Interesting articleish thingy I found by accident.

[Victor Kelly]

http://www.popsugar.com/smart-living/Disney-Cast-Member-Secrets-37170449#photo-37170449

Most of this I already knew like property size and construction and even some of the more basic of Disney required CM behavior. But can other facts be confirmed pertaining mainly to CMs?

 

[CaptainAmerica]

The line about everything being scripted, including street performers, is inaccurate. Citizens of Hollywood and the like are doing real improv comedy. The set-ups are scripted but that's about it.

 

[Hakunamatata]

So if Disney didn't want you to know Walts plane was back stage, why were they constantly pointing it out to you on the backstage tour......

Just another recycled promo piece for the most part.

 

[Tom]

The music does indeed turn off. I've been outside the MK turnstiles after close and all of the MSUSA and entry music was turned off when they closed the gates behind me.

 

[Bolt]

Hardly secrets. More like 'here's what I learned at my job'.

 

[raven]

Well it's no secret that the person who wrote this article was a CM but not a very knowledgeable one.

1. Music shuts off around 1am and turns back on around 7am unless the park hours go between those times.

6. No selfies backstage? I see management CMs post them on their Facebook page all the time.

8. Disney "police?" I think they mean Orange Co.

10. If costumes are not returned they don't hold your pay, they threaten your rehire status.

14. You can see Team Disney, the Casting Center and Downtown Disney from I-4.

16. Cell tower in DAK? Yes. But that photo is from DisneyLAND.

25. The land that is now WDW wasn't ALL originally swamps.

30. Lightning rods are located everywhere all over property. Just check out those metal spikes on top of roofs and structures.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Just another recycled promo piece for the most part.

It's still interesting on how they landed it on World Drive..

How the inside looked before it was gutted..

Picture of the N234MM On World Drive...

 

[Victor Kelly]

Raven you are awesome!

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

#14: You pretty much can't see Disney property from the highway
Oooh noooooo...Of COURSE not.....

 

[Goofyernmost]

Well it's no secret that the person who wrote this article was a CM but not a very knowledgeable one.

25. The land that is now WDW wasn't ALL originally swamps.

True but the water table is extremely high and going downward would be a very damp experience for the most part. Also, Walt was dead, he didn't put utilidors anyplace. He might have made the suggestion years before when he was upset about costumed CM's moving across the wrong lands became obvious, however, except for concept and approval of a duplicate, more or less, Disneyland in Florida... Roy or the Imagineers did the structural planning, not Walt.

Just a comment on the Pin 'Trade situation. When I was at WDW in February, I heard more then one "guest" ask a CM if they had any Pins to trade. The answer was no to both the encounters I witnessed. Perhaps the PT craze is starting to slow to a merciful stop.

 

[Victor Kelly]

A very interesting fact is that there was a STOL airport east of the main MK parking lot, and south of the Wilderness lodge.

 

[Victor Kelly]

True but the water table is extremely high and going downward would be a very damp experience for the most part. Also, Walt was dead, he didn't put utilidors anyplace. He might have made the suggestion years before when he was upset about costumed CM's moving across the wrong lands became obvious, however, except for concept and approval of a duplicate, more or less, Disneyland in Florida... Roy or the Imagineers did the structural planning, not Walt.

Just a comment on the Pin 'Trade situation. When I was at WDW in February, I heard more then one "guest" ask a CM if they had any Pins to trade. The answer was no to both the encounters I witnessed. Perhaps the PT craze is starting to slow to a merciful stop.

Actually when we were there in January I noticed that there were less pin kiosks around, but they were still there. And I am glad, because,, started collecting pins because they no longer sell shotglasses.

 

[Goofyernmost]

It's still interesting on how they landed it on World Drive..

How the inside looked before it was gutted..

Picture of the N234MM On World Drive...

You know if they were to put the plane under cover, restore the inside, that in itself would be quite a draw that people would love, myself included, to see.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

A very interesting fact is that there was a STOL airport east of the main MK parking lot, and south of the Wilderness lodge.

The runway had small grooves in it if you went about 20mph you could hear Zip a Dee doo Dah..

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

You know if they were to put the plane under cover, restore the inside, that in itself would be quite a draw that people would love, myself included, to see.

This would have been nice for One Man's Dream...

 

[Goofyernmost]

This would have been nice for One Man's Dream...

Exactly, and I'll bet there is room for it to connect. Let's go on a hunger strike until they decide to do it. Or hold our breath until we turn blue. Then they will be forced to do it.

That is actually what I was hoping they would do with the remaining sound stage, but Toy Story seems to have won out. They aren't doing anything with the animation building, maybe there.

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

Exactly, and I'll bet there is room for it to connect. Let's go on a hunger strike until they decide to do it. Or hold our breath until we turn blue. Then they will be forced to do it.

That is actually what I was hoping they would do with the remaining sound stage, but Toy Story seems to have won out. They aren't doing anything with the animation building, maybe there.

Wouldn't the Narnia/Jack Sparrow Sound stage fit it?

 

[Goofyernmost]

Wouldn't the Narnia/Jack Sparrow Sound stage fit it?

It might, but, isn't that where the Toy Story expansion is going, or at least part of it?

 

[Cmdr_Crimson]

It might, but, isn't that where the Toy Story expansion is going, or at least part of it?

The TSM Expansion is on Soundstage 1 closer to the Backlot Tour entrance.

 

[Goofyernmost]

The TSM Expansion is on Soundstage 1 closer to the Backlot Tour entrance.

Right, I was thinking of the other end. Well, it's settled then, the plane can go in there. Problem solved. Let the hunger strike begin.