Disney Trivia Guy

There has been talking recently about the Energizer Bunny and the fact that everyone remembers the battery being on the bunny's back when in reality, the battery is on his legs. It is referred to as a Mandela Effect . Here, on this promotional poster, he can be found along the exit ramp for Disneyland's Star Tours . I took this photo in 2004. I think the fact that hundreds of thousands of people saw this poster while exiting the attraction helped to cement the idea that the battery was on his back. There have been a few appearances of the bunny that shows him donning the battery on his back. The majority of the time, he has the batteries on his legs. It can be seen on his back in this 1994 commercial with Darth Vader. Most of the footage was reused from the movie Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back because we can see actress  Marjorie Eaton as the Emperor. As a side fact, the Energizer Bunny was created in 1988 as a parody of the Duracell Bunny who first appeared...

At 3’6” tall, Warwick Davis is one of the most famous little people that has appeared on the big screen. Warwick had auditioned for the role of an Ewok back in 1982 after his grandmother had heard on the radio that there was a casting call for people under 4’tall for a film. Warwick was only 11 years old and was 2’11” tall at the time. He made his first appearance in the Star Wars universe as Wicket, the inquisitive Ewok that was on-screen with Princess Leia. When Princess Leia crashes, she was supposed to be discovered by the Ewok known as Paploo. Kenny Baker was Paploo, along with R2-D2. On the day of filming, Kenny was sick, and George Lucas decided to put Wicket in the place of Paploo to befriend Leia. Warwick was just an 11-year old boy with very little acting experience outside of the little time spent in drama classes at Laine Theater Arts in Epsom. He approached his character of Wicket with the idea of being someone who lived a sheltered life in a forest and was inquisitive a...