I saw the DISNEY TRAIN!!! Mini-Review with PICTURES!!!

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We went to the NC Transportation Museum last Friday and saw the Disney's rolling preview train. It's a train attraction that was free to the general public showing the scenes and such for their new 3-D movie A Christmas Carol" starring Jim Carrey. (sp?)
It was at our local train museum which is in Spencer NC, and it was a lot of fun!
The train is an actual train that travels across country. It's a moving attraction. It's filled with a really cool giant advertisement complete with fun-facts, pictures (actually LCD TVs), costumes, actual movie props, history about Charles Dickens, actual museum props such as his actual quill pen and ink pot, and a lot LOT more!!!
There's a morphing station where you can turn each person in your group into a character from the museum, then send the pictures back to your email. (We haven't gotten ours back yet.)
There is a "tent theater" that shows a Disney quality 3-D preview to the movie. Its NOT the same preview that you see if you saw the Toy Story 1 & 2 in 3-D (with Toy story 3 preview) at the theaters. Its a longer and better preview with makings as well.

The Disney Train:

More to come!

 

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The theater had a "temporary" feel to it, and it was airy and cool. But obviously with such a huge screen it wasn't going anywhere. More Disney Magic I guess. It sat about 75 people (?). Just guessing.
This first picture was taken (blurry... sorry) by my son inside the theater right before she said "no pictures". I wasn't by any means the only one who did this. Obviously I wouldn't have taken any pictures after that, and this one was taken without flash, and with the LCD screen covered. We were on the back row. It was just the prelude picture.

This is the theater:

 

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More pictures, but this time of the Spencer Train Station where it all took place.

And lastly I'll leave you with a picture of the carolers who were singing Christmas songs.

I recommend if you can that when it comes to your town you go on the weekday if possible, and get there as early as possible. Like anything open FREE FREE FREE to the general public, it fills up FAAAASSSSTT!!!!

At 10:00 AM the wait was 15 minutes for the train tour. By 5:30 we watched it turn from 30 minutes to 45 and it was backing up more by the minute.

This wasn't by any means everything, but this is a mini-review after all. There was a LOT more to do. We joined the train museum and became annual members. ($50 for all 4 of us for a year, and it gave you unlimited train rides, discounts, a newsletter, and free stuff.) It looked like a deal. We are heading back on Halloween and Christmas for more train rides! Especially since we're skipping a couple years at Disney.

I recommend you search this train tour out to see if your area will get the show. It was fun and educational. (and did I mention FREE???)

 

[SC Minnie]

I was at the NC Transportation Museum 2 weeks ago. The group I was with got a private tour of the place. It is a really neat museum to see.

 

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The real irony is we saw several Disney World shirts there, and we met 3 DISers! We have walked around WDW with LGMHs around our necks for 8 days and rarely ever seen any DISers. All 3 of the ones we saw were asking about the Mickey Van, so I think that was the reason.

If anyone else wants to post schedules of when and where the Disney Train stops next, or pictures from their trips, etc just go ahead.

 

[Sheree Bobbins]

Awesome pictures and report!

 

[Jennasis]

Seriously! We were trhere too! DH and I went Saturday and even in the rain (we waited 20 minutes at 10:30am) there was a huige line.. When we left it was about an hour.