9 Fascinating Truths About Disney World That Make You Frown

If you're not a huge Disney fan yourself, you probably have friends who are. These fans are annual park-goers who can recite entire scenes from their favorite movies, who excel in Disney trivia, and who occasionally dress up as their favorite characters. It's impossible to know everything about Disney, no matter how much someone loves Disney.
When Disneyland officially opened in 1955, the first full-length feature film from Walt Disney Productions, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, was released in 1937, giving the parks a combined 65 years of existence. You have a lot of Disney knowledge to catch up on there! To help you catch up on some of the more obscure details of Disney lore or to give you ammunition against that one buddy who believes they know it all, we've compiled a list of little-known Disney anecdotes.

1. The Incredibles

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More than a hundred garments were created to outfit the cast and crew of The Incredibles. Male background characters were outfitted with a total of 12 distinct clothes and modeled in 6 different body types. Using all the color and pattern combinations possible, we created 72 distinct male figures. As for the ladies, they designed 20 different outfits and seven different body shapes. By making a few tweaks to the original designs, they created a cast of 64 people with completely different costumes.

2. Disney World

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If you want to know who buys the second most explosives in America, it's Disney World.

3. Pixar’s Movie Up

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Up, from Disney/Pixar, Has 10,297 Balloons.

4. Mickey Mouse

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Walt Disney's wife came up with the name "Mickey Mouse."

5. Mulan

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The story of a real Chinese female warrior with the same name inspired Disney's Mulan.

6. Toy Story 2

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There Was Virtually No Toy Story 2 Left In The Final Cut Due to a misdirected instruction, Toy Story 2, the product of countless hours of labor, was nearly removed from the company's computers. Fortunately, this was uncovered in in time to save the film.

7. 101 Dalmatians

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The movie 101 Dalmatians has exactly 6,469,952 black spots.

8. Dumbo

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The Cover of Time Nearly Went to Dumbo In 1941 The editors at TIME wanted to publish a positive issue for the holiday season, so they had painters from The Walt Disney Studios create a black and white painting of an elephant for the cover. The accompanying piece, which would crown Dumbo "Mammal-of-the-Year," was set to appear on December 29.
On the other hand, Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japanese forces on December 7. As a result of the attack, the December 15 edition of TIME had to be rewritten, and the United States was suddenly drawn into World War II.

9. The Rabbit Was Walt Disney's First Totally Invented Character

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