The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

[Dear Prudence]

Sad I missed the Tony Baxter talk at the WDFM because I had to dispute my zoo membership (everything is fine, I just wanted physical cards), so I decided to wear my favourite outfit today. Loved seeing all the notes from everyone who went, though.

Hopefully he will be back soon. Hope everyone is doing well!!!!

(If I stand off by myself to take pictures, no one can tell I'm barely 5ft tall...or maybe you can lol )

 

[TP2000]

It was a New Space Age themed night tonight at my place!

The family has arrived in SD for a week-long Easter vacation, including the nephews who have been geeking out on the Artemis live feed on the NASA channel on YouTube. I am forever disappointed with how weak and ineffective Disney's ownership of the National Geographic Society has been, as National Geographic was chosen to document this entire Artemis moon shot mission and save it for national archives. Why doesn't Disneyland and WDW have National Geographic displays in Tomorrowland about Artemis and NASA's return to the moon?!?

I must say, I am SO IMPRESSED with this quartet of astronauts we sent way out there! They are sent from Central Casting; they look so fit and healthy, so clean-cut and happy, so pitch-perfect for great PR, that NASA should be commended for choosing them. I went to the NASA store this afternoon to order Artemis II t-shirts or sweatshirts for the family, but of course they're already all sold out of anything with Artemis branding on it. Doh!

Tonight we watched President Trump speak to the Artemis crew live, and it was fabulous. The Canadian astronaut did such a fabulous job representing his country, and his comments were so gracious and kind! The lady astronaut is a bit of a goofball, and I love her! All four of them are just perfect ambassadors for NASA and our country's space exploration! Bravo, NASA, the Artemis II crew has taken their moment and made it even more impactful!

Dare I say it, they remind me of what Disneyland CM's used to look/act like in the 20th Century before standards were eroded and abandoned; clean-cut, friendly, healthy, fit, charming, and fun! They even know how to smile!

As if that weren't enough for one night, Elon Musk shot off another SpaceX rocket from Vandenbergh Space Force Base tonight just after sundown, at the perfect time to leave a stardust trail across SoCal for 250 miles from Santa Barbara to San Diego.

We ooh'ed and aah'ed at it with the neighbors here in La Jolla! I bet it looked fabulous over Disneyland tonight too!



For Artemis IV when they land back on the moon, Disneyland simply MUST do something in Tomorrowland to celebrate and educate all about our return to the moon!

 

[TP2000]

I just searched for some X posts from Disneyland tonight for the latest SpaceX launch. It was just as impressive up in OC!

 

[TP2000]

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Sad I missed the Tony Baxter talk at the WDFM because I had to dispute my zoo membership (everything is fine, I just wanted physical cards), so I decided to wear my favourite outfit today. Loved seeing all the notes from everyone who went, though.

Hopefully he will be back soon. Hope everyone is doing well!!!!

(If I stand off by myself to take pictures, no one can tell I'm barely 5ft tall...or maybe you can lol )

That's a very cute outfit! You look like you're ready to go to "The City" (as they say there) for the day!

It's been years since I went to the Walt Disney Family Museum, but what a gem that place is. I hope the Bay Area folks realize what a gem that is, in a city full of world-class museums like the Legion of Honor, the de Young, the California Academy of Sciences, etc.!

 

[Distorian]

Something to make @mickEblu happy. Maybe a sign of what's to come to Disneyland.

 

[mickEblu]

Something to make @mickEblu happy. Maybe a sign of what's to come to Disneyland.

The World is Healing

 

[Dear Prudence]

That's a very cute outfit! You look like you're ready to go to "The City" (as they say there) for the day!

It's been years since I went to the Walt Disney Family Museum, but what a gem that place is. I hope the Bay Area folks realize what a gem that is, in a city full of world-class museums like the Legion of Honor, the de Young, the California Academy of Sciences, etc.!

Thank you!!!!

And, yes, we are absolutely so lucky! I have memberships to just about everything. For as much as the folks who live here complain, the membership benefits to the museums and gardens cannot be beat.

The WDFM is a very special place to me, not just because of the Disney factor, but because the Presidio is a huge part of my family history (my great grandparents are buried in the National Cemetery, my grandfather walked across the Golden Gate Bridge the day it opened ). The WDFM always has these wonderful talks and events with lots of Disney royalty. I think the Jungle Book exhibition gala with Andreas Deja and some of the living cast members and artists who worked on it was my all time most treasured.

 

[mickEblu]

Milk chocolate has become so diluted and such trash in American candy bars that I almost forgot you could have good milk chocolate. The milk chocolate in Cadbury candy shell eggs is kind of good.

Sorry didn’t know what else to do with this information.

 

[Disney Vault]

Milk chocolate has become so diluted and such trash in American candy bars that I almost forgot you could have good milk chocolate. The milk chocolate in Cadbury candy shell eggs is kind of good.

Sorry didn’t know what else to do with this information.

