Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>At least we in Texas were smart enough to get rid of OUR Bush governor<< That's because you mexicans are smart!
Originally Posted By Blackie Pueblo Does anyone know what kind of big celebration they will have for the grand opening? Will they have a celebrity to open the ride? <a href="http://www.newlineagefilms.com" target="_blank">http://www.newlineagefilms.com</a>
Originally Posted By Labuda I can't imagine WHO they'd get for the opening - anyone famous for having scaled the real Everest?
Originally Posted By Labuda Wow, no offense to him or anything, but I thought he was dead. So, wow, yeah, that'd be neat if Disney managed to get him!
Originally Posted By MrToadWildRider ^^ I think he is dead.... I'm under the impression that the last person to have survived all these years from the first summit trip died recently and it was a Sherpa (spelling?) that went up with them. I could be wrong though - that's just what I remember from seeing the Everest Omnimax movie a couple of years ago as the main person in the movie was the son of a member of the original expedition
Originally Posted By jkayjs How about James MacArthur. He did what I think is one of Disney's better live action films "Third Man on the Mountain". I know it isn't about Everest but same premise. Just a thought.
Originally Posted By Blackie Pueblo Not a bad idea jkayjs. I mean, parks do it all the time when they open new rides. They get people that really make no sense to open rides. Remember Busch Gardens, Tampa got Fabio to open that roller coaster several years ago.
Originally Posted By TMICHAEL Actually BlackiePueblo, Fabio opened Apollo's Chariot in Busch Gardens Williamsberg not Tampa. That's where he got hit in the face by a fly-by goose. Poor goose.
Originally Posted By Blackie Pueblo That's right1 Thanks TMichael1 Hey, at least it was Busch Gardens... so I was half right.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN >>at least it was Busch Gardens... so I was half right<< Actually, you were half wrong.
Originally Posted By irishfan >>^^ I think he is dead....<< Somebody had better tell him so! This was him back in 2003. <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/2941522.stm" target="_blank">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wor ld/south_asia/2941522.stm</a>