Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "You do realize that at least one person has drowned in the Rivers of America, right?" I read about that, I can't remember the circumstances though. I'd like to see a video of the boat tipping over and people toppling out. I'd save a bit of compassion for how those people felt in the midst of my hooting and hollering. Come on people, this wasn't the Titanic!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt I can't swim very well so if I'd been on that boat there definitely would have been some drama on the river that day.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <Maybe guests don't want to power their own attractions?> They never did. I had guests insist that we were on a track and powered by 'some kind of motor' all the time.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan The drama would have been being knee deep in duck poop, sunglasses, old Disneyland Today guides, churro flotsam, cigarette butts and God knows what else lurking in the murky depths beneath the placid surface of the Rivers of America.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Well, if your going to get picky. Don't forget whatever chemical that is used in it so you cannot see the bottom. I rode the Jungle Cruise once when the water was maroon. No kidding...I kept asking the "captain" why it was that color. Never did answer me.
Originally Posted By HokieSkipper <<I rode the Jungle Cruise once when the water was maroon. No kidding...I kept asking the "captain" why it was that color. Never did answer me.>> The JC in the Magic Kingdom uses some sort of cranberry based dye. I know it's not toxic or harmful since the JC drains to a natural waterway.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA <I rode the Jungle Cruise once when the water was maroon. No kidding...I kept asking the "captain" why it was that color. Never did answer me.> It was from the blood of Jungle Cruise skippers who muffed 'the back side of water' joke one too many times.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf <<"You do realize that at least one person has drowned in the Rivers of America, right?" I read about that, I can't remember the circumstances though. >> I believe it was two youngish boys who decided to hide out on Tom Sawyer Island after park closing. One of the boys got scared during the night and decided to swim across and started having problems. The other boy went to help him and they ended up both drowning. I think they were brothers. Tragic story....but where were their parents?
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost >>>It was from the blood of Jungle Cruise skippers who muffed 'the back side of water' joke one too many times.<<< That splains it!
Originally Posted By SpokkerJones "The other boy went to help him and they ended up both drowning." The younger boy did not drown. The other Rivers of America drowning happened on Grad Nite. <a href="http://www.snopes.com/disney/parks/deaths.asp" target="_blank">http://www.snopes.com/disney/p...aths.asp</a>
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "I seem to remember 'small world' as one of the attractions that didn't require a ticket - along with 'adventure thru inner space', 'circlevision', and 'carousel of progress'. I'm not certain of the exact roster, but there were a few different "sponsored" attractions that didn't require any tickets or coupons." Wow - I'd never heard of that! Shows that even after a lifetime of learning about something there are still new things to learn!
Originally Posted By Bob Paris 1 "who cares what the "Q" looks like" I'd say John DeLancie cares a LOT, since he basically funded his life on it! If you meant "queue"(which Americans seem to have a very hard time spelling - maybe it's that pesky "u" which they want to removed from every other word!), then your point makes more sense!
Originally Posted By Dabob2 See post 83. iasw, though sponsored, was always an E ticket. Other sponsored attractions that still charged coupons included the PM, the Tiki Room, Country Bears, and the various versions of Flight to the Moon/Mars (first TWA, then McDonnell Douglas.) Some other attractions gained or lost or changed sponsors too. The major free ones are shown in post 83.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "The river is like three feet deep!" It is? I thought it was deeper.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt OMG Spokker, the Snopes article about the DL deaths is chilling. Especially the story about the kid who got ran over by a monorail!
