Disney Tidbits

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Doom Buggy is the show name for Disney's OmniMover system (used in their Haunted Mansion attraction). It was initially developed for the "Adventures in Inner Space" attraction. Disney World's Haunted Mansion has 160 cars with a guest capacity of 3,200 guests per hour.

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The original Diamond Horseshoe Revue was inspired by the Disney cartoon Pecos Bill.

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While in the queue area of Star Tours in the Disney Studios, guests can hear the name 'Egroeg Sacul' being paged. This is George Lucas pronounced backwards.

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The design of Disney World's Grand Floridian Resort & Spa is based on California's Del Coronado Hotel, the largest beach resort on the North American Pacific Coast.

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The Walt Disney World Monorail system has carried more than one billion people since 1971.

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Walt Disney's Nine Old Men were his nine top animators in the 1940s whom he had likened to the Nine Old Men on U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Supreme Court .

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The Audio-Animatronics figures in Disney World's Hall of Presidents need continual maintenance. All the presidents have personal beauticians and at least one change of clothes!

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Disney's Haunted Mansion film was not the first attempt to tie a movie to the attraction. In the early 1990s, when Jeffrey Katzenberg was head of the Disney Studios, he wanted to produce movies based on theme park attractions. A Haunted Mansion script was commissioned but it languished in development.

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Robert and Richard Sherman wrote It's A Small World (After All) for the 1964 World's Fair. Since then, it has become the most translated and performed song in the world.

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Disney opened its first ESPN Zone, an entertainment complex, in Baltimore in 1998.

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Downtown Disney: West Side opened in 1997.

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The first annual American Teacher Awards was hosted by Disney in 1990. The first recipient was Sylvia Anne Washburn.

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In 1990, Hollywood Records was established by Disney to release mainstream music.

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The Walt Disney Company started the Disney Legends program in 1987, to honor those whose contributions have made an important impact on its history.

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The only Disney feature-length motion picture released in 1951 was Alice in Wonderland.