pkondz
Brace yourself for immediate disintegration
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- Mar 9, 2007
I'm finally done with this chapter.
You make that sound like a bad thing.
Between work and packing and work and resting, I'm plumb tuckered out and really need this vacation.
I got an idea. You should go to Disneyworld!
I hope you don't mind. And if you do...well...tough!
Now is that a nice way to treat your faithful readers?
As we settled in, Evac gives us the cue to put on our protective gear (i.e., 3D glasses).
Was it from dust? Don't want you to get dust in your eyes? Is that it?
Toto, I dont think we are in Kansas anymore...Oh, wait...Wrong movie...
Wrong park, too.
I will say, this has got to be one of my all time favorite rides. As most of you know by now, Im not a thrill type person. I like my feet on the ground, with a steady block of concrete under it for stability. But this wasnt your everyday roller coaster or thrill ride either.
It's pretty clear that you really liked the ride from your description of it. (Which was great BTW)
If you have been on Spiderman at Universal in Orlando, then you have a feel for what this ride is like.
Nope. It wasn't built yet last time I was there.
You are in the city, you are helping protect the world from the Decepticons. You are a hero.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwS66EBUcY
It always bugs me that you wait forever, just for a minute or two of thrill and excitement only to be tossed out on the street again just to wait in another line.
Yeah... but it's worth it, isn't it?
We decide that a beer is in order. So we go back up the escalator (Being that i forgot about these before this trip, I started to wonder if they were really there at all, or if they would disappear before we got to them...but nope. Still there).
Maybe it's Schrodinger's escalator.
Oh look, theres a nice picture of my backside for you all...
Almost didnt recognize myself with long hair.
You cut it???
I was starting to get a little grumpy
I told you already. Wrong park!
, I get like that if I havent eaten, and if i continue to not eat, I will eventually get a headache and be worthless the remainder of the day. Worthless and grumpy is not a good look on me.
As long as you don't get Dopey.
So coming across this was a collectors dream. Too bad there was no way to disassemble it and put it in our backpacks.
Nothing that a set of wrenches and an acetylene torch cant fix.
Future planning.
We did however, stop to play for a bit. The place was deserted. I believe they had another little water park for the kids set up on the other side of the park, So this one wasnt as interesting, at least to the little ones. To us big kids, it was awesome. The two things at the bottom of the picture pretty much controlled the water throughout the area At one point, there was only one button we hadnt pushed, and when T-Man wasnt paying attention, I pushed it. Unfortunately, the button controlled the control area, and splashed T-Man right in the shorts...
That has to be the most convoluted and creative story Ive ever heard to cover up incontinence. Next time, just dont take the picture.
And maybe cut down on the beer consumption? Nah.
The natives were starting to get restless, and you could tell some of them were not happy at all with this sudden issue.
Cool. Did somebody get eaten?
Wait Didnt you say that you were hungry?
Eventually people started leaving, one or two at a time, then finally the lights came on and the TMs ushered everyone out. They had us going back and forth.
But did you do the hokey pokey?
We slowly made our way back to the other side of the area, one of the TMs had a black bag in his hands. This is it I thought, They were going to put bags over our heads and lead us to our doom. They are all in this together. They all dont want anyone else in the park to know they had a technical glitch, and if we go out this way, and see the back of the park, we are definitely never seeing the light of day again. Once they have us all out back, they will cover our heads with bags and shoot us all!
My imagination can run pretty wild huh...
Ill say! Im sure that by now Uni has a much more efficient way of disposing of its problems. Like a large trapdoor that opens into a trash compactor.
Why waste bullets?
As we rounded back into the actual park, we decided that we should probably find something to eat and maybe wait around to see if they would re-open it. I was still hungry, and cranky, and the whole issue with Terminator didnt help my mood.
So did you finally get to see it? Or am I getting ahead of myself again.
Im wondering if Scooby saw the water on T-Mans shorts and started laughing thinking it was something else, or if he found something else entirely funny...But I liked the shot.
Water. Right. Uh, huh.
Now, If anyone has ever seen the actual movie Water World, starring Kevin Costner and Dennis Hopper, then Im guessing the idea behind this show is based off of the movie. Since i have never seen the movie, I cant tell you for certain how close it is or is not.
Ive seen it in bits and pieces, never the whole thing from start to finish actually, definitely not the ending, since I have no idea how it ends. Oddly enough, I cant bring myself to care.
I know that the last time I was here with my family, we also saw this show, so its been around a while.
I was curious, so I googled it. 1995. Interesting to note that its in California, Japan and Singapore, but not Florida.
The show starts off with the water world crew trying to get us to scream louder than the other teams, and if you didnt scream loud enough, they would throw water at you. For that matter, if you did scream loud enough, or too loud, then they would throw water at you. Only this time not as much. Sometimes, when pretending to throw water at us, the stunt men would turn around and drench the other team, resulting in a huge laugh from the other two teams, who would then be drenched by the first teams leader.
Sounds like a lot of fun provided you dont mind getting wet. Im thinking that Mike welcomed the opportunity to even out his wet areas.
He saves the heroine and they kill the evil people, and they all live happily ever after as they jet off to find dry land.
They all live happily ever after? Do the evil people reanimate as friendly zombies?
Cool.
It was all coke products, which included Dr. Pepper, Sprite, Coke, Fanta, and RootBbeer, among others, and all its flavor elements, i.e., cherry coke, coke with lime, vanilla coke, Cherry Dr. Pepper, etc.
I havent been able to find Coke with lime for ages! Maybe they dont sell it up here anymore.
From Shrek, we went back to our beer kiosk and got another beer for the long escalator ride back to the bottom section.
Was it still there?
Just wonderin
It seems someone in the previous run, had lost his wallet on the ride. The TMs were frantically searching each car, and sending it through the ride empty to come back around.
