reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

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Shakes, is that you?!

I'm not in these photos (those are my cousins)

it would've made perfect sense to imagine you as a blonde tow-haired boy.

awesome photos, shakey

^^^

i go to disneyland a week from tomorrow, photos&thread making me even more excited

We booked our rooms at the Grand Californian this afternoon! Going in March!

We'll be staying offsite (but in Downtown Disney) during April. 3-4 days in the park. 1x Magic, 1x Epcot, 1x Animal.

one of the Downtown Disney hotels? There was a time when those hotels were the cream of the cream when WDW lacked its own resorts. The location remains fabulous.

has anyone ever visited Celebration? I stayed w/ someone who had a house there for a weekend once.

autopia cars were so much cooler-looking back in the day! also lol @ the kids feeling up the fox character, shades of the mickey punch story on the excelsior thread.

love that colorful patchwork sail from the jungle cruise too. these are great!

clearly i am looking at these in reverse order because wtf PINOCCHIO BONER?? amazing!

forgot to post this yesterday:

Dateline Disneyland @DatelineDisney
New Charging Lockers available at Disneyland let you safely charge your Apple, Android, USB and AC-powered devices for $2 per hour.

p. good idea actually!

thats a great idea.

I think that's it for my photo archive - there might be a few more from '78 or so, will have to check.

is autopia still there...?

last weekend:

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I'm fool at the right in the hat.

any highlights from your trip?

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"we're just trying to help out."

hi from disneyland

will post pix from weekend trip in a bit. 14 rides in about 8 hrs.

It's a Small World - photos don't quite convey the scale, obviously:
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Storybook Land:
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Sleeping Beauty's Castle - 3-D diamoras have replaced the old stationary puppet scenes, these were AMAZING:
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my daughter had a lot to tell Cinderella:
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Mr. Toad
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ROCKETS!
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wonderful! we skipped small world because a) that song and b) tired, but now i really wish we'd done it. it looks amazing!

my favorite part was the peter pan ride. oh, and i loved the tiki room. no one told me the flowers sing too!

Peter Pan ride is great but I think it is also actually the shortest ride in the park...? Like, under 2 minutes.

Tiki Room is so great, dunno why we didn't get any pictures (flash photography might've been prohibited, I don't remember)

one thing that really struck me about these rides this time around is how uniformly amazing the sound design is - all these different audio tracks fading in and out as you move through the ride, every few feet something different and distinct gets your attention, but it's never overwhelming or deafening (well unless there's explosions lol)

just found this blog that is all about the 1980's futuristic Epcot ride HORIZONS

http://mesaverdetimes.blogspot.com/

before it was closed in the 90s, these dudes jumped out of their cars multiple times and walked around inside the ride and and explored it thoroughly while shooting lots of photos and videos:

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that shit would just weird me out.

like I couldn't be the guy who dusts off abraham lincoln's cheekbones, knowing some prankster would flick the switch and make his eyeballs wink at me.

I think it's the America exhibit at Epcot where an anthromatic Teddy Roosevelt on a horse appears for a robotic look at the beginnings of the 20th Century. All I can think about is the hole those robots went down into and how they just sit there motionless until the next time they rise up into the sunrise.

^^ yep. Teddy and Audobon have a heated exchange.

Meanwhile this blog analyses the twilight in which American cuisine lived for most of the seventies and eighties.

then they both chill like Han Solo for another 45 minutes.

xp

speaking of creepy animatronic lincoln, here's a video of him breaking down mid-speech:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF0j69pAM7g

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it was my sister's turn to alert me to important disney news:

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ngl my immediate reaction was "hmmm, if i were to give birth inside disneyland, i wonder where i'd do it"

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feel like there's something sinister going on here, we are not being told the "whole story."

feel like the disney characters are waving larry forward to "bring out the kid in him" via his intestines

boy in the striped shirt gets a kickback, really gets off on the gentle trust in the eyes of his victims

is pluto playful waving his ear, or is he surreptitiously making the "hanged man" gesture as a way of mocking larry's fatal ignorance?

who knew tweedle-dee and tweedle-dum were the muscle.

Was it Disney that used to have the ad of the parents becoming children so by the end of the ad, the mom was a little girl standing next to her son?

wasn't weird at all

13 days to go!

why the hell would you go to Disneyland so very pregnant

babies born in the park get a lifetime pass iirc

no, that's only if your roommate kills himself on the Matterhorn.

babies conceived in the park are banned for life iirc

but the placenta stays

placentas are interred underneath the park entrance's statue of Mickey and Walt iirc