Walt Disney Company

**The Walt Disney Company** also known pseudonymously as **Disney** is a real-world company featured in the Disney Parks mythos.

## Appearances and allusions

### Adventure Trading Company

Walt Disney's signed, "Merry Menagerie" comics are published in the Daily Gnus newspaper with a copyright from Walt Disney Productions.

### Disney films

* **Who Framed Roger Rabbit**: This film references Disney as having been an employer of Toon actors from Toontown during the 1940s.

### Disney Springs

Disney Springs is a fictitious Floridian town which was one of two locations selected by the Walt Disney Company to hold new animation studios during the company's silver-age of animation. It was Disney Springs which was selected to be the site built outside of for Disney's *Florida Project*.

### ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter

The queue for this attraction made reference to the Walt Disney Company hosting a Pan-Galactic Shareholders meeting in the Tomorrowland Interplanetary Convention centre at some point after X-S Tech's disastrous demo in the building. Said screen also made reference to them having a theme-park called Lunar Disneyland: The Happiest Place Off Earth.

### Jungle Cruise

The fictitious *Disney Broadcasting Company* is a division of The Walt Disney Company which in the 1930s platformed and sponsored AWOL Airwaves, a radio service employed by the Jungle Navigation Company.

### Mickey's Toontown

Toontown served as the residency of Mickey Mouse and his cartoon friends during the 1930s. In the 1950s, when Walt Disney sought a place to build Disneyland he was encouraged by Mickey to build in an orange-grove along the border of Toontown. In the early 1990s, Mickey was serving as mayor of Toontown and had a tunnel built which connected Toontown to Disneyland Park so that its guests could visit his world.

#### Roger Rabbit's Toontown Spin

There are multiple postings from Walt Disney Studios in the queue for this attraction, referencing them working the pre-production of the film Melody Time.

### Pleasure Island

In the backstory for Pleasure Island, the Walt Disney Company purchased, excavated and restored Pleasure Island in Florida.

### Space Mountain

The Magic Kingdom's Space Mountain has a flight-map referencing a connection to Disney's Hyperion Resort in outer-space. This resort is named for the Hyperion studio which once held Walt Disney Studios.

### Sunshine Tree Terrace

The Sunshine Tree Terrace brand is run by W.E.D. Enterprises, Inc. to harvest oranges for the Bay Lake Produce Company. They harvested their citrus from the Sunshine Tree, a plant located in the city of Lake Buena Vista in Orange County, Florida.

## Connections

### AbracadaBar

In this bar there is a framed photograph of Walt Disney.

### Journey Into Imagination

Walt Disney is identified as having been a past recipient of the Imagination Institute's "Inventor of the Year Award" in Honey, I Shrunk the Audience.

### Main Street, U.S.A.

Walt Disney had a personal apartment within the "Disneyland Fire Department" building on Main Street, U.S.A.. The lights in this apartment are left on as tribute to Walt. Walt is also depicted in the, "Partners" Statue near the end of Main Street where he is seen hand-in-hand with Mickey Mouse. There are also two fictitious books authored by Disney within the town hall, being titled *Lilybelle* and *Mickey Mouse*. Another book on this same shelf is titled, "Walt and You" by Sidejas & Kimbrell, a tribute to cast-members Ray Sidejas and Bruce Kimbrell. Walt is further identified at the Main Street Cinema as founder and president of the *Disneyland Casting Agency*.

### Mystic Manor

Walt and Roy Disney cameo in a 1908 photograph of S.E.A. member Lord Henry Mystic opening Mystic Manor to the public. The photo is anachronistic as Walt would have actually been 7 in 1908 while the photo shows him in his 20s.

### Trader Sam's

##### Trader Sam's Enchanted Tiki Bar

A photograph of Walt Disney from his 1941 trip to South America is hung in this bar with a message from Sam saying he was hired to give them a tour. Another photo has Walt Disney on his own featured with a note from Sam saying that Walt became one of his best customers. The hat which Walt wore while driving a Jungle Cruise boat in 1958 is also hung on one of the shelves.

##### Trader Sam's Grog Grotto

A photograph in this bar is from Walt Disney's show and has him holding the tentacle of the Giant Squid from *20,000 Leagues Under the Sea*. Said squid's tentacle is also mounted behind the bar and is enchanted to aid in serving the Nautilus drink.

### Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

Walt Disney supposedly once attended a performance of the Silver Lake Sisters on Buena Vista Street and the three inspired his naming and characterization of the Three Little Pigs in 1933.

### Walt Disney's Enchanted Tiki Room

Walt Disney is the namesake of this attraction and is mentioned in its name by the birds of the show. It is unknown if there is a fictionalized Walt Disney with any connection to the in-continuity Tiki Room or not.

## References

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