I really can't stay...
And baby is it pouring outside!
I've got to go away...
What? We're
not doing a karaoke duet here? Ah, well.
But I can picture it...
Not a pretty picture, but I
can picture it.
We had about a 15 minute wait for a bus, this is long fore what we are normally used to,
What, like a par 5?
Let me tell you, they were hard to keep up with for that verry reason, it wasn't long before they broke out in a run, with us almost running after them.
What is taking place here right now is a lot funnier than you realize, for these folks have left the bus and are now running pell mell into the parking lot looking for their car, with us in hot pursuit!
I keep seeing this image:
Quick! Duck into the parking lot, we'll lose them in the rain!
They're still following us! Run faster!
They must have driven to the Studios and then hopped a bus over to either check out AKL or have lunch or just to get a zebral dome
I'm sorry, sir. But there are some things that you just
can't have a typo on.
Zebra dome...
mmmmm.........
or to lead us on a high speed chase through the DHS stunt racing and special effects parking lot.
The way some people will walk in front of a car because they "have the right of way" never ceases to amaze me. I'm pulling out of a parking spot and people will walk right in front of the car, almost daring you to hit them. It's like they have this look on their collective faces that says, "Go ahead! Hit me! I'll sue you!"
Ummm... disagreement between person weighing in at 150 - 250 lbs vs car weighing in at 4000lbs. My money's on the car.
Yeah, that Smidgy can make us look pretty silly sometimes when she's wrong.
Silly girl. Ya know, usually I would come to Smidgy's defence and say something like, "Sure, Nebo. We know it's all your fault."
Now that statement is true 95% of the time... But this time, we
know that you can't see, so Smidgy must've been leading, so...
Don't let it go to your head.
We reversed course and
headed into the park.
Of course.
The main thing we want to see in the near future is the Car stunt show, Light's, Motors, Action.
Yeah, yeah. Another thing that I still haven't done. So sue me.
For a complete change of pace, we headed over to something Diane has been wanting to do for a while now, in
the Animation Couryard,,,,, and that is the "mummlblell somethningg with anmationnk, Attraction!" We thiought this was going to lead into an actual hands on experience
with drawing, and yes, with me as a possible artist, you better believe I had the camera ready, but it was not to be.
Hunh. I know others have listed this as a "must do" for them. I do know they got to draw various characters.
That part of the class didn't start for another 45 minutes or so, not sure why and I am easily confused,
No!
Really? Who knew!?!?
We passed the main board and of course it showed all fastp passes gone for Toy Story, which we expected, but we didn't expect to see a stand-by time of 100 minutes!
In September? That's Nuts.
Heck.
Any time of the year, that's nuts. While I do enjoy the ride (especially beating my kids when they were little. Nothing says "you're a man" more than getting a higher score than an 8 year old), there's no way in H. E. Double hockey sticks that I'm waiting over an hour for it. Sheesh, 1/2 hour might be pushing it.
Well, I like the Jumping out, in your face type, that's what makes the DisneyWorld 3'D movies so much fun!
Otherwise it's not worth how dark the newer movies with 3'D are now.
I guess there is also a part that went right past me,
Went right past you? No, no, no. That's just a 3D effect. Boy, talk about gullible.
Here, this is the same picture if I had taken it less than two months later;
Pretty sure it's the same spot, I think I prefer the September version better in all it's simplicity.
More modern. With clean lines. Zen-like.
No park made us think more about the fact we quit smoking than the Studios, and that's no exaggeration.
Then, good on you both for sticking with it through tough times!
We then landed a desent, decent, descent,,,nice spot in the bleachers for the stunt show,
Nice? France? Or did you mean Neice? You want to bring your neice? That's decent of you.
just to the left of us and one row higher, sat a young couple, her with more makeup than Svengoolie
I once knew a guy named Sven. He didn't wear makeup though. Maybe it's another Sven. It's just as svell.
and him with more earings, tattoos, piercings, than the Bride of Frankenstein.
I love people like that! I always figure that in a pinch, they'd make the perfect place to hang clothes, either to dry after a wash or just for storage.
Don't people like that have "bank manager" just written all over them?
Um.. I guess they literally could, couldn't they?
"Hey, Zip. Wanna see my new 'Harley Davidson' tattoo?"
"Cool, Bonk. Wanna see my new 'bank manager' tattoo?"
