http://www.20kride.com/photos_after.html

20,000 Leagues Under The Sea deconstruction. Nice nightmare fuel.

Anyone here work at Disneyland? I was on the College Program in Disney World back in fall of 2008 and I loved it. I currently live in Fresno, CA and I'm hoping to be able to start working at Disneyland when I finish college in a couple years. Any tips for how to go about moving down there, getting a job at Disney, etc? I assume having been in the College Program it might be a bit easier for me, but I don't know.

>>17584476
That new Nemo thing is such crap.

The fish on sticks were way better than watching screens half the ride.

I'll probably never get to visit either of the main parks until I'm a creepy (creepier?) old man.

>>17584498
How''s riverpark?

>>17584498
How's fashion fair?

Tonight was the first night of Disney's California Adventure's new nighttime show, World of Color.
Anybody go to it? I watched the premier on ustream last night and it looks so fucking cool.

>>17584498
Still cruise blackstone?

>>17584566
That sucks because guess what's closing in a month or so (to make room for the new version, but still)?

>>17584498
i have a cousin who lives in fresno

>>17584594
>>17584584
>>17584573
Are you trying to creep me out or something?

There's like, five Fresnofags on /toy/. I'm used to it.

Also, technically I'm in Clovis.

Also also, yes, I'm the anon you're responding to.

>>17584513
I don't know, the screens are a pretty clever effect. I agree that there should probably have been more practical effects put into it, but it's not a bad ride if the line isn't horrible.
I liked it enough to ride it twice when I visited Disney this March.
I'm hoping to go again for Christmas, because I know Roger Waters is playing Anaheim on the thirteenth of December for his The Wall anniversary tour, and my dad and I are both big Pink Floyd fans.

>>17584597
That's going to be so awesome when it opens.
But I'm glad I got to go on the original one last time... okay, more like five last times.

>>17584476
D: I NEVER EVEN KNEW THIS EXISTED

My life was over before I ever had a chance to know about it.

>>17584615
Clovis? Fuck you whiteboy.

I know who you are

>>17584632
I used to ride it for fun when I was bored after work at Hollywood Studios. I hope they bring back Rex and have Paul Rubens voice him again. If they do that, any Pod Racing Gungans they add in I'll be happy to tolerate.

Disneyland > Disneyworld

I

The Alien Encounter ride at Disney World was the best. Too bad they took it down.

>>17584681
>Disneyland > Fantasyland
Fixed that for you.

>>17584663
I expect they will. Why wouldn't they?
>>17584681
I agree with you, but they're very different things, to be honest.

>>17584716
>I expect they will. Why wouldn't they?
You never know. I wouldn't be THAT surprised if they didn't bring him back. Although, more specifically, I wouldn't be very surprised if they didn't get Paul Rubens again. If Rex is gone for good, I guess I'd be a little surprise.

Basically, they have to have a pilot, so it may as well be Rex. I'm just not sure I trust Lucas anymore.

>>17584476
MY HEART

>>17584744
I think they'll get Reubens. His reputation's not in the toilet anymore, and it's not like he's expensive or really busy.
Besides which Disney's parks division has a long tradition of continuity nods.

>>17584783
Scariest part right here.

>>17584799
This hit me pretty hard. ;_;

>>17584869
That's more sad than scary.

>>17584869
y they do dis

>>17584878
I know. Why am I looking at all these, it keeps getting worse and making me sad. D:

Here's a video of World of Color.
Pretty awesome (A whole sequence for Wall-E and EVE? Yes ma'am), but it needs more Facilier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o0Icz6ExiM

>>17585023

Saw that earlier. Can't wait.

>>17584878
Meet me in riverpark. I'll take you out to dinner and we can go watch Karate kid.

I'll pay

>>17585023
Taking forever to buffer, but I like what I see so far.
>>17585045
HURPA DERP OKAY

>>17585023
Should I watch this now, or wait until next month when I go... DILEMMA.

>>17585151
Try your hardest to wait. It's not like being there is going to add that much of a different experience.

>>17584498
I was a CP during the winter/spring of 2008. I was there February through July, as a costumer. Mostly worked in Epcot and Studios. Where did you work?

>>17585093
are you serious bro? give me your number

mine is 559-708-3613

>>17584431
Man, I really love halloween....

>>17585217
August '08 to January '09. Worked at the Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular and Drew Carrey's Sounds Dangerous. I miss it terribly, which is why I want to go back, though stay closer to home this time in Disneyland.
>>17585222
Of course I'm not serious.

>>17585296
Chatham or Vista? I take it you were ops, then. I loved Indiana Jones. Whenever I delivered costumes over there I'd try and pal around for a while, since all the other costumers couldn't freakin' speak english.

Despite being there forever I never actually saw Sounds dangerous. I did hang out in the auditorium suring Star Wars weekend though, since a bunch of the performers used it as a break area between sets.

>>17585222
oh man, you're a faggot..

>>17585222

You're an idiot on a scale I didn't think possible.

