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Steve Klare
Film Guy
Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted July 27, 2006 02:41 PM
Jean-Marc, right you are! We aren't ready to deal with Disney and our 4 year old just yet. With him there is also the size factor: he's 3 feet tall and skinny as a rail, I'm 6 feet tall and well..not so much! In a crowd he can dash through gaps and move 5 times as fast as I can unless I'm willing to start knocking people down (...and I'm sure the Orlando Jail is far from "the happiest place on Earth")
Michael: Fort Wilderness is very Disney: Efficient, Clean beyond Sterility, Systematized, Optimized: Perfect...Way too Perfect!
I got up one night and staggered off to the rest room to... you know. It was 3:00 in the morning and this chipper young man was busily scrubbing the place. Blearily I asked him why and he said it was the best time of the day to do it. I looked closely: he seemed to have a pulse and his pupils reacted to light, so I'm guessing he wasn't animatronic.
Between each set of guests, more chipper young people come to each campsite and remove all evidence of prior occupation, right down to the very DNA I'm sure!
Like a great many campgrounds there is canoeing. It's in an artificial pond which is isolated from Lake Buena Vista. I guess they don't want to risk some hapless paddler getting mowed down by Huck Finn's River Boat and jamming up Uncle Walt's gears.
There is a hiking trail there. It's 300 feet long. It's paved. It's got cutouts of Mickey, Minney and Pluto with backpacks!
- Yellowstone it aint!
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All I ask is a wide screen and a projector to light her by...
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Michael De Angelis
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1261
From: USA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted July 28, 2006 11:33 AM
Jean-Marc,
Ok, now I get it,
and thanks for providing
the details of change
within the attraction.
I guess when I
visited this attraction
for the handful of times
I have been in
WDW, and the once that
I visited Disneyland,
it has only appeared to me as
an entertaining amusing comic
attraction within the framework
of Disney audio animitronics
and engineers to thrill
at a viewing distance, and
not into a true world of reality.
The subject of rape, never entered
my mind.
So, in seeing the recent
Pirates/2, it's a wonder
that it did not receive
a Restrictive or 'R'
rating here in the USA.
For those that are
not familiar,
'R' rated films are designed
for adults and for adults
to accompany their children of
at least 17 years of age.
Getting back to the 'Park'
Pirates Attractions, I have
always enjoyed seeing both
attractions in Florida and
California, with my preference
towards Pirates in the
California Park.
Michael
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Isn't it great that we can all communicate about this great
hobby that we love!
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Michael De Angelis
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1261
From: USA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted July 29, 2006 09:59 PM
Jean-Marc,
Playland is a neat little park.
We had also had a family run park
here in western Nassau County for
about 56 years until it closed
in the Fall of 1995 - Nunley's Carousel.
The hand carved horses were gorgeous,
and that pipe organ and striking
of the huge cow bell,
indicated the start of the ride.
It was fun and affordable for all ages,
and a great date and family night in
the game arcade and on the
miniature golf course too.
Incidentally, on the same link is
information about Nathan's
Hot Dog Restaurant which was formally
in Oceanside Long Island.
I remember getting a ride during
the '70's to get down there with
my friends,and we would watch
on summer Wednesday nights,
16mm Blackhawk and Castle Comedies
by a private collector.
It was noisey and the echo
was tremendous, but a lot of fun
to watch all of our favorites on the
big screen. Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy,
W.C. Fields, Abbott & Costello etc.
The Westbury Drive-In is now part
of a Multiplex and shopping.
The UA Multiplex houses stadium seating.
I saw Pirates/2 there.
But when it was a Drive-In, they had 3 large
screens with separate films playing on each
screen. Your radio was tuned to a separate
frequency for each individual movie.
Here is the link:
Nunley's Carousel, Nathans and Drive-In
Michael
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Isn't it great that we can all communicate about this great
hobby that we love!
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