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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