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Disney secretly purchased 27,433 acres of swampland (formerly known as "Mosquito County") in Central Florida in the mid-’60s for about $180 an acre. Today, Disney World encompasses 30,500 acres (43 square miles), approximately the size of San Francisco and twice as large as Manhattan.

Throughout the Disney Theme Parks are signs that designate Kodak "Picture Spots", apparently designed for tourists who are too stupid to recognize scenic views.

For the New York City premiere of Pinocchio in 1940, Walt Disney hired 12 drunken midgets in Pinocchio outfits to dance about on the theater marquee.

In its first year, Disney World surpassed the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (7 million visitors), Gettysburg (5.2 million visitors) and Yellowstone (2.4 million visitors) as a tourist destination. Approximately 46 million tourists visit the park annually.

Walt Disney required all of his staff members to punch in and out on time clocks even if they were just going to get a drink at the water cooler or take a trip to the shitter.

Astronauts Scott Carpenter, Gordon Cooper and Jim Irwin took the first ride during the grand opening of RCA’s "Space Mountain" in January 1975.

Walt Disney relied mostly on the music of dead composers to score Fantasia so he wouldn’t have to shell out any royalties.

EPCOT’s 3-D film Captain E-O was produced by Francis Ford Coppola, directed by George Lucas and starred "the gloved one" himself, Michael Jackson.

At the end of "Carousel of Progress", tourists find themselves in the uncomfortable position of giving an ovation to a bunch of Audio-Animatronic robots.

Walt Disney became a domestic spy for the Federal Bureau of Investigation starting in the early 1940s and helped usher in the infamous Hollywood Blacklist.

Disney’s Touchstone Pictures has produced such cinematic masterpieces as Krippendorf’s Tribe, Ernest Saves Christmas, Cocktail and Three Men and a Baby.

Walt Disney accepted a special medal from the League of Nations using the voice of Mickey Mouse.

Disney’s Dolphin resort boasts a restaurant called "Juan & Only’s" and a bar called "Copa Banana."

The CircleVision 360 film Wonders of China: Land of Beauty, Land of Time, which is narrated by eighth-century Chinese poet Li Bai, does not provide any insights about the massacre in Tiananmen Square or the Tibet situation.

Exxon’s "Universe of Energy" fails to include any mention of the Valdez oil spill.

The courtyard at Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort contains two 40-foot-high Coca-Cola cups, one of the most egregious attempts at product placement in the history of advertising.

Mickey Mouse Club "Mouseketeers" were required to address Disney as "Uncle Walt."

"Audio-Animatronics" figures of Abraham Lincoln and George Bush both have speaking roles in Disney’s "Hall of Presidents."

In 1996, the National Labor Committee filed a report that detailed worker abuses in Haitian factories manufacturing Disney apparel. It was reported that Haitian workers took home about 28 cents an hour while Disney CEO Michael Eisner garnered $189 million in salary and bonuses that year.

EuroDisney has strict rules for its Parisian employees—no facial hair, no long hair for men, no jewelry and no fingernails past the ends of fingers.

"Anyone caught cursing was fired immediately, even so much as a ‘damn’ or ‘hell,’ no matter who they were or how important they were to the show." —Original Mouseketeer Cubby O’Brien, quoted in Walt Disney: Hollywood’s Dark Prince

The late, great jazz singer Peggy Lee had to go to court in order to force Disney to fork over residuals for her voice-overs in the video release of Lady and the Tramp.

"I don’t want the public to see the real world they live in while they’re in the park...I want them to feel they are in another world." —Walt Disney, commenting on the opening of Disneyland, 1955

For its Caribbean cruise line, Disney purchased a former drug-runners’ island called Gorda Cay and renamed it "Castaway Cay."

Rick Moranis starred in Disney’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid; Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves...

A dozen exotic animals died at or en route to Disney’s newest theme park, the $800 million "Animal Kingdom", including four cheetah cubs, two rhinos, two hippos and four "unidentified creatures."

"In EPCOT, there will be no slum areas because we won’t let them develop." —Walt Disney

The immense water tower with mouse ears at Disney's Hollywood Studios has been nicknamed the "Earffel Tower."

