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From: Paul Lalli on 1 Aug 2010 15:54
Patty Winter wrote:
> In article <i2v6tk$9i8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
> Paul Lalli <mritty(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> I also noted that
>> several of the buildings on the left side of Main St had the
>> construction screens up. The ones that are painted to look like what
>> the facades should actually look like when completed. Interesting.
>
> Any idea what they're doing, Paul? Are they changing some stores or
> restaurants to other things?

I don't really know - I certainly haven't heard about anything. One of
the stores with a scrim was Casey's, so I'm sure we'd have heard about
it if they were changing things. My guess is that they're just getting
a fresh coat of paint.

>> I know that we did the Pirates of the Caribbean eventually.
>> Unfortunately, Amanda has never seen any of the movies, so she failed to
>> appreciate the coolness of the added Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones
>> effects.
>
> Clearly, you have to take this girl's education under your control
> and rectify that omission. :-)

Oh please believe. We live about 2 hours apart, and only see each other
once a month or so - I spent every visit we had between when I told her
and our vacation, having her watch every Disney and Pixar movie I
considered relevant to enjoying the parks. We just didn't get up to the
live action films before the trip.

Paul Lalli
From: Lisa Cubbon on 1 Aug 2010 16:55
On 8/1/2010 3:54 PM, Paul Lalli wrote:
> Patty Winter wrote:
>> In article <i2v6tk$9i8$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
>> Paul Lalli <mritty(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I also noted that several of the buildings on the left side of Main
>>> St had the construction screens up. The ones that are painted to look
>>> like what the facades should actually look like when completed.
>>> Interesting.
>>
>> Any idea what they're doing, Paul? Are they changing some stores or
>> restaurants to other things?
>
> I don't really know - I certainly haven't heard about anything. One of
> the stores with a scrim was Casey's, so I'm sure we'd have heard about
> it if they were changing things. My guess is that they're just getting a
> fresh coat of paint.

We were there in May and they were working on it then too.
>
>>> I know that we did the Pirates of the Caribbean eventually.
>>> Unfortunately, Amanda has never seen any of the movies, so she failed
>>> to appreciate the coolness of the added Jack Sparrow and Davy Jones
>>> effects.
>>
>> Clearly, you have to take this girl's education under your control
>> and rectify that omission. :-)
>
> Oh please believe. We live about 2 hours apart, and only see each other
> once a month or so - I spent every visit we had between when I told her
> and our vacation, having her watch every Disney and Pixar movie I
> considered relevant to enjoying the parks. We just didn't get up to the
> live action films before the trip.
>
> Paul Lalli

From: Rudeney on 3 Aug 2010 14:43
On 7/30/2010 1:50 PM, Paul Lalli wrote:
>
> I redeemed my Give a
> Day, Get a Disney Day certificate for the golden fastpass option. For
> those who don't yet know, this entitles everyone in your group to six
> instant-use fastpasses. You choose three from each of two groups. The
> first group had Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain
> Railroad, and Peter Pan's Flight. The second group had Jungle Cruise,
> Buzz Lightyear, Mickey's Philharmagic, and Stitch's Great Escape. We got
> little plastic cards that we'd use to put in the FP machines to obtain
> each FP.

These cards you have to put into the FP machine are only good if there
are still FP's available. For popular rides that run out of FP's early
in the day, this is not very valuable. I wish they had done this like
the YoaMD prize where it's a break-off tab that is used as an instant FP.


> we continued with Fantasyland by
> going over to Snow White's Scary adventures. We both laughed at the fact
> that the Queen is shown falling off a cliff at the end, as that seems to
> be a Disney clich� that we noticed in our marathon of Disney movies
> leading up to this trip.

Interesting observation. And to add to that, the final "Woody's
Roundup" episode from TS2 ended with Woody and Bullseye going off a
cliff (i.e. jumping The Grand Canyon).

> Next we crossed the street over to It's a Small World. Based on the
> clock that chimes every 15 minutes, it took us almost exactly 15 minutes
> from entering the queue to finishing the attraction. Not bad at all. We
> also both kept singing along to both the English and Spanish lyrics on
> the ride. I'm sure our fellow guests in the boat loved us for that...

