Parks Game: Part 10! How Perfect is That!!!

[BethBreakey]

gosh... wouldnt that be nice to do a virtual tour of EPCOT, sadly the last time I was there I was 6 and all I remember are the fountain thingys... hohum... woe is me...

Any answers to ADaddy's question? I am quite curious!!

 

[Granny]

Originally posted by amandadaddy
I'll redeem the Presidential AAQ card with this softball:

One ride at Epcot features an Audio Animatronic character who shares common job background with Walt himself...Name the ride, the job, and the location of the character.

This one will go fast.

ADaddy....I'm sure this one will go fast....but not because of me!

I'll guess the AA character is Figment....and shares the common background and job of Master Imaginer (no, I didn't misspell imagineer).


Okay, I guess you'll want a better answer than that. I'm going to guess (pure guess) that the ride is SSE (because there are so darn many AA's there).

And I'll guess the job being done is....the caveman painting animals on the cave wall, since Walt was an artist? Okay, I guess Michelangelo would have been a better guess for that one!


Or the scribe writing on papyrus for the Pharaoh, since Walt also wrote stuff?



Or did Walt work in a print shop, and have the printing press in common with the German printers?


Okay, I'll stop now. But at least I got to take a quick virtual tour before I was done!

 

[chrisp]

One ride at Epcot features an Audio Animatronic character who shares common job background with Walt himself...Name the ride, the job, and the location of the character.

Is it the newsboy with the stacks of newspapers on SSE shouting "Extra, Extra" by the printing press?

 

[Granny]

chrisp....welcome to the Parks Game! I was just thinking exactly the same thing..."was Walt ever a paperboy"? Seems to me when he worked for the railroad that he did sell newspapers and other stuff.

So I'll second your answer!

 

[chrisp]

granny - thanks for the welcome. Yes, I'm pretty sure Walt delivered newspapers, but I'm not sure if the newsboy in SSE is really an AA.

 

[amandadaddy]

I go to lunch and everyone jumps on the soft ball!

AAQ cards go out to Granny and Chrisp.

The character is the paperboy on SSE. Walt's first job was as a paperboy delivering papers on a route for the Kansas City Star for his father. He started that job when he was 9 years old on one of several routes that his father bought when the family relocated to Kansas City after selling the family farm. ......all of this information is available on the One Man's Dream attraction and the Walt Disney Story video.

Good job folks, I new that wouldn't last long.

I'll hold on to the Sea of Tranquility AAQ card for future use, so ask away Granny and Chrisp!

 

[amandadaddy]

Hey Granny - are you sure that Walt worked for the RR? To the best of my knowledge his employment history is as follows:

Paperboy
Soldier (WWI Ambulance unit in France)
Animator
Self employed animator/film maker ( Alice's Adventures - went bankrupt)
Self employed animator/film maker (w/brother Roy this time in CA., created Oswald the rabbit and Mickey.....the rest is history!)

Perhaps someone will run over to Disney Studios and check out the One Man's Dream attraction for verification......

 

[Granny]

Hey Granny - are you sure that Walt worked for the RR?

ADaddy....well, I"m not sure of anything. I grabbed my info from a web site that is not official, so who knows. Here's the paragraph I was referencing:

Close to the Disney family farm, there were Santa Fe Railroad tracks that crossed the countryside. Often Walt would put his ear against the tracks, to listen for approaching trains. Walt's uncle, Mike Martin, was a train engineer who worked the route between Fort Madison, Iowa, and Marceline. Walt later worked a summer job with the railroad, selling newspapers, popcorn, and sodas to travelers.

Here's the link to the entire site...seems like a decently researched one... http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/biography/long_bio.html



And I'm calling in the dreaded PG Semantics Police! After all, I think the correlation between Walt and Michelangelo was a fair one!

 

[amandadaddy]

I am impressed Granny!

I've never seen anything that detailed on Walt's childhood ( I ordered two biographies earlier this week and hope to learn more from them ), so I have no reason to doubt the accuracy of your information........however, I stand by my info on Walt's career as a paperboy....it was in his own words.

As for the semantics police....I agree that Walt was every bit as talented and influential as Michelangelo, but Walt was never hired by the Pope to paint the ceiling of a church! What we were looking for was a common work history, not professional attributes! ....besides, you got an AAQ card for the SSE thing, what more could you want!!!!

I'm ready to swing Granny and Chrisp.....someone toss one out there.

 

[Granny]

Adaddy....I was just joking about that Michelangelo thing....just showing off that I could remember more than one thing in SSE...which is an accomplishment in itself for me!!

And I'll turn that baby around and ask this one...

Not counting the WDW Railroad, what are the Easternmost, Northernmost, Westernmost and Southernmost attractions at Magic Kingdom?

 

[DisneyBen]

JamesD - You are correct on the numbers of the pay phones on Main Street. Telephone-shaped AAQ card to you!!!

 

[ToddBreakey]

Granny - I'm going to take stab at this (though I will probably be wrong)

Space Mountain
Splash Mountain
The Judge's tent in Toon Town
Expo Hall in the town square

Edit - You said that the rail road was not included so I am assuming that goes for stations as well, right?

 

[jazyjewel]

I will say: Space Mountain, Ariel's Grotto, Splash Mountain, and WDWRR (BTW, I picked Ariel's Grotto over Judge's tent because Judge's Tent is more to the NE than N)
Julie

 

[gometros]

I say that it's

Space Mountain
Toontown Hall of Fame
Splash Mountain
Main Street Vehicles

 

[Horizons16]

i think the furthest west would be Thunder Mountain with the train house...

 

[AKQJ10]

Technically, it is:

Walt Disney World Rail Road
Walt Disney World Rail Road
Walt Disney World Rail Road
Space Mounatain

(Since SM is the only attraction outside the perimiter of the RR).

-A

 

[Granny]

Well, nobody identified the directions they were associating the attractions with, so I'll see if I can sort through this:

Westernmost attraction: Splash Mountain (Todd)
Northernmost attraction: Judges Tent (Todd)
Easternmost attraction: Space Mountain (Todd)
Southernmost attraction: [still looking for this]

Expo Hall is not an attraction in my book!

As a side note, I wasn't considering the Main Street vehicles to be an attraction. But before that dreaded Black Monorail shows up, I'll give an AAQ card for that.

Jazy...Ariel's Grotto is close, but I think the Judges Tent is farther north. In fact, I would have accepted one other answer for the northernmost because it's too close to call.


Still looking for my answer for the Southernmost.

 

[jazyjewel]

OK, if not WDWRR for the southernmost, it would have to be COP, right???
Julie

 

[Granny]

Ace...I believe that's why I started my question with "Not counting the WDW Railroad"!

Now I've added...."Not counting the Main Street Vehicles".

 

[ToddBreakey]

How about the theater on Main Street that shows the old Mickey cartoons?