I Don’t Know If I’m Just Easily Impressed, But These 23 Useless Disney Facts Genuinely Fascinated Me
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I Don't Know If I'm Just Easily Impressed, But These 23 Useless Disney Facts Genuinely Fascinated Me,In the 1970s, someone brought a gun into Disneyland and shot the glass in the Haunted Mansion. The attraction was basically built around that glass, making it too expensive and difficult to replace, so Disney just covered the bullet hole with a fake spider, which you can still see to this day.
I Don’t Know If I’m Just Easily Impressed, But These 23 Useless Disney Facts Genuinely Fascinated Me
Recently, Reddit user friedbabiesfordinner (wow, what a name), asked the people of r/Disneyland if they knew any “useless Disney facts?” And, despite being categorized as “useless,” I actually found some of the info really interesting. Check it out:
Note: some of the info below couldn’t be verified because it’s based on personal/insider info, so take those with a grain of salt, ya know?
1. “Michelle Pfeiffer was one of the performers for Alice in the Main Street Electrical Parade in the 1970s.”
Crystal Ro / BuzzFeed—Visible_Nectarine_98
As explained by Inside the Magic, “While many rumors and stories surrounding this spooky spider are found on the internet, reports indicate that sometime in the summer of 1974, a guest entered the Southern California Haunted Mansion with a .22 caliber rifle and reportedly shot at a ghost.
This huge glass was placed in the attraction’s foundation before the show building was actually completed. So essentially, Walt Disney Imagineering built the Haunted Mansion around this multi-million-dollar glass.
As a result of the bullet hole, a spiderweb-like fracture formed in the glass. The cost to replace this glass would be monumental and would require the show building’s roof to be completely removed to tear down this glass wall.
In the height of Disney’s dark ages after Walt Disney’s unfortunate passing in 1966, The Walt Disney Company was tight on money and resorted to covering this bullet hole with a simple artificial spider.”
And here’s a GIF so you can see the hole/spider in ~action~:
3. “There are at least four (unsure of the number since 2018 when I last worked there) beagles that sniff the Disneyland hotels for bedbugs almost daily. They’re amazing little sniffers and loved by all that work with them or have been honored to meet them. Disneyland makes good and sure no bedbugs come bugging ya!”
Peter Bischoff / Getty Images—Andilee
4. “Doritos were invented at Disneyland.”
Harold Lloyd / Getty Images, Medianews Group / MediaNews Group via Getty Images
—Kfurt13
According to WDW Magazine, the story essentially goes that in the 1950s, a company called Alex Foods was the main food supplier for the park’s restaurants. One of those restaurants was sponsored by Frito-Lay and called Casa de Fritos (which was in the location where Rancho del Zocalo is now).
In the 1960s, an Alex Foods salesman noticed staff at Casa de Fritos throwing out unused tortillas. So, he suggested they cut up the tortillas into triangles, fry them, and season them (allegedly inspired by a Mexican snack called totopos).
The “invention” was a hit, and the item was added to the menu. Some years later, a VP for Frito-Lay saw how big a success the snack was, so the company decided to start making and selling it outside the park in Southern California. Alex Foods was eventually cut out of the deal, and then Frito-Lay moved production to their own factory in Tulsa and started selling Doritos nationwide.
5. “The Jungle Cruise is behind the stores on Main Street. So all the trees you see over the tops of the building are jungle on the other side. It’s most notable next to the fire station. Just a weird little tidbit that puts the size of the park in perspective.”
MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images, Allen J. Schaben / Getty—DexterGrant
6. “Disney parks use a grayish green color nicknamed ‘go away green’ to camouflage things like show buildings and electrical boxes that they don’t want you to notice in the park.”
Medianews Group / MediaNews Group via Getty Images—butterfly_eyes
7. “The letters that spelled out ‘C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A’ at California Adventure are now in Sacramento at Cal Expo. This is my favorite Disney fact. I grew up climbing on those letters and now I live close to Sacramento.”
Al Schaben / Getty Images, LiveFastDiePoor / Via youtube.com—AviatorByrd
8. “I’m Korean American, and I remember there was a ‘Korean Day’ at the parks in the ’80s! With a parade of Korean Celebrities! The park was packed with Korean People!”
ebay.com—Positive_warrior_05
9. “A lot of people know about the Disneyland cats! They are an integral part of the Disneyland ecosystem. But what you might not know is that cats that are considered ‘too friendly’ are adopted out! Usually, Disney works with the local shelters and rescues to adopt out the super friendly kitties!”
