knoxvelour: Prior to the 1994 refurbishment

And still marked as such on the control console as you enter Space Mountain on it :)

mike.thesauce: if you're over 12, and don't have kids, and are STILL going to any disney park, mr. hanson would like to have a word with you.

/please have a seat over there.

Up yers, dude. Paradise Island at Downtown Disney is for 21 and up. Epcot is a lot more fun without kids in tow, since you get to enjoy places like the Biergarten and not have to endure screaming rugrats. Animal Kingdom is great for taking photos.

Disney parks are great without kids.

/was 46 when I took my first trip to Walt Disney World

knoxvelour: I wish some pink would back up into my purple

Golf clap sir. Well done.

Jim_the_Fierce: Walt Disney World monorails collide head-on, one killed.

According to witnesses, a monorail was returning from Epcot when it slammed into the rear of the other train.

Submitard.

Christ, I know farking better too.

I hereby sentence myself to seven consecutive trips through "Small World"

knoxvelour Quote 2009-07-05 08:35:57 PM
amster77: dstanley

Just to let you know, the people mover is actually the blue train ride thingy in Tomorrowland inside the Magic Kingdom. But thanks for playing :)

Just to let you know, that's actually the Tomorrowland Transit Authority

*BOOP*

tiggerfan [TotalFark] Quote 2009-07-05 08:39:01 PM
knoxvelour: Just to let you know, that's actually the Tomorrowland Transit Authority

Originally named the Wedway People Mover :)

*BIP*


knoxvelour Quote 2009-07-05 08:41:32 PM
tiggerfan: knoxvelour: Just to let you know, that's actually the Tomorrowland Transit Authority

Originally named the Wedway People Mover :)

Prior to the 1994 refurbishment

*BOOP*

tiggerfan [TotalFark] Quote 2009-07-05 08:45:56 PM
knoxvelour: Prior to the 1994 refurbishment

And still marked as such on the control console as you enter Space Mountain on it :)

*BIP*

You can bet that Disney will no longer allow people to ride up front with the Pilot from now on. If you have any of the Co-Pilot cards, keep them.

Lived near WDW for 5 years, with 2 small children. Have ridden up front countless times. Good times always.

and yes, I like Gladiator miveis, and I HAVE been in a Turkish Prison.

radioshack: 20,000 leagues: Worst Disney ride ever.

They reopened it as a "Finding Nemo" submarine ride at Disneyland and I thought it was quite entertaining when I rode it in May.

Meh, adding to the tally of Disney World experiences, remember when you could smoke a joint in the Pirates of the Caribbean waiting lines?

actually, where I live, NO you cannot photograph me, ever, sans permission. (new window)


so fark you shutterbugs. get a good memory.

My summer job in high school was driving the 'subs' at the Magic Kingdom (~ 1988). On my last day of work, my bastard co-workers threw be in the farking lagoon.

It's_A_Farking_Secret: actually, where I live, NO you cannot photograph me, ever, sans permission. (new window)
so fark you shutterbugs. get a good memory.

If you read the legal opinion in your own link, the only restriction is on publication, and even then no permission is required if the person is already a public figure or the object of a legitimate news story.

So say cheese, Farker.

dstanley: I hereby sentence myself to seven consecutive trips through "Small World"

Don't even MENTION that thing!!

/must think of other songs... must think of other songs...

It's_A_Farking_Secret: actually, where I live, NO you cannot photograph me, ever, sans permission. (new window)


so fark you shutterbugs. get a good memory.

Are you in the witness protection program or do you just worry about your soul being stolen.

As I said to someone else here. Face this fact: Somewhere on the internet, someone has your photo. And has used it in an abhorrent sexual fantasy.

This is going to sound terrible, but I noticed the victim was a senior at Stetson University... and I know how much it costs to attend. The first thought that popped in my head was, "Wow, that was an enormous waste of money!"

I feel bad for the family for their loss, seriously. I'm sure the tens of thousands of tuition down the drain isn't even a blip on their screen. But I couldn't help but have that thought.

Gordon Bennett: What a pity that it is gone. I adore mid twentieth century futurism.

Precisely.

Does this make Disney the "Crash-y-isy place on Earth" ?

/just asking

RealFarknMcCoy2: DarthBrooks: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Give us Delta Dreamflight back!

Screw that - gimme Monsanto's Journey to Inner Space and TWA's Rocket to the Moon, biyatch!

Get your e-tickets ready, folks!

Now that's old-school!!! (and hotlinked)

/old enough to remember e-tickets
//knows the meaning of "more fun than an e-ticket ride at Disneyland"

I've used that to describe some women I know.

