Walt Disney World & Universal Studios

[Andrew G.]

As a few of you may or may not have noticed, I have been gone for the past week. I went to Florida to return to Disney World once again, I also went to Universal Studios.

Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom opened in 1971, and they have always relied solely on Hunter fans. In the 90s, there were late 60s R&M originals EVERYWHERE. They had rounded switch housings, tall skinny pot-metal bell canopies, were non-adaptaire, and had levolier pullchains. When hurricane Floyd blew through Florida in 1999, Disney World completely shut down for the first time since it opened. Afterwords, almost all of the old 1971 R&M originals were replaced with hampton bay gazebos. However, others were replaced with new originals and other hunters. When the fans were replaced, the new fans used the downrods, canopies, and mounting systems from the old fans.

When I went this past week, just about ALL of the original 1971 R&M originals were gone. A lot of the replacement gazebos have even been replaced. I also went to Disney-MGM studios, Epcot, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach. There are still MANY originals throughout Disney.

Now to the pictures...

Along with the hundreds of hunters, there are also a few casablancas scattered about.




A lot of the fans at Disney are "finished", or painted over. However, Disney doesn't paint their fans half-ass.





Here are a few examples of replacement fans using old hardware.








(The line for Splash Mountain used to have around two dozen brown 3rd generation fasco charlestons, all of them have now been replaced with hampton bay gazebos)

Not all of the oiriginals are being replaced with total crap, a lot of the new replacement fans are new spinner motor originals.


...And now a few odds and ends

Most of the originals at Disney are maintained pretty well. This one has recently gotten new blades and is has obviously been oiled, for the reservoir had overflowed in the past.


This is the only remaining brown 42" original (there were four at one point, three have been replaced with 42" gazebos) at the train station for Frontierland, and it won't be long before this one is replaced.



A gazebo without blades, soon to be replaced.












Low profile original, note the thin motor housing.


The water parks, Typhoon Lagoon and Blizzard Beach, had mostly originals, and a few replacement mariners here and there.






Blizzard Beach had ARCHIVE originals in the bathrooms.


The finish on the outdoor elements fans is raw, and is purposely designed to weather over time.


Now for Universal Studios... Most of the fans there are a mix of hunter originals, sea airs, and mariners. There were also a few fascos here and there.

Can anyone identify this one?


The blades were cut to size in order to fit the space.


There were around two dozen of these verde outdoor originals over the lines for the Jurassic Park flume ride.


The rest..

[jeremy]

i hate walt disney world and land,but neat fans

[mndoss06]

I as well don't like Disney but second that motion of neat fans. Last week I went with my girlfriend to Atlantic City, NJ and as we walked the boardwalk I'd keep an eye out for the fans. Surprisingly nothing interesting there. There were a TON of Hampton Bay industrials, and just about everything else seemed to be some kind of funky new contemporary type modern fan. You can still find some neat fans at vacation spots though, from what I remember Nags Head in NC had a lot of neat fans.

[Andrew G.]

Yeah, Disney World could definitely be better. Universal Studios is awesome though.

[Jean Lemieux]

OOOOOHHHHHH MY GOD!!!!!!! You got very nice and interesting pics!

I Must tell you that I went to Florida back in November 2000, at this time I was 9 years old. It was also the first time I took the plane. I did not know about the hurricane in 1999, so that means it was After 1999 when they have replace a lot of ceiling fans. I went to Magic Kingdom and Epcot.

The only ceiling fans I remember seeing in Epcot where a bunch of Verde Hunter Original with 4 oak blades no light kit in a giant Gift shop.

BUT Magic Kingdom is not only a heaven for children but also a heaven for ceiling fans. They have SO many ceiling fans everywhere. The Most type of ceiling fans i remember seeing where a lot of those old Hunter Original with the bell canopy. Most of them had a big rounded of schoolhouse light on them and where painted in a beautiful color of Sky Blue, but the paint was getting very dusty, rusty and was falling over. The paint on the blades was all scratched off but the blades where straight not even bent of cracked. These fans where Outside! Most of these fans where on medium or high speed, somes where off. That's how I could see the blades.

To tell you the true I don't remember seeing a lot of these Hampton gazebo or Hunter Sea Air. There just at one stand that had a new white hunter Sea Air. But I remember on main street where you have all those cute victorian shops they had some very ornate brass ceiling fans spinning fast with light kit. They looks a lot like Hunter Covent Garden of Casablanca Commodore Vanderbilt. There where at the entrance where you have the ticket stand where there a bunch of newer antique brass 42'' ceiling fans spinning very fast with schoolhouse lights and oak blades. They looked like some Casablancas, probably Ventura of Lady Delta. There a ride made of wood painted blue and you have Goofy on a crashed plane. In that ride where somes Craftmade Warbird airplane hugger ceiling fans. The train station in Magical kingdom had some newer 5 blades fans no light kit that where painted in some kind of aqua of turquoise paint.

