Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Disneyland's 'The Witch in the cage'

Q: I've seen over the years at Disneyland a cage that held the Hag from Snow White. When the cage was rattled, she would come to life and try to bribe folks to let her out by promising to show how to "turn water to gasoline." Who made this and what was the reason?
Reid, Ben Lomond, California 

A [Dave Smith]: The Witch in the cage was originally made by the former WED Display and Design Department at Walt Disney World, under Jim McNalis, for use in 1975 Emporium windows in the Magic Kingdom park promoting Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When the Disneyana Shop opened on Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland in 1976, the Witch, animated and with added audio, moved west to become a major display piece in that shop. Later on it was used in the Villain's Lair shop in Fantasyland and Le Bat en Rouge in New Orleans Square. 

[Marcio Disney]


9 comments:

  1. Its like you read my mind! You seem to know a lot about this, like you wrote the book in
    it or something. I think that you could do with
    a few pics to drive the message home a bit, but
    other than that, this is great blog. A fantastic read.
    I'll definitely be back.

    Here is my blog post; Canfriends.Com

    ReplyDelete
  2. I've been browsing online more than 3 hours today, yet I never found any interesting article like yours. It's pretty worth
    enough for me. Personally, if all website owners and bloggers made good content as you did, the internet will be a lot more useful than ever before.


    my web site :: http://www.beatlast.com/members/alan78h/activity/107506

    ReplyDelete
  3. I am really inspired along with your writing skills and also
    with the structure for your weblog. Is this a paid subject matter or did you customize it yourself?
    Anyway stay up the nice quality writing, it's rare to see a nice weblog like this one nowadays..

    Here is my web page: hottest gift ideas

    ReplyDelete
  4. Usually I do not learn article on blogs, but I wish to say that this write-up very compelled me to take a look at and do it!

    Your writing style has been surprised me. Thank you, quite
    great post.

    Also visit my blog post; hottest gift ideas

    ReplyDelete
  5. What a information of un-ambiguity and preserveness of valuable experience about unexpected feelings.


    Here is my homepage ... magnetized flashlights

    ReplyDelete
  6. Magnificent items from you, man. I've remember your stuff previous to and you are just extremely fantastic. I actually like what you've got right
    here, certainly like what you are saying and the way in which wherein you assert it.
    You make it entertaining and you still take care of to stay it
    smart. I can't wait to learn much more from you. This is really a great web site.

    Here is my blog post - http://www.besttickets.de/index.php?title=Benutzer_Diskussion:GKXEsther

    ReplyDelete
  7. Thanks for a marvelous posting! I actually enjoyed reading it, you
    happen to be a great author.I will be sure to bookmark your blog
    and definitely will come back down the road. I want to encourage you to definitely continue your great posts, have a nice evening!


    Feel free to surf to my website; jack la lane power juicer

    ReplyDelete
  8. magnificent put up, very informative. I wonder why
    the opposite experts of this sector don't realize this. You should proceed your writing. I'm sure,
    you have a great readers' base already!

    Look into my web page - lemon juicer

    ReplyDelete
  9. As we were getting ready to ship the mechanically animated witch to the Disneyana Shop I thought it might be a good idea to add audio to the show. I wrote a quick script and recorded it on tape imitating the witches voice from the film...and included the cassette as a suggested audio. To my surprise they used the tape unedited. Whenever I entered the shop, I was surprised to hear my voice as the witch begging guests to let her out of the cage. jim mcnalis

    ReplyDelete

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...