According to the fairy godmothers over at the boutique in magic kingdom, there is a running joke/feud with the imagineers vs. cast members.
The imagineers go by the ballroom scene and make sure there are no hidden mickeys to keep haunted mansions rule of no mickeys.
The cast members then go back...
On my bus to epcot today, someone asked what the construction near AOA and POP was and they said that the only thing their supervisor said was that "it's a road but above, unlike normal roads."
So, it's clearly about this rumor unless she lied.
On the bus today to epcot the bus driver told us that there's a mickey on top of spaceship earth, but it's only visible outside of the park. you could see a black smudge outside of the park, but when i looked online i saw nothing about it. Is this true???