reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

Oh god I had the worst time on Tower of Terror. It was my own fault. TOTALLY my own fault. I hate that falling sensation more than anything. But I looked at the tower and I was like, eh it's not THAT tall and maybe this will be a good way to overcome my fear since I love the Twilight Zone and was really into the theme of the ride. WRONG. Oh god it was horrible, the way they made you fall over and over and over again...I screamed the whole time, like crying. Then I sat on a park bench afterwards catatonic like "bubububububbubu" Goldie Hawn in Overboard for like an hour. Again, totally my own fault. I should have stayed away.

but everyone else I know loves it so yes, highly recommended lol

haha that is the best recommendation ever

Expedition Everest rules.

great overboard reference haha

I just watched it the other weekend so it was fresh in my mind :)

man, VG, i feel you. I love every part of roller coasters except the first "fall." all the loops and curves are easy to me, but the fall always freaks me out!

i also love every part of tower of terror except the fall!

Thyey shoot you down faster than gravity! Why!

Animatronics will see a similar personalization, so the otherwise obtuse talking robots can specifically acknowledge the people standing in front of them.…

tbf they were doing this on the ET ride at Universal Studios 20 years ago, you'd "sign in" with your name or a comedy fake name before you got on and ET would solemnly intone "Phone home, (your name)" as you flew past him.

"Phone home, balls"

Yeah, but that's a bit different from walking past one of those jamboree bears and he hollers, "Sup, Plains! How are things back in Little Rock?"

I kinda lose my grip on reality in that place as it is...

xxpost Whiney: yeah I love rollercoasters too! the first drop always feels like imminent death and the worst mistake of my life and then: fun!

Tower of Tower fake drop is brilliant. Yeah im not a fan of falling either tho.

lol Tower of Tower

it's true that about the only way Tower of Terror could be better is if they took the entire Tower up another, larger Tower and dropped it while you drop inside the smaller tower

Inception?

xposts actually the data-mining potential for everyone carrying around trackers is enormous, they could tell if you're taking an unusually long time in the bathroom and have the toilet paper holder ask "Your name, you've been in here for awhile, are you feeling all right?"

I've mentioned this before, but:

Before the fun starts and the car drops, like every other fricking ride in the Kingdom, there's an announcement made that there's been a problem detected in the ride and that it might go haywire (or take you into the Twilight Zone.)

There's comes a point where the doors open (like an elevator) and there's a dark room with ghosts and shit and Rod Serling comes out to say something to the riders. Except, as my sister says when she first rode it, the interior fluorescent lights were turned on in that level, so you saw this utility room with wooden beams and sawdust with this pane of glass in front of the car that the ghostly apparitions were being projected on.

So my sister really believed there was a problem with the ride and then WHOOOOSH.

When I went on Expedition Everest, there was no wait, which was kind of too bad, because the winding line in is full of all sorts of fake artifacts and news clippings and every once in a while mention of a yeti. It's quite subtle, though the attention to detail was admirable. See also: the fun wait for the Haunted Mansion and Space Mountain. Not that I would prefer a wait, but I kind of missed out on lingering.

I really liked Animal Kingdom. A couple of cool rides, but mostly awesome details, like the fake '50s amusement park set up on a fake parking lot. We skipped Hollywood Studios, so no Tower of Terror for us. It was the one ride our kids were too little to go on even if they wanted to, anyway.

when I go to WDW these days we spent no more than three or four hours at a park before returning to the hotel for pool/drinks. Nothing quite like doing the monorail drink-a-thon stoned.

This sounds like a good idea. We usually try to wring out every last possible minute in the parks which means that after a day or two, trudging around the park devolves into a march of death. Building breaks into the day could be a big help.

Moodles, few things depress me more than zombie parents pushing strollers full of screaming children at 6 p.m.

We were there over Halloween, which apparently is the only time of the year they allow guests to wear costumes (for obvious reasons). We had to leave at 7pm, because we didn't pay for the special ticket, but all the decorations and lighting were Halloween themed, all the villains came out in the parades, and the usual Disney cast was all dressed as gravediggers. There was spooky music and stuff, and as well left we faced an incoming tide of Batmans, Incredibles, pirates and god knows how many civilian versions of Disney characters. Which we could tell from the real Disney cast by their, um, girth.

we wouldn't hang out until all hours if we weren't genuinely excited about doing as much as we can (child included), our problem is more that our enthusiasm and ambition to ride every ride is greater than our physical capacity to do so.

