Headscratchers / Disney Theme Parks

• Why is Slue-Foot Sue(From "Pecos Bill") a blonde in the Golden Horseshoe Saloon, when she was a redhead in the cartoon?
  • Well, Melody Time was released in the 40s, but Disneyland was built in the 50s. Perhaps hair color fashions had changed enough in that time that they decided a blonde lead would go over better?
• Spaceship Earth, why exactly is it a golf ball?
  • It's not. It's a geodesic sphere.
    • But still, why such a weird design choice?
    • Because it merges the two ideas of Epcot together; High Technology, and the planet itself. it is literally the spaceship earth.
• Why is the Alice In Wonderland ride out of order in terms of it's plot?
  • If you're referring to the placement of the mad tea party scene, it's because that scene wasn't originally part of the ride. It was added during the 1980s refurb of Fantasyland in order to give more oomph to what was considered an excessively girly ride. That's also why the caterpillar car leaves the show building only to re-enter it for the finale.
• In the Dinosaur (formerly Countdown to Extinction) ride in Animal Kingdom, Dr. Seeker, a paleontologist, turns what's supposed to be a gentle tour through the mid-Cretaceous Period into a mission to recover an iguanadon and bring it back to the present with you. Specifically, you're sent to the end of the Cretaceous Period—the very end, as the gigantic asteroid that, as ride host Dr. Marsh puts it, "destroyed most life forms on earth" is due to hit about two minutes after you reach your destination. So why in the world didn't Dr. Seeker send you back to an earlier point? He has complete control over the Time Rover (your ride vehicle), as he had to hack the computers to get you back to the late Cretaceous Period in the first place. Heck, even a day—or an hour!—earlier would have enabled you to recover the iguanadon and not risk certain death. Granted, it makes the ride a lot more exciting, but considering that Dr. Seeker had already broken every rule in the book, did he have to try and kill you as well?
  • I see two possible explanations: 1) We don't know what degree of precision the time-travel technology in the ride has. The difference between the mid-Cretaceous and the late Cretaceous period is tens of millions of years, and it's not clear if the machines are capable of being so precise as to differentiate between individual years, let alone days or hours, in time periods over 65 million years in the past. 2) Temporal paradoxes might ensue if a dinosaur is removed from the timeline before it dies; what happens to possible offspring that dinosaur might eventually have? By snagging a dinosaur from the timeline shortly before it would be expected to die anyways, those paradoxes might not be as much of an issue. Of course, the ride goes into neither of these possibilities and doesn't really address the issue, but it does have only so much time to touch on everything, and time travel as a plot device inevitably seems to cause problems in most works anyways when you think about it too much.
• Here's something in Star Tours' chronology that makes no sense: Star Tours 2 events happened after the Clone Wars and Star Tours 1 happened during the Battle of Yavin, so Starspeeder 1000 is older than the Starspeeder 3000 from the original ride, but in the queue line you can see Rex stored while Ace is just taken out of the box as new, isn't Rex supposed to be newer?
  • The Rex in the new ride's queue is faulty — it spouts off out-of-context lines from the original ride at random. It's possible that this Rex is a "prototype" or older model, while the other Rex is a later, less buggy version.
• In "Mission Space": If this is the first mission to Mars why is there a runway?
  • It's the training for the first -manned- mission.
  • Supposedly, it's the first manned mission. They sent robots in ahead of you to build it.
  • In fact, there had been multiple unmanned missions to Mars already when the ride was built.