Originally Posted By gadzuux Fun link - I'd never seen that particular view before. I love aerial photos of DLR. Insteresting thing - start at the top of the screen, with main street and the castle, and just drag the image south, through the turnstyles area, across the esplanade, and into DCA. You see a subtle yet pronounced shift in the color scheme and pallete between the two parks.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney >> It still amazes me how WDSP is not badmouthed MORE than DCA. DCA ia 10 times the park of WDSP. << <<I have the feeling the Disney Studios park in Paris is flat-out ignored, not just because it's far away in France but because it's really bad and uninspired.>> Yeah, good point. It's not so much people don't look at WDSP as a worst park than the others where its basically to point the park is hands down, just awful and there isn't much room for interpretation. Where as DCA always had a decent mix of lovers vs haters and it was discussed as much, WDSP is basically just hated period for most. Sure, there are a few here that have defended it (and we know who you are....both of you ;D), most just don't bother even discussing it because it is that bad in the eyes of many. Also, like Woody, most haven't been the way here has obviously been to DCA since this is basically an American site, so you're just not going to have as much input. Me, for example, consider it so bad, I haven't made a trip to even see it yet (but have considered a few times, but mainly because of DLP). Yet, I managed to make it to DCA and the recent Hong Kong Disneyland (just there again 2 days ago) which I both think are bad parks, BUT not so bad that you shouldn't at least experience them once and check them out for yourself if you REALLY like Disney parks of course. WDSP is not worth the plane ticket at all IMO. <<DCA and WDSP are like theme-park versions of Dumb and Dumber.>> LOL so true. Although not quite on their level as mediocre bad, sadly you have to add HKDL to the list and now you have Dumb, Dumber and Dumberer .
Originally Posted By Blacksheep Uncle but seanyoda...the blue lights make it a taxiway not a runway...runways have to have white edge lights or maybe, just maybe IT'S A THEME PARK...nobody gets their undies in a bunch because and ocean going sailing ship and a Mississippi river boat share the same lake over at Disneyland...but Lord help us if there is anything not absolutely correct across the plaza at DCA... the whole "runways pointing at ToT" is a tremendously weak argument presented by people that have nothing better to do than go way out of their way to try and find things wrong with Disney and DCA (or are simply trying to generate controversy for controversy's sake...)
Originally Posted By Blacksheep Uncle ...or... OMG!!!! there is a runway that ends right into a STATE HIGHWAY!!!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan This reminds me of an argument I got into over at Disneyland with a Premium Annual Passholder. He says to me, "Hey do you like the new cobblestones?" I said, "They're pavers!" He's all, "They're cobblestones!" And I'm all, "In your dreams!" Next thing I know, the guy smacks me right in the face. POW! I started crying and he felt bad. So later he offered to take me to Denny's and he said something funny and I spilled my chocolate milk. And you know what? He didn't even get the joke of "Moons Over My Hammies." I had to explain it to him that it was a reference to "Moon Over Miami." And then we laughed and laughed again. That man's name? Mr. Michael Eisner. True story.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ^You know, I never get tired of hearing that story, Kar2oonMan. Beautifully retold. Thank you.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Thank you, Jim. In the interest of time, I left out our whole back and forth exchange where Micheal keeps saying "Okay, I get the Hammy, but where are the moons? Is it the bread?" And I'm hit my forhead likke the people in the old "I coulda had a V-8" commericals and go, "No, for the hundreth time, the EGGS are the MOONS!" And Michael says, "I don't get it, though. They don't look anything like the moon. Maybe if they cooked them into a crescent shape or something, but when I see eggs I don't think of moons. If they're going to call it Moons Over My Hammy then I expect to see moons, that's all." Then I realized he had a point, so we started riffing on "Moos Over My Hammy" but we couldn't really think of a way to get milk on ham in anyway that anyone would want for breakfast, and then it struck us: CHEESE. You know how they always used to say the moon is made of green cheese? Maybe the CHEESE is the moons, and not the eggs. Then it gets quiet for a second, and Michael frowns a bit, like he's thinking really hard. "So, then, why the eggs?" Michael says, and oh, Lord, we laughed. "No, seriously, Moons Over My Hammys with Eggs... I don't get it." right as I'm drinking my chocolate milked, and it sprayed out of my nose! Good times.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney ^^^I have a question? What was in this cheese of yours??? Or even in that milk??
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Funny you should ask that, WD. That's just what Al Lutz said when I e-mailed him that story. He wouldn't share it on his site. Speaking of Al Lutz and rumors....... back on topic... (was that smooth, or what? I should get like a Jr. Admin badge or something for that.)
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt Kartoony and Jim; the Statler and Waldorf of Laughingplace.com. LOL.
Originally Posted By 9oldmen >>or maybe, just maybe IT'S A THEME PARK...nobody gets their undies in a bunch because and ocean going sailing ship and a Mississippi river boat share the same lake over at Disneyland...but Lord help us if there is anything not absolutely correct across the plaza at DCA...<< Wow! The Rivers of America has the "Columbia", the "Mark Twain", rafts, it used to have Keel Boats, there's canoes, a nighttime show...and Paradise Bay has...water...and bird poop.
Originally Posted By Blacksheep Uncle it's to bad some people don't have the intestinal fortitude to simply say their tastes are different and don't like something...and instead have to resort to trying to "prove" that something is poorly done or a failure or whatever simply because it wasn't what THEY wanted... it's like listening to an 8 year old endlessly complain about the bicyle they got for their birthday when they wanted a pony...
Originally Posted By Blacksheep Uncle oh...and kudos to 9oldmen for completely missing (or more likely ignoring) my point to offer up yet another baseless slam at DCA...
Originally Posted By Park Hopper Blacksheep Uncle, the Columbia sailing ship did sail up the Columbia River. One of them is named for the other but I can't remember which is which.
Originally Posted By TomSawyer The ship Columbia discovered the mouth of the Columbia River. Capt. Robert Gray named the river for his ship.
