magic kingdom fun facts

· main street, usa is inspired by walt disney’s hometown, marceline, missouri.

· the liberty bell in liberty square is made from the same mold as the original liberty bell. it is 1 of only 51 replicas produced in philadelphia, who created only a single replica for every state with the exception of florida. philadelphia agreed to make an extra replica bell just for walt disney world.

· magic kingdom alone is the most visited theme park in the entire world!

· when you are in magic kingdom, you will hardly see any other land besides the one that you are in (not including the areas where you enter each land). walt wanted this so that the mood in each land will not be disrupted.

· there is one target in buzz lightyear’s space ranger spin that is worth 100,000 points each time you shoot it. in the room with the large zurg, shoot the target right underneath him.

· about 1 million tiles make up the mosaic scenes inside the walls of the walk-though area in cinderella’s castle.

· the walkway in magic kingdom is red because walt wanted to lay out the "red carpet" for all guests.

· the narrator from the carousel of progress is the same man who narrates “a christmas story.”

· the creepy organ music you hear in the stretching room of the haunted mansion is just "grim grinning ghosts" slowed way down. you are hearing one song on the whole ride starting very slow and getting faster as the ride goes on.

· when you take a walk down main street, take a good close look at the castle. you will notice that the bricks get smaller the higher up the castle goes. the imagineers called it the "forced perspective" technique, where the bricks got smaller as the castle went up. this technique is used all around disney’s parks.

· the top architecture of the haunted mansion is very easy to recognize as chess pieces. the architect for the ride was famous for building structures that had chess pieces as a part of the structure. when he was commissioned to build the haunted mansion, he continued his "signature" and added some chess piece architecture to the top of it. the only chess piece missing from the outside is the knight, because it’s always (k)night inside!

· in the haunted mansion ballroom scene, there is an old lady sitting in a rocking chair. this animatronic figure is a duplicate made from the grandmother in one of the side scenes of the carousel of progress.

· listen to the chanting tribesmen in the jungle cruise. one of them says "i love disco.”

· in liberty square, where they have the building fronts with just door after door, stop and take a look at them. the addresses on the doors are all two numbers. if you put 18 in front of each one, that is the style of door that they would’ve had for that year. as you walk along, you can see the progression of the style on each door.

· if you turn down the first side street to your right on main street on a quieter day, look up at the windows that have signs saying something like "music lessons". you'll hear a voice practicing scales and someone tap dancing.

· in town square, there are a few flag poles with actual american flags on them. the flag on the main flag pole is always taken down during rain storms and right before sundown, but the rest of the flags aren’t taken down because they aren’t real american flags. they look real, but they are all missing a star or a stripe that makes them not legitimate american flags. they actually serve as lightning rods.

· there are no bathrooms located in liberty square, keeping with the time period of that area.

· the telegraph you hear at the train station is tapping out walt disney's speech at disneyland's opening in morse code.

· the chalkboard in the barbershop on main street has all the hurricanes listed as if they were next to get haircuts.

· towards the end of pirates of the caribbean when you pass under the bridge, the pirate sitting above you has his leg dangling. once upon a time, the red handkerchief sitting on the bridge beside him was between his toes dangling downward. apparently too many guests would stand up to try and grab the red hankie so they removed it from his toes and placed it on the bridge beside him. there is a gap between his big toe and second toe if you look.

· there is only one horse on the carousel that has a gold ribbon on its tail. this particular horse is rumored to be cinderella's favorite. the horse is in the second row from the outside and it’s white.

· the tomorrowland transit authority (tta) was originally called the wed-way people mover. wed stood for walt’s initials: walter elias disney.

· the model city that the tomorrowland transit authority passes was walt disney’s personal vision for epcot.

· the metal palm trees in tomorrowland fold up at night, like flowers. during the day when they’re open, they collect solar energy.