Ugh, can you imagine losing your wallet while on vacation?
After searching all the cars and finding nothing, they sent a few of the TMs in to see if they could spot it somewhere in the ride. The TMs each took a hard hat, each equipped with a light on it and went off to work...
Hi Ho, Hi Ho, Its off to work we go...*Whistle*
WRONG P . oh PRAC, nevermind.
You could see the man start to sweat a little as he held the phone closer to his ear. He was calm and sweet as he kept trying to explain to his wife that they were stuck at the moment waiting for the ride to get going again. He asked her if she wanted them to back out of line and meet them. You could tell whatever she said wasnt pretty, and he sort of sagged his shoulders a little and said OK...then we will meet you as soon as we can.
Never ever tick off an angry mother just dont.
I worried for them. I could only imagine the tongue lashing he would get once they met up later. But for now, the dwarfs are back and are resetting the ride to finally let us on.
I wonder if they found the wallet.
Once we were off the Mummy, we needed one more fix before heading back up for the day. Off to Transformers we go for the 4th time.
Not quite sure here So Did you like this ride? You havent really made that clear.
At one point, during one of the action scenes, EVAC tells us something along the lines of a little warning next time? so right as the scene begins, T-Man and i yell, WARNING, of course he didnt heed our advice and the couple next to us looked at us funny until EVAC said his line and then they laughed.
Had anyone else done that earlier? Or was it a Bunny invention?
The Warner Brothers Studios were just over the hill and through the woods...
To Grandmothers house we go
Sorry, pretty cool about seeing WB though.
We walked by the Simpsons Ride, but it was a 35 minute wait and there were tons of people walking towards the entrance at the time. I wasnt a big fan of this ride the first time I did it in Orlando, it was fun, but not one i would wait 35 minutes for.
But is it better or worse than Back to the Future?
The first thing you notice as you are settling in, is a prop off to the side of the stage. Its one of those menu boards, showing the special of the day. As we walked in and sat down, the menu board said the special was Chicken fingers...
Not too long later, a chicken runs across the stage and changes the sign to read:
I got such a kick out of that.
Me too. Thats hilarious.
As the show started, the animal expert came out with a parrot, who flew out over the audience
Ive often wondered about these types of displays. Do they not feed the birds for a day or so before the performance? Or do they fit them with color matched, feathered diapers?
These are questions that need to be answered people!
Well the boy first off wanted the microphone to tell the dog what to get. When the lady told him just to tell the dog out loud, he wanted to then whisper it to the dog. You can see even the dog is looking at the kid like, give me a break!
Yeah, stuff like that is cute for a bit but then it gets old pretty quick.
Unless its your kid, then it never gets old downside is then people hate you.
Eventually the kid did as he was told, and the dog went back stage and came out with a bra...
Been there. Done that. See Turtle Talk with Crush.
While we were waiting they had some music playing the background. Off to the side, around the handicap entrance there was a lady, who seemed to be guarding that area. As the music began to play, she began to dance. And while she looked like she had been around the block a time or two, she could still move!
It looks like shes behind a roped off area. Any chance that she was actually a performer?
The guys who played the Blues Brothers were dead on. They acted like the originals, sang like the originals, and for being the last show of the day, they had so much energy and were so lively, it really was a great way to end the day.
Thats cool. I wouldve definitely loved to have seen them.
As we walked on, there was a popcorn place we passed called Popcornopolis. Now I love popcorn, but this was just crazy! Every kind of popcorn you can think of, plus combos of different types. Cinnamon flavored mixed with chocolate covered. There was cheese covered and caramel drizzled. Popcorn everywhere!
Buy some?
T-Man needed to add to his collection of pins. He has so many of them; we have to get a new case to add the new ones.
Heh. Sounds like a movie title from the golden age. The Case of the New Pins.
Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Paul Reubens
As we made our way out of HRC,. We noticed that there was practically no one around. There were still a few people milling about inside the restaurant, but outside on the CityWalk, there were only a few stragglers Did we enter an alternate universe? Pop into a rabbit hole no one knew about? Was the Curse of the Mummy still out to get us, and when it hit, we were protected only by the HRCs outer shell, and that is why only those inside the restaurant are the only people we see?
They all died and turned into friendly zombies and lived happily ever after.
Great pic of T-Man, me, not so much. You could tell I got a little too much sun that day and my make-up had already worn off.
I couldnt disagree more. I dont see a woman without makeup and too much sun. I see a couple of kids who just had an absolute blast that day. Its a great pic!
This sign turned different colors, so of course T-Man had to take one of each.
Just be glad hes a guy. We only know 4 colors.
Mrs. T, Oh, look honey! The signs turned fuscia!
Mr. T, Huh?
Oh, look! Now its teal!
Huh?
Magenta!
Huh?
Indigo!
Huh?
Turquoise!
Huh?
Maroon!
Huh?
Red!
<click!>
I was waiting for a hord of zombies to start popping out from behind the poles or something.
Where they lived happily ever after.
Remember in the beginning how I was too in awe to take any pictures of anything on our drive in, and how i would take better ones at night? Um Yeah...That didnt happen. By the time I tried to get a picture of anything, it would wiz by and all I would get is a blur of lights. So much for that bright idea.
Saw that one coming. All you needed to do was have Bunny Boy pull over, set up your tripod, attach the camera, set a longish shutter speed and voila. Oh, and stop any other cars in the area so theyre vibration wouldnt blur the pic.
Simple, no?
Whew...I didn't realize until I was writing this all down, how much we actually did that day. We packed a lot in.
Ill be waiting. Thanks for the great chapter(s) Heather. Especially all the ride descriptions and pics. :Hopefully by the time we get back, this TR will still be here and we can continue to delight you all with our story.