I've crashed monorails in Brockway, Ogdenville, and North Haverbrook--and, by gum, it put them on the map.

skink

try this website.

Link (new window)

and the best part....

Link (new window)

Everything you remember from WDW and EPCOT, if you went there in the 70's & 80's.

Your welcome

whoops, I reversed the order of those links, but you see what I mean.

/on my third glass o' vino

From an anonymous commenter at Themeparkinsider.com:


Submitted anonymously for fear of termination - Monorail pink was clear of the station and stopped (waiting for the track switch to switch for another beam), and monorail purple was given clearance to enter the station. For some reason, someone gave monorail pink authorization to reverse to back into good position after a slight overtravel. Apparently they never switched it back to forward and monorail pink ran full speed in reverse back into the station hitting monorail purple. The CM who died was not at fault, and was doing his job. The fault CM was either the one in the Control Tower, The Pink driver, or the Manager who was supervising the transfer procedure. Any of these news reports about 'suicide attempts' are inappropriate and sorely mistaken. He followed his Tower's commands and died because of their mistake.

Link (new window)

fiddle-faddle: Your welcome

Thanks, man! I bookmarked the HELL outta that one!

skink: fiddle-faddle: Your welcome

Thanks, man! I bookmarked the HELL outta that one!

No prob, I'm actually surprised that the website still exists. It's actually better now.

Really good resource from a former castr member. I grew up in Florida for a while, and now I live in Orlando. I'm just glad there are a few people who remember the rides the way they once were.

AirForceVet: Meh, adding to the tally of Disney World experiences, remember when you could smoke a joint in the Pirates of the Caribbean waiting lines?

"remember when"????

When I left DL security in 2004, we were still chasing pot smokers out of just about every line in the park, and I have no reason to think anything has changed.

The only reason you're not doing it now is only because you're not brave enough to do it, is my guess.

Gyrfalcon: AirForceVet: Meh, adding to the tally of Disney World experiences, remember when you could smoke a joint in the Pirates of the Caribbean waiting lines?

"remember when"????

When I left DL security in 2004, we were still chasing pot smokers out of just about every line in the park, and I have no reason to think anything has changed.

The only reason you're not doing it now is only because you're not brave enough to do it, is my guess.

Just out of curiousity why did you leave? I always thought that this type of gig would be pretty good.

kxs401: From an anonymous commenter at Themeparkinsider.com:


Submitted anonymously for fear of termination - Monorail pink was clear of the station and stopped (waiting for the track switch to switch for another beam), and monorail purple was given clearance to enter the station. For some reason, someone gave monorail pink authorization to reverse to back into good position after a slight overtravel. Apparently they never switched it back to forward and monorail pink ran full speed in reverse back into the station hitting monorail purple. The CM who died was not at fault, and was doing his job. The fault CM was either the one in the Control Tower, The Pink driver, or the Manager who was supervising the transfer procedure. Any of these news reports about 'suicide attempts' are inappropriate and sorely mistaken. He followed his Tower's commands and died because of their mistake.

Link (new window)

I absolutely believe that. I don't know how the DW monorail station is set up (I worked at DL) and an accident like that probably could not have happened at that speed, but it certainly could have happened. If the spur track wasn't reset to divert the incoming train...oh, yes.

Late, but that's ok because it's hotlinked:

soupbone: Gyrfalcon: AirForceVet: Meh, adding to the tally of Disney World experiences, remember when you could smoke a joint in the Pirates of the Caribbean waiting lines?

"remember when"????

When I left DL security in 2004, we were still chasing pot smokers out of just about every line in the park, and I have no reason to think anything has changed.

The only reason you're not doing it now is only because you're not brave enough to do it, is my guess.

Just out of curiousity why did you leave? I always thought that this type of gig would be pretty good.

Hours sucked, union (SEIU) sucked worse, and I got totally frustrated with the security policy after 9/11, which involved taking away all our power, discretion, visibility, and proactivity; and then required us to "get out there and let people see you; but don't be too obvious about it."

Seriously. When they took loss prevention off shoplifting detail, made us watch the access points 8 hours a day with no breaks, but had no plan in place for what we should do if we saw something suspicious--I had to leave.

It's_A_Farking_Secret: actually, where I live, NO you cannot photograph me, ever, sans permission. (new window)


so fark you shutterbugs. get a good memory.

1. The people you were quoting were discussing the act of taking pictures in a US located Disney property. Therefore, Quebec laws don't apply and are really irrelevant to this discussion.

