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<p>Disney World promotes itself as the &quot;most magical place on Earth.&quot; And many Disney fanatics would agree. But behind those Mickey Mouse ears lie some dirty secrets that only employees, and some extremely frequent visitors, are privy to. And some of these secrets show a less magical side to the iconic theme park. Only read ahead if you&#39;re willing to risk &quot;ruining the magic&quot; of Disney.</p><h2>Someone <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/bstvkc/people_who_work_at_or_frequently_visit_disney/" target="_blank">asked</a> Reddit: &quot;People who work at or frequently visit Disney, what do you know that would &#39;ruin the magic&#39;?&quot;</h2><h2>These 20 Disney employees and fanatics spill the not-so-magical secrets they&#39;ve found out about the world&#39;s favorite theme park:</h2><p>1.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/renoCow/">renoCow</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I have been stranded on a stopped &ldquo;rocket&rdquo; inside Space Mountain at Disneyland. It took about 15 minutes to get the ride moving again. Anyway we ended up riding it with the lights on, and it&rsquo;s a surprisingly slow tame roller coaster. There are fans blowing air in your face to give it the illusion of speed.</p> </blockquote><p>2.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/syrstorm/">syrstorm</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Space Mountain is one of the slowest coasters at any major park. Frankly, it&#39;s super impressive how they make it FEEL fast. It&#39;s also heavily air-conditioned so that the wind feels faster, the fast and thumping music also adds to the feeling.</p> </blockquote><p>3.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/kezebel/">kezebel</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When you walk through areas of Magic Kingdom and you smell freshly baked cookies in a certain area, it&#39;s not actual cookies from one of the stores. They secretly spray cookie smell to add to the effect.</p> </blockquote><p>4.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/OldPolishProverb/">OldPolishProverb</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Back in 1971 when Disney was deciding where to build Disney World, as a way to gain an advantage over other locations, Florida gave them the rights to create their own local government. This is now known as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_District" target="_blank">Reedy Creek Improvement District</a></p> <p>If Disney wants to, they can build their own nuclear power plant.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>5.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/EmeliusBrown/">EmeliusBrown</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I worked in broadcast services in Anaheim. There is not a single place in the park (except for bathrooms, and in some cast member areas) where you cannot be seen on CCTV.</p> </blockquote><p>6.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/little-miss-sparrow/">little-miss-sparrow</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>When you stay at a resort, Disney opens a file for you. They know where you eat, what rides you&rsquo;ve been on, and how many times you&rsquo;ve complained to a manager or guest services. That&rsquo;s why I think it hilarious when people online tell others online that they can get things for free if they complain. Sure, you might get something at first, but big brother Disney is keeping tabs on you. Whenever we have difficult guests, the first thing my manager does is pull up their file, and if you&rsquo;ve been complaining and getting free things at every restaurant, ride, and hotel you&rsquo;ve been to, chances are, your luck is about to run out.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>And I doesn&rsquo;t go away after you leave. It stays there, till the next time you come back. Think of it as your Disney permanent record. Also, the Disney secret security. They look just like a regular tourist, but their job is to walk around and watch for people doing things they&rsquo;re not supposed to be doing.</p> </blockquote><p>7.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/MoralDiabetes/">MoralDiabetes</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Lots of visitors will try to spread the ashes of loved ones on theme park rides.</p> <p>Walt Disney World has two abandoned parks. One, River Country was a water park. Before it closed, an 11 year old visitor died after coming into contact with brain eating amoeba at the park.</p> <p>Costumed characters are not allowed to take off their costume in public. The average temperature high in Orlando in summer is around 91.</p> </blockquote><p>8.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/PFManningsForehead/">PFManningsForehead</a>:</p><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>I went to a conference for a small organization I&#39;m in, in which a previous Disney CEO spoke at. He talked about how they focused on Disney Princesses so they could sell lots of accessories to girls and how little girls are much better to sell to than boys because boys are satisfied playing with sticks on the ground while little girls want more</p> </blockquote><p>9.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/fryguy152/">fryguy152</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I build concerts, did Disney on Ice a number of times. Goofey once told me about his breakfast that morning.</p> <p>Wheaties with beer.</p> <p>...no milk</p> <p>It was a great performance that day</p> </blockquote><p>10.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/jscott18597/">jscott18597</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I saw some youtube video of a disney &quot;princess&quot; that worked at the park. She had literal stalkers that would show up constantly and talk to her. They would even get angry at the replacement if the person the stalker was stalking had to have their normal shift off.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>Disney wouldn&#39;t do anything until the stalker did something physical or lewd.