The Blue Bayou Restaurant (one of Ted's family's favorite big Disneyland splurges)
- Blue Bayou is themed to be a backyard party. The tables, lawn chairs and the lamps and the trees all form a backyard
- The Blue Bayou is the only place in Disneyand that serves yellow lemonade. If you buy it anywhere else, it will be pink.
- There is a really long conveyor system that moved dirty dishes from the Blue Bayoo and other New Orleans restaurants. This is to help combat a roach problem caused by the humidity from the Pirates ride.
- The oft rumored and now confirmed Club 33 is located above the Blue Bayou. You can find the small unassuming green door to the club just down the alley from the entrance to the Blue Bayou.
This is Ted's favorite spot to watch his cousin blow up fireworks for Fantasmic!, our favorite Disney fireworks show.
Fantasmic!
- Fantasmic! was originally called "Imagination" in 1992
- Before the show Fantasmic, at about 8:50, you could see the flower pedals from the jungle scene being ready. Also if you go toward Critter Country you could see the cast members preparing the ship for the Peter Pan scene.
- The door over the dragon pit (as it is actually known rather than the stage well) weighs 10,000 pounds.
- On Fantasmic the snake is held by the pirates. If you look under it you can see their pants. This is used to get them from one side of the island to the other where the pirate ship is
Pirates of the Carribean
- Walt Disney worked extensively on this attraction, but passed away before it opened in 1967. It features one of the most elaborate uses of Audio Animatronics figures ever attempted by Disney.
- The portrait of a young woman (the one that changes into the Medusa) that hangs in the entrance hall of the Haunted Mansion pictures the same girl that is dressed as a pirate in the painting in the skeleton's tavern in Pirates of the Carribean.
- Some of the skeletons on the ride are real! When the ride was built, life-like plastics had not been invented yet. The real skeletons were bought as ex-research skeletons.
- Known for their inside jokes, the artists for this attraction modeled some of the pirate faces (particularly the mischievous ones) after themselves.
Space Mountain
- Space Mountain cost $20M to build - it cost more than the original park in 1955 dollars.
- Just after you are loaded in the cars on Space Mountain, they move forward a few feet and stop: this is for two reasons:
- To weigh the whole car and occupants (as the weight is crucial to ride spacing - previously mentioned)
- to "charge" the phosphorescent gowing panels on the side of the car using the black lites in the walls.
- You used to be able to stick pennies to the walls in the queue line for Space Mountain. Since the past two remodels, the paint has been replaced with a demagnetized type.
- If you are ever on the ride when it breaks down, the lights will come on and you can view the entire ride. A cast member will then release the safety brake on your car and you and your party will have to exit the ride.
Ted also likes to get dinner and a show at the Golden Horseshoe Saloon! Can you spot the Hidden Mickey that Ted found?
The Golden Horseshoe Saloon
- If you sit in one of the stage boxes that are at the stage level in the Golden Horseshoe Revue, the performers will often look over at you and give you some silly looks and even talk to you while the show is going on.
- While walking past The Golden Horseshoe Saloon, listen to the theme songs of Blazing Saddles, Bonanza, The Wild Wild West, and Roy Rogers theme to Pecos Bill.
Hint: The best ride to go on very very late at night is the Jungle Cruise. After closing, the tour guides give up being family friendly and just goof off. I (Julie) LOVE hearing their non PC jokes!
Stay tuned!
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