Andsome
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There's this guy in the Renaissance scene- you can even see the zipper that runs along the back of his head.
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Paperboy in SSE
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Uh, those are... um... scars. Yeah, that's it! Scars from a bad haircut from a medieval barber.
Goofyernmost
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True. Back then Barbers also did blood letting and got confused, or not, about why the guy was there. Besides, everyone knows that people don't have zippers in the back of their neck.
wdwjmp239
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He's been faced that way for quite some time (probably the last 3+ years now?). There are some other threads on here discussing this.
Goofyernmost
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I don't think that they ever gave a reason for it, officially. Disney doesn't explain anything. If anyone looks closely enough that facing the wall thing is actually a mural of the street, not a blank wall. It shows that he is selling his papers in the area that he should be in, not trying to sell it to a phantom moving time machine that he wouldn't be able to see anyway.
aladdin2007
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He's been faced that way for quite some time (probably the last 3+ years now?). There are some other threads on here discussing this.
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wdwjmp239
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Holy cow! Where did the time go? :O
Dragonman
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Hank Hill
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I hope someone a Disney is reading this and just moves him for like one day. Then a bunch of people will come here saying he was facing forward and everyone here will make them think they are crazy.
If there is one ride I would love to be able to walk through and look at everything behind the scenes, it would be Spaceship Earth. I saw a video one time, there is a catwalk behind the shell CM's have been on, I assume for maintenance and such. How cool would that be to get in there?
If there is one ride I would love to be able to walk through and look at everything behind the scenes, it would be Spaceship Earth. I saw a video one time, there is a catwalk behind the shell CM's have been on, I assume for maintenance and such. How cool would that be to get in there?
Arkham
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a fellow cast member did a walk through of Soaceship Earth & he was told that when he was on the corner, guests would reach out & grab him or his paper. So they moved him to the back corner.
Mr Mindcrime
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..... Theodoric of York.....?
HongKongFooy
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""The paper holds their folded faces to the floor...And every day the paper boy brings more""
graphite1326
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I say we start a petition for all of us to sign saying if he doesn't get turned around we are not getting on the ride.
graphite1326
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And now I'm waiting for someone to post :they are shutting SE down and going to re-design it and he won't be there anyway. (snicker)
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
But... He's facing an empty street filled with nobody... Who is he talking to?
Goofyernmost
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People we can't see, we have a very limited view that street. Facing us he's talking to people that don't exist in his time and space. We are time travelers, not visible. At least turned around it looks like a kid trying to sell papers to the people on his street that may exist in his world. If we are able to accept that he is trying to sell papers to us, riding in a vehicle that doesn't stop, it shouldn't be all that hard to accept that he is now doing what he should have been doing all along.
I remember the child voice of the Cronkite version (maybe the same one from before but I never rode the earlier versions) and it was a great capture even though it went on for awhile in ear shot.
At some point the Irons Version had a rough voice that sounded more like Benny the Cab. That was bad.
I am not a fan of the wardrobe change or the way he is has been facing the ally versus the way he was. I can see what they were going for but it is not staged as well and was better and in theme of the attraction in the versions prior to that change in my humble opinion.
At some point the Irons Version had a rough voice that sounded more like Benny the Cab. That was bad.
I am not a fan of the wardrobe change or the way he is has been facing the ally versus the way he was. I can see what they were going for but it is not staged as well and was better and in theme of the attraction in the versions prior to that change in my humble opinion.
Goofyernmost
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Just what we all were used to seeing. If they had started it out the way it is now, we not only would be OK with it, but if they moved it around to face us, we would have thought it was weird. I can compare it to CoP, even though "Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" was the original theme song, when I first saw it in WDW the song was "Best Time of Our Life". I like them both, but to me the first one I saw is what it should be.
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More likely Theoyoric of Dork...
+1 Point for the Pink Floyd reference. +1 more for it being from Dark Side of the Moon.
All the people who used to ride but now can't...