More Debunking Fun!

Claim: The closure and removal of Disneyland’s Skyway in November of 1994 was prompted by a guest’s having fallen from the ride several months earlier.
Status: False.

Claim: Several guests have lost their lives on various Disneyland attractions.
Status: True.

Claim: One of the castle spires on the cover of Disney’s The Little Mermaid home video was deliberately drawn as a phallus by a disgruntled artist.
Status: False.

Has anyone ever died while riding Space Mountain?
You’ve probably heard the rumor that a passenger was decapitated while riding Space Mountain Anaheim. This is Urban Legend; people have died while riding the attraction before, but their deaths have been caused by such things as heart attacks (it is fairly well accepted that one such death in Paris was due to a heart attack). One version of this story has that a test dummy in the Orlando Space Mountain was the thing which lost a head.


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  1. i heard that in disney’s the lion kins the artists drew the word “sex” in the clouds

  2. i heard that in disney’s the lion kins the artists drew the word “sex” in the clouds

  3. Liz, It’s not in the clouds. It happens to be in the part when Timon and Pumba make fun of Simba for his comment about “Kings of the past”. When Simba walks away, he goes and flops down on the grass and a puff of dust flows up into the sky. If you play the movie in slowmotion during that scene. You can read the word “sex” fairly clearly, within the puff of dust.

  4. It’s not “sex” it’s “SFX” like special effects at that time

  5. Even if somebody dies at Disney world, they can never technically die because nobody can be pronounced dead there. They have to be pronounced dead outside of the park.

  6. out of all the deaths in Disneyland Theme parks, only one was due to the carelessness of the workers. Every other death was by guests stupidity

  7. As for as the The Lion King goes, the “Sex”written in the sky can not be seen clearly. Some people think that that is what it says, but most think that it was just by random luck that the stars would line up so close. So really you can prove for sure that the stars do spell SEX, but you can certainly immagine they do! (dirty people)

  8. The bit about not being able to pronounce anyone dead within the parks is a myth. Unless the attending doctor is right there, a person cannot be pronounced dead. Paramedics can’t do that. A doctor is the only one with the authority. So it’s not a Disney rule, just a regular law.

  9. I heard the scene in Bambi where you see Bambi jumping off the waterfall while there’s a brush fire, you could see a box of matches hanging out of a little fuzzy pocket on his right side.

  10. you never know if disney could be lieing about making it say sfx. he may be just saying that to assure that he does not get into trouble. I personally think that after all the nasty stuff he put in his other movies the it was his intention to write sex in the sky in his movie.

  11. I heard that if you hit the slow-motion button during the scene in Snow White, the one where the witch gives Snow White the apple, the two have a hot fruit-filled lesbo scene.

  12. in the little mermaid, when ursula is pretending to be ariel and is about to marry eric, right as the priest is saying “dearly beloved…” he gets a boner. i swear ive even seen it. it just goes pop! and it stays like that for awhile.

  13. in the movie “who framed roger rabbit” (the old one) wen the baby comes out of the womans skirt, for a split-second you can see white on his upper lip

  14. sorry i meant dress

  15. I heard in the old alice in wonderland video that she is naked right before she gose in the hole to follow the white rabbet

  16. in ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’
    Donald Duck, (a white duck) clearly calls Daffy Duck (a black duck)
    a “stubborn n****r”
    I didnt believe this at first untill I heard it.
    Don’t believe Donald is a racist?
    Listen to it for yourself at…

    http://www.x-entertainment.com/messages/187.html

    there is a voice clip under case one.

  17. in the lion king you can see hell written in the clouds in one scene…….and also alice in wonderland is about drugs…..and in the wizard of oz when the witch lights the scare crow on fire you can see a little munchkin hanging himself in the backround. he did this cause he got mad that todo was getting paid more then him hahaha

  18. Actually, that midget thing is a myth. I saw the TV program on that. They had interviewed the lead midget, and he was infuriated, proclaiming there was never such thing as someone hanging themself onset. It was, in fact, a pelican flapping it’s wings. They cut that scene so they could go retrieve the pelican, but they didn’t want to do another scene, and they figured it was barely noticeable anyway. So no, it was not a midget.