</p> <p>A 40 year old man coming to visit a specific 20 year old girl (that had to interact with the man with a smile) day after day wasn&#39;t creepy enough for disney.</p> </blockquote><p>11.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/thejmni/">thejmn</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I worked as a chef at Disneyland... Most of the food at the most expensive parts of Disneyland (the Winery, Blue Bayou) use canned and over processed ingredients. Any dietary restrictions?! You are most likely getting food from a microwave. Despite having some of the most skilled chefs on the planet they cut corners in EVERY way.</p> </blockquote><p>12.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Adrift715/">Adrift715</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>Daughter in law worked at wdw. Some days her only job was to organize the strollers outside of a theatre. As one group left a show and took theirs she&rsquo;d push the next set of strollers forward. Otherwise you&rsquo;d have the 3 rd and fourth show guests strollers blocking the paths. She was constantly being yelled for having moved them. One lady said her purse was in the stroller with their passports and airline tickets. Once they found a sleeping toddler.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>13.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/huffleupagus/">huffleupagus</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>every time you call &ldquo;Disney&rdquo; you&rsquo;re calling a random call center</p> </blockquote><p>14.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Onijness/">Onijness</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>My girlfriend is an avid Disney fan and goes all the time. Her favorite thing to point out is how often they reuse old animatronics. For example:</p> <p>In Disneyland California there used to be an old attraction called America Sings where animals would sing to an audience. When the ride closed some of the geese in the attraction were stripped and used in the queue for Star Tours as droids. A lot of others ended up going to Splash Mountain.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>Rumor has it they use the old Big Al animatronic from the Country Bears for Oogie Boogie in the Holiday overlay of the Haunted Mansion.</p> <p>They also reuse molds of animatronics, so there are many in Spaceship Earth, Carousel of Progress and Haunted Mansion in Orlando who share faces with a president in the Hall of Presidents.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>15.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Egheaumaen/">Egheaumaen</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>I don&rsquo;t know whether this will &ldquo;ruin&rdquo; anything, it&rsquo;s just a fun fact. Walt Disney was a chain smoker, and constantly had a cigarette in his hand. Consequently, a majority of the photographs taken of him show him holding a cigarette. In today&rsquo;s modern society, it is no longer socially appropriate to be a chain smoker, so the Disney company has airbrushed the cigarettes out of all the old photos of Walt that they use for publicity.</p> </blockquote><blockquote> <p>This leaves Walt holding his hand in a very strange position, with two fingers extended, where there used to be a cigarette between them. The Disney Company&rsquo;s official explanation for this is that Walt had a very unique hand gesture, that every time he pointed, he did so with two fingers. In order to perpetrate this lie on the public, all Disney employees, in the parks, the hotels, the Disney Stores in malls, everywhere, are required to point with two fingers, and are told, &ldquo;This is the Disney way.&rdquo;</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><blockquote> <p>And the whole reason is to make the public comfortable with seeing that gesture, so that Walt doesn&rsquo;t look weird in all those old pictures where the cigarettes have been erased. Try it. The next time you&rsquo;re around a Disney employee, ask for directions, or ask where something is. I guarantee you they will point with two fingers.</p> </blockquote><p>16.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/creatureslim/">creatureslim</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>People die there. Like a lot.</p> </blockquote><p>17.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/homemadepeachpie/">homemadepeachpie</a>:</p><blockquote> <p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/disneyland-employees-wages.html" rel="noopener nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Employees are underpaid and struggle to make ends meet.</a></p> </blockquote><p>18.) From [deleted]:</p><blockquote> <p>Disney&#39;s Tower of Terror in California (iirc) has its specific height because if it were one foot higher it&#39;d need a bright red beacon to warn aircraft.</p> <p>The Water on the safari cruise isn&#39;t even waist-deep, it&#39;s dyed to seem deeper.</p> <p>Magic Kingdom in California is on the first floor, the ground floor is an elaborate network of tunnels so you don&#39;t see too many maintenance-crews, or characters in the wrong area.</p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div><p>19.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/Cannibeans/">Cannibeans</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>This one&#39;s pretty well-known these days, but still...</p> <p>The people in costumes around the park are hooking up with each other. I can&#39;t express how surprisingly common it is for those actors to hook up behind the scenes in between their shifts. My grandfather is an imagineer and said it&#39;s not encouraged there by any means, but hardly anyone does anything because it&#39;s so common and apparently keeps morale up. Apparently standing around in a sweltering Goofy costume all day is worth it if you get to have sex with Snow White later.</p> </blockquote><p>20.) From <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/juloxx/">juloxx</a>:</p><blockquote> <p>They have a prison under Disneyland as well as Disneyworld</p> <p><a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/what-its-like-in-disneyland-jail.html/" rel="noopener nofollow ugc" target="_blank">Its actually kind of f**king hilarious and not at the same time</a></p> </blockquote><div className="ad-splitter"></div>

