Disney Secrets/Little Known Facts Thread

SewIn2Disney

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hcwalker16 said:
It says that the talking drinking fountains are between Horizons (M:S) and Innoventions...the ones I found were on the other side, between the Land and Innoventions. Are there two sets?
I've seen the ones listed, but if there are two sets, I'll add them to my list of things to see!
 

yoyoflamingo

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The Art of Disney used to give out prizes. I won a sketch of Jock from Lady and the Tramp about 5-6 years ago. So at one point they definitely did give out prizes. Though perhaps too many people won them and they stopped. The only thing I remember is the theme of the contest was The Music of Disney.
 

SewIn2Disney

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Well, I'd like to thank everyone for the negative feedback on this thread.....sheesh....I was just trying to be nice! :brick: :hammer:

Anyway, for those of you who liked it, here's a better list. Same stuff, I just organized it by park. (In case you wanted to print it out....now it's easier to read) :D

Revised List:

Magic Kingdom
1. Cinderella’s Royal Table: Gus and Jaq are looking down over the foyer.
2. Tony’s Town Square: Paw prints of Lady and the Tramp outside of the porch on the sidewalk.
3. Hall of Presidents: Bill Clinton is the only president to wear a Mickey Mouse tie.
4. Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin: Some of the biggest point values are in the first room. Turn around and hit the back of the orange robot’s arm or the back of the buzz saw…. 100,000 points.
5. Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin: When you are in line the "story" of the attraction is unfolding. Once inside, all guests are being 'shrunk' to toy size so they are able to fit in the xp 37-space cruisers. This is why, once you get up to the Viewfinder and Magna Doodle and Buzz, they are all the same size as you. Then when the ride is over and you see Buzz telling you your scores and zurg behind bars, you return to normal 'human' size.
6. Haunted Mansion: The top of the building looks like chess pieces. The only one missing is the knight. (It’s inside)
7. Haunted Mansion: In the wire fencing around the mansion there are 999 stick people made out of the wire in the fence.
8. Haunted Mansion: Ballroom Scene: the men are leading the ladies.
9. Haunted Mansion: As soon as you enter the graveyard, you go under a tall gate, if you look really hard, at the top left-center portion of the gate, there is a paper tag. This is the original purchase tag from California, they forgot to remove it, and it is still there today!
10. Haunted Mansion: In the scene with the lone piano player, pay close attention to what's going on outside! Notice the direction the wind is blowing the tree compared to the direction the clouds are moving...
11. Haunted Mansion: In the endless hallway there is a chair with a Hidden Donald Duck embedded in it.
12. Haunted Mansion: As you exit look for the ring embedded in the ground.
13. Market House on Main Street: Go to the back of the store and look for an old fashioned phone. It’s called the Gossip Phone. Pick it up and listen to it.
14. Center Street off of Main Street: go to the end of the street and listen carefully, you can hear tap dancing and singing lessons going on upstairs.
15. Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: In the first room there is a picture of Mr. Toad handing over the deed to Owl.
16. Under the Train Station: Keep your back to the castle and look up. In the rafters you can see some Disney character “items” left behind.
17. Main Street: After the afternoon parade goes by, watch the upstairs windows, they will close automatically. That is where some of the music is piped.
18. Behind the castle and to the left is a fountain with Cinderella. When children look at her (from a shorter perspective) it appears as if she has a crown. Adults need to bend (or bow) to her in order to see it too.
19. Liberty Square: there is a gate around a door. It guards a marble slab that used to be a step at Monticello. Jefferson actually walked on it.
20. Magic Carpets of Aladdin: there are embedded jewels in the concrete around the ride.
21. Casey's Corner: I was sitting in the bleachers facing the TV showing Disney sports cartoons. On the same wall as the bleachers, there is a bunch of old baseball pictures. One in particular caught my attention. It seemed a lot newer than the other pictures-it wasn't really grainy at all, yet it was dated "1915." Also, the players were sitting on very modern-looking metal bleachers. The last thing I noticed was...THEY WERE ALMOST ALL WEARING PRECISELY THE SAME MOUSTACHE! Could these be the Imagineers who did the Casey's corner rehab a few years back? If you want to find it yourself, go in the TV room connected to Casey's Corner. The pictures are just inside the doorway, on the wall to the left. The picture I'm talking about is about at eye level.
22. Tinkerbell’s Treasures: Try to find Tinkerbell flitting around the store.
23. Tom Sawyer’s Island: Try to find one of the paintbrushes, and bring it back to a CM for head of the line passes.
24. Sir Mickey's Shop in Fantasyland: look at where the roof meets the walls. You will see Willie the Giant from Mickey and the Beanstalk peeking into the shop.
25. Liberty Square: The sidewalks are brown but the streets are not. People in that time dumped garbage out the windows, so Disney made it appear dirty.
26. Liberty Square: all the shutters on the windows are hanging crooked. This is because in those times leather was used to fasten shutters on and would stretch over time to hang crooked. The Imagineers used crooked metal fasteners.
27. Walt’s name only appears on one window on Main Street. It is the one above the ice cream parlor and is the only one that faces the Castle.
28. There is a silver plate that runs between Liberty Square and Frontierland. This plate represents the Mississippi River, separating the east from the west, and there is water flowing out from the plate into the Rivers of America. Additionally the buildings also reflect changes east to west from the colonial style to the frontier boomtown to the southwestern adobe buildings.

