Hatrack is slow today, so I guess I have to start my own threads. If I get really desperate, I'll respond to myself as well!
So I just wanted to brag about the fact that I got a sneak preview of the newest Epcot ride a couple of weeks ago (unfortunately, I was otherwise too busy at the time to post about it).
Anyway, no time to post now, but it was VERY COOL!
Nyah nyah!
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
Icarus, I am so jealous.
You know, with Hatrack so dead, we could launch a score of evil plots without anyone noticing. It could be high times for thee and me, sort of like getting locked in overnight in a candy store, but without the inevitable root canals in our forties.
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
(why is there a dog in the space suit? )
Posted by mackillian (Member # 586) on :
Do you really want to know?
'Cause I wouldn't.
o_O
Posted by ClaudiaTherese (Member # 923) on :
(well, I'm thinking it could be a great setup for a pun, but I'm not sharp enough to think one up)
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
quote: why is there a dog in the space suit?
Cause the elephant couldn't fit?
Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
quote: why is there a dog in the space suit?
He's the Lunar Rover.
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Posted by LadyDove (Member # 3000) on :
There was a big promotion for "Mission Space" during the commercial breaks for "Mission to Mars" last night on ABC.
It looked pretty cool!
::Curious:: Disney has done "Country Bears" and "Pirates of the Carribean". "Haunted Mansion" is due out around Christmas time. They just did a TV version of "Mission to Mars". What other rides can they parlay into films?
[ August 17, 2003, 03:12 PM: Message edited by: LadyDove ]
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Next Christmas's big blockbuster: It's a Small World After All, in which a Latino boy of unknown descent growing up as a ward of the state in LA runs away with his dog to find a place where they can fit in. They travel throughout all of Latin America and meet many kind-hearted people, but never quite feel at home, so they stow away on a plane bound for Spain. They end up traveling throughout Europe, and the rest of the continents as well, attracting international attention along their quest and millions of adoption offers. They finally discover that home is wherever you choose to make it, and that people are basically the same wherever you go, and move in with an African American social worker (who was born in Kenya) whose offer to adopt they boy had rejected before setting out on his quest. This point is symbolically underscored by a certain redundancy throughout the story line, and the sense that, even though people everywhere speak different languages, they are all basically saying the same thing. Opens December 1st!
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
Starring Haley Joel Osment as the young Latino boy!
Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :
Wow! That will be a blockbuster for sure!
btw, I really liked Pirates
Posted by Dan_raven (Member # 3383) on :
When I went to Epcot 2 or 3 years ago I signed up for their E-Mail list to get info on this ride.
It came a week ago, but I've been to busy to play with it.
Bob==Great Rover joke.
Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :
I remember jealously staring at the "Ride in progress" signs when I went to Disneyworld last year...
(Loves Epcot)
(Will probably never get to go back. ;_;)
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
You can't miss the action epic in production: Monorail. And next spring's quirky adventure about working in Disneyland: E Ticket !
Posted by Icarus (Member # 3162) on :
And for early 2005: Maelstrom, a horror/drama in which a brave executive and his freckle-faced young daughter battle rabid ecoterrorists and angry trolls to bring the benefits of offshore oil drilling to a grateful Norway! You are not the first or last to pass this way . . . but it'll be the last time for you!
"I came seeking adventure and excitement, but instead I found beauty and enchantment!" -Roger Ebert
Posted by eslaine (Member # 5433) on :
heheheheheheehehehee!
Posted by LadyDove (Member # 3000) on :
How about "The Jungle Cruise" starring Steve Martin.
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
You know, I so enjoyed this thread! Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
My wife and I were at Epcot a few weeks ago and caught the Mission Space ride. It left us both feeling sick. It's one of those centrifuge things. When we got off the ride there was a little room for people to sit and recover. The room was packed. People were lying on the floor, holding their stomachs.
The best ride at Epcot in my opinion was the Exxon, Ellen Degenres, moving theater ride. The GM test track was cool too.
Posted by Dead_Horse (Member # 3027) on :
*dissapointed this thread is not about redecorating with craftsman-style oak furniture*
Oh. well. Looking for hidden Mickeys is good, too.
oo Posted by MyrddinFyre (Member # 2576) on :
Test Track is GREAT. *excited* *gets to go to Disney this summer*
Posted by Sugar+Spice (Member # 5874) on :
Oh, I went on this a couple of weeks ago. Considering that both I and my mother, who I was with, suffer from serious sea sickness (I only have to step into a boat to get ill and once got sea sick on the River Thames on a very calm day) we both had a great time.
The trick, for anyone who want to try it in the future, is to listen to the instructions. If you don't take your eyes from the screen even for a moment, you'll probably be ok. If you do, I think that's when the disorientation and motion sickness sets in. However, if you suffer from claustrophobia, this is not the ride for you either. The girl next to us in the line bolted for the door as soon as she saw how small the cubicles are.
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
quote: The best ride at Epcot in my opinion was the Exxon, Ellen Degenres, moving theater ride.
o_O
This is the sarcasm, yes?
[ May 01, 2004, 12:19 PM: Message edited by: Megachirops ]
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
No, not sarcasm.
I'm a home theater enthusiast, and all the projectors and big screens in there got me quite excited. Then when the theater seating started moving, I about piddled my shorts.
Posted by Megachirops (Member # 4325) on :
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Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :
Dead Horse:
And by far the best ride in Epcot is.....
El Rio Del Tiempo.
The song will turn your brain to mush 3.7 seconds faster than the song in "It's a Small World." The Imagineers worked dozens of years to perfect it.
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
Thank you Ic, Bob, CT, and everyone else. This is the funniest thread I've read recently, and made me actually laugh out loud.
The epic Monorail had me giggling here at work like a seeming idiot to my co-workers. No wait, they all left. Oh well.
Sorry I have nothing more intelligent to contribute to this thread. Although Tower of Tower might make a nice remake of a Twlight Zone epidose. Maybe a 1 hour DIsney special?
Didn't they just build a Tower of Terror in Disneyland???
Posted by Alucard... (Member # 4924) on :
I was going to correct the spelling of "epidose" but thought if was fitting to the drug business and left it as is!
Can you tell I am doing my annual inventory?
Posted by skillery (Member # 6209) on :
The unicycle kid on the tightrope is my favorite part of the It's a Small World ride (that and smooching with my honey), but the unicycle was broken this time. Boy was I cheezed off.
Posted by Lara (Member # 132) on :
Tower of Tower
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