Hidden Secrets Revealed at Disneyland
My family and I went to Disneyland this last weekend, and we accidentally stumbled upon a dark secret that Disney doesn’t want you to know about. Here’s how it went down:
We were on the Winnie the Pooh ride back by Splash Mountain. My daughter is a huge fan of the Pooh ride. We were going through for our second time (did I mention that my daughter is a huge fan?) when the whole ride broke down. The music stopped, the little cars stopped, everything stopped. Thankfully the lights and stuff stayed on, but we were stuck. A couple minutes later, park folks came by to let us out of our cars and escort us to the front. We asked what had happened, and they quite casually said that the ride just broke down, maybe a computer thing, it happens from time to time, and it was no big deal.
It was actually kind of cool. We got to walk through the second half of the ride on foot, examining things that you usually zoom past. It was while doing this that we happened to be looking back down the corridor we just came through when we saw It.
Hanging above the doorway we’d just come through were three enormous animal heads mounted to the wall with name plaques beneath them. One was a bison or buffalo head, and one was maybe a deer. Don’t remember what the other one was. But they were all three smiling and seemed to be perfectly happy to be mounted on the wall in the Winnie the Pooh ride.
Now, they would have been mounted on the wall above a doorway the ride’s car passes through, and so with the high backend of the car you ride in, you’d never see these things without standing comptely up and turn around to look over the end of the car, which you probably couldn’t even do because of the lap bar that holds you in place. So these animal heads were never meant to be actually seen by anyone.
Confused, we asked the park guy escorting us out of the ride what the heck was up with the animal heads on the wall that no one will ever see. His answer — those are left over from the Bear Jamboree show that was torn down to make room for the Pooh ride (I remember the Bear Jamboree show from when I was a kid). He said that whenever a ride is put in place of something else, they always keep something from the original thing and hide it in the new one, as a sort of hidden good juju totem or something. We asked him what other rides have these kinds of things in them and he said that somewhere hidden in the Indiana Jones ride is a parking lot sign from the section of parking lot they built the Indy ride on.
Fascinating, and disturbing! What other hidden secrets does Disneyland conceal? What else does the House of Mouse not want you to know??? Stay alert, tourists. Stay alive.