WDW Picture of the Day (Continued)

imamouse

imamouse

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Kplay7881 said:
Taken Sept. 30, 2007 at The Royal Table Dinner during MNSSHP.
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I love this picture! Check out the eye contact - that's some serious sharing going on there. I also like the temporary tattoo on the little princess. Priceless!
 
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tigfan

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disney9752 said:
if i recall those white "marble" figures were a gift to walt disney, im thinking from italy but i cant recall for sure. this is one of the things that makes dl truly the only park walt walked in & helped create.
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Yes, they did come from Italy.

Please forgive the complete deviation from the thread topic here, but since it's been brought up, I think it's a great story to share (for anyone not familiar with it):

Those marble statues of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs arrived at the Disney Studio as an anonymous gift to Walt one day. To this day, no one knows who the sculptor was. The only clue was that the package was postmarked in Italy. Also, there were some collectible soaps being sold in Italy at that time that looked very much like these sculptures, so it was assumed that the artist used those soaps as models for the marble ones.

That part of the story alone is interesting, but making it even more fun is the fact that the artist made an error that hardly anyone ever notices. Any time I know of someone who is planning a trip to DL, I always tell them to go look for the wishing well and these statues and see if they can figure out what the mistake was (I just told someone about it today at work as a matter of fact).

For anyone who is not aware of the mistake, and prefers to figure it out on their own, I won't make the answer obvious here. What I'll do is type it out in white text, and if you'd like to know, just highlight it with your cursor.

Highlight below this line if you'd like to know:
It turned out that the artist made Snow White the exact same height as the Dwarfs. To make this less obvious, the Imagineers used forced perspective and placed Snow White higher up than the Dwarfs and at the top of a waterfall. Pretty clever indeed!
 
Jerm

Jerm

Well-Known Member
tigfan said:
Yes, they did come from Italy.

Please forgive the complete deviation from the thread topic here, but since it's been brought up, I think it's a great story to share (for anyone not familiar with it):

Those marble statues of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs arrived at the Disney Studio as an anonymous gift to Walt one day. To this day, no one knows who the sculptor was. The only clue was that the package was postmarked in Italy. Also, there were some collectible soaps being sold in Italy at that time that looked very much like these sculptures, so it was assumed that the artist used those soaps as models for the marble ones.

That part of the story alone is interesting, but making it even more fun is the fact that the artist made an error that hardly anyone ever notices. Any time I know of someone who is planning a trip to DL, I always tell them to go look for the wishing well and these statues and see if they can figure out what the mistake was (I just told someone about it today at work as a matter of fact).

For anyone who is not aware of the mistake, and prefers to figure it out on their own, I won't make the answer obvious here. What I'll do is type it out in white text, and if you'd like to know, just highlight it with your cursor.

Highlight below this line if you'd like to know:
It turned out that the artist made Snow White the exact same height as the Dwarfs. To make this less obvious, the Imagineers used forced perspective and placed Snow White higher up than the Dwarfs and at the top of a waterfall. Pretty clever indeed!
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Sorry to burst the bubble of one of the great Disney Urban legends, but that story is false. The statutes were actually commissioned from Disney for the park, but due to mis-communication between the sculptor and the studios/WDI all were made the same size. I know this is a long running legend, but WDI cleared story for the Walk in Walt's Footsteps Tour of Disneyland.

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