Disney Cartoons and Theme Parks

101 Dalmatians

When someone mentions 101 Dalmatians almost everyone knows exactly what you’re talking about. 101 Dalmatians was one of the most popular Disney movies ever. It came out in 1961, and the two loving dogs Pongo and Perdita tugged at everyone’s heart strings.

The movie takes place in Mr. Dearly’s home taking care of his dog Pongo. Throughout the movie the characters run into a dangerous amount of obstacles and try to save their dogs from the dog killing villain Cruella de vil. Cruella wants the Dalmatians to make gorgeous fur coats out of them and to sell them at her fashion shows. She finds out some people who have over one hundred Dalmatians and tries to steal them and keep them hostage and eventually kill them for their fur. The dogs are smart though and make way to escape the devilish Cruella De Vil.

On all of the dogs in the movie there are about 6,469,952 spots.

The dog’s barks in the movie were actually coming from a human.

Only 15 puppies were named in the movie. The 15 puppies’ names were Lucky, Thunder, Rolly, Patch, Pepper, Penny, Cadpig, Freckles, Purdy, Whizzer, Jewel, Dipstick, Two tone, Fidget, and Spotty.

Dumbo

In 1941 one of the greatest Disney animated films got released. Dumbo the elephant was born unique from the start, with his enormous ears Dumbo learned to fly and escape the laws of gravity. He had a hard life from the day he was born (or dropped to his mother by a stork). Dumbo’s mom got taken away from him for trying to protect her son and of course people made fun of him for his giant ears so they made the name Dumbo. When Dumbo came to his mother she cared about him so much and wanted to protect him as much as possible. When some kids come up to Dumbo and start teasing him his mother loses her temper. His mom gets taken away and Dumbo is all alone. Throughout the movie Dumbo and Timothy the mouse gains confidence in Dumbo to stand up to people and start believing in himself. Dumbo was the shortest Disney animated film ever made. It was only 64 minutes long. There was supposed to be a sequel to Dumbo but it got cancelled.

Harry Truman refused to ride the Dumbo ride while visiting Disney world because he didn’t want to be seen riding something that represents the Republican Party.

Theme parks

Disney has six theme parks throughout the world: Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Japan, California, and Florida. Each one has their own unique touch. In Shanghai the castle is the biggest and one of the most impressive. It’s called the Enchanted Storybook Castle. The whole theme park together took more the five years to build and cost more than two billion dollars. Most kids that grow up in China don’t get influenced by the Disney characters that we do, because they don’t grow up with the animated characters United States kids grew up with. So when people started building Disney they needed to take their own twist on it and make it feel like each character has been there, their whole life. Disneyland Paris was the second Disney theme park ever made. Their castle has their own twist on what Princess Aurora’s castle would look like.

There are many workers in Disney Paris and over 100 employees there are from different nationalities. Hong Kong, Japan, California, and Florida’s Disney castles are based on the classic Cinderella’s castle and have over a hundred different rides with each park with one or more own unique rides that you can’t find anywhere else.