Disney Urban Legends

[ISTCrew20]

Ok, we know the castle cant be taken apart in the even of a hurricane, we know walt isnt frozen. Here is you're place to post urban legends you know bout Disney. Here is one to start us off


The Hearse in front of the Haunted Mansion At Disneyland is NOT the hearse that carried Brigham Young's body, even though Disney Says it is.

anymore?

 

[dizneykev]

Last time I was on JAWS, I looked for this in particular. It was still there as of 3 years ago and the back of the hat hat the name Michael on it. Obviously a pointer to Michael Eisner. I love Disney, but I think these things are kind of fun.


Dizneykev

 

[ArchiDanDisney]

Club 21:lookaroun

 

[Sir Hiss527]

I went to this really cool, Disney Urban Legend website, it was really awesome, but can't quite remember it. Anyone know of website like this?

-Sir Hiss527-

"Stop Hissing in my Ear":king:

 

[Sally_doll]

Originally posted by Sir Hiss527
I went to this really cool, Disney Urban Legend website, it was really awesome, but can't quite remember it. Anyone know of website like this?

-Sir Hiss527-

"Stop Hissing in my Ear":king:

i think you are talking about www.snopes.com it has disney urban legends

 

[dox]

One of the few Disney Urban Legends i'm aware of is one that has been floating around ever since Disney started Grad Nite to this day. Almost every single year, the rumor starts that some school threw Mickey in the moat around the castle. If this were true you can be sure it would have been in the news all over.

 

[meeko_33785]

How about the urban legends that the Haunted Mansion, Pirates of the Caribbean and (I think) The Tower or Terror are all haunted. Also, the one that Tinker Bell is a guy. I'm pretty sure I've heard that at least the last one is false. As for the hauntings... who knows.

 

[ISTCrew20]

Oh yyyyyeeeeeeaaaaaahhhhhh. I heard some CM'S refuse to Work DL'S HM because they really do think its haunted. Sometimes they would feel someone tap them and no one is there, or they here little Loeta call there own name.

Also there is a legend about the WDW haunted mansion also. "The Man with the cane" Legend has been around since the opening of the park. It states that some WW1 pilot was flying over WDW in the 40's, or on the ground WDW would eventually (?) be on 30 years later. His plane crashed in Bay Lake, and now he is said to haunt the HM. He is best known to ride between unload and load, dissapearing as soon as the person at load notices him.:lookaroun 1000th happyhaunts?

 

[Merlin]

Originally posted by room1313@TTZTOT
The Hearse in front of the Haunted Mansion At Disneyland is NOT the hearse that carried Brigham Young's body, even though Disney Says it is.

anymore?

How do you know it is not? Just curious. Is there a reason Disney continues to state that it is if that has been proven false?

A similar one I've heard is that the plane in the Casablanca scene of Great Movie Ride is the actual plane from the movie. But it seems as though I heard that was not true.

Another famous urban legend has to do with the movie poster for Little Mermaid. One of the spires on Triton's castle supposedly looks like a phallic symbol. The story is that it was done by a Disney artist who was disgruntled and about to be fired. That story has so many holes in it, it's not even funny. But it is amazing how many people still believe that one to this day.

I've lost count of how many people who've personally told me about incidents involving park characters touching them and/or their children inappropriately. I've also had a lot of people tell me stories of being "flipped off" by park characters. Certainly not impossible, but if it actually did happen as many times as I've heard the stories, they'd probably have to get rid of the characters.

Another one I've heard quite often is any time I've talked to someone who claims to have met Walt Disney personally, they almost always mention how he signed his autograph and drew a picture of Mickey Mouse next to his signature. A Walt autograph with a drawing of Mickey next to it is so incredibly rare that it is a valuable collector's item. Walt hardly ever drew Mickey because he was embarassed that he couldn't draw him very well.

 

[CoraJack]

Walt, the designer of Mickey not able to draw him well?

Now THAT is certainly an urban legend!

:hammer:

 

[Merlin]

Originally posted by CoraJack
Walt, the designer of Mickey not able to draw him well?

Now THAT is certainly an urban legend!