After Disney management became concerned over the influx of punk rockers in its Pleasure Island nightclub, "The Cage," the bar was transformed overnight into a disco dance floor called "8 Trax" with employees outfitted in bell-bottom pants. In 2008, all nightclubs were closed at Pleasure Island.

In 1989, five Disney employees were charged with slaughtering endangered vultures at "Discovery Island."

Some of the Disney security force dress as tourists and blend in with the crowd, keeping an eye out for shoplifters pilfering precious merchandise.

Disney costume characters have to endure temperatures of up to 130 degrees in those giant, unwieldy heads.

Disney designers are called "imagineers."

The Walt Disney Company forced three daycare centers (Very Important Babies Daycare, Good Godmother Daycare and Temple Messianique) in Hallandale, Florida, to remove five-foot-high murals of Disney cartoon figures from their walls under the threat of legal action.

Although Disney had a strict rule against drinking on studio property, Walt himself was known to imbibe regularly in his office during the afternoon.

According to the book, Vinyl Leaves, Michael Jackson has a special suite at one of the Disney hotels "where he keeps his Disney memorabilia."

In 1988, Disney was fined $150,000 by the Florida Department of Environmental Regulation for hazardous waste leaks.

Disney’s Hollywood Records division released the Insane Clown Posse’s album The Great Milenko in 1997.

Tourists strolling through Epcot’s "World Showcase" will not be able to find any representations of Third World countries such as Bangladesh, Paraguay or Nigeria.

Walt Disney’s original name for Mickey Mouse was "Mortimer Mouse."

One of the most popular and enjoyable attractions at Disney, "Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride," was replaced with something called "The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh" in September 1998. A group of disgruntled "Toad" fans developed a Save the Toad web site to no avail.

Disney’s "Pleasure Island" was a complete rip-off of Church Street Station in downtown Orlando.

In the months before his death, Walt Disney allegedly made a series of films of his ideas for the theme park that were played at monthly staff meetings so he could keep control of the enterprise from beyond the grave.

More appropriate acronyms for Epcot include "Experimental Polyester Clothes of Tomorrow," "Eisner’s Paycheck Comes on Time" and "Every Pocketbook Comes Out Trashed."

Disney withdrew plans for a history theme park called "Disney’s America" near Manassas National Battlefield in Northern Virginia only after receiving a mountain of criticism from such esteemed historians as Shelby Foote and C. Vann Woodward.

"I’ll never forget when we were all fighting for a twenty-five cent raise, it came over the papers that Eisner made a $43 million bonus. And we were fighting for a quarter." —Unidentified Disney employee, quoted in Inside the Mouse: Work and Play at Disney World

Disney World receives an unprecedented degree of autonomy as part of the "Reedy Creek Improvement District," which allows the company to have control over its roads, utilities, licensing and inspections. Disney even has its own nuclear power license.

"Far from being the world’s favorite uncle, Disney was a vicious anti-Semite and hater of communists, who for twenty-five years was a Hollywood spy for J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI."—"The Mouse That Bores," A User’s Guide to the Millennium, J.G. Ballard, 1996.

Walt Disney once did business with Howard Hughes, who was a Hollywood producer before he retreated into self-imposed exile at the top of the Stardust Hotel in Las Vegas.

Disney costume characters who are on the verge of passing out or throwing up in the hot Florida sun have to endure keeping their cartoon heads on under the threat of immediate dismissal.

"We want you to feel what it was like to be a slave." —Robert Weis, chief imagineer on the abandoned "Disney’s America" theme park

Cars at Disney’s "Grand Prix Raceway" reach top speeds of seven miles per hour.

adam - 2007-10-07 13:43:02
I enjoyed your 60 reasons about Walt Disney, but you forgot one, one you might want to add. Before I mention that, I must say that I thoroughly enjoy your site, and even stole your Lou Reed quotes. Good stuff. Ok, here goes: You know the Walt Disney signature that everyone assumes is his? It's not. In fact, when he tried to recreate it, he couldn't. Funny guy, that Walt Disney.

