Wednesday Photo Challenge 3-28-12

March 28, 2012 By 4 Comments

Hey Everybody!

It’s that time again for our Wednesday Photo Challenge! Sorry for the delay, but between the site getting hacked and everything else, it’s just been crazytime. But I got my but over to the Disneyland Resort and snapped some awesome images.

Here’s the deal.  I put up a picture, you guess what it is.  What do you win?  A Wednesday that is a little less sucky…  So here we go..

Where in the Disneyland Resort is this detail?

 

If you know the answer to this one, or you think you know, all you have to do is drop me a line. You can do this by:

Leaving a comment here (the recommended, simple way)

Send me a direct message on Twitter (@disgeekpodcast)

or drop me an e-mail: daniel@disgeek.com.

I’ll keep your answers hidden so that more people can guess, therefore YOU will be able to see your answer, but no one else will.

Tomorrow morning I’ll post the names of players who guessed correctly and reveal a new photo with the correct answer.

Have a great magical day and good luck!

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Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-29-12 Answer

March 1, 2012 By Leave a Comment

11 participants, 11 correct answers. Probably would have been more if I had remembered to tweet the challenge. :/

I mean, clearly I overestimated the toughness of that picture. I expected silence or for at least one of you to say “Big Thunder”, but no. You guys know the illiterate scrawl of Brer Rabbit and his backwoods buddies when you see it.

I think I need to raise the level of difficulty of the photo challenge. When you see e-mail domain names like sorcerertink, and daysinthepark you figure out pretty fast that you’re not dealing with featherweight jobbers here.

Yes. The attraction I’m about to get a Fastpass for is:

Splash Mountain

Splash Mountain is one of those rides that I really like, but rarely go on.

I usually wear denim jeans. When denim jeans get wet… I’ll just use the word chafe, and let you fill in the blanks.

The last time I got on a water-ride with jeans on was years ago in Orlando. I figured, hey, it’s hot enough. It’ll dry fast.  I didn’t factor in the %$@#! humidity!

My wife (girlfriend at the time) also mostly wears jeans, and she made the same mistake in Orlando, thinking the same thing I did. The chafing torture was so bad for her that she went and bought new sweatpants and changed into them immediately.

Anyway… You all did great! Thank’s for taking a minute to play my little game!

This week’s winners are:

  • Angie Howatt
  • Chad Elliott
  • Kevin Healy
  • Rob
  • Elizabeth
  • Kayla
  • Lyndsey
  • Alex Hein
  • Robert Erickson
  • Alison Hodgson
  • Ashley Hodgson
I had you Hodgson ladies on the ropes for a minute there, but you came back swinging, didn’t you?

It won’t be so easy next time.

I have a new one lined up, so when you’re in the Disneyland Resort (Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and all of the Disney hotels), keep your eyes peeled and take in everything!

Don’t forget to come back on Monday for a new Magical Monday Audio Challenge! Bye for now! :D

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Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-29-12

February 29, 2012 By 12 Comments

Happy Leap Day everybody!

Most of you are already at Disneyland Resort for One More Disney Day. I’ve decided to sit it out.

I feel a cold coming on, and competing with all the people who think that DLR being open for 24 hours is somehow going to be different from when it is open for regular hours isn’t something I am feeling a need to do.

Yes, it’s leap day. It’s also Wednesday. That’s a work day for most of us who aren’t crazy and want to spend our vacation days actually on vacation, and our sick days actually being sick.

Although you do get a hat… Hmmm…

Nah!

Truthfully, I was going to go…. But reading online, the comments of all the real Disney crazies and how they plan to get there at 4 in the morning (so that they can be there at 6 on the dot when it opens), and then stay to watch Fantasmic! at 1AM as if that too will somehow be different from Fantasmic! at 9PM (aside from tweaking out from coffee or 5-hour energy drinks to manage it after traipsing around DLR alllll day)…

This isn’t to say that I frown and scoff at you guys taking a day off to go to the Land. No way! If One More Disney Day has given you an excuse in your minds to skip work and go to a Disney Park, I’m all for it! And I hope everybody who is there has a great time!