Epcot
1. Electric Umbrella: Look for the talking trashcan and the talking water fountain.
2. In Epcot, if you stand in the correct spot, you can see the Tower of Terror appear to be part of Morocco. The best spot to see it is near the souvenir stands between Future World and World Showcase, specifically the souvenir stand closer to Mexico. And since both have similar colors, they blend together decently.
3. Journey Into Imagination with Figment: as you are about to go into the sound room, look at one of the doors, it says Dean Finder(Dreamfinder). Also, in the finale, look to the Figment with the music book glider, there is a Dreammobile.
4. Mouse Gear: look for the blimp from the original JII, sans the balloon.
5. Spaceship Earth: the scene with the monks writing. One has fallen asleep and has a Mickey shaped ink blob next to him.
6. UK pavilion: there is a path running down the side of the Rose & Crown pub, which leads to a 'secret' garden.
7. Maelstrom: When boarding the boats look at the Vikings, one is wearing Mickey Mouse Ears.
8. Watch out for the rock formations on the shores of the Canada pavilion during Illuminations: Reflections of Earth. For the fireworks show, one of these boulders "breaks open," rising up into the air, a contoured piece of rock topping a pole equipped with lights and speakers for the show. Once Illuminations ends, the pole silently retracts back into the boulder, its rocky top preserving the appearance of the Canada shoreline. It's all part of Disney's attempt to preserve show elements--outside of show time, you'd never know it wasn't a real rock. A similar pole rises out of the rocks at the Japan pavilion, and two light poles are cleverly concealed in the Italy pavilion
9. Germany: The stone "castle" building, located in the Germany pavilion alongside the Biergarten Restaurant, was to have been the home of a Rhine River cruise attraction taking guests on a boat ride through the German countryside. But the attraction was never built. The main entrance to the ride would have been located at the back of the Sommerfest Outdoor Café.

Disney Studios
1. Tower of Terror: Look for marquee with missing letters, on the bottom, the fallen letters will read “Evil Tower U R Doom”.
2. Muppet Vision 3-D: Outside of the building there is graffiti written all over, stop and read the sometimes humorous messages.
3. Muppet Vision 3-D: Look for the key under the mat when entering the theater.
4. Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular: Outside of the theater there is a well. Pull on the rope that's dropped inside of the well and listen.
5. Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular: There are crates stacked in the bushes that say “don’t open”… Go ahead and open them.
6. Singing in the Rain Umbrella: Near Lights Motor Action at the end of NY Street. (Or whatever it’s called now)
7. Honey I Shrunk the Kids: Look for the dogs nose and stick your hand in its nostrils, it will sniff you (and sometimes sneeze!).
8. AFI shop at the Back Lot Tour ride: look for the area nearby which is stacked with wooden crates, open them and you will be rewarded with various silly effects.
9. Look for the snowman in MGM. Great photo op!

Animal Kingdom
1. Look for “DeVine” a real human vine, usually “hanging around” near or behind the Tree of Life.
2. Tusker House: sit outside on the back patio area when you eat and listen carefully. You can hear people upstairs who seem to be having trouble cleaning.
3. Tamu Refreshment Stand: Behind it is a half wall where a meet and greet takes place. The paint is chipping and one area of chipped off paint is a hidden Baloo.
4. Kali River Rapids: go on the bridge and find the buttons that allow the two elephants below squirt the riders.
5. Dinoland Playground: Try to open the door.