Not sure of the validity but I just had a video pop up today showing Europeans were boycotting Cadbury. Part because they removed the eater branding but also because it was bought by an American company and they have ruined the quality

 

[Dear Prudence]

Milk chocolate has become so diluted and such trash in American candy bars that I almost forgot you could have good milk chocolate. The milk chocolate in Cadbury candy shell eggs is kind of good.

Sorry didn’t know what else to do with this information.

Have you tried dark milk bars? It's the same amount of sugar and cream as a milk chocolate bar with the level of chocolate as a dark chocolate bar. It is a game changer.

Also, I am so glad that Cadbury Cream Eggs are seasonal because I would just live off them.

 

[mickEblu]

Have you tried dark milk bars? It's the same amount of sugar and cream as a milk chocolate bar with the level of chocolate as a dark chocolate bar. It is a game changer.

Also, I am so glad that Cadbury Cream Eggs are seasonal because I would just live off them.

I’ll have to give them try! That sounds great.

lol I used to love the creme eggs when I was a kid but they re a little too sweet for me now. I was talking about the little solid milk chocolate eggs with the candy shell.

 

[Dear Prudence]

You know, I've never had an "man, I feel OLD" moment until today when I had to explain the "Tumblr getting the Disney Peter Pan fired" incident to someone born in 2002.

 

[Dear Prudence]

I’ll have to give them try! That sounds great.

lol I used to love the creme eggs when I was a kid but they re a little too sweet for me now. I was talking about the little solid milk chocolate eggs with the candy shell.

Those cream egga are also almost always partially unwrapped in the stores now, so they're sticky and all the other eggs in the display box are also super gross and sticky. They're also also one of the only things not in jail at my local Walgreens. Like...really? The partially unwrapped eggs are the only candies not locked up?

 

[Distorian]

I’m a See’s man myself.

 

[mickEblu]

I’m a See’s man myself.

See’s is great! Great customer service. I usually go for the dark almond clusters. Also at some point I turned 78 years old apparently and developed a taste for the rum nougats. Next thing you know I’ll be eating cherry cordials.

 

[Distorian]

See’s is great! Great customer service. I usually go for the dark almond clusters. Also at some point I turned 78 years old apparently and developed a taste for the rum nougats. Next thing you know I’ll be eating cherry cordials.

Butterscotch squares and California brittle are my go-to’s. Rum nougat, marzipan, Boudreaux, and molasses chip are also all on my list.

 

[mickEblu]

Butterscotch squares and California brittle are my go-to’s. Rum nougat, marzipan, Boudreaux, and molasses chip are also all on my list.

I like all of those except the Boudreaux. I’m more of nuts n chew guy myself but marzipan is an exception. The dark walnut chews are great.

 

[TP2000]

I’m a See’s man myself.

Me too. I went and bought several of their Easter chocolate eggs last Friday at University Town Center. They're now $35 apiece, which if you'd told me 30 years ago would be their current price I would have died. But it's worth it. Not just for the extremely high quality and excellent taste, but for the customer service and those fabulous See's ladies who make the whole company work so well.

I swear, I'm as old as the hills and older than many See's ladies behind the counter, but when I go to See's and buy something and they treat me like they do, it's like I'm a kid again and visiting my grandma!

You can't buy that type of Company experience. See's owns it, and has nailed it. For decades and decades.

 

[TP2000]

I like all of those except the Boudreaux. I’m more of nuts n chew guy myself but marzipan is an exception. The dark walnut chews are great.

Buy me a 1 pound box of See's Nuts & Chews and I'm your friend for life.

I'd crawl over broken glass if you ask. Just so long as there's a box of Nuts & Chews from you every few years on my birthday.

 

[TP2000]

Fun Fact: When DCA was in the initial planning stages in 1996-97, after being drastically downgraded in scale and budget from its Westcot foundation just a few years earlier, there was a concept for a "California Workplace" area on what is now the World of Color viewing amphitheater.

They had a rendering of it in early WDI artwork for DCA circa 1997. It was to have several sponsored exhibits and small pavilions hosted by California companies. A computer company (Apple?) was being sought, a surfboard maker, and other similar types of stereotypical California commerce and industry. One of the exhibit areas shown in early WDI artwork was a chocolate kitchen and sales counter, and the WDI artwork used the classic See's black-and-white checkerboard theme. Thus heavily implying that See's would have a chocolate demonstration kitchen and sales space in the California Workplace mini-land.

The California Workplace concept floundered, and Paul Pressler's stewardship of the DCA concept in the late 1990's didn't help win over enough new sponsors. The concept was downsized, and on opening day 2001 became solely the Boudin Bakery exhibit and the Mission Tortilla factory tour in the Pacific Wharf area. The San Francisco row houses across from Golden Dreams that were designed to host some of the California Workplace were left empty, and the main area for showrooms and work spaces of the California Workplace along Paradise Bay was turned into a bland cement amphitheater.

But for a brief period circa 1996, someone smart at WDI thought they should try and get See's Candy into DCA!