Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "If I ever make it to there with you and Tasha I'll challenge you two to a rock climbing contest!" How high are these rocks?
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Yeah, really. Tasha Tasha, be a trooper! Don't be such a party pooper!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt CC, it isn't that high: <a href="http://www.thompsonfamilyweb.com/socal2002/images/dca_n_rockclimb.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.thompsonfamilyweb.c...limb.jpg</a>
Originally Posted By tashajilek LOL, im not a party pooper. I think its a weird attraction for a theme park.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Oh lord, I can't climb that thing. lol Looks like you win, Hans.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance Hans, I played basketball in 4th , 5th, and 6th grade and the whole time I made one basket. ONE BASKET.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance And my brother played for a couple years too, and he also made one basket. And he was so overcome with emotion when he made the basket he started crying on the court!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Needless to say, I don't come from athletic genes.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Oh dear. Well then I guess we'll be skipping the rock climbing wall then, won't we. LOL. lol.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Interesting post, TP2000. I wonder if you added characters from some of the more obscure Disney movies -- would it increase interest or even sell more DVD copies. In Frontierland you could have "Theodore and Amos' Apple Dumplings"
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Brother Bear fit the area so well, that it's almost surprising to me that RCCC ever existed without it... The overlay was tastefully done (I never saw the show, so I can't comment on that), and just seemed to work... I can see the Wilderness Explorer thing working too, however it will just seem less natural to me. Instead of being in the same area that the film took place (yes, I realize the era in the park is completley different than in Brother Bear), it's an idea from the film extrapolated into an existing setting.<< The Redwood Creek Challenge Trail has already gone through three distinctly different phases, so another one probably won't be that much of a stretch. Here's a pre-opening rendering of the pre-toon RCCT: <a href="http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/335807443_43c9bf1208.jpg" target="_blank">http://farm1.static.flickr.com...1208.jpg</a> When DCA opened, the area was heavily influenced by Native American legends and tradition. The Ahwanee Camp Circle, open to the sky, featured a very well done little presentation with a costumed storyteller, relating authentic Indian tales with a minimum of Disney "magic" as an enhancement. <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/ShowPic.asp?Filename=/files/Grizzly/big/picf.jpg&Caption=Ahwahnee+Story+Circle&ID=502500" target="_blank">http://www.laughingplace.com/S...D=502500</a> After the disaster that was the first Summer, there was an hysterical rush to wedge Disney characters into every nook and cranny of DCA. Chip 'n Dale were added to the Ahwanee show, and at some point a huge log "awning" was built over the audience seating. <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3488/3466824475_7132ef81ff.jpg" target="_blank">http://farm4.static.flickr.com...81ff.jpg</a> (It's hard to find images of Chip 'n Dale in the show; they were there only a short time. I have photos of my own.) When Brother Bear opened, a brand new show opened simultaneously, along with a few other additions-- like the carved totems and the spirit cave. <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/ShowPic.asp?Filename=/files/DLUpdate70/big/P03-0001.JPG&Caption=Koda+makes+an+appearance&ID=507610" target="_blank">http://www.laughingplace.com/S...D=507610</a> Now Russell and Doug the Dog will be moving in. It will be interesting to see what is retained and what is added to make this coherent (or not).
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>>When DCA opened, the area was heavily influenced by Native American legends and tradition. The Ahwanee Camp Circle, open to the sky, featured a very well done little presentation with a costumed storyteller, relating authentic Indian tales with a minimum of Disney "magic" as an enhancement. <a href="http://www.laughingplace.com/S...D=502500<<<" target="_blank">http://www.laughingplace.com/S...<<</a> My fav incarnation. I am so bored of toons, I hate them in the parks now. At least the bears made sense. An East Coast (well UP felt very East Coast) set of characters going to South America has nothing to do with DCA. Although Brother Bear (which is the last Disney animated feature I really liked) was set further North of California, at least bears in that area made sense. And Fineas and Furb? Yawn.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Oh lord, I can't climb that thing. lol" You realize you're only a foot or so off the ground, right? You're not so much climbing as you are working your way across.
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub I still miss the campfire tales around the electric campfire lit up! I always wanted to roast marshmallows and makes s'mores.
Originally Posted By Malin I am not dead set against adding Up Characters to the Wilderness Explorers’ Camp. But what there doing is taking one movie theme and replacing it with another. And it seems a desperate attempt to try and add something thats going to keep younger families inside the park longer. Unfortunately I don't see it as really addressing the more serious flaw that there should be balancing out the park in favour of more family attractions. Thats a big reason why so many are welcoming to the Little Mermaid. The other issue and I have seen it talked about here plenty of times. Including this very thread. Is that its more Pixar. And you can probarely find reference of some kind to every Pixar movie being represented at DCA. Maybe not Ratatouille now the Pixar parade is on hiatus. But he's very well represented in Paris anyway. Who are Phineas and Ferb ? And is this another desperate quick fix is add some much needed entertainment to the park. Now you have no Pixar Parade performing. It appears I'm going to be spending a lot of time inside the air conditioned Hyperion Theatre enjoying Aladdin while trying to escape the Summer heat and number of Disney Channel shows DCA has lined up this Summer.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 "An East Coast (well UP felt very East Coast)" Strangely enough, IIRC, the one reference to (US) place in Up is to a Bay area ice cream parlor much loved by Pixarians. So arguably Up was indeed set in California, while Brother Bear was not.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Oh, cool. It just looked a lot like a Brooklyn or New Jersey set up to me for some reason.
