reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

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:

http://i.imgur.com/lBJoP.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ap6Is8PKSY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35lJIFoPz_s

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

http://cdn.pimpmyspace.org/media/pms/c/89/3u/em/terminator.gif

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

http://i40.tinypic.com/1tto4g.jpg

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

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ofz07Qkv1r5z5hmo1_r1_250.gif
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ofz07Qkv1r5z5hmo2_r1_250.gif
http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m1ofz07Qkv1r5z5hmo3_250.gif

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

thanking u thread, i have stopped wondering where in the park i would have a baby and have moved on to "where in the park would i hide the placenta."

in the pineapple whip

put it in the display window of the turkey leg cart and see how long it takes anyone to notice

http://thepoelog.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/turkey-leg.jpg

Two things I can't forgive: Cheney authorizing torture and Disney tourists in August tearing into turkey legs.

a lot of people think the "haunted mansion" is childish and not very scary...but what if i told you that one of those old-fashioned trunks in the attic was literally packed with human placentas

what if I told you it was packed with 200-year-old turkey legs

Haunted Mansion rules, fuiud

the placenta and turkey legs are just the icing on the cake, to mix my metaphors a bit...

i love the haunted mansion too! but you gotta admit that if piles of human and/or turkey flesh were just kind of heaped everywhere throughout it would really take it to the next level

http://i43.tinypic.com/e87ewi.jpg

california adventure is getting a swinging new band of roaming entertainers called "five and dime." they play...instruments?

at last!

i'm going to give the artist the benefit of the doubt and assume that's meant to be a whimsical dr. seuss-style horn instrument, and not the tentacle porn it so strongly resembles

Buke And Gase takin off

http://i40.tinypic.com/nfjjtk.jpg

kid in blue-green-and-white shirt otm.

Three days until I'm in Disney World! I am a little excited, obv., and I think I'm going to eat at Boma! Flavors of Africa and the gardeny food place in Epcot for my meals.

Be sure to sample those South African wines.

oh my god i had to triple check to make sure kid in blue-green-and-white shirt wasn't my brother-- where is that pic from?

i saw it on the vintage disney tumblr, but it looks like it was originally posted on this blog. taken in 1988?

thanks! pretty sure its not him-- i dont think we made it to disney until '91 anyway-- pretty uncanny though!

http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al011712g.jpg

disney changes "water-spouting fish" ride element because the piece of plastic going in and out of the fish's mouth looks too phallic. what is it with "the little mermaid" and phalluses, damn.

we need remy updates!

just got back this morning - i'll aim to update later. had a great time, really loved epcot and animal kingdom. watched disney vets do gut surgery on a goat at the, err 'conservation station' and ate the best buffet food of my life at animal kingdom lodge. wish i'd stayed at the lodge, actually...

http://www.buildabettermousetrip.com/images/wdw/DeluxeAnimalKingdomLodge/images/AnimalKingdomLodge_008_Lobby_JPG.jpg

the fantasyland expansion looks very lovely, but it meant that the MK was greatly reduced. the new art of animation resort looks really amazing, also.

what do you mean reduced -- it's smaller?