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Now I know I have received some comments about numerous facts being repeated in different pages. My apologizes about that, I will try not to keep doing that awful habit.
I have some brand new facts here that will really knock your socks off!
I hope you enjoy them!
Fact #1081
When the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were in their toy licencing stage, Disney considered buying the rights, but declined in the end thinking they wouldn't sell.
Fact #1082
Snow White makes a cameo appearance in Aladdin and the King of Thieves when Genie turns Jasmine into Snow White.
Fact #1083
Cinderella is the first Disney Princess to be seen as a little girl, before Tiana in 2009 and Rapunzel in 2010.
Fact #1084
Cinderella is derived from the French word Cendrillon, which translates in English as "little ash girl".
Fact #1085
Princess Aurora is the second Disney Princess to be saved by "true love's kiss".
Fact #1086
Aurora is the first Disney Princess to be initially unaware of her identity as a princess, the second being Rapunzel.
Fact #1087
The real name of Pocahontas is Matoaka, while Pocahontas is her nickname. However, this isn't mentioned in any of the Disney films.
Fact #1088
The voice of Ursula was supposed to be Bea Arthur, but she dropped out of the film due to "Golden Girls" conflicts.
Fact #1089
The scene where Ariel is on the rock in the ocean hearkens back to the famous "Little Mermaid" statue in Copenhagen's harbor.
Fact #1090
Ariel will be making an appearance in the new season of ABC's Once Upon A Time, who will be played by Joanna García.
Fact #1091
During the production of The Princess & The Frog, there was a lot of controversy. Black-Americans objected to the lead character original name, ‘Maddy’ because they claimed it to be a slave name. It was later changed to Tiana.
Fact #1092
101 Dalmatians was so incredibly successful that it was rereleased in theaters four more times after its initial run, and it inspired two live-action remakes.
Fact #1093
Hitler's favourite film was Disney's Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs. It was discovered in a muesuem in Norway where they found a few drawings of Bashful and Doc he drew as a child.
Fact #1094
The "Do You Want To Build a Snowman" scene in Frozen almost wasn't in the movie.
Fact #1095
It took up to 4,000 computers and 30 hours to make one frame fo Frozen.
Fact #1096
It took over 50 people to make the the scene of Elsa building her ice palace during her musical number.
Fact #1097
To study the effects of snow and ice, Dr. Ken Libbrecht (aka Dr. Snow) of CalTech was brought in to show how snowflakes are formed.
Fact #1098
The research team also took a trip to Wyoming to study what it was like to walk and trudge through snow in a dress. Even the male members of the team joined in.
Fact #1099
Anna’s catchphrase “Wait, what?” is actually something that Kristen Bell says a lot.
Fact #1100
Yui Ishikawa who voices Mikasa Ackerman in the popular anime Attack On Titan, provided the voice for Anna and Elsa in the Japanese version of Frozen.
Fact #1101
In Wreak It Ralph, he hub world is a power strip, but during production it was orignally an Xbox hard drive.
Fact #1102
Disney recruited professional football players who provided the models for the muscular guys in Hero’s Duty for Wreak It Ralph.
Fact #1103
King Candy’s safe has a Nintendo Entertainment System controller as its interface. The password combination he enters is “UP, UP, DOWN, DOWN, LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT, RIGHT, B, A, START”, which is a common cheat code used by game developer, Konami, in their early Nintendo game titles.
Fact #1104
The design of the Hub World was inspired by Grand Central Station.
Fact #1105
On the official website for Wreak It Ralph, you can play Fix It Felix, Hero's Duty, and Sugar Rush.
Fact #1106
In the Disney Animation Studios, there’s a race track graphic on the wall with each department’s completion percentage racing around the track.
Fact #1107
Before Wreck-It Ralph, Disney had unsuccessfully been developing two video game films: High Score and Joe Jump. Sadly both of them were scrapped.
Fact #1108
The outfits of the Nicelanders were heavily influenced by the 2011 Royal Wedding, which was going on as they were being designed.
Fact #1109
The world of Planes Fire and Rescue was inspired by some of the popular National Parks including Yosemite, Yellowstone and Sequoia National Park.
Fact #1110
When doing research for the film, the creators brought their families to the Redondo Beach Fire Station. The firefighters were so welcoming to letting the kids climb on the firetrucks and show them everything and how it works. They designed the yellow fire truck, Pulaski, as a tribute to the Redondo Beach Engine 64.
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