20 Interesting Secrets Disney Has Hidden From You

By Sughra Hafeez in Amazing On 18th July 2015
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#1 Aladdin's look was inspired and modeled after Tom Cruise

#2 Wall-E was named after Walter Elias Disney.

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#3 The peddler in Aladdin was supposed to be revealed as the genie, which is why Robin Williams voiced him and he shares physical traits with him including only four fingers.

#4 In Monster's Inc. every time a human object would come into their world, code 23-19 would be used. In the alphabet, "W" is the 23rd letter and "S" is the 19th letter, which stands for "White Sock" which is the first human object they destroyed.

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#5 Sully has more than 2.3 million individual hairs which are all animated...a single frame took 12 hours to produce.

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#6 In Hercules, you can see Marilyn Monroe in the stars.

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#7 Boo was voiced by an actual toddler, so it was hard to get her to say things. Instead, they followed her around the studio while she was playing and used the audio recordings from that!

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#8 The old man in The Hunchback of Notre Dame is the same guy in Aladdin.

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#9 Ariel from the Little Mermaid was modeled after Alyssa Milano (and Sherrie Stoner was also an influence).

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#10 The Beast is a combination of seven animals.

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#11 The man who originally voiced Mickey Mouse is married to the woman who originally voiced Minnie Mouse (Wayne Allwine and Russi Taylor).

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#12 In Toy Story 2, in one of the frames you can see a little joke at Canada. The book is priced at $4.95 American and $50.00 Canadian.

#13 In the opening of the Beauty and the Beast, the stained glass says "vincit qui se vincit" which means "He conquers, who conquers himself" which essentially summarizes the entire story.

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#14 Disney used to recycle images back in the day to save time and money.

#15 During the credits for “Frozen”, Disney wrote a statement on Kristoff’s belief that all men eat their own boogers.

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#16 The voice of Eeyore is also the voice of Optimus Prime in The Transformers.

#17 The vultures in the Jungle Book were modeled after the Beatles. In fact, they were supposed to be voiced by them, but the Beatles had conflicting schedules.

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#18 Tinkerbell can be found in The Black Cauldron.

#19 Rapunzel and Flynn Rider (AKA Eugene) from Tangled showed up to the royal ball in Frozen.

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#20 The lamp from Aladdin makes an appearance in the Princess and the Frog.