Downtown Disney
1. Downtown Disney Marketplace: go with your children and ask at one of the (Disney) store cash registers for the Sticker Hunt booklet. There are 15 different stickers to collect at each of 15 stores.
2. Art of Disney store: They run a quiz every day and give out prizes if you get them all right!

Resorts
1. Contemporary Resort: near the Monorail loading dock, there is a huge mosaic. Look for the 5 legged goat within that mosaic.
2. Port Orleans: the musical notes attached to the check in counter translate to “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
3. Fort Wilderness: Look for the lawn mower tree.
4. Wilderness Lodge: Has a smokehouse tour.
5. Wilderness Lodge: Get a hidden Mickey list and go on a hunt!
6. Wilderness Lodge: Go look for Old Faithful.

Everything Else
1. Monorail: Sit up front with the captain and get a co-pilot’s license.
2. Watercraft: take the boats or ferries and get a Disney Watercraft sticker.
3. Ask for a list of Hidden Mickey’s from Guest Relations.
4. Ask for a list of Pressed Pennies from Guest Relations.
5. The two colors Disney paints the backstage areas/show buildings are go Away Green and Blend In Brown. These two colors were made by Disney to paint things they did not want to be noticed.
6. Most people think of WDW as being "in Orlando". We Disney fans know that's not true. But even a lot of Disney fans don't realize that WDW is actually in two cities. The area that includes Magic Kingdom and Fort Wilderness is actually in the City of Bay Lake. The rest of the property is in Lake Buena Vista.
7. The original design for the resorts around The 7 Seas Lagoon were to mirror the lands in the Magic Kingdom
Poly - Adventureland
Wilderness lodge and Fort Wilderness - Frontierland
Contemp - Tomorrowland
Grand FL - Main Street
The resorts for Fantasyland and Liberty Square were never built.
 

Coronado

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Go into Pizzafari at AK.... look at the mosaic just inside the doors..... now step back and look at the same mosaic through a camera lense.... what kind of animal do you see....... I won't tell.... you must go there to find out....
 

SewIn2Disney

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Coronado said:
Go into Pizzafari at AK.... look at the mosaic just inside the doors..... now step back and look at the same mosaic through a camera lense.... what kind of animal do you see....... I won't tell.... you must go there to find out....
Okay, you can't leave me hanging like that.....who knows when I'll be back to see it. Can you let me in on your secret with more details?
And do you have pictures of it?
 

Craig & Lisa

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:) no bricks were used in the construction of the MK castle

during the Osborne spectale of lights try to find the halloween cat, it was sent with the rest of the lights, and as a joke the people who put up the lights every year put it in a different place
 

mwc1996

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AWESOME list. Thanks for sharing. One thing I'd like to add though. "PUSH" the talking trash can is not limited to EPCOT and Magic Kingdom. We saw him in Animal Kingdom at Conservation Station on the Sunday before Thanksgiving last year. I'm kicking myself now for not looking for more of these when I went last year even though I knew about them....not all of these...just some of them.
 

Laura

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I'm glad someone bumped this up. Reminds me to print it for my upcoming trip! Thanks for getting it all organized!
 

Woody13

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mwc1996 said:
AWESOME list. Thanks for sharing. One thing I'd like to add though. "PUSH" the talking trash can is not limited to EPCOT and Magic Kingdom. We saw him in Animal Kingdom at Conservation Station on the Sunday before Thanksgiving last year. I'm kicking myself now for not looking for more of these when I went last year even though I knew about them....not all of these...just some of them.
That wasn't "PUSH" you saw in AK. The talking trashcan at AK is, however, related to "PUSH".
 
Thanks for the list...lots of typing...I appriciate it.

To add to the list (and I'm sorry if these were on there, I read it fast :hammer:):

-In the GMR: the first indiana jones room--in the hyrogliphics on the wall, pay attn to the right wall and there is a hyrogliphic of Donald. Also (and this one is tough to see--only saw it b/c we broke down on it once with the work lights were on), on the intricate wall of hyrogliphics to the left of the car in that same room is a hyrogliphic of R2D2 and C3PO.