NiNjALoco - 2007-10-21 07:31:50
How did A juggalo Like me not know that Milenko was released by Disney

Nevin de Paor - 2007-11-04 15:52:37
That was a good 60 reasons. I'll never look at Disney in the same way...

Coke is it! - 2007-12-05 20:17:26
If you don't like the Coca-Cola cups at All-Star Sports then you can drink a fucking piss water Pepsi-shit cola and suck Jeff Gordon's dick you fucking fudge packing cocksuckers.

marc - 2007-12-08 16:51:42
I think we(freedom loving Americans)should boycott Disney, if we don't we are supporting an EVIL EMPIRE. THIS MAKES US NEO NAZIS. WE should boycot every aspect of Disney, from it's elitest parks to it's obviously racist shows. Boycot Hannah MOntana. DOWN WITH DISNEY.

Bill Wlodarczyk - 2007-12-18 09:53:50
Walt Disney is not missing or frozen,he is buried at the Forest Lawn Memorial Cemetary in L.A. in his family plot. I'm so sick of people saying his company is evil because of the way they are treated and paid poorly. No one has ever had a gun held to his head and forced to work there as far as I know. So quit your whining and just admit that the people who say that crap are always disgruntled employees, nothing else.

Former Princess - 2008-01-14 21:32:34
I'm 5'9" and 128lbs. They dismissed me as Aurora after 9 months for being too fat or as they say "having too large a silhouette". (Translation I have boobs and do not have the body of a 12 year old boy)

Urban Fishboy - 2008-01-15 12:05:10
I can remember being denied entrance to Disney Land in Anaheim for having long hair. It was about 1970 or so.

Disney reincarnate - 2008-01-25 16:26:58
I'll just quote this one since it's the shortest: "Walt Disney’s original name for Mickey Mouse was "Mortimer Mouse."" You HATE Disney World because of this? I suppose I am not cynical enough to find the reason for hatred. Oh no, Walt Disney wanted to create a fantasy world where families could come and enjoy each other, that bastard!

matty - 2008-01-27 20:32:08
I HATE DISNEY

TM - 2008-02-01 12:12:16
First of, Mortimer Mouse was a whole other character. Why are you so mad about the speed of the Grand Prix cars. May I remind you that there are small children all over the park. This is Disney not NASCAR. What is the problem with calling the engineers at Disney Imagineers? Nothing, they are very creative to think of this name and I look up to them to trying to make their jobs even more enjoyable. Sir, I am sorry that you do not enjoy the establishment in which Walt Disney built and I know that their are many others who do not enjoy Walt Disney World but, please before you create a webpage about it, get your facts straight.

dg - 2008-02-08 06:03:34
61. Costumed employees even have to wear Disney underwear, which once led to an epidemic of body lice. 62. Walt had a moustache, but Disney employees are forbidden to have facial hair. 63. They don't screen potential employees for pedophilia or other sex crimes. 64. Any crimes occurring on the grounds are hushed up and handled by Disney employees.

Random - 2008-02-13 19:21:29
Actually, for the record, men can have a reasonably groomed mustache, as long as it's fully grown when the wearer starts working for the company.

DisneyLOVER!!!! - 2008-02-15 14:19:00
However true this may be, the list is completely stupid. There are some things on there that are just DUMB!!! Many parks have those Kodak places and who doesn't love good classical music? The people who hate Disney may as well be living in a dark hole, where no light ever shines. Disney brings happiness to many people, and if you're dumb enough to believe that it doesn't then I truly don't know what's wrong with you...

