Originally Posted By 999HAUNTS I am a HM spiel reciter. But...only when the whole elevator is full of LPers doing the same thing during one of our meets where we are THE ONLY people in there.
Originally Posted By ImTempest My ten year old son recites the Haunted Mansion spiel, not because he is a "privileged PAP holder", but because I bought a Disneyland CD that we listen to in the car constantly. He loves it!
Originally Posted By Sparrow One time on the Jungle Cruise, right before the guide shot at the hippo, a bunch of people covered their ears before he told them too. Must have been AP holders.
Originally Posted By crapshoot Yeah, in the circles that I have been known to travel with in the Park, we have been known to: Sing along with the birdies. Stomp our feet and sing along with the Country Bears. Sing along with the Pirates. Sing along with America Sings. Recite various spiels inside Mansion, including the Stretching Room. Mock Mr. Johnson in Mission to Mars. Tilt our bodies in America the Beautiful in order to mimic the image on the screen. Swing our feet wildly on Soarin' and clap afterwards. Clap, stomp our feet and sing along with the shows in the Golden Horseshoe. Sing along with the Electrical Light Parade. Drive the Autopia cars with no hands. Mess up nicely displayed T-shirts in the stores. Sing along with the Carousel of Progress theme song, It's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow. Sing along with the Small World Brats. (almost sunk a boat once) Always were sure to laugh on the Mike Fink Keel Boats' joke about: "Those on the bottom, watch your tops and those on the top watch your bottoms." Ride the Tom Sawyer Rafts like DeCaprio. Stand on the back platform of the Horse Drawn Carriage and wave at everybody. On rare occasions sing along with Rod Miller. Mimic the bear snoring in the cave at the entrance to Bear Country. Give our best Rebel Yells on The Flying Saucers. Yodel on the Matterhorn. Yell out a rousing; "I think I can, I think I can" on Casey Junior. Attempt to carry on normal conversations while riding Space Mt. Hummm along to Swisska Polka. Ask every CM what time the 9:35 fireworks show is. Make obnoxious coughing noises walking past the smoking areas. Make friendly chit-chat with the Engineer on the Mark Twain. Sing the theme to Gilligan's Isle on the Motorboat Cruise. Charge across the Barrel Bridge getting just as wet as possible. Charge across the Suspension Bridge bouncing it just as hard as possible. Having active conversations with the "Party-Line" phones on Main Street. Ordering a Welch's Grape Juice Suicide. Playing a version of Marco-Polo in the Tom Sawyer Island caves. Ya know, generally having a great time at Disneyland over the years. So to all of you sanctamonious cry babies who don't want your personal Disneyland freedoms troddened upon, I deliver you one outstanding rasberry - also known as the Bronx Cheer!
Originally Posted By FerretAfros What? No paddling backwards on the canoes? It does double duty of making it harder for everybody else to paddle (since you mess up the rhythm and the paddle is resisting forward motion) and getting everybody around you soaked in gross green water. Seems like every time I'm on, there's a kid right around me who has that at the top of his 'must do' list. : )
Originally Posted By crapshoot <<What? No paddling backwards on the canoes?>> Funny, I had thought about that and sticking ones hand out on Materhorn at the right moment.
Originally Posted By doombuggy re post #20 Because it was advertised as THE LAST SHOW EVER. And was aimed at AP'ers to buy tickets to see it. Then when they got to the park OH LOOK now it's not the last and you just spent more money to get in. That's called bait and switch and false advertisement.
Originally Posted By hbquikcomjamesl Re: Post #30 No, it's called a passholder party, no more expensive than any of the other passholder parties of that era, with Parade dancer meet-and-greet opportunities, special musicians (I think that was the passholder party that had the Belle-Air Brass), special souvenirs, and so forth. And it's called "held over by popular demand." And the whining I encountered -- MEAN, in the classical sense of extreme stinginess -- reminds me of the last line of Steve Martin's short-short, "Demolition of The Cathedral at Chartres" (in "Cruel Shoes"), which can be read at <a href="http://redknotstudio.com/compleatsteve/miscellany/cruelshoes_1.htm" target="_blank">http://redknotstudio.com/compl...es_1.htm</a> That one cannot experience joy at the prospect of two more weeks of a favorite Disney experience, or the news that it's been given another reprieve at WDW-MK, and then yet another at DCA, says a lot of not very flattering things about one's soul.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo I suppose AP whining is what killed the AP parties. Pity. They were great.
Originally Posted By doombuggy "No, it's called a passholder party" Yes it was but it was also being sold as "The last show ever, only people at that party would see it at DL for the last time. Which was not true, Why do you think it never came back to DL? Because the company was threatened with a class action lawsuit if they did.
Originally Posted By hbquikcomjamesl Yes, a class-action lawsuit. By a bunch of ungrateful, classically-mean, jerks. Had I been approached to join such a class action, I would have not only told them what they could do with it, but would have put myself at the disposal of Disney's legal department. Actually, if memory serves correctly, it was billed as the last time to see it *anywhere.* And do you really think they expected such an overwhelming public demand? Even for the MSEP? And "Yookeroo" is almost certainly spot-on about passholder whining killing passholder parties.
Originally Posted By hbquikcomjamesl . . . or that they expected DCA to be so badly hurting for guests, that they'd need it to keep that park alive? Why should anybody object to The Parade getting multiple new leases on life?
Originally Posted By doombuggy don't get me wrong I'm soooooo not for APers that think they are owed. How ever things should be exactly as they are advertised. I for one wanted EP to come back to DL. "I suppose AP whining is what killed the AP parties. Pity. They were great." I often wonder that myself, The few times I had an AP I went to 2. They were awsome maybe the cost was too high to run and staff for how cheap the tickets were.
Originally Posted By cerise667 Haunted mansion, a lot of the room recited the spiel, sotto voce I was amused... no one louder than the entertainment... but it seemed everyone laughed in line later someone behind laughing saying he felt like he was the only one who had been there only a few times. I guess it depends on the group... or technique... but, we've done it, without considering it might make people angry I'm more irritated when the chatting crowd talks louder when the intro starts... flash bulbs in my eyes, talking on cell phones, cell phones noises, kids kicking the seats (or anything else).... The movie has started dear... AP or not, we had the jungle boat routine memorized as kids, what was it then... a B ticket?
Originally Posted By doombuggy HM has become a Rocky horror thing now. What makes me laugh is after you go down the first fall on Pirates. People start singing but only know YO HO.
Originally Posted By Dole_Whip_Adventure I like reciting some spiels, but quietly, and only to my friends who go along with me. Although, I'm better at the Indy safety spiel, and the video before the tortilla factory! Haha! I just really enjoy the HM line, "Your cadaverous pallor betrays an aura of foreboding." But I try not to bother anyone as I geek out.
