Episode 10 Show Notes

Welcome back to the Disney Resorts Podcast Blog. I'm Spaced Out Dude again with this weeks show notes;

Hakuna matata and welcome to the Disney Resorts Podcast. I am Diz owner of the Disney Resorts Kingdom. Which by the way has a few more sites now just added to it thanks to Luke who let us consider his sites as part of the Kingdom… He also has our link posted up on his site…

The only news I got as Disney goes is that lots of Disney Sites have gotten Hacked this week… But not Disney Resorts YAY… Also you may have noticed that I have put up sort of a gate at Disney Resorts Forums. Because like America I am sick of “illegal immagrants” and want only members to be on the forums… Netcot is back up as of yesterday good job Van. Also if you are a member of Disney Resorts Forums you probably noticed that we got new Smilies and new avatars. And a new logo and background to make it feel less like forum co and more like Disney Resorts Kingdom. And please check out the Bring Back Figment and Dreamfinder site there is a link up on my forums to it… Its run by Luke and me sorta… It’s a great site so check it out…

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That’s all I got.

So lets do my top ten.

Remember you can suggest a top ten over at Disney Resort Forums

My top ten favorite Disney Characters.

10. Jack Sparrow…
9. Woody… YOU ARE NOT A TOY!!! You are a loyer listener of my podcast
8. Mater… its like tamater but without the Tuh…
7. Gonzo… Now for those of you who went Duh he is a muppet… remember Disney owns the muppets now.
6. POOH!!! I love Winnie the pooh
5. T-I-Double G- Er
4. Boomer from Fox and the Hound… Isnt that such an underated movie
3. Goofy. Im kinda clumsy just like him
2. M-I-C-K-E-Y How can this guy not be in my top ten.
1. Donald Duck.. I just love donalds attitude and the way he talks its hilarious.

Now its time for attraction of the week… This week the attraction is. SPLASH MOUNTAIN!!!

