Fun Find Friday
September 9, 2011
Location: Animation Courtyard, Disney's Hollywood Studios
This week we are traveling right around the corner
from last week's Fun Find Friday as we stop by the Voyage of the
Little Mermaid's waiting area. While in the area take a look around
at all the nautical themed props on the walls and ceiling. Keeping
in mind that the Little Mermaid wasn't the first ocean based Disney
film, you know that Disney Imagineers are sure to hide a secret or
two in here for us. This week we'll be talking about one of them.
One of Disney's earliest full length animated
feature films may have not focused solely around the ocean, but a
very crucial portion of the film did. The film was Pinocchio. After
the main character returns from Pleasure Island, he realizes that
his father has gone off looking for him. Where could he be other
than inside the belly of a whale (naturally)? While searching the
ocean Pinocchio eventually finds his father, Geppetto, inside the
belly of Monstro the Whale, the most feared creature in all the
ocean. Pinocchio comes to the rescue by making Monstro sneeze him
and his father out, but we never find out what happened to
Geppetto's things that remained inside Monstro...until now.
While facing the doors on the right to enter the
theater, take a look at the right wall to find one of Geppetto's
lost items, his lamp, which was found inside of Monstro!

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