British hater of Disney. - 2008-02-19 21:49:24
I'm siting at the breakfast bar of an Orlando Villa penning this. I'm 2/3rds through a 14day disney holiday. For the kids you'll understand. To me, the whole lot is a complete fuck-hole money making twat whacker. Walt was a cunt. What made me piss my pants with laughter and realise what a shit fit the whole place is, was when we visited 'Japan' in Epcot. Instead of regaling us with histories of the Japanese culture, we get a history of how the americans introduced baseball to the country. Fuck me. One of the oldest cultures in the world and Walt has to fuck it in the ass. I could go on for hours and hours with my observations on this sick head-fuckfest. Another thing that opened my eyes was the creative use of cooking smells. When you enter the rides, you get the usual whiff of chlorine (Disney's preferred). But on the exit, you get a whiff of some shit that's been cooked. Turkey legs, authentic italian etc. The reason for this: get your big fat ass off our ride and into one of our overpriced eating joints where we can feed your fat fuck-hole with ready-meal standard, warmed up in the microwave salt filled fuck-stuffers. Amen. Then we can fill you up on our 'cheap refill, stick our drinks container on your belt' fizzy piss. No wonder 80% of the visitors to these parks are walking heart attacks waiting to happen. All you have to do is look at the car park and see all the huge RV's parked up. Because RV's are the only forms of transport they can get their fat arseholes in at the end of the bun munching, turkey-leg sucking adventure. And all these wankers that dress up as the characters? fuck them all. Fuck mickey, fuck donald and fuck those poofters off disney's twat whacking playhouse. Cunts. I might come to Florida again as I've met some genuine local people and they seem good folk. Give me the 'keys any day. The best thing that could happen to disney world is a large fire. Fuck off.

Proud - 2008-02-22 09:30:56
I just want to say that being angry at Disney for serving a BRAND OF POPCORN is seriously way messed up. GET A LIFE, MAN! And making fun of them for calling their engineers 'Imagineers'? Seriously, are you people in sixth grade or something? You get mad for Disney trying to build a buffer zone from the world, trying to make people happy? Are you SENILE? DERANGED? BELONG IN A MENTAL HOSPITAL? I believe the answers are YES YES YES! Sincerely, Proud

First time last time - 2008-02-29 15:21:22
Worst vacation experience of my life. Will NEVER go again. Food was disgusting, lines were long, staff were miserable.

Disney - 2008-03-06 15:52:07
I am a costumed to weary arguments made against Disney. Though I do not have the time and patience to disprove all your waisted time trying to show how Disney wasn't a total prick, I will say this, People have different views of life. Walt Disney's life was a miserable one, if you ever have the time I do suggest actually reading into the biographies of Disney. They are truly fascinating, in that what he had to go through to get this far. Disney donates millions of dollars to National Parks, Red Cross, Cancer funds, Aids movement in Africa, among many others. Please, research both parts of the story, before *Guessing* about the supposed horrible things about Disney. Disney is all about happiness. I use to work for Disney and that was the best time of my life.

Jiminy Flickit - 2008-03-13 17:23:24
I have no hatred of Walt, the man. He was a businessman, pure and simple. Odd guy, yes, but a lot of them are. My problem is with Disney, the multi-national conglomerate. In particular the prices they charge at the parks. I know, they are there to make money but hear me out. The popcorn comment is dead on. I KNOW that I can go into any store in the country and find the same popcorn for one five hundredth the price. So don't call it "Orville Redenbacher". Meet me halfway, fool me into thinking it's something special I'm spending all that money for. I won't even go into the $3.00 Lay's potato chips...

ptr - 2008-03-21 17:59:51
yes, its expensive,its all about commerce and making money. Buy what a nice way of being ripped off. Just enjoy it for what it is. Try and not be so bitter.

mark - 2008-05-19 08:21:35
Disney also made a local marijuana accessories shop here in Halifax, Nova Scotia remove large paintings of the seven dwarves from their walls under threat of a lawsuit too.

faded glory - 2008-09-06 14:21:39

i have read on a few occasions that disney also made large contributions to the nasa space program. i was wondering if there was any truth to this and if so what part of the program was he helping progress?

disneyaddict - 2008-09-21 22:24:59

do any of you people have kids?? hello thats what disney is all about. they know that most parents will pay whatever they have to to please thier kids. i mean, they have a web site that tells you how much money to bring. To the british guy: FUCK YOU YOU FUCKING LIMEY FUCK. when your country comes up with something half as cool as disney world, ill be the first one there, wich will be never. Go eat some bangers and mash, shiteater.

