OMG facts: true or false?

[AswaySuller]

OMG facts just posted this:

Ever noticed gum on the greets of Disney world?

The “gum” on the ground at Disney is actually sensors for parades. Disney parades have become legendary, a thing of childhood and of nostalgia. The parade occurs every day at 3:00 as staff at Disney will be sure to remind visitors to the park. The parade includes floats and staff dressed up and acting as beloved Disney characters such as Aladdin and the Fairy God Mother.

It is a huge event that requires a lot of upkeep and good management. To technologically organize the event, Disney has sensors on the ground around the parade route called electronic diodes. They look like chewed gum stuck to the ground, but they are actually used to monitor the parade floats.

The diodes communicate to a room underneath Peter Pan’s flight, where workers pay attention to the pace and location of each float. With this information, they are able to inform the float drivers whether to slow or increase their pace to fill gaps in the parade.

A small cubicle near the parade has information including videos and pictures, and it the location from which employees inform the drivers of what pace changes they should make.

 

[WDWmazprty]

There are sensors on/in the ground, but whether they look like gum or not is another matter.

 

[wiigirl]

Sensors on the ground? wow, thats awesome!

Going to have to notice next time

 

[pumpkin7]

i've heard about the sensors, but i doubt they look like chewing gum; the park actively doesn't sell it and cleans any dropped gum up, so why would they encourage people to drop it by putting in sensors that look like gum? hmm.
i've read lots of facts over the years about how gums picked up off the ground nightly, and how things are painted the second they look tatty but judging by their dropping standards, i don't know if any of them are true any more.

one thing i do know is that although there are many USA flags down mainstreet, only one is real, as in only one has the correct amount of stars. all the reset have 1 less than what should be on there, and are therefore considered 'fake' and so do not need to be lowered on a nightly basis. i'll give you one guess as to where the real one is.

oh, and true or false:
walt disney is criogenically frozen beneath cinderella castle hehe.

in other news, why do they feel the need to now call it 'Disney's Magic Kingdom PARK' ?? just, why?! we all know it's a park but to us it's a Magic Kingdom. it's a kingdom, not a park!!! ergh

 

[Mukta]

oh, and true or false:
walt disney is criogenically frozen beneath cinderella castle hehe.

False. His cryogenically frozen body is under Sleeping Beauty's Castle in DL.

 

[AswaySuller]

I'm gonna guess the real flag is on/by the hall of presidents?

I agree with the gum thing.... I can't see them disguising it as something they work so hard to eliminate!

 

[Engenie]

I could see how this could be mistaken. After they drill and fill a hole in concrete or pavement, they often fill them back in with a black looking goo (an emulsifier) to seal and protect what's ever inserted. So I could entirely believe that the plug could look like old dirty chewing gum on the street. I doubt they did this purposly... just the way the plug looks.

 

[wdwmagic]

OMG facts just posted this:

Ever noticed gum on the greets of Disney world?

The “gum” on the ground at Disney is actually sensors for parades. Disney parades have become legendary, a thing of childhood and of nostalgia. The parade occurs every day at 3:00 as staff at Disney will be sure to remind visitors to the park. The parade includes floats and staff dressed up and acting as beloved Disney characters such as Aladdin and the Fairy God Mother.

It is a huge event that requires a lot of upkeep and good management. To technologically organize the event, Disney has sensors on the ground around the parade route called electronic diodes. They look like chewed gum stuck to the ground, but they are actually used to monitor the parade floats.

The diodes communicate to a room underneath Peter Pan’s flight, where workers pay attention to the pace and location of each float. With this information, they are able to inform the float drivers whether to slow or increase their pace to fill gaps in the parade.

A small cubicle near the parade has information including videos and pictures, and it the location from which employees inform the drivers of what pace changes they should make.

The parade puck guidance system was abandoned years ago. The parades are now guided manually with spotters walking the parade route with radios to drivers. It was a cool concept, but had lots of operational issues.

 

[lazyboy97o]

one thing i do know is that although there are many USA flags down mainstreet, only one is real, as in only one has the correct amount of stars. all the reset have 1 less than what should be on there, and are therefore considered 'fake' and so do not need to be lowered on a nightly basis. i'll give you one guess as to where the real one is.

Real flags can and are left out over night. The flags on Main Street, USA would lack two stars because there were only 48 states at the time of their setting. These flags also would have been real when Disneyland opened, as Alaska and Hawai'i were not admitted until 1959. I think the real question is if Disneyland flew the official 49 star flag until it officially changed on 4 July 1960 or switched early, like most non-government entities, when Hawai'i became a state in the summer of 1959.