Medianews Group / MediaNews Group via Getty Images—CulturedAlcremie
“Worked there for years, it always surprised me how many cats showed up after the park had closed. I never saw any back stage during the day so I never could understand where they were all hiding. I’m talking a lot of cats at around 2 a.m. just walking around while the night crew worked.”
—Alessoninswagenomics
10. “You used to be able to buy bras on Main Street in Disneyland!”
Harold Lloyd / Getty Images
—Witch_whaa
“Also used to be able to buy guns in Frontierland.”
—SoulMaekar
11. “Walt Disney designed the push-flap garbage can. He took it to manufacturers and everyone thought it was useless so he never filed for a patent.”
Medianews Group / MediaNews Group via Getty Images—Starjupiter93
12. “New Orleans Square at Disneyland cost the same amount of money as the Louisiana Purchase.”
Medianews Group / MediaNews Group via Getty Images—N1ngeoff
According to the official Disney Parks Blog, “It cost $15 million to build New Orleans Square ($8 million of which was spent on Pirates of the Caribbean). This is equal to the amount the United States paid for the real New Orleans as part of the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.”
13. “There was a hostile Yippie takeover of Tom Sawyer’s Island at Disneyland in 1970 that effectively shut the park down for one out of the only four times the park has been closed.”
Bettmann / Bettmann Archive—inkedsamurai
14. “Back in 1999, they put a cast member in the haunted house dressed in a suit of armor. He prowled the area near the corridor of doors and his job was to sneak up on the doom buggies to scare passengers. It did not last because people would get scared and punch the knight or he would discover people doing intimate things in the buggies. I was on it with my dad, the knight scared the bejesus out of me and I screamed really loud and startled him too.”
Medianews Group / MediaNews Group via Getty Images—Nodramallama18
15. “There are small offices in the castle. Source: Worked in one above Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique.”
AaronP/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Images—kaytbug86
16. “In 2004, Cary ‘Jay’ Sharp won a charity auction to become the Haunted Mansion’s ‘official’ 1,000th ghost. His honorary tombstone can be found near the Phantom Five at Disneyland with the text ‘JAY, doctor lawyer legal clerk, forever buried in his work.'”
Medianews Group / MediaNews Group via Getty Images—Zachary624
17. “The singing bust on the haunted mansion that people think looks like Walt Disney is actually the guy who voiced Tony the Tiger (Thurl Ravenscroft). He did many other voices throughout Disneyland, too.”
Attractions 360° / Via youtube.com—gidgetstitch
18. “One of the more well-known ones, but it’s still fun to drop on people who aren’t park regulars or don’t know about it. Haunted Mansion is mostly a facade building, with the stretching room (elevator) taking guests below ground, then they walk through a tunnel (double-image portrait gallery) that passes under the park’s train tracks and into a whole other building for the majority of the Doom Buggy ride.”
Scott Mcpartland / Getty Images—Phased5ek
19. “Bank of America was the sponsor of It’s a Small World when it opened in 1966 at Disneyland. Louis B. Lundborg, the bank’s board chairman, sat in the first boatload with Walt and some children.”
Denver Post / Denver Post via Getty Images—Kai_Vai
20. “On Main Street, on the right-hand side facing the castle, there’s a little inlet roughly halfway through, by where the Starbucks is. There’s usually some seating back there and that’s where Disneyland’s lockers are. Right next to the lockers, there’s a brick wall with a water fountain. This wall was where they tested the look of various bricks while constructing Disneyland. One side has very smooth and regular bricks, the other has uneven and mismatched bricks, so they could see which style they preferred. When construction was finished, they either didn’t have the money to replace the wall or left it there as a little nod to the construction efforts.”
Provost Park Pass / Via youtube.com—ScalierLemon2
21. “When I worked in the parking structure I found out there are way more plainclothes officers and security guards at the park than I previously thought.”
Medianews Group / MediaNews Group via Getty Images—Bowbahfett
22. “Before popcorn was in the parks they used to sell peanuts but the shells were so messy so they switched to popcorn!!”
Pictorial Parade / Getty Images—EmoPlantLady
23. Finally, “My 1992 season pass to Disneyland cost $250. It was a laminated card with my photo and was called a ‘Disneyland Picture Passport.’ It was good for the following 365 days, had no blackout days, and included parking.”
Aaronp / GC Images—Kai_Vai
For comparison, right now, the most expensive Disneyland Magic Key (the current name for an annual pass) is $1,599. And while it also includes parking, it actually has several blackout days during the Holidays.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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