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Then they told us a story about a failed attraction. They were planning a Water Feature for the pool at SSR. It was going to be based around Donald Duck.
The water canon which Donald is being shot with eventually begins to lift Donald off the ground as if the water is propelling him upwards. In reality there would need to be some sort of support that would lift Donald up but it would appear that he was being lifted by the water alone. And Donald would be furious about this.
Now the gentleman to whom they were pitching the idea was Asian and did not speak American English very clearly. The Imagineers got about halfway through the presentation and all of a sudden the Asian man jumped up from his chair and yelled, No pole up character butt!
One of the Imagineers joked in hindsight, Well thats why he was furious!
They moved on to Toontown and some of the crazy things that they do there.
They played for us a Police line recording.
Press 1 if an Anvil has fallen on your head.
Press 2 if your eyes are bulging out
Press 3 if you have swallowed hot sauce
Press 4 if you are seeing birdies instead of stars when a safe falls on your head
They played a few more really funny radio commercials. If you linger around Toon Town you might hear some of these commercials. I dont remember any of them now, but I do recommend if you have the opportunity to listen to any of those commercials in Toon Town you should. Its another one of those little details that Disney does so well.
They showed us some gags from DCL. They called it the DCL stretching room. These gags read going up or going down in the elevators on I believe the Dream and the Fantasy.
Then they showed us some of the concept art for the stern of one of the ships.
This was the winner. They also told us that when they heard the name of the slide they had to include this little Donald reference as if he had flown off the slide.
For the attraction Toy Story Midway Mania, Don Rickless did the voice. It took them 33 total hours of recording in the studio to get it all right. They played us some of the outtakes and they were pretty funny.
Also in DCA when they were working on the soundtrack for Maters Junkyard Jamboree, Kevin had written a song for Larry the Cable guy to sing, but when he got in front of John Lasseter to pitch the song he came up with a blank. So he just started singing, something, something, something, something. John Lasseter loved it and included that as one of the songs in the Junkyard mix.
Another thing about the ride was that Kevin wanted a joke button on the ride operators console for times like when the ride was taking too long to load so that something was going on after the standard boarding announcement was completed. They wrote 20 jokes and had them recorded and now they play them when needed.
And with that little tidbit, they had run out of time and said goodbye. That was it! The Expo was all over. We had a blast, but I was ready for some real grub. Not just delivery food, something from our fridge or the take out counters in the Hilton.
Up next, Feed me Seymour!
Then they told us a story about a failed attraction. They were planning a Water Feature for the pool at SSR. It was going to be based around Donald Duck.
The water canon which Donald is being shot with eventually begins to lift Donald off the ground as if the water is propelling him upwards. In reality there would need to be some sort of support that would lift Donald up but it would appear that he was being lifted by the water alone. And Donald would be furious about this.
Now the gentleman to whom they were pitching the idea was Asian and did not speak American English very clearly. The Imagineers got about halfway through the presentation and all of a sudden the Asian man jumped up from his chair and yelled, No pole up character butt!
One of the Imagineers joked in hindsight, Well thats why he was furious!
They moved on to Toontown and some of the crazy things that they do there.
They played for us a Police line recording.
Press 1 if an Anvil has fallen on your head.
Press 2 if your eyes are bulging out
Press 3 if you have swallowed hot sauce
Press 4 if you are seeing birdies instead of stars when a safe falls on your head
They played a few more really funny radio commercials. If you linger around Toon Town you might hear some of these commercials. I dont remember any of them now, but I do recommend if you have the opportunity to listen to any of those commercials in Toon Town you should. Its another one of those little details that Disney does so well.
They showed us some gags from DCL. They called it the DCL stretching room. These gags read going up or going down in the elevators on I believe the Dream and the Fantasy.
Then they showed us some of the concept art for the stern of one of the ships.
This was the winner. They also told us that when they heard the name of the slide they had to include this little Donald reference as if he had flown off the slide.
For the attraction Toy Story Midway Mania, Don Rickless did the voice. It took them 33 total hours of recording in the studio to get it all right. They played us some of the outtakes and they were pretty funny.
Also in DCA when they were working on the soundtrack for Maters Junkyard Jamboree, Kevin had written a song for Larry the Cable guy to sing, but when he got in front of John Lasseter to pitch the song he came up with a blank. So he just started singing, something, something, something, something. John Lasseter loved it and included that as one of the songs in the Junkyard mix.
Another thing about the ride was that Kevin wanted a joke button on the ride operators console for times like when the ride was taking too long to load so that something was going on after the standard boarding announcement was completed. They wrote 20 jokes and had them recorded and now they play them when needed.
And with that little tidbit, they had run out of time and said goodbye. That was it! The Expo was all over. We had a blast, but I was ready for some real grub. Not just delivery food, something from our fridge or the take out counters in the Hilton.
Up next, Feed me Seymour!