2. From your own link, the comments below cite many exceptions to requiring permission, including (but not limited to) the below:

-A. When public interest prevails
-B. When you are in the photo in an "incidental manner"
-C. When said photo is used in a noncommercial manner



Next time try to keep up with the thread, dearie. It makes you look less dumb. I shouldn't have to do your research and destroy your arguments with your own "proof".

Unfortunately it wasn't the bastard who decided to close the 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride

Man, I've been to Disney World maybe seven times in my life, and EVERY TIME I WENT, the damned 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea ride was closed for maintenance. Every.Single.Time.

So I never got to ride it.

However, I did see Captain EO when it debuted, so now that MJ's dead I have one more MJ recollection than a lot of the younger crowd. They can buy Thriller, but they can't experience Captain EO as it was those many years ago.

I also managed to purchase a limited edition statue of a skull from the Haunted Mansion gift shop. It's dated and signed by the sculptor, and it formerly sat in the window of the shop as a "not for sale" prop, but as they were out of skull statues at the time, the person working the counter sold that one to me. I believe they were unaware that it was unique and not one of the mass-produced skulls they sold in the shop.

But that still doesn't make up for never getting to ride 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea...

ZeroCorpse: However, I did see Captain EO when it debuted, so now that MJ's dead I have one more MJ recollection than a lot of the younger crowd. They can buy Thriller, but they can't experience Captain EO as it was those many years ago.

I remember "Captain EO," it was at Tokyo Disneyland for a long time, complete with subtitles (subtitles in 3D movies are weird they sort of float in the mid-ground).

But, I actually preferred the original experimental showcase film they had before "Captain EO." That one didn't really have much of a story but it just had scenes designed to show off the 3D technology. Part of it is a shot of kids on a merry-go-round and they have to grab the brass ring, it floats in front of your face (you can't get it of course) and then one of the kids reaches out and grabs it.

In fact on NPR yesterday there was some feature about new 3D movies in American theaters that don't have red and blue cellophane cheap glasses but rather polarized fancy plastic lenses, and I was wondering, surely that's the same ones they had at Disneyland way back when, it was explained to us those were polarized, and it was interesting to borrow my brother's one and stack it on mine opposite eye to opposite eye and see it goes opaque, even though it just looks like sunglasses.

Honestly though I don't think I've seen a 3D movie SINCE "Captain EO."

Honestly, I am completely shocked by this accident. I have ridden in the front the the driver a few times and always was impressed ny Disney's safety record with the monorail.

That said I wonder how many E-Tickets it would cost to ride this now?

/still had complete unused ticket books from when WDW first opened

I moved to Winter Springs in '86 and we got year passes the first week or so we were there. Awesome 5 years... Must have been to each park 30-odd times.
Go ride thunder mountain? OK, then off to The Land restaurant at EPCOT for dinner.
Back when Imagination still had Dreamfinder and the Imageworks was upstairs and cool. (The whole thing has sucked for years, now)
Back when If you had Wings was still there.
Mission to Mars too.

Why do I remember the Pirates sometimes having a drop/fast descent at the beginning, sometimes not?

But, I actually preferred the original experimental showcase film they had before "Captain EO." That one didn't really have much of a story but it just had scenes designed to show off the 3D technology. Part of it is a shot of kids on a merry-go-round and they have to grab the brass ring, it floats in front of your face (you can't get it of course) and then one of the kids reaches out and grabs it.

Magic Journeys, IIRC. Preceded by the catchy "Makin' Memories"

irving47: I moved to Winter Springs in '86 and we got year passes the first week or so we were there. Awesome 5 years... Must have been to each park 30-odd times.
Go ride thunder mountain? OK, then off to The Land restaurant at EPCOT for dinner.
Back when Imagination still had Dreamfinder and the Imageworks was upstairs and cool. (The whole thing has sucked for years, now)
Back when If you had Wings was still there.
Mission to Mars too.

Why do I remember the Pirates sometimes having a drop/fast descent at the beginning, sometimes not?

Pirates at DisneyLAND has a massive drop at the beginning.
Pirates at DisneyWORLD does not.

Has to do with the watertable at Orlando being so much higher--there wasn't the depth to put in a big drop in DW. You may be remembering DL, because DisneyWorld never had Mission to Mars--that was only at DLand, and it was 86'd in the early 90's.

irving47: I moved to Winter Springs in '86 and we got year passes the first week or so we were there. Awesome 5 years... Must have been to each park 30-odd times.
Go ride thunder mountain? OK, then off to The Land restaurant at EPCOT for dinner.
Back when Imagination still had Dreamfinder and the Imageworks was upstairs and cool. (The whole thing has sucked for years, now)
Back when If you had Wings was still there.
Mission to Mars too.