Splash Mountain is an attraction at three Walt Disney Parks that is based on the 1946 Disney film Song of the South. Each Splash Mountain features a large cast of audio-animatronic figures singing portions of the motion picture's soundtrack with a finale of a steep drop into a Briar Patch.•[edit]StorySpoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.The ride presents disconnected scenes taken from the animated segments of Song of the South. It tells the story of the adventures of Brer Rabbit, a mischievous rabbit who leaves his home at the Briar Patch to look for his laughing place. Unfortunately for him, Brer Fox and Brer Bear, the antagonists of this story, are determined to catch him. Brer Rabbit outsmarts the two a few times, but in the end, they manage to catch him and take him to Brer Fox's cave at Chickapin Hill. Brer Rabbit outfoxes them one final time, by tricking them into throwing him into his home, the Briar Patch. At that point, riders are sent down the big drop into the Briar Patch. At the end of the ride, a showboat and a lot of critters sing Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah to celebrate Brer Rabbit's safe return.[edit]Attraction facts• Grand opening:o Disneyland: July 17, 1989o Magic Kingdom: July 17, 1992 (dedicated October 2)o Tokyo Disneyland: October 1, 1992• Designer: Walt Disney Imagineering• Height: Mountain is 87 feet• Length: Approx. 2640 ft Disneyland; 2,600 ft Walt Disney World; 2,800 ft Tokyo Disneylando Over 20,000 gallons flow through the flume every minute• Size: Occupies a 9.2 acre site• Audio-Animatronics: 105 in Disneyland ;68 in Walt Disney World• Drop The largest drop is a 5-story (52.5 ft.), 47-degree waterfall at Disneyland, at Tokyo and WDW, the drop is less steep, at 45 degrees.o The drop has a braking system that could stop a log in 1.4 seconds during the drop• Speed: Over 40 mph on the final drop• Height requirement: 40"• Show length: aprox. 10:00• Ride system: Flume ride• Log: Each log has a weight of 1 ton.o Magic Kingdom & Tokyo: 8-passenger logs (Side by side seating in four rows)o Disneyland: 6-passenger logs (single file) [Seven passengers is possible, because of large bench seat in last row]• Lift Motors: Custom made from Europe with a total of 3 lifts• Location in the park:o Disneyland Critter Countryo Magic Kingdom Frontierlando Tokyo Disneyland Critter Country(Only available in California version)[edit]Splash Mountain PhotographyAn example of a picture taken by the Splash Mountain camera.During the 52 1/2 foot plummet, a camera takes pictures of park guests in their log. Other Disney attractions that are equipped with souvenir photos are Disneyland's Space Mountain and Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters, Disney-MGM Studios' Rock 'n' Roller Coaster, Disney-MGM Studios' and Disney's California Adventure Park's Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, Disney's California Adventure Park's California Screamin', Disney's Animal Kingdom's DINOSAUR, Disney's Animal Kingdom's Expedition Everest and Epcot's Test Track.This attraction has become very famous for a picture-taking ride, and a source of controversy. Female guests occasionally "flash" the camera exposing their breasts. (This may result in automatic ejection from the park.) While these incidents usually happen in Disneyland (California) the most, it does occasionally happen in the other parks around the world. Although Disney staff members usually discard the images, resulting in the displayed picture being "washed away," it has been suggested that some Disney staff members save them for personal use as some have leaked onto the Internet. The resulting controversy resulted in the ride getting the nickname "Flash Mountain".After the initial controversy over release of the "Flash Mountain" pictures onto the Internet website of the same name, Disney announced it was taking steps to prevent future leaks. For at least 5 years, no new pictures have turned up. To date all pictures on the "Flash Mountain" website are from Disneyland (California). Some speculate its the California culture that is the cause of the problem. Pictures from Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom and Toyko Disneyland have never been leaked out.[edit]SoundtrackThe ride features many variations on the now-classic soundtrack of the film.• How Do You Do?• Ev'rybody Has a Laughing Place• Burrow's Lament (originally a track from the film titled "Sooner or Later")• Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah[edit]VariationsThe soundtrack for Disneyland's Splash Mountain is unique, while the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland Splash Mountain have the same music score. The soundtrack for Disneyland is rather playful, while Florida and Japan's soundtracks feature a country-western flavor (carried principally by banjos, fiddles and harmonicas). Dialog is Japanese in Tokyo Disneyland.[edit]Releases• The Official Album of Disneyland and Walt Disney World (1991 CD): Ev'rybody Has a Laughing Place & Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah• Disneyland/Walt Disney World: The Official Album (1997 CD): Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah & Ev'rybody Has a Laughing Place• Walt Disney World Resort: The Official Album (1999 CD): Ev'rybody Has a Laughing Place• Walt Disney World Resort: Official Album (2000 CD): 8 minute version of the Magic Kingdom soundtrack• Official Album: Walt Disney World Resort Celebrating 100 Years of Magic (2001 CD): 8 minute version of the Magic Kingdom soundtrack• Disneyland Park: The Official Album (2001 CD): 8 minute version of the Disneyland soundtrack• A Musical History of Disneyland (2005): 12 minute version of the Disneyland soundtrack[edit]Trivia• Ironically enough, the majority of American guests that have ridden Splash Mountain have not had the opportunity to see Song of the South. It has never been released on home video in the US.• The Disneyland version features the largest number of audio-animatronics because many of them came from the now closed attraction America Sings.• Like a number of Disney attractions, much of Splash Mountain takes place outside of park boundaries. Guests are kept oblivious to the transition between the visible "mountain" and the warehouse-like show building that houses most of the experience, and clever landscaping within the park prevents guests from glimpsing the behind-the-scenes structures.• In the Walt Disney World version, there is an obvious "Hidden Mickey" during the show boat scene toward the end of the ride. Mickey can be seen laying on his back in the clouds.• A small part of the Disneyland & Walt Disney World version (Tokyo version unknown) takes the log out of the water and onto steel beams like a rollercoaster (for about 2 seconds). This happens during the drop into the "Laughing Place" (in pitch black darkness). This is also not the only ride in Orlando to have this feature; Sea World Orlando's Journey to Atlantis features a much bigger version of this type of ride track.• Both Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland have their respective Splash Mountains placed next door to their respective Haunted Mansions.• On October 29th, 1989, Ernest Goes to Camp aired during The Magical World of Disney. Prior to the movie, Ernest was seen training for, and finally riding, the newly opened Splash Mountain. The end result had Ernest bewildered and collapsing to the ground, leaving guests to step on him while boarding the attraction.• In 2006, Disney will release a "theme park exclusive" Slip 'N Slide toy based on Splash Mountain.• There are several security cameras in this ride. If someone's stepping out of their seat, the alarm will go off, and the ride will be stopped.• At Walt Disney World, cast members who operate the Splash Mountain attraction are affectionately known as "Splash Trash."• Originally the show scene "Sticky Situation," which portrays Br'er Rabbit stuck in honey, was planned to be the infamous Tar Baby scene from Song of the South. The scene was changed to avoid the same notorious racial controversies that have plagued the film.

