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Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 10:27 pm
by Shorty82
Big Wallaby wrote: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.
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:50 pm
by DisneyMom
vixen101485 wrote:You made me go look them up.....EEEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! Bad MOM making poor vixen have nightmares tonite. :D:
Muwahahha! :twisted:
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:08 am
by GRUMPY PIRATE
Shorty82 wrote: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!!
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:22 am
by Shorty82
GRUMPY PIRATE wrote: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).
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:47 am
by 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
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 6:46 am
by Big Wallaby
Heh, heh, heh... And 12 mph the whole way!
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 11:52 am
by GRUMPY PIRATE
Big Wallaby wrote: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?
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 3:47 pm
by Princess Susi
BRWombat wrote:I know an old lady who swallowed a spider. It wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....

:spider1:
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 4:12 pm
by 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.
Re: What is this doing at Disney World?!?
Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 5:39 pm
by GRUMPY PIRATE
Wasn't that theme explored by Oggie Boggie? (eating spiders and bugs?)