ramdom facts

[mt.pooh]

does anyone have ramdom facts about
Walt Disney World.
:mickey3::mickey3:

[cal5755]

1. it's expensive
2. It's hot
3. It's exhausting and thrilling all at once
4. It's the most magical place on earth
5. It's addicting
6. They have great dole whips
7. It led me to this awesome site called intercot where I learned about those great dole whips I mentioned
8. It is worth every penny...especially when you see the smiles on you dc faces when they come face to face with their magical dreams!!

Ok so maybe it is all opinion above :mickey:

[Carol]

It's Not a Small World, After All . . . Covering 40 square miles, Walt Disney World Resort is about the size of San Francisco or two Manhattan islands. Of the more than 25,000 acres, less than one-fourth has been developed with another quarter designated as a wilderness preserve.

A Cast of Thousands . . . around 60,000 to be more precise. That's how many people it takes to create the magic here at the Vacation Kingdom. Not surprisingly, Walt Disney World Resort is the largest single-site employer in the United States.

What the Well-Dressed Mouse Will Be Wearing . . . depends entirely on the occasion. Mickey Mouse himself has more than 175 different sets of duds, ranging from a scuba suit to a tuxedo. Minnie Mouse's wardrobe contains more than 200 outfits, including everything from a cheerleader ensemble to evening gowns.

Suds 'R Us . . . If you were to wash and dry one load of laundry every day for 44 years, you'd clean as much as the folks at Walt Disney World Laundry do in a single day. The cast members there launder an average of 240,000 pounds each day. In addition, between 30,000 and 32,000 garments are dry-cleaned daily.

Smile! . . . Kodak estimates that approximately 4 percent of all the amateur photographs taken in the United States are snapped at Walt Disney World Resort or Disneyland Resort. Disney World photographers shoot an average of 90,000 photos of guests each day -- PhotoPass images that guests from their home computers can order high quality prints and other products from, or share online with family and friends.

Winter Wonderland . . . So what if there's no snow in Central Florida? Each Christmas season, Walt Disney World Resort is "decked" with more than 15 miles of garland and draped with more than 300,000 yards of ribbon over 1,500 Christmas trees.

Who's Still Thirsty? . . . More than 50 million Cokes are consumed each year at Walt Disney World Resort. Guests also gobble 10 million hamburgers, 7 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of French fries and more than 300,000 pounds of popcorn.

Ears To You . . . There are enough of the famous "Mouse Ear" hats sold each year to cover the head of every man, woman and child in Pittsburgh and enough Disney character T-shirts to put Mickey Mouse's smiling face on the chest of every Chicagoan.

Hickory Dickory Dock . . . More than 400,000 character watches are slipped onto wrists from Walt Disney World gift shops each year. At any given time, there are more than 200 different varieties of character watches. The most popular timepiece: a gold-tone relief of Mickey Mouse.

Gone But Not Forgotten . . . Walt Disney World Lost and Found is one busy place. Every day an average of 100 pairs of sunglasses are turned in at Magic Kingdom alone. There have been enough "shades" submitted each year in the Vacation Kingdom to outfit every resident of Sun City, Arizona, Sun City, California, and Sun City, Florida. Since 1971, an estimated 1.5 million pairs of glasses have found their way into the "lost" bin.

Curious Claims . . . According to long-time lost and found staffers, the most unusual items turned in have been a glass eye and a potty trainer. Both, incidentally, were claimed (but not by the same person).

Busman's Holiday . . . More than 230 Walt Disney World buses transport guests around the Vacation Kingdom, making the Walt Disney World fleet the third largest in Florida behind Miami and Jacksonville.

Fly Me To The Moon . . . Since 1971, the total miles logged by Walt Disney World monorail trains would be equal to more than 30 round trips to the moon. One dozen new cars were put into service along the 14-mile beamway in 1990 as the original fleet received a well-deserved retirement.

Here's Looking (Down) At You . . . From the air, Walt Disney World Resort boasts a number of "heady" sights. For instance, the unique "Mouse Trap" on the 6th hole at the Magnolia golf course that looks like a famous corporate symbol. Over at Disney's Osprey Ridge Golf Club, Mickey's profile greets golfers on the large practice green. The famous mouse is the model for the courtyard and area in front of the Chinese Theater at Disney-MGM Studios.

Room With a View . . . Disney's Wedding Pavilion was designed to provide the bride and groom a view of Magic Kingdom's Cinderella Castle while standing at the altar.

THEME PARKS

Boulder Builder . . . Here's one to stump your friends with. How many stones are there in Cinderella Castle in Magic Kingdom? NONE. The whole shell of the building is fiberglass.

A Mountain Range? . . . Walt Disney World Resort is home to Florida's three highest "mountains." In Disney's Animal Kingdom, Mount Everest towers nearly 200 feet high in the Asia section of the theme park. In Magic Kingdom, Big Thunder Mountain rises 197 feet above Frontierland. Space Mountain in Tomorrowland is 180 feet tall.

Green Thumb . . . More than 30 tons of fruits and vegetables grown at The Land pavilion at Epcot are served in Walt Disney World restaurants.

Finger Food . . . More than 1.6 million turkey drumsticks are devoured every year in four Disney theme parks -- Magic Kingdom, Epcot, Disney-MGM Studios and Disney's Animal Kingdom.