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Episode 9 Show Notes

Hello these are the show notes for Episode 9 of the Disney Resorts Podcast. I am Spaced Out Dude, & I have the new pleasure of doing the show notes for you every week.

Email diz at Disneyresorts@hotmail.com... Visit the forums at disneyresorts@hotmail.com. Visit the Kingdom at www.freewebs.com/disneyresorts. Also visit some of the new sites on the Kingdom. You can access them from the forums pages, which have just been really jazzed up!; http://disneyresorts.forumco.com/

And now for the show notes;

Hello and welcome to the Disney resorts podcast for August 31 School starts tomorrow for us up here. But you probably don’t care so lets get to Disney news.

Ok this is funny so ill read it its from http://www.wdisneyw.co.uk/news49.html

In reaction to news today that Pluto was demoted to the status of "dwarf planet," the Seven Dwarfs issued their own short statement:"Although we think it's DOPEY that Pluto has been downgraded to a dwarf planet, which has made some people GRUMPY and others just SLEEPY, we are not BASHFUL in saying we would be HAPPY if Disney's Pluto would join us as an eighth dwarf. We think this is just what the DOC ordered and is nothing to SNEEZE at."Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest," the foreign box office champ for the past eight weekends, has helped Walt Disney Co. pass the $1 billion mark overseas for a 12th consecutive year.20th Century Fox was the first this year to hit the $1 billion gong, thanks mainly to "Ice Age: The Meltdown" ($460 million). And Sony Pictures, triggered by "The Da Vinci Code" ($535.6 million), hurdled the $1 billion goal late last week. Each of the studios separately crossed the industry mark in record time.Disney News is very slow lately… Remember if I missed anything please email it to me…. PLEASE!!!

Id like to make a shoutout to my friend Van over at the NETCOT podcast. Please listen to his podcast. Also good luck with trying to get your site back up Van. If you do sign up for his site be sure to tell him The Disney Resorts Podcast sent you.

Now its time for my top 7 list.
My favorite lands at Walt Disney World
7. Mickeys Toontown fair.
6. Main Street USA. You get the best feeling here.
5. Liberty Square. HAUNTED MANSION BABY
4. Fantasyland. Lots of kewl stuff
3. Frontierland. HOME OF THE COUNTRY BEARS
2. Adventureland. Tiki room, Pirates, Jungle Cruise
1. Tomorrowland. Home of Buzz, CoP, and SPACE MOUNTAIN

Now its time for attraction of the Week.

I am getting sick of having to pick what attraction of the week it going to be so please go to the Disney Resorts Forums to vote its really easy… All you have to do is go to disneyresorts.forumco.com click Register. Put in all that junk. Then after you activate your account you sign in. Click on Attraction of the Week. Click on the first post AND VOTE!!!

