Credit: Inside the MagicA Disneyland Resort guest recently discovered an unusual detail embedded in the cement at the Southern California Disney park.
Most people think of “Disneyland” as one theme park with Sleeping Beauty Castle. However, the Southern California Disney resort is actually made up of two theme parks, Disneyland Park and Disney California Adventure Park, three Disney Resort hotels, and the Downtown Disney District.
The Disney Park guest’s recent discovery occurred on Pixar Pier at Disney California Adventure Park. Originally called Paradise Pier, Disneyland Resort rethemed the theme park land in 2018. Walt Disney Imagineers transformed and renamed the area’s restaurants, shops, and attractions to fit the Pixar theme.
Redditor u/nabzim recently noticed a bullet casing embedded in the cement near Pixar Pal-A-Round, formerly known as Mickey’s Fun Wheel and Sun Wheel. They consulted with other Disney Parks fans on social media to determine how the ammunition ended up there.
Interesting find in queue for the Ferris wheel – a brass 22LR shell (bullet casing), mixed into the concrete!
Interesting find in queue for the Ferris wheel – a brass 22LR shell (bullet casing), mixed into the concrete!
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One Disney Parks fan joked that the bullet “was fired from Walt’s .22,” but another user provided the most plausible answer. They suggested the empty casing came from a power tool construction workers used while installing the concrete.
“Wonder if its from a concrete pin driver? They use a .22 powder shot,” u/EBFGPoseidon wrote.
According to the Powder Actuated Tools Manufacturers Institute, “powder actuated tools” like concrete pin drivers use blank cartridges without projectiles or bullets inside as power sources.
“While these tools have a firing pin and commonly use a blank gun powder charge, the fastening is fully contained, i.e there are no projectiles or bullets, and the tool cannot be discharged like a firearm,” the organization explained.
If Disneyland Resort construction crews used a powder actuated tool when pouring and setting the concrete on Pixar Pier, that would explain how a discarded shell casing was encased in the concrete.
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