Disney Mark 3
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trinityvixenTime for learnifcation!
Did you know...?
...that Ray Bradbury wrote a story treatment for "Spaceship Earth," the ride contained in EPCOTS geodesic dome? Or that Jeremy Irons now narrates the story?
...that the animatronic Jack Sparrow is incredibly life-like?
My dad half-wondered if they ever switched him out for a real actor at times (the earlier appearances of Capt. Jack Sparrow say nothing, so they wouldn't have to imitate Johnny Depp or nothing) because the movements of the dummy were creeeeeeeeeepily like Depp's. The eyebrows move, the body sways and dips and tilts like he did. Next to the forty-year-old mainstays, who run around on turntables and barely move their mouths to talk, the Jack Sparrow who ends the ride drunkenly waving a goblet around and leaning back in his chair, jauntily tapping his foot does look like a real person.
...that there have been two rennovations to The Land of Imagination, and both of them sucked, including the one that's still there?
...that you could substitute blunt euphemisms for America pleasuring itself for the lyrics of "The American Adventure" show's theme "Golden Dream"? Try it yourselves! Anything is better than the real lyrics.
...that you, too, can make a racist spectacle of yourself and still be in a Disney World ride?
...that despite the fact the young'ins won't know who he is, Rod Serling is still used to introduce the story to the "Tower of Terror" ride at MGM?
...that the "Rock 'n' Rollercoaster" gets you moving at approximately five Gs!?! No wonder the thing pulled a scream from me every other breath. Don't humans pass out at about 6 Gs? Wikipedia says yes, but there have been survivors of up to 42 gs (voluntarily--psycho!) and 178 gs (stupid race car drivers!), but wow just the same.
Did you know...?
...that Ray Bradbury wrote a story treatment for "Spaceship Earth," the ride contained in EPCOTS geodesic dome? Or that Jeremy Irons now narrates the story?
...that the animatronic Jack Sparrow is incredibly life-like?
My dad half-wondered if they ever switched him out for a real actor at times (the earlier appearances of Capt. Jack Sparrow say nothing, so they wouldn't have to imitate Johnny Depp or nothing) because the movements of the dummy were creeeeeeeeeepily like Depp's. The eyebrows move, the body sways and dips and tilts like he did. Next to the forty-year-old mainstays, who run around on turntables and barely move their mouths to talk, the Jack Sparrow who ends the ride drunkenly waving a goblet around and leaning back in his chair, jauntily tapping his foot does look like a real person.
...that there have been two rennovations to The Land of Imagination, and both of them sucked, including the one that's still there?
...that you could substitute blunt euphemisms for America pleasuring itself for the lyrics of "The American Adventure" show's theme "Golden Dream"? Try it yourselves! Anything is better than the real lyrics.
...that you, too, can make a racist spectacle of yourself and still be in a Disney World ride?
...that despite the fact the young'ins won't know who he is, Rod Serling is still used to introduce the story to the "Tower of Terror" ride at MGM?
...that the "Rock 'n' Rollercoaster" gets you moving at approximately five Gs!?! No wonder the thing pulled a scream from me every other breath. Don't humans pass out at about 6 Gs? Wikipedia says yes, but there have been survivors of up to 42 gs (voluntarily--psycho!) and 178 gs (stupid race car drivers!), but wow just the same.
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Date: 2007-02-15 05:32 pm (UTC)As long as they don't replace Serling with Forest Whitaker.
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Date: 2007-02-15 05:39 pm (UTC)"Tower of Terror" is an awesome ride, and The Twilight Zone being connected to it is just that much more fun.
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Date: 2007-02-15 11:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-16 12:04 am (UTC)Sometime, we go to Disney together and enjoy the craziness.
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Date: 2007-02-15 09:57 pm (UTC)Wow. Those are indeed some seriously stupid lyrics. They're even worse than the lame ones my high school alma mater had. (We didn't know we had an alma mater until we saw our year books, which had it printed in the first page or two. We were confused.)
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Date: 2007-02-15 10:27 pm (UTC)Though, I suppose it was more imaginative than the song from the Civil War segment which boasts fewer different lines than "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics. It rhymed a-b-a-b, and the a lines were the same, and the b lines were, and often a rhymed with b so as not to look like it was a two-line song that went on for an eternity.
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Date: 2007-02-15 10:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-16 12:02 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-16 03:58 pm (UTC)I did go on it, oddly it did not take you to talk me to into it. It was awesome since we got to the top RIGHT as the sun set. Very very cool. Next to the incredible hulk, favorite ride in FL :D
(should you ever make it islands of adventure, PROMISE me you wont go on the xmen ride....pra-miss!!!)
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Date: 2007-02-16 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-16 05:12 pm (UTC)Why wouldn't I go on the X-men ride?
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Date: 2007-02-16 05:23 pm (UTC)xmen ride is storms revenge or something
basically they made x-men into the teacups.
i was beyond dissapointed.
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Date: 2007-02-16 05:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-16 05:26 pm (UTC)fear it
http://www.universalorlando.com/ioa_attr_storm.html