Disney World PF Gathering and Tips for Disney Mania!

[Moonbear]

The grad student in my lab is going to Disney for Spring Break! She's going with her mom and boyfriend. I want to go too, but she has a different spring break than I do...she gets the main university spring break, but since I teach in the med school, I have to wait for their spring break to have a week free of teaching responsibility, so it's not even an option to go again.

 

[ZapperZ]

http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4287/redfiretruck0kd.jpg

Yehh! [throws virtual confetti]. OK this picture is of the juloppy/fire truck my family got to ride in. Since my dad is in the miltary, they selected us to open the Magic Kingdom. We got to drive through the park completely empty, to go board the train. It was amazing to see it so empty.
-scott

Nice... This is where... Disneyland?

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

The grad student in my lab is going to Disney for Spring Break! She's going with her mom and boyfriend. I want to go too, but she has a different spring break than I do...she gets the main university spring break, but since I teach in the med school, I have to wait for their spring break to have a week free of teaching responsibility, so it's not even an option to go again.

Oh, I want to go with her too! :(

Has she been there before? Does she or her mother need a list of things they must do? Will they be staying at a Disney resort?

Give them the 3rd Degree, Moonbie. We need to investigate! :)

I have 103 days to go... :(

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

WHOAH!

Rumors are circulating of the possibility of Disney buying iTunes from Apple!

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/8552/

I guess this would accomplish two things. First, Apple won't be burdened with looking for contents for the iPods, and who better at content than Disney and all its library. Secondly, it would make the lawsuit by the former members of the Beatles at Apple moot, since Apple will no longer be in the "music" business.

This has not been a boring year so far! :)

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

I'm not much into collecting "pincesses" stuff, and certainly not with pins. But this is a rather charming pin (pun intended). It is Cinderella's pumpkin coach. It looks rather intricate.

So far it is only being released at Disneyland.

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10904559.jpg

 

[scott_alexsk]

No actually Disney World.
-Scott

 

[ZapperZ]

The brain says Disney Super Bowl ads the best

OK Moonbie, this could be right up your alley...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06040/652407.stm

It appears that the Walt Disney ads during the superbowl was the hands down winner in producing the highest intensity of positive brain signals. Fancy that!

:)

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

More pictures of Ivy at the Animal Kingdom.

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

No actually Disney World.
-Scott

So, do you have any more pictures? You can't just have two on your trip. I mean, there has to be a law or something that you can't just have two pictures at Disney World, hasn't there?

:)

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

An early Happy Valentine's Day to all the Disney Mania thread readers...

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10255849.jpg

 

[scott_alexsk]

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/2868/christmaspictures0303ul.jpg

I bet you have never seen Disney as empty as that.
-Scott

 

[ZapperZ]

http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/2868/christmaspictures0303ul.jpg

I bet you have never seen Disney as empty as that.
-Scott

It's too small, scott. You can make it to about 640x420 or something close to that. It's too dark and too small to see what's in the shadow.

When was this picture taken? I know it was during the holiday season since it has all the holiday decorations.

Zz.

 

[scott_alexsk]

I don't know how to make it bigger, since it limits the size according to the maxium number of bytes. The picture was taken in the morning before the park opened, during that Christmas trip I told you about. I'll get some better ones up in a while.
-Scott

 

[ZapperZ]

I don't know how to make it bigger, since it limits the size according to the maxium number of bytes. The picture was taken in the morning before the park opened, during that Christmas trip I told you about. I'll get some better ones up in a while.
-Scott

I'm not sure what kind of "limits" they're imposing on you, but if you notice, the pictures that I have posted are considerably larger than yours. And I have them hosted on imageshack too.

Zz.

 

[scott_alexsk]

Well whenever I try to post the pictures straight from my computer, it says that it is 1400 kilobytes and that the limit is 1100. After going on my computer and editing it down to 70 percent of its orginal bytes, it will let me put it on. I don't know what the problem is. Maybe, I have to try enlarging it on my computer before downloading it?
-Scott

 

[ZapperZ]

Happy Valentine's Day!

Zz.

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[ZapperZ]

We have another Disney trivia, and this one has Disney pins! So the first person to answer this correctly will win a Disney pin. I will only announce the winner in 2 days, so just because someone has submitted an answer, doesn't mean it is the right one.

Post your answer here.

Question: In which attraction can you see these lovable creatures hanging on the wall (they talk too!)?

Zz.

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Shucks. No one got this one.

This is from the Country Bear Jamboree!

