17 Easter Eggs At Disney Parks That Have Probably Been There Forever, Yet I’m Just Discovering Them
The best Easter eggs are always up high.
As a former cast member and pass holder, I like to think I know Disney parks pretty well, which is why I’m always delighted when I find new Easter eggs I’ve never noticed before. Here are 17 I just found out about:
1. After one HippopotoMai-Tai too many, Mr. Toad left his keys at Trader Sam’s Grog Grotto in the Polynesian Village Resort. These are the operational keys for Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, which closed down in 1998.
2. Oh, and that’s not the only defunct ride to have a prop in Trader Sam’s. A life preserver from the Maelstrom, the ride that was turned into Frozen Ever After in the Norway Pavilion of Epcot, is hanging on the wall.
3. Tiana’s hat and coat are hanging up at Tiana’s Palace in New Orleans Square.
4. The Ark of the Covenant is chilling in the rafters of Jock Lindsey’s Hangar Bar.
5. And when it becomes Jock Lindsey’s holiday bar, all of the postcards in the garland are from locations in Indiana Jones movies.
8. This plaque is posted inconspicuously in the Living Seas at Epcot, signaling that the building was a finalist for the Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award in 1987. It lost to the restoration of the Statue of Liberty, but it’s still wild how a theme park building went up against impressive international structures for an engineering award.
9. In the queue for Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway, the popcorn is shaped like some familiar faces.
10. Also in Runaway Railway, the columns are the same as the singing columns in Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room.
11. And the totems are carved into the spoons at the Dole Whip stand at the Polynesian.
12. The gravestones in the queue of the Haunted Mansion name-drop several of the Imagineers who originally worked on the ride, including Marc Davis and Claude Coats, the designers of the ride’s theme, and Leota Toombs (an artist at Imagineering who is the head and voice of Madame Leota in the ride).
13. There are little rat prints in the cement through the queue of Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure and winding into a “cast only” area.
14. Also near Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure is wine bottled at Anton Ego’s estate. The year on the wine is 2014, the year that Remy’s Ratatouille Adventure opened at Disneyland Paris.
15. You can typically find Mickey Mouse greeting guests in the same outfit his stuffed animal counterpart is wearing.
16. The gingerbread house at Disney’s Contemporary Resort has 12 hidden five-legged goats, a nod to Mary Blair’s mural in the Contemporary Resort’s atrium that features a five-legged goat.
17. Finally, Disney’s Coronado Springs Resort has a Gran Destino Tower. It was named after Destino, the film Walt Disney made with Salvador Dalí.
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