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It looks like a fun little event! From everything I've seen and heard, it seems like Not So Scary Redux. Though I will say, the Sparrow is very impressive. Him walking through the store is even more impressive.

Cool! I have a distinct feeling I know exactly who it is.

The Year of a Million Dreams have EXPLODED with stuff. Disney has teamed up with careerbuilder.com to have the Disney Dream "Job" Contest. Yes, every time they mention "job" it's in quotation marks. With this contest, you send in audition tapes for which job you want in the selection of: Pirate Princess-In-Waiting Jungle Cruise Skipper Parade Performer Haunted Mansion Butler or Maid If you are selected, you get to perform you're honorary "job", granted you are 18 or older, at Disneyland, along with a 4-Day, 3-Night stay. All the official rules and stuff are at the contest web site, along with some really funny "job" description videos. Yes, they are real Cast Members, not actors. Not only are they Cast Members, but the Jungle Cruise skipper (Rhonda) and the Mansion Butler (Josh) are both Disney World CMs. I know Rhonda from parade work and I worked with Josh all the time, so seeing him there was so awesome! Stuart "is jealous that HE didn't get picked to give the job description of a butler " Newsom

That has been in their advertising forever. It's a still from the TV spot. It's usually the same spot that had the overweight lady shoving her pre-teen children into her bosoms on Jurassic Park.

Hydromagnetic? How does this thing magnetically launch? LIM launched conveyor belts or do they magically magnetically charge water? I'm hoping the second one because that would be cool. I'd buy Magnet Water.

Looking at the concept art, it looks less like Spiderman and more like a dispatched version of Buzz. It's a shooting dark ride that uses the screens themselves instead of physical targets. It looks like the 3D effects are being used more for depth in the screens so it doesn't look like a video and for "ricochet" of whatever you're shooting. Just by design alone, I sincerely doubt that it's going to be like Indy or Spiderman. MiB might be closer, but I'm thinking it's their attempt to add a Buzz style ride where Buzz does not make sense thematically. Buzz, in my estimation, has been the most successful addition to the Magic Kingdom lineup of attractions in all the Kingdoms, so now they want to see if the same ride works out in the other parks. In my opinion, I doubt that the ride will have a height restriction at all.

Very cool report! Do you happen to remember your "awesome CM"'s name at the Mansion? I might be able to send your report/opinion to them. Also, on behalf of the Butlers and Maids, I do apologize for the entrance hallway past the forward portrait galleries being that full. That happens on occasion, especially when the ride stops for a period of time.

I don't get it either. I didn't think the mutant distribution was going to begin for at least another month or so.

^ Sadly, I can believe it. I, personally, seriously doubt there will be any differences. From everything I've heard, they are supposed to be exact clones.

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Little Mermaid was also supposed to be in Discoveryland in Disneyland Paris, along with the Tiki style Beauty and the Beast show. However, when you go through the queue for The Seas with Nemo and Friends, the entire queue design is almost exactly the same queue for The Little Mermaid ride, down to the bobbing boat. In the Nemo queue, it's "the butt" and for Little Mermaid it was supposed to be Prince Eric's ship. Trust me, I heard all about it.

The sun came out for the first time since coming back to school.

It wouldn't shock me. Fantasmic might be the next show that gets something like this, but I also would hazard a guess that the parades, especially Disney Dreams Come True, will get it first.

Public Displays of Affection. BTW: Amazing stuff. I love that Mr. Six was hiding out in the audience.

Besides, the outlandish theories are more fun.

I agree it's not really a cat problem. Which would you want more: cats or mice/rats? Personally, I'd take the cats.

