The Art of Animation resort has one of the biggest capacities at Disney world, 1120 family suites and 864 standard rooms for a total of 1980 rooms, and the ability to house around 10,000 guests!
Stand By Me was released on August 8th, 1986. Filming locations include Brownsville, Cottage Grove, Junction City, and Veneta, OR. and Burney, CA. Blue Point Diner - 419 N. Main St. Brownsville, Or. Gordie Lachance's house - 325 Fisher St. Brownsville, Or.
Since 2007, the city of Brownsville, Oregon, which served as the setting for Castle Rock, has held an annual Stand By Me Day celebrating the movie. In 2013 the Chamber of Commerce set the date to July 23, so that the big 30th-anniversary event would fall on a Saturday in 2016.