Does anyone know any interesting trivia about Disneyland?

They do not sell chewing gum, and never have. Walt didn’t want discarded gum on the pavements.

They are so concerned about your experience being perfect right up to the end, they will even jump start your car for you if your battery is dead when you go to leave the parking lot.

If you get sick or injured while there, and have to leave early, stop at the City Hall on your way out and get a free ticket for a return visit. (this happened to me when I got heat stroke there one hot summer day- on my Birthday!)

If you go for your birthday, stop at City Hall and get a Birthday sticker to wear. Each Disney employee that sees it on you all day must say “Happy Birthday,(name)” to you! It’s fun!

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So if we give you all the trivia, isn’t it us who’ve won the battle?

I like dispelling myths, so here goes:

The feral cats of Disneyland are not penned to be released at night and were not brought on to the property. Feral cats exist in many communities, and they took up residence at Disneyland on their own. (An early story has Walt touring the upper floor of the Castle before the Sleeping Beauty Walkthrough was installed and discovering the feral cats – and their thousands of fleas). Feral cats are provided food and shelter, are spayed and neutered, and are free to roam the property at all hours. You might find some hanging around the lower deck of The Hungry Bear Restaurant (which happens to be near one of their feeding stations).

The Golden Spike under the Castle arch does not now nor has it ever marked the center of Disneyland, despite what the tour guides say. It is merely a surveyor’s marker used to align the Castle with Main Street. There are a number of these surveyor’s markers located throughout the park.

Main Street does use forced perspective, but not to make it seem like a longer walk in to the park and a shorter walk out. Main Street is the same width at its start and end, and the buildings are roughly the same height. Forced perspective is used vertically, with each story being smaller than the one below, making the buildings appear taller than they actually are. The Castle uses the same technique, with bricks near the top being smaller than the ones at the base. As a happy accident, because you are looking down the street at the Castle which your mind tells you is a large structure, it places it farther away than the reverse view of Main Street Train Station which has no forced perspective and so feels closer as you exit.

Everyone knows about the bullet hole in the Haunted Mansion, right? A park guest somehow took a BB gun into the park and shot at the Duelists in the Ballroom, breaking the glass. It is camouflaged by a spider web because they could. Although the Ballroom makes use of the largest panes of glass in the world, if one broke they would not have to rip off the roof to replace it as some sites suggest. There is an extra pane stored behind the fireplace.

Many attractions pay homage to what occupied their space. Finding Nemo Submarine Voyage has a rockwork mermaid and sea monster, nods to the former Submarine attraction. Indiana Jones has a hidden Eeyore sign in the projection room because it sits on the former Eeyore section of the parking lot. Pooh has three stuffed busts hidden away from the Country Bear Jamboree.

Some remnants of former attractions can still be seen: the Swiss Chalet Skyway station in Fantasyland, the piers that held the House of Tomorrow. Even some former ticket booths still remain: the lighthouse beside Storybook Canals and the large mushroom with the book atop it next to Alice.

Building Disneyland, they conserved resources where they could. The original orchard property had eucalyptus trees as a wind break, which were incorporated and still exist behind Main Street along the Jungle Cruise. Trees were brought from the freeway construction project when they were to be removed to make way for the roadway. And the story of the colorblind bulldozer driver has been debunked as a public relations fabrication.

The Opera House served as the original lumber mill during construction. It was one of the first buildings built and that is the reason it is so large.

Not all attractions are within the park boundaries set by the Disneyland Railroad. Indiana Jones, Pirates, Haunted Mansion, Splash Mountain, and Small World all extend under the railroad tracks into the backlot in various ways.

Just found this out: Look for other Disney characters in the background of Clopin’s Music Box at the Princess Fantasy Faire. Sharp eyes will spot Snow White, Flynn Rider, Peter Pan, and more.

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-In , Disneyland had attractions but now it has over attractions

-Tomorrowland was menat to show the future

-Soda and Popcorn at Disneyland are there just for display since they get it for free but gives brands the advertising

-Hidden Mickeys are located everywhere (at every ride)

-Club takes years to get into and costs thousand’s of dollars to get membership

-The Disney land parking structure can hold more than , cars

-Steve Martin used to work in a Magic Shop in Disneyland

-Cast Members cannot point with a finger because it is rude but instead will use fingers/hand

-Cats were brought in to keep out rodents

-Taddress of Disneyland is Harbor Boulevard (pay attention to the ‘s). M is the th letter of the alphabet and since there are two ‘s it would be “M’s”. If you turn the address () sideways it looks like Mickey Mouse ears symbolizing Mickey and Minnie

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.Disneyland opened on July , .

.It is the only park that was designed and built under Walt Disney’s supervision.

.Club in New Orleans Square is the only place in Disneyland that sells alcoholic beverages, no other place in Disneyland sell those.

.Matterhorn has a basketball court in there.

.The Disneyland Monorail is the first daily operating monorail system in the Western Hemisphere

.Employees goes by the name ‘cast member’.

.’On stage’ refers to any area of the resort that is open to guests.

. ‘Backstage’ refers to the area which are restricted to guests.