"Awesome."
He's also got the shirt open and I'm not sure but darned if he doesn't seem to have little "braids" in his chest hair.
Oh, I've seen that. That's for pro swimmers. Makes them more hydro-dynamic. Oh, wait, I'm thinking of shaved, not braided. Sorry.
Nothing says "I'm a man" more than pigtails on your chest.
That's all bad enough, but that's not what go my attention, it was him, sticking his legs out onto the row in front of him, then taking off his flip flops and keeping people from sitting there by that row as his personal hassock as I was taught to say. I think others call it an ottoman.
ottoman? Atta boy. But you said he took off his flip flops (clip clops), didn't he have bare feet? Or he hassock?
I hate feet, and his feet were DIS Gust ING! and now on display.
Oh, well. I didn't really want to eat lunch anyway.
Really Nebo. Could you give a guy a little warning first?
But I guess either his feet, his muscles or his tattoos did the job, because even though these would have also been prime seatage, nobody ventured down that row once they saw those seats were defended by the Toes of Navarone!
Nice segueway from Star Tours to Toes of Navarone (prequel of Force 10 from Navarone)
BTW checked Harrison Ford at IMDB and it lists "Enders Game" in pre production for 2013. If you have no idea what I'm talking about... never mind.
I did hear the people directly behind us complain about the same thing, and they just kept it up, even though it did'n't have anything to do with them. I knew he had to hear them and wondered if trouble might break out, but no, he played a deaf ear to it, all his body parts piercings and the rest of the holes in his head and body were just there to impress, I guess.
People like that are like that.
You know, I can almost hear George Carlin talking in my head about this right now:
I guess, I was impressed, with this mess.
And not to sound blessed, I was truly impressed with this mess,
so I confess.
I wanted to see, much less of this pest.
When he's half undressed, showing off his chest that he's so obsessed you wish he'd head west.
Or it could be a test.
If this is a test then I'll just say in jest that let's use his breast to make a nice nest.
I know, I know, hopefully we can both give it a rest.
Nicely done!
Have I mentioned that some people have a tendency to annoy me n occasion?
Nope. And I'm shocked... SHOCKED! that this might be so. Nah. Not buying it.
Wait...
I'm not on that list am I?
Nevermind, forget I asked...
And did they sow Herbie back up into a solid car again?
Herbie's in the show? I do seem to recall seeing him in two pieces (or maybe just the one half) when I last took the tour.
If you look at the top of the screen right near the end, I think, you'll see the red car go flying past for the briefest of seconds, while I was looking down.
But you get a
much better look at the Sunny D bottle between your feet.
But the finale was the best part.
I just love to watch a performer with a complete look of helplesness on his face...
... I wish I could re do the narrative during this, and no, as I am typing this Diane is on the phone so I don't want to crank up the speakers to find out if, and, or what I might have said, and I still, I mean STILL have not listened to the video cuz my camera doesn't play back sound, but I'm pretty sure I was laughing and commenting aloud to Diane on what the guy was trying to do as it was taking place.
Yup. The commentary came through. Heard you say "He can't get it started" with an absolutely gleeful tone of voice.
My guess is that my voice will be drowned out anyway from all the whiny engines and whiny folks sitting all around me.
But anyways, here goes:
Oh wait, I'm part of the whiny folk contingent too.
Nah, not whiny...
Well maybe a little bit.
I took a picture of diane:
Cute picture!
BTW, (not that it matters for this pic) even as I type this I'm on hold with a tech from Adobe, trying to get Photoshop back up and running.
You'll know when it is... heh, heh, heh...
It's time for me to come clean about myself.
Cleanliness is next to Neboness
I am NOT an outgoing type of people.
I'm not exactly ingoing either,
That's good. I had an ingoing toenail once. Wasn't much fun. Ergo, if you were ingoing,
you wouldn't be much fun. See? Didn't that work out well for everybody?
in fact, in real life, I'm pretty shy.
Actually, that's kinda interesting. Me too. I'm not big on social gatherings. I frequently
loathe the same old small talk.
"So... what do you do? Nice weather we're having. Blah, blah, blah, ad tedium, ad nauseum.
The reason I like karaoke is because it's my version of skydiving.
