30 Shady Moments From the Morally Bankrupt Cesspool That Is Disney

For shame, Walt. For shame
30 Shady Moments From the Morally Bankrupt Cesspool That Is Disney
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Apologies in advance to you Disney adults who’ve been drinking the Kool-Aid since day one. You may have thought Walt and Co. were pure magic makers (or you may have blocked out the not-so-nice things you’ve heard), but they and their backwards views have always been obsessed with their bottom line, no matter who it hurts. 

Here’s more than a handful of instances that your subconscious will have to block out if you ever want to truly enjoy The Lion King again…

Paying Just $1.20 Per Hour

A DISNEY CONTRACTOR WAS CAUGHT PAYING WORKERS $1.20/HOUR. DISNEY HAD TO PAY $903K IN BACK WAGES. The company made plastic wands and tiaras for Disney stores. Investigators also found minors as young as seven employed at the company. The location of this sweatshop? Laguna Hills, California. CRACKED.COM

The Matterhorn Bobsled Ride

THE MATTERHORN BOBSLED RIDE KILLED TWO GUESTS. AH DISNEY HONORS THEM, A BIT GHOULISHLY. Unofficially, employees call one spot on the ride Dolly's Drop. It's named after a 48-year-old woman who was thrown from her seat and got decapitated by the next car when her belt unbuckled. CRACKED.COM

The Abandoned Resort in the Bahamas

After wasting 30 million dollars and causing an incredible amount of environmental damage... Disney had to completely abandon a fully built resort in the Bahamas. They didn't fully map out the logistics of ferrying the tourists to and from their cruise ships, and instead of salvaging what they could and relocating, they left it all in place to rot. CRACKED.COM

Dictating Copyright Laws

DISNEY GRAGKED.COM ALMOST COMPLETELY DICTATES U.S. COPYRIGHT LAW! C THE COMPANY HAS SUCCESSFULLY LOBBIED CONGRESS MULTIPLE TIMES TO EXTEND THE TIME LIMIT ON COPYRIGHT PROTECTIONS JUST TO KEEP MICKEY OUT OF THE PUBLIC DOMAIN

Keeping Wages Low

EMPLOYEES SUED DISNEY FOR $100 MILLION. IN 2017, DISNEY SETTLED. The employees claimed Disney and other big animation studios colluded using anti-poaching agreements. The studios allegedly agreed not to steal animators from one another, letting bosses conspire to keep wages low. CRACKED.COM

Cast Member Deaths

JUST ONE CAST MEMBER HAS DIED AT DISNEYLAND. BUT IT WAS A PRETTY MESSY DEATH. In 1974, Debbie Stone was working in America Sings at Disneyland and accidentally got crushed between two moving walls of the rotating stage. Disney closed the stage for a year and installed automatic sensors to keep this from happening again. CRACKED.COM

Killing Lemmings On-Screen

HEARD HOW LEMMINGS FOLLOW EACH OTHER OFF CLIFFS? WHITE WILDERNESS THAT'S A MYTH, STARTED BY DISNEY. The Disney nature documentary White Wilderness depicted lemmings dying en masse. Filmmakers staged the scene by throwing some lemmings to their deaths. The film won an Oscar. CRACKED.COM

Lowballing Landowners

DISNEY USED SHELL COMPANIES TO BUY MAGIC KINGDOM. THE AIM: LOWBALLING LANDOWNERS. By hiding that such a huge company wanted the land, they kept sellers from realizing how valuable their property was going to be. Some of the companies were named Tomahawk Properties and the cutesy M.T. Lott Co. CRACKED.COM

A Lack of Metal Detectors

CRACKED.COM IT WASN'T UNTIL 2015 THAT DISNEY STARTED INSTALLING METAL DETECTORS AT ALL OF ITS THEME PARKS... ...A WEEK AFTER A MAN TRIED TO ENTER DISNEY WORLD WITH A HANDGUN-AND LONG AFTER SEVERAL OTHER INCIDENTS INVOLVING FIREARMS, INCLUDING TWO HOSTAGE SITUATIONS AND A SUICIDE.

Suing Daycares

DISNEY SUED A BUNCH OF DAYCARE CENTERS. THE CRIME: PAINTING MICKEY ON THE WALL. This was copyright infringement, so Disney had legal standing. The suit never went to court. The centers agreed to paint over Mickey with toons from Hanna-Barbera and Universal, who were more generous and gave permission. CRACKED.COM

Forcing Performers to Share Underwear

DISNEY PARKS FORCED PERFORMERS TO SHARE UNDERWEAR. THE RESULT: PUBIC LICE AND SCABIES. Finally, in 2001, workers were assigned individual undergarments they were free to take them home and wash themselves. They needed months of union contract negotiations to come to this agreement. CRACKED.COM

Big Thunder Mountain Derailment

BIG THUNDER MOUNTAIN COASTER DERAILED IN 2003. TEN GOT INJURED AND ONE PASSENGER DIED. - Maintenance crews - had signed off on paperwork showing the ride was safe, despite an ominous clanking sound. The ride reopened six months later, after an investigation completed. CRACKED.COM

Discriminating Against Female Animators, Part I

Walt eventually offered night classes for aspiring female animators. But only because he knew a bunch of his animators were about to be drafted into WWII. CRACKED.COM

Discriminating Against Female Animators, Part II

This 1939 promotional documentary describes the Inking and Painting process: The Inking Department. Here, hundreds of pretty girls color the drawings. Next, to the Painting Department, where more pretty girls apply the final colors. CRACKED.COM

Discriminating Against Female Animators, Part III

But it gets even more sexist from there. The Inkers and Painters were kept on a separate campus, known as The Nunnery. CRACKED.COM

Discriminating Against Female Animators, Part IV

That there was some busy work available for women... The only work open to women consists of tracing the characters on clear celluloid sheets with India ink and filling in the tracings on the reverse side with point according to directions y cleane ... CRACKED.COM

Discriminating Against Female Animators, Part V

Specifically, to women who applied to be animators. They were told that the creative work was only for men... Women do not do any of the creative work in connection with preparing the cartoons for the screen, as that work is per- formed entirely by young men. For this reason girls are not considered for the training school. A S I CRACKED.COM

The Little Mermaid

A tired artist made a dick on a Disney castle. SICS THE LITTLE WALT HOME Disney VIDEO MERMAID MERMAID THE LITTLE GRACKED.COM The penis on the cover of The Little Mermaid VHS box art was drawn by a sleep-deprived ad man. The original uncensored box can go for over $100.

Source: Snopes

Ridiculous Trademark Requests

In 2013, Walt Disney tried to trademark the Dia de los Muertos holiday. It was for Pixar, of course, and it was an attempt to fully secure rights to Dia de los Muertos-themed merchandise, toys, games, and so on. CRACKED.COM

Source: CNN

The Mickey Gas Mask

Walt Disney himself helped to design a Mickey Mouse gas mask Though few remain, you can find several on display in Various museums in the United State

Disney World’s River County

Walt Disney World's River County was once responsible for the death of a boy in 1980, who died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba while swimming

Snow White

WALT DISNEY RECEIVED AN HONORARY OSCAR FOR SnowWhite AND THE SEVEN OWARFS Film innovation aside, a movie that implies women become less beautiful as t

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