Recent content by Lost Boy

Being from California I can speak from seeing it first hand. For months, and on occasion still happening, the ride is almost a walk on for the first hour the Park is open, sometimes less. Then as the day wears on, the line get longer and longer and longer. By late afternoon the line is hours...

What's missing is the entire Pinnochio Parade Unit which "disappeared" during the return of the Parade from New York after they used it there down Broadway. That unit always caused problems and always seemed to run out of power before the second parade ended, even on the final night. But the...

And don't forge the most important thing of all. If it wasn't for Disneyland and it's phenominal success. there would be no WDW or Tokyo DL or Paris DL. Disneyland is the Grandfather of all Disney Theme Parks. Everything started right here. Yes, it is smaller and more compact, but that makes...

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Thanks for the comments. And there is plenty of room to walk as all this stuff is on shelves along the walls. And, strange as this may sound, I spent most of my time in the bedroom as that is where the daybed is, and I sit on that during the day/evening and the TV and Computer are also in...

I have updated my web site from Tower of Terror Secrest to "The Lair of The Lost Boy" which is a page on my new apartment. Ignore the BACK/NEXT links at the top of each page as I didn't put them there, and have no idea where they come from. Instead, from the Main Page, click on the Lost Boy...

I hope you all know me well enough by now to beleive what I say. First, DCA is a good Park.. Not a Great/fabulous/cutting edge Park, but a good, fun place to go. Second, it's not Disneyland. Never was intended to be. Never will be. Not supposed to be. Get over it. There is a lot to...

They were sent by an aquantence via the net who is putting together a book of ride floor plans. He made copies and sent them to me via snail mail. I have put together a booklet on everything I have learned up to now from Imagineers who worked on the attraction and the corrected floor plans and...

Tower Questions Answered I went to a huge Disney convention this past Sunday and met the Imangineer who filmed and did the Ghost Corridor, edited the film that is shown in the library, and helped design the ride. He was very nice and spent about 20 minutes going over all the floor plans I...

I think you are right. I keep getting the "Corridor" and "5th Dimension" mixed up. The blueprints do show what looks like corriors on two seperat floors and another that shows a big open space on the 5th floor. I just went back and reread the Bellhop Interview from a previous reply in this...

Well, I gues I am relpying to my own post, but I finally put everything that I read here together with the blueprints and the video tape I have of the ride and realized where my mistake was. So I am pretty sure I had the blueprint the wrong way round and now understand how it works. I had the...

The Dragons are all CGI done by Disney's own Secret Lab. This was (note the word "Was") there in house digital effects area. They did the special effects on tons of movies. The people working on this movie wanted the best Dragon ever put on screen since "Dragonslayer's" Vermathrax, which is...

Unload to Load What I think has me, and a lot of other people very confused about this very complicated unload to load situation (and I am trying to build a working model of this thing and this is the one point that has me stumped): You enter the building on level 2 and go into one of two...

In the building that was the que area used to be the Circle Rama theater that showed travel type movies on a 360 degree screen. As the Rocket Rides Que area, it was used to show the films about transportation during the que line. The tunnel was new. The Astro Jets are now called Orbitron and...

In one of my conversations with Tony Baxter, I asked him about Alien Encounter coming to Disneyland. This was just after the "New Tomorrowland" opened and we were there for the Press Preview. He said that they had looked into it (he created the ride) and came to the unfortunate conclusion that...