This afternoon, I learned that "Runaway Railway" isn't a WDW-only attraction, that it came to DL Toontown not quite two years ago. Then I found out that a new AA show about Walt would be coming to the Opera House. But evidently sharing it with Lincoln, not permanently displacing Lincoln. And then, only minutes ago, following a link about "two popular parades" returning, I found out that "Pain in the Night" is one of them, and the MSEP isn't.
All of that is true. I really enjoyed MMRR. I haven’t been on the WDW version but by all accounts the ride is essentially identical, but the queue at DL is better. One sort of bonus thing I liked about it was that it gave me a reason to make sure I went up to Toontown. I always enjoyed Roger Rabbit, but not necessarily enough to make the walk under the tunnel; there was a trip or two in there where I never set foot up there, even as infrequently as I was able to visit. This time I went up there every day to ride MMRR, Roger, or both- and also to enjoy the revamped Toontown itself. The new Lincoln/Walt show doesn’t yet have an announced opening date, I don’t think. I’m not even sure if they’ve narrowed it down to “Spring” or anything. It’ll be open for the 70th anniversary for sure though. On the parades, I can’t help you, buddy.
Delighted to hear about your experiences. And delighted to see that I'm not talking to bare walls. I don't suppose you have any way to let "iamsally" know the board's back up?
Hey guys! I stumbled upon it. I've been to Disneyland 3 times in the last two years. We just did our reservations for February. Our son-in-law who has been sick for 5 years died just before Christmas. As a tribute to their father the kids unanimously chose a trip to Disneyland. Our daughter in Seattle's family are all making it down. There will be 15 of us. Kevin loved the Parks so much. He was born and raised in Hawaii and had never seen anything like it. My daughter made sure he was well indoctrinated. We're a little overwhelmed by ticket prices but luckily have some savings.
Oh! I hate that stupid thing. I never got my last trip report posted but I had dubbed the fireworks we witnessed Techno Garbage. Loud "music" and projections with those Mickeys and Minnies that have round faces with their noses on the side of their heads looking like deformed ears. Even the grandkids hated it.
They did that to the fireworks, too?!? I've said this before, and I'll probably say it again: As it happens, I'm off to listen to some live chamber music. At Disney HALL.
Why is it that there are so many people who, when offered perfectly good chamber music, prefer to listen to chamber pot music?!? LOL So true.
My daughter and I got into an argument about "Pain in the Night". She kept insisting that it was brand new and that her son loved it. I didn't argue as that is pointless with her. All the adds even said a limited *return*. I did tell her we've been calling it Pain in the Night for 10 years. She figured I had it mixed up with something else. Adult kids are so much fun I remember the first, and not coincidentally, the last time I saw it. It was the same performance! Luckily we had Holiday parades and fireworks and I still enjoy those.
It's bad enough that the last few encores of the MSEP have been with a version of the score that doesn't hold a candle to the Don Dorsey version (or the Paul Beaver version, or Perrey and Kingsley's original recording of Baroque Hoedown).
I totally agree. I had the original on a record that looked like a 45rpm but was actually 33.3. Somewhere over the years; it disappeared. My sister thought she had it and I thought I had it but we've both moved and haven't found it.
This past weekend, while tidying up my floor, I found something I forgot I had. For decades, I've known that resort operators, like Disney, and all the major cruise lines, and vacation packagers like Pleasant Holidays, are all pathologically incapable of comprehending the idea of a customer only spending part of a vacation with them. You try to book a cruise from Vancouver, BC to Seward, AK, with no flight from Southern California to the Pacific Northwest (since you will have already spent the entire week working your way up the coast by rail), but a direct flight home to Southern California, you're going to see a "deer-in-headlights" look. And so it was with my last trip to WDW. They could not get it through their thick skulls that I didn't want a MagicBand. Just as I don't wear anything around my neck but a tie, neither do I wear anything on my wrist other than my watch, or a hospital ID, or one of those disposable Tyvek wrist tickets. Nor could they get it through their thick skulls that my four or five days in WDW (including a day-trip by GatorTours bus to Kennedy Space Center) would fall in the middle of a 16 or 17 day fall vacation that would also include a few days in New Orleans, a few days in Colonial Williamsburg, and (I think) a day in Atlanta, and just long enough in Washington, DC to visit the Air & Space, shortly after the unveiling of the fully restored USS Enterprise filming model. The front desk people at the All Star Music didn't bat an eye at my showing up without a MagicBand; they offered me a choice of a red one, or (what I wanted) a card, similar to the ones issued by non-Disney hotels authorized to handle ticketing. Then, over a week after I'd left WDW, when I finally got home, I found a package waiting for me. Inside the shipping box, I found this: A first-generation MagicBand.