  19. In aladdin, when he is on jasmine’s balcony either b4 or after the carpet ride (I think it’s before), if u turn the sound all the way up u can here him whisper as she’s peeking out of the curtains, “take off your clothes!” I didn’t believe it myself but it’s true. Right after he says it she looks very surprised. Check it out for yourself.

  20. bill nye the science guy

    I heard that on the lion king, in a split second where Nala and simba are fighting as adults, if you pause it at a certain point… hes ass- **** ing her

  21. – Disney Originally owned the rights to “Lord of the Rings”, but sold it to New Line because Eisner felt it was too expensive to produce.
    – Disney also owned CSI (produced by Disneys’ Bruckheimer), but sold it off to CBS.
    – Eisner was never much of a fan of “Pirates”. He complained of Johnny Depps’ “Mangy hair, gold teeth, and effiminate mannerisms”

  22. Quick note: During the period when several of the above mentioned features were made, animators were extrremely disgruntled, with Disney in general, and Eisner in particular. Revolutionary changes were afoot, creating layoffs, uncertainty, and anxiety. Many were unhappy at Disney’s firing of John Lasseter. These were tough times for everyone. We may never know all of the ways that the animators chose to manifest their frustrations. Remember the story of the disgrunted engineer at Intel who inscribed F—K You into the production mask for one of their biggest selling processors? They cranked out millions of them before anyone discovered it.

    Yulie

  23. ok, in Mary Poppins during the merry-go-round horse scene, mary wins the race. right after this there are three cartoon judges, the last one CLEARLY says “perfect day for intercourse”

  24. i every animated movie there is at least one topless woman you just have to look hard enough beuty and the beast does it alot

  25. get a life people….disney’s been dead for awhile and i think it’s funny that you the “adults” are the ones pointing out the “lewd stuff” to your kids and peers, that would otherwise have gone rightfully unnoticed (if even there at all).

  26. not the cloud the flower watevr in the field its true, and in aladdin when he say good boy raja nice raja he’s acctually saying good girls take their clothes off

  27. btw i’m 14believe that yah

  28. People did you know that Disney was origially for adults. Because they had commercials with Disney characters drinking and smoking saying its ok to smoke and drink it wont hurt you. So one person probably was like hey look the word “SEX” in the clouds and stars, im going to blab to the world about so people thought it actually said the word “SEX” and some thinking that in The Little Mermaid, Eric had a “Boner” was probably a figment of your imagination, because over the years after the commercials with Disney characters drinking and smoking, kids eventually started to watch the really old Disney TV shows with the bad language and actions that parents started to complain about it and so with all the complaints they gradually started to make the TV showes suitable for kids to watch. So I really dont think that that the whole Disney company like, Walt Disney World, and Disneyland would have things like that, after all, these movies you see on commercials saying the new fully restored such and such… ect. They were made AFTER the parents stared complaining and the smoking Mickey Mouse commercials and bad language TV shows. This goes for all Disney Movies known to this day.

  29. Actually, the priest was the one with the erection, not Eric.

    In any case, though, I understand both sides. Disney wasn’t meant for children initially, and standards were different back then. Even if they weren’t, there’s so much on television now that’s far worse! My kids are banned from watching half the cartoons that come on in the evenings, because they’re just too raunchy. Besides, kids just aren’t looking for sexual connotations in these films. It never occurs to them until they’re teenagers, at which point everything is about sex anyway.

    Still, I did a study when I was in college about the effects of Disney films on children. We interviewed literally hundreds of small girls and boys, and I was both shocked and horrified by what we found. So many little girls told us it was okay to have a boyfriend yell at them or throw things at them as long as the guy loved them (Beauty and the Beast gets the blame for that one). It was okay for them to be in relationships with complete strangers (princesses often were) as long as the man was attractive. Smoking and drinking were okay as long as they were with friends or at home (I think Pinocchio was involved in that one, though we never did get to the bottom of it).

    Parents do need to be careful about what they allow their children to see. We just never know what messages our little ones are taking from even something as innocent as a Disney princess movie. Do people get too obsessed with the supposed hidden sexual content? Yes, absolutely. Do they freak out over stupid little things that the children don’t even see? Yes again. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t be monitoring what they watch. Again, I can see both sides. My kids and I watch Disney films together all the time, and we’ll continue doing so…but I still teach my girls to view real relationships differently. I don’t want them getting married to complete strangers later or picking up smoking just because some Disney character did.

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