Walt Disney and Disney World is known all around the world, but there are some fun facts that some of us were not aware of! Below are 11 of hundreds of secrets that Disney still hides. Enjoy!
1. Our favorite trash-compactor Wall-E, was named after Walter Elias Disney, the creator of Disney!
2. Disney animators are tricky and love to hide classic characters in the background of new films they shouldn’t be part of! For example, Goofy, Donald and Mickey appear in the Little Mermaid.
3. In 1955, the year Disneyland was opened, Walt Disney was so anxious about being in his park as much as possible that he built an apartment for him and his family above the Fire Department on Main Street.
Whenever he was present, he would leave a lamp in the window on, and this is now always alight even after his death in his honor.
Whenever he was present, he would leave a lamp in the window on, and this is now always alight even after his death in his honor.
4. In order for staff members to get dressed in their characters, there are tunnel systems that run beneath Disney World so that the magic is not ruined when members are running around with their costumes to get dressed.
5. Characters can’t use the word ‘no’, sit down, break out of their character,or point to a direction with a single finger (since it is considered rude).
6. Dumbo is the quietest central character of all Disney movies. He has fewer lines than Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, who only spoke 18 lines in her own film. That’s what she gets for always being sleeping!
7. The original voice for Mickey Mouse, Wayne Allwine, was married in real life to Russi Taylor, the original voice for Minnie Mouse.
8. Walt Disney won 1 normal-sized Oscar award and seven little Oscars for ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarves’ in 1938
9. Mickey Mouse was the first animated character to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
10. After the park is closed, 200 cats are released to keep rats out of it.
11. While many are unsure of Goofy’s species, it is a dog.