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The boat jumpers from Sea Paradise Park in Japan, please? Also, any Japan coaster videos that have "exercising & stretching" in the station(s), before boarding the train(s). They're fun to see. And a suggestion: Link all the exercise bits together and put Olivia Newton John's "Physical" as the soundtrack to it... Or maybe a Japanese version of "Physical"!

Great tour of Toverland! So much, in several years, added to that park. Thanks for sharing it all. And that Merlin's Plate looked great. It looks like it would definitely be enough for myself, with all that bread. And of course................ "TROY!" (I rode it nearly 10 times, when TPR was there in 2008)

^ I found it Andrew. Go to the EXPLORE sign on Knott's site, and Online Marketplace will show up far right, bottom of CONNECT list. And here's the link: https://marketplace.knotts.com/?_ga=2.226607454.276761297.1494936970-1631816158.1494853987 And if you go to "Product Finder" on that page, you'll get two pages of their products!

So some beaches were opened on Florida's coast today ..... how'd that work out?

"Be yourself. Everyone else is taken." ~ Oscar Wilde

Queen Bee - Botton's Pleasure Beach, UK

Several Buddhist Monks cannot be wrong about Coaster! Even the Vancouver Police Pipe Band loved it!

"Three Posters of Playland's Publicity Past!" Here's some more of the past publicity that's been offered, to advertise a season at Playland. The first one was on several of the busses in our city. Pretty easy to understand, heh. It's actually part of several more posters I actually got most of. Usually, I am lucky if I photograph one or two every year. This came out during the 2016 season. The other (5) posters in the series, I'll put up later. The next one was put out in 2015, the year that The Beast opened. And I have to gush, that this is still The Only XXL I know of, that has seats facing inwards AND facing out! In North America, at least. The other poster I know of had the Wac-A-Mole "moles" looking up, with the same faces as the kiddy car, here. The last one is from 2014, and is actually all four posters, side by side, in the garden area of Coaster. This is also the group of posters that spent the least time...up. Apparently, people were complaining about that last poster, on the right. Look and decide for your self. Do you want to "Lose Control" that way? Whatever the case, they stayed up less than one month, and were gone for the rest of the summer. Life. Which way do you want to "Lose Control" at Playland? EDIT TO ADD: Still didn't find the Wac-A-Mole poster, but I did find this other one. Poor KC!

Tender

Honestly, once you've been to Tokyo DisneySea, your theme park "perspective" kind of gets overloaded with TDS awesomeness. For myself, I haven't been to Shanghai Disneyland, or Animal Kingdom. But hey, you like what ya like right now... right?

^ omg - wow - omg - wow - it brought back so many memories of the 90 minute production I saw, back in 2011. And over 44,00 people watched it! Cool. When I saw the performance space , it all came rushing back to me, how awesome just the theatre looked. So arena-like, and cavernous. I loved it. Hope all of you who saw it, did too.

I put this in the Cirque du Soleil thread, but I felt it deserves to be seen here, too. Cirque is going to stream, in under 15 minutes, a one hour special based on the sadly departed (and awesome ~ I saw it in 2011 before it closed) production of ZED! Starts at 8-EST...5-PST. Here's the link to it: https://youtu.be/3zuBpFgxDCI (Over 22,000 people are waiting for it to start! And me, lol. And counting...) My souvenirs from ZED, when I saw it in 2011 at TDLR. ...and I have the wonderful ZED soundtrack, too. The home that Cirque/TDLR built, for ZED. TPR 2011 Japan Tour.

Cirque du Soleil is streaming a one hour special on it's sadly closed (late 2011) TokyoDisney production of ZED! Here's the link to it. Starts at 8-EST / 5-PST. https://youtu.be/3zuBpFgxDCI My copy of the wonderful soundtrack to ZED.

In just one hour from now, Cirque is streaming a one hour special on Tokyo Disneyland's departed ZED! I had the awesome opportunity to see this show, with the TPR 2011 tour back then, before it sadly closed at the end of that year. Here's the link to the broadcast. Starts at 8pm EST / 5pm PST. https://youtu.be/3zuBpFgxDCI My ZED souvenirs, from seeing the show in 2011 at TDLR.

Bought $15 worth of lottery and scratch tickets, earlier. And won $17 and a free ticket! It's the little wins that count, nowadays. Home on the move. Thanks to "tiny house-Giant Journey" for their photo.

Tired

^ Could happen. Till we're "back to normal" (whatever the heck that'll mean), who knows?

Bumping this up, to comment on last night's episode of SURVIVOR. We used to watch it pretty regular in it's first seasons. But later on, we just fell out of it, and hadn't watched a season in several years. That said, we decided to watch this new season, featuring winners from several seasons of Survivor. Last night, was the "usual" Family and Friends Episode. But the producers upped the content, and had full families show up for the players! AND although it looked like it was a shorter visit, the Edge of Extinction group got their "family/friends love" too. And to top it off, Probst announced there would be NO Family Challenge to play! So everybody got time with their loved ones. It was a very emotional part of the episode, and even David and myself were tearing up with the various groupings bought together. And we were thinking, this show is usually taped several months before airing. The timing of the whole thing was just a more intense experience for viewers, we suspect. And at the end of it all, during credits, the Jury (who are all on Extinction Island) went down to the floor and group-hugged Probst, thanking him and the producers for that "gift" of their friends and family visit, too. Very cool way to end the episode. So, after all these years, SURVIVOR can still surprise us viewers...and players, too.

I know it's not right to make too light of anything so serious, but don't we need some humor now and then?.... So, I've read that a new cocktail is now available: The Quaran~Tini.* *Anything and Vodka or Gin.

^ Brrrrr.

Brian Dennehy, Two-Time Tony Winner and Screen Star, Dies at 81. * His passing was not Covid-19 related, as explained by his family.

Got Moulin Rouge: The Musical back on the "turntable." Mash-up Bliss. Danny Burstein as Harold Zidler, Host of The Moulin Rouge.

"Not Just Any Water Fountain..." This is something that has stuck around for several decades. It first started out, in front of what was called the BC Pavilion. This was a series of three buildings, joined together by overhead covered walkways. The middle building was about BC itself, with history about the province, sports, native Indigenous native artwork... The other two were mainly used for showcasing new products (like appliances) and different ways to "live better in these times." The whole thing got torn down and removed, to create more "green space" on the PNE grounds. Which it now has, including a man made lake and beautiful walkways through lush forest like settings. The water fountain was also removed, and stayed out of sight, until several years later. Then, it was repainted and placed in Playland, right by the Pirate Ride. Then, they made a second one, shorter in height for younger children to reach, and placed that one in the parks Children's Rides Area. And that's where they both sit today. The first one was listed as being fiberglass-made. Whether the second newer one is made the same way, I'm not sure. But they're both a part of Playland now, and will probably remain, until the (hopeful) new renovation of Playland happens. And then, I hope, they'll be put back in new Playland locations! "Eh? What was that you roared? I can't hear you!" From the Vancouver Archives. Lunch. From the Vancouver Archives. The second one. It looks like a bad art project, lol. The original, repainted and set by the Pirate ride. But now, he looks... bored. An easier reach for little kids, and their parents. Photo from the net.

Just posted. An Ontario Krispy Kreme franchise, showing a queue of cars. Patiently waiting for their doughnut fix. Round and round they go. Where they stop - DONUTS!

^ "Blame Canada! Blame Canada!" Ninja's original home ~ Our World's Fair, EXPO86 in Vancouver....You're Welcome, SFStL! (o; (Called "The SCREAM Machine" - for good reason - owowowowow, even back then.)