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January 28, 2008
The Lamest Thing At Disney
In all the things I've mentioned about Disney, I think I've failed to talk about one or two really cool things.
While the boys and I were there we went to
- Mickey's Philharmagic
- It's a Bug's Life
- Muppets something in 3D
- A live evening show that featured fire on water. I don't remember what it's called.
The first three items in the list were 3D presentations and were incredible. You really need to see them. The last thing was really cool, but in that list of four things it's listed fourth for a reason.
The Indiana Jones Stunt Show was very cool as well. I knew one guys was going to get chopped up by the airplane props and when it came time to happen I was looking for the magic that would allow him to disappear. And I still missed it.
In the Haunted Mansion there comes a point where the room you are in is being lowered into a basement area. Even though I knew it was happening I was unable to detect the motion of the room we were in. It didn't jerk to a start or a stop. It was a great effect.
All of this would make Sounds Like Danger (or whatever the Drew Cary thing is) seem lame by comparison ... if it weren't for the fact that it need not be compared to anything else at all to appear lame. It stands alone (like the cheese in The Farmer in the dell) in its lameness. I love Drew Carey, I think he's funny, I think he's a good guy, I know he's an Ohioan. I'm certain that as soon as he saw Sounds Like Danger that he thought it was lame. Any one of my children could have taken a reel-to-reel tape recorder and a webcam and made a similar item as a school project and when any one of my children presented it to his classmates they'd all have screamed LAMO-O.
It was so monumentally bad that when I got back to work one of the guys I was talking to asked, as he made a sour face, "Did you see that Drew Carey thing?"
Anyway. How about some more photos.
A street performer.
The Indiana Jones Stunt Show.
Betty White's bust. Because I know Dave stops by.
Some sort of Mickey Mouse Evening Show. They eventually set the pool afire.
Posted by delmer at January 28, 2008 9:55 PM
Comments
I don't stop by anymore. In fact, I stopped stopping by over a year ago and just didn't tell you. :-)
Posted by: Dave2 at January 29, 2008 1:38 AM
It's almost 10 years since I was last at Disney and I can't remember hardly any of the things you've mentioned - has it changed THAT much? Maybe having a 2 and 4 year old with me back then didn't give me much time to pay attention?
Posted by: Pen at January 29, 2008 1:51 AM
Dave2: I'd sensed a disturbance in The Force and suspected it was your lack of stopping by that caused it.
Lady P: Children do affect the ability to pay attention -- even at 9, 12 and 14. And, of course, age affects the ability to remember (but not until you hit 40).
Posted by: delmer at January 30, 2008 8:51 AM