Disney Trivia Guy

Today we lost one of the best and most important Disney Imagineers, Alice Davis. Wife to legendary Imagineer Mark Davis and Disney's top seamstress.  Alice attempted to get into the Chouinard Art Institute to learn how to be an animator since her passion was drawing; but, the Art Institute didn’t accept girls. They did, however, accept her to teach her to be a costume designer. Her first class was Fine Art, where they taught her about human anatomy and how muscles worked. The class instructor was Marc Davis. Alice began her career designing women’s lingerie and undergarments for the Beverly Vogue & Lingerie House in Los Angeles. It wasn’t until after she graduated and began working that she started up a friendship with Marc, whom she ended up marrying in 1956 at the age of 27. She quickly became the head designer. In the mid-1950s, Alice got a call from Marc requesting her to design a dress for Helene Stanley to wear as the live-action model for Briar Rose in Sleepi...

Disney's mermaid character who was a person of color and disabled. In The Little Mermaid: The Series (1992-1994), Ariel met a Latina deaf and mute mermaid named Gabriella. She appeared in two episodes and had her octopus, Ollie, as an interpreter of her sign language. The animators added her into the series to honor Gabriella Angelina Bommino, a 2-year-old who was a huge Ariel fan that ended up losing a battle with leukemia in 1993. They intended to show what Gabriella would have looked like as a teen. In the episode " Wish Upon a Starfish ," Ariel meets Gabriella and they go on a quest to find a starfish that grants a wish. Gabriella wished to be able to sing. It was released in season 2 as episode 6 on October 16, 1993. In the episode " Ariel's Treasures ," Ariel meets Gabriella again and shows her all of her treasures, including the new eggbeater that she finds. But Ursula had placed a curse on it. It was released in season 3 as episode 7 on October 29, ...

  In Turning Red (2022), on the front of Mei’s notebook, there is a bunny rabbit sticker. This is an Easter Egg for the rabbit from the Pixar SparkShort Burrow (2020).  She is even wearing her little backpack. If you liked this fun fact, you should check out my book which has over 3,700 fun facts in it about Disneyland, California Adventure, and Disney Movies. www.DisneyGuy.org

Mostly all of the heroes and villains in the MCU. The checkmark is for each movie they are in and the C is for any cameo appearances. This list will continually be updated.

After Wanda returns to Earth-838 at the end of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022), you can see that her boys are watching Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) on the television in the living room. (I'll upload an image from the movie after it is released) If you liked this fun fact, you should check out my book which has over 3,700 fun facts in it about Disneyland, California Adventure, and Disney Movies. www.DisneyGuy.org

In Moana (2016), the first name listed under the Production Babies in the credits is the name, Sebastian. The name isn’t necessarily a direct reference to the Jamaican crab from The Little Mermaid (1989), but it is indirectly. The songwriter of the film was Lin-Manuel Miranda, later popularized for his musical writings and compositions for Hamilton (2020), Encanto (2021), and The Little Mermaid (2023). Lin-Manuel named his first-born son Sebastian in 2014 after everyone’s favorite crab. If you liked this fun fact, you should check out my book which has over 3,700 fun facts in it about Disneyland, California Adventure, and Disney Movies. www.DisneyGuy.org  

In Beauty and the Beast (1991), after Beast storms off from Belle’s room when she refuses to join him for dinner, the painting of Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer from 1665 can be seen hanging on the wall in the background. If you liked this fun fact, you should check out my book which has over 3,700 fun facts in it about Disneyland, California Adventure, and Disney Movies. www.DisneyGuy.org