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  1. Maeryk

    Photography etiquette within the parks

    Nah. People we're doing this with Brownie cameras. It's just a lack of paying attention to their surroundings. I particularly love the folks with a 50mm closeup lens on their slr trying to get a shot of something huge with someone in front of it, standing 30 feet back and expecting all traffic...
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    News Move It! Shake It! MousekeDance It! Street Party coming to Magic Kingdom in the new year

    Because we all use acronyms and they are punking us now. That will be proven when they open five different things with the same initials at the same time.
  3. Maeryk

    Disney Is Reportedly Looking to Reboot Pirates of the Caribbean

    After Black Sails and the PotC movies, we need some throwback pirates, straight out of golden age Hollywood. The cartoonish type the rides originally featured. At least, that is what I would love to see. More Horatio Hornblower high seas Douglas Fairbanks style, and less mumbly mystical compass...
  4. Maeryk

    Any theories on why Disney poorly maintains many of their rides?

    There's really no single answer, but it's an amalgamation of different issues. Budget, obviously, factors into everything. How many attractions can be down at a time is another major concern. Disney has a refurb schedule for it's rides, and it factors what is closed and when carefully...
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    Disney Is Reportedly Looking to Reboot Pirates of the Caribbean

    My bet is this won't be a film, but a series for their burgeoning streaming service. Netflix and Hulu figured out that you need fresh content constantly. While the streaming service will, obviously, heavily feature "the vault", as well as live action remakes we neither want nor need, plus the...
  6. Maeryk

    Walt's favorite attraction?

    Train. Walt had a lifelong love of them, and they are deeply entwined in Disney history..both his own, working as a salesman on them, and the parks..as Disneyland basically grew out of Carollwood, his large scale toy train.. or miniature scale real train, in his yard. Disneyland gave him the...
  7. Maeryk

    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

    The boat from DS to PO:R is scary dark at night.
  8. Maeryk

    News New Gondola Transportation - Disney Skyliner -

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  9. Maeryk

    Rumor Is Indiana Jones Planning an Adventure to Disney's Animal Kingdom?

    And yet, we have a yeti, Up!, Bugs life, Nemo, 7 foot blue green aliens.. They could make Indy fit. Much of the study of the Flora and fauna is the study of history.
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    Rumor Is Indiana Jones Planning an Adventure to Disney's Animal Kingdom?

    Have Indy chasing after some baddy who is stealing rare dinosaur bits out of some place. Make said baddy some horribly polluting creep (a la a Dirk Pitt nemesis.. secret lair and white Persian cat and all). Have the hunt lead you through exotic untouched locales, where nature is still natural..
  11. Maeryk

    Indiana Jones Land?

    Of course it's derivative. That's what Lucas does. Takes tropes and idiom from pop culture and makes a loud, glowing homage to them. I Jones is Alan quartermain, doc Savage, and half a dozen other pulp and serial archetypes rolled into one perfect character. Just as Star Wars was spaghetti...
  12. Maeryk

    Indiana Jones Land?

    Ehh. DHS is the biggest direct competitor to the folks down the street. It has the two thrilliest of rides, and will have the land that makes potterville look like petticoat junction. Having a very dated ride with broken animatronics, referencing movies, many of which are more than 50 years old...
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    News Tron coaster coming to the Magic Kingdom

    But it is... Cyber.. (takes off sunglasses) space. Yeeeeeeaahhhhhhh....
  14. Maeryk

    Daredevil Season 3

    I'm sure you'll see Luke and IF show up now and then, in the "annuals" (much like CW does their 4 show megabraid). Frankly, I'm not sure the market (or storylines) are there for Netflix to do 5 shows non-concurrently yet keep them related and crossoverable. That works a lot better when you...
  15. Maeryk

    Daredevil Season 3

    Haven't had time to binge it yet. S2 was very reminiscent of the Ann Nocenti helmed comics. Dark and angsty (even for ole hornhead). It was a long slow build, and the Netflix team have shown what they can do when they try (punisher) and when they don't (iron meh). I'm cautiously optimistic about...
  16. Maeryk

    Haunted Mansion pre-show

    I've waited in there...or not. Seems to depend on how busy the ride is and how long you have to wait for a stretching room to reset, more than anything else. They seem to run you through faster at night, which makes sense.. much of that dark lag time is to let your eyes adjust. Back when...
  17. Maeryk

    Where to get rideshare at Epcot

    I would assume the same place the non Disney taxis, shuttles, and tour buses go, which are usually beyond the Disney bus areas, in the parking lot.
  18. Maeryk

    News Tomorrowland love

    Is that the original plinth, or a new one set in the fresh concrete? The bedding needs time to set up fully before they can put anything of significant weight or shear on it.
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    Rumor Wonders of Life getting an attraction soon?

    IIRC, that was kinda set up with two parts ( more like The Land pavilion, than say, Energy) where there was a larger floor area with displays, and then the ride/attraction towards the back, right? I can't imagine they haven't thought of doing a BH6 and Inside Out double bill with the...
  20. Maeryk

    Were the lines really shorter back in the day or do we imagine this?

    Uhh.. people with fast pass are waiting too. It's not like it becomes walk on whenever you want. The attendance has been steadily increasing for the last two decades. That is fact. And Disney only has so much space to build queues.. especially covered ones. I guess we could have the Six Flags...
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