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It's Cocktail Hour! Or two... or more hours...

They actually love turning boats into anything, lol! We saw delivery boats, taxi boats, group event boats, huge long touring boats, day and evening, some as restaurants.... Rotterdam and Amsterdam both have great stuff to tour through, outside or inside buildings. I love the architecture in both cities! Great TR Andy, looking forward to more!

^ Congratulations! Your own home is really a great thing to have.

Send/Sell Steel Hawg to Vancouver's Playland, please! It would replace (the now dismantled) Corkscrew perfectly!

Tokyo Disneyland has just posted some of the new foods and drinks they'll be offering, when Baymax's Happy Ride opens in April...along with "that other land and attraction." Lots of it is posted at https://tdrexplorer.com/tokyo-disneyland-beauty-and-the-beast-baymax-menu/ ... Soon to be available at the new BIG POP popcorn shop, around the corner from Baymax!

Sad. I did get to ride it in 2010 when TPR was there. It had it's moments. R.I.P. Only shot I got, of Camelot. "You got this, Holger!" TPR 2010 UK Tour.

Mmmmm looks very nice, there. And I'm a Chloe fan.

Two Months To Go!!! ...And TWO WEEKS TO GO, in WDW's Hollywood Studios! Not Tokyo or Orlando. Woo Woo!

Very cotton candy....ish.

^^ Thanks. I must admit, this was way back in the late 1970s, soooo things can change, disappear, etc. etc.

^ No. It's a set up of all the different rail engines and cars that were part of the rail system through Chattanooga. For those who remember, there's even a song about it, part of the iconic 1920's music period? And Disney even used the song in their first version of Big Band Beat, over at Tokyo DisneySea! And the station is totally un-usable. Only for display and the enclosed restaurant. (Pardon the Chattanooga Sidebar)

^ Is the Train Station 'Museum' still there? And still good? I visited it with my host decades ago. Enjoyed touring through all the different rail cars, and having lunch in the middle of the station with the highest point above us, in glass and stained glass. Really beautiful.

Just hit with a movie casting revelation! Found out before the holidays, that FOLLIES was finally going to be made as a film! This is following a HUGE London Revival that was repeated with a totally new cast a year later! And the director of that revival, is The Director for this! So, I had an idea. Could the cast of the film CHICAGO (2002), be a repeat cast for these 4 parts in FOLLIES?.... Sally - Renee Zellweger Phyillis - Catherine Zeta-Jones Buddy - John C. Reilly Benjamin - Richard Gere And "just because"... Carlotta - Meryl Streep Opera Singer - Renee Fleming Hmmm? Possible?

Just hit with a movie casting revelation! Found out before the holidays, that FOLLIES was finally going to be made as a film. This is following a HUGE London Revival that was repeated with a totally new cast a year later! So, I had an epiphany. Could the cast of CHICAGO(2002) be a repeat for these 4 parts in FOLLIES?.... Sally - Renee Zellweger Phyillis - Catherine Zeta-Jones Buddy - John C. Reilly Benjamin - Richard Gere .... Hmmm? Possible? EDIT TO ADD: Then I came up with Meryl Streep for Carlotta ("I'm Still Here"), and Renee Fleming for the Opera Singer, Heidi Schiller.

Black Heart CRJ

By the way Bert.... I was wondering about the Gyozas. Did anybody ask about making a lot of them, and then freezing some for future meals? Or is this totally frowned upon, in Japan? I ask this, because here in Vancouver, we have a number of Asian-based food companies who supply local grocery stores with uncooked, pre-made, frozen ones, under Brand Names I might add. And they're as good, IMhO. But of course I can get them made fresh, too. I just thought I would ask their/TPR's opinion of possibly doing this, with a fresh LARGE batch of Gyozas.

Haven't had either. But because of my politics.... Yes. Do you know what a cloister is? (No Googling now, poppets.)

Great stuff there Bert, especially that cooking class! What a great "souvenir" of a trip like that. Including the recipes you can do at home, especially those yummy-looking Pounded Pickles there! Great treat I'm sure. And of course I am soooooo looking forward to your reporting on that "Other Resort" you went to.

Bird

I am so thankful that with Robb and Elissa's TPR Tours, I got to see and enjoy some really interesting smaller parks in Japan. Along with the big ones like Universal and Disney. Always some comparisons among them all, but so fun to enjoy as they stand. Sorry to see more closing up shop in these times.

^ Yeah, I agree about how lopsided WDW makes it, over all the other parks/resorts. And it always will, I'm sure. But if it's just based on Fave Magic Kingdoms, and no extra parks etc. added in... would that work better as a true Disney Park Poll? And there are 6 to choose from. Ah, the stress of deciding. Me and The HKDL Castle ~ Soon to be One of The Tallest Disney Castles of Them All? ~ TPR 2012 China/Hong Kong Tour.

^^ and ^^^ Well, by 2025, it'll be interesting to see what gets announced (if anything) during that time. BIG HINT....The DL/TDS true Indiana Jones in Adventureland.....finally....would be awesome! http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2018/05/more-about-indiana-jones-ride-rumor-for.html Only Halloween (theming still up) shot I got, of DLP during our 2004 early November visit.

Question to all: Does anyone(s) know how well "ZOOTOPIA" did in France, and Europe in general? That asked, I am wondering, that "maybe in the distant future", this "may be a new land" to add to the new part of Disney Studios, around the new lake they're creating? Once everything else is up and running, that is. And Shanghai's original land of this IP is open, too. And (hopefully) successful and OMG!-impressive, tech-wise. Still, it's a "COOL" from me, if it happened, since they have all that additional space to build future stuff around the lake. But time will tell. Nice sized spaces between Avengers Campus, Star Wars, Frozen...... And Route 66! (o:

Sad to read this. Small parks in Japan are funky, and have their own atmosphere when you visit them. And 63 years is a good run for anything.... coasters, parks....people. (RIP Kurashiki Tivoli Park) ...And I turn 67 during it's Closing Days!

Hearts & Bacon. Lots and lots of bacon. They sooo go together, right? Right??? Oink.