Disney Animal Kingdom is mostly known by guests as being a park. But it is much more than that. Disney Animal Kingdom also is a full veterinary hospital and research facility. The Disney Cast Members in Animal Kingdom are doctors, researchers and scientists. The veterinary hospital even has an operating theatre that hosts students of veterinary medicine for teaching experiences.
The facilities are available for guests of Disney to see in booked backstage tours.
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This Earth Day celebration includes:
– Music, dancing and Disney Characters at the Tree of Life
– PhotoPass Opportunities in the Animal Kingdom Park theming “Reverse the Decline” campaign with overviews of Disney’s global wildlife conservation
– Wilderness Explorer Badge opportunities
– Rafiki’s Planet Watch with tours of the veterinary hospital
– Special Edition Menus at Tiffins
– Penny Press designs celebrating Disney’s Conservation Fund
February 21, 1978, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the song “Candle on the Water” from the film Pete’s Dragon for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Original Song. How many of you remember Pete’s Dragon? This was the best song!
Have you seen Disney’s remake of Pete’s Dragon? Tt is a live action film with our lovable, dragon; Elliott, and a young orphan named Pete. It takes place in a small fishing town in Maine in the early 20th century. Elliot acts as Pete’s protector. Elliot can make himself invisible and is generally visible only to Pete, which occasionally lands him in trouble
Disney remade Pete’s Dragon and released it August 12, 2016. Here is Pete’s Dragon’s new original song by The Lumineers, “Nobody Knows” which is beautiful:
~~Love is deep as the road is long…And moves my feet to carry on…It beats my heart when you are gone…Love is deep as the road is long~~
Did you know Disney and Google built an Augmented Reality game for Pete’s Dragon? It’s called “Dragon Spotting”, dragonspotting.com, the game runs on an iOS or Android smartphone and mimicks Pokémon Go. You must find Elliot throughout various places in their homes or neighborhoods. But if you want to have some real fun, CaribbeanDays can bring you to Disney and you can see where Elliot is hiding there!
~~“Who’s got the sweetest disposition?…One Guess. Guess Who?…Who never never starts an arguement?…Who never shows a bit of temperament?…Who’s never wrong, but always right?…Who’d never dream of starting a fight?…Who gets stuck with all the bad luck?…No one but Donald Duck!”~~
Donald Fauntleroy Duck was created by Walt Disney when he heard cast member, Clarence Nash (December 7, 1904 – February 20, 1985) doing his “duck” voice while reciting “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” Disney Legend Clarence “Ducky” Nash was Donald Duck’s voice from 1934-1984.
Thousands of female sea turtles emerge from the ocean to lay their eggs. Vero Beach has been one of their nesting habitats since the time of the dinosaurs. Two months after their nests have been built, the eggs hatch and scores of tiny turtles emerge from the sand at night and clamber into the water. 3 species of sea turtles can be observed at Disney’s Vero Beach: loggerheads, greens and leatherbacks. Disney has contributed about $1.26 million to sea turtle conservation through the Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund.
Disney’s scientists from Animal Kingdom have an entire an entire team that partnered with Florida’s Fish and Wildlife to monitor and protect these turtles. Guests that book the Turtle Tours by Disney enjoy a presentation as well as witness the wonders of nature unfold.
February 15, 1989, the Disney film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit was nominated for several Oscar Award in multiple categories.
Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company, was responsible for initiating “The Disney Decade”, which included creating the Who Framed Roger Rabbit franchise as a project within “The Disney Decade”.
Little Disney insider tip! If you ever hear the term used, “Bumping the Lamp” from a Disney cast member, this is a quote developed by former Disney CEO, Michael Eisner. The term originated in reference to a scene from the Disney film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit?” This film had a masterful use of live action with animation. In one particular scene, Roger, hiding in a darkened room bumps his head on a lamp which causes shadows to continuously move throughout the remainder of the scene. As originally written (and animated), the “bump” did NOT occur. The director, after seeing the rough cut, decided that it would be funnier if the “bump” occurred. The animators had to go back to the drawing board to re-create the entire animation sequence, hundreds of drawings, to accommodate the shadow. All of this effort, just to make a better product.