I agree for the most part. There isn't an expiration date for things already built, but building new on older licenses is very difficult. Lion King is used pretty darn effectively for Festival of the Lion King, but I can't imagine a Lion King based attraction opening now. I've seen the Pride Mountain fan idea, which looks cool, but there's no way that would work out. Pooh and Mickey get a pass mainly because they are cornerstone characters for the company. They're so into the American and much of the World's culture that they don't need to do anything new to be relevant. Personally, I still think that Aladdin got the short end of the stick. It never really got anything. It got a sorta kinda Broadway show, a forever closed space, a partial overlay in WDW's Tiki and a Zamperla flat ride. Personally, I think Aladdin would be amazing for a dark ride. Imagine, riding on a magic carpet over Agrabah, through the Cave of Wonders, running into Jafar, all that stuff. I'm personally not thinking of a Peter Pan style ride but a system that is still ground based but the car actually rises and falls. Placement, take over WDW Tiki and the Sunshine Tree, all the way over and all the way back, and you could fit a nice sized dark ride in there. And they used the ideas for that Little Mermaid dark ride for Nemo. I never heard the end of that from my wanna be Imagineer CM friends. It was treated like a sort of blasphemy and frankly drove me crazy. They also can use original ideas elsewhere, namely Tokyo Disneysea, to put a nice little shot in the arm in the States. I still predict, and hopefully my prediction will come true, that Storm Runner will be the replacement for Wonders of Life. It just seems to fit really well there. Heheh, thanks.

He can have a duet with Clarabelle Cow! They could do it on Pluto too. He barks on occasion. Very similar. Just put that system on Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald in this case. With the mice, their faces look very rubbery, almost latex like. Outside that, they look pretty much exactly the same as before. Just speaking.

Ouch. Now that was a low blow. But it gets me to thinkin'. I wonder how the technology would work out with the other characters. So far, from what I've seen, the only Furs who can talk are fab 5: Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, and Goofy. I'm sure they're going to want to spread this out, especially for parade. Is everyone going to be able to talk? Would they spend the money on this for the holidays as well where more obscure ones like Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear speak?

I agree wholeheartedly. From the moment they announced Laugh Floor, I ranted to anyone who would listen on how it was a bad idea. The only possible connection I can think of is that Monstropolis is another world with strange creatures and Tomorrowland deals with other worlds and strange creatures. I know, that's the stretch of stretches. Now, to their credit, Woody is no where to be found at the Buzz attractions. It's strictly Buzz and Buzz fits Tomorrowland very well. Woody is over in Frontierland generally, if you want to stick to Magic Kingdom. Stitch...well that building's a rotating door of attractions anyway. It'll probably be completely changed in a couple years, looking at the pattern, probably for a WALL• E attraction. BTW: WALL• E is Pixar's 2008 movie. Stuart "I still want my Tron themed Booster Bike!" Newsom

That's a very good question. I'm sure it's something that has been thought of, though an answer has not been presented yet. Usually, in situations like that, it's the quickness and wit of the character handler who creates the answer the question. I know that they ran into problems with that with Lightning McQueen and Mater, for some reason. They don't talk, but they make noise and kids asked why they made noise but didn't talk to them.

I'm not doubting the coolness factor, but still gives me a tiny case of the jibblies.

Well, as much as I'm tired of the Pixar rides, what else do that have that they can create synergy with? What non-Pixar Disney family movie has been successful enough that they could use? I know they could use the amazing concept of creating something using an original story, but that doesn't seem to happen very often anymore. They're starting to again with Everest, but the Pixar ones seem to be easier, less expensive to design, and are known home runs with audiences. Or at least ground rule doubles. With Tom Sawyer, it's not going to be the entire island. It's only going to be a section of the island. I'm just curious how, and if, they're going to do the Pirates' Cove at WDW. They've mentioned that they want to, but it doesn't make sense. Now maybe if they did river pirates and went down to the river pirate cave that you see on the Liberty Belle, then that would be cool.

I know, it's a thing about Dream Along with Mickey, the castle show. Who cares right? Well, it's actually something that can be pretty significant if continued. It seems, if this Google Video is to be believed, that Dream Along with Mickey has started showing off a new skill that Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald have learned. That skill would be moving their mouths when they talk and blinking. You have to check it out to see. Personally, I find this to be moderately creepy. It just doesn't seem right. What do y'all think?

Only if they have low trans-fats.