Originally Posted By DlandDug And, of course, this one: (DlandDug gazes with frustration at the gap between the Matterhorn summit and the remaing spire of Sleeping Beauty Castle.) DlandDug: I know if we could get to that tower, it would be a piece of cake to shinny down and head straight up the middle of Main Street USA! JBStew: (thoughtfully) You know, I used to watch Tinker Bell fly past that spire every weekend... DlandDug: You're not thinking of... JBStew: (reaching out and tentatively grasping a metal cable that is stretched between the remains of the Matterhorn and a tangle of trees just beyond the Castle) If Tinker Bell could fly down this cable, so could we. And it passes right over that spire... DlandDug: (after a moment's thought) You're right! It's the only way! Everyone, get over here and start taking off your panty hose!
Originally Posted By DlandDug And this tender moment: (iluvdisneyland discovers NAPC next to a tumbled ODV cart.) iluvdisneyland: What are you doing over there? NAPC: Shhh! Take a look. (She pulls dozens of churros from her pockets.) They're all over the ground! They're free! Help yourself. iluvdisneyland: No! Put those back! Don't you know that accurate inventory control is the key to profitability? Put those back before a lead sees you! NAPC: (pouting as she returns the churros) Ever since you became a steward you're just no fun anymore!
Originally Posted By TALL Disney Guy <Featuring TALL Disney Guy as the guy who prematurely yells "The worst is behind us now! Follow me!" which, naturally, signals a fresh wave of disaster, falling foam boulders and explosions.> <At the movie's finale, Rap Star Athlete tosses TALL a FUBU jersey, and says with a small grin "Y'ever in my 'hood, look me up, a'ight?" TALL nods, and tosses Rap Star Athlete a Janice of the Muppets button, flashes his trademark grin and says "Shore 'nuff!"> LOL!!
Originally Posted By CuriosWolfSo >>(DlandDug leads group past ruins of it's a small world. Inside can still be dimly heard the sound of a familiar roundelay. As he starts to pass, CuriosWolfSo suddenly appears, leading another group of dazed survivors. They begin silently filing into the tunnel beneath the barely recognizable clock tower.) DlandDug: WHAT ar eyou doing? You need to head THIS WAY (points toward the Matterhorn). CurioWolfSo: No! This way will lead us to safety (points toward it's a small world). Dug: (rushes up and begins grabbing people, spinning them aside. They continue to blindly stumble into the tunnel) Don't you see? Even if you manage to get through to the other side, that song will drive you MAD! (Camera pulls straight up as Dland Dug's group gently pulls him away. CuriosWolfSo follows the last of his group into it's a small world. The music fades as DlandDug heads south, with his group trailing behind.)<< Oh, thanks a lot!!! At least, I'm not leading them to Pooh! Well, better than being one of the pack of hungry wolves that is poorly computer-animated...
Originally Posted By iluvdisneyland "iluvdisneyland: No! Put those back! Don't you know that accurate inventory control is the key to profitability? Put those back before a lead sees you! NAPC: (pouting as she returns the churros) Ever since you became a steward you're just no fun anymore!" ROFLMAO!
Originally Posted By Labuda <--- would like to be written in as a survivor (please, please, PLEASE don't kill me off! hehe)
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs LMAO at everything! This is beautiful! How is NAPC anyway? She and iluv always have the cell phones next to their names on AIM. And then, iluv lays too wounded to keep on, NAPC has tears in her eyes. Iluv hands her a handful of perfect Churros and says... "I was never, cough-cough, accurate in inventory control! I, I just couldn't help myself when I saw these little deep-fried Mexican pieces of, cough-cough, heaven go to waste! And I never enjoyed being a steward! Take this, cough-cough, take this and remember to stay where you are in the Bayou! Don't go backstage!" OR They both survive and iluv goes to work at WDW as the park's SECOND churro vendor in history.