Me? I take the day off all the time to visit the resort– when I know it won’t be nutso up in there. So, One More Disney Day for Paul?

Yeah, no. Not today. Maybe next Tuesday. :D

But look at me running on at the keyboard. You’d think that this isn’t a Wednesday Photo  Challenge post.

But, HA! It is!

So here we go…Let’s see… We’re walking… We’re walking…  WOW! 50 minutes!? I got a question:

What attraction am I about to get a FastPass for?

If you know the answer to this one, or you think you know, all you have to do is drop me a line. You can do this by:

Leaving a comment here (the recommended, simple way)

Send me a direct message on Twitter (@disgeekpaul)

or drop me an e-mail: paul@disgeek.com.

I’ll keep your answers hidden so that more people can guess, therefore YOU will be able to see your answer, but no one else will.

Tomorrow morning I’ll post the names of players who guessed correctly and reveal a new photo with the correct answer.

Have a great magical, and happy Humpday!

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Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-22-12 Answer

February 23, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Wow! Here I am thinking I had you all beat. There I was,  expecting to come home from Disneyland yesterday to a silent Photo Challenge blog post, only to discover that EVERYBODY who pays any attention to me had an idea about the answer.

There is a decent-sized list of people who gave it a shot, but a rather short list of people who answered correct. I am impressed with the number of people who threw in their hats, and thank you all for participating in this week’s photo challenge.

A good number of you guessed Peter Pan’s Flight. So, a good number of you were incorrect.

Almost everybody who contacted me on Twitter guessed Peter Pan. In fact, only one person who contacted me on Twitter got it right <COUGH>Chadellliot</COUGH>.

I don’t think Peter Pan ever flew through the streets of London to nowhere in particular. He flew over London to Never, Never Land (not that anyone cares anymore, thanks to Steve Jobs and Tinkerbell).

I think the font of the sign told you Fantasyland and the word London made your conscious minds instantly go too that cool part of Peter Pan’s ride with Big Ben, and you went, “Ah ha! Peter Pan!” 

Sorry guys.

Another character in Fantasyland also makes his mark on London:

Mr. Toad

The answer to this Photo Challenge is: Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride

Don’t feel bad.  Peter Pan is probably what I would have guessed too, being pretty unfamiliar with Mr. Toad.

Did he have his own movie or what? I’ll have to Google that later.

When I was a kid, Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride was my favorite ride in Fantasyland (after Peter Pan’s Flight that is), even though I have never seen nor heard of the movie or TV show with Mr. Toad in it.

I think that, of the kiddie attractions in Disneyland, it’s among the most exciting for kids. Still pretty fun for grownups too. :)

Now, a couple of you tried to ride the middle of the fence and answered something like, “It’s either Peter Pan or Mr. Toad”. Only one of them is right, which means those of you who used this answer <COUGH>AlisonandAshley</COUGH> are wrong. You gotta pick one, friends. ;)

Those who hit the nail square on the head are:

  • Eric
  • Rob
  • Chad Elliot
  • Kayla
  • Lillian Tadamichi
  • Kevin Healy
  • Elsie Barker
  • Shannon
  • Lyndsey
  • Alex Hein

Thanks for playing. This one got a lot of attention, and I have a new one lined up, so when you’re in the Disneyland Resort (Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and all of the Disney hotels), keep your eyes peeled and take in everything!

Don’t forget to come back on Monday for a new Magical Monday Audio Challenge! Bye for now! :D

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Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-22-12

February 22, 2012 By 11 Comments

Hello again! Welcome to another DisGeek Wednesday Photo Challenge!

By now you’ve glanced down at the photo and you’re thinking “Hey! That’s not a photo! That’s just some text!

Wrong! It’s an extreme closeup I took of a sign outside of an attraction. You know, the kind that tells you if you have a bad back or whatever, you have no business on the attraction?

Now… I fully expect you to be totally flummoxed by this. I expect absolute silence on this page all day today. I’m so sure that this one will defeat you all, that I’m not even going to check my e-mail today. I’m going to Disneyland Resort to get more pictures to stump you with, and to capture more audio clips to make you feel that Disneyness, but also make you pull your hair out trying to guess where or what it is!!

Muahahaha!! :D I LOVE IT!!

