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on Main Street and in other areas smells are artificially pumped in what is a Disney World secret you might not know if you meet someone who says they work for Disney and you ask them if they dress up as a character and they say no but I'm friends with Mickey they are Mickey I used to know a girl who was a bunch of different princesses in the parks and on the cruise lines and she used to say that Alice was her friend or her friend Rapunzel etc the cast members usually refer to their respective characters as their freen I knew someone who worked at Disney World in Orlando and said they released cats at night after the parks close to control the rodent population they collect the cats at the end of the night and keep them in the underground series of offices and pathways they used to make navigating the parks easier I wonder whose nightmare job it is to herd the cats back to their lair there's a cast member only recreation area called Mickey's retreat it has all sorts of recreational activities like basketball courts baseball diamonds etc it also has water sports equipment like paddle boats it's only for cast members and their immediate family though there's hidden cast member only stores inside the parks the underground tunnels actually smell and are incredibly hilly it used to take me 20 minutes to walk from my location in the park to the employee shuttle via the underground tunnels a lot of things at Disney are designed to tell a story ever notice how you can't just drive to Magic Kingdom and you have to take them on a rail a boat or a bus and walk in that's because the Imagineers want to transport you back in time to a town called Marceline where Walt grew up Main Street is modeled after a typical small town Main Street but with his hometown playing a role in a lot of details from their MK is set up like a hub spoke system to help manage traffic in the park most people naturally head towards the left and go clockwise the spokes the hub being the Castle lead to each land at Hollywood studios there are offices hidden in the parks as well Imagineers work in these offices they come out every day for the dining with an Imagineer guests Imagineers aren't just people who design rides movies games or the like Imagineers can also be librarians historians and even chefs Tinkerbell flying over the Magic Kingdom is one of the most iconic parts of the wishes nighttime spectacular but it doesn't happen with magic alone tink is given a hefty push from the window of Cinderella's castle but if she's not shoved hard enough she won't have enough momentum and will need to hand over hand her way towards the end cast members who auditioned for this part are said to need major upper body strength turns out they really do have to fly Disney is the second largest purchaser of explosives in the USA right behind the military Tower of Terror is randomised an amount of drops on every ride there is a special lounge in spaceship earth that only employees of the sponsoring company Siemens can enter the termite mountain Kilimanjaro safaris are actually fake and are in fact feeders for the animals you can take a behind-the-scenes tour of living with the land in Epcot there is a Starbucks in every Park in Walt Disney World Walt Disney World takes up more space than the city of San Francisco and is twice the size of Manhattan why is it so big so businesses couldn't be close to the parks like they are at Disneyland the Magic Kingdom is the most visited theme park in the world they actually had to tone down the t-rex sounds on dinosaur because people found them too intense especially the sound of it chasing your vehicle dinosaur was originally called countdown to extinction but was changed to dinosaur to correspond with the early 2000s movie splash mountain is called Splash Mountain to correspond with the unrelated movie splash with Tom Hanks the Moroccan Pavilion in Epcot was overseen by royal architects from Morocco because the King wanted it to be authentic the Moroccan pavilion is purposely designed to look kind of destroyed and worn down because in Islam only Allah is perfect no buildings can be there is a suite in Cinderella Castle that can only be won in contests Disney World is actually on a second floor when you enter the park you must walk up this is because on the ground level or first floor is where they put their underground tunnels to transport workers secretly throughout the park they couldn't actually build underground tunnels since Disney World is on swampland The Beatles officially broke up at Disneyworld John Lennon signed the contract that legally dissolved the band while he was staying at the Polynesian Resort across from Cinderella's castle also Nixon's I am NOT a crook television Address was filmed inside Disney's Contemporary Resort where he was staying as a guest they will call you out if you're doing it on a small world and if you want a private boat in small world go during the offseason in the middle of the weekend during a parade that goes right by a small world usually no one is there in the boat is all yours works for Pirates of the Caribbean as well during the light show they won't call you out during boat fund but will cheer you when you get off the