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Big Wallaby
02-22-2009, 12:05 AM
Or not.
Tonight, I listened at the TTC while a lady explained to everyone around her how the Monorail works. I discovered that I've been wrong this whole time in my understanding of how they operate.
Those two little metal bars that run along the concrete? Well, those are the tracks, they're what the train sits on. Inside the big concrete support structure is the way they get electricity into the train so it can run. Fully automatic driverless system, of course.
Had she asked at that point, the front cab would have automatically been full so the driver wouldn't have to put up with her.
Not a chance I was going to give her my flawed information, either.
I just had to walk around the console. I made it just before I started laughing.
Just wanted Jeff Dunham and Walter there to tell her what she was being.
glendalais
02-22-2009, 12:12 AM
Those two little metal bars that run along the concrete? Well, those are the tracks, they're what the train sits on.
I'm going to show my complete and utter SG side here...but I always thought that WAS how they run :o:. TO THE WIKIPEDIA!
Though I'm certainly not a Monorail expert (though I do like riding it around and around and around, lol), so I wouldn't go off preaching it as fact to the assembled masses.
Noctourne Wonderland
02-22-2009, 09:34 AM
I love the know it all guests. Though I am guilty of having pretty much every tour guide I've hade at Disneyland say I should take their job, at least I answer the questions (and just plain wrong info) with correct facts, not pretend ones.
Who here has heard about the guy who insisted that the Swiss Family Treehouse at Disneyland was once an island, like Catalina, that natives would visit, and everytimee they went, the threw dirt, twigs, logs, whatever behind them, which eventually became the land brige upon which Disneyland was built? I think he was an AP taking out of town friends around the park. Gotta love the looneys! :D:
disneyaddict
02-22-2009, 12:35 PM
Who here has heard about the guy who insisted that the Swiss Family Treehouse at Disneyland was once an island, like Catalina, that natives would visit, and everytimee they went, the threw dirt, twigs, logs, whatever behind them, which eventually became the land brige upon which Disneyland was built? I think he was an AP taking out of town friends around the park. Gotta love the looneys! :D:
Where in the world would he come up with that? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever...
...I would think that even the stupidest of SGs would question that explanation.
GRUMPY PIRATE
02-22-2009, 03:53 PM
Where in the world would he come up with that? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever...
...I would think that even the stupidest of SGs would question that explanation.
Well, maybe that SG thought that the River Safari was a natural river?
(and the animals are REAL!!!!)
Noctourne Wonderland
02-22-2009, 05:38 PM
Where in the world would he come up with that? That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever...
...I would think that even the stupidest of SGs would question that explanation.
It made it into David Koenig's Mouse Tales if you want to read the original account. It makes as much sense as talking mice...:rolleyes:
Noctourne Wonderland
02-23-2009, 03:53 PM
It's amazing how many Disney geniouses come to Disneyland! One woman was in the Haunted Mansion telling he children the following after we left the Stretching Room with total seriousness-
"Now, there are two rooms, the stretching room and the squeezing room. We were in the stretching room, so the other must be the squeezing room,"
I wonder where she heard that! :dropmouth
disneyaddict
02-23-2009, 04:34 PM
It's amazing how many Disney geniouses come to Disneyland! One woman was in the Haunted Mansion telling he children the following after we left the Stretching Room with total seriousness-
"Now, there are two rooms, the stretching room and the squeezing room. We were in the stretching room, so the other must be the squeezing room,"
I wonder where she heard that! :dropmouth
I don't suppose you overheard what the point of the squeezing room was? I would assume she thought they just "unstretched" you at the end of the ride.
GRUMPY PIRATE
02-23-2009, 04:36 PM
I don't suppose you overheard what the point of the squeezing room was? I would assume she thought they just "unstretched" you at the end of the ride.
Sorta like going back to full size after being shrunk down to meet the pixies?
Noctourne Wonderland
02-23-2009, 05:25 PM
Sorta like going back to full size after being shrunk down to meet the pixies?
Like Mike Teevee in Willy Wonka?
I personally envisioned the squeezing room as reminicent of the garbage disposal in Star Wars, but with SG's instead of Luke Skywalker. That would be fun! Muahahahaha! :twisted:
Captain C
02-23-2009, 05:50 PM
LOL They say ignorance is bliss
hobie16
02-23-2009, 08:02 PM
Maybe she thought is was a spa.
BRWombat
02-24-2009, 08:24 AM
Like Mike Teevee in Willy Wonka?...I had the exact same thought.
You know, if ignorance is bliss, this lady must be ecstatic. :rolleyes:
Eeyore Tattoo
02-24-2009, 12:14 PM
I always thought the front car was the snack bar! :eek:
Mayonnaise
02-25-2009, 10:02 AM
Sorta like going back to full size after being shrunk down to meet the pixies?
Do they DO that? I didn't have the patients to wait in line to meet the Pixies... why would they do that? I mean... you don't have to be shrunk to meet Jimeny Cricket... Hmmmm...
8^S
GRUMPY PIRATE
02-25-2009, 10:06 AM
Do they DO that? I didn't have the patients to wait in line to meet the Pixies... why would they do that? I mean... you don't have to be shrunk to meet Jimeny Cricket... Hmmmm...
8^S
YEP, thats why, when you meet them, you are ALMOST the same size as you. When I met Tinkerbell, she was not even up to up to my sholder.
And it IS tinkerbell!
After talking with her, she is an amazing pixie!
so much so that I made sure GS at main street knew about it!
Mayonnaise
02-25-2009, 10:12 AM
Do they use Wayne Szalinski's Shrink ray? I wonder if they blow up Jiminy by the same process....
8^)
GRUMPY PIRATE
02-25-2009, 10:21 AM
Do they use Wayne Szalinski's Shrink ray? I wonder if they blow up Jiminy by the same process....
8^)
??????
Of COURSE not...Its Pixie Hollow, they use Pixie Dust!!
Duhhhhhhhh!
RUM?
Syndrome
02-27-2009, 03:02 PM
Do they DO that? I didn't have the patients to wait in line to meet the Pixies... why would they do that? I mean... you don't have to be shrunk to meet Jimeny Cricket... Hmmmm...
8^S
Well, they obviously have an upsizing ray because Rhino is the same size as Bolt.
Noctourne Wonderland
02-27-2009, 04:46 PM
Why do you think they have yet to close HISTA? Disney needs the technology. *nods*
Lasolimu
02-27-2009, 06:54 PM
Why do you think they have yet to close HISTA? Disney needs the technology. *nods*
Bring back Captain EO!
GRUMPY PIRATE
02-27-2009, 09:55 PM
Bring back Captain EO!
Oh dear lord!
"we're going in!" [/Captain EO]
Now I DO need more RUM!!!!!!!
hehehehehe
mechurchlady
02-27-2009, 11:58 PM
Bring back Captain EO!
I want to see Captain Eo as I do not remember ever seeing it in the park.
First at DLR make sure they fix the roof, lol.
glendalais
02-28-2009, 08:41 AM
Oh dear lord!
"we're going in!" [/Captain EO]
Now I DO need more RUM!!!!!!!
hehehehehe
:eek:
To steal a quote from BW, my mind is going haywire reading this.
Michael Jackson shouldn't be "going in" to anything, and I mean anything.
Noctourne Wonderland
02-28-2009, 09:34 AM
Be nice to Michael! He was aquitted! And his music is good! And...he looks the part of an alien!
I'd much rather see all of Captain Eeyore ayways. :D:
Lasolimu
02-28-2009, 03:39 PM
I'd much rather see all of Captain Eeyore ayways. :D:
I must second this, maybe they can replace HISTA with it.
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