Originally Posted By dshyates "It's a freakin theme park ride - it aint gonna give us world peace" You are so right. It not like its a Worlds Fair exhibit that is a tribute to the United Nations Childrens Fund. To raise awareness of the global plight of children in poverty and war torn countries. Actually it is about as close to creating world peace and global harmony as an amusement park ride can get.
Originally Posted By mousermerf Dshy, Epcot sorta owns that idea.. but i suppose World Showcase isn't really a ride.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan >>It's a freakin theme park ride - it aint gonna give us world peace, cure cancer or feed all the starving black babies in Africa.<< Gosh, thanks for telling me that. I haven't heard that 800 times in each discussion of this, so it was a helpful reminder. Be that as it may, I think I'm going to really start adding this disclaimer to my every post: *Despite sharing his opinions on theme park rides from time to time, Kar2oonMan is aware that the sun will rise tomorrow, that it's only a freakin' theme park ride, that this discussion isn't in any way related to brain surgery, rocket science, world peace or cures for any number of more terrible medical diseases. He does, indeed, have a life but enjoys discussing how particular design elements enhance or detract from a particular attraction's intended them, much like some peaople enjoy discussing last night's baseball game in detail. It's like a hobby, only geekier. There is no need to remind him that it is only a theme park ride, not the Second Coming. Thank you.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Oh 2oony, that is priceless. If we had all those silly sigs like other boards, this might need to go in a number of ours.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney <<It's a feaking theme park ride-it ain't gonna give us world peace.>> You know, I had a dream last night! The dream was with all these people there: Osama Bin Laden, Gordon Brown, Hugo Chavez, George Bush, Nicolas Sarzoky, Fidell Castro, Hu Jin Tao (sp??), Angela Merkel, Kim Jung Il, Lee Myung Bak (New South Korean president--I live in Korea lol), Vladimir Putin, Mamoud Abbas, Ehud Olmert (yeah, a few misspellings lol), Robert Mugabe, whoever the hell runs Australia these days, Mamoud Ahmajinadad, the Pope and George Clooney, all in the same boat on IASW. There they all are, taking in the sights, feeling the music of IASW, letting it sink in. Brown almost looks like he can muster an emotion (almost), Bush is just nodding along trying to figure out where half the countries are, Sarkozy is admiring it as well bobbing his head remembering he made out with his then hot model girlfriend on the same ride back at DLP. Castro objects to the ridiculous display of captalistic greed as the children seem to have some amazing wardrobe changes, but goes with it. Osama just can't believe the girls are allowed to sing and show their face at the same time, but he have to admit, the song is damn catchy. Kim Jung Il is just surprised how healthy and full everyone looks. Clooney already got an idea for his next movie colloboration with Steven Sordenburgh and on and on. After a few minutes, people are looking around, appreciating it even more. Everyone is nodding along, starting to sing along to the music, since the many languages there has gotten everyone involved. Bush throws a smile to Osama and he just slowly nodds back and agrees how could destroying America be a good thing if it meant destroying this beautiful attraction? Merkel and Brown has convinced Ahmajinadad that Iran having nukes sooo isn't the way to go and the beautiful voices of the children has now convinced him of that. Lee Myung Bak holds Kim Jung Ils hand and decides maybe the North and South CAN come together. Obviously, (if they had some that is) the hypothetical children of North and South Korea of IASW come could come together and not have a million landmines and ready-to-kill soldeirs on each side seperating them, why can't they? Meanwhile Hu Jin Tao and George Clooney agree Dafur can be resolved and Jin Tao even got a cameo in Ocean's 14 if China tries an itchy bit harder to help out! The other countries even promise not to try and assissinate the torch bearers of the olympics from now on! Mugabe likes watching the African children smiling, happy and nourished, something Zimbawe hasn't seen in the last 15 years. He thinks maybe it is time to move on as Brown and Bush offer not to get the CIA and MI6 to assissinate him if he just goes quietly and he can even move to Florida or Hawaii if he wants. Abbas even passes Olmert a tissue because the scenes are so beautiful and colorful, the moment is so precious! No 60 year land disputes there! It's just awfully beautiful, the world is coming together.....but then a snag hit! As they all come around the bin, all happy and jolly and Putin even snuck in some Vodka behind the 17 year old CM's back to hand to everyone as the U.S. has just agreed not to go forward with the defense missle shield Russia has been fighting against, they come around the bin and then see 'Stitch'. The leaders begin to look a little complex. They don't understand why an alien is there to represent the children of the world? Then Pinochio shows up and the chorus is getting louder. "THAT'S NOT A REAL BOY!!!" yells Osama, looking more confused. Cinderella appears and people are getting agitated and frustrated. Bush thinks she shouldn't belong there as Cinderella is a movie star and therefore clearly a Hillary supporter. Everyone there should be non-partisan like the rest of the children, but Chavez yells at him to shut up and Bush yells at him that he make it his mission that the Mexico section be removed since that's