Disney Tidbits

**tiggerguy** · 05-22-2006, 12:56 AM

Ear Force One the hot air balloon designed to look like Mickey Mouse, made it's debut in 1987.

**tiggerguy** · 05-22-2006, 11:10 PM

The Karnival Kid is the first cartoon that Mickey Mouse speaks, it was released in 1929. Plot: Enjoying his day selling hot dogs in an amusement park.\, Mickey, along with his pals, serenades Minnie, who is working as “shimmy dancer”.

**tiggerguy** · 05-23-2006, 11:16 PM

[i]How to Relax[/] was a television show directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. It was a series of cartoons that demonstrated Goofy's desire to relax. It aired on 11/27/1957.

**tiggerguy** · 05-24-2006, 11:31 PM

Here Comes the Muppets was a show at the Disney-MGM Studios. It ran from 5/25/90 to 9/2/91, it was replaced by Voyage of the Little Mermaid.

**tiggerguy** · 05-25-2006, 11:38 PM

Tony's Town Square Restaurant located in the Magic Kingdom opened on 7/24/1989. It is themed to characters from Lady and the Tramp.

**tiggerguy** · 05-26-2006, 11:07 PM

Grand Prix Raceway opened in Tomorrowland on 10/01/1971. It was patterned after Autopia in Disneyland.

**tiggerguy** · 05-27-2006, 11:30 PM

Scamp, one of the Lady and the Tramp's pups. He first appeared in comic strips on 7/10/1955, he got his own strip on 10/31 of the same year. This character did not have a name in the movie.

**tiggerguy** · 05-29-2006, 12:19 AM

Hollywood and Vine, a restaurant at the Disney-MGM Studios, opened on 5/1/1989. It is also known as the Cafeteria of the Stars. It is hosted by J. M. Smuckers.

**tiggerguy** · 05-29-2006, 11:11 PM

The Candlelight Procession became a Christmastime tradition starting in December 1959 at Disneyland. Among the narrators were Dennis Morgan, Cary Grant, John Wayne, and Gregory Peck. When Walt Disney World opened a similar tradition was started.

**tiggerguy** · 05-30-2006, 11:16 PM

Molly Brown: Name of one of the two steamboats at Disneyland Paris' Frontierland.

**tiggerguy** · 05-31-2006, 11:35 PM

Sorcery in the Sky was a fireworks show presented at the Disney-MGM Studios. It was narrate by Vincent Price and featured a giant inflatable Mickey with fireworks shooting out of his pointed finger.

**tiggerguy** · 06-01-2006, 11:45 PM

Even though Walt Disney professed he did not like to make sequels, he was occassionally persuaded by economic reality to make them against his best judgement.