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Andrew had the great idea of taking a picture of where we parked so we could remember where our car was. Thanks to the marvel of digital cameras, all we had to do is go back, in the camera, and look at the picture on the LCD. |
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We were in Film, row 23 |
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I thought this was kinda cool... it's a walt disney world survey marker. |
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The chinese theater where the Great Movie Ride is. It's located at Disney-MGM studios right behind the big hat. |
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Inside the Great Movie Ride. |
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Andrew holding the Stanley Cup. It seems smaller in real life than it does on TV. |
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Andrew with Kermit and Miss Piggy outisde the Muppets 3-D show. |
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Adam with same characters. |
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Woody looked bored because there wasn't anybody there, so we got our picture taken with him. |
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Andrew with woody. |
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Both of us with woody. |
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Just singing in the rain...oh, wait...no rain... |
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So Andrew and Adam volunteered and got onto the pre-show before the backlot tour. This show has changed over the years, but it always seems to be somehting about special effects with boats and LOTS of water. Adam got to be the mechanic in the engine room, and had 6.33x10^23 gallons of water dumped on him. (It was probably closer to 5,000 Gallons) and Andrew was the captain of the boat, but still got plenty splashed whent he torpedoes hit the water. Two other people, we don't know, got to be the deck hands. All of this was filmed and pre-recorded dialoge and special effects were added, and then played back to the audience (who had been watching the whole time) and us. But still just the begining of our Disney trip... |
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A topiary model of the Earful Tower. |
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The REAL Earful Tower. |
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Some random pictures from the backlot tour. There were ariplanes (from the film Pearl Harbor) so, of cource, Adam (Aerospace Engineering Dork) had to take pictures of them. |
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More airplanes. |
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One of the few topiaries we saw during our trip. |
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The facade of a house... i think the one used for _The Golden Girls_ This buiding is 2-dimensional: there is ONLY the front. |
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Another view of the "house" |
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Yet another time we got our picture taken with Mickey. |
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In the (new) Animal Kingdom. |
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Even MORE character photos. This one we got on our way OUT of the park. |
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After the Animal Kingdom, we headed back to MGM, so andrew could see if he could get onto Who Wants to be a Millionaire, and he did (only on our 6th show.) He got up to the 250,000 point question: "Which of the following actors has recieved a SAG 'Lifetime achievement' award: Audry Hepburn, Robert DeNiro, George Lucas, or Harrison Ford" The answer was Harrison Ford, but he didn't know, so he walked with $190 worth of free merchandice, including a 1,000 point-winner hat, a 32,000 point winner polo shirt, and 13 pins- one for each answer he got right. |
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Another new way for Disney to take your money is to have your picture engraved on a wall at Epcot. We tracked down the old picture of Andrew and his brother here. Sorry the pictrue didn't take very well, it was high up on the wall, and after the 2nd or 3rd try, I thought it had taken well because it looked good on the tiny LCD. Now, since we can see it full-size, it looks a little funky. |
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While waiting for Fantasmic (the nightime show at MGM, and possibly the best nightime show ever at Dinsney) the Cast Members started the Wave to entertain the guests, some of whom showd up more than an hour early. |
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A picture of Mickey levitating in the air. Actually he's standing on an unlit mountain top. |
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