When visiting the Wishing Well Grotto next to Sleeping Beauties Castle you will notice that Snow White and the Seven Dwarf's have taken up permanent residence overlooking the well there is a story about those statues.

The statues were donated anonymously to Walt Disney, and he was determined to incorporate them into the park. The only problem was that whoever made the statues made Snow White the same size as the dwarf's (which she is not). Walt Disney Imagineer John Hench used the optical trick of forced perspective to make the statues work. He put Snow White at the top of the waterfall with a Disney-made small deer and put the dwarfs close to ground-level, making Snow appear to be further away, and thus smaller.

One rumor as to the origin of the statues is that they were "a gift from an Italian sculptor that had never seen the film, but owned a set of soaps in the form of the princess and the dwarfs. Unfortunately, Snow White was the same size as the dwarfs in the soap set, so the sculptor made her that way."

No one knows for sure if the story is true but it sure is fun to think of a far off fan that loves Disney so much he spent so much time on a gift to Walt.