who was the only dwarf that disney didn't name a magic kingdom parking lot after?

This is the only building where they still do what the sign says, except that in the year 2009 those crazy kids do a different kind of “cutting” here. We continued down this sort of back street behind the soundstages and stopped at the one where WED Enterprises built lots of the vehicles for Disneyland, including the train, the monorail and I think she said this is where the Mark Twain was built. (Soon to be screened at the D23 Expo – get yer tickets NOW!!!)Īcross the way was the back of the Ink & Paint building, which our guide painted as kind of a women’s ghetto, since it was the only department they were allowed to work in and their amenities consisted of a break room and, uh, a place to drink tea (wait til you hear what the men got in their building…). They used to have a Wild West town, a small Mexican village (for Zorro), and someplace that I can’t remember what it was but they used it for Darby O’Gill and the Little People. The first area we saw was the last remnant of the permanent sets on the lot, a single row of storefronts. Our tour guide was so funny – she told us we could take as many pix of her as we wanted as long as she wasn’t talking, because the day after the last round of tours, she’d found unflattering mid-sentence pix of herself all over the Internet! Ours went on the studio tour first, while the other went to see the Archives first. When the tour started, we were split into two groups. “What? You gonna let some dorky little sign tell you what to do? C’mon – gimme that burger!' I got to be obnoxious and tell them their copyediting needs work – tee hee! It was fun to chat with them and find out what their jobs were, because they were real-live D23 employees who workon the magazine.

I think they went to Starbucks instead.Īs we waited for the tour to begin, some of the blue-shirted D23 staffers took groups to the bathrooms at the commissary. DH told me if he’d been the dad, he woulda made it up to the son by taking him over to Griffith Park to see the carousel and Walt’s Barn, and then visit Travel Town.

The family of four ahead of us was trying to get the son and dad into the tour even though only the mom had registered for the event (and her daughter got to be her one guest), but Disney stuck to the rules and told them they couldn’t come. They’d set up a check-in point where we showed our ID and D23 card to get a wristband, a D23 Expo pin (they are pushing that thing hard!) and a color sticker indicating our tour group. (If the photo is bad, you’ll know it came from my iPhone)

Who was the only dwarf that disney didn't name a magic kingdom parking lot after?