the house of mouse isn't always the
happiest company on earth welcome to
watchmojo.com she would like to hear
today it begins on a dark when a dark
man waits for this list we're looking at
all things that the Walt Disney Company
probably doesn't want you to know we're
excluding discussing the most famous
darkest Disney stories because we've
already covered them in another list
number ten they've been sued by
animators fine so instead of subtracting
two years from your sentence hey I'm
gonna add two on oK you've got your best
shot for many being an animator for
Disney animation would be a dream come
true but as incredible as it might sound
to work for Disney it's not always
talking animals and trips to bean parks
if you're not progressing as you should
instead of grumbling and growling do
something about it in 2014
animators and VFX employees from several
different companies including Disney and
Pixar began a legal case over alleged
backroom anti-poaching deals that would
ensure that people remained in their
current jobs the subtext was that Disney
could pay its employees lower salaries
without fear of them finding higher
paying work or better conditions
elsewhere Disney settled in court for a
massive 100 million dollars the
contracts legal binding and completely
unbreakable even for you number nine the
opening of Disneyland was a disaster the
decision was should we have drinking
fountains or restrooms because there
literally was enough time to get both
done and Walt said well you know we've
got to have restrooms and people can
drink Coke and Pepsi but they can't pee
in the street
when you think of Disneyland you
probably imagine a place of magic that
is always pristinely clean and where it
seems like nothing bad could ever happen
but when the park opened on July 17 1955
it was pretty much an unmitigated
disaster the director of the TV show
said well what am I gonna have to shoot
on Sunday and the art director said
you'll have plenty of shew were gonna be
pouring cement the situation was so bad
the day was forever known as black
Sunday
for example counterfeit tickets were
used so there were many more visitors
than the park was anticipating and the
lineups to get in were massive causing
traffic jams and allegedly forcing some
kids to have to pee in the parking lot
there were also tons of ride breakdowns
and shortages of food seems like they
managed to work out all those kinks
though and holding the the old train
there on the track occasionally opening
day at Disney was really tough we had
gas leaks the mark clean was overloaded
and was sinking and you know I could go
on and tell you disaster stories but
somehow we made it number eight real
human bones were used as decoration for
a ride
a pirate's life for me indeed when
Pirates of the Caribbean opened at
Disneyland in 1967 it quickly became a
fan favorite ride eventually even
spawning a film series decades later you
best start pretty early to go to Stars
Turner you're in one but did you know
there's an extra level of authenticity
to the experience that you may not have
imagined legend says that the designers
and creators wanted to make the ride
feel believable so they actually sourced
real human bones for the skeletons
tremendous number of elements went into
that attraction it was the way to tell
stories in the most thorough manner well
most of these have reportedly been
removed many say the skull above the bed
in one scene is still one of the
originals number 7 Walt Disney had some
opaque last words Walt Disney's untimely
death in 1966 came at a time when the
company was expanding rapidly and it was
a major loss for the house of mouse he
died when he was in his mid-60s from
lung cancer but largely kept his illness
a secret and I said for gosh sakes Walt
why don't you give up smoking and he
says well guys the guy's gotta have a
few vices donee
there are a lot of rumors surrounding
Disney's death but one bizarre fact that
is actually true involves his last words
well his written last words at least
Disney wrote down Kurt Russell on a
piece of paper and decades later we
still don't know why oh yes you're about
to meet a 15 year old boy who whom I
predict a great acting future his name
is Kurt Russell Russell was at the time
a child actor who had done work for the
company and soon became a star but no
one knows what the significance of this
final message was I played ping pong
with Walt Disney's that count number six
they don't let movies film in their
parks as you would imagine
Disney is pretty protective of its
intellectual property they definitely
don't want anyone producing their own
movies in their theme parks especially
when the movies don't exactly paint a
favorable picture of the most magical
place on earth
picture of the castle
let's do it but people have managed to
bypass the system and film on the site
without getting permission the florida
project whose last scene was secretly
filmed at Walt Disney World's Magic
Kingdom park garnered willem dafoe and
Oscar nod another notable example is
escape from tomorrow which takes place
almost entirely at Walt Disney World
Resort Disney basically pretends that
this furtively shot movie doesn't exist
No well if it's not Turkey then what is
it you really want to know well number
five they had a strong connection with
Richard Nixon don't get the impression
that you arouse my anger many
celebrities and public figures have made
trips to Disneyland over the years but
there are some that the company would
probably prefer to no longer be
associated with to prominently one
example is Richard Nixon who had some
deep ties to the park because Nixon's
childhood home was close to Anaheim he
was actually given a ceremonial key to
Disneyland around the time of its
opening he was also there for the launch
of the monorail it is our good fortune
to have our friend and fellow
Californian the Vice President of the
United States mr. Richard Nixon but most
notably Nixon actually delivered his
famous I am NOT a crook speech right in
Disneyworld at the contemporary hotel
well I'm not a crook
I burned everything I've got number four
they bury what they feel doesn't help
the brand the company is known for doing
its best to hide away or suppress
aspects of its past including racist and
stereotypical portrayal down the memory
hole they go but Disney even does this
one it originally meant well for example
in the midst of World War two Walt
Disney decided to make a short satirical
propaganda film partly as a promotional
tool for war bonds
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the short in question which actually won
an Academy Award featured Donald Duck in
an extended nightmare has a German
factory worker slaving away Zig huiling
and even briefly reading mine comb but
after the war
Disney pretty much buried the movie for
half a century note to Disney we know
Donald wasn't a real Nazi number three
Walt initially didn't allow some women
to be animators now that the company's
finances were public everybody knew the
boss was making five or ten times more
than the highest-paid members of his
creative team and more than a hundred
times that of the women working in ink
and paint some of Walt Disney social
views were incredibly dated to say the
least one of the most damning was the
fact that he was reluctant to hire young
unmarried women to train to be animators
in the early days of the company soon
she starts getting ideas thinking Gaston
you are positively primeval in a letter
from the 1930s the company wrote to one
woman who had expressed interest in
animation quote women do not do any of
the creative work in connection with
preparing the cartoons for the screen as
that work is performed entirely by young
men for this reason girls are not
considered for the training school I
think I'll take it from here
number two Disney leverages its power
most people thought it was crazy to
build some kind of a big park like that
way down there where nobody could get to
it when Disney broke ground on
Disneyland in Anaheim California the
area was mostly bucolic full of orange
groves and walnut trees and far from the
urban sprawl it is today in fact a place
of hopes and dreams facts and fantasy
all in one over the years though Disney
has dominated the city and its municipal
government and has been accused many
times of bullying the city into
decisions that weren't fair or equitable
including receiving tax rebates and
access to building permits it's not just
in California
Disney's faced opposition from many
theme parks it's opened worldwide with
major protests taking place when Euro
Disney in France was created when you do
this
immediately the reaction is okay you
don't understand us or they don't
respect us or they don't care
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much own everything alright for one our
new corporate overlords no family is
Disney aiming for monopoly on
entertainment in the world of TV and
movies alone they have famously bought
out some much of or all of deep breath
Marvel Lucasfilm Pixar the former 20th
Century Fox ABC FX National Geographic
TV Andy ESPN and Hulu who so many
popular film franchises are Disney
property it's overwhelming
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and now they're hitting Netflix where it
hurts with the streaming Colossus Disney
Plus it's hard to imagine where the
company will go next since it seems that
they already lured over nearly
everything we watch aren't we forgetting
one teensy weensy but ever so crucial
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