Yes, it's not bad enough that they have to put up with getting the song
as is stuck in their heads, now they have to have your version! ;-)

> We departed Fantasyland and got into the queue for Haunted Mansion. We
> were going to be just about the last people into the mansion in this
> batch, but I let a few people go ahead of us. Both because I wanted
> Amanda to take the time to look at the tombstones in the queue, and
> because I wanted to make sure she saw the full transition sequence of
> the portrait in the lobby. I wish we'd gone on HM more than once, as
> there is just far too much detail to point out on a single ride through.
> But she enjoyed it very much, so it's all good.

You are right - this is such an elaborately themed attraction, having to
wait in the queue is actually a good thing.

> One odd little thing I noticed on our first ride through - the bunny
> sweeping leaves near the beginning no longer speaks. She doesn't see the
> shadow of Br'er Rabbit leaving with Br'er Fox & Bear chasing. She just
> pauses, looks to the side, and then keeps sweeping again. Kinda bizarre.

B-Mode maybe?

> We had a good skipper on the boat. When he asked how to tell
> that these were African elephants, and I shouted out "We're in Africa!",
> he remarked to me "Thank you sir, you've clearly been here before! ....
> why on earth would you come back?". Heheheeh.

LOL!

> Amanda wasn't overly excited about sitting in the hot sun to watch a
> parade, but I insisted we at least stay for the Muppets pre-parade, as I
> wanted to see Piggy and Kermit. I know how absurd it sounds, but it's
> almost hard to forget that these characters aren't "real".

Huh? What do you mean "aren't real"? That *is* absurd! ;-)

> Thanks for reading. Days 4-9 coming soon.

Great TR, Paul!

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From: Paul Lalli on 3 Aug 2010 21:20
Rudeney wrote:
> On 7/30/2010 1:50 PM, Paul Lalli wrote:
>>
>> I redeemed my Give a
>> Day, Get a Disney Day certificate for the golden fastpass option.

> These cards you have to put into the FP machine are only good if there
> are still FP's available. For popular rides that run out of FP's early
> in the day, this is not very valuable.

Well, I guess that's true if you don't get to the park early. But given
that Disney doesn't enforce FP return windows' end-times, I don't see it
as a problem. Get the FP early in the morning, use it whenever it makes
sense.

>> We
>> also both kept singing along to both the English and Spanish lyrics on
>> the ride. I'm sure our fellow guests in the boat loved us for that...
>
> Yes, it's not bad enough that they have to put up with getting the song
> as is stuck in their heads, now they have to have your version! ;-)

Our bad. :-)


>> One odd little thing I noticed on our first ride through - the bunny
>> sweeping leaves near the beginning no longer speaks. She doesn't see the
>> shadow of Br'er Rabbit leaving with Br'er Fox & Bear chasing. She just
>> pauses, looks to the side, and then keeps sweeping again. Kinda bizarre.
>
> B-Mode maybe?

I guess. I mean, it seems like there's *always* one animatronic that's
not working correctly, but this is the first time I've seen this part of
it not work.

> Great TR, Paul!

Thanks. I'll be interested to know your thoughts on my Day 4. If you
manage to read the whole thing without having to get up to shave again,
that is. Yeesh....

Paul
From: Ginny Favers on 5 Aug 2010 20:29
On 7/30/2010 2:50 PM, Paul Lalli wrote:

>
> (oh, for the truly detail-oriented: The TTA soundtrack has been modified
> just slightly. There is now once again a "Mr. Tom Morrow" joke, when you
> go through the Space Mountain area.)
>

What about forward facing tentacles? Perfect Park Acres?

> We did Carousel of Progress once more, if I recall correctly. Amanda may
> be addicted to that attraction, as we'd also do it again on our last day.

She has good taste.

>
> The Good: Great food and atmosphere at Trail's End

Noted! That's the third rave review this year. They must have solved
whatever issues they were having five years ago.

>
> Paul Lalli

~Amanda
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