Create your own Disney lie! (or Funny Falsehood)

[MapleGirl]

OK, under the Favorite Silly Thing You've Heard People Say thread, some one mentioned that they have an inside joke with their wife. They walk around the parks saying completely incorrect things to each other for fun (such as "Did you know that the Magic Kingdom is built on a turn-table so that they can control crowds? The whole park can rotate, allowing people to enter different lands").



So, lets create a thread of funny falsehoods.

Here's mine:

Did you know when Epcot first opened, you needed a temporary passport to get from country to country? The World Showcase pavilions were owned by the host country, so were technically a part of that country... kind of like an embassy. It got too complicated, so Disney bought the land back. Now people don't need a passport to travel around the World Showcase.

 

[Buzz Litebeer]

There's a whole website full of these right here: Disney Lies.

A small sample:

Walt Disney World opened in 1950 as Walt Disney's biggest project -- and it soon became his biggest failure. The world wasn't ready for Disney's grand vision. They didn't want to spend the money, they didn't want to spend the time, and by God they didn't want to have to go to hot, sticky, buggy, hurricane-infested Florida on their vacation. After spending huge amounts of time and money (more than $15,000, or $6.7 billion in inflation-adjusted 2006 dollars), Disney had to admit that his pride and joy was a boondoggle and close up shop.

Not one to wallow in defeat, Disney purchased some land in California, determined to make a go of his theme-park idea by doing the whole thing on a smaller, more manageable scale. Disneyland proved to be an instant hit, and it gave Disney the funds he needed to give his Florida project a second lease on life.

The next time around, many of the mistakes that had been made in building the resort were fixed. A hotel was built so that guests would have somewhere to stay. Restrooms were installed in the theme park. The whole place was wired for electricity. Bigger, better, more likely to stay in working order attractions were built, using materials that wouldn't rot away in a matter of months in Florida's humidity. And, perhaps most important of all, the swamps were drained so that everything could be built on dry land and the gators could be better kept under control.

The renewed resort opened in 1971, and although Walt Disney himself was no longer alive, he still considered it one of his greatest achievements.

 

[Debbie-TN]

Did you know that all the animals in AK are audioanamatronics? Don't they do a fantastic job of making them look and sound real. Very high tech. Every once in a while, CM's come out and move them around so no one will notice. And those trees and plants. You think they're real, they're not. In the fall, if they need to change the colors, CM's come in at night and repaint them. Oh, that Disney magic.

(I actually did this to my niece several years ago)

 

[bgohre]

In order to comply with enviromental laws in Florida, for the past two years, Disney has been recycling all of their "waste" water from the resorts and theme park restrooms and using this recycled water for Splash Mountain and Kali River Rapids.

 

[mamazaz]

Did you know that the seafood dishes prepared at WDW are extremely fresh? They come right out of the tanks at Living Seas in Epcot!! They catch them and take them in ice chests and deliver them to all the restaurants. You didn't think those divers are in the tanks just for fun do you??

 

[Amanda_the_awesome]

Did you know that before they made the Cinderella castle suite that was where they housed Walt Disney's cryogenicly(sp) frozen body. Well they tried to bring him back to life and they found out that cryogenic freezing doesn't work as well as they thought it would so his dead body was moved it to a hidden location in AK in side of EE and thats why they have the prayer flags all around the land of Asia so that guests will be protected from Walts angry ghost.
sorry for the morbid topic it's kinda an inside joke between me and my bf.

 

[MapleGirl]

There's a bomb shelter underneath Future World in Epcot. (Epcot was built during the height of the Cold War.) Lately there's been some talk about refurbing and opening the shelter to guests as an attraction.

There was even some talk about using it for DVC suites. But this fell by the wayside.

 

[Buzz Litebeer]

You didn't think those divers are in the tanks just for fun do you??

In a similar vein, animals at Animal Kingdom that pass away wind up as featured entrees in one of the park's many restaurants.