I spent / years writing a book full of the information you are looking for. There is about , Fun Facts in it. You can google it. Its on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and others.

“Discovering The Magic Kingdom: An Unofficial Disneyland Vacation Guide”

You can even follow my facebook page, which I post fun facts on.

Source(s): DiscoveringTheMagicKingdom.com

In Disney you are never more than approx. feet from a waste bin. Take the back stage tour to learn all sorts of interesting stuff including a trip to the underground service tunnels. Another interesting fact – the tunnels are not underground as they are at original ground level. Everything you see from street level up is on made up ground.

Disneyland Florida’s got a bar called Club and you have to be really rich to get into it, plus your name is put on a list and you have to wait years.

Also, beneath the same resort there’s what might as well be called an empty city, where workers and stuff wander around.

Source(s): Cracked.com article

Every night after closing, Disney Land releases cats into the park to help keep the rodent population under control…..What I heard anyway!

In order to not disturb the park visitors, percent of the maintenance goes on at night when the park is closed.

Nearly percent of Walt Disney World property is devoted to gardens and maintained landscapes.

Steven Martin use to work in the Magic Shop in Disney Land.

The dog holding the keys in The Pirates of the Caribbean and the dog in the Carousel of Progress are both modeled after Walt Disney’s dog.

This ordinary wooden bench, has an extraordinary history. According to Walt Disney, the idea for a Disney-themed amusement park came to him while sitting on a park bench. He thought about creating a new kind of amusement park, while he watched his daughters ride the Griffith Park Merry-Go-Round. The park bench that Walt Disney sat on, while he imagined what would become Disneyland, is currently on display in the Opera House lobby.

When Disneyland was under construction, Walt Disney had a private apartment installed over the historic fire station on Main Street, U.S.A. so he could supervise. After the park was built, he and his family continued to use it frequently. Everyone in the park knew when Disney was there because he left a light burning in the window. Since Disney’s death in , the light has been left on to honor his memory and to show that his spirit will always be a part of Disneyland. awe

Walt Disney refused to allow a death certificate to list the place of death as Disneyland. For those who died at Disneyland, they were not allowed to be pronounced dead at the park. They were moved through a tunnel that lead out to Harbor Blvd outside of the park, and then pronounced dead.

Disneyland’s address is S. Harbor Street. Walt Disney picked the address himself because M is the th letter of the English alphabet, so stands for Mickey Mouse.

More of the information and some repeated is:

. Disneyland’s original Tinker Bell was a -year-old Hungarian circus performer named Tiny Kline. The first to fly off the top of the Matterhorn on a zip line, she previously worked as a stunt aerialist, hanging from a flying airplane by her teeth.

. High inside the hollow Matterhorn is a basketball court. It’s part of an employee break room. Los Angeles Lakers’ center Vlade Divac has been up there to shoot hoops.

. Many of the faces of the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean are modeled on those of the “Imagineers” (Disneyspeak for the park’s artists and engineers) who created the ride. There’s evidence one face was modeled on Walt Disney’s.

. Ron Ziegler, Richard Nixon’s press secretary during the Watergate scandal, once worked as a skipper on the Jungle Cruise ride.

. The spooky voice that narrates the Haunted Mansion ride is that of the Pillsbury Doughboy. An actor named Paul Frees, who was to Disney what Mel Blanc was to Warner Brothers, supplied the voices for both, as well as many of the pirates in Pirates of the Caribbean and most of the characters in “Great Moments With Mr. Lincoln” (except Abe himself). He was also the voice of John Lennon in the old Beatles cartoons and Boris Badenov in the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show.

. The sailing ship Columbia, which is supposed to be a replica of the first U.S. ship to circumvent the globe, actually was built in large part from the plans for the HMS Bounty, of mutiny fame. Disney’s shipbuilders couldn’t find plans for the original Columbia, so they relied heavily on those of Capt. William Bligh’s ship, which had similar dimensions.

. Children’s Fairyland in Oakland was one of the major inspirations for Disneyland. Walt Disney even hired Fairyland’s first director, Dorothy Manes, to work at his park.

. From groundbreaking to opening, Disneyland was built in just days.

. Perhaps inevitably, opening day – July , – was a disaster. Asphalt poured just hours before guests arrived hadn’t fully dried, and women’s spike heels sank into Main Street. VIP passes were widely counterfeited, and double the expected number of people showed up. Rides broke down. Because of a plumber’s strike, Walt Disney had to choose between drinking fountains and bathrooms. He opted for the latter, telling a reporter, “People can buy Pepsi-Cola, but they can’t pee in the street.”

. Fittingly, one of the original Tomorrowland attractions was Crane’s Bathroom of Tomorrow.

. Frank Sinatra showed up on opening day and took a spin around Autopia.

. Disneyland cost $ million to build in , about $ million in today’s dollars. The Space Mountain ride, which opened in , cost more than half that amount (in constant dollars).

. On opening day, Walt Disney had his gardeners cover bare patches of dirt by replanting weeds from the parking lot and labeling them with long, horticultural-sounding names.

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