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Disney DVDs being released today:

Quack Pack: Volume 1
Goof Troop: Volume 1
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs Volume 3: Perfectly Princess

It's a safe bet that I won't be getting that last one.

:)

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

If you were a Disney CEO for 21 years, and you have just retired, what do you do? Well, you can't just say "I'm going to Disney World". Instead, you have your own talk show on CNBC, with a set designed by your close friend, architect Frank Gehry.

That's what Micheal Eisner is doing.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB113962209436471482-lMyQjAxMDE2MzE5MTYxMjEyWj.html

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Chicken Little is only now being released in the UK? Never mind, it still tops the box office this past week.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/new..._L14735116_RTRUKOC_0_UK-BRITAIN-BOXOFFICE.xml

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

As much as I like going to Disney World and recommend other people to go, I'd say that even *I* don't buy this!

http://www.ny1.com/ny1/content/index.jsp?stid=1&aid=57030

I mean, "team building exercise"?! My boss would throw my ass out of his office if I use that each time I want time off to go to Disney World, let alone asking him to pay for it!

And $127,000?? Where were they staying? The Grand Floridian?

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

This is the latest pin in the series of A Piece of Disney Magic pin collection. It is the Haunted Mansion, featuring one of the hitchiking ghost. This pin contains a piece of the animatronic ghost, and the hitchiking ghost on the pin glows in the dark. Whoa!

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10904624.jpg

 

[ZapperZ]

Yowzah!

Another accident at WDW? And at, of all places, the Peter Pan ride?

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/orl-bk-peterpan021406,0,3932379.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

Maybe they will need to put an age limit for anyone to get on it. Oy vey. This is one of the tamest ride there. One has to be extremely feeble to fall in trying to get on it.. There's nothing to even stop since the moving walkway is at the same speed as the ride.

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Yowzah!

Another accident at WDW? And at, of all places, the Peter Pan ride?

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/orl-bk-peterpan021406,0,3932379.story?coll=orl-home-headlines

Maybe they will need to put an age limit for anyone to get on it. Oy vey. This is one of the tamest ride there. One has to be extremely feeble to fall in trying to get on it.. There's nothing to even stop since the moving walkway is at the same speed as the ride.

Zz.

More thoughts on this incident:

http://thedisneyblog.typepad.com/tdb/2006/02/further_thought.html

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Wow!

Expedition Everest came to Times Square in New York City! It's very impressive!

Zz.

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Photos from Everest In The City, which happened today in New York City.

http://bradk.smugmug.com/gallery/1206275/1/56438130

Looks like there was a really big crowd, and it was a rather elaborate event. Disney is really promoting Expedition Everest and sparing no expense in doing so.

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Wow!

For the Everest in the City event, the lighting of the Yeti's eyes was a major deal. The Sylvania webpage describes in detail the problems of doing this, and how they overcome it.

http://www.sylvania.com/Yeti

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Oy vey! What is going on over there?

http://www.local6.com/news/7074084/detail.html

I could have sworn that that is almost the same place where that other accident happened where a car went up the embankment and dove right into the ditch!

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Wow! Bambi II sold 2.6 million DVDs in just the first week of release!

http://www.laughingplace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=976

OK, so how many of you bought this? :)

Zz.

 

[Astronuc]

Happy Valentine's Day!

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10312023.jpg

This should have been in the Valentine exchange thread.

 

[Astronuc]

For Evo, who collects things 'hippo'.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/17460.jpg

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/1049.jpg

 

[ZapperZ]

Evo collects hippo things?!

Why am I the last person to know this?

:)

I hope those are not Disney pins, Astronuc. They are way too adorable and I might be tempted to go get them if they are pins.

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Splash Mountain

First the screams of delight...

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/5742/img19975ul.jpg


... and then the SPLASH!

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/4699/img19923ej.jpg

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Oh no!

How could they make Tinkerbell do this in one of their pins?! She also looks like she's cross-eyed!

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10931618.jpg

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Michelle Kwan may have ended her quest for Olympic gold medal, but she landed a perfect triple lutz with Disney. She has just become a spokeperson for the Walt Disney Company.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11392148/
http://www.laughingplace.com/Latest.asp?I1=ID&I2=984

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Wow!

For the Everest in the City event, the lighting of the Yeti's eyes was a major deal. The Sylvania webpage describes in detail the problems of doing this, and how they overcome it.

http://www.sylvania.com/Yeti

Zz.

The podcast for Everest in the City is now available.

http://disneyworld.disney.go.com/wd...DetailPage&pid=EverestInTheCityPodcast&bhcp=1

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

They have released the first of 4 Passholder pins at WDW. All 4 of them lock into each other to form something like a jigsaw puzzle. This is the first one, and it's a spinner pin. The back reveals a view of the castle.

