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  • 2020-12-09 (xsd:date)
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  • Disneyland's Snow White Grotto Employs an Old Trick (en)
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  • Disneyland's Snow White Grotto is perhaps one of the most peaceful places in an otherwise chaotic, yet magical, theme park. The calm, flowing water is a welcome departure from the barrage of strollers and massive crowds, especially on a hot day in Anaheim, California. Snow White Grotto can be found near the front of the east side of Sleeping Beauty Castle. It's usually not packed with too many people. The grotto includes Snow White, all seven dwarfs, and a few animals. It was dedicated by Walt Disney on April 9, 1961. Unfortunately, the statues all arrived at roughly the same height. This meant that Snow White was about as tall as the dwarves. D23.com, the Official Disney Fan Club, posted that the reason all eight marble figures were the same height was traced back to a set of eight Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs gift soaps, all molded the same size to fit inside the package. In order to remedy the situation, John Hench of WED Enterprises (now Walt Disney Imagineering) found an ingenious and elegant solution. D23.com published the trick: It's true that forced perspective was used to make the Snow White figurine appear taller than the dwarf statues. The marble figurines were eventually replaced with fiberglass replicas. One point of disagreement between some Disney fanatics involved how the figurines arrived in the first place. We even found two official Disney websites that posted differing explanations. On the official Disney Parks blog, it said: The white, marble figurines depicting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs arrived anonymously from Italy as a gift for Walt Disney. However, D23.com, also an official Disney website, published the name of the sculptor: Commenters on the Disney Parks blog story pointed out that they had learned the truth from Walt Disney Imagineers. For example, a commenter named Bradley posted: Michele Himmelberg, who was the Public Relations Director at Disneyland Resort, and the author of the Disney Parks Blog story, responded: Hi Bradley, we'll have more about this story from a Disney expert in the coming weeks. Stay tuned and thanks for reading! We were unable to find a later story on the blog about the grotto. Snow White Grotto may be lacking in thrills when compared to other Disneyland attractions, although it does light up when the sun goes down. However, whatever it lacks in fun, it more than makes up for it by the generous purpose of the wishing well. The Disney Parks blog described what happens after parkgoers toss coins and make wishes: At the well, parkgoers can hear Snow White sing I'm Wishing. (en)
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