Something About Nothing...........#8

[macraven]

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[Tinker-tude]

MH!!!!!!!!!!!! Your pics are AWESOME!

Glad you had such a great time. I grew up going to DL almost every year, but it's changed a lot since I was last there. Thanks for the TR right here on the SAN thread.

 

[Mad Hattered]

MH!!!!!!!!!!!! Your pics are AWESOME!

Glad you had such a great time. I grew up going to DL almost every year, but it's changed a lot since I was last there. Thanks for the TR right here on the SAN thread.

Thanks, Tink. I pretty much just like sharing things with people I feel comfortable with. There are a lot of personalities out there but we all tend to be on a common wavelength. Now if nobody minds, I will post some more pics...if I shouldn't do this type of thing...let me know that too

 

[Mad Hattered]

DCA has a couple familiar rides. TOT is a different version there. I kinda liked it a bit more than the the DHS version. Dana gave the edge to DHS. They don't have the random drop sequences in DCA but they seem a lot more intense (and they drop you from the top at least 3 times with good pauses). My camera bag would float right in front of my face....way more of a weigthlessness feeling on their version. Dana gave the edge to DHS because of the ride experience. DCA's version doesn't "travel" through the hotel itself.

A Bug's Life is better at DAK purely based on it's iconic location. Same show, but yeah...

They also have Soarin'. Can someone shoot a new film already? It can't be that tough to do!

 

[Mad Hattered]

It was REALLY easy to park hop from to the other in a matter of minutes. Dana loved that the most about the trip overall. Hey, we just got off of Mickey's Giant Swinging Fun Wheel.....and then 10 minutes later you're looking down on the damn mouse and thinking...you ain't so tall now, huh?!

And then take 25 steps to the right....

Their Finding Nemo is obviously superior. What a sweet deja vu to climb into a Disney sub for the first time since the 70's. Actually, there is a real sea gull on the rock closest in the pic. The other 3 scream the annoying Mike! Mike! Mike! I didn't even realize it was real until after I took the pic and it flapped it wings!

 

[Mad Hattered]

DCA had more of a Universal vibe with DHS thrown in for good measure...

And here are a couple of day shots of the WOC viewing area.

 

[minniejack]

MH IMHO I think you are doing Disney a favor. I usually never stray far from the SAN thread except when when we did the World. So, after seeing your pics, I'm thinking that I would probably like the California version better. It looks much more like my kinda park--way less walking--able to run to attraction after attraction without making the vacation into a kamikaze mission like at the Motherland.

My kids say that I've gone over board with being natural. DD has to come up with 10 items in the house that have ingredients that do not come straight from nature for her chem class and we could only find two. The teacher told the class that it would be a breeze because you didn't realize how much junk was in your every day products. Ummmm...she doesn't know me at all yes, I pitched my plastic, cook with iron, am getting out the old silver fillings in the teeth...only natural makeup and cleansers....

We have clean pipes...

 

[macraven]

i am loving those pics...........


you are a great photographer and you are showing us the things i really like to see.


now i want to hit the western motherland someday too !!

 

[macraven]

My kids say that I've gone over board with being natural. DD has to come up with 10 items in the house that have ingredients that do not come straight from nature for her chem class and we could only find two. The teacher told the class that it would be a breeze because you didn't realize how much junk was in your every day products. Ummmm...she doesn't know me at all yes, I pitched my plastic, cook with iron, am getting out the old silver fillings in the teeth...only natural makeup and cleansers....

We have clean pipes...

can you include body fluids type of stuff?

 

[Cdn Friends of Pooh]

Awesome pics MH!!

 

[minniejack]

can you include body fluids type of stuff?

 

[keishashadow]

MH enjoyed the video! Q for u, i have the paid photobucket account but having troubles uploading HD clips from my Vado longer than few minutesany hints?I've just taken to burning discs lol

get to take my car to body shop today...the owner's car wash equipment malfunctioned on me last week & ate a hubcap & scraped the side of my car.he didn't flinch when i complained, have a feeling it must happen often.

 

[minniejack]

MH enjoyed the video! Q for u, i have the paid photobucket account but having troubles uploading HD clips from my Vado longer than few minutesany hints?I've just taken to burning discs lol

get to take my car to body shop today...the owner's car wash equipment malfunctioned on me last week & ate a hubcap & scraped the side of my car.he didn't flinch when i complained, have a feeling it must happen often.

Janet, you need a restart for 2011. How many cars have damaged so far?? Your insurance agent must be loving you right now.

 

[keishashadow]

Janet, you need a restart for 2011. How many cars have damaged so far?? Your insurance agent must be loving you right now.

ha ha, this is collective incident #4 since right before Xmas in our house, 2nd on my car! '08 might have to trade it in lol

i told the business owner i'd pay for the hubcap when i dropped it off as it likely could've been my fault if I was positioned too close to the machineryjust glad he's going to buff out the whole the side, looks horrible as car is dark blue.