7000 of these were released on Feb. 15th. I'm skeptical of finding any leftovers by the time I get there at the end of May (98 more days).

Zz.

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[ZapperZ]

Challenges in making the next installment of Narnia.

http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/689/689008p1.html

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

As strange as this may sound (coming from me), this is the one day/evening that I'm glad I'm not at WDW. President Bush is at the Contemporary Resort for the GOP fundraising dinner.

http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060217/BREAKINGNEWS/60217010

The traffic would be even worse than for the Marathon.

Zz.

 

[scott_alexsk]

Why did they take out the pipes that made the apparent 'splash' on Splash Mountain? I remmeber I saw that when the flume went down, it was not the flume causing the splash but some pipes in the thornes spraying water at the right time. Last time I came those were not running and it was missing its character splash .
-Scott

 

[GeorginaS]

Post 1833, I love that Tinkerbell pin!

 

[ZapperZ]

Why did they take out the pipes that made the apparent 'splash' on Splash Mountain? I remmeber I saw that when the flume went down, it was not the flume causing the splash but some pipes in the thornes spraying water at the right time. Last time I came those were not running and it was missing its character splash .
-Scott

Yeah, I agree. I notice that missing also. That plume is the cause of many people getting wet right at the beginning of the ride. You think you're safe there and then you get the "splash".

They have also taken away that waterfall right at the end. It used to be that if you sit on the right side of the log, you could get quite a splatter from the waterfall.

Rumor has it that Splash Mountain might be undergoing another major renovation soon (they had one last year as part of a regular maintenance). Let's home they bring back all that missing elements.

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

Post 1833, I love that Tinkerbell pin!

Don't tell Moonbie that. She thinks that Disney is drawing Tinkerbell to look like she's possessed (Tink, not Moonbie)!

So, when are you coming with us to Disney World, Georgina? Moonbie can testify to the fact that I'm "safe" (i.e. I don't shove away little children that hard), and I don't bite, unless you want me to.

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

They released a surprise pin yesterday at Disneyland, and it's a Donald!

Darn it!

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10324651.jpg.jpg

 

[GeorginaS]

They release "surprise" pins at Disneyland? Do they usually publish an issuing schedule for new pins?

I'll have to get to Disneyland some day; of that I'm sure. I'm also pretty sure that Moonbie would be my first-pick as a guide if/when I get to go.

 

[Moonbear]

Don't tell Moonbie that. She thinks that Disney is drawing Tinkerbell to look like she's possessed (Tink, not Moonbie)!

Though, I have to admit, in that pin, the possessed look works. What an attitude! C'mon, admit it, you've had days when you've wanted to do that, and wouldn't it be just great to have a pin to wear for those occassions? It would be perfect right under the Grumpy "I'm right, you're wrong, any questions?" pin.

So, when are you coming with us to Disney World, Georgina? Moonbie can testify to the fact that I'm "safe" (i.e. I don't shove away little children that hard), and I don't bite, unless you want me to.

Zz is safe, as long as you're not horribly camera shy. And he's definitely only interested in children for their pins.

 

[Moonbear]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, they have a show about Disney weddings on the Food Network right now! You should see the fantabulous cakes they're making! And, and, and, every guest gets their own personal cake, with the castle on top. And they're showing all the other food, and a pre-reception on the boardwalk, and how everything is personalized, and...I really want to get married at Disney!

 

[ZapperZ]

Ooh, ooh, ooh, they have a show about Disney weddings on the Food Network right now! You should see the fantabulous cakes they're making! And, and, and, every guest gets their own personal cake, with the castle on top. And they're showing all the other food, and a pre-reception on the boardwalk, and how everything is personalized, and...I really want to get married at Disney!

Oooh.. then you should start planning soon, Moonbie. You may want to read this:

http://disney.go.com/vacations/disneyweddings/faqs.html#1

We can find for you a man later.

:)

And you'd better invite me to this wedding or else I'll crash it using Cinderella's pumpkin coach!

Zz.

 

[ZapperZ]

For President's Day tomorrow, a very nice pin will be released at WDW.

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10904557.jpg

 

[ZapperZ]

They released a lovely Passholder Pin for Disneyland. This is a gorgeous one.

StatutoryApe, I wouldn't suppose you're a Disneyland passholder and would buy this for little ole' me, would you?

:)

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10254934.jpg

 

[heman]

Have you got any pics of yourself and moonbie together...