Peter Pan's Flight is a dark ride at the Disneyland, Magic Kingdom, Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris theme parks. Located in Fantasyland, it is one of the few remaining attractions that was operational on Disneyland's opening day in 1955. The ride's story is based on Disney's animated film version of the classic story.HistoryThe original intent of the attraction was for the guests to fly through the ride as if they were Peter Pan. Audiences did not quite grasp this concept and were left wondering, "Why wasn't Peter Pan in the Peter Pan ride?" In 1983, during Fantasyland’s remodeling, an Audio-Animatronic Peter Pan was added to his namesake ride.The original ride featured the ride vehicles flying through the nursery, out over London, onward to Never Land, and finally through Skull Rock, where riders saw Captain Hook, Mr. Smee, Princess Tiger Lily and the Crocodile before unloading. The exterior had a medieval design with the queue being outside.The Florida version of the ride, which opened in 1971, expanded on the original Disneyland attraction. While the overall theme and format of the ride was consistent with the original in California, the Florida ride, as with the other dark rides, would feature its characters in Audio-Animatronic style. The load/unload area featured Omnimover-style moving ramps (like the Haunted Mansion) to better allow for smooth traffic flow. The scenes in the ride were done on a larger scale. The Lost Boys camp and Mermaid Lagoon were added to the Never Land scene. Also, Hook's 48-foot pirate ship, complete with deck, masts, sails and rigging was included. Guests saw Hook and Peter engaged in hand-to-hand combat on the mainsail, while the boys were lashed to the mast and Wendy was about to walk from a plank. Guests would then see Peter and the Darlings posed victoriously on the ship, poised to sail into the sky, back to London.In 1982, Disneyland's Fantasyland was in a phase of drastic overhaul. Some of its rides were being relocated to make room for expanded versions of the dark rides (as well a brand-new one). The posh redo of Fantasyland now resembled a rustic European village in the Alps, rather than a medieval faire. Mr. Toad and Snow White's dark rides moved their respective loading areas (and partial murals) indoors, but the Peter Pan ride still featured a colorful mural, depicting the characters from the film.Departing from the station, but before entering the actual ride building, guests would fly over the rooftops of London. The new version of the ride included Audio-Animatronic versions of the characters, just like in Florida. As part of the new remodel, scenes from the Florida ride were added to Disneyland, including the pirate ship deck (unlike in Florida, Peter and Hook do not duel on the mainsail in California; but on the very bow of the ship). Few scenes are identical between the two versions, but they are amazingly similar. The new Disneyland ride opened as part of the rest of the New Fantasyland on May 25, 1983.Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.After winding through the queue, guests board a three-passenger pirate ship, which is suspended from above to enhance the sensation of flying through the air (the ship hangs from a track on the ceiling, not on a floor track). The ship leaves the load area and winds through the Darlings' nursery, passing Nana the Nursemaid next to some toy blocks, the Darlings (Wendy, Michael and John) in bed and Peter Pan's shadow on the wall. Peter's voice is then heard saying, "And off to Never Land!" At this point, the ship flies out the nursery window and out over moonlit London. Lights twinkle all around. Below the ships are various miniature versions of London's famous landmarks: Big Ben, the Tower Bridge and the Thames river. Then, going past "the second star to the right and straight on 'til morning," the flying ships reach Neverland, where the guests go past some of its landmarks, including the Indian village, a glowing volcano, Mermaid Lagoon and Skull Rock. It is here that the guests encounter some of Neverland's most famous residents, including Princess Tiger Lily, Mr. Smee, the Crocodile and Peter's arch rival, Captain Hook (in addition to Peter and the Darlings).[edit]In the newsPeter Pan's Flight at Walt Disney World's Magic KingdomOn February 14, 2006, "A 70-year-old man was pinned between ride vehicles when he tried to board the ride from the load area moving sidewalk, at about 6:30 p.m. The ride was closed, then reopened the next morning after an investigation. No malfunction was found with the ride. The area around the ride in Fantasyland was evacuated for about an hour after the accident while emergency personnel assisted the victim. The man was treated for unspecified injuries at Orlando Regional Medical Center, where he was reported in good condition the next day.

So unfortunately my Live Instant Messenging show didn’t work cause none of you added disneyresorts@hotmail.com to your MSN. So we cant do that. And no one emailed me so I don’t have any listener feedback… Its not that hard… I don’t want to have to go thru a step by step instructions to help you understand how to email me… Log into your email. Create a new message. Put disneyresorts@hotmail.com in the address thing. Type in your comment Disney news or question. CLICK SEND!!!

You can view Disney resorts on myspace now. Just go to the forums and there is a link there.

Well that does it for the Disney resorts podcast. Be sure to visit Netcot.com when it gets up again. Email me at disneyresorts@hotmail.com. Visit www.freeweb.com/disneyresorts and there are tons of things on there including links to all my sites. The forums. And everything Disney resorts. PLEASE EMAIL ME!!!

Im diz and remember it was all started by a mouse.