9. Johnny Depp sometimes runs around the Pirates of the Caribbean ride dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow.

This is not true nor has it ever been true. Consider the amount of training that Cast Members have to go through in order to safely operate the attraction, do you really think they would let someone who is untrained run around loose in the ride? No. Also, do you really think that a multi million dollar making actor had nothing better to do than run around in a ride all day? So before you ask, no. That is not Johnny Depp. That is Captain Jack Sparrow.

I was told the Contemporary story when I was training to be a monorail pilot. It could be inaccurate, but I'm guessing this is probably true. For one thing, the part about the metal settling makes sense. Secondly, WHY would they use it to test modular construction, if not to replaces the modules? I'm not an architect, but I would expect that building a structure as one unit would be far sturdier and more efficient than building it like a pile of legos. Also, the hotel is named the Contemporary. Why would they name it that? The hotel has become incredibly anachronistic over the years. This should be updated to say it's unclear if it's true.

In the old Backlot tour they said that the plane in Great Movie Ride was Walt's old plane that he flew to Florida in. The other half is supposedly in the Jungle Cruise. Honestly I think Disney Cast Members enjoy playing with us, keeping us guessing *L*.

You might want to double-check your "facts" before posting these sorts of things because #2 actually IS true.

The plane in the Casablanca scene has been described as being an original film prop by the tour guides in The Great Movie Ride, so I wouldn't term that a legend so much as a blatant lie, if, in fact it is untrue. I have read in several places that the ending of Casablanca was re-shot, weeks after the film wrapped. It was a challenge, because Ingrid Bergman had already cut her hair short. The hair we see in the final scene was a wig. Perhaps the plane was used in the alternate ending? Also, the film starts with a plane coming in for landing in the sunlit city's airstrip. Perhaps it was used there...?

Originally the rooms on the second to last fact were suppose to be inter changeable but over time the metal around each pod would not allow this happen today. It was suppose to work like that so the room could easily be redesigned. I believe I heard this fact while watching a show about Disney on the travel channel

The authr needs to check his facts a little better. I guess you never bothered to watch Walt's original video on his plans for EPCOT, or as he deemed it, the Experimental City Of Tomorrow. The video is extremely detailed in the plans for his version of EPCOT. This included a ground level shopping district with people movers and monorails going overhead. No cars would be allowed on the streets allowing people to roam freely without worry. The shopping district would go around the entire central luxury hotel. It would also be fully enclosed with a roof like you see in malls being solid with clear roof type panels spread throughout.

There is agood bit more to this version of EPCOT that never got built. After Walt died the rest of the team felt that his original plans for The Orlando Project with the city, the manufacturing center, and the airport wasn't going to work and decided to build the theme parks as we know today.

In regards to the plane used in the Casablanca section of The Great Movie ride, there is a small possibility that the plane was actually used in the film. While I haven't seen the movie in over 10 years, I've been told that there is a shot of the propellers starting up. A shot that's far too complex and detailed for the paper models they used in the movie. So it's possible that the plane used in the propeller shot is the plane on The Great Movie Ride. At least that's how I currently understand it, but I need to re-watch the movie to test the theory. Supposedly they filmed that whole scene on an indoor soundstage and not outside on an airfield with an actual plane flying because there were restrictions on flights during the war, but that could be false also.