If you're like me, and reading this in 2012, you may or may not have had the patience to run through the 28 pages in the thread.
But if you're still like me, you went backwards and got to page 15 or so before getting nauseous scrolling
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Anyway, some updates and repeats for you in case you are just looking at the current post instead of going through the past few years:
Some things I don't recall seeing through the pages/updates currently that I've seen:
- They're now having cast members draw water art on the floor in certain places of the park. If you can't see this in person, there's always youtube. And though it might spoil the idea with knowing that they're actually trained to do this... there's still a million people in the park that will think that each person is just doing it for the heck of it.
- At DCA, the Aladdin musical once literally had a flying carpet during one of the scenes, but also does not take place anymore
You'll be able to youtube that as well.
- If you've never been to the restrooms by Alice in Wonderland... well, you should for a special theme.
- Indiana Jones: I haven't seen it yet, but there's a skeleton with Mickey Mouse ears on the ride.
- Indiana Jones: There's actually only ONE track at the beginning, even though it looks like there's 3
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- Walt's old apartment is right about the firestation in Main Street. Supposedly, the light is allwaayys burning, and the only time it isn't is when his daughters are in the park out of respect for him.
- Did you know, at DCA, there's an ENTIRE section that you may not know about? Walk through one entrance and in there there's a lot rooms such as where you can draw your own moving pictures, do voice overs for different disney scenes, discover what character you most are like in the Beast's library, other animation rooms to learn from. (Area is near where you can talk to Crush).
Repeated/reviewed/you might know for the first time:
- The eyore sign can be seen mostly at the front of the line in the projection room of Indiana Jones. You CAN see it in the normal dark lighting, but that's if you already know it's there.
- To REALLY see it, the CM has to shine a flashlight in the direction of it.
- There's a huge Mickey head on the wall also in the projection room. Hard to spot a bit, but you kind of have to let your imagination roll with it.
- Walking through the caves of Indiana Jones, have you seen the temple in it?
(Discovered that the other day but I haven't run across it on the boards or sites).
- HIdden Mickeys are EVERYWHERE. The most popular/easy ones that I can think of are at the ticket booths, and on the Haunted Mansion ride (think food for the 2nd one).
- Mrs. Potts and Chip are somewhere in the Tarzan treehouse.
Random tips:
- If you hate the taste of fountain water like I do, bring a waterbottle, but whenever you have to refill it, use one of those flavour packs you can add to flavour the water.
- Don't assume that EVERY SINGLE Cast Member has to be perfectly nice to you. PLEASE remember they're human too, so if they treat you a certain way for 5 seconds, be an adult and maybe ask a few minutes later "Are you okay?" or "I don't necessarily like how we were treated..." You don't know if they got called into work and are missing a family birthday, maybe they're stressed about school/work, or maybe a customer right before you just cursed them out or set them in a wrong mood and it was not their fault. Maybe something is going on. And YES they're paid to give you that 120% Disney experience, but they could have been Disney perfect all day long until those few moments you got to them... so being grouchy toward them isn't going to make anyone's trip better. Just maybe you reacting positively toward them will help their day continue better as well as yours.
That's all I can think of off the top of my head
. Disneyland makes me extremely happy, and I'm not really sure why. I hope these few sentences have also did nothing but add a little happiness in your day. Back to reading the boards for me
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