>>17585222
>are you serious bro? give me your number
>mine is 559-708-3613

I think we're like... required to troll you know. It's in the rules I think.

>>17585360
Chatham. Not sure what you mean by ops (maybe it's been too long), but I was in Attractions, so I was one of the guys wearing the turquoise uniforms.

So, favorite ride?

Space Mountain, fo sho.

>>17585458
Ops, operations. Like ride ops and stuff.

Aah, the turquoise uniforms. Ever work B&B?

>>17585468
Now I'm sounding less and less in the know, but what's B&B? It has been a while, plus I didn't catch up on all the lingo when I was there. I recall laughing my ass off when I heard someone say there was a "protein spill" and then being confused when people didn't get why I was laughing. I later learned it meant someone threw up, but they never told me that in training.

>>17585502
Haha, it's fine. I think a lot of costumers just threw around the lingo so they felt more like an actual cog in the machine, instead of just dry cleaners.

B&B is Beauty and the Beast, the stage show they had next to Tower of Terror and Fantasmic. I worked there for a while and got to be friends with some of the attractions people.

Chatham high five though! Best apartments ever. (Especially considering how much they effing took out of checks.)

Is is true they leave the animatronics on overnight?

>>17585544
For the most part that's untrue. I don't know of any that do, but I didn't work everywhere.

>>17585527
Oh yeah. No, I stuck around the Back Lot area. As a costumer you probably went everywhere, so you would know more lingo than me.
>>17585544
I think so. Not sure if it's true, but I heard Pirates of the Caribbean stays on minus the lights and sounds. That's gotta be pretty horrifying.

>>17585560
Neato broseph. It's cool to run into another CP 'round here!

>>17585560
Also, have my favorite picture I took backstage during my time there.

In the Epcot character room. Most people are deeply disturbed by the rows of headless donalds and poohs on either side of me.

>>17585587
I was never able to visit a character costume room. Looks... interesting.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/ThemeParks

Go to the Disney Parks Section.

>>17585461

Either Tower of Terror or Splash Mountain, I can never decide.

>>17585599
Soul crushing, but interesting. They took us through the main character rooms for each park during orientation, and I was almost in tears by the time the day was over. Nothing destroys the magic faster than scrubbing vomit out of disembodied Chip & Dale heads and hearing stories about how a performer got crushed to death by a float in a Pluto suit. (THAT THEY STILL USE THE HEAD FROM.)

Alternately, nothing was quite so awesome as working on star wars weekend. Dave Filoni came back stage and fanboyed at all of us who worked on the Ahsoka costume, since she premiered that year. So have a picture of me hangin the best performers in the park, as evidenced by the dorky grin on my face.

>>17585660
Dude... I'd love to get a picture with Ahsoka. She's mai waifu.

You hear the story about when Minnie fell into Cinderella's moat? Took off her head so she could breathe and got fired for it.

>>17585461
I refuse to pick one.

- Haunted Mansion
- Star Tours
- Rockin' Roller Coaster
- Journey Into Imagination (classic version)
- Expedition Everest
- Pirates of the Caribbean

>>17585023
If the Kingdom Hearts series ever tried to put in a fraction of the honest to god Disney magic that's in this, the series would be GOTY every year.

>>17585714
THe First one had Charm. The Second one just was a pandering waste of time.

>>17585673
We had two Ahsoka performers, one was a million times better than the other. The better one was the substitute until after Filoni visited. She was much better waifu material.

I have heard that one. It was one of the crazy hardcore animatronic heads from the Dream Along With Mickey show. She got in trouble for falling in the moat too, if I heard correctly, and ruining the high tech head.

>>17585714
>implying Disney magic has not been dead for years

>>17585748
>Implying at least some of it didn't come back with Eisner's departure.

>>17585765
Valid.

I still can't believe they're making a new tron movie.

>>17585765
Frank Miller's the Spirit movie is punishment for the Direct to DVD Disney sequels.

>>17585744
>We had two Ahsoka performers, one was a million times better than the other. The better one was the substitute until after Filoni visited. She was much better waifu material.
What sucks is they only have SW characters out during Star Wars Weekends. I've never been to one, but I need to make a point to do so. Maybe I'll go when they open Star Tours 2.

>>17585832
Oh I know. It felt like a sin when were putting Amidala's costumes back into storage. She may not have been the greatest character, but she has the most beautiful costumes, hands down.

It's more incentive to get people to come during June, I suppose. If you're a Star Wars fan, it's really the best time to be there. I was delivering costumes to a bunch of stormtroopers and wound up watching them practice the Thriller dance, only to later find out they were practicing for an actual part of SWW.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkTQwP2gFxU

Watch and love.

>>17585900
No thanks. Star Wars Hoopla isn't really my thing.

>>17585925
*gasp*

Bump for more Disney park discussion.

>>17585900
Oh man, I giggled so hard at this.
I'm a local and I feel bad for never going to a Star Wars Weekend before. I used to go to Disneyland all the time because my older brother worked there, but it's so expensive now. I've been wanting to work there myself since I was a kid. ;_;