Disney World PF Gathering and Tips for Disney Mania!

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In summary: This couscous and tagine restaurant is quite popular and usually has a long wait. Try coming at night when it’s less crowded.9. Yacht Club at the Epcot resort – This club has a beautiful view of the fireworks show at Epcot. However, this is a “resort” so it’s quite pricey. You may be able to get in if you call the club in advance and ask if there are any openings.10. The Living Seas – Usually there are long lines for this aquarium, but it’s worth the wait. You get to see all kinds of neat fish and amphibians.
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Newsweek has such a JUICY interview with former Disney CEO Michael Eisner. You have to read it, especially his terse remark about Roy Disney!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11234208/site/newsweek/

Man, I love dirt like this!

:)

Zz.
 
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ZapperZ said:
More on this trade. Essentially, Disney traded a sports announcer for a rabbit!

:)

Zz.

Edit: Oy vey. I forgot to include the link. So here it is:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/sto...-45E6-B48F-7BDF684010F8}&dist=rss&siteid=mktw

For those who want to know a bit about Mickey Mouse's history, and how Oswald the Lucky Rabbit fits into this, this is a terrific site. It can also make a great Disney trivia question.

http://www.characterproducts.com/info/character_histories/mickey_minnie_doorway.htm

Zz.
 
  • #1,788
Wow!

Expedition Everest came to Times Square in New York City! It's very impressive!

Zz.

http://www.wdwmagic.com/thumbnails/everest/web_wdw_everestcity_high.gif

http://www.wdwmagic.com/thumbnails/everest/webEverestBuilding_3912.jpg
 
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  • #1,790
Wow! This trade-Al Michaels-for-Oswald is really making all the news wire!

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/F/FBN_NBC_MICHAELS?SITE=CAANR&SECTION=SPORTS&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2006-02-10-05-27-33

Al Michaels is right. He WILL be an answer to a trivia one of these days.

Zz.
 
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A view of Epcot's Spaceship Earth across the lagoon from the Italian pavillion in the World Showcase. Those colorful sticks are supposed to represent the mooring place for the gondolas in Venice.

I think this is one of my better pictures of Spaceship Earth.

Zz.

http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/2341/img14729bq.jpg
 
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  • #1,792
This is a blog of someone who is celebrating their 1-year anniversary at Celebration, a "town" that Disney created just off Walt Disney World.

http://celebrationfl.blogspot.com/2006/01/happy-anniversary.html

It was a very entertaining reading, but then I got to this :

As the finale fireworks bathed the sky in an explosion of color, I thought, "What a fitting end to our anniversary day." One of the main reasons that I wanted to move to Florida was because it always broke my heart to leave Disney World.

.. and I went "Oh my god! She's describing EXACTLY how I feel!"

<sobbing>

104 days and counting...

Zz.
 
  • #1,793
Well for a quick "fix" you could go to Home Depot and look at there Disney colors, paint chips. You can even take home Micky Mouse shaped ones!
 
  • #1,794
hypatia said:
Well for a quick "fix" you could go to Home Depot and look at there Disney colors, paint chips. You can even take home Micky Mouse shaped ones!

What a great idea! :)

But unfortunately, hypatia, adding "Mickey Mouse shaped ones" to my place is like pouring salt into the sea. It is already over-ran by Disney stuff (as Tom can testify to when he was here last time).

Speaking of which, I need to do more re-arranging of the front shelf - those items have been displayed for more than 2 weeks. Time to cycle things around with those in storage... Oy.

Zz.
 
  • #1,795
A Disney gallery is opening on Fifth Ave. in New York City.

http://www.timesbeacon.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060210/ENT01/60210001/1031/NEWS01

Zz.
 
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We have another Disney trivia, and this one has Disney pins! So the first person to answer this correctly will win a Disney pin. I will only announce the winner in 2 days, so just because someone has submitted an answer, doesn't mean it is the right one.

Post your answer here.

Question: In which attraction can you see these lovable creatures hanging on the wall (they talk too!)?

Zz.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/3849/img06491al.jpg
 
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I have got an accout on the site you told me about, but it won't let me download because it says the picture is to big. Do I need to download resizing software now?
-sCoTt
 
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scott_alexsk said:
I have got an accout on the site you told me about, but it won't let me download because it says the picture is to big. Do I need to download resizing software now?
-sCoTt

There is a limit on the size of each picture file that you can upload. I don't know what you are using, but if you're using XP, you can easily resize it. Besides, if it's too big, you'll mess up the formatting on this page. Something like 624 x 468 is more than sufficient.

So hurry up and show us those Disney pictures! :)

Zz.
 
  • #1,799
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4287/redfiretruck0kd.jpg

Yehh! [throws virtual confetti]. OK this picture is of the juloppy/fire truck my family got to ride in. Since my dad is in the miltary, they selected us to open the Magic Kingdom. We got to drive through the park completely empty, to go board the train. It was amazing to see it so empty.
-scott
 
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http://img139.imageshack.us/img139/4543/redfiretruck26nx.jpg

OK here is another one. This one has me on the far right. (not the driver).
-Scott
 
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  • #1,801
The grad student in my lab is going to Disney for Spring Break! She's going with her mom and boyfriend. I want to go too, but she has a different spring break than I do...she gets the main university spring break, but since I teach in the med school, I have to wait for their spring break to have a week free of teaching responsibility, so it's not even an option to go again. :cry:
 
  • #1,802
scott_alexsk said:
http://img145.imageshack.us/img145/4287/redfiretruck0kd.jpg

Yehh! [throws virtual confetti]. OK this picture is of the juloppy/fire truck my family got to ride in. Since my dad is in the miltary, they selected us to open the Magic Kingdom. We got to drive through the park completely empty, to go board the train. It was amazing to see it so empty.
-scott

Nice... This is where... Disneyland?