 

[Mad Hattered]

MH enjoyed the video! Q for u, i have the paid photobucket account but having troubles uploading HD clips from my Vado longer than few minutesany hints?I've just taken to burning discs lol

I have no clue, Keisha. I just upload it directly from My Pictures file to Photobucket. It took FOREVER to upload that clip. It froze at 40% for the 2 times I tried it and that took over an hour to get to that point w/ DSL. I cancelled the upload after it not moving for 30 minutes. I then BOUGHT the .mov editor from Apple to edit the movie. As SOON as I bought it I switched back over to PB and sure enough....the whole video was uploaded! Pfffft.....$30 bucks...bamn!

Mac, I think you have to go there at least one time to say you've done it. The original rides obviously started there. I found alot of their versions better than WDW.

Now on with some more pics...(Mac needs more convincing! )

Over in DCA they have this thing...

And it's just as crowded as the other one. The big problem with their version is that there is no Fastpass set up for it! Seriously, WTH?! The shortest wait we saw in 2 days was 50 minutes. We skipped it.

It's located at Paradise Pier.

Here's Dana standing in the middle of the Preferred Viewing area for WOC. The BEST spot is at the top of the stairs around the circle closest to the water. It's a tiered setup so that the view isn't that big of an issue. It just depends on where you stand. If you are at the far right (facing the water) your view can be pretty bad.

 

[Mad Hattered]

But hold off on your trip to at least 2012, Mac. They are doing TONS of construction at DCA right now. The whole entrance is being gutted, they are building the new Little Mermain ride, building an entire Cars land, etc. LM is supposed to open this "Spring", but we've heard that before. Here we are hanging out in front of, according to Dana, The Little TERMAID. This is the same one they're adding in the new FL at WDW...

This classic GGB entrance is being taken out and they've already removed the giant CALIFORNIA letters from in front of the park...

Why someone would ride the Grizzly River Run in this weather is beyond me...think Bluto...

Over by Soarin' we would run into Amelia Earmouse...

Here's a shot of the new Cars land being built. It's based on the Test Track technology and you'll end up racing at 65mph against another character vehicle at the end. The display plans we looked at seemed pretty awesome...

 

[keishashadow]

MH more great picshadn't seen the cars construction, wonder when that'll be ready?

i have what verizon would like me to think is comparable to DSL, not in my area yet other than comcast, so you won't think me mad when i state it took over 8 hours to load less than 50% then froze, repeatedly grrr

assume the app meant it was shot on iphone, won't work on my vado oh well

 

[Mad Hattered]

And then turn around after that pic and see the wine bar...hey, it's 12 pm at home....$9.75 later I was enjoying a glass of Pinot Noir...

I'm not a big wine drinker but California has lots of wine...when in Rome. We then got real and headed to the Cove Bar (located outside at Ariel's Grotto) and had a couple of beers and plate of Lobster Nachos...

They were awesome!!! Quite a bit of lobster, actually....and for $12 and change....a pretty darn good deal.

And then it was time for something calm. Here are shots back toward DL from atop of Mickey's Fun Wheel. The second shot is of the "mountain" at Grizzly River Run...

I see clouds a brewin'....

 

[Mad Hattered]

But by the time you head towards DL it looks like this. I think the mouse was just messing with us...

Then you get distracted and stuff...

And by the time you walk up Main Street you realize this looks different. Not only are there clouds again, but the giant green obstructions are gone. This gave Dana the perfect opportunity to walk directly towards the "tiny castle".....yeah...

After leaving the ridiculed castle (that you can acutally walk through and follow the Sleeping Beauty story)...Dana liked it better after I pointed that out to her We hit the very back of the park to ride the "evil ride I haven't ridden since the early 80's because of being stuck for 45 minutes while the puppets danced and sang) I bit the bullet.....and look!! SUN!

I survived it but the water stunk in there....just sayin'. They've obviously incorporated Disney characters in it. Maybe that happened a long time ago...I wouldn't know.

Space Mountain just blows MK away on so many levels. We used FP on this one a bunch during our stay. The last one we got was at 4pm w/ return time of 9:05. Yeah...Friday was pretty crowded. Not as bad as it gets during the summer though. I can't imagine that. DL has about 25% less property than MK and you can notice it. But yeah....MK .......pffft....you did a huge refurb and didn't do this??!! The ride here is literally "blinding"....awesome ride!

 

[macraven]

oh ......
all those pics are awesome!

and i was going to post something about having to hit DL when i came to one of your posts............




construction at the motherland.


what is the anticipated date all will be done?

i did check out some rates for late october 2011 after i do my annual orlando trip.

i will wait until the construction has been completed at DL.

i also will want to hit hhn at universal out there also in october.