Originally posted by PeterAlt
I've been a Disney fan all my life and have been to WDW every year or so since I was six! But until last month, I've never been to DL in Cali. Well, when I went last month I had an experience that gave me chills. I was on Pirates of the Carbbean.
You know the scene where the women are auctioned off? The auctioneered back off a few feet and turned his head over towards the boat I was in. He looked me dead in the eye, smiled and blinked before going back to his business of auctioning off the women. But during that moment, when he turned his head towards me, he did not look like an AA figure. He looked very alive. I felt the presence of a "soul" within him. Most rememberable were the eyes...
..how I reconized those eyes... I kept a photographic memory of those eyes. Later, I would see an old photo of Walt Disney. I know those eyes, I thought. Suddenly, my brain put one and one together... those were the eyes of the auctionner pirate! More specifically, the auctioneer pirate had Walt Disney's eyes! Or was it really Walt Disney's eyes, or the eyes of Walt's living ghost, surving eternally through the eyes of an AA pirate figure?
In the decades since Walt Disney's death, the claim that he arranged for his body to be frozen has become ubiquitous. Nearly everyone familiar with the name 'Walt Disney' has heard the story that Disney's corpse is stored in a deep-freeze chamber somewhere -- directly under Disneyland's "Pirates of the Caribbean" attraction is the most frequently mentioned site -- awaiting the day when science can repair the damage to his body and bring 'Uncle Walt' back to life.
Originally posted by Dean[AU]
Source: SNOPES
Originally posted by mkt
Snopes.... yup.. 100% truth and reliability there. That's why it's an Urban Legend website. Sorry Dean, but i've been to Walt's Grave... it's in Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.
Originally posted by grizzlyhall
At least he's not in my ice chest!
(We all know he's in the CoP refrigerator of course. . . .
. . .heck, anything to keep CoP running! :lol: )
Originally posted by SNS
What are you talking about?? Snopes is a site to find out if urban legends are true or not. Besides they don't claim that Walt is frozen (they list it as false).
Originally posted by mrtoad
It was actually his ice chest. And I don't doubt he is normally in the freezer at the CoP. I think the ice chest if for when he wants to get out for a bit. :lol:
Originally posted by mkt
Excuse me?
Originally posted by SNS
Snopes is a website that investigates urban legends & tells if they are True or False. Snopes does not claim that Walt is frozen, they have that case down under "False".
http://snopes.com/disney/waltdisn/frozen.htm
Actually everyone is wrong. The ice block ol' Uncle Oriville is using is actually Walt's head.Originally posted by grizzlyhall
At least he's not in my ice chest!
(We all know he's in the CoP refrigerator of course. . . .
. . .heck, anything to keep CoP running! :lol: )
Originally posted by barnebd5
Well I feel something when I'm in WDW. Everytime I set foot on Main Street, you feel Walt's Spirit and legacy live on through you.
Most of us Disney fanatics know that feeling because we wanna feel it all the time.
Originally posted by disneytati
I agree with you. Walt's spirit is in everything he did, and we can feel it when we walk around the parks.
Originally posted by PeterAlt
We have to give credit where credit is due. Attractions such as Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean, and projects such as Disney World, were created AFTER Walt died. True, Walt initiated these projects, but real work didn't start until after he died. Disneyland and the classic Disney films could not have been created without his bother's financial creativity. Disney World, Pirates, and Haunted Mansion were all created mostly under Walt's brother Roy's watch.
Roy, though he was only CEO for a VERY brief time, might be one of the best CEO's the company ever had. Had he lived through the 70's, the company probably would not have had the problems it had in the 80's!
So, let's give credit to Roy. Some of the classic rides and the parks (especially Disney World) would not have happened if it wasn't for Roy.
Roy may not have been the dreamer, like his brother was, but he was certainly a do-er, who believed in his brother's dreams, and dedicated his remaining years of his life seeing to to that his brothers dreams were realized. Though he never said so himself, he equally shared the vision of his brother's dreams.
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