Zz.
 
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  • #1,803
Moonbear said:
The grad student in my lab is going to Disney for Spring Break! She's going with her mom and boyfriend. I want to go too, but she has a different spring break than I do...she gets the main university spring break, but since I teach in the med school, I have to wait for their spring break to have a week free of teaching responsibility, so it's not even an option to go again. :cry:

Oh, I want to go with her too! :(

Has she been there before? Does she or her mother need a list of things they must do? Will they be staying at a Disney resort?

Give them the 3rd Degree, Moonbie. We need to investigate! :)

I have 103 days to go... :(

Zz.
 
  • #1,804
WHOAH!

Rumors are circulating of the possibility of Disney buying iTunes from Apple!

http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/8552/

I guess this would accomplish two things. First, Apple won't be burdened with looking for contents for the iPods, and who better at content than Disney and all its library. Secondly, it would make the lawsuit by the former members of the Beatles at Apple moot, since Apple will no longer be in the "music" business.

This has not been a boring year so far! :)

Zz.
 
  • #1,805
I'm not much into collecting "pincesses" stuff, and certainly not with pins. But this is a rather charming pin (pun intended). It is Cinderella's pumpkin coach. It looks rather intricate.

So far it is only being released at Disneyland.

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10904559.jpg
 
  • #1,806
No actually Disney World.
-Scott
 
  • #1,807
The brain says Disney Super Bowl ads the best

OK Moonbie, this could be right up your alley...

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06040/652407.stm

It appears that the Walt Disney ads during the superbowl was the hands down winner in producing the highest intensity of positive brain signals. Fancy that!

:)

Zz.
 
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  • #1,808
More pictures of Ivy at the Animal Kingdom.

Zz.

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scott_alexsk said:
No actually Disney World.
-Scott

So, do you have any more pictures? You can't just have two on your trip. I mean, there has to be a law or something that you can't just have two pictures at Disney World, hasn't there?

:)

Zz.
 
  • #1,810
An early Happy Valentine's Day to all the Disney Mania thread readers...

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10255849.jpg
 
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http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/2868/christmaspictures0303ul.jpg

I bet you have never seen Disney as empty as that.
-Scott
 
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scott_alexsk said:
http://img324.imageshack.us/img324/2868/christmaspictures0303ul.jpg

I bet you have never seen Disney as empty as that.
-Scott

It's too small, scott. You can make it to about 640x420 or something close to that. It's too dark and too small to see what's in the shadow.

When was this picture taken? I know it was during the holiday season since it has all the holiday decorations.

Zz.
 
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I don't know how to make it bigger, since it limits the size according to the maxium number of bytes. The picture was taken in the morning before the park opened, during that Christmas trip I told you about. I'll get some better ones up in a while.
-Scott
 
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scott_alexsk said:
I don't know how to make it bigger, since it limits the size according to the maxium number of bytes. The picture was taken in the morning before the park opened, during that Christmas trip I told you about. I'll get some better ones up in a while.
-Scott

I'm not sure what kind of "limits" they're imposing on you, but if you notice, the pictures that I have posted are considerably larger than yours. And I have them hosted on imageshack too.

Zz.
 
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Well whenever I try to post the pictures straight from my computer, it says that it is 1400 kilobytes and that the limit is 1100. After going on my computer and editing it down to 70 percent of its orginal bytes, it will let me put it on. I don't know what the problem is. Maybe, I have to try enlarging it on my computer before downloading it?
-Scott
 
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Happy Valentine's Day!

Zz.

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/files/10312023.jpg
 
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ZapperZ said:
We have another Disney trivia, and this one has Disney pins! So the first person to answer this correctly will win a Disney pin. I will only announce the winner in 2 days, so just because someone has submitted an answer, doesn't mean it is the right one.

Post your answer here.

Question: In which attraction can you see these lovable creatures hanging on the wall (they talk too!)?

Zz.

http://img340.imageshack.us/img340/3849/img06491al.jpg
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Shucks. No one got this one.

This is from the Country Bear Jamboree!

Zz.
 
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  • #1,818
Disney DVDs being released today:

Quack Pack: Volume 1
Goof Troop: Volume 1
Disney Princess Sing Along Songs Volume 3: Perfectly Princess

It's a safe bet that I won't be getting that last one.

:)

Zz.
 
  • #1,819
If you were a Disney CEO for 21 years, and you have just retired, what do you do? Well, you can't just say "I'm going to Disney World". Instead, you have your own talk show on CNBC, with a set designed by your close friend, architect Frank Gehry.

That's what Micheal Eisner is doing.

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB113962209436471482-lMyQjAxMDE2MzE5MTYxMjEyWj.html

Zz.
 

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