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Horizons, 1986

Was there last Thursday, first visit since '02. Cool and windy. Enjoyed Blue Bayou. And that little kids boat ride. We loved it. Yes, Space Mtn. is too rough. I thought maybe it's just because I'm getting old. It rattled my brain. Got to ride original Star Tours one last time. Didn't the geysers...

Walt was dishonorably discharged from the Army. On October 1st. FALSE and FALSE. (I include this under WDW because bus drivers for some bizarre reason like to tell this lie.)

Just curious, anyone with knowledge of past park closings due to earthquakes?

40 minutes? Gee, I hope they turned the music off.

Ironically, Harry Potter movies are Warner Bros. and not Universal. They just bought the theme park rights. Twister and Beetlejuice are also Warner Bros. Men in Black - Columbia. Terminator - Orion. They do have actual Universal properties as well, thanks mostly to the Spielberger. Of...

It looks massive. There's another video where Joe Rohde says they are adding 30 new shows and attractions. Thirty? Then he says this will give the park 100 shows and attractions. Huh.

Given by a CM years ago: (the sheet is full of typos and spelling errors. I've tried to correct them.) - Cliffs of Etretat in Normandy (Debussy - Solo for Flute) - Marais Poitvin near La Rochelle (Saint Saens - Aquarium from the Carnival of the Animals) - Chateau Chenonceaux - Horsemen and...

There's a desert scene near the beginning of The Land ride. And in Soarin' there's a shot of Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. The landscape in Big Thunder is desert-like. I read that the parking lot for the AK is supposed to be The Sahara leading up to the lush, tropical landscape of the park...

Horizons, World of Motion, and Journey Into Imagination. Mike Fink Keelboats, 20,000, Skyway, Timekeeper, Alien Encounter Superstar Television, Monster Sound Show, Hunchback show None of these were replaced with anything better - or in some cases anything.

Oops. I take it back. As it turns out, this is exactly what they are doing. Yikes. I haven't done that in years, maybe decades, and remember how dreary it was. But as I mentioned in an above post, $620 for four people is too god to pass up for them. I hope by the time of my next trip...

Thanks. Basically from London you can fly on Air Canada (very expensive right now) to Toronto or Calgary, United to Chicago, or charter Westjet to several places. That's pretty much the extent of it, except for a charter to Cuba for package deals once a week. They keep expanding the airport...

Just priced it. For the four of them it's $620 total with tax on Delta and $880 total with tax on Air Trans. Both are cheap, but Delta is dirt. United out of London would have been $450 each - or $1800 total. So begrudgingly, they've decided to drive and overnight it in Detroit. But that's...

Actually, it's London, Ontario not England!! Tacking on the London/Detroit leg didn't cost much extra if any. That was the part of the beauty (and possibly part of the reason it was axed). It was like a loss leader to get you to one of their hubs. I've looked into it further - the United...

Thanks for the tips. But for us, "drive to Detroit," "hotel" "shuttle service" and park'n fly" are four letter words. The whole point was to drive 10 minutes to the airport, hop on the plane (with 15 others) and be in Orlando by Noon. We've done the other way and it's horrid, especially in the...

A staple of our trips to WDW has been taking the early morning flight to Detroit from London, ON, then continuing on to MCO, getting in around Noon. But Delta bought Northwest and now they are discontinuing those flights. We just got back two weeks ago, and my family was booked Jan. 4th for the...

Of course it depends on the circumstance, but I'm not sure Disney lost money in my case. I stayed nine nights at the Poly intent on going to IOA on one day. Without Harry I may have shortened my trip by a day, or maybe not, so we'll call that a wash. I bought a 7-day park hopper. Don't think I...

I certainly can't envision an entire resort themed around Splash Mountain or Haunted Mansion, or any attraction. However, keep in mind that the original resorts were linked to a land in the MK (Poly - Adventureland, Ft. W. - Frontierland, Contemp - Tomorrow). Riding Splash Mountain would lose...

I can only compare it to my visit in March 2002 when everything was a walk on. I rode Spider and DD 7 times each. Had to stop as I was getting dizzy. Two weeks ago, park was fairly crowded with 20-40 minute lines for everything. Easiest to get on actually was HP and the FJ thanks to single...

I'm part of that crowd and I'm not alone. It's actually a substantial demographic, but one that's admittedly dwarfed by Dad, Mom and 2.5 kids. I've been to events such as Mousefest that showcases this crowd. And they've got cash! People complain that Disney panders to the under-five set, but...