DB - 2008-09-30 21:46:54

its not that hes angry that they are called imagineers, hes just stating a fact. this page isnt called "60 Things I hate about Disney" its just weird Disney trivia, as it says at the top. boy, when I went there it wasnt a fun time. my grandmother took me on space mountain. i was 5. i cant believe whoever was working the line let me on cause i was only like 3' something, and if im not mistaken the limit is like 5'. there was a good chance of me getting thrown out or something of that nature. but since then, ive never liked rollercoasters. scarred me for life

daz - 2008-11-18 16:26:40

Did people also know ,What Walt Disney film featured gay sex scene?................. Pulp fiction .It was made by Buena vista who is owned by uncle walt.There you will sleep better knowing that . Not.

Jaz - 2008-11-30 03:48:46

fuck yall i love disney....i just wish there was more diversity in the movies. and not everyone was an anti-semite, paranoid much?

Brother Billy - 2008-12-04 10:21:55

Disney the anti Christ is continuing its slimy ways of molding its very young stars into publicity whores and immoral fools.instead of booting their asses out for their pubescence misdeeds,Disney awards them with bigger bonuses and more exposure in the press. And who is suffering from these antics?,our kids who worship these so-called idols from the anti Christ.

Here - 2008-12-10 15:33:41

Where do you guys get the word "hate"? I see a title of "A Compendium of Weird Disney Trivia." Just facts, no hate. Kind of amazing how people read over sixty lines of print but miss one bolded title. Anyway, interesting list and a good read.

Beaverton Lake And Palmer - 2008-12-13 13:53:30

Kenneth Anger said that as a boy he sat on Uncle Walt's lap and could feel Disney getting a boner poking him in the leg. Put that together with the lack of sex crimes screening at Disney World, and Disney's involvement with Michael Jackson, well.....not a place I would want to take my kids, not at all. Just like America, Disney is just a racket, that's it, a racket and mass mind control.

bignana - 2009-01-26 13:34:51

Okay,a few things, not everyone likes Disney, thats ok,but get the facts right, I work for Disney, going on 2 yrs now, my husband applied but was turned down because he had a 25 yr. old pot bust on his record. So the backround check is really stiff, if you've got a record of any kind IT WILL SHOW UP. And for you folks that have to cuss to get your point across...not really grownup. The people who work at Disney are just like everyone else(minus rap sheets) The imagineers, the folks in those Mickey Costumes etc. are just earning a living. We may not be the highest paid but we do have good insurance, we get free addmission to the parks and really good discounts. And its not always about the money. Disney DOES a lot for the community and one of the biggest groups of voluntears in the country.If you don't think its worth the money don't go ...no ones holding a gun to your head. As a matter of fact for most the negative folks on this thread PLEASE DON'T COME...I'd hate to see you ruin the "magic" for some small child.All you that can only see negativity about Disney you have never seen the smile, or look of total awe at the first sight of the castle, or the HUGEST SMILES on the first glimpse of Mickey, or Donald or a Princess. Or heard the laughter,the giggles the OH WOW's. So Please DON'T COME. I for one will not miss you.... Castmember and Proud to be part of the Disney Family

what are you actually angry about? - 2009-02-19 17:09:02

Wow it's kind of funny how one guy thinks Disney is trying to hide that it made Pulp Fiction or something? And another says he wouldn't take his kids partially due to their "involvement with Michael Jackson"? Do you remember that MJ was the prince of pop at that point in time and didn't have any of these weird allegations against him when he made Captain EO? Moron. And yes I work for Disney, because I want to, because I love my job, and we aren't paid that badly. What would you make in any other job in this area that requires no skills or education? No more or not much more. I haved lived comfortably off my wages at Disney here in Orlando-it's not an expensive place to live. I easily afforded my rent, car, bills, cell phone and had money to spend on what I wanted once in a while, which is pretty good for a 19-year-old with no education... if I worked in a job at the mall or something I wouldn't do any better... what do you expect them to pay us? I am going to college so I can make better money. That's what you do if you want better money... not bitch about the fact that you got yourself a job in an amusement park. I mean seriously. We aren't paid any worse than other comparable jobs. I also have good health care and some really nice perks with my job, including that I love it and look forward to work every day. The funny thing is, you complain about how Disney supposedly treats its workers, but you don't work there. We aren't complaining. Mind your business. And if someone wants a different job that works there, I think the Kissimmee Wal-Mart is hiring.

