Extra daughter in Carousel of Progress?

ConstanceIrene

ConstanceIrene

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A friend of mine just came back from WDW and saw COP for the first time. She asked me why there is an extra daughter in the first scene. The girl is helping the mom in the ironing room. She's a blond. The teenage daughter in the first scene is a brunette.

You never see this girl again so what gives?
 
C&D

C&D

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The premise is that this is the same family (but different generations); naturally, there could be different members/numbers in the scenes.
 
MissM

MissM

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Disneydreamer23 said:
isnt at the last scence she is blonde too isnt she??
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Patty starts off as a brunette but winds up a blond. The kid the OP is talking about is helping Mother do the laundry on the left-hand side scrim scene in the 1900's scene. That is a little girl who is never seen from again. Why? Who knows! Back in those days it was probably consumption. :lol:
 
mikemietlicki

mikemietlicki

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MissM said:
Patty starts off as a brunette but winds up a blond. The kid the OP is talking about is helping Mother do the laundry on the left-hand side scrim scene in the 1900's scene. That is a little girl who is never seen from again. Why? Who knows! Back in those days it was probably consumption. :lol:
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Woah, I never thought about that. Seriously, could that have been a reference to the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918? Remember, these scenes were (more or less) targeted to the adult audience of the 1960s, many of whom may have lost siblings or family members in the epidemic.

That little girl could have been around the right age (considering how the CoP family ages...) that should could have been among those affected. The world was a very real place then.

Animatronics aren't cheap, when they just began they weren't built and forgotten about.

Even if that's not true, it sure would make a great urban legend.

"I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter." - Uncle Walt
 
MissM

MissM

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mikemietlicki said:
Woah, I never thought about that. Seriously, could that have been a reference to the Spanish Flu Epidemic of 1918? Remember, these scenes were (more or less) targeted to the adult audience of the 1960s, many of whom may have lost siblings or family members in the epidemic. ...

Even if that's not true, it sure would make a great urban legend.
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That it would! I don't know why there's an extra kid in the first scene versus all the others but hey, failing an official reason, just about any theory is as likely as any other. :D
 
DBF John

DBF John

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well i heard a rumor that her name is Mary Jane and left home in her early teens to persue an acting career and became known as


Mae West
 

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