Walt Disney Company

**Founder(s)** | Walt Disney

**The Walt Disney Company** is a real-world multinational company which created and owns the *Tower of Terror* franchise. The company is also an in-universe organization within the Tower of Terror's story.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Buena Vista Street

Buena Vista Street is a fictional street set in an alternate-history version of Los Angeles which influenced Walt Disney's work in The Walt Disney Company.

#### Atwater Ink and Paint

A board foreshadows works of the company, most notably including a staged version of Snow White implied to have inspired the 1937 animated film. Animators Les Clark, Eric Larson, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, Ward Kimball, Marc Davis, Milt Kahl, John Lounsbery and Wolfgang Reitherman are listed as instructors at the street's *Atwater School of Art & Animation*. Other fliers mention animator Ruthie Thompson, Donald Duck's old voice-actor Clarence Nash, and the animation department's band, the *Firehouse Five Plus Two* (referred to as the Firehouse Five in Buena Vista Street's setting).

#### Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe

In continuity, the Silver Lake Sisters inspired the pigs of the 1933 Disney cartoon, *The Three Little Pigs*. On the bulletin-board, the *Firehouse Five Plus Two* (listed as the Firehouse Four) is mentioned as using the cafe to conduct auditions for new players. Also on this board is an ad from the Disney Brothers looking for a child-actress to play in the *Alice Comedies*.

### Fantasmic!

Outside of the Hollywood Hills Amphitheatre is a 1930s Disney inspired sign identifying them as presenting the show, "Fantasmic!".

### Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith

Posters in the studio of G-Force Records identifies the label as working along with the music divisions of the Walt Disney Company. Other posters of G-Force in the studio include Disney albums such as those for *Guardians of the Galaxy* (2014) and *Phineas and Ferb: Across the 2nd Dimension* (2011).

### Tower of Terror

In the Magic of Disney Animation, a poster for the fictional Disney film *The Bride of Frankenollie* was screen-written by one Harrison Hightower IV, an implied relative of Harrison Hightower III.

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Sheet music for the song, "What! No Mickey Mouse?" is in the Hollywood Tower Hotel and in the pre-show video, Sally Shine can be seen holding a Mickey Mouse doll.

### Other connections

#### Disney's Hollywood Studios

Much of this park is themed towards a fictionalized depiction of Hollywood with a heavy focus on the Walt Disney Company's operations.

##### The Great Movie Ride

The Disney films s Mary Poppins (1964), 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1989) and Fantasia (1940) were all referenced in this attraction.

#### Jungle Cruise

In the queue, Albert Awol's broadcast AWOL Airwaves is platformed by the Disney Broadcasting Company. Walt himself is often referenced as having been a member of the colonial Jungle Navigation Company in some capacity. Magic of Disney Animation also had a poster for a fictional Disney film called, "The Jungle Cruise" which was made with members of the Jungle Navigation Company and which had cannibal, "Trader Sam" as an actor.

##### Adventure Trading Company

Walt Disney's, "Merry Menagerie" comics were in the Daily Gnus.

##### Trader Sam's

Trader Sam was hired to give Disney's World War II goodwill tour a tour of South America in 1941. The two would remain friends with Sam considering Walt to be the, "Best customer" of his bar in Polynesia.

#### Mystic Manor

A photo in Mystic Manor shows Walt and Roy Disney attended Mystic Point's 1908 opening to the public.

#### Pleasure Island

The Walt Disney Company worked the excavate Pleasure Island in the 1980s.

## Other appearances

### ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter

A screen in the *Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention Centre* mentioned "The Walt Disney Company's Pan Galactic Stock Holders Meeting" and a transmission from "Lunar Disneyland--The Happiest Place Off Earth",

### Space Mountain

In the queue, one of Space Mountain's destinations is *Disney's Hyperion Resort* in outer space.

## References

1. ↑ https://duchessofdisneyland.com/california-adventure/atwater-ink-and-paint-art-supply-bulletin-board/
2. ↑ http://findingmickey.squarespace.com/other-hidden-dca/buena-vista-street/15183357
3. ↑ http://www.sasakitime.com/2012/06/buena-vista-street-hidden-details-looks.html