So look at the picture and if you have the chops, tell me:

What Disneyland Resort attraction is this sign referring to?

Photo Challenge 2-22-12

Yeah. You have no idea, do you?

I’m betting only 2 of you even bother with this challenge (and your names are Ashley and Alison)! ;)

I will laugh at you, and imagine you slapping your forehead tomorrow when I give you the answer! >:D

Always keep in mind that “Disneyland Resort” means the whole resort: Disneyland Park, Disney California Adventure Park, Downtown Disney, The Disneyland Hotel, Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel and Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel and Spa.

If you know the answer to this one, or you think you know, all you have to do is drop me a line. You can do this by:

Leaving a comment here (the recommended, simple way)

Send me a direct message on Twitter (@disgeekpaul)

or drop me an e-mail: paul@disgeek.com.

I’ll keep your answers hidden so that more people can guess, therefore YOU will be able to see your answer, but no one else will.

Tomorrow morning I’ll post the names of players who guessed correctly and reveal a new photo with the correct answer.

Have a great magical, and happy Humpday!

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Tiana’s Mardi Gras Procession — FULL AUDIO

February 19, 2012 By Leave a Comment

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On the weekend we had an opportunity to visit Disneyland and enjoy the New Orleans Bayou Blast which was filled with lively excitement, jazzy music, street performers and the sensational food of New Orleans.

I was front and (almost) center when Tiana’s Mardi Gras Procession,  featuring Princess Tiana, Louis and Naveen, kicked off. I was able to snap some photos and capture full audio of this vibrant, musical performance in the streets of New Orleans Square and the Rivers of America.

It’s a fun show, so take a couple minutes to give it a listen and enjoy our photos of this lively event, which only occurs during the Mardi Gras celebration at Disneyland! :D

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Minnie’s Fly Girls Charter Airline – FULL AUDIO

February 18, 2012 By 2 Comments

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Today, Minnie’s Fly Girls Charter Airline debuted at Disney California Adventure.  We were there for the 12:00PM show and snapped some shots.  The show features the first ever Minnie Mouse with eyes that blink and a mouth that moves as she talks.  Much like what we have seen for Mickey.  The show very much reminds me of the Pan Am show on ABC.  Vey cool and very enjoyable.

As a bonus we recorded the show for your enjoyment. Take a look at the pics below and enjoy Minnie and the Fly Girls!

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Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-15-12 Answer “The Little Mermaid” and Ariel’s Grotto

February 16, 2012 By Leave a Comment

I’m kind of stunned by how many of you guessed question B and not A. I would think if one knows the answer to B one would also know the answer to A! It’s almost like a prerequisite!

(Answer A) The classic Disney film that this old, bearded dude (King Triton) has a part in is called “The Little Mermaid” (maybe you’ve heard of it). (Answer B) This carving of him can be found at the entrance to Ariel’s Grotto in Paradise Pier, DCA.

Seriously, do you know how many people guessed “Ariel’s Grotto” but didn’t guess “The Little Mermaid”??

Too many!

The name of the movie isn’t “King Triton”! OMG! >:(

Some of you that correctly guessed the movie thought this was King Triton’s Carousel. I can see that mistake happening, but to not guess the movie… All I can do is snort derisively <snort>.

On the other hand, to look at how impressive Triton is here… Ariel’s daddy certainly makes his presence known. I mean to look at that picture one might think it’s “The Big Triton” movie and this is Triton’s Grotto.

Ariel’s Grotto used to be a meet & greet area in Disneyland, but Tinkerbell and her gang of miscreant fairies came, kicked Ariel out and turned it into Pixie Hollow.

"Notice of Eviction" by Brianna Garcia

I can get why Pixie Hollow would be placed on the outskirts of Fantasyland, I can. They’re fairies. It’s Fantasyland. Gotcha. But their proximity to Tomorrowland is inapropriate. I don’t trust Tinkerbell that close to technology and neither should Disneyland. Watch the DVDs if you don’t see what I’m getting at.

Let’s just say: if one of the Astro Blaster rockets should break loose, send it and the guests riding it, flying into the marquee of Star Tours or something, the people who let Tink that close to a rocket ship have only themselves to blame! They should be well aware by now that Tink has a thing about watching people fall to their deaths.

