Let’s turn the wayback machine to 1947. The
following characters came into existence on this day in 1947: The Abominable
Snowman in Monsters, Inc. and Hamm the Piggy Bank in
all Toy Story features, The Underminer in The
Incredibles, P.T. Flea in Bug’s Life,
The School of Moon Fish in Finding
Nemo, Mack in Cars and
Cars II, Mustafa in Ratatouille, John in WALL-E,
Construction Foreman Tom in Up, and A Scottish Guard in Brave. John Ratzenberger
has been a character in every Pixar feature film but even with all that to his
credit he is probably remembered most as Clifford Clavin, the know-it-all
mailman on Cheers. Clavin would
always chime in with totally wrong but totally official sounding stats and
stories on every subject. Go to Pixar Place and honor Ratzenberger with any
number of characters.
Scrubs was a favorite program in our household and, on this date, in 1975, Zach
Braff, Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian from Scrubs
was born. Braff, the voice of Chicken Little, is also Frank and the voice
of Finely from The Great and Powerful Oz.
We have met Chicken Little in the parks. I don’t know if he is commonly found
today but it’s worth a shot and The Great
and Powerful Oz has a play area at the EPCOT Flower and Garden Festival.
When I was about 10
years old my favorite movie was Butch
Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I probably saw it 10 times. Mrs. Francis Cains showed it at The Garden
Theater… a lot. The real Butch Cassidy (Robert Parker) was born on this day in
1866. Paul Newman played butch and of course he also played Doc Hudson in Cars. Visit the Art of Animation Resort
and check out Doc there.
Quickies:
Army Day: visit Shades
of Green Resort, the resort set aside for members of the military. Special
rates and discounts on tickets.
New Beers Eve, in 1933
FDR ended prohibition with the legal sales of 3.2 beer on April 7, there for
4/6 becomes New Beers Eve. Go to the Festhaus in the Germany Pavilion in EPCOT
and have a tall one.
International Pillow
Fight Day: Stay anywhere on property and have a pillow fight.
1830: Joseph Smith and
five others organize the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the
Mormons. They kept moving west, so move west to Frontierland.
1906: The first
animated cartoon was copyrighted. Don’t tell me you have any problem with this
one at Walt Disney World.
1925: The fist film
was shown on an airplane (British Air). Fly to WDW, get on the Magic Express
bus and enjoy the on board movies.
1930: James Dewar
invented Hostess Twinkies. A moment of silence, please.
1914: George Reeves
was born in Ashland, KY. Reeves was in Gone
With the Wind and played Superman on television. If you are driving to WDW,
go through Atlanta, we did one and we liked. (If you don’t understand why this
is appropriate, go back and watch Gone
With The Wind.)
1937: Billy Dee
Williams: Lando Calrissian in The Empire Strikes Back: Star Tours at Hollywood
Studios.
1945: Bob Marley:
Reggae Legend: There’s a Margaritaville in Orlando, leave Disney property for a
few minutes and groove or go to Typhoon Lagoon. It’s fun.
Remember, your best
excuse is always: waiting for your dreams to come true.
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