# Ask the Disney Freak!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 16, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016 "2003-01-16T18:07:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/1 "2003-01-16T18:07:14Z")
I’ve seen all those other “Ask the…” threads floating around and decided to start my own, based on the one thing I love more than just about anything else…Disney.🙂
So ask away.I’ll answer any question you got.
IDBB
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### Author:  [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/2 "2003-01-16T18:29:17Z")
Was Walt frozen while still alive or after he died?
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### Author:  [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/3 "2003-01-16T18:30:05Z")
How many times have you been on Space Mountain?
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### Author:  [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/4 "2003-01-16T18:31:47Z")
What’s MY highscore on this ride?
[http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/waltdisneyworld/parksandmore/attractions/attractionindex?id=MKBuzzLightyearsSpaceRangerSpinAtt](http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/waltdisneyworld/parksandmore/attractions/attractionindex?id=MKBuzzLightyearsSpaceRangerSpinAtt)
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### Author:  [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/5 "2003-01-16T18:34:50Z")
Did the building of _Disneyland_ signal the beginning of the end of western civilization, or will future historians date the decline from the building of \*DisneyWorld[/]?
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### Author:  [@Kallessa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kallessa)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/6 "2003-01-16T18:34:54Z")
Did the building of _Disneyland_ signal the beginning of the end of western civilization, or will future historians date the decline from the building of _DisneyWorld_?
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### Author:  [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/7 "2003-01-16T18:35:15Z")
Why do they have a “Song of the South” ride (Splash Mountain) yet I cannot buy the movie on DVD or VHS?
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### Author:  [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/8 "2003-01-16T18:35:25Z")
What are you going to give **lee** and **KellyM** as a baby gift?
::ducks and runs far far away::
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### Author:  [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/9 "2003-01-16T18:36:57Z")
Will Eisner have to mend the relationship with Pixar to save his job?
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### Author:  [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/10 "2003-01-16T18:43:58Z")
Whoa…first things first.
Walt was NOT frozen, as many believe. He was cremated.Here’s the cite–[http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2\_331.html](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_331.html)(thanks Cecil!)
I have been on Space Mountain at Disneyworld a total of 115 times over the span of 3 seperate trips.
**H8** –unless I" WITH you,how the heck am I supposed to know?:)Also…“Splash Mountain” is based on the ‘story within the story’ of Song of the South.Splash Mountain features a tale of Br’er Rabbit,Br’er Fox and other woodland critters.That is why they have a ride based on the movie. The main reason you can’t get the movie on either DVD or VHS is because it is locked in the Vault.Why is it locked in the Vault you ask?Because the movie is racially insensitive and notoriously un-PC.When it was made it was not seen to be so and so experienced periodic re-releases up until the late 60’s when it was yanked from retail shelves and doomed to rot in the Vault forever.
Kallessa–that’s a good question. I think the decline of Western Civilization actually began much earlier than that with the invention of bad comedys on TV(such as F troop and Gomer Pyle USMC).
IDBB
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### Author:  [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/11 "2003-01-16T18:46:58Z")
**H8** –I don’t think there is any saving of Micheal Eisner’s coveted position at this point. I really think over the last decade or so he has dug himself into a pit from whence he’ll never be able to emerge. He greenlighted a LOT of things he should not have (in the minds of Disney fans anyway)such as Disney’s California Adventure and the Country Bears Movie. Even if he DOES mend his relationship with Pixar, I think eventually he will be ousted by someone more fit for the job. Micheal Eisner is the anti-Christ,as far as real Disney fans are concerned(or at least the ones I know…)and he needs to go.
IDBB
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### Author:  [@H8\_2\_W8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/H8_2_W8)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/12 "2003-01-16T18:53:26Z")
Hey - are you really Jeffrey Katzenberg? Good answers so far.
BTW, I got up to 668,600 while riding “Buzzblastride” (as my 3 y/o called it) in late November. If you shoot at targets a room or two away (up ahead from where you physically are) and hit them from a great distance you can rack up 50-75K points per shot.
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### Author:  [@Tars\_Tarkas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tars_Tarkas)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/13 "2003-01-16T18:55:28Z")
Who would win, Mickey Mouse vs. Popeye?
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### Author:  [@Scuba\_Ben](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scuba_Ben)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/14 "2003-01-16T19:02:10Z")
**Tars** , that’s too easy.
Mickey Mouse would control the contest (whatever it may be) for exactly 4 minutes 12 seconds. Then Popeye finds his can of spinach, the music plays, he wipes the floor with the mouse, we all sing the refrain.
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### Author:  [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/15 "2003-01-16T19:03:17Z")
Good for you, **H8**. I was never that good and mostly spun the car around giggling and shooting at my husband with the gun while making wierd comments.
**Tars** –well,it would depend on if Popeye had eaten his spinach or not. If he had consume the nasty can of spinach, then I’d lay money on Popeye for sure. If not, then Mickey Mouse because I think in a fair fight (no spinach included),Mickey could whip his little gayboy sailor butt any day.😃
IDBB
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### Author:  [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/16 "2003-01-16T19:14:39Z")
If Donald Duck normally wears just a jacket and no pants, why is it that when he steps out of the shower, he wraps a towel around his waist?
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### Author:  [@MonkeyMensch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMensch)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/17 "2003-01-16T19:15:41Z")
Where did the original _Lilly Belle_ end up? The last time I was at Disneyland I noticed that the model in the Main Street station is a replica on loan form somewhere.
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### Author:  [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/18 "2003-01-16T19:17:06Z")
**Ethilrist** —I have NO idea. It’s so laughable (even to Disney folks) that from time to time you’ll see a 45 sec spot on the Disney Channel or Toon Disney called “Doin’ the No-Pants Dance” which sings about how you (the viewer) shouldn’t do what the cartoons do and run about in your nuddy-pants. I find the whole thing hilarious, personally. I mean he’s a duck for crying out loud. It’s not like there’s anything to…uh…see.🙂
IDBB
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### Author:  [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/19 "2003-01-16T19:25:46Z")
**MonkeyMensch** , the most likely answer is that the original Lilly Belle was in for repairs or repainting. However, since I do not know,I will do some research a nd try to find out.🙂 It is also possible that the real Lilly Belle has been retired and put in a museum somewhere. But…I am doing research on that now and will let you know.
IDBB
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### Author:  [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [January 16, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/20 "2003-01-16T20:07:43Z")
OK, IDBB, since it’s Oscar season, let’s see what you’re made of:
(1) You probably know that Walt Disney won 26 Oscars, but who directed more of those movies than any other person?
(2) How many Disney animated theatrical features in the past 20 years included the voice of an Oscar-winner?
(3) What was the first Disney animated feature to be nominated in a non-musical category?
Good luck (you may need it 😃 )
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