Hidden Disney & Details > Critter Country
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Max, Buff & Melvin
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: As you leave the Heffalump & Wuzzle honey room and look back and up. Mounted high on the wall are the three stuffed heads (Max, Buff & Melvin). They pay homage to The Country Bear Playhouse (and Mile Long Bar) that originally occupied the location.
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Mr. Sanders
Pooh Corner: Many Winnie the Pooh fans should recognize the name Mr. Sanders. It appears on the sign hangs above Pooh's doorway. Left by the home's previous resident, it seems that Pooh Bear hasn't quite gotten around to replacing it.
Note: There is some debate to where the name Mr. Sanders actually comes from. Frank Sanders was a publisher in London, but A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh (1926) and The House at Pooh Corner (1928) were published by London's Methuen Publishing, Ltd. Instead, illustrator Ernest H. Shepard may have simply added Mr. Sanders to his original drawings - a jab at personal friend, Frank Sanders.
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Mr. Bluebird's House
Pooh Corner: Mr. Bluebird on my shoulder... Just outside the Critter Country store is Mr. Bluebird's bird house. It's a detail tied to the song Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah from Walt Disney's Song of the South (1946). The film was based on the Uncle Remus folk tales written by Joel Chandler Harris, and the folksy Br'er Rabbit stories also serve as the character theme for Splash Mountain.
Note: Harris' works Uncle Remus, His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation (1880), Nights with Uncle Remus (1881 & 1882), Uncle Remus and His Friends (1892) and Uncle Remus and the Little Boy (1905).