A: Yes, both are in the Archives. They each took several hours to painstakingly uninstall and carefully remove from the site, with Disney archivist Steven Vagnini there to oversee the work for the Archives.

A: No, he is not in any of the Haunted Mansions; he is in a case in the Archives. He is so scary looking that many former Archives employees did not want to go near him.

A: The Disney Wilderness Preserve, with its Conservation Learning Center, was established in south Osceola County as a wetlands mitigation project. The property was purchased by Disney and donated in 1993 to the Nature Conservancy to offset lands impacted by the development of Walt Disney World. Immediately work began on returning the drained ranchlands to their original habitat. The area opened to the public in 1999 and includes self-guided nature trails from which guests might spy such creatures as bald eagles, sandhill cranes, red-cockaded woodpeckers, storks, bats, and tortoises as well as plants native to cypress swamps, freshwater marshes, and longleaf pine forests.

A: You can contact the Archives at Disney.Archives@disney.com. There are a few of the metal badges in the collection, including Walt Disney’s, which was No. 1.

A: You might put it up on eBay and see if anyone is interested. We do not keep track of values of such items.

A: As you probably have guessed, those are the initials of Walt Disney and Roy Disney. When that area was originally built, it was meant to be an apartment for the Disney family, but that never happened. The balcony was part of the Disney Gallery for many years, and later became part of the Dream Suite during the Year of a Million Dreams, which started in 2006.

A: You can check eBay. Many of the actual admission tickets from the old Walt Disney World ticket books are still good for admission today, and are thus worth at least today’s admission price. Individual A, B, C, D, and E tickets have little value.

A: The Walt Disney Archives does not have any Jungle Cruise scripts from the 1950s. However, there is a part of the jungle tour shown in the People and Places film Disneyland, U.S.A. from 1956. That featurette was released on DVD in 2007 in the Walt Disney Treasures set Disneyland: Secrets, Stories, and Magic. Here is a sample of the Jungle Cruise narration from that film: “And now we’re on a broader stream—the Mekong River of Cochin China. Half-hidden by the foliage, we get our first glimpse of a man-made structure—the ruins of an ancient Cambodian shrine abandoned many centuries ago.” “On the right-hand side—watch, we’re approaching him now—a charging alligator! Now watch your hands, please, watch the hands! And now, if you keep watching that far bank, you can say that you’ve had a nodding acquaintance with a giraffe. The giraffe, however, won’t be able to say a thing, for this is one animal that has no vocal chords.” “You hear that? That’s a lonesome lady elephant calling to her mate. And from across the river, the lord and master. Look at the size of those ears! That’s the hallmark of the African elephant. Well, let’s leave the happy couple and head for Schweitzer Falls, named in the honor of the famous doctor and scientist. That’s a little close…”

A: There is a photo of the plan in Beth Dunlop’s book on Disney architecture, Building a Dream.  Walt soon realized that there was not enough room on the six-acre plot of land to build all he wanted to build, so in 1953 he hired the Stanford Research Institute to find a larger site for Disneyland—their choice was Anaheim. Walt Disney Imagineering maintains all of the original plans for the park.

A: That short film was first called Mickey’s Audition, then the name was changed to Mickey’s Big Break. It was made in 1991, and has been shown several places at the Walt Disney World Resort—in a temporary attraction in a soundstage at Disney-MGM Studios (now Disney’s Hollywood Studios), and in the Magic Kingdom in the Main Street Cinema and the Town Square Exhibition Hall (now Town Square Theater). It is no longer being shown, and has not been released on DVD.