Anonymous - 2009-02-19 17:57:53

Re: Coke is it! I would love to suck Jeff Gordon's dick.

Michele - 2009-02-26 13:02:34

Years ago we were there and I got in quite a long conversation with an employee who was from another country, imported there to represent said country. This person told me of how she was brought here by Disney and basically promised the world. Upon arriving this person was told they would have to repay airfare, and would pay lodging for the extent of their contract, the sad part is they made just enough to do just that and not enough to take home to help their family as promised, basically they work for nothing. Shame on Disney.

Cinderella - 2009-03-22 12:27:19

I'm a 19 year old college art student, and I am actually aspiring and working towards being employed by Disney. Their name is respectable, well known, and well liked. Sure they've gone through a few rough spots, but who hasn't! I don't know of one company that hasn't had problems with employees, copyright, etc. And I agree with the others when they say if you don't enjoy it then DON'T GO! Don't make it unenjoyable for those that DO WANT to be there. Any adults that are there have either been Disney fans since they were young, are trying to give their children an experience of a lifetime, or even both! It is really showing here how single minded some of you really are. It wouldn't take long to put yourself on the other side of the situation, and actually think about something useful. Disney is full of people who actually care about the world today, and are investing money, and time, and effort into doing something about it, instead of sitting in front of a computer and complaining about giant coke cups. Seriously.. you all need to do something with your lives.

cautionary word - 2009-03-30 13:42:57

cinderella... you might do a little investigating before you consider employment at WDW. WDW's treatment of employees and general b'ness practices are as bad or worse than any profit oriented multinational corporation. Google "kimba the white lion - lion king" and you will find how WDW conducts business. WDW seldom loses lawsuits - when faced with a loser they will keep it in a holding pattern until the planitif goes broke, gives up, or dies. respectability? if you want to get a real impression of how WDW does business ask any of the local business owners with whom WDW does business. you are correct about the giving nature of many a disney employee, however, you will find that WDW takes full advantage of that good nature. as it is said here in themetown (orlando) "friends don't let friends work at disney!"

dave in the usa - 2009-06-23 07:20:38

First of all . . . love the Coke-Guy. What a riot; but more importantly a perfect representation of the dull-witted saps who fall for the Disney 'magic'. Disney's operations are fearsomely predatorial. Far more consistent with the other multinational corporate thugs who've destroyed our economy, than the wholesome basket of puppies they seek to emulate. Far more gruesome than even this light-hearted list could dare reveal. Run my friends, run. Oh, and dear Coke Guy. Read a book. Preferably one without pictures.

