What is this doing at Disney World?!?

[Shorty82]

Okay, so back to the original topic for a second... I guess Disneyland has stuff on their tractors that WDW wants, and WDW has stuff on the tram trains that DL wants, so they did a swap for research and technology sharing.

Seems like it would have been easier and cheaper to send people...

So if anyone sees a WDW tram train at DL, please send a pic.

Huh? I always figured that the designs of the trams came from WDI. It looks like the DL tram is more modern and I was thinking that maybe they tried them out at DL were trams are used a lot less and fewer of them to work out the bugs and all before deploying them at WDW.

[DisneyMom]

You made me go look them up.....EEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! Bad MOM making poor vixen have nightmares tonite. :D:

Muwahahha! :twisted:

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Huh? I always figured that the designs of the trams came from WDI. It looks like the DL tram is more modern and I was thinking that maybe they tried them out at DL were trams are used a lot less and fewer of them to work out the bugs and all before deploying them at WDW.

I seem to remember a CM telling us about sending floats from DL to WDW for refurbishment and repair? This was a few years ago, and I was wondering if they do that still. On the behind the Magic tour, they showed us the shops that repair and refurbish the rides and other attractions!!

[Shorty82]

I seem to remember a CM telling us about sending floats from DL to WDW for refurbishment and repair? This was a few years ago, and I was wondering if they do that still. On the behind the Magic tour, they showed us the shops that repair and refurbish the rides and other attractions!!

Really? I always figured that each park built and repaired their own floats for the most part. At least repair them, doesn't make sense to ship them across the country to repair them as that would take a lot longer and I would think cost a lot more than having their own repair shops.

I've seen the float storage and maintenance area and some of the ride repair areas in the Magic Kingdom about 7-8 years ago now on the Keys tour. My uncle, who was an engineering CM at the time, showed me the large shop where they build and repair parts of rides. I saw a Winnie the Pooh honey pot, Small World dolls, and Carrousel horses being worked on among other things. This was while Mission:Space was being built and I saw a long line of ride vehicles for it in various stages of construction (from barely a frame at one end to a nearly complete vehicle at the other).

[EpcotFan]

OK, how about a few more caption ideas:

"They were right, it really is a small world afterall"

or

"What do you know, those Google map directions actually do work!"

1. Head south on S Harbor Blvd toward Disneyland 0.5 mi
2. Turn left at W Katella Ave 2.1 mi
3. Merge onto CA-57 N via the ramp to Pomona 3.0 mi
4. Take the Riverside Fwy E/CA-91 E exit toward Riverside 0.4 mi
5. Merge onto CA-91 E/Riverside Fwy 34.1 mi
6. Take the exit onto CA-60 E/I-215 S toward Indio
Continue to follow CA-60 E 23.1 mi
7. Take the ramp to Beaumont 0.2 mi
8. Merge onto I-10 E
Passing through Arizona, New Mexico
Entering Texas 1,260 mi
9. Take exit 556A to merge onto TX-1604-LOOP E 26.5 mi
10. Turn left at I-10 E 0.1 mi
11. Slight left to merge onto I-10 E/US-90 E
Continue to follow I-10 E
Entering Louisiana 452 mi
12. Take exit 159 on the left to merge onto I-12 E toward Hammond 85.7 mi
13. Take exit 85C to merge onto I-10 E toward Bay St Louis
Passing through Mississippi, Alabama
Entering Florida 445 mi
14. Take exit 296A to merge onto I-75 S toward Tampa 108 mi
15. Take exit 328 on the left for Florida's Turnpike S toward Orlando 0.7 mi
16. Merge onto Florida's Turnpike/Ronald Reagan Turnpike/SR-91
Toll road 39.3 mi
17. Take exit 267A toward CR-535 Toll road 0.9 mi
18. Merge onto SR-429 S Toll road 13.8 mi
19. Take exit 8 toward Disney World 0.7 mi
20. Merge onto Western Way 3.0 mi
21. Turn left at W Buena Vista Dr 0.8 mi
22. Turn left onto the ramp to Epcot/Magic Kingdom/Fort Wilderness 0.3 mi
23. Merge onto World Dr 3.6 mi
24. Turn left at Monorail Way 0.2 mi
25. Turn right to stay on Monorail Way 0.1 mi

[Big Wallaby]

Heh, heh, heh... And 12 mph the whole way!

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Heh, heh, heh... And 12 mph the whole way!

Must have been a fun trip, wounder how many pit stops it took, how much fuel do those things hold?

[Princess Susi]

I know an old lady who swallowed a spider. It wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.

Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.... :spider1:

[vixen101485]

You do know she swallowed the spider to catch a fly, I dont know why she swallowed a fly, perhaps she'll die.

Here is the whole poem/story/song

There was an old lady who swallowed a fly.
I dunno why she swallowed that fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a bird;
How absurd, to swallow a bird!
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly -
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a cat.
Imagine that, she swallowed a cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die

There was an old lady who swallowed a dog.
What a hog! To swallow a dog!
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a goat.
Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!
She swallowed the goat to catch the dog ...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat.
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a cow.
I don't know how she swallowed a cow!
She swallowed the cow to catch the goat... She swallowed the goat to catch the dog...
She swallowed the dog to catch the cat...
She swallowed the cat to catch the bird ...
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider
That wriggled and jiggled and wiggled inside her.
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly.
But I dunno why she swallowed that fly
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old lady who swallowed a horse -
She's dead, of course.

[GRUMPY PIRATE]

Wasn't that theme explored by Oggie Boggie? (eating spiders and bugs?)