That's pretty much I can remember.
I was really impressed to see this Hunter Original Archives installed with four blades. And they have wast that money to put it in a bathroom.

The thing you said about the Hunter Sea Air that the blades have been cut off, I have already seen that on a Industrial. ;D

The peoples of Walt Disney are really intelligent to continue to put some Hunter Original. Especially for the Outdoor Original when they need to be installed outside.

I remember the train station of frontierland had a dusty brown 42'' Hunter Original spinning fast.

The place where there a light blue vaulted ceiling a globes lights on the 8th pic, I remember seeing a place similar to that but at the time I went there they where some old Hunter Original no light kit spinning on low painted in light blue too. Did you took this pic in a outdoor restaurant with just this blue octagonal roof over head??

I don't remember seeing any ceiling fans near Splashmountain. And YES I went in this ride. Ouff!!! Let me tell you its something, especially when your 9 years old.

The pic of the Stratos Modern Fan, did you took it near spacemountain in Tommorowland or Futurland?(don't remember exactly how its called)

[jeremy]

i been to universal studios in hollywood,ca & i hate it( i was little then) i don't remember see any fans doing that time,i didn't pay attention to them way back then.

[Jean Lemieux]

Andrew its not only you the site have been dead for 2 or 3 days.

Andrew I don't know what you talking about but Disney have somes cool and awesome fans.

Where did you took the pics of the red Originals and dark green Originals?

The Original on the 18th pic did you took it near the Castel where they play the music. I remember a place with a ceiling exactly like that and a Original spinning fast (with a piano underneat) just like that but at this time it was painted in white. The paint was rusted and dusty.

I think I remember seeing the Original that reaplaced the mini hampton gazebo. It was soo small and in good condition.

I remember seeing a lot of antique brass 52'' no light on long downroad ceiling fans spinning slowly in gift shops. They looked like Fanimation Islander with normal oak blades. Is it possible?

[Andrew G.]

The red original was in MGM and the dark green originals were in Adventureland in the Magic Kingdom. The original in the 18th picture hangs above a piano, and it's always been brown. It was located right next to a restaurant which had two of those victorian looking fans (casa veja?). The last time I was there, the original blades on the fan were in pretty sad shape.

[jeremy]

do you wish all these fans are for sale and you buy them all? mainly the originals and casas

[Andrew G.]

The only fans I'd really like to get my hands on are those 42" originals and the old 1971 R&M originals (that is, if they were still there ).

[jeremy]

andrew said:

The only fans I'd really like to get my hands on are those 42" originals and the old 1971 R&M originals (that is, if they were still there ).

if i were you,i would go back and find the owner of the fans and talk to them about those originals (ones you wanted) and the ones left the owner will sell them to you so they never will be pitched out in future.

[Jean Lemieux]

Why do you say that the newer Original are total crap you are so negative its Not true, they look Much better that the olders ones? And why do you say they have direct drive motors I tough they have ''Original'' motors with a kind of iron flywheel???

If you prefer the older ones they now have the Archive Original that have a bell canopy and rounded switch housing cup. Plus they even reintroduce the ugly adaptaire.

My tastes is just that I prefer the newer ones. But the five blades design is useless they could have let it only four blades.

[Deleted]

Nice fan shots, i went there recently back in march and i remember seeing a few of those, especially around splash mountain and the train bus and monorail stations

[JW]

Thanks for all the pics... apparently Disney has a "ceiling fan expert" or two. That Ron Rezek Modern Fan looks like it's seen better days. I see there's masking tape everywhere - maybe it'll get either repaired or replaced once the painting is completed.

I wonder what's up with the randomly placed giant eyeballs on the golden painted Outdoor Original lolol.

My favorite fan out of all of them is the lodge-styled Original in the pic directly above the bathroom Archive.

jean2291 said:

Why do you say that the newer Original are total crap you are so negative its Not true, they look Much better that the olders ones?

Once again it's not negativity, it's reality. They may not be "total crap", but they're of significantly lesser quality than the non-spinner ones.

As far as appearance, unless you're comparing them to the pre-1960s Originals, I don't think there's all that much difference between a new one and one made around, say, 1975, except for the brackets and the option to mount five blades (and remember, it's an OPTION - you can still mount four if you want - case in point, the bathroom Archive pictured here).

[Farah]

Wow those are nice fans mostly hunter and casablanca. Those were very nice and I like the lady delta fan, too.