans (especially Disney World fans) have this attitude a lot, though it's sometimes justified. Take Journey Into Imagination's disastrous revamps at Epcot (and the ride's creators seem to agree with them!)
- Sometimes it even reaches Ruined FOREVER proportions. Visit any Disneyland message board and find the discussion about the recent changes to "it's a small world". You can't miss it — it will be dozens of pages long and dripping with so much acid that you'll need to put on a haz-mat suit before you click the link. And the thing is, as video of the refurbishments have surfaced, it turns out that you probably wouldn't even notice most of the alterations unless you purposefully looked for them. (But look at the vitriol in the comments in the link...)
- Wait, people actually like 'Its A Small World'?!
- As a troper who's been dragged repeatedly on the 'Small World' ride, (unfortunately) yes...
- Wasn't the point of Disney parks was that they would always update/add something new to make it still interesting for old fans to come back to? Sorry, Walt and all you imagineers.
- Walt's stated completion time for all Disney Parks was never, because he always wanted to add new attractions and rides as technology developed. It's almost taking it to Completely Missing The Point.
- This Troper's sister has boycotted the Winnie The Pooh ride because they took out Mr. Toad's Wild Ride and won't ride Pooh until they change it back... So Yeah.
- Tomorrowland: The Trope Namer. The Future World portion of Epcot also qualifies.
- Toy Time: Both Toy Story Mania and Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin/"Astro Blasters''.
- Trope Mobile: The "Disney Stars and Motorcars" parade at Disney-Hollywood Studios featured popular Disney characters (and characters licensed by Disney for the parks) riding in themed cars.
- Under The Sea: The Submarine rides, the Finding Nemo attractions and eventually, The Little Mermaid dark ride.
- Updated Rerelease - Quite a few rides have been altered over the years. Although whether or not this is a good thing is up to debate, most have just received technical upgrades. This is most noticeable in the Haunted Mansion segment, where they replaced the projectors and projected images with something more high-tech (and less liable to break down, as the singing statue faces were breakdown-prone part of that ride).
- Unfortunate Implications: Certain scenes, particularly those depicting women and minorities, in "The American Adventure". Probably inevitable when you decide for some damn reason to bring up everything from slavery to women's rights in a theme park stage show.
- Values Dissonance: The original Carousel of Progress attraction, in which an American family rhapsodizes about the ability of electric appliances to ease the woman's burden of housework. Since much of the attraction's script was written in the 1960's, it never occurs to any of them that her burden could have been eased a long time ago if her husband and children had pitched in more.
- Not to mention the "I Love Fossil Fuels!!!" Script Wank in "Ellen's Energy Adventure".
- No kidding. Last time this troper visited Disney World, she was dragged onto "Ellen's Energy Adventure". She can confirm that "I Love Fossil Fuels" is a far, far better title for it. Apparently, she wasn't the only person insulted by this (this was right around when gas prices were starting to go strait to hell). At the end of each of the ride's "acts", an announcer would ask everyone to "stay in your seats or we'll have to shut down the whole show!" Which implies that people had been walking out of the theater!
- This actually used to be worse. In the original version of the ride (before Ellen was added), there was a long video at the end talking about how great Exxon was and how awesome their lovely oil rigs and tankers were. Three guesses as to why that was removed (just one guess if you live in Alaska).
- Variable Mix: Many of the rides with iconic theme music have that music change slightly from scene to scene, utilizing different instrumentation, rhythm, and even chords to provide the right atmosphere for the visuals.
- The Wild West: Frontierland.
- What Do You Mean Its Not Awesome: The backside of water at the Jungle Cruise.
- What Could Have Been: Quite a lot of unused concepts for attractions come up online. Have a look.
- Wooden Ships And Iron Men: This exact phrase is used in the recorded narration for the Sailing Ship Columbia attraction (a full-scale replica of the historical ship)
- World Tree: The Tree of Life, the centerpiece of Disney's Animal Kingdom
- X Days Since: Used in the exit to Stitch's Great Escape
- Zeerust: Tommorowland and Epcot settled on this as a result of the problems of Twenty Minutes Into The Future.
- Zeppelins From Another World: Dreamfinder's Cool Ship was one of these.
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