We did the Halloween night several years ago and it was really fun. The Halloween fireworks were really cool.

Our first night at WDW we wandered over to the park pretty late in the evening, I would say around 7 or 8pm. And it was kind of awesome because there wasn't really a ton of people around. We rode Space Mountain two or three times in a row because there was no line at all.

But that was in June about 10 years ago. (Trust me, we didn't pick June, it was picked for us...god I have never sweated so much in my life as I did that week)

Nothing quite like doing the monorail drink-a-thon stoned.

Some friends of mine have a really cool story about taking acid and going on It's a Small World. It sounds like simultaneously the best and worst idea ever.

I think every senior class has a grad night story

yes, this fucking shit fuck that no.

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a lot scarier when you're seven and no one's popping flash cubes at the ride.

DUFF BEER FOR ME
DUFF BEER FOR YOU
I'LL HAVE A DUFF
YOU HAVE ONE TOO

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this sounds awesome:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/moviesnow/la-et-mn-sundance-2013-escape-from-tomorrow-disneyland-randy-moore-release-20130118,0,4296.story

The result of Moore’s quixotic dream is “Escape from Tomorrow,” a Surrealist, genre-defying black-and-white film that was shown for the first time at the Sundance Film Festival on Friday night and that was primarily shot across the vast expanses of Disney theme parks in Orlando and Anaheim. There is Buzz Lightyear Space Ranger Spin and Space Mountain, Tiki Room and teacups, princesses and a Main Street parade. At one point, Epcot Center blows up.

It is one of the strangest and most provocative movies this reporter has seen in eight years attending the Sundance Film Festival. And it may well never be viewed by a commercial audience.

Sitting at a Park City café shortly after the screening ended, Moore, 36, is trying to take deep breaths. The director has been living the last three years in a state of heightened tension, fearful that Disney would find out about his stealth project and try to quash it.

read about that today: agreed that it's awesome.

inside Walt Disney's private Disneyland apartment

Put a silly hat on them and every family looks the same.

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omg i treasure everything about hillary's outfit right there

so jealous of these people who got stuck on the monorail for 45 minutes and had to be towed back to the station. i assume the WDW monorail is in good condition since it's actually part of the transportation system, but the DL version is bumpy as fuck and every time me + my sisters ride it, we assume the track will finally crumble and pitch the whole thing into the submarine lagoon.

then again, back when the rocket rods were a thing, we were also convinced our rocket rod would skid off its track and pitch us into the submarine lagoon. we were just really scared of being flung into a body of water filled with plaster monsters.

Sadly I've read more and more stories in recent months about monorail problems on both parks. The problem is the monorails don't themselves generate revenue, so Disney hasn't given them much thought. On the other hand, most guests at the Polynesian, Contemporary, and Grand Floridian, and Disneyland's Disneyland Hotel, regard monorail access as an essential commodity.

http://www.drinkingatdisney.com/

apparently OSHA got sassy with disneyland/dca yesterday and shut down four of their biggest rides for safety violations (matterhorn, splash mountain, space mountain, soarin' over california). they managed to make a fix on splash mountain and get it reopened, but the other three are still closed today. considering big thunder mountain is closed for a refurb, that means at some point yesterday the entire mountain range was down.

Hm. I saw an OSHA notice on one of the Disney boards today.

so a guy accidentally left a loaded gun on a ride at WDW, and a disneyland cast member was arrested for putting dry ice "bombs" in toontown trash cans. can't wait to see what clever violence disneyland paris comes up with!

you can bring loaded guns into WDW

really?

you're not supposed to but no metal detectors.

When they search your bags at the entrance, they're only looking for bootleg Disney swag.

get bent's post of disney gossip: my group is performing at california adventure on august 16th. if you have a season pass, play hooky from your livelihood and come see us knock out a half-hour set of nonthreatening choral arrangements of spirituals and trad folk.

:D yay!

yeah, we're not doing any of the solemn jesus-y stuff or the highfalutin/weird benjamin britten type stuff in our repertoire, just palatable, family-friendly material.