Is the skull at Disneyland real?

Having already cost as much as the rest of the park combined to build, it seems that creating life-like skeletons was a step too far for the wardrobe departments. The bones were instead sourced from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and were real human remains.



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The technology of the time wasn't sophisticated enough to make skeletons that the company felt met their standards of realism. So instead of faking it, the Imagineers went to find the real thing — straight to UCLA, where they procured real human skeletons for the ride. It didn't last forever, though.

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