My favorite little known facts about different Disney rides!

Hello there friend! Thank you for coming back and reading this next post! This past week I took to Instagram and Snapchat to ask my friends and followers to ask them about what their favorite rides from any of the Disney theme parks were!
In this post the rides that I will be talking about come from the Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios, and Magic Kingdom! Sadly no one wanted to hear about EPCOT, dont worry I will have an EPCOT post another week!

I will be giving 3-5 facts per ride and if you are interested in hearing any more feel free to reach out to me on Twitter @legzandkindeyez or on Instagram @speakingangel.

Animal Kingdom:

Expedition Everest:

• There is a basketball hoop inside of the ride that castmembers have access to use while on breaks.
• Disco Yeti is the nickname given to the yeti animatronic that is in the ride, it was given this nickname because of the strobe lights that were added when the animatronic was shut off due to the fact that it was damaging the structure of the attraction every time it performed its action
• Expedition Everest became the first Disney coaster to propel riders both backward and forwards.
• There's a prop bird (known as Bird on a stick) that occasionally pops up when the train comes to a stop (this is the part where the tracks are lifted up off the track right before the train is propelled backward)
• It's really cool how they do the track switch before being propelled backward and then again forwards after the yeti moves the track again, here's a video that shows what I am referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWna_sOebSo&t=190s
• I also found a video that shows what it's like when the lifted track is missing! (ft. Bird on a stick) :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgNAbq1nmYc

Dinosaur:

• The vehicles' name "CTX Time Rover" is a nod to Countdown to Extinction, the original ride!
• Where the Iguanodon statue now stands at the front of the attraction used to be the Styracosaurus.
• McDonald's was once the sponsor for Dinoland U.S.A.; if you look around while you're in line for Dinosaur, you'll spot red, yellow and white pipes labeled with chemical formulas. Wonder what those formulas make? Ketchup, mustard, and mayonnaise. (photo on right)

Hollywood Studios: (What it looks like now that the hats gone) (also known as MGM Studios)

(The hat is so iconic though so here is a picture of it anyway :D)

Tower of Terror:

(ok ok ok so I know that I said I would only do 3-5 but I think this ride is so cool, so this one might get a few more)

• Tower of Terror can be seen from EPCOT and so it was designed to blend in with the buildings that are in the Morocco section of the World Showcase.
• Tower of Terror uses an autonomous car system and one of the reasons that the ride breaks down a lot is because something falls out of the cart and onto the floor blocking one of the sensors that are required to help with the movement of the ride vehicle and so that vehicle won't move until the obstruction is cleared.
• All the spider webs that are in the lobby are created by hot glue strings they just are allowed to collect dust overtime
• The footage in the pre-show video for the Tower of Terror, featuring Twilight Zone host Rod Serling, was taken from the episode It's a Good Life. The opening lines from the TV show are spoken by Serling himself. However, an impersonator named Mark Silverman narrates the remainder of the video. He was handpicked by Disney's Imagineers and Serling's widow, Carol. The Imagineers spent many hours lining up the lip sync with the footage of Serling and degrading the digitally recorded dialogue to match the 1960s analog sound quality of the original show. 
• (Storytime! When my family and I took part in the Hollywood Adventures by Disney tour one of our cast member tour guides was also apart of the Guest Relations team and one day Mark Silverman called impersonating Rod Sterling and decided to "prank call" the cast members when asking for tickets to the park for later that week, the tour guide described how he actually hung up the phone in shock and fear after hearing what he thought could only be Sterling's voice.)
• The attraction utilizes Pepper's Ghost illusion, a favorite Disney illusion most notably used in the Haunted Mansion attraction to make the ghosts in the ballroom seemingly come to life. This illusion is used for the projection of the family in the hallway scene, and then also the projection of the floating window in the same scene.
• The Tower of Terror ride is 199 feet if it had been any taller the FAA (Federal Aviation Authority) would have required to have a flashing red light on top of it.

Rockin' Roller Coaster:

• Each limo plays a different track, so depending on which limo you get will dictate the song(s) that you hear while you ride. 
• “Young Lust”/”F.I.N.E.”/”Love in an Elevator” medley
• “Nine Lives”, “Sweet Emotion”
• “Back in the Saddle”/”Dude Looks Like a Lady” medley
• “Love in an Elevator”/”Walk This Way” medley. 
• There are over 900 speakers for this ride. 
• For starters, each guest is surrounded by 5 speakers, which are 4 around the head and 1 subwoofer under the seat.  (5 limos in circulation, and about 24 seats per limo.) When you multiply that across all of the guests in each limo and then by the number of limos in circulation, plus all the speakers in the actual track house it's easy to see how the number could be over 900!
• Rockin Roller Coaster was an opening day attraction when MGM studios opened on May 1, 1989.

Magic Kingdom: (Since there are many attractions to be talked about here I will only be doing about 1-2 facts)

• Peoplemover:
• Today we know the attraction as the Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover, and most often just called the PeopleMover for short. When the attraction first opened, it was known was the WEDWay PeopleMover. The WED stood for Walter Elias Disney. It changed to Tomorrowland Transit Authority in 1994 and kept that name until 2010.  
• Splash Mountain: Many of the animatronics used throughout the ride are actually repurposed from the attraction America Sings. 
• Florida State University helped with the ride and in honor of that there is a little gopher looking character that pops out of the ceiling in Florida's Splash Mountain and says "GO FSU!" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyYurgf_6u4&feature=emb_logo)
• Peter Pan's Flight: This attraction has been around since the very beginning. The attraction was one of the original attractions that guests first rode on when Disneyland opened. It has been a beloved attraction ever since, which is why it was added to the Magic Kingdom. It actually now lives in 4 different Disney theme parks all around the world and maintains popularity at all of them!
• Peter Pan wasn't in the ride originally, actually most of the main character's weren't the ride was supposed to show the POV from Peter and the Darling children.
• Haunted Mansion: The biggest illusion in the attraction is the Pepper's Ghost illusion, Heres a video that explains it really well (https://youtu.be/fAryLSRcub0?t=54)
• The Haunted Mansion is the only ride to be at nearly every park across the world (minus Shanghi Disneyland) ! Mystic Manor (Hong Kong Disneyland) is based on Chinese traditional and cultural stories that reflect death and the afterlife, this was seen as a better option compared to what the ride is like in Disney World and Disneyland in California.

Was your favorite ride not listed? Let me know and I would love to come back another week to talk some more about intersting facts about the rides!

 If anyone has any questions please feel free to reach out to me!

Thanks for reading! And I hope you have a magical rest of your day!

Walt's Frozen Head signing off for now!

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