One of these things is NOT like the others

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    Originally Posted By brotherdave

    No, and not the one that's different.
     
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    Originally Posted By FerretAfros

    Here's the list again:

    Spaceship Earth
    Space Mountain
    Maelstrom
    Haunted Mansion
    Expedition Everest


    Everest is the only one that goes compeltely outdoors (not just past a hole in the building)?
     
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    Originally Posted By brotherdave

    Not what I'm looking for. But it does have to do with what the vehicles do...
     
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    Originally Posted By brotherdave

    Also, Everest isn't the choice either...
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Space Mountain's vehicles always travel in one direction and face the same way, while the other vehicles can go backwards, tilt and such?
     
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    Originally Posted By brotherdave

    That's the answer! Space Mountain doesn't travel in reverse, while the other vehicles do travel 'backwards' at some point during the ride.
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Cinderella
    Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
    Dumbo
    The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
    101 Dalmations
    The Great Mouse Detective
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    So many ways to slice and dice this list. How about the fact that Ichabod & Mr. Toad was a "package" feature?
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Ah, but that is the joy of this game. ;)

    And while that is a difference, that's not the one I'm looking for. Ichy and Toad is not the odd one out...
     
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    Originally Posted By FerretAfros

    101 Dalmatians is the only one spelled wrong? : )

    The Great Mouse Detective is the only one that used computers to aid the animation process?
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Just had to point that out, eh? :)

    Nope, not Great Mouse Detective either.
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Hint: think about sources....
     
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    Originally Posted By brotherdave

    Dumbo wasn't based on a previously published book or story?
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Yup, you're up!
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Well, a literary source to be specific. The fairy tales started out as oral narratives were have been published in literary form many times over since then.
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    Actually, Dumbo was based on an obscure children's book by Helen Aberson.
     
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    Originally Posted By GGGF

    Really? The sources I read said it was inspired merely by a picture of an elephant with big ears in a comic strip that was given away in cereal boxes.
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    I've read that the book was so obscure that the authors were surprised that Walt Disney had ever seen a copy.

    Here's the NY Times obit for the author:
    <a href="http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E4DA1338F933A25757C0A96F958260" target="_blank">http://query.nytimes.com/gst/f
    ullpage.html?res=9E07E4DA1338F933A25757C0A96F958260</a>
     
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    Originally Posted By alexbook

    So, returning to GGGF's list, "Dumbo" was the only one not based on a well-known work of literature. Close enough. :)

    Oh, brotherdave, where art thou?
     
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    Originally Posted By brotherdave

    Disneyland Monorail System
    Walt Disney World Monorail System
    Disneyland Railroad
    Peter Pan's Flight
     

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