boat I was with a friend on the pirates ride a few years ago and he decided he was gonna stand up and see if he could jump off and get him to bed with the skeleton surrounded by riches he stood up on the boat and literally as soon as he did a voice came over the loudspeaker yelling please sit down he did despite looking monstrous from the train station end of Main Street Cinderella Castle is only 183 feet tall this is thanks to forced perspective as the castle is on elevated platform and the ground you walk on is not Imagineers were having difficulty coming up with the name for Splash Mountain they knew they wanted to base it off of a song of the south but nothing seemed to stick the CEO at the time Michael Eisner suggested calling it Splash Mountain removing the song of the south tie-ins and instead theming it to the upcoming Tom Hanks movie splash Imagineers quickly vetoed the idea but the name stuck wondering how the walls stretch in the Haunted Mansion in the California version the stretching room is actually an elevator that brings you downstairs into the right area but since the Imagineers couldn't make an elevator in Florida they did the next best thing raise the roof contrary to popular myth there are no ashes of dead kids left behind by mourning parents on Haunted Mansion or any other ride for that matter the rides are monitored at all times for people pulling stuff like this and at first sight of someone dropping ashes on a ride track a white powder Alert is immediately sent out the ride is closed and the ashes are vacuumed up and sent away by the Disney cleanup crew so unless you want little Timmy to be spending eternity in an Orlando Phil don't try to leave him behind on Disney property Peter Pan's flight was the first tried to open after Disney World's grand opening it launched on October 2nd 1971 precisely one day after the grand opening the animatronics you see in the dwarf cottage at the end of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train are actually reused from an opening day snow-white bride that doesn't exist anymore The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh is full of tributes to old attractions it's hard for adults to spot this one but if you can squeeze yourself inside the giant tree at the rides entrance you can see an engraving of the Nautilus the submarine used in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea while onboard the ride look to your right immediately after entering Al's house you can see a portrait of mr. toad giving the deed to the building over to owl as his ride occupied the building previously won a top score on Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger spin there are two specific targets that get you mad points the first is on the hand of the orange robot in the first room and the second is on the bottom of Zurg ship in the first room you see him every country in Epcot's World Showcase employs people from that specific country only no exceptions in Japan and World Showcase don't miss the category from a small stand just outside the land's main area it's the best shaved ice you'll ever have when passing by a major thrill ride that has an outdoor segment visible from a nearby pathway for example Tower of Terror or Expedition Everest it's not uncommon to hear screams from the ride however these are piped in ambience and not from the actual riders you can tell because whenever there's a nighttime show going on nearby everyone suddenly stops screaming Muppet vision 3d has plenty of animatronics representing the characters from the show but one often goes missed by viewers because of how brief and hidden his appearance is towards the end of the movie the film is destroyed and the screen goes white when that happens look behind you and you can catch a glimpse of the Swedish Chef the Yeti animatronic on Expedition Everest is one of the largest and most complex Disney has ever designed and because of that he hasn't worked since 2008 the story about why he's been stuck for over a decade now varies depending on who you ask but now when he makes his climactic appearance at the end of the ride his movement is simulated by a flashing strobe light and fans blowing on his fur disney fans continued a petition for Imagineers to fix him the beautiful giant mural you see when exiting the monorail station in the Contemporary Resort was designed by Mary Blair whose style was also the inspiration for its a small world every land in the parks has its own unique soundtrack and when you transition between lands the music is a cross between what you hear and both lands so that's it seamlessly transitions except between Tomorrowland and Fantasyland as there is no natural way for those soundtracks to blend so outside of the Tomorrowland Speedway is the only place in any Disney Park where there is no music the Tower of Terror is so tall that it can be viewed from Epcot to not break immersion the back of the tower was designed to architectural II fit in with the Morocco pavilion the Tower of Terror at night has a singular window with a light on with the silhouette of a man in the window animal kingdom is the only park with doors on the bathrooms in case an animal escapes its enclosure Kilimanjaro safaris has a larger area than the