Kobe, Delaware, Ohio

You are correct with Pumbaa.

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Jeremiah, Fairfax, Virginia

There were preliminary discussions, but Disney never bought the film rights.

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Snow White playing with the forest animals

J, Los Angeles, California

Maleficent’s raven is known as Diablo. In the stage version of Beauty and the Beast, the Wardrobe is “Madame de la Grande Bouche” and the Featherduster is Babette. Cinderella’s horse is Major. The remainder were not given other names in their original films.

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Pamela, North Bend, Washington

According to the 1938 cartoon, Donald’s Nephews, they were the offspring of his sister, Dumbella. In that cartoon, she sends them on a visit to their uncle.

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Melissa, Yucaipa, California

We are aware of Patti Page visiting Disneyland on September 6, 1960, and again in the summer of 1968 when she was photographed with Goofy and Pluto. Click here.

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Richard, Hewlett, New York

Starting in 1996, Disney Enterprises was a new segment of the company, which licensed the Disney characters for merchandise, with their name used on merchandise copyright notices.  Walt Disney Enterprises had originally been a company division back in the 1930s, which had a similar purpose, but the name had not been used for more than …

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Stephanie, Middletown, Ohio

Several years ago, Roy E. Disney gave me an article by Stanislaus Lynch, the man who obtained the pony for Walt in Ireland. He was a two-year-old silver gray colt, whose sire was Cill Ciarain and dam Knockranny Beauty. The colt was presented in the Round Room of the Lord Mayor of Dublin’s Mansion House …

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John, Conway, South Carolina

He has always had it; it is just inside his pants.

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