:hammer:

Yep! It's true. Just about any biography of Walt mentions this fact (unless they are ALL wrong). Walt came up with Mickey's personality and described to Ubbe Iwerks how Mickey should look. Iwerks was the artist who actually DREW Mickey. There are rare photographs of Mickey drawn by Walt. It just wasn't his forte. Walt freely admitted that he was smart enough to surround himself by people more talented than himself. Not many executives these days would be that secure or care more about a quality product than their own ego.

Walt's signature itself is also not the famous one that we see printed all over everthing. He authorized several people to sign his name and the famous Walt Disney "signature" was actually created by one of his artists. Walt's real signature looked nothing like it.

 

[bhg469]

Re: Re: Disney Urban Legends

Originally posted by Merlin
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Another famous urban legend has to do with the movie poster for Little Mermaid. One of the spires on Triton's castle supposedly looks like a phallic symbol. The story is that it was done by a Disney artist who was disgruntled and about to be fired. That story has so many holes in it, it's not even funny. But it is amazing how many people still believe that one to this day.

[/B]

just so you know that partially right, the castle in the background on the origional little mermaid clamshell (case) was the symbol you speak of. the towers were actually shaped like... yup you guess it. all these were recalled from my video store but im sure they are floating around somewhere

anywho the urban legend i was curious about was dis walt really have an apartment above mainstreet that he watched families com into the park.

even if its not true its nice to think so. kinda wonder what he would think today

 

[Erika]

Originally posted by CoraJack
Walt, the designer of Mickey not able to draw him well?

Now THAT is certainly an urban legend!

:hammer:

If you watch any of the early Mickey shorts, they all say something along the lines of "A Mickey Mouse cartoon by Ub Iwerks" Cool name, huh?

 

[Yellow Shoes]

There was a recent story about HM at DL being closed down because a woman was spreading around "white powder".

This was during the anthrax scare when powdered soap disappeared from the restrooms, and people were a little freaked out by any powdery substance.

The story is that it was the cremains of her son, and she was fulfilling his last wish.

 

[MKCustodial]

Re: Re: Re: Disney Urban Legends

Originally posted by bhg469
just so you know that partially right, the castle in the background on the origional little mermaid clamshell (case) was the symbol you speak of. the towers were actually shaped like... yup you guess it. all these were recalled from my video store but im sure they are floating around somewhere

anywho the urban legend i was curious about was dis walt really have an apartment above mainstreet that he watched families com into the park.

even if its not true its nice to think so. kinda wonder what he would think today

Actually, Walt did have an apartment at DL, and they planned on building one at the Castle at WDW. The little room there now is "used as a greenroom and changing area for castle show performers, and to facilitate Tink's flight... nothing more", according to Rob (this is a direct quote from another thread).

As for Tink, well, let's just say that this particular legend isn't exactly false...

 

[freaklarm]

The Gen. Joe Potter, one of the ferri boats that goes across the Seven Seas Lagoon (the blue one) is hunted, and I know this as a "REAL FACT", I'm scare.....:lookaroun :lookaroun

 

[bailey5697]

Okay, I don't know where I heard this from, so I was going to check it out on my own at Castaway Cay.
I heard that they dropped the actual submarine from the "20,000 Leagues" (Movie, not the ride) out off Castaway Cay for people to snorkel/scuba dive to.
Anyone know anything about that? :lookaroun

 

[Irrawaddy Erik]

Originally posted by bailey5697
Okay, I don't know where I heard this from, so I was going to check it out on my own at Castaway Cay.
I heard that they dropped the actual submarine from the "20,000 Leagues" (Movie, not the ride) out off Castaway Cay for people to snorkel/scuba dive to.
Anyone know anything about that? :lookaroun

Actually it was one of the old ride vehicals from WDW that they used.

 

[EpcoTim]

I heard that Walts brother Roy installed the worlds largest mouse trap under the castle in Anaheim, just as a little joke. But in reality he did it cause he hates mice.

 

[bailey5697]

Originally posted by hmppan
Actually it was one of the old ride vehicals from WDW that they used.

Oh, so it was a sub from the ride, not the movie?