Originally Posted By dresswhites i went on the twain yesterday, the boat looks great. the spiel, though is a little grating. maybe it just because i am not used to it. but it seems like he doesn't shut up. I don't remember the past spiels pointing out everything you can see or having long drawn out details of the different sites. the worst parts was when the boat passed the native american village and the backside of the island. With the native american village, we got how they called the boat in their language, how they work together, that the shaman was probabaly telling the story of the flute. (how they got that i don't know)Also interspersed in there was a mark twain antedote about marriage. i didn't understand the point of that. what the boat is named mark twain, so they have some kind of refrence to twain? then when you get to the back of the island, you get this really complicated back story to why they are pirates on tom sawyer island. i think it was something along the lines that Tom Sawyer was not playing, but he was the island's first pirate, he discovered the island. what? it didn't seem like this part of the spiel was really needed, they already adknowledged when they first past the island, that there were pirates off of New orleans. I think they need to give up on the complicated back story of the island. the other thing is some of the background music sounds more southwestern than southern.
Originally Posted By Candjp >>that the shaman was probabaly telling the story of the flute. (how they got that i don't know)<< The Shaman is actually holding a flute and they mentioned that he was probably telling the story of it in the previous spiel as well.
Originally Posted By imadisneygal ^^^^^Or, if you're with a CM who thinks they're funny then he's telling the story of how the churro came to his people...
Originally Posted By SIR at X-S Tech Well if they followed the model of the previous spiels, there's so much Mark Twain reference because one of the people talking is supposed to be Mark Twain. It's supposed to be Mark Twain and the Riverboat Captain speaking. I'll have to hear the new spiel to judge, but the only thing you mentioned that seems new is the bit about Pirates on the Island and maybe the Marriage story.
Originally Posted By dresswhites no mark twain is not narrating anymore. it is just one person. a first mate speaks spanish, though.
Originally Posted By spaceace Just rode the MT today. The spiel seems a littl more than it used to be. The antedote about marriage was that river boats look like wedding cakes. I do not remeber the rest.The park was really slow this morning untill around 11:30. I guess everyone runs to the subs first thing.
Originally Posted By Colin >> Also interspersed in there was a mark twain antedote about marriage. << I think you mean "anecdote". An "antidote" for marriage would be a divorce. I'm pretty sure Mark Twain wasn't giving divorce advice.
Originally Posted By jonvn "you get this really complicated back story" They really think they need a story so badly now. IT clutters stuff up. Their best stuff has no real story. By trying to cram story into these things, they cause them to be overwrought.
Originally Posted By dresswhites ^^^i agree with this. i don't mind that they have a pirates overlay of the island. i could just do with out the complicated back story.
