Fun Facts For Friday (Say That 3 Times Fast!)

I thought I would share some fun facts this festive Friday about the Happiest Place on Earth.  There are so many things about Disney World that the average person never thinks about, so I took it upon myself to handle the job.  I love learning new tidbits about All Things Disney and sharing them with friends and family.  It drives me crazy when when someone shares a factoid with me that I have never heard before, but it happens all the time.  

So please enjoy this fun list of behind the scenes information that I have gathered over the years.  Oh and feel free to share them with your friends and family.  You will look like the Disney Know-It-All and be held in such high esteem that you just might find yourself wanting to learn more!

It’s Not a Small World, After All . . . Covering 40 square miles, the Walt Disney World
Resort is almost the same size as San Francisco. With more than 25,000 acres in total, less than 35 percent of the land has been developed with a quarter designated as a wilderness preserve.

A Cast of Thousands . . . around 62,000 Cast Members that is!  It takes that many people to create the pixie dust and magic at the Walt Disney World Resort. Walt Disney World Resort is the largest single-site employer in the United States.

Mouse of Many Suits . . . Mickey Mouse himself has more than 290 different sets of clothes.  It depends on when you catch Mickey as to what he might be wearing.  He has been seen around town in his best tuxedo, a cowboy suit, a spacesuit, and of course dressed as the Sorcerers Apprentice. Minnie’s wardrobe contains more than 200 outfits, including everything from a
cheerleader ensemble to evening gowns.

Laundry Service Please! . . . If you were to wash and dry one load of laundry every day for 52 years, you’d clean as much as the folks at Walt Disney World Laundry do in a single day. The cast members there launder an average of 285,000 pounds each day. In addition, between 30,000 and 32,000 garments are dry-cleaned daily.

Say Cheese! . . . Disney Theme Parks, and more importantly the majestic Castle are among the
most photographed places in the United States. On any given day, Disney’s PhotoPass
photographers take between 100,000 and 200,000 photos of guests at Walt Disney World Resort. The PhotoPass service allows guests to view, share and order their Disney photos online and create Disney products such as PhotoBooks and mugs.

I’m Dreaming of a “Green” Christmas . . . The 1,500 Christmas trees at Walt Disney
World Resort won’t be the only “green” holiday delights this season as each Walt Disney World
resort hotel will glow with new “conservation” lighting – more than 700,000 LED lights in all.
String the bulbs end to end and the strand would stretch for 96 miles or light the path from
Jacksonville to Orlando, all while using 1/10th of the power of traditional incandescent bulbs.

Who’s Still Thirsty? . . . Holy diabetes!  More than 75 million Cokes are consumed each year at Walt Disney World Resort along with 13 million bottles of water. Guests also gobble 10 million hamburgers, 6 million hot dogs, 9 million pounds of French fries and more than 300,000 pounds of popcorn.

Ears to You . . . When laid end to end, there are enough of the famous “Mouse Ear” hats sold
each year to stretch 175 miles or cover the head of every man, woman and child in Orange
County, Fla. There are also enough Disney character T-shirts sold to put Mickey Mouse’s
smiling face on the chest of every resident of Montana.

Sign Here . . . If you stacked the number of standard autograph books sold annually, it would
match the height of 200 Cinderella Castles. Add the Princess-style autograph books and, end to
end, the books would reach 88 miles into space.

So now you too are in the know!  These are great facts to whip out on friends and family as you roam the parks, and of course is a great way to look highly intelligent about your surroundings!  Many of these facts are just amazing in themselves.  I knew Disney was big but I would have never have guessed that there was still so much land left to be developed!  Here’s hoping that instead of a Star Wars land at Hollywood Studios that we get an actual Star Wars park instead.  I would pay big bucks to eat at the Mos Isley Cantina, and take a land speeder ride to Tattoine.

As always, thank you so much for sharing your time with me.  It is always appreciated!  So now its time to say goodbye, to all my blog readers – M-I-C- see ya back here later – K-E-Y – why, because I love blabbering on about Disney!  M-O-U-S-E!!!  See ya real soon!