Magic Kingdom all Disney cast members official name of their employees when giving directions never point with one finger when Walt Disney died his older brother Roy came out of retirement to oversee phase one of Disney World he renamed it Walt Disney World and died three months after the Magic Kingdom opened the boots on the Jungle Cruise and the riverboat and the rivers of America are on a guided rail on Main Street and in other areas smells were artificially pumped in smell of baked goods outside the bakery for example forced perspective is used to make the buildings look taller or smaller on Cinderella Castle the bricks and windows get smaller as you go up on the American adventure in Epcot the bricks are enlarged to make the massive building appear as only two storeys the amount of lightning rods in the parks is scary Walt Disney World is the largest single location employer in the US Animal Kingdom doesn't have fireworks because of the animals instead it has a water and light show the Polynesian Resort and Contemporary Resort were built using modular construction the contemporary was built with a frame with the rooms lifted into place the Polynesian had the room stacked with a frame built around them every building at Disneyworld is less than 200 feet tall so they do not have to put a blinking red light on the top the tallest building is one hundred ninety nine point five feet if you see an ornate phone anywhere in the parks pick it up there's usually a conversation you can listen to you used to be able to call the phone booth in the UK Pavilion in Epcot there is a drawbridge in Epcot for the globe for illuminations to get into the middle of the lake Disney World has its own bus monorail and ferry system between parks and hotels which are all complimentary regardless if you're staying in a hotel or not every single ride and land has a backstory even basic things like the carousel have a story to them the Carousel of Progress is narrated by the narrator from a Christmas story on the People Mover in Tomorrowland you pass by Walt Disney's original model for Epcot the large model isn't even the entire thing which used to take up the entire second floor of the Carousel of Progress when it was at Disneyland the parking lot of the Magic Kingdom is a mile away so it feels more magical to get to the park by monorail or ferry the seven seas Lagoon is only ten feet deep there is a restaurant in Hollywood Studios where you sit in cars and watch trailers for old sci-fi movies on a big screen like a drive-in theater when in line for the Jungle Cruise listen to the radio host he has some funny jokes and funds delivered in the same style as the Jungle Cruise guides if anyone wants more I've got tons off the top of my head the names companies and dates on the windows of Main Street are all references to Disney history one example is when Disney started buying land in Florida to build Disney World he knew that if everyone knew he was buying land he would be charged way more money than was reasonable so he bought most of the land using lots of smaller fake companies to save money some of these company names are on the windows on Main Street for example empty lot real estate Epcot stands for experimental prototype community of tomorrow Walt originally planned for it to be a Disney company town that employees lived in not a theme park Walt wanted the city to be a blueprint of the future there is a hotel room in Cinderella Castle families can stay there for one night as a prize for winning a competition cannot buy a stay in this room on the Pirates of the Caribbean ride the same animatronic faces are reused several times with different clothes accessories and facial hair so you won't notice the first Disney theme park edition in short it was a disaster the fresh asphalt on Main Street melted a bit in the heat catching high heels there was a plumbers strike before the opening so Walt had to choose between the park having toilets or water fountains for the opening wisely he chose toilets a crowd of 15,000 was expected almost double that turned up there was a lot of counterfeit tickets because there was several different types of tickets so cast members couldn't just check all the tickets against one sample some newspapers showed a full ticket so enterprising people cut them out and use them to get in my favorite part is that someone put up a ladder and charged people to climb over the wall to get in cheaper in the Haunted Mansion and Disney World there is a pet cemetery one of the gravestones is for mr. toad I can't remember the exact words on his tombstone but it is a poem that mourns the fact that he was less popular than Winnie the Pooh this is because the mr. toad attraction was replaced by the Winnie the Pooh attraction the famous dining scene uses an effect called Pepper's Ghost it uses mirrors and strong lights to show the audience the ghosts the ghosts you see our reflections of animatronics hidden out of sight in the original plan for the haunted mansion the host and narrator was a raven this is why there is a raven in many areas instead of the raven host we have ghost hosts voiced by Paul Freese who also voiced the Pillsbury Doughboy and says dead men tell no tales on the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction