In the 1970s , someone add a gun into Disneyland and photograph the glassful in the Haunted Mansion . The attraction was fundamentally built around that glass , take a crap it too expensive and hard to replace , so Disney just covered the fastball hole with a fake spider , which you could still see to this daytime .
Recently, Reddit userfriedbabiesfordinner(wow, what a name), asked the people ofr/Disneylandif 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 information below could n’t be verified because it ’s base on personal / insider info , so take those with a grain of salt , ya know ?
1.“Michelle Pfeifferwas one of the performers for Alice in the Main Street Electrical Parade in the 1970s.”
2.“How about the bullet hole in the glass above the ballroom scene in The Haunted Mansion?”
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)beaglesthat 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!”
4.“Doritoswere invented at Disneyland.”
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.”
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.”
7.“The letters that spelled out ‘C-A-L-I-F-O-R-N-I-A’ at California Adventure are now inSacramento at Cal Expo. This is my favorite Disney fact. I grew up climbing on those letters and now I live close to Sacramento.”
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!”
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!”
10.“You used to be able tobuy brason Main Street in Disneyland!”
11.“Walt Disney designed thepush-flapgarbage can. He took it to manufacturers and everyone thought it was useless so he never filed for a patent.”
12.“New Orleans Square at Disneyland cost the same amount of money as the Louisiana Purchase.”
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 onlyfour timesthe park has been closed.”
14.“Back in 1999, they put a cast member in the haunted housedressed 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.”
15.“There are small offices in the castle. Source: Worked in one above Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique.”
16.“In 2004,Cary ‘Jay’ Sharpwon 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.'”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
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.”
22.“Before popcorn was in the parks they used to sell peanuts but the shells were so messy so they switched to popcorn!!”
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.”
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