{"id":42577,"date":"2015-11-18T08:00:59","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T13:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/?p=42577"},"modified":"2022-05-04T22:57:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T02:57:36","slug":"book-review-disney-trivia-vault","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.themouseforless.com\/blog_world\/book-review-disney-trivia-vault\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Disney Trivia from the Vault"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Eons ago in the B.E. years (that’s “Before Internet”), Disney fans had to write down their questions and send them to a recognized expert if they wanted a definitive answer. If you were lucky, your question got chosen\u00a0and appeared in one of the Disney magazines of the day.<\/p>\n

Dave Smith, now chief\u00a0archivist emeritus of the Walt Disney Archives, was The Guy you wrote to. \u00a0He’s considered the final word on just about any Disney topic, and he has the official archive to find the answer and prove\u00a0it! He’s been answering trivia questions and fan queries since 1983 in a series of official Disney publications, all the way up to D23.<\/p>\n

In 2012, he complied many of the best bits of asked-for trivia\u00a0into a book for all of us. “Disney Trivia from the Vault: Secrets Revealed and Questions Answered” gives responses to the well-known\u00a0(“How did they build the Utildors?”<\/em>) and the obscure inquiries (“Is Mickey Mouse right- or left-handed?”) …\u00a0<\/em>I’ll answer that one at the end of the article!<\/p>\n

The 262-page book is organized by topic,\u00a0from animated features through Walt Disney himself. There are sections on both Disneyland and Walt Disney World, as well as animation, films, television, and Disney publications. Sadly, the book has no pictures except for a collage at each chapter heading. The short-format style of questions and answers together makes for easy reading. It’s not so much a quiz as a series of bite-sized packets of information.<\/p>\n

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While it won’t settle every burning question of a serious Disney fan, especially since it is the “official answer” and not speculative, I learned quite a bit that interested me. For example:<\/p>\n