Madame Leota was named after an Imagineer but her voice wasn't scary enough for the mansion so the voice actor for Cinderella's stepmother and Maleficent was used instead of Liana might add one or two more later The Jungle Cruise was originally going to have live animals and be a factual informative tour but having live animals was impractical and people preferred a much more silly style of narration the utility or the secret network of tunnels beneath the Magic Kingdom was added to improve immersion cast members where land appropriate outfits so seeing for example a cast member from frontier land dressed like a cowboy walking through tomorrow land would be jarring for guests members use the utility or to go from place to place also non-disney music is played in the utility or so cast members don't just hear Disney songs all day on the topic of forced perspective Cinderella Castle uses this to appear to be taller than it actually is windows and stones in the wall gets smaller as the castle gets taller Elias Disney Walt's father has his own window on Main Street listing him as a contractor established in 1895 if you swap the nine in the five you get 1859 the Year Elias was born in the tree in Liberty Square is an oak tree that was transplanted by a team of engineers it is pretty difficult to transport a 30 to 40 ton I can't recall the exact figure this is my best testament tree anywhere so they had to drill holes in the trunk and trim the roots to get it there also it has 13 lanterns one for each of the original American colonies Walt had a small private apartment installed in the second floor of the firehouse on Main Street Disneyland he worked in the apartment some times but also spent time with his family there a light is left on at the window in tribute to Walt also when Disneyland first opened you needed to buy tickets and ride coupons to actually get on the rides attractions were given different grades from A to E with type-a rides being the slowest and type he the fastest you needed an a ticket to get on an A attraction and so on e ticket swarthy most expensive and day tickets were the cheapest this was phased out in the early 1980s the Pirates of the Caribbean ride was originally going to be a walk through Wax Museum but they realized that a walk through like that wouldn't hold many people so it was changed to a boat journey the Tiki Room was originally planned to be a restaurant featuring singing animatronic birds but the restaurant part was scrapped Tiki room is also the first attraction to feature audio animatronics the technology used for the birds was incredibly innovative for the 1960s back to Disney World if Cinderella castle was slightly taller regulations would require it to have a flashing red warning light on top to warn aircraft buying the land for Disney World edition some of the fake company names were realistic like tomahawk properties or Bay Lake properties others like Mt lot real estate and i-4 core the i-4 is a prominent highway in Florida that more jokey were used to unsurprisingly there was a lot of speculation over who or what company was buying all this land Disney was definitely a suspect but so were several other companies Disney was denying any involvement but over time suspicions grew Walt was even spotted in Orlando in 1965 or round in anyway a journalist following this book to Walt at a press conference asking him why he was spending time near Orlando he didn't confirm or deny anything but with this the journalist had put together enough pieces to publish an article saying that they thought that Disney were the mystery buyers shortly after the article was released Walt revealed that it had been Disney that was buying the land of course lent prices shot up to a ridiculous amount but Disney had already bought most of the land they wanted the Liberty Bell in the square was cast from the actual Liberty bells mold also the shutters in the square are deliberately hung at a slight angle because in the time period Liberty Square represents shutters were supported by leather straps that caused the shutters to sag abet the parts of buildings that guests aren't supposed to see are deliberately painted drab unappealing colors so people don't pay attention to them even if they see them there is a large water reservoir behind Splash Mountain that is filled when the attraction is refurbished also any items guests happen to lose in the water on Splash Mountain turn up there in the Epcot World Showcase all but one of the countries are sponsored by corporations the Morocco Showcase is the exception as it is directly sponsored by the Moroccan government during the construction of the pavilion the Moroccan King sent Moroccan artists to create the mosaics in the pavilion animal kingdom is the largest Disney park Disney is the same character actors for characters that show their face at least as much as possible for TV commercials official pictures and so on so that people won't find differences thanks for listening to radio TTS hit the subscribe button and activate the notification Bell for more videos about all kinds of Secrets click the right box for the theme park playlists let us know in the comments what 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