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John
Burch III, age 3, from Gaston, N.C., meets Quincy, a character
from the popular Disney Channel program, "Little
Einsteins," May 24, 2006 at the Disney-MGM Studios in
Lake Buena Vista, Fla. Quincy and the rest of the Little
Einsteins made their debut at the theme park last week.
Great Facts to Know about
Disney's Hollywood Studios
1. Disney-MGM Studios Theme Park was the park's official
name until 1994, when the words "Theme Park" were
dropped.
2. Actual film production at the Park began before it
opened in 1989, as Splash, Too began shooting in one of
the Park's soundstages on February 22, 1988.
3. The right ear of the Mickey Mouse statue atop the
Crossroads of the World tower near the Park's entrance is made
of copper to act as a lightning rod.
4. Gertie the Dinosaur's Ice Cream of Extinction is a
reference to the 1940s belief that the Ice Age killed the
dinosaurs.
5. Disney legend Blaine Gibson, creator of the Walt and Roy
statues in the Magic Kingdom, created the bust of Walt Disney
in Hall of Fame Plaza, honoring Walt's 1986 induction into the
Television Hall of Fame.
6. Bob Cobb, owner of the original Brown Derby restaurants
(inspiration for the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant at the
theme park) and creator of the Cobb Salad, was a friend of
Walt Disney.
7. Those Audio-Animatronics gangsters in The Great Movie
Ride are duplicates of figures in The Pirates of the Caribbean
at the Magic Kingdom.
8. Water screens pump 2,400 gallons of water a minute to
create the misty backdrop to animation sequences in Fantasmic!
9. Beauty and the Beast--Live on Stage debuted at the Park
on November 21, 1991, the same day the animated film opened in
U.S. theaters.
10. Glenn Randall, stunt coordinator for the movie Raiders
of the Lost Ark, served as show director for the Indiana
Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular. |