Spaced Out . . . Spaceship Earth, the visual and thematic centerpiece of Epcot, weighs 16 million pounds -- more than three times that of a Space Shuttle fully fueled and ready for launch. The outer "skin" of Spaceship Earth is made up of 11,324 aluminum and plastic-alloy triangles. Also, did you know that rainwater never falls off the sphere? It's absorbed into the ball and funneled away.

Water, Water Everywhere . . . If you emptied the water from The Seas with Nemo & Friends pavilion in Epcot into one-gallon milk jugs and laid them side by side, they would stretch from here to New Orleans, Knoxville or Raleigh -- 540 miles. And the recipe for the artificial seawater called for 27 truckloads of sodium chloride, or common table salt.

6-Million-Mile Man . . . The DNA Tower at the entrance to the Epcot Wonders of Life pavilion is 5.5 billion times actual size -- just the right size for a human 6 million miles tall.

Ready, Aim . . . The fountain at Epcot Innoventions Plaza can shoot water 150 feet in the air -- within 30 feet of the top of Spaceship Earth. If all of the shooters were fired at once, there would be 2,000 gallons of water in the air.

IllumiNations . . . More than 26,000 feet of lights outline the Epcot World Showcase pavilions -- a string long enough to stretch across the Golden Gate Bridge more than six times.

It’s a Tall World, After All . . . Expedition Everest at Disney’s Animal Kingdom (just under 200 feet) is the tallest attraction at Walt Disney World Resort, followed by The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at Disney-MGM Studios (199 feet), Magic Kingdom’s Cinderella Castle (185 feet), Spaceship Earth at Epcot and Space Mountain at Magic Kingdom (180 feet each) and The Tree of Life at Disney’s Animal Kingdom (145 feet).

What Big Ears You Have . . . The Earffel Tower, Disney-MGM Studios' water tower landmark, would wear a hat size of 342 ¾.

Biggest Ever . . . Disney's Animal Kingdom encompasses 403 acres, the company's biggest theme park. The park's centerpiece is The Tree of Life, 14 stories high and 50 feet wide at its trunk.

Yeti, Guardian of the Mountain . . . The mammoth-sized Audio-Animatronics yeti in the Expedition Everest attraction at Disney's Animal Kingdom has a potential thrust, in all of its hydraulic cylinders combined, of slightly over 259,000 pounds force -- potentially more instantaneous power than a 747-400 airliner.

RESORTS

Big Gulp . . . It would take more than 20 million 12-ounce cans of Coca-Cola to fill one of the humongous Coke cups at Home Run Hotel in Disney's All-Star Sports Resort.

Tennis Anyone? . . . It would take nearly 9.5 million tennis balls to fill one of the tennis ball cans at Center Court Hotel in Disney's All-Star Sports Resort. That's enough to stretch from Walt Disney World Resort to Key West.

World's Largest . . . Stormalong Bay, Disney's Beach Club Resort swimming area, holds 750,000 gallons of water, making it the largest sand-bottom pool in the world.

Five-Legged Goat . . . The mosaic mural in the fourth-floor lobby of Disney's Contemporary Resort was created in 1971 with 1,800 one-square-foot tiles and took 18 months to construct. Look closely: there's a five-legged goat facing the monorail track.

Music To Your Eyes . . . The musical notes across the registration desk at Disney's Port Orleans Resort-French Quarter spell out the first verse of "When the Saints Go Marching In."

Big Wheel Fit For A Big Kid ... The giant Big Wheel in the 1970s courtyard of Disney's Pop Century Resort can "accommodate" a child rider who weighs up to 877 pounds (according to the "recommended child weight" sticker affixed to the gigantic toy).

Room Roulette . . . If you wanted to stay in all the guestrooms in all of the hotels and resorts currently open on Walt Disney World property (at a rate of one per night), it would take more than 72 years.

[Carol]

HORTICULTURE

Bloomin' Beauty . . . Nearly 12 percent of Walt Disney World property -- an area equivalent to nearly 3,000 football fields -- is devoted to gardens and maintained landscapes. That's 4,000 acres worth of beauty.

Well Grounded . . . Each year a horticulture staff plants 3 million bedding plants and annuals, and maintains millions of other plants including more than 2 million shrubs, 13,000 roses and more than 200 topiary.

A "Family" Tree . . . The "Liberty Oak," which is the focal point of the Liberty Square area in Magic Kingdom, is the proud parent of more than 500 young trees. They all started out as acorns harvested from the majestic oak.

Pack the Trunk . . . Earth Day 1991 signaled a "moving" experience for yet another impressive oak -- a 55-foot-tall tree weighing in at nearly 85 tons. The live oak was moved 12 miles across Walt Disney World property to where it serves as a centerpiece for the Ol' Man Island recreation area at Disney's Port Orleans Resort-Riverside.

Mow Miles Per Year . . . 450,000 mowing miles, to be exact -- that's what it takes to maintain 2,000 acres of turf. For the record, those mower miles are the equivalent of 18 trips around Earth at the equator.

[Maleficent's Dad]

I think Carol listed a few for you! ;)

If you check the "Mousellaneous" (http://intercot.com/discussion/forumdisplay.php?f=25) boards, each day "WDW Fact of the Day" and "Today in Disney History" list numerous details that you probably wouldn't find anywhere else!

[LibertyTreeGal]

Lou Mongello and Kevin Yee both have books full of WDW trivia :)

[JPelle76]

6. They have great dole whips


MMM...Dole Whips!!!!! I could SO go for one of those right now! I got so addicted to the pinapple sent at Bath and Body works because the smell reminded so much of those dole whips!!!