When I worked at Imagination in Disney World, I heard rumors several times about how Captain EO would make it's return sometime in the "near future." For those who don't know, Captain EO was an attraction in the place where I worked from 1986-1994 centering around Michael Jackson. Since Michael died last year, they were talking about bringing it back in his memory.
I heard the rumors. I didn't care. I'm not really a die hard Michael Jackson fan. I wasn't totally sure where they were going to put the attraction, but I definitely heard people talk about it. I thought it was one of those rumors that was just a rumor though.
But it's true. As of two days ago, the new Captain EO attraction opened up in the place where Honey I Shrunk the Audience used to be, right outside the doors from where I used to work. Honey I Shrunk the Audience was a pretty good show in my opinion. But I'll be honest, it scared the kids.
I remember one day I was working in strollers. As people return their strollers I would sometimes make small talk with them. One particular family with a little girl came to return theirs. I asked the little girl what her favorite part of the park was. She said Test Track as probably 90% of the little kids enjoy that ride the most. Her dad then completed this by saying, "Yep, but she sure didn't like the snake in the Audience show." The mom of the family pushed her husband and said, "Don't remind her!" as the little girl began crying. I had to try really hard not to laugh. Apparently she was deathly afraid of snakes. And there was a giant snake in the 3D Audience film determined to freak out small children. That why the signs say, "Warning, may be frightening for children!" Although, the Ellen DeGeneres ride also says it's frightening and it isn't at all. Meh.
Apparently Captain EO is supposed to be frightening as well. I will have to see. The only ride at Disney World that seriously freaked me out was the Dinosaur ride in Animal Kingdom. I rode it several times and each time I can say I was genuinely freaked out of my mind almost to tears. It was awesome!
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Saturday, January 16, 2010
Last Week of Disney
These are pretty random because it's hard to put pics up on blogger. But all of these pictures were taken pretty much from Christmas Eve on. Fun times!
Driving home from church one day the traffic was totally unbelievable. Around Christmas in Orlando it's ridiculous. So after we were stopped on the road for a few minutes I thought, "Hey, as long as I'm in park and no one's moving... why not save a memory?"
I held an alligator. Not this one. But one exactly like it named Popeye. I never put the story up here... but it was freakin' AWESOME!!!
It's awesome at night after all the guests are gone, but the water show goes on always. So I get to stand there in the solitude watching the show and hearing the music blast! It's so cool! Well, I mean not total solitude, but it's pretty close!
Our cute little tree with our stockings. No chimney. But I'd say we decorated pretty darn well! The stockings were hung a little weird cuz my friends were freaked out we'd get in trouble if we poked holes in the walls. So they only used pre-existing holes. So funny!
I memorized every single country's flag!
As I left work that night (New Years morning... around 2am) I went to catch the bus home.
Check out this line!!! Here you see busses one and two. I was on the fourth one. It was insane! You can see the hats they gave us and we also got free food! It was a fantastic last night!
Kelly and I in the Land. We took a picture of ourselves...
And then we realized we were both wearing the same shirt! Dang, great minds think alike!
Me, Jean and Alyssa. Our.. well... at least my... final night at Image!
Me, Jean, Alyssa, and Marina. As we were walking across the park Jean was really into taking photos and for some we used my camera. I think it's so cute how Jean got Alyssa to do the peace sign. I think she thinks we think (follow that?) that's super cool or something. So funny! All the Asian kids do that in their photos. Jeans doing it in the previous one.
Me, Jean and Alyssa. In case you're wondering why Marina kept getting left out it's because she was one of the new kids who we still didn't know very well. We hadn't really bonded with her (although I think she's awesome! The more I got to know her the more I liked her) and she just offered to take the pictures. I felt bad so I made her be in the one before this one.
I drew this pic of Donald Duck!! I did!!! Really! And I was really excited about it too, until I looked at the 8 year old girl sitting next to me who totally showed me up. Lame....
Ahhh EPCOT. How I love you!!
The Living Seas. One of my three places in my location. Actually, I guess it's "The Seas with Nemo and Friends" now. This is the entrance to the ride. I only worked in the shop.
Kelly and I took pictures in the aquarium. It is so beautiful. I love it!
The Land. Another of my locations.
We put these signs up. People would come up to us, "Are you really out of tickets? What about us. We really wanted to go on this ride! It'll totally ruin our whole vacation if we don't get fastpasses." Yeah, sorry. You can still go on the ride. But in this case it was a three hours wait. Yeah, popular.
Figment. My main area of expertise. If you could call it that.
I found him.
My 3D glasses in Honey I Shrunk the Audience.
Kelly at work in HS with her light saber. You SELL that thing girl!!
Spectacle of the Dancing lights in Hollywood Studios Christmas Eve. This show is awesome. And you can wear 3D glasses that are supposed to make it better (we didn't really see a huge difference but... ya know...)
Kelly and Lis
My room. Day of packing, packing and more packing. Glad my roommate was gone.
My friend thought it would be cool to get a shot of me throwing my hat up in front of the castle. Except it was night. And this was the best shot we ended up with. When we got it, we had already been trying for so long we just said, "Eh, good enough." and gave up. Still, it works okay. You can kind o f see the hat barely in the frame on top.
On the plane ride back to Idaho I figured this little thing out. Here's how it's supposed to start (getting it into start position is hard enough!)