B Smart - 2009-07-04 19:35:16

Delusions of Grandeur? Really? 1. This list cites no credible sources 2. This list is not dated. 3. In an attempt to create an atmosphere of credibility, this list mixes harmless truths (Kodak Picture spots) with salacious assertions The following are outdated, dubious, untrue, stupid, or just plain silly: Silly: "At the end of "Carousel of Progress", tourists find themselves in the uncomfortable position of giving an ovation to a bunch of Audio-Animatronic robots." - Really? People "ovation" the robots? And it's uncomfortable? Wow. That's juicy stuff right there (not). Dubious: "Walt Disney became a domestic spy for the Federal Bureau of Investigation starting in the early 1940s and helped usher in the infamous Hollywood Blacklist." While some "authors" have claimed this, none have been able to produce any substantive evidence. Later on in the list such a quotation is attributed to J.G Ballard's book "A User’s Guide to the Millennium." However, the book contains a compiliation of quotes and works of other authors. This particular quote was taken from Marc Eliot's book "Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince," which has been highly criticized. He attributes communication with the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) as foundation for his "spying." Outdated/Dubious/Silly: "Exxon’s "Universe of Energy" fails to include any mention of the Valdez oil spill." Exxon hasn't been the sponsor of this attraction since 2004. Even when it was, why would it bother to mention the Exxon Valdez spill? Would one really expect them to? Should GM have mentioned all it's lawsuits for vehicle defects in the old World of Motion attraction? Should GE have mentioned all of this legal and environmental troubles in the old Horizon's attraction? Does every company mention such things in all of its sponsorships and/or advertising? No. This is just silly. Silly: "The courtyard at Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort contains two 40-foot-high Coca-Cola cups, one of the most egregious attempts at product placement in the history of advertising." Most egregious? Really? It's that kind of a subjective argument? Wow...another zinger there (not). I guess we should ignore all the professional sports venues across the nation (and the world) that are named after companies and their products, right? Silly: "Mickey Mouse Club "Mouseketeers" were required to address Disney as "Uncle Walt."" So what? Silly/Outdated: ""Audio-Animatronics" figures of Abraham Lincoln and George Bush both have speaking roles in Disney’s "Hall of Presidents."" Not since it reopened after the addition of Obama. Even so...so what? Silly: ""Audio-Animatronics" figures of Abraham Lincoln and George Bush both have speaking roles in Disney’s "Hall of Presidents."" And how does this make Disney different from most every other American company whose products are made overseas? Silly: ""I don’t want the public to see the real world they live in while they’re in the park...I want them to feel they are in another world." —Walt Disney, commenting on the opening of Disneyland, 1955" Umm...isn't that kind of the point of a "theme park"??? Stupid: "Rick Moranis starred in Disney’s Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Honey, I Blew Up the Kid; Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves... " Umm...and?? I'll stop here....There are more that are just as stupid, but I won't waste any more time on this drivel.

dan - 2009-07-17 17:39:48

disney is fucked. People talking about "for the kids?" You're ensuring that your kid grows up with anxiety and depression for not fitting a fantasy image that was presented to them as a child, when they are vulnerable and cannot separate reality and fantasy. they are an evil corporation, with an "innocent" guise that really means "Life is too hard for me. Please feed me fantasies and keep me fat, happy, and drooling for more so you can charge me up the ass for it" they create the dream, hook peoples emotions, and then make money off of it. if you support disney, i suggest spending some time in quiet contemplation as to why you feel you need to exist in a fantasy world.

John n Kristen (big Disney heads!) - 2009-07-21 22:07:33

You people are insane. It's Disney ! Accross the works famlies smile as they open photo albums containing fond memories of disney vacations. And this one comment, your actually on vacation and spewing curses like a drunckin sailor? Wow I bet your the fun loving father type? God help him, this is the definition of bitter! John

luvdis - 2009-08-25 14:02:18

The swan and dolphin resorts are not disney resorts, they are operating participants owned by starwood. They are simply located on Disney property. The characters that are forced to work in 130 degree heat spend about 10-15 minutes at a time inside the costume, then go inside to refreshments while another takes their place. And why wouldn't someone be worried about the way their self made name was going to be managed after their death. Also, it is the policy of a number of employers for their employees to have no facial hair and short hair as well as trimmed nails. When is the last time you were served at a restaurant chain with a beard and long hair with chipped nail polish?

Disney LOVER - 2009-08-25 22:03:36

Honestly, I don't usually comment on things like this but I couldn't resist. I LOVE Walt Disney World. LOVE IT, LOVE IT, LOVE IT. Some of my best memories as a child (and as a big girl, for that matter) are of my times at Disney World. I now have a three year old and a six month old and I'm taking them to Disney very soon. I CAN"T WAIT to IMMERSE them in EVERYTHING DISNEY. It's expensive, but that's why they call it a VACATION. Don't all theme parks have overpriced food? Even hotels have overpriced food. I can't get a coke at the movie theater for less than FOUR FLIPPIN DOLLARS, and they still ask me to give them 25 cents more for the "next size up". Um, and the m&m's are, like, 3.25? And you wanna talk about a 3 dollar bag of Lay's? You poor, angry people make me giggle! You know you secretly wanna try on Cinderella's costume and do a little dance in the mirror. And, dude, you know if they burned down Disney you'd cry like a baby. And I bet you'd sound like Minnie Mouse. :)

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