where Chavez is clearly from. Chavez now wish they road Mr. Toad's ride instead so he can see Bush in hell where he belongs!! Osama gets angry to see Alladin taking a magic carpet ride with Jasmine, who CLEARLY is waaay to progressive in her thinking of not wanting to bow down to a man and he threatens Jihad against America, because only America could come up with such a nasty concept of women equality. Abbas can't belive the ride didn't recognize Palistine. Olmert reminds him neither is Isreal, but Abbas thinks its just a conspiracy and that Isreal is just buying time to take over more middle east sections of the ride when the time is right. Abbas asks for his tissue back, but Olmert won't give it back saying its now his to keep. Putin is too drunk now to care about anything, starts to hit on Merkel and wants to talk about a missle of another kind. Merkal looks interested. Hu Jin Tao offended that Mulan sounds like a White girl when they get to her and the guy running Australia is angry Nemo isn't actually IN the Australia section....what's that about?? He's even more offended none of them knew where Australia was (that's what aides are for!)---except Osama. I can't remember the rest, but by the time it gets to the final room of all the kids together singing in harmony as one, something about a dirty bomb infiltrated on the boat by Osama and instantly killed by the Secret Service camoflaged between the dolls, Brown and Mugabe are choking each other since Mugabe saw Peter Pan in the air as a symbol of further White colonial rule and chastized Brown on England's aggregious histoy on Zimbawe and Brown accused him of being an evil paranoid dictator. Hugo Chavez threatend to stop all oil to the U.S. in the hopes Disney can't afford to keep this evil ride going. By the time the 14 minute ride is up, a few treaty's were pulled, Russia, North Korea, Iran, the U.S. and France promised to build more nukes, South Korea has pushed more military on the DMZ and cutting off all rice to the North. The North threatend to nuke Japan just out of spite and they got a section in the ride and finally the Pope punching George Clooney for being too arogant and not even LOOKING at his screenplay he wrote, which meant a felony charge and jail time for him and anyone touching George Clooney under U.S. Federal law. And they all been barred from entering DL again. And then I woke up in a sweat. The dream turned into a nightmare. Thank you IASW and your stupid Disney characters .
Originally Posted By ChurroMonster It's a Small World is Vietnam. It didn't really matter to our country if Vietnam turned Communist. Most Americans had no idea where Vietnam even was. What mattered was that it was yet another country coming under Communist rule. Enough was enough and our government decided that Vietnam was the last stand, that we would fight Communism then and there. Cartoonization is like the spread of communism. It doesn't really matter that IASW gets a few well-disguised cartoon characters. But enough is enough. The proliferation of toons in DLR has reached a breaking point and the battle over IASW is where we make a stand.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Well thought out argument Churro Monster. I think what is happening with IASW is really representing the cold war and the arms race between America and the Soviet union back in the 50's! Everytime one section of characters is added in place in DL, there is a struggle with the fans to resist it, creating an 'us vs them' moment. The problem is like IASW, people back then thought cold war could be fused if each side just talk to each other, create an impasse, but neither side wants to admit maybe the other side is even remotely right. It took over 40 years before the arms race finally stopped and the two sides came at peace. How long will it take before the 'character' race stop and Disney and the fans could be in harmony again??? IASW may just be the Cuban missle crisis!!!
Originally Posted By Bob Paris That makes the implosion of Horizons 9/11. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Originally Posted By Mr X ***As they all come around the bin*** Did you mean "as they all come around the bend"?
Originally Posted By mawnck >>The dream was with all these people there: Osama Bin Laden, Gordon Brown, Hugo Chavez, George Bush, Nicolas Sarzoky, Fidell Castro, Hu Jin Tao (sp??), Angela Merkel, Kim Jung Il, Lee Myung Bak (New South Korean president--I live in Korea lol), Vladimir Putin, Mamoud Abbas, Ehud Olmert (yeah, a few misspellings lol), Robert Mugabe, whoever the hell runs Australia these days, Mamoud Ahmajinadad, the Pope and George Clooney, all in the same boat on IASW. << Good thing they made the flume deeper. Now that's entertainment, WorldDisney. Excellent job.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan World Disney, Post #46 belongs in the archives! Brilliant!!! *Despite sharing his opinions on theme park rides from time to time, Kar2oonMan is aware that the sun will rise tomorrow, that it's only a freakin' theme park ride, that this discussion isn't in any way related to brain surgery, rocket science, world peace or cures for any number of more terrible medical diseases. He does, indeed, have a life but enjoys discussing how particular design elements enhance or detract from a particular attraction's intended theme, much like some people enjoy discussing last night's baseball game in detail. It's like a hobby, only geekier. There is no need to remind him that it is only a theme park ride, not the Second Coming. Thank you.
Originally Posted By texasguy2005 I would take the Rio boardwalk out and put the rainforest there. I mean, it doesnt look too much like a boardwalk, but a two-leveled shelf with dolls doing the samba.
