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Post by Trey_Vore on Jul 4, 2018 7:55:41 GMT -5
Random Fact #4130:
Back when Bob's Burgers was in its planning stages, Bob and Linda were intended to have three children. Gene and Louise were going to be there from the beginning, but their oldest child was originally a son named Daniel. Daniel was originally going to be an awkward teenage son character. However, because Seth McFarlane had pretty much formed a monopoly on the awkward teenage son (Chris Griffin on Family Guy, Steve Smith on American Dad!, and Cleveland Brown, Jr. on The Cleveland Show) fears mounted that this character would be lost on people so they gender-bent the character to an teenage daughter named Tina.
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Post by Belchic on Jul 4, 2018 11:09:15 GMT -5
Random Fact #4131:
One of the most iconic attractions in Disney theme park history is the Pirates of the Caribbean, one of the last attractions Walt Disney worked on before his untimely death. Originally, the attraction was going to be a walkthrough wax museum. The wax figures were designed by Disney animator, Marc Davis. After the 1964 New York World’s Fair, Walt felt having a wax museum attraction in his park was too simple, and he always wanted his next attraction to be more ambitious than his last one. One of the attractions he made for the World’s Fair, It’s a Small World, opened in Disneyland two years later and became a huge success. This gave Walt the idea to change his Pirates wax museum walkthrough into a water ride, and the wax figures that Marc Davis created became the audio-animatronics we know today.
Random Fact #4132:
Another one of Disney’s most ambitious and memorable attractions is the Haunted Mansion. This was also an idea thought up by Walt that he wouldn’t live to see completed. This was also originally planned to be a walkthrough attraction. Walt also had plans for an attraction called the Museum of the Weird. It was later decided to make the attraction a ride as imagineers felt reckless teenagers might vandalize the attraction if it were a walkthrough but weren’t sure what kind of a ride to make it. The problem was solved in 1967 when the Omnimover system in the Adventure Thru Inner Space thought up by X Atencio proved to be a huge success, so they decided to make it an Omnimover ride. The Museum of the Weird was ultimately canceled, but many of the elements planned for that ride were incorporated into the Haunted Mansion.
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Post by Belchic on Jul 21, 2018 22:27:49 GMT -5
Random Fact #4133:
A majority of the original attractions at EPCOT Center had a theme song written and composed by folk singer, Bob Moline. He had also originally written the theme song for the beloved attraction, Journey Into Imagination, which was called “Imagination”, but Disney rejected it as they felt the attraction needed a theme song that was more magical and whimsical, so they asked the Sherman Brothers to write the theme song we all know as “One Little Spark”.
Ironically, the Sherman Brothers also wrote the original theme song for the attraction, Horizons, which was called “Reach for New Horizons”. Their song was rejected as they felt it was too Disney-like and fairground-like, and the attraction called for a theme song that was more serious and futuristic. Instead, they used a song by George Wilkins and Tom Fitzgerald called “If We Can Dream It”.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Jul 25, 2018 17:19:30 GMT -5
Random Fact #4134:
Rocko's Modern Life was a series known for being a kid's show with mature innuendos up the ass. The writers and animators were talented enough to incorporate them (even to the point The Ren and Stimpy Show would seem very blatant).
One such mature joke that people may remember was the name of a fast food restaurant called "Chokey Chicken". This was one mature joke that kids could just like at face value while mature viewers could laugh at for the double entendre ("choking your chicken" is an idiom for masturbation).
They got away with that joke for the first seasons, but in Season 4, the final season, the censors caught on and its name was changed to "Chewy Chicken".
In the new upcoming remake series though, the restaurant is getting its name back.
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Post by Belchic on Jul 26, 2018 18:12:25 GMT -5
Random Fact #4134: Rocko's Modern Life was a series known for being a kid's show with mature innuendos up the ass. The writers and animators were talented enough to incorporate them (even to the point The Ren and Stimpy Show would seem very blatant). One such mature joke that people may remember was the name of a fast food restaurant called "Chokey Chicken". This was one mature joke that kids could just like at face value while mature viewers could laugh at for the double entendre ("choking your chicken" is an idiom for masturbation). They got away with that joke for the first seasons, but in Season 4, the final season, the censors caught on and its name was changed to "Chewy Chicken". In the new upcoming remake series though, the restaurant is getting its name back. Rocko is getting rebooted? I never heard this news!
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Post by RaceFanX on Jul 27, 2018 21:59:45 GMT -5
Random Fact #4,135
In 2014 FOX aired a dating reality show called "I Wanna Marry 'Harry'" which saw 12 American women travelled to England for filming as they tried to romance the show's bachelor who was implied to them in every way FOX thought they could legally get away with to be Prince Harry. In reality the show's bachelor was Matthew Hicks who was a Prince Harry look-a-like, a twist the audience knows from the start but the contestants don't. The show was a flop and cancelled in the USA after just four of its eight episodes aired due to lack of ratings.