The term to “bump the lamp” in house at Disney is an expression used for extra effort to make an improvement on a program/incident/event/guest experience.
Bump the Lamp Scene from Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
In Disney’s Echo Lake you can see some offices above the restaurants. One of these offices belongs to the Private Detective, Eddie Valiant, from Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The outline of Roger can been seen in the Window with the destroyed blinds!
Would you like to see these offices in Disney’s Echo Lake? CaribbeanDays can take you here!
February 14, 1990, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated the song “Under the Sea” from the Disney film The Little Mermaid for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Original Song.
Disney’s film The Little Mermaid is loosely based up the Hans Christian Anderson story, The Little Mermaid.
Did you ever notice near the start of the movie when King Triton is seen riding a dolphin-pulled chariot over an audience of mermaids and mermen, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy can be seen in the audience.
“Na’vi River Journey is a very sweet, lyrical adventure through a spectacular visual environment that just becomes more and more spectacular as you go on,” explains Joe Rohde, Walt Disney Imagineering portfolio creative executive. The bioluminescent activity of the plants around you unfolds in richer and richer scenes in really just a very uplifting, wonderful kind of journey.”
The journey builds to an encounter with the remarkable Shaman of Songs. Like most Na’vi, she is nearly 10 feet tall.
Music is central in Na’vi culture. Guests observe the shaman in the midst of a musical ceremony, playing an instrument and singing. Through her music, the shaman sends positive energy into the rainforest, telling of the sacred bond with nature that Na’vi and humans share.
February 12, 1951, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominated the song “Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo” from the film Cinderella for an Oscar Award in the category Music, Song.
~~Salago-doola…Menchicka boola…Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo…Put’em together and what have you got?…Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo~~
“Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo”, also known as “The Magic Song”, was performed by cast member Fairy Godmother, Verna Felton (voice of Mrs. Jumbo from Dumbo).
The song inspired the creation of The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique found in Magic Kingdom and Disney Springs. The Boutique is “Owned” by the Fairy Godmother and “operated” by Fairy Godmothers-in-Training, Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique offers a magical menu of salon services to make your little princess or prince, ages 3 to 12, look and feel like royalty.
As Certified Disney Vaction Planners, CaribbeanDays brings a few tidbits to arranging this magical experience for your young princess or knight.
Disney World has two locations for The Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique, The Magic Kingdom and Disney Springs. In addition, if availability doesn’t fit into your current plans, CaribbeanDays can offer alternative Princess Experiences at various Salons located at resorts such as: Coronado Springs, Grand Floridian or the Yacht Club. These salons will create a princess experience; but without the dress. CaribbeanDays can assist guests with shipping out their own princess dress up to 10 days ahead of their vacation start date and have it waiting at your resort stay.
February 9, 1942, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates the Disney film, Dumbo, for an Oscar.
Disney’s featured song in Dumbo, Baby Mine, also received an Oscar in the category of Music.
~~Baby mine, don’t you cry…Baby mine, dry your eyes…Rest your head close to my heart…Never to part…Baby of mine~~ Dumbo is considered to be “The most emotional film In Disney history”. It was the first Disney film to be set in America and the first Disney appearances for Sterling Holloway (the Stork) and Verna Felton (Mrs. Jumbo). Both would become regular cast members.
Disney is creating a live-action remake of Dumbo with Tim Burton directing! For fun, did you know when Harry S. Truman visited Disneyland in 1957, he refused to ride the Dumbo attraction; because, Truman, a Democrat, didn’t want to be seen riding in a symbol of the Republican party? LOL!
Disney has backstage tours. Recently added to these tours is a four-hour “Ultimate Disney Classics VIP Tour”. It includes access to at least 10 classic attractions, including: “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “Jungle Cruise”, “Dumbo Flying Elephant”, “Small World”, “Under the Sea-Journey of the Little Mermaid”, and “Peter Pan’s Flight”. Guests will have also have an audience with Mickey Mouse.
Would you like to ride Dumbo? CaribbeanDays can take you here!
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