-there are small lights in the cement outside of innoventions at night

-In M:S there is a horizons logo in the center of the space capsule

-At MGM on the same street as ToT (but before you actually reach the tower), there is a 1920's billboard add for the Hollywood Tower Hotel as it would have been pictures in it's "hay day"

-In star tours, whilst waiting in line, you will hear them "page" a mister egroeg sacul...or george lucas spelled backwords

-While waiting to go into the theatre for ITtbaB at AK, there is a giant ball beside you--it's supposed to be none other that a ball of dung :hurl: --I think advertising one of the mock movie marquees (in addition, those are interesting to view...they are usually some entamological way of presenting a known movie)

-Tot is only 199 ft tall--Disney refrained from making it 200 ft, as it would require a detractive red blinker for planes...detracting from the mood

-Walking through the castle toward fantasyland, the walls depict a mosaic tile working of the story of cinderella

-The man on the horse in front of germany is St. George--patron saint of barvaria and bravery

-If you look over the edge of the window in the queue in PoTC, you can see a skeleton pirate playing chess

-The white haired pirate in the jail in the last scene of PoTC is supposedly a modeled after a janitor of WDW

-If you stand on the bridge in front of SM, I think ever 3rd car that goes down, there is a huge splash the soaks everyone on the bridge

-The fiber optic "stars" seen before you drop in ToT all come together to form a hidden mickey

That's all the interesting stuff I can remember...
 
As for hidden Mickey's the book that wasn't written by Disney or a CM IS sold at the parks and makes for a fun scavenger hunt while raoming the parks... on our last trip we took over 400 pics of hidden mickeys... one fun HM is at the end of Lights, Motors, Action.. I was there for one of the first public performaces and asked the CM leaving if they had a HM and she said yes... It's the firball at the end of the show... Enjoy.
 

Coronado

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SewIn2Disney said:
Okay, you can't leave me hanging like that.....who knows when I'll be back to see it. Can you let me in on your secret with more details?
And do you have pictures of it?
Look on page 14 of "another Great Place".... in the Trivia Thread :lol:
 

SewIn2Disney

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Sorry to be a pain...no wait, you're being pain-ish too by not telling me....but page 14 to you and page 14 to me might be different as I have it set up to put 50 (I think) posts on a page, rather then the normal amount. Instead of making me go nuts, could you just tell us, then I can add it to the list.

As for those of you who said you'd print it, thats what I did last month. I also put a small checkbox in front of each so I could mark my progress. I copied and pasted it into Word, shrunk it down to size 6 or 8 and it fit onto 2 pages, which I folded and put in my backpack. We read it whenever we were waiting in a line, and it was great. (We also got the Hidden Mickey book which was also nice to read while in lines, that way you could prepare yourself for what you were looking for in the ride).
 

coasterridr

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Speaking of the HM, as you are falling out of the attic to the graveyard, look at the style of the house. It is clearly a old southern house just like the one in the DL HM. When they were building the HM for DL they made two of everything in anticipation of building the WDW version. They later changed the outside facade to make it different than the DL version....but the inside sets for the house remained the same as DL.
 

GoofyMom2

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Tinkerbell

At Downtown Disney at night, the lights in the sky look like Tinkerbell flitting about.... we happened to be there on a cloudy evening so she was easy to spot! My 5 yr old was excited to finally see Tinkerbell :)

Thanks for the great list.... looking for these hidden treasures is one of our favorite things to do at WDW, it really adds to the magic :sohappy: As to hidden Mickeys.... my kids loved ot so much they insist on looking for them at home! LOL
 

SewIn2Disney

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GoofyMom2 said:
As to hidden Mickeys.... my kids loved ot so much they insist on looking for them at home! LOL

And the sad thing is when you CAN find Hidden Mickeys in everything at home.... :lol:
 

Captain Hank

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For the ultimate in Magic Kingdom secrets, check out The Imagineer's Field Guide to the Magic Kingdom, the first in a series covering all 4 parks, and written by the Imagineers themselves. It looks at little secrets and back stories of all the attractions at the Magic Kingdom. However, it's been delayed at least 3 times so far. It was supposed to come out May 31, but still hasn't been released. The next possible release date is August 3, according to my local Barnes and Noble.

Here's a link to Amazon's page on it: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/A...5/sr=2-1/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_1/102-0353605-8241768
 

SewIn2Disney

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I read about that book in the last issue of the Disney Magazine, and I looked for it all over WDW and could not find it anywhere.....now I know why.

Thanks for the update.
 

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