Random Fact #4,136
While "I Wanna Marry 'Harry'" was a trashy show and justifiably forgotten quick it did, somehow, accurately predict that Prince Harry would marry an American with showbiz connections. Prince Harry married retiring American actress Rachel Markle in May 2018.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Aug 1, 2018 16:48:05 GMT -5
Random Fact #4137:
About 6,000,000 people pay to scale the Eiffel Tower in Paris, France. This makes it the most visited landmark in the world.
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Post by RaceFanX on Aug 4, 2018 18:04:28 GMT -5
Random Fact #4,138
"Wake Up with the Premier League." The American sports channel NBCSN (NBC Sports) has the United States broadcast rights to the British Premier League football league and televises games every week during its season. Because of the time change, the USA is several hours behind Britain, the games air in mid-morning hours on weekends leading to the channel promoting "rise and shine" so you can watch games from the league as an activity to accompany breakfast.
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Post by Belchic on Aug 8, 2018 21:39:47 GMT -5
Random Fact #4139:
One of the original opening day attractions at Walt Disney World was the Fantasyland dark ride known as Snow White’s Scary Adventures. It opened with the park in 1971 and was updated in 1994. The ride closed in 2012 when Fantasyland got a major overhaul/expansion. The initial replacement for the ride was the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, which opened two years later.
The end of the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train shows a scene where guests can look into the Dwarfs’ cottage and see the famous “Silly Song” segment from the movie. It shows a new animatronic of Snow White dancing with Dopey as he stands atop Sneezy. The other five dwarfs used in this scene are the same animatronics that were used in the former Snow White attraction.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Aug 18, 2018 10:38:56 GMT -5
Random Fact #4140:
In both Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 and Mortal Kombat Trilogy, Sub-Zero has a Fatality move which is implied to be a return to form, in that it is his original Spine Rip Fatality. He would reach for the losing character's head, and then the screen would turn black. Afterwards, we would hear a rip sound, a scream, and Shao Kahn's laugh.
A part of the reason for why this is not explicitly shown is because the game did not have the character animations necessary to make showing it feasible, similar to how the original Pit 2 Fatality was removed. As well, it was also "censored" as a means of mocking the controversy the Fatality caused and more or less began the ESRB rating scale.
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Post by babclayman on Aug 22, 2018 18:59:33 GMT -5
Random Fact #4, 141
During the filming for; Who Framed Roger Rabbit; Gary Wolf, author of the Original "Novel", was offered numerous times to do a Cameo in the Film, since he was present during most of the Filming. He did not appear, however, cause of him explaining that he is Camera Shy. He did post later, however, if he did decide to have a Cameo appearance, he would have suggested being some one trying to get Jessica Rabbit's Autograph.
Random Fact #4, 142
Micheal Jackson once asked J. K. Rowling if he could do a Harry Potter Musical.
Did You Know that, Pups?
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Post by RaceFanX on Aug 23, 2018 21:27:23 GMT -5
I'm not surprised that got the kibosh. Rowling famously wanted to keep Harry Potter and everything about the character British.
Random Fact #4,143
All of the main dogs in the 2018 stop-motion animated film "Isle of Dogs" have named that imply positions of command or power. While Chief, Duke, King, and Boss are obvious Rex also fits since its Latin for "king."
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Post by babclayman on Aug 27, 2018 15:45:51 GMT -5
Random Fact #4, 144
The reason that the first Disk Drive, on a Computer, is called the "C Drive" is cause the A & B Drives are intended for Floppie Disk Drives. However, while Floppie Disks are not used as much, on more Modern Computers, the Drive names still use the same letters.
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Post by Trey_Vore on Aug 28, 2018 17:17:43 GMT -5
Random Fact #4145:
The 1990 multi-crossover special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue was animated in just six weeks and that may explain why the animation tells to be somewhat cheap-looking.
It’s not a total wash though—because it was animated by Wang Film Studios and they had prior experience working with most of the featured characters they tended to look okay for the most part. Obviously they would have had experience with Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, and their prior work on existing Disney cartoons meant the featured characters from DuckTales and The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh were just fine. They also had experience working on non-Disney and non-WB shows like The Smurfs, The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Garfield and Friends so they tend to have few animation errors.
However, this was their first time they actually worked with characters from Alvin and the Chipmunks, Jim Henson’s Muppet Babies and ALF Tales which explains they tended to look off-model.
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Post by babclayman on Aug 28, 2018 19:03:37 GMT -5
Random Fact #4, 146
In addition to what Trey posts above; Originally, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy were plan to appear, but Huey, Dewey & Louie are used in the Special.
Did You Know that, Pups?
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