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HM Hidden Lincoln!

Monday, March 31st, 2008

Our Official DisneyLies Photo Correspondent has done it again! While on the Haunted Mansion attraction, ODLPC noticed a hidden Lincoln — one that even the DisneyLies.com editors were unaware of! It’s small and distant, but clearly seen within the circle in this photo:

Haunted Mansion hidden Lincoln

The photo of Abe Lincoln standing with his hand on his hip is on the open page of a book (Famous Presidents of Disneyland, according to one source). We will immediately send this photo off to HiddenLincolns.org for verification, but we’re completely sure it’s authentic!

(And remember, if you see a hidden Lincoln on Disney property, we want a photo!)

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Twilight Zone Details

Friday, March 28th, 2008

It’s commonly held that the original Twilight Zone Tower of Terror (currently at Disney Hollywood Studios after being moved, at great expense, from its home at Disney/MGM Studios) is the finest incarnation of the attraction. But on a recent trip to Disney’s California Adventure, our Official DisneyLies Photo Correspondent discovered a little something unique to DCA’s tower — the anti-gravity spot!

This spot — a tribute to the original Twilight Zone episode “Little Girl Filled with Helium and Lost” — is in one corner of the hotel’s main lobby. Everything above the spot instantly rises to the ceiling, as the antique jar and pair of glasses in this photo have done.

Twilight Zone Tower of Terror antigravity

Unfortunately, the antigravity spot is far removed from the attraction queue and surrounded by a steel-mesh grating so there’s no opportunity to stand in it and see what happens. Oh well!

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Old Moves

Thursday, March 27th, 2008

Complaints continue to come in regarding the quality of performance of Walt Disney World costumed characters. It seems that many of their jokes are ancient to the point of being essentially humorless. The Official Disney Lies Photographer happened to catch Chip performing an outdated Lord of the Dance routine, much to the confusion of all concerned.

Chip’s Lord of the Dance

If you happen to see a Disney character giving an out-of-date performance, please snap a photo and send it in!

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Hidden Mickeys!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

Disney fans love searching the parks for hidden Mickeys (HMs). Our Official DisneyLies Photo Correspondent is no different, and she sent us photos of a number of HMs from a recent visit to Disneyland Resort.

New Orleans Square hidden Mickey

This HM, found in New Orleans Square, has unusually small ears. We assume it is supposed to represent a young Mickey Mouse.

Disney’s California Adventure hidden Mickey

This HM, from Disney’s California Adventure, is of the “exploded Mickey” type. Exploded Mickeys can be found in a number of DCA locations, and Disneymaniacs are hopeful that, during the extensive demolition that will preceed upcoming DCA improvements, they will get to see an exploded Mickey actually explode!

Indiana Jones hidden Mickey?

Do you see the HM in this photo from the Indiana Jones attraction? No? Here, we’ll crop, rotate, stretch, and enhance the photo. See it now?

Indiana Jones hidden Minnie detail

If you answered yes, then you’re wrong! That’s not a hidden Mickey, but a hidden Minnie, and they don’t count. Heck, it doesn’t even look that much like Minnie (it’s all blurry, distorted, and full of compression noise). While we’re at it, the hidden Eyeore in this attraction doesn’t count either, so stop sending us photos.

That’s it for this time. Thanks, Official DisneyLies Photo Correspondent!

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Trouble in the jungle

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Due to a hydraulics failure yesterday afternoon, underwater barriers in Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise were unable to close in time, and a number of ravenous animatronic piranha escaped their designated area. The results were horrific, with two animatronic hippos and one animatronic water buffalo reduced to their component parts in minutes.

Animatronic hippo being devoured on Disneyland’s Jungle Cruise attraction

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Ghost!

Wednesday, March 19th, 2008

While looking for interesting things to photograph, our Official DisneyLies Photo Correspondent spotted an out-of-the-way staircase on Pirates of the Caribbean and — risking life, limb, intervention by Disney security, and the ire of fellow guests — took a picture of it. But when she looked at the photo on her computer later that night, she made an amazing discovery…

Ghost in Disneyland’s Pirates of the Caribbean

What is the billowing figure on the staircase? What could it possibly be?

We contacted Wendy the Disney Psychic and asked her to analyze the vibrations of the individual pixels in this digital image. According to Wendy, the figure is the animatronic spirit of the previous bridal inhabitant of Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion. Some months ago, this pour soul was displaced from the attic by a “new and improved” bride, and because it was unable to pass into the next world (there are no automatons in Heaven) or follow its animatronic body into Imagineering storage (for union reasons), it has become trapped in the mortal plane of existence!

Why, you ask, would a spirit from the Haunted Mansion be found in Pirates? “Pirates is a great attraction,” says Wendy the Disney Psychic. “Even the undead love it.”

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A taste of Disney

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Any real Disney fan knows that there’s quite a bit of work that goes into creating magic, and much of that work goes on behind the scenes. Not too long ago, our Official DisneyLies Photo Correspondent happened across one of those behind-the-scenes workers on the job at Disney’s California Adventure and asked what it was like creating Disney magic.

Disneyland Resort Food Rollout Quality Assurance Specialist Naomi de Plume

“Well, I’m an official Disneyland Resort Food Rollout Quality Assurance Specialist, which means that it’s my job to move through the parks incognito and sample any newly introduced food items to make sure that they meet pre-determined standards,” says Naomi de Plume, pictured here in one of her many disturbingly effective disguises.

“Today I’m trying a selection of special California-themed sweets that we’ve introduced into Disney’s California Adventure. I’m almost done with this Venice Beach Cruller, and although I admit it really does remind me of Venice, I don’t know that that’s a good thing. I think I’m going to recommend they do away with it. The La Brea Tar Pits Fudge, too. I like the Knotts Berry Farm Suckers, but I hear that there’s some problem in Legal, so they might not make it. That leaves the California Pine Scented Churros — kind of an acquired taste — and the Alcatraz “The Rock” Rock Candy, which is pretty standard.

“I wish they hadn’t had to abandon the idea for the Hollywood Walk of Fame Waffles of Fame, but it just took too long to make each guest a customized waffle with their name on it.”

We asked Naomi what she really looked like. “Don’t you wish you knew! Seriously, though, I can’t let cast members see me out of disguise or they might try to make sure I get something better than what guests are getting. Everyone wants to fool the quality-control woman. So sometimes I’m a tall black man, sometimes I’m a short Latina woman, sometimes I’m a nondescript Asian-American grade-school student, sometimes I’m a talking trash can, and sometimes I’m the rugged man of distinction you see before you now. You never know — and neither does anyone else!”

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Danger! Danger! Danger!

Friday, March 14th, 2008

A DisneyLies.com blog reader sent in the below photograph of Disneyland’s entrance, noting the strange glowing spots coming from the Mickey floral display.

Radioactive Mickey floral display at Disneyland

What could the glow be? Certainly, standard floral display plants do not emit this much radiation. With a little research, our reader discovered that on the morning she took the photos Disney had been testing a new Disneyland Railroad engine. This engine, designed to reduce carbon emissions, generated steam using not coal but rather enriched uranium. Apparently, the engine’s nuclear power plant was not well sealed, and as it idled at the Main Street station, it spewed quite a bit of radioactive material from its smokestack. This material settled all around the station, irradiating guests and, even worse from a show perspective, defacing the Mickey floral display.

We will return to this story in coming months to see whether or not Disney has cleaned up their mess!

We were very pleased with our reader for sending us this ground-breaking photo and have asked her to become the Official DisneyLies Photo Correspondent. Watch for more photos from her in coming weeks!

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