Why do I remember the Pirates sometimes having a drop/fast descent at the beginning, sometimes not?

Disneyland's Pirates has two drops at the begining to take you under the train tracks and into the show building, while Disney World does not have the drops.

kxs401: From an anonymous commenter at Themeparkinsider.com:


Submitted anonymously for fear of termination - Monorail pink was clear of the station and stopped (waiting for the track switch to switch for another beam), and monorail purple was given clearance to enter the station. For some reason, someone gave monorail pink authorization to reverse to back into good position after a slight overtravel. Apparently they never switched it back to forward and monorail pink ran full speed in reverse back into the station hitting monorail purple. The CM who died was not at fault, and was doing his job. The fault CM was either the one in the Control Tower, The Pink driver, or the Manager who was supervising the transfer procedure. Any of these news reports about 'suicide attempts' are inappropriate and sorely mistaken. He followed his Tower's commands and died because of their mistake.

Link (new window)

I love how the guy submits anonymously but his IP pops up. Nice job, I'm pretty sure Disney has people who can cross-ref that stuff.

irving47: Magic Journeys

Totally that's it, a.k.a. 「マジック・ジャーニー」. Man now I'm looking up all these old things...

kxs401: From an anonymous commenter at Themeparkinsider.com:


Submitted anonymously for fear of termination - Monorail pink was clear of the station and stopped (waiting for the track switch to switch for another beam), and monorail purple was given clearance to enter the station. For some reason, someone gave monorail pink authorization to reverse to back into good position after a slight overtravel. Apparently they never switched it back to forward and monorail pink ran full speed in reverse back into the station hitting monorail purple. The CM who died was not at fault, and was doing his job. The fault CM was either the one in the Control Tower, The Pink driver, or the Manager who was supervising the transfer procedure. Any of these news reports about 'suicide attempts' are inappropriate and sorely mistaken. He followed his Tower's commands and died because of their mistake.

Link (new window)

pink wouldn't have been able to go in reverse at full speed if purple was so close. the safety system needed to be overridden and even then the top speed would have been 15mph.

also, why would pink wait for the track to switch and then back up? it would either take the full trip back to epcot or reverse back to above timberline drive. this explanation doesn't make sense.

i can see the train traveling in reverse so it could transfer to the shed, but how didn't the purple driver not see the pink train reversing back?

Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

soupbone: Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

There are currently three movies like this in Epcot -- one in the China pavilion, one in France, and one in Canada. I think they call them "Circlevision" or something similar.

soupbone: Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

I thought that was at Universal Studios?

bighairyguy: RealFarknMcCoy2: DarthBrooks: Toshiro Mifune's Letter Opener: Give us Delta Dreamflight back!

Screw that - gimme Monsanto's Journey to Inner Space and TWA's Rocket to the Moon, biyatch!

Get your e-tickets ready, folks!

Now that's old-school!!! (and hotlinked)

/old enough to remember e-tickets
//knows the meaning of "more fun than an e-ticket ride at Disneyland"

I've used that to describe some women I know.

And I've used it to describe one particular man I know. ;-)

/that's what I was hinting at...

kxs401: soupbone: Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

There are currently three movies like this in Epcot -- one in the China pavilion, one in France, and one in Canada. I think they call them "Circlevision" or something similar.


No this was back in the 80's and possibly the early 90's. It doesn't exist anymore I'm pretty sure. Wait maybe it was Canada. Man I know it had scenes like forests, water etc. and it seemed as though it was a flythrough. It was definitely a circle vision style attraction.

soupbone: kxs401: soupbone: Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

There are currently three movies like this in Epcot -- one in the China pavilion, one in France, and one in Canada. I think they call them "Circlevision" or something similar.


No this was back in the 80's and possibly the early 90's. It doesn't exist anymore I'm pretty sure. Wait maybe it was Canada. Man I know it had scenes like forests, water etc. and it seemed as though it was a flythrough. It was definitely a circle vision style attraction.

Link (new window)

kxs401: soupbone: Bah I'm trying to figure out the name of the attraction that featured a 360 degree video. If I remember correctly you just stood around and watched the video and it took you through various scenes not unlike Soarin'. I cannot seem to remember the name.

There are currently three movies like this in Epcot -- one in the China pavilion, one in France, and one in Canada. I think they call them "Circlevision" or something similar.

I just youtubed O Canada and I think you are right on. That looks like maybe what I remember and it's been since the 80's since I've been. Every time we go back I skip this and now I'm upset because since I've been a kid I thought it was an attraction that closed. Thanks!

the driver had a one track mind

/Too soon?