20 Disney employees and visitors share secrets that would 'ruin the magic.'

Disney World promotes itself as the &quot;most magical place on Earth.&quot; And many Disney fanatics would agree. But behind those Mickey Mouse ears lie some dirty secrets that only employees, and some extremely frequent visitors, are privy to. And some of these secrets show a less magical side to the iconic theme park. Only read ahead if you&#39;re willing to risk &quot;ruining the magic&quot; of Disney.Someone asked Reddit: &quot;People who work at or frequently visit Disney, what do you know that would &#39;ruin the magic&#39;?&quot;These 20 Disney employees and fanatics spill the not-so-magical secrets they&#39;ve found out about the world&#39;s favorite theme park:1.) From renoCow: I have been stranded on a stopped &ldquo;rocket&rdquo; inside Space Mountain at Disneyland. It took about 15 minutes to get the ride moving again. Anyway we ended up riding it with the lights on, and it&rsquo;s a surprisingly slow tame roller coaster. There are fans blowing air in your face to give it the illusion of speed. 2.) From syrstorm: Space Mountain is one of the slowest coasters at any major park. Frankly, it&#39;s super impressive how they make it FEEL fast. It&#39;s also heavily air-conditioned so that the wind feels faster, the fast and thumping music also adds to the feeling. 3.) From kezebel: When you walk through areas of Magic Kingdom and you smell freshly baked cookies in a certain area, it&#39;s not actual cookies from one of the stores. They secretly spray cookie smell to add to the effect. 4.) From OldPolishProverb: Back in 1971 when Disney was deciding where to build Disney World, as a way to gain an advantage over other locations, Florida gave them the rights to create their own local government. This is now known as the Reedy Creek Improvement District If Disney wants to, they can build their own nuclear power plant. 5.) From EmeliusBrown: I worked in broadcast services in Anaheim. There is not a single place in the park (except for bathrooms, and in some cast member areas) where you cannot be seen on CCTV. 6.) From little-miss-sparrow: When you stay at a resort, Disney opens a file for you. They know where you eat, what rides you&rsquo;ve been on, and how many times you&rsquo;ve complained to a manager or guest services. That&rsquo;s why I think it hilarious when people online tell others online that they can get things for free if they complain. Sure, you might get something at first, but big brother Disney is keeping tabs on you. Whenever we have difficult guests, the first thing my manager does is pull up their file, and if you&rsquo;ve been complaining and getting free things at every restaurant, ride, and hotel you&rsquo;ve been to, chances are, your luck is about to run out.  And I doesn&rsquo;t go away after you leave. It stays there, till the next time you come back. Think of it as your Disney permanent record. Also, the Disney secret security. They look just like a regular tourist, but their job is to walk around and watch for people doing things they&rsquo;re not supposed to be doing. 7.) From MoralDiabetes: Lots of visitors will try to spread the ashes of loved ones on theme park rides. Walt Disney World has two abandoned parks. One, River Country was a water park. Before it closed, an 11 year old visitor died after coming into contact with brain eating amoeba at the park. Costumed characters are not allowed to take off their costume in public. The average temperature high in Orlando in summer is around 91. 8.) From PFManningsForehead: I went to a conference for a small organization I&#39;m in, in which a previous Disney CEO spoke at. He talked about how they focused on Disney Princesses so they could sell lots of accessories to girls and how little girls are much better to sell to than boys because boys are satisfied playing with sticks on the ground while little girls want more 9.) From fryguy152: I build concerts, did Disney on Ice a number of times. Goofey once told me about his breakfast that morning. Wheaties with beer. ...no milk It was a great performance that day 10.) From jscott18597: I saw some youtube video of a disney &quot;princess&quot; that worked at the park. She had literal stalkers that would show up constantly and talk to her. They would even get angry at the replacement if the person the stalker was stalking had to have their normal shift off.  Disney wouldn&#39;t do anything until the stalker did something physical or lewd. A 40 year old man coming to visit a specific 20 year old girl (that had to interact with the man with a smile) day after day wasn&#39;t creepy enough for disney. 