Originally Posted By Scutr >>CuriosWolfSo follows the last of his group into it's a small world. The music fades as DlandDug heads south, with his group trailing behind<< Hey! You forgot the scene where Ernest Borgnine screams at Dug that maybe they oughta follow the OTHER people and 'what makes him so damn sure HE's right all the time'. Of course then Borgnine would probably look around and say how that would be a perfect spot for one of those nifty, new pay-as-you-go internet access machines.
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs LMAO @ Scutr! Yeah, I saw one of those ads, and two things came to mind: 1. NO ONE ever uses those... although I will admit I've used one at a hotel in Maui, and I believe at the Yacht & Beach Club in EPCOT. 2. Why, Ernie, why? It was like when Bob Hope was doing K-Mart (well, SUPER K-Mart) and James Coburn was doing his "How to win at Slots" videos. Perhaps 2oony can be the Ernest Borgnine character. You know, I am so picturing DlandDug as Gene Hackman's character in Poseidon, but it's probably because of the turtleneck. Since I57 was cast as the police/fire chief on the side of safety, his counterparts would have been security guard OJ Simpson and second hero/fire chief Steve McQueen in Towering Inferno, and George Kennedy in Earthquake and the Airport movies (although Kennedy was finally a pilot in Airport '79). I read that Poseidon and Inferno probably will not be on DVD for a while, so the extra-free released-in-98 DVDs will have to suffice. If it's any consolation, they should be in the $5.88 bin at Wal-Mart.
Originally Posted By iluvdisneyland "How is NAPC anyway? She and iluv always have the cell phones next to their names on AIM." Erin is great! She's working a lot, and she took her new Siberian Husky puppy for his shots today!
Originally Posted By iluvdisneyland ""I was never, cough-cough, accurate in inventory control!" You're telling me!
Originally Posted By DlandDug (Blocked at every turn, the group makes its way across the darkened ruins of the Golden Horseshoe. As they cross the stage, they are confronted by a formidable tangle of ropes, weights and canvas bags.) DlandDug: I'm not giving up now! I can see a glimmer of light in the wings. If only iluvdisneyland hadn't wrenched his back pulling that churro cart off NAPC. He'd know what to do. He's a cast member AND a stage manager. Are there any other men here who can help me? Labuda: (pushing her way to the front of the group) Well, I ain't a man. And I ain't a cast member. But I'm sure one spitfire of a stage manager! DlandDug: I don't care if you're the devil himself. Can you make heads or tails of this mess that's blocking us? Labuda: Sure can, partner. That's the pin rail, and those sandbags over there are entangled in the counterweights. Get me a group over here, and I'll have this opened up in a jiffy... DlandDug: You heard her! Don't stand there! Do as she says...if you want to live!
Originally Posted By iluvdisneyland Wait wait wait... The Golden Horseshoe has a pin rail and a counter weight sustem?!
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs Wow... Labuda has become The Unsinkable Molly Brown! You know, Dug, you're doing a great job at this. I think if I had known more LPers and actually sat down once a week to tend to my writing, I could pull a short story out of this! << iluvdisneyland: Wait wait wait... The Golden Horseshoe has a pin rail and a counter weight sustem?!>> Well, DUUUUHHHHHHHH! I'm merely a non-AP guest and even *I* knew THAT! ;p
Originally Posted By DlandDug iluv: for the purposes of this fictionalized account of the brave struggle of a group of LPers to escape the ruins of Disneyland... the Golden Horseshoe has both a pin rail AND a counterweight system. (Wait 'til we get to the section of the movie where we find Walt's frozen body under New Orleans Square!)
Originally Posted By iluvdisneyland At least I didn't mentioned that the pin rail and counter weight system also uses sand bags!