And pretty much two steps later you're here and ready for the final step.
Yep. Only three steps pretty much to solve. Lame right? It's actually really fun to play with though!
Driving home from church one day the traffic was totally unbelievable. Around Christmas in Orlando it's ridiculous. So after we were stopped on the road for a few minutes I thought, "Hey, as long as I'm in park and no one's moving... why not save a memory?"
I held an alligator. Not this one. But one exactly like it named Popeye. I never put the story up here... but it was freakin' AWESOME!!!
It's awesome at night after all the guests are gone, but the water show goes on always. So I get to stand there in the solitude watching the show and hearing the music blast! It's so cool! Well, I mean not total solitude, but it's pretty close!
Our cute little tree with our stockings. No chimney. But I'd say we decorated pretty darn well! The stockings were hung a little weird cuz my friends were freaked out we'd get in trouble if we poked holes in the walls. So they only used pre-existing holes. So funny!
I memorized every single country's flag!
As I left work that night (New Years morning... around 2am) I went to catch the bus home.
Check out this line!!! Here you see busses one and two. I was on the fourth one. It was insane! You can see the hats they gave us and we also got free food! It was a fantastic last night!
Kelly and I in the Land. We took a picture of ourselves...
And then we realized we were both wearing the same shirt! Dang, great minds think alike!
Me, Jean and Alyssa. Our.. well... at least my... final night at Image!
Me, Jean, Alyssa, and Marina. As we were walking across the park Jean was really into taking photos and for some we used my camera. I think it's so cute how Jean got Alyssa to do the peace sign. I think she thinks we think (follow that?) that's super cool or something. So funny! All the Asian kids do that in their photos. Jeans doing it in the previous one.
Me, Jean and Alyssa. In case you're wondering why Marina kept getting left out it's because she was one of the new kids who we still didn't know very well. We hadn't really bonded with her (although I think she's awesome! The more I got to know her the more I liked her) and she just offered to take the pictures. I felt bad so I made her be in the one before this one.
I drew this pic of Donald Duck!! I did!!! Really! And I was really excited about it too, until I looked at the 8 year old girl sitting next to me who totally showed me up. Lame....
Ahhh EPCOT. How I love you!!
The Living Seas. One of my three places in my location. Actually, I guess it's "The Seas with Nemo and Friends" now. This is the entrance to the ride. I only worked in the shop.
Kelly and I took pictures in the aquarium. It is so beautiful. I love it!
The Land. Another of my locations.
We put these signs up. People would come up to us, "Are you really out of tickets? What about us. We really wanted to go on this ride! It'll totally ruin our whole vacation if we don't get fastpasses." Yeah, sorry. You can still go on the ride. But in this case it was a three hours wait. Yeah, popular.
Figment. My main area of expertise. If you could call it that.
I found him.
My 3D glasses in Honey I Shrunk the Audience.
Kelly at work in HS with her light saber. You SELL that thing girl!!
Spectacle of the Dancing lights in Hollywood Studios Christmas Eve. This show is awesome. And you can wear 3D glasses that are supposed to make it better (we didn't really see a huge difference but... ya know...)
Kelly and Lis
My room. Day of packing, packing and more packing. Glad my roommate was gone.
My friend thought it would be cool to get a shot of me throwing my hat up in front of the castle. Except it was night. And this was the best shot we ended up with. When we got it, we had already been trying for so long we just said, "Eh, good enough." and gave up. Still, it works okay. You can kind o f see the hat barely in the frame on top.
On the plane ride back to Idaho I figured this little thing out. Here's how it's supposed to start (getting it into start position is hard enough!)
And pretty much two steps later you're here and ready for the final step.
Yep. Only three steps pretty much to solve. Lame right? It's actually really fun to play with though!
Wednesday, December 16, 2009
In Need of a Good Comeback
Oftentimes when I'm taking a photo, I'll go through and edit parts of it in front of the family. I move the people around and can shrink and enlarge them.
Nine women out of ten will ask me, "Alright, now can you shave off some of that fat right in there?"
What do I say to that!?
Nine women out of ten will ask me, "Alright, now can you shave off some of that fat right in there?"
What do I say to that!?
Saturday, October 24, 2009
Shift Pick Up
Oh yeah, I picked up a shift in the Magic Kingdom Thursday. My hours for the week passed 50 and that made me happy! I'm excited to see my pay check next week. Anyway, working in the Emporium on Main Street was fun! There were TONS of super creative costumes and it was fun handing out jewels from Neverland taken from Captain Hook to little kids.
One particular mom was having a lot of trouble keeping her kid in one place while checking out. So I went over to the little boy and showed him the jewels and gave him a handful and finished just as the mom finished checking out. I love distracting kids.
I got an applaus-o-gram today. That's when people come to the park and see you giving them super service and then they give you these little papers that say something like, "Hey, you're a cool cast member. Congrats." And it's good. Sort of.
One particular mom was having a lot of trouble keeping her kid in one place while checking out. So I went over to the little boy and showed him the jewels and gave him a handful and finished just as the mom finished checking out. I love distracting kids.
I got an applaus-o-gram today. That's when people come to the park and see you giving them super service and then they give you these little papers that say something like, "Hey, you're a cool cast member. Congrats." And it's good. Sort of.
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