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6. The old Star Tours pilot was voiced by Pee-wee Herman

C-3PO has since taken over novice pilot-ing duties, but Paul Reubens was actually the OG.

7. Main Street used to have a lingerie shop

There's an elevated porch on the Eastern side of the street that originally belonged to the Intimate Apparel Shop (alternatively called the Corset Shop), which carried unmentionables like "strapless Whirlpool bras". It only lasted from 1955-56.

8. There's a secret, private apartment above the Fire Department in Town Square


This was used as an actual residence of Walt and his family when they wanted to crash at the park, complete with a changing room, a front room with fold-out couches, a bathroom, a kitchen, and an outside lounge.

9. Main Street had a cigar shop for 35 years

Squeezed between Main Street Magic Shop and the Main Street Cinema, Fine Tobacco sold cigarettes, cigars & pipes, and handed out complimentary matchbooks. And yeah, the wooden Indian you've seen on Main used to sit out front.

10. There's an abandoned mine shaft in Frontierland


And until 1977, it was actually in service as part of the Rainbow Caverns Mine Train, a cargo-car train that would take you on a quarter-mile journey through the Frontierland wilderness and into an only-accessible-by-train cave with black lights, neon-colored waterfalls, and glowing pools of luminescent water.

11. Sleeping Beauty Castle's drawbridge actually works

It's been raised twice: once on Opening Day, and again for a rededication in 1983.

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