Fun Find Friday
May 3, 2013
Location: Frontierland, Magic Kingdom
For over three years I've spent countless hours
dedicating my time to this website and my book. The basis of that
research and work has revolved around a simple idea: where can you
find Disney characters in Walt Disney World? Today, we are ignoring
that and talking about where you can't find a character!
In 1963, Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room became
the first attraction to feature audio-animatronics. The attraction
was a huge hit and has become a Disney classic, but a mystery was
born. While the carousel of "girls" comes down, Jose and the other
hosts acknowledge most of them by name and then one of the birds
offers the question, "I wonder what happened to Rosita?" Today we
are going to get a little closer to finding out the answer to that
question.
Recently, Big Thunder Mountain Railroad's queue went
through a massive refurb which included several new interactive
items. Shortly before merging with the Fastpass line, guests pass
underneath several bird cages that come in many different shapes and
sizes. While most aren't too detailed, one cage has an interesting
detail that should be noted:

As you can see, Rosita isn't here, but we at least
know where she's been hiding at all these years. Sadly, the search for
Rosita continues...
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