Stupid Guest Tricks

On King Arther's Carousel, there is 2 secrets.
1. one of the horses has a gold tooth. do you know why?
2. one of the horses has a mule's head.

drcorey wrote:On King Arther's Carousel, there is 2 secrets.
1. one of the horses has a gold tooth. do you know why?

Obviously, he used to play hockey...

drcorey wrote:2. one of the horses has a mule's head.

Does it have a horse's tail?

I don't know about the gold tooth, but when Walt purchased the carousel, it had animals other than horses. They removed all the non horse figures. My guess is that the original carousel had a mule figure and WED decided to just repaint it and perhaps modify it slightly to make it look more like a horse.
Another thought is that the figure is not a mule, but a horse with a Roman-nosed head. (Horse-savvy people will know what I'm talking about.)

drcorey wrote:1. one of the horses has a gold tooth. do you know why?

Did the horse at one time belong to Dr. Teeth from The Electric Mayhem?

dazyhill wrote:Another thought is that the figure is not a mule, but a horse with a Roman-nosed head. (Horse-savvy people will know what I'm talking about.)

But how big are its ears?

tlbwriter wrote:But how big are its ears?

The ears would be about normal sized. A Roman-nosed horse has a elongated face which would make the ears look bigger.

The Gold tooth was to mark Walt's wife, Lily's favorite horse.

That’s one of the interesting secrets of Disneyland. Is the gold tooth plated or solid? Is there any inscription? I’ll remember to see it next time I make a visit with my kids.

Part of one of my spiels--I think it was on the now-defunct Walter K Steamboat--was when we passed the carousel, we said, "The difference between a merry-go-round and a carousel is that a merry-go-round has a variety of animals, and a carousel has only horses."