Originally Posted By DlandDug (The weary band of survivors have managed to make their way through the subterranean passages leading from store room to store room under New Orleans Square. As water slowly drains from the grottos above, threatening them all and cutting off any other escape route, they come to a door with a prominent handle, and a strangely worded notice.) DlandDug: (reading) "Chernabog to cleft temple?" What in the...? JBStew: It must be some sort of a pun! DlandDug: well, I can't make heads nor tails of it. We're doomed, I guess. I've... I've lead you all astray... (As the sound of trickling water and muffled sobs fills the darkened room, a lone, bent figure struggles forward. It is friendofdd.) friendofdd: Let me at that pun, sonny. DlandDug: What can you do? friendofdd: I may not have been able to slide down that cable back there by myself, but if there's one thing I do know-- it's puns! (he squints at the sign in the gloom, silently mouthing the words) Hmmm...Chernabog to cleft... Uh huh. Tchurn...bog...KNOB...c-left...(he turns decisively) Turn the knob to left! DlandDug: (turning the knob) OK. It IS turning. But no matter how hard I push, it won't budge! friendofdd: (with a smile) Of course not. Temple. DlandDug: Temple? friendofdd: Tem-pull. (he reaches out and gently pulls on the door, which easily opens) DlandDug: (as the group gratefully pushes through the door and struggles up the staircase inside) You've saved our lives, friendofdd. Who knew you had such valuable skills! friendofdd: Ah, it was nothing...
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs OMG... I just found out who friendofdd really is!!! FRANK GORSHIN!!!!
Originally Posted By FiveBearRugs (FiveBearRugs slowly opened his eyes and was met by great flames surrounding him. The heat was intense and took his breath away. He slowly got up, wincing at the pain in his head. He looked around and saw a horde of bugs and rats climbing the ceiling) FiveBearRugs: Wait a minute... those aren't...real, are they? (He stares intently and realizes that they are merely projections on the wall. Another explosion rattles the place as a giant snake leaps out at him. He yells and moves out of the way as the stone reptile crashes to the ground.) CMPaley: That's probably the only time that thing ever worked! FiveBearRugs: CMPaley?? What are you doing here? What...where...what happened? CMPaley: I don't know. But we're stuck inside Indy... or what's left of it. Although from the looks of things, you'd never notice the difference! (FiveBearRugs looks around as some of the fallen boulders and overturned jeeps. The fires were burning on their own, but not enough to do any serious damage... yet) FiveBearRugs: Are you alone? How do we get out of here? Ursula: No, he's not, and we don't know! FiveBearRugs: Ursula! Are you alright? Ursula: I'll be fine. You can join us, 5BR. We figured we might try to find one of the emergency exits in this place. (More LPers emerge from behind Ursula. Included in the group are roberts1398, mmaus1962, BlacksheepUncle, wendebird, WilliamK99, edisyoda, Mr. X, TDLFan, oc_dean, Miss Candice, Darkbeer, lesmisfan and the entire Nurmi family) Miss Candice: Darkbeer, do you still have that lightsaber you use to direct us when we have our mini-meets? Darkbeer: I sure do! (he pulls out one of those extendtable plastic lightswords) Edisyoda: From here where do we go? oc_dean: It's obvious that we've passed the bridge. Perhaps we can try crossing it since we're close to the beginning of the ride. Mr. X: Pffft. Can't you see that that's suicide! As soon as someone gets on it, the whole thing falls apart. Mrs.Nurmi: There's got to be a security exit around here. (without warning, a violent tremor shakes the place, causing more rubble to fall down and the flames to erupt) mmaus1962: Well, let's get lookin' for it and fast! (Meanwhile, at the makeshift emergency center at HoJo's, Inspector57 examines the possible stress points with Doobie, Rebekah and the rest of the ADMIN staff) Inspector57: It's, it's too risky. We can't lead a search team in that area. Our best bet would be to open up the Matterhorn and climb in there. Doobie: We can't just pick one spot. I need to send more men to the various lands. If we send cover more ground, we might be able to find them faster! Inspector57: And we send your men all over the place, the whole dang park will look like the end of Fantasia 2000! The whole ground level of Disneyland is like a floating time-bomb! I cannot risk your men going in like that when we have people down there trying to get out! Doobie: And what about DCA? Inspector57: It's completely destroyed, save for the Tower of Terror, and some remnants of the Animation Building and Grizzly Peak. It's like a recreation of Planet of the Apes. As luck would have it, there was nobody there when that meteor hit.