Jesse, Port Charlotte, Florida

There is no other elaborate Utilidor system, though there are a few short tunnels in other Disney parks.

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Kobe, Delaware, Ohio

The theme to “Strange Things” plays in several of the Buzz Lightyear attractions; the song was introduced in the original Toy Story film.

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Kobe, Delaware, Ohio

It wasn’t the Black Pearl. The HMS Bounty ship replica, which had been built for filming Mutiny on the Bounty in 1960, portrayed the Edinburgh Trader in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest. The Bounty sunk during Hurricane Sandy, on October 29, 2012.

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Kobe, Delaware, Ohio

When I first started my column, in the Disney Channel Magazine in 1983, nobody knew about it yet, so I had to make up the first questions myself. Once the columns began being published, then the questions started coming in. There are many questions we receive that cannot be answered; often one would have to …

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Victoria, Granite Falls, Washington

Destino appears on the Fantasia and Fantasia/2000 4-disc Special Edition Blu-ray, released in 2010.

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Dennis, Buena Park, California

The only C.S. Lewis book on Walt’s office bookshelves was his Poems (Harcourt, Brace and World, 1962). Other books there that were made into Disney movies include Sterling North’s Rascal (autographed to Walt), Robert Lewis Taylor’s A Journey to Matecumbe, A. A. Milne’s Winnie the Pooh, Upton Sinclair’s The Gnomobile (autographed to Walt), P.L. Travers’ …

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Wild Ol’ Dan, New Orleans, Louisiana

James Baskett, who starred as Uncle Remus in Song of the South, has not yet received a Disney Legends award. There were no Legends awards presented in 2010. Baskett did win a special Oscar for his portrayal.

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animation frame from the movie Frozen

Jessica, Flagler Beach, Florida

Early concepts for an animated film based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Snow Queen date back to the 1930s, even before Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs was finished. The project was shelved until the 1990s, with a number of different story ideas proposed over the next decade, but none were viable. Finally, a script …

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Andrew, Northville, Michigan

There was a 1984 14k gold men’s wristwatch made by Baume and Mercier, a prominent watch firm from Geneva that was founded in 1830; that watch sold for $3,500, with a women’s version at $1,800. But perhaps the highest price was for a handmade 18k gold watch with mother of pearl dials, by Gerald Genta, …

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