Well after being on that buddy ^^, it sure is hard to come back to reality! And even more reality knowing I'm coming back to work my last day possibly ever working for Disney, pack, and go home to take a class. Why does the fun have to end?!
Hopefully you all enjoyed the snip-its from the last blog of the different rides and a little bit of how they operate. The rest of this information are just random facts because I just wrote down what I wanted. It's going to be a longer post, so bare with me if you want to know the inside scoop. I put myself in your shoes, and I think that this would be very interesting so I wanted to include a lot.
- When
Disneyland opened in California, it was a mess. You would think since
it's Disney it would be perfect, but this was definitely not the case.
Since this was the first park ever opened, they obviously had a lot of
trials-and-errors. They often called it "Black Sunday" because of how
horrible the day went. First, they were planning on an exclusive 30,000
guests coming by invite-only. They ended up with twice as many people
with over 60,000. Because of this, they ran out of every food and drink
they had since they weren't expecting this great turnout. The rides
weren't tested properly, so lots of them were breaking down. On top of
that, they planned the opening day too soon. Incredibly too soon. Too
soon that the asphalt that they put down the night before hadn't dried
and women that were walking in their heels (heels to a park?! yeah
right.) left and permanently imprinted their heel-print!!! Imagine that!
That would never happen nowadays, but it's funny to look back to
compare.
- Everything is a "show" as I have mentioned in the beginning of my blogging. It's part of the show by having the train in front of the castle so that there is no possible way to see the castle before entering the park. As they describe it, you don't want to see your best act first! They also scaled down the buildings in mainstreet. Some buildings are full scale, then 2nd story is 60%, and 3rd story is 40%. This was really neat because if they would have made them all to full-scale, then the castle would have looked incredibly smaller and that would have made it look less significant. The Contemporary (resort) was also built specifically to block mainstreet. The castle was also extremely hard to build since there are different building codes for Osceola/Orange county but now WDW has their own.
- There is a reason for everything, which is another fact I love. The different "lands" (Adventureland, Fantasyland, etc.), are all well surrounded by their themes. For example, you would not find palm trees in Liberty Square because that just doesn't make sense. However, we were shown how landscape was intricately placed to make you really feel like you were going into another land. Every land has their "landmark" they see from afar. Tomorrowland you see Astro Orbiter, etc. Adventureland, however, does not have one. Why? Because it's an adventure and you don't know what to expect until you get there!
- Liberty Square I had a special interest in. The Liberty Tree is the main focus. It weighs 35 tons and there are 13 lanterns on it for the 13 colonies for way back when. The building right in front of it is the Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe. The shutters on it are crooked. This is because in the olden days, they had leather straps for their shutters and because leather stretches, their shutters would be crooked! Again, you'd never notice this unless you literally looked for it and who stands around and just wanders in Magic Kingdom?
- There are also no public restrooms you will find in Liberty Square. They are in both lands surrounding it, but not actually in Liberty Square. This is because there were no public restrooms back then! Our tour guide explained that after they finished their "business", the person would take their bucket and scream "guardy-loo" out the window, which meant you are to watch out because if not their poo would go right on you! (that rhymed). In addition, the pathway right outside the window has a different colored cobblestone pathway, which is supposed to represent the person throwing away their poo! Again, you would never notice that.
- Magic Kingdom goes through 80,000 lbs of trash PER DAY. Although, there is a misconception. I also thought that every trash can you placed something in automatically sucked it into a huge pit where all the trash goes. This is thankfully incorrect. The trash bins are all regular trash cans--but not THIS one!!..
Ha. Anyways, the custodial team takes all the regular bins and empties them into a special bin which then sucks it all down underneath where the "tunnel" is. (I'd post pictures of the tunnel because I know everyone is curious, but I'm pretty sure I'd get fired ASAP!) But good thing not every trash can automatically does travels to a huge dumpster because if you drop something by accident, such as a guest's wedding ring we retrieved! (don't know how that happened), then it'd be gone forever!
- Epcot was originally supposed to be a city, not a park.
- They paint most buildings that are offstage or just for cast members by a paint called "Go away green". This is because it blends in with mostly everything. That way, since you're not supposed to see it, it'll blend in and you won't think it's not supposed to be there.
- The electrical parade has 8 miles of cable in length. Every 7th bulb belongs to one strand. This way if a bulb goes out, it will be hard to notice as your eyes are attracted to the light. If a strand goes out, you won't see an entire patch of lights out. Pretty smart!
- Pirates of the carribean we actually heard a lot more about. It originally was supposed to be a museum, but then guests actually asked why WDW didn't have anything pirate-like. WDW first thought that Florida had too many things that were pirate-like so they did not include anything. However, when guests continuously asked, they listened and put this ride in. It was Walt's last ride he ever got to work on before he passed.
- The most intriguing aspect about Pirates of the Carribean ride is the room of the skeletons playing chess. There are 2 lines to get into the stand-by line of Pirates. Only one side views this picture. The story behind this is pretty humorous. Being the non-avid chess player that I am, I never paid attention to where the pieces were placed.
Quite a lot of information, but I know people were asking me about it, so here ya go!
Mostly one more bloggy after this, then I'm outta hereee!
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