Originally Posted By DisneybyMark OMG It’s Splash Mountain and it’s going to be a scream! Leave it to our Japanese partners to render the highest and longest drop of any Splash Mountain. This special edition was issued to the public in September 1992 in preparation for the grand opening October 1st. <a href="http://www.disneybymark.com/2011/07/23/tdl-splash-mountain-promo/" target="_blank">http://www.disneybymark.com/20...n-promo/</a>
Originally Posted By barboy2 Check out the dude in the front of the log wearing a diving mask-----very strange, strange indeed. He looks more like a 'brother' than Japanese. Everyone knows that outside of US military personnel there are no blacks in Japan....Ok 17 to be exact, but still.
Originally Posted By Roger55 >>Everyone knows that outside of US military personnel there are no blacks in Japan....Ok 17 to be exact, but still.<< For those that are interested, here is a link to a recent article on an ethnic black group (Nigerians) in Japan. <a href="http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/fl20110719zg.html" target="_blank">http://search.japantimes.co.jp...9zg.html</a>
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "Check out the dude in the front of the log wearing a diving mask-----very strange, strange indeed. He looks more like a 'brother' than Japanese. Everyone knows that outside of US military personnel there are no blacks in Japan....Ok 17 to be exact, but still." Maybe it's World Disney? If he is talking with lots of exclamation marks, then it's him!!! ; )
Originally Posted By barboy2 Good one, Bob! By the way check out the large double fold picture because that same dude with the diving mask is featured. But yet he clearly looks Japanese to me in this much bigger version. (I didn't see the expanded artist drawing the first time around.)
