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Beastly kingdom?/dragon roller coaster ?
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JohnBeaste
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I was part of the original Discovery River Boat crew in '98 and "Tale of the Dragon" from the DCACentral site seems to be an accurate account of what happened. When I saw the pictures at E.B. Effects website of the knight's armor it really brought back some memories. I remember seeing pretty much all of the knights displayed out on the rocks in one way or another.
The earliest copy of the script that I still have is from after the removal of the knights (dated 3/18/98):
"This stretch of the river pays tribute to creatures of myth and imagination. Up ahead is Dragon Rocks, home to the last of the great fire-breathers. Of course we all know that dragons don't really exist. Or do they? <BIG BURST OF FLAME> Okay, we seem to be out of harm's way. We'll be passing by Africa soon."
I actually started putting together a web site about the Riverboats a while back, but never finished it. I have a couple pictures and some information about dragon rocks here:
http://cse.unl.edu/~jraises/boats/tour/03-dragon.html
If you look closely enough at the picture of the rocks without the flames, you can see one of the suits of armor sitting atop the rock just right of the picture's center.
The burst of flame was triggered from transmitters on board the boat. Were we given a small device that looked like a garade door opener that was to be used to disengage the flame should our boat drift too close to the cave.
During the days before cast previews, some of the construction workers had the dragon rocks sound system thumping some music for a while.
An amusing line I found in the script from 4/9/98 (after the "Animal Expeditions" were in place) refers to the caves:
"Tarantulas like to dig burrows into the ground ... live in out of the way places, like, under our houses, in burrows, or even in caves, like those over there on the shore."
I did hear of an attempt to use the boats in the seven seas lagoon at one time, but this never went through. As far as I know, the boats remain at their dock behind the tarzan show.
JohnBeaste
The earliest copy of the script that I still have is from after the removal of the knights (dated 3/18/98):
"This stretch of the river pays tribute to creatures of myth and imagination. Up ahead is Dragon Rocks, home to the last of the great fire-breathers. Of course we all know that dragons don't really exist. Or do they? <BIG BURST OF FLAME> Okay, we seem to be out of harm's way. We'll be passing by Africa soon."
I actually started putting together a web site about the Riverboats a while back, but never finished it. I have a couple pictures and some information about dragon rocks here:
http://cse.unl.edu/~jraises/boats/tour/03-dragon.html
If you look closely enough at the picture of the rocks without the flames, you can see one of the suits of armor sitting atop the rock just right of the picture's center.
The burst of flame was triggered from transmitters on board the boat. Were we given a small device that looked like a garade door opener that was to be used to disengage the flame should our boat drift too close to the cave.
During the days before cast previews, some of the construction workers had the dragon rocks sound system thumping some music for a while.
An amusing line I found in the script from 4/9/98 (after the "Animal Expeditions" were in place) refers to the caves:
"Tarantulas like to dig burrows into the ground ... live in out of the way places, like, under our houses, in burrows, or even in caves, like those over there on the shore."
I did hear of an attempt to use the boats in the seven seas lagoon at one time, but this never went through. As far as I know, the boats remain at their dock behind the tarzan show.
JohnBeaste
JohnBeaste
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I wish I did. Unfortuntaly, along with the knight statues, it was yanked before the cast preview days began. I didn't want to chance taking a camera in during that time, so I was never able to get a shot of it.
JohnBeaste
JohnBeaste
JohnBeaste
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The statue was about maybe 10 feet high and looked like a stone statue, glossy and white. However, after a few weeks they got around to "ageing" it to make it look much older. This way it didn't look to bright and new. It was done in typical disney fashion similar to the way the boats themselves were "aged". There were streaks of rust brown/orage and greenish gray colors running down it.
JohnBeaste
JohnBeaste
goofyfan13
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djronnieb said:
Don't you have anything better to do with your time than search for 4-5 year old threads and bump them for pointless reasons?
FigmentJedi
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With all the bumping going on, does this mean I can bump up all the MaElStRoM RoCks posts again?
FigmentJedi
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Thrawn was one of the rougher people here. He's believed to be the commie terrorist robot from beyond the moon that made Grizz go away.
CommunicoreBabe
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I miss Grizz, too. Did he move to another board? Wish he would come back. Thrawn was a complete troll though, and to have a good time on the boards you have to learn to ignore the trolls.
CaptainMichael
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Thrawn wasn't really a troll, just a egotistical maniac. He just pushed the wrong buttons one day.CommunicoreBabe said: