Disney World PF Gathering and Tips for Disney Mania!

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A gathering for Disney enthusiasts is planned at Disney World during Memorial Day week (May 28 to June 5), inviting others to join for fun activities like measuring the drop rate at the Tower of Terror and pin trading. For those unable to attend, a return trip is already scheduled for Labor Day week (Sept. 3 to Sept. 11), with tips to find deals on the Disney website. The discussion includes a promise to share a shortlist of must-do attractions at Walt Disney World, encouraging contributions from others. Key tips for visiting include utilizing Disney's transportation, making reservations for dining, and understanding ticket expiration policies. The thread fosters community among Disney fans while providing practical advice for an enjoyable visit.
  • #1,801
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. :cry:
 
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  • #1,802
scott_alexsk said:
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.
 
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  • #1,803
Moonbear said:
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. :cry:

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.
 
  • #1,804
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.
 
  • #1,805
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
 
  • #1,806
No actually Disney World.
-Scott
 
  • #1,807
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.
 
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  • #1,808
More pictures of Ivy at the Animal Kingdom.

Zz.

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  • #1,809
scott_alexsk said:
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.
 
  • #1,810
An early Happy Valentine's Day to all the Disney Mania thread readers...

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10255849.jpg
 
  • #1,811
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/2868/christmaspictures0303ul.jpg

I bet you have never seen Disney as empty as that.
-Scott
 
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  • #1,812
scott_alexsk said:
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.
 
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  • #1,813
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
 
  • #1,814
scott_alexsk said:
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.
 
  • #1,815
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
 
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  • #1,816
Happy Valentine's Day!

Zz.

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  • #1,817
ZapperZ said:
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.
 
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  • #1,818
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.
 
  • #1,819
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.
 
  • #1,821
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.
 
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  • #1,822
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
 
  • #1,823
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.
 
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  • #1,824
ZapperZ said:
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.
 
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  • #1,825
ZapperZ said:
Wow!

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

Zz.

http://www.wdwmagic.com/thumbnails/everest/web_wdw_everestcity_high.gif

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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.
 
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  • #1,826
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.
 
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  • #1,827
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.
 
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  • #1,828
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.
 
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  • #1,829
ZapperZ said:
Happy Valentine's Day!

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10312023.jpg
This should have been in the Valentine exchange thread. :biggrin:
 
  • #1,830
For Evo, who collects things 'hippo'.

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

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

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