Funny. I've never done karaoke but I
have done skydiving. I did it once and it scared the you know what out of me. So to prove that I could do it again... I did. Just as scary. My chute was twisted both times and I figured trying it a third time was the same as saying, "OK God, I didn't get the message the
first time and I'm ignoring the second time. nyah! nyah! Can't squash me!"
Sitting in my Challenger at the start line at the drag strip, waiting for the 'Christmas Tree" lights to start coming down
getting closer to "GREEN".
Not something I've done. But it sounds like it would be a blast... where's that bucket list?
So sometimes when I get a dumb, "silly, outgoing type of idear",
Two things:
1. you get "dumb, silly" ideas a
lot don't you?
2. "idear" must be a German thing. My dad used to say that all the time... and not as a joke.
Thankfully, that's what Diane did,,,, she gave me too much time.
Awww... shoot.
I had this sudden kinda idea, since the umbrella is permanently mounted to the lamp post there, thay "Hey, I don't need it, I have my own", and use my own umbrella and dance around the lamppost doing the Gene Kelly routine.
Hands up everybody who would've loved to have seen that!
The main problem with all of this is that, um, really,,, I can't dance, certainly not to something like that, and also that I only know a few of the words, but for a brief instant I was going to improvise, as embarrassing as it was going to be, I thought it might be good fodder for the report.
We are 40 minutes early and the place is half full already,
although with a castmember's help we still got pretty decent, desent, descent,,,, nice, seats.
Nice? Alcove? Did you mean niche? A decent little recess to put a seat?
That's almost frightening isn't it?
Provided everybody keeps there cool and no fights or soccer
games break out, even if well behaved all these folks will
indeed be heading for the exit at the same exact moment.
Soccer game? The one and only semi-pro game I ever saw ended in a brawl when a fan charged the field... so that fits.
And you probably know what I think of the exit down the hill here that is only there for the castmember's amusement.
Ours too... at least when you're walking there.
Ok, now, I'm going to post a bunch of pictures from the show, no, I am not going to talk about what is happening for each shot, because I don't care.
I'm sorry, Wishes brings tears to my eyes, Illuminations sends chills '
up my spine.
Does being bored to tears fall into that category?
That's where Fantasmic falls in.
I'm with ya there. First time we went and it was around we didn't go (kids too little to be up that late kinda thing). I'd heard such glowing praise for it that I was thrilled we were going to see it the next time we went. Get there an hour ahead? Check. Anticipation mounting? Check. Ummm..... that was it? When does the good stuff start? I mean, the show on its own is okay. But when you compare it to Wishes.... nope.
Please keep in mind I am trying to take the most impressive pictures I can to lie back at home to people that haven't seen this show.
I like to lie back and watch a good show just like the next guy.
Would that make him a Super Target?
By the way, in a situation like this, never yell out
"what a target" when surrounded by crazed mousketeers.
That would hurt.
We were on the move before the Mickster even took his hiddne elevator back down on the backside.
Really? Huh.
I thought he just would've stood. But, if you say so....
But even with us fudging the ending a bit and leaving early, by the time we got to the downhill slalom, for the first time I've seen it this way, it too was all backed up, no,
never seen the hill backed up on the way out before.
Shouldn't that be backed 'down'?
But what feels really stupid now to me, is we are going right back to the studios in the morning, and this time for dope rop, I mean rope drop, still got a lot to do tomorrow, plus we have a lunch at Prime Time, gonna do a split stay, want to get over to the Swan maybe later for karaoke,,Oh, still haven't used the Kidani pool...... yeps, it's gonna be a busy day tomorrow, but I'll be up for the task.
Sounds like another big chapter!
Because I am a new man when it
comes to taking care of myself and not letting myself get hurt.
Hello? What's this? Do we readers see a light at the end of the incident free tunnel?
Only little more than two days left, if I can make it this long I can certainly make it two more days.
g'night
At this point, the actor usually looks into the camera with a foreboding expression and the music gets really ominous. Thanks for the Chapter!
) I made a crazy comment at Fantasmic. As all the action was going on, I said to him, "What would aliens think if they landed here and thought this was our church?" Mickey as high priest? Princesses as temple virgins? Oh, the things that pop into my head. And that's without Vikes or little bottles. 
, but ya gotta get there early because it seemed to fill up really quick. They move fairly quick during the "class", I remember having to stop and help one our kids catch up.
I'm not promising I'm sure which one it is.
