Disney Trivia/Fun Facts

27,443 Acres or 43 Square Miles (11,106 Hectares)

• Purchased in 1965 from 51 people, anonymously.
• Walt died in 1966.
• Paid $5 million for the property
• Land estimated value at over $11 billion (2,200 ROI)
• Disneyland in California is landlocked at approximately 500 acres.

Here is a fascinating view of the Walt Disney World property from 1967, showcasing several familiar landmarks that would later undergo development. This view looks north towards Bay Lake.

59 Million! — (160,000 per day)

• Magic Kingdom: 50,000 average daily guests (Capacity: 100,000)
• EPCOT: 33,000 average daily guests (Capacity: 110,000)
• Hollywood Studios: 30,000 average daily guests (Capacity: 60,000)
• Animal Kingdom: 24,000 average daily guests (Capacity: 60,000)

Orlando is the Most Visited Destination in the World!

Over 101 Years!  

• There are over 37,000 rooms in the Walt Disney Resort.

21+ Disney Properties — +12 Other properties 

• Coming in 2027—Lake Shore Lodge, Disney Vacation Club (DVC)
  • 2,200 rooms located next to Wilderness Lodge (old River Country)

Bonnet Creek Resorts are NOT on Disney Property

About 80,000 — Disney provides all their costumes.

• Disney's overall workforce is approximately 225,000 employees.
• Making it the largest single-site employer in the United States!
• Over 1.8 million costumes are tracked using a barcode system to ensure they remain Disney property. 
• Nearly 13,000 clothing items are manufactured every year.

Est. at $137,000 Every Night! 

• Magic Kingdom does "Happily Ever After"
• EPCOT does "The Luminous Show"
• Hollywood Studios does "Fantasmic!"

• Popcorn Sales and Treats pay for it. 
• Disney is the biggest consumer of GUNPOWDER behind the US Military. 
• They use compressed air to launch the Fireworks.

About $2 Million Daily!

• Each park has approximately 14,000 to 18,000 parking spots.
• Each Disney resort has approximately 1,000 to 2,000 parking spots.

The four theme parks are around $36 million.

• Annual Revenue is $91.36 billion (That's about $250 million per day). 

1. Space Mountain
2. Tiana's Bayou Adventure (Splash Mountain)
3. Big Thunder Railroad Mountain

Animal Kingdom —

• Due to a "rainforest effect" from its dense vegetation trapping heat and limiting airflow, this can create a "greenhouse effect," making the park's heat more intense than other Disney parks.
• There are more than 300 different species of animals at Animal Kingdom, and around 2000 animals.

About 50 YEARS!

• Disney provides laundry services for all cast members and resorts.
• They wash 285,000 LBs (129,200 KGs) of laundry daily!
• Dry Clean about 32,000 Garments
• They have 4 locations totaling about 500,000 sq ft

Disney's Washing Tunnel

• Over 76,650 pairs of SUNGLASSES (210 per day)
• Over 6,000 CELLPHONES (16 per day)
• Over 18,000 HATS (50 per day)
• Since Walt Disney World opened in 1971, visitors have lost more than 1.6 million pairs of sunglasses at the parks

• 10 Million Hamburgers (27,397 per day)
• 6 Million Hot Dogs (16,438 per day)
• 1.6 Million Turkey Drumsticks (4,383 per day)
• 9 Million Pounds of French Fries (24,657 pounds per day)
• 300,000 Pounds of Popcorn ($60k per day)
• 3.3 million Mickey Mouse Ice Cream Bars (9,041 per day)
• 13 Million Bottles of Water (35,616 per day)
• 75 Million Coke Products (205,497 per day)
• WDW has over 300 dining outlets with a staff of 350 chefs

• ONE Official U.S. Flag!
• It's been taken down every day at 5 pm since October 1971
• The others are missing a stripe or a few stars 
• They are fake flag props and do not need to be taken in during inclement weather, nor do they need to be illuminated at night.

• The Lake Buena Vista STOL (Short Take-Off and Landing) Airport.
• Closed due to safety reasons with the monorail
• "Singing Runway" with grooves spaced to play the opening notes of the Disney song "When You Wish Upon a Star" as planes landed.

“No worries”

648 Movies — According to "The Numbers"

1. Jennifer Stone — Actress. Producer. Writer. 
2. Selena Gomez — Music Artist. Actress. 
3. Demi Lovato — Music Artist. Actress.
4. Miley Cyrus — Music Artist. Actress.
5. Bella Thorne — Actress. Director.

• Walt Disney's meticulous attention to guest behavior led to the implementation of the 30-foot trash can rule. 
• By observing how far guests would walk before discarding litter, Disney determined that placing trash cans within a 30-foot radius minimized littering and maintained park cleanliness.

• The Contemporary Resort (1971)
• The Polynesian Village Resort (1971)
• The Grand Floridian (1988) 
• The monorail goes through the middle of each of these resorts.

Over 15 Million —

• Disney PhotoPass photographers are stationed at over 100  locations in the parks.
  

... team consists of approximately 800 professionals. 

• They tend to 175,000 trees
• 800 hanging baskets across the entire resort properties
• 3.5 million bedding plants
• 4 million shrubs
• 13,000 rose bushes
• 200 unique topiary sculptures
• PLUS, Over 100,000 Poinsettias Are Planted for the Holidays

YES, at EPCOT, they grow over 30 Tons of Produce for their resorts in the park.

• 175 Miles
• There are 424 Resort Buses that drive over 40 million miles per year.

...has 12 Monorails — 14.7 miles of tracks, the largest in the world, and 3 600-passenger ferries.

...has 67 Miles of waterways with 36 Watercraft, and the Disney Skyliner has 304 Gondolas.

YES, at Golden Oak, a Four Seasons Resort.

• BUT, you don't own the land.
• Home prices generally range from $5 million to upwards of $20 million.

About 150, with 45 being Dining Experiences

Club 33 is a private Membership club with a variety of tailored experiences for its Members.

• $35,000 initiation fee and an $16,000 annual fee
• The waitlist is estimated at 10 years 
• Locations:
  • Magic Kingdom: Located in Adventureland. 
  • Epcot: Found in the American Adventure pavilion.
  • Hollywood Studios: The entrance is at the Hollywood Brown Derby.
  • Animal Kingdom: Situated in the Africa area of Harambe Village.