 

[steve76]

Whilst the pucks are no longer used, I believe that they are still there (I did the KTTK tour in 2009, and they were there and the system was described to us). They look like the old containers that were used for 35mm camera films (remember those?) embedded into the ground - exact circles. I wouldn't have said that they looked particularly like gum. I suppose you could mistake them for gum if you weren't looking carefully, but they clearly weren't designed to look like gum.

 

[marni1971]

Indeed. Pucks are no longer used in the MK. Manual guidance, CCTV and wheel rotation measurement determine a floats position. PAGEANT RF communication controls onboard AV.

OMG Facts is more OM out of date.

 

[The Mom]

Real flags can and are left out over night. The flags on Main Street, USA would lack two stars because there were only 48 states at the time of their setting. These flags also would have been real when Disneyland opened, as Alaska and Hawai'i were not admitted until 1959. I think the real question is if Disneyland flew the official 49 star flag until it officially changed on 4 July 1960 or switched early, like most non-government entities, when Hawai'i became a state in the summer of 1959.

They should be illuminated if left up overnight. But flag etiquette is frequently ignored, through ignorance or intentionally.

 

[vonpluto]

Actually, not etiquette, but U.S. Law:
United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 — The Flag

§6. Time and occasions for display
a.It is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.
However, there are no penalties involved if the Flag Code is not observed.

I wonder if the flags on Main Street comply with this section:

c.The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement, except when an all-weather flag is displayed.


It puzzles me why anyone would call prior versions of the U.S. Flag (48 star, 13 star or any version in between) fake.

 

[Tiggerish]

one thing i do know is that although there are many USA flags down mainstreet, only one is real, as in only one has the correct amount of stars. all the reset have 1 less than what should be on there, and are therefore considered 'fake' and so do not need to be lowered on a nightly basis. i'll give you one guess as to where the real one is.

I would guess that the "current" flag is the one on the flagpole that gets lowered every evening during the flag ceremony.

The flags on Main Street, USA would lack two stars because there were only 48 states at the time of their setting.

While it should be obvious, I never would have picked up on that. What a great "Disney detail"!

 

[pumpkin7]

Real flags can and are left out over night. The flags on Main Street, USA would lack two stars because there were only 48 states at the time of their setting. These flags also would have been real when Disneyland opened, as Alaska and Hawai'i were not admitted until 1959. I think the real question is if Disneyland flew the official 49 star flag until it officially changed on 4 July 1960 or switched early, like most non-government entities, when Hawai'i became a state in the summer of 1959.

uhm ok, i just read the fact somewhere, i don't know the entire history of the states and flags of the usa.
it's on this website:

Only the "main" flag in Town Square is taken down at sundown. The other similar flags are not true U.S. flags; they are missing stripes or stars.

obviously, it's not a very good fact then!

i like the fact on there about the being a wave machine at the bottom of the seven seas lagoon though, even if it can't be used.

 

[lazyboy97o]

uhm ok, i just read the fact somewhere.

Especially when it comes to Disney, do not just accept what you read or are told. The misinformation, even from supposedly authorative or knowledgable sources, is massive.

 

[Rob562]

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Actually, not etiquette, but U.S. Law:
United States Code Title 4 Chapter 1 — The Flag

The Flag Code is not U.S. Law, it's just a guideline. (Hence why there are no punishments for violating it)

48-star flags are also flown on all WDW watercraft. And it's simply to allow them to now lower the flags every night.
It has nothing to do with how many stars were on the flags when Disneyland opened, nor that 48 stars is accurate to the time period of Main Street USA (because it isn't, at the turn of the century, between 1896 and 1907 there were 45 states)

As for the wave machine in the Lagoon, it was completely removed many years ago, except perhaps for some underwater foundations.

-Rob

 

[vonpluto]

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The Flag Code is not U.S. Law, it's just a guideline. (Hence why there are no punishments for violating it)


-Rob

Awe contrairy, mom ami.
From the GPO website:
About United States Code

The U.S. Code (USC) is the codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws of the United States. It is divided by broad subjects into 51 titles and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. The U.S. Code was first published in 1926. The next main edition was published in 1934,and subsequent main editions have been published every six years since 1934. In between editions, annual cumulative supplements are published in order to present the most current information.

Of the 51 titles, 24 have been enacted into positive (statutory) law. These titles are 1, 3, 4, 5, 9, 10, 11, 13, 14, 17, 18, 23, 28, 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 44, 46, 49, and 51. When a title of the Code was enacted into positive law, the text of the title became legal evidence of the law. Titles that have not been enacted into positive law are only prima facie evidence of the law. In that case, the Statutes at Large still govern.

The current edition of the code was published in 2006, and according to the US Government Printing Office, is over 200,000 pages long.