Furthermore, and speaking only for myself, Tink and her fairy clique belongs in Critter Country with the rest of the animals!

But I digress…

Now Ariel’s Grotto is a restaurant which offers Character Dining– a chance to eat as Ariel and other Disney princesses visit tables.

Which, by the way, is why I’ve never set foot in the place. I really, really, really don’t like being bothered when I eat.

And let’s say I was okay with strangers coming up and talking to me while I ate– what If I’m eating some crab or snapper dish and I see Ariel approaching me…

I have to dive under the table and hide, or put up with the drama when she sees what I’m eating. Who needs that? Not me.

You can also watch World of Color from there as an alternative to fastpass general viewing, which is cool. You do need a reservation though. You can’t just walk in and expect to see World of Color from the restaurant without one.

So there you have it: “The Little Mermaid” and Ariel’s Grotto.

Thanks to everybody who participated. This was a fun one. I enjoyed all of your comments!

Congratulations to those of you who got the whole kit and kaboodle correct:

Melissa

ElsieBarker (Twitter)

Alison Hodgson

Ashley Hodgson –  3 comments to answer this challenge? You need a vacation, girl. ;)

PersonPose120 (Twitter)

And good try to you guys who guessed half correct:

Lillian Tadamichi

Robert Erickson

LilLeopard (Twitter)

Rosarioindependant (Twitter)

I’ll have a new one next week, so when you’re in the Disneyland Resort (Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and all of the Disney hotels), keep your eyes peeled and take in everything.

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Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-15-12

February 15, 2012 By 6 Comments

I’m back again with another photo challenge. Last week we had a bit of a tuffy. Very few knew what it was and most didn’t bother to try.

But I don’t care! All that your silence means to me is that I know more than YOU, so HA!

This week’s challenge has two questions, so here we go:

(A) What classic Disney film does this old, bearded dude have a part in, and (B) exactly where in the Disneyland Resort can you find this carving of him?

And “exactly where” means the exact place. Answering something like “Downtown Disney” isn’t going to cut it.

 Always keep in mind that “Disneyland Resort” means the whole resort: Disneyland Park, Disney California Adventure Park, Downtown Disney, The Disneyland Hotel, Disney’s Paradise Pier Hotel and Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel and Spa.

If you know the answer to this one, or you think you know, all you have to do is drop me a line. You can do this by:

Leaving a comment here (certainly the simplest way)

Send me a direct message on Twitter (@disgeekpaul)

or drop me an e-mail: paul@disgeek.com.

I’ll keep your answers hidden so that more people can guess, therefore YOU will be able to see your answer, but no one else will. I need to keep it going as long as I can and give everyone a fair shot at it.

Tomorrow morning I’ll post the names of players who guessed correctly and reveal a new photo with the correct answer.

Have a great magical, and happy Humpday!

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Wednesday Photo Challenge Answer: Fixin’ To Do Some FANTASMIC!

November 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Every Wednesday we test your DLR knowledge with a photograph taken somewhere in the Disneyland Resort.  Usually I wait a day and give you the answer on Thursday, but seeing as this Thursday is Thanksgiving and I’ll be up early in the morning, then driving to Las Vegas to my in-laws, then cooking the dinner, then eating it and then passing out full of Turkey and other foodie goodness, I’ll just give you the answer now. Here’s tis:

The Sailing ship Columbia is taken out of service because Captain Hook and his pirates commandeer it to perform in Fantasmic!. It’s pretty cool.

First they make sure everyone who sat in front of The Rivers of America are still awake by firing a concussive blast from a cannon (which always gives me a start, even when I know it’s coming).

Hook, Smee, Peter Pan, Wendy, and pirates are running around the deck in this little fight/stunt sequence as the ship makes its pass.

Following the ship is that crocodile the wants to finish off what he started with Capt. Hook’s hand, with the sound of a ticking clock emanating from its tail.

The Steam Ship Mark Twain is also pulled to the sideline to perform in the Fantasmic! finale, piloted by a black and white Mickey Mouse, dressed in attire from Steamboat Willie