11.) From thejmn: I worked as a chef at Disneyland... Most of the food at the most expensive parts of Disneyland (the Winery, Blue Bayou) use canned and over processed ingredients. Any dietary restrictions?! You are most likely getting food from a microwave. Despite having some of the most skilled chefs on the planet they cut corners in EVERY way. 12.) From Adrift715: Daughter in law worked at wdw. Some days her only job was to organize the strollers outside of a theatre. As one group left a show and took theirs she&rsquo;d push the next set of strollers forward. Otherwise you&rsquo;d have the 3 rd and fourth show guests strollers blocking the paths. She was constantly being yelled for having moved them. One lady said her purse was in the stroller with their passports and airline tickets. Once they found a sleeping toddler. 13.) From huffleupagus: every time you call &ldquo;Disney&rdquo; you&rsquo;re calling a random call center 14.) From Onijness: My girlfriend is an avid Disney fan and goes all the time. Her favorite thing to point out is how often they reuse old animatronics. For example: In Disneyland California there used to be an old attraction called America Sings where animals would sing to an audience. When the ride closed some of the geese in the attraction were stripped and used in the queue for Star Tours as droids. A lot of others ended up going to Splash Mountain.  Rumor has it they use the old Big Al animatronic from the Country Bears for Oogie Boogie in the Holiday overlay of the Haunted Mansion. They also reuse molds of animatronics, so there are many in Spaceship Earth, Carousel of Progress and Haunted Mansion in Orlando who share faces with a president in the Hall of Presidents. 15.) From Egheaumaen: I don&rsquo;t know whether this will &ldquo;ruin&rdquo; anything, it&rsquo;s just a fun fact. Walt Disney was a chain smoker, and constantly had a cigarette in his hand. Consequently, a majority of the photographs taken of him show him holding a cigarette. In today&rsquo;s modern society, it is no longer socially appropriate to be a chain smoker, so the Disney company has airbrushed the cigarettes out of all the old photos of Walt that they use for publicity.  This leaves Walt holding his hand in a very strange position, with two fingers extended, where there used to be a cigarette between them. The Disney Company&rsquo;s official explanation for this is that Walt had a very unique hand gesture, that every time he pointed, he did so with two fingers. In order to perpetrate this lie on the public, all Disney employees, in the parks, the hotels, the Disney Stores in malls, everywhere, are required to point with two fingers, and are told, &ldquo;This is the Disney way.&rdquo;  And the whole reason is to make the public comfortable with seeing that gesture, so that Walt doesn&rsquo;t look weird in all those old pictures where the cigarettes have been erased. Try it. The next time you&rsquo;re around a Disney employee, ask for directions, or ask where something is. I guarantee you they will point with two fingers. 16.) From creatureslim: People die there. Like a lot. 17.) From homemadepeachpie: Employees are underpaid and struggle to make ends meet. 18.) From [deleted]: Disney&#39;s Tower of Terror in California (iirc) has its specific height because if it were one foot higher it&#39;d need a bright red beacon to warn aircraft. The Water on the safari cruise isn&#39;t even waist-deep, it&#39;s dyed to seem deeper. Magic Kingdom in California is on the first floor, the ground floor is an elaborate network of tunnels so you don&#39;t see too many maintenance-crews, or characters in the wrong area. 19.) From Cannibeans: This one&#39;s pretty well-known these days, but still... The people in costumes around the park are hooking up with each other. I can&#39;t express how surprisingly common it is for those actors to hook up behind the scenes in between their shifts. My grandfather is an imagineer and said it&#39;s not encouraged there by any means, but hardly anyone does anything because it&#39;s so common and apparently keeps morale up. Apparently standing around in a sweltering Goofy costume all day is worth it if you get to have sex with Snow White later. 20.) From juloxx: They have a prison under Disneyland as well as Disneyworld Its actually kind of f**king hilarious and not at the same time 

Disney World promotes itself as the &quot;most magical place on Earth.&quot; And many Disney fanatics would agree. But behind those Mickey Mouse ears lie some dirty secrets that only employees, and some extremely frequent visitors, are...

20 Disney employees and visitors share secrets that would 'ruin the magic.'

Someone asked Reddit: "People who work at or frequently visit Disney, what do you know that would 'ruin the magic'?"

These 20 Disney employees and fanatics spill the not-so-magical secrets they've found out about the world's favorite theme park: