# Ask the Disney Freak! **URL:** \ **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:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![SC\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/eb9ed0/32.png) [@SC\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SC_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/61 "2003-01-21T21:42:55Z")
What’s your favorite character voiced by perennial Disney Voice Actor Jim Cummings? ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/62 "2003-01-22T18:46:14Z")
Hello, my name is **Esprix** , and I’m a Disney Freak. I might also point some of you to [www.mouseplanet.com](http://www.mouseplanet.com) - a great behind-the-scenes resource, and lots of news on upcoming happenings. For the record: Resorts visited: Disneyland and Walt Disney World Parks visited: Disneyland Park, Disney’s California Adventure, The Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Disney/MGM Studios and Disney’s Animal Kingdom (also water parks Blizzard Beach and Typhoon Lagoon) Favorite Disney Character: Sleepy, from _Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs_ Favorite Disney Movie: _Lilo & Stitch_ Favorite Attraction (ride): Rock ‘n’ Rollercoaster (WDW), Haunted Mansion Holiday (DLP) Favorite Attraction (non-ride): The Hall of Presidents (WDW), _Golden Dreams_ (DLP) I’ll answer any questions along with **IDBB**. (BTW, I live about an hour south of DL, and go on average about once a month.) Esprix ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/63 "2003-01-22T22:11:14Z")
My favorite character?Gee that would be hard to choose, they are all so great. I would have to say definately though it would be Mr.Bumpy from Bump in the Night. I LOVED that show and was distraught when they cancelled it.🙂 Oh and Esp…thanks for joining the party!w00t!Always glad to have a fellow Disneyite on board.🙂 IDBB ---
**Author:** ![swingchick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@swingchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swingchick)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/64 "2003-01-22T22:27:20Z")
OKay you have missed one death. I don’t have a cite, but I know for sure about it becuase I was at the park the day before it happend. It happened approx 2 years ago at WDW. A man was killed on splash mountian. He decieded to try and get off and the log behind him hit him and he died. ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/65 "2003-01-22T22:47:32Z")
That’s not something I’ve heard of, **swingchick** but find me a cite and I’ll check it out. The best place I’ve found for cites on that sort of thing is actually a website that keeps track of all themepark accidents and accepts reports of possible accidents at themeparks as well. IDBB ---
**Author:** ![swingchick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@swingchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swingchick)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/66 "2003-01-22T22:56:08Z")
[http://www.newschannel2000.com/orl/news/themeparknews/stories/themeparknews-20001105-165355.html](http://www.newschannel2000.com/orl/news/themeparknews/stories/themeparknews-20001105-165355.html) Here ya go ---
**Author:** ![Esprix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/esprix/32/7899_2.png) [@Esprix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esprix)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/67 "2003-01-22T23:07:49Z")
I believe that accident is what caused the retrofit of the logs when they went down for their maintenance last fall. Esprix ---
**Author:** ![swingchick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@swingchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swingchick)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/68 "2003-01-22T23:38:16Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Esprix \* > \*\*I believe that accident is what caused the retrofit of the logs when they went down for their maintenance last fall. > > Esprix \*\* Uhm, I think it was because the guy got out of the ride! ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/69 "2003-01-22T23:39:38Z")
(1) You got James Algar. I’m impressed. (2) That’s a really good list, but there are a few you missed: John Huston (_The Black Cauldron_), Mel Gibson (_Pocahontas_), Stevie Wonder (_Mulan_), Kevin Spacey (_A Bug’s Life_), Phil Collins (_Tarzan_), and Leopold Stokowski & Quincy Jones (both from _Fantasia 2000_). This was a small trick question because I said “included the voice of an Oscar-winner”, meaning any Oscar (not just for acting) and any voice (not just as a character). (3) This one you missed. _Bambi_ was the first, followed by _The Three Caballeros, Saludos Amigos_, and _Sleeping Beauty_. All were nominated for Sound Recording (as was _B&tB_ decades later). Not too shabby overall–B+! 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![swingchick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@swingchick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swingchick)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2003, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/70 "2003-01-22T23:41:57Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by swingchick \* > \*\*Uhm, I think it was because the guy got out of the ride! \*\* AH sorry, I misread:smack: ---
**Author:** ![TommyTutone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@TommyTutone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TommyTutone)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/71 "2003-01-23T01:39:59Z")
**5) What’s with the stories about massive animal deaths during the establishment of the “Animal Kingdom” park?** I don’t know for sure. I’m sure that as with any startup with an animal park, there were a few animals that due to the stress didn’t survive. But the animals there are now alive and healthy as can be and AK is a great park in the making. I say ‘in the making’ because I don’t feel as though it’s quite finished yet. When I last visited, the new carnivaly section of Dinoland,USA(Chester and Hester’s Din-O-Rama)wasn’t yet completed. I’ve seen the park in two stages of evolution…from the first when the gates opened and now with the more involved and better developed Harambe Village,Anandapur,Camp Minnie-Mickey(although why Minnie gets top billing on this I don’t quite understand.Mickey was always the star from the first…☹ )and my favorite Rafiki’s Planetwatch(formerly Conservation Station). IDBB \*\* Hijack: When I first read about these, I was rather peeved, but apparently, despite the number of deaths, the mortality rate was LOWER than that of other zoos/animal parks. I present the following: [http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/98/6/zoos.html](http://www.animalpeoplenews.org/98/6/zoos.html). ---
**Author:** ![80sHairMetalMaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/8/ed655f/32.png) [@80sHairMetalMaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/80sHairMetalMaven)\ **Post date:** [January 23, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016/72 "2003-01-23T19:22:33Z")
**Swingchick** –thanks for the cite! Again,another death at Disney due to somebody doing something incredibly stupid. Had he not tried to exit mid-ride,he wouldn’t have been killed.☹ **Llamapoet** –thanks for the cite!I knew that there had been some start-up casualties but was unaware as to what the actual casualties were.Thanks for the info. IDBB [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-disney-freak/149016.md?page=3)