Thursday, June 29, 2006

#0006


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What attraction is this from?

Answer:
This is inside the Twilight Zone Tower of Terror at California Adventure, near the end of the queue where you board the service elevator.


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The responses I received were:

Tim & Malinda
The one end of the queue area for Tower of Terror.

Shannon
Indiana Jones??

BBlast
My GUESS is the Tower of Terror.. Why? Because I have NOT been on that ride and that looks like something I have never seen! (..And themed to the Tower.)
-- Good guess!

Richard Blythe
Hollywood Tower Hotel, may I help you, nice of you to drop in.

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

#0005


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Back to the difficult ones... What ride is this from?

Answer:
In a way, this was a trick question. It should have read "What ride was this from?" (Past tense). This was the very short-lived Superstar Limos, the first ride to be permanently closed at California Adventure. It was shut down within months of the park's opening. Last year it was renovated and the building now houses the Monster's Inc.: Mike & Sully to the Rescue ride.


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The responses I received were:

Tim & Malinda
The inside of Superstar Limo!

Sunday, June 25, 2006

#0004


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What is inside this building?

Answer:
This is the entrance to Blue Bayou, the most expensive public restaurant in Disneyland. The floor above houses the park's most expensive non-public restaurant. Blue Bayou was closed for the past couple months, while the Pirates of the Caribbean ride, which it shares the building with, was renovated. It reopened this past weekend with a much more expensive menu. The new dinner menu: the back, and the front -- those images are a little on the small side. You'll need to have your monitor set to a fairly low resolution to be able to read them. My system is set to 1600x1200, and these scans are unreadable at that setting!

I don't have any pictures from inside Blue Bayou (yet), so here are a few of the bleachers in front of the Pirates ride and the giant movie screen on Tom Sawyer Island that they built for this past weekend's red carpet premiere.


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The responses I received were:

Jeff Toro
This is the desk and entrance to the Blue Bayou restaurant. My favorite place to eat.
-- You'd better bring a little more money with you next time! Fortunately for me, I never really cared much for Blue Bayou. The Monte Cristo, their best selling lunch item, pales in comparison to the one I had at the Pyramid Cafe at Luxor in Las Vegas.

Tim & Malinda
The Blue Bayou restaurant.

Richard Blythe
A restaurant and a ride.

What’s with the guy in shorts with his shoe off?
-- Good question! I hadn't even noticed him!

Friday, June 23, 2006

#0003


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Everybody should get this one. The first two were a bit on the difficult side and I wanted to give you an easier one for a change. This one is really too easy, but I used it anyway because of what is happening at Disneyland this weekend.

Answer:
This is, of course, from the Pirates of the Caribbean, one of Disneyland's most popular rides. On Saturday, Disneyland opened at an unprecedented 6:30am so they could close at 5:00pm to accommodate a star studded red-carpet affair celebrating Monday's reopening of the ride and the upcoming release of the sequel to "The Curse of the Black Pearl". The ride has been closed for a couple months for an extensive renovation to add, among other things, Captain Barbossa and Jack Sparrow. Saturday's party also included a sneak preview of the soon to be released movie.


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The responses I received were:

Leiker, Janet J
That's in Pirates of the Caribbean.

Kevin Contini
Pirates of the Caribbean.

Larry Levy
Hey, where's Jack Sparrow????
-- He's there now!

Richard Blythe
This is the queue for the New "Finding Sacramento, Submarine voyage" ride. Center is Cruz Bustamante and Maria Shiver, Arnold is in Blue above right.
-- Finally, someone got it right! Boy, am I a Disney Geek according to the criteria on your web site!

Wednesday, June 21, 2006

#0002


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Hopefully this one will be a little easier and I'll get more responses. Honestly, I think this one might still be on the tough side. I have some easier ones in store for the near future.

Answer:
At Disneyland, this was the cemetery behind Fort Wilderness on Tom Sawyer Island. Walt originally intended to call the island Mickey Mouse Island and use it as a home for the Mousketeers and the Mickey Mouse Club. He changed his mind when it was decided to make the park theme oriented, and Tom Sawyer's name was chosen to better fit the western theme of Frontierland. Fort Wilderness, constructed of real logs, was built on the island after the Rivers of America had been filled, so the logs were floated across the water to the island.

Fort Wilderness was declared unsafe and closed to the public in 2003. It was torn down in June, 2007, shortly after the island was converted to Pirate's Lair. The cemetery was destroyed along with it.


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The responses I received were:

Violaine Paquel
That has to be the graveyard at the exit of the Haunted Mansion.
-- Sorry, but no. I kind of expected people to think it was somewhere around the Haunted Mansion, though.

Ann Marie Fowler
Hi, Thomas! My guess is an indian burial ground on our way around the river when we're on one of the boats (Mark Twain/Canoes/Columbia/Raft to Tom Sawyer Island).
-- It's there at the back end of the island, but it's not an indian burial ground and you can't see it from the boats. (Edited: I stand corrected. The tree cover isn't as thick back there as I had thought, and you can see that cemetery from the top deck of the Mark Twain. The people supposedly buried there were settlers and pioneers though, not indians.)

Bruce Sherman
At the Haunted Mansion.
-- Sorry, it isn't there. I read a while ago that there are seven cemeteries in Disneyland. I could only think of four, this one and three in or near the Haunted Mansion. After posting this picture, I did a little research to find the other three. I found out there is one more in the Shooting Gallery, one in the Storybook Land churchyard, and one more behind the Haunted Mansion. That last one is behind the fence in the Cast Member only area.

Shawn Finnie
Thomas, that has to be near the Haunted Mansion... Doesn't it?
-- No, not there.

Tim & Malinda
On Tom Sawyer Island at the Disneyland park.

Larry Levy
I think saying the cemetery picture is at the Haunted House is too easy, besides it looks too respectful for that. My guess is it's in Frontierland.
-- You're in the right neighborhood, but you need to narrow it down a little more than that.

Monday, June 19, 2006

#0001


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I'll start this game off with a moderately difficult one -- what, and where is it?

Answer:
This is the coupler at the rear end of the California Zephyr, the train in Disney's California Adventure, home of the Bur-r-r Bank Ice Cream and Baker's Field Bakery shops, as well as the entrance to the Engine-Ears Toys souvenir store. I knew this would be a fairly difficult one and expected some people to think it was part of the Disneyland train.


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The responses I received were:

Tim & Malinda
The front of the train engine outside Baker's Field Bakery at the California Adventure.

-- Actually, the coupler in this picture is at the rear of the train, but there is another just like it on the engine at the front, so I'd consider this a correct answer.

Bruce Sherman
Disneyland railroad coupler, never been there, but I would have to be blind not to see something train related :)

-- Close, but not quite. Wrong park. Good guess for never having been there, though!

Susan Kozicki
Part of the train at DL.
I have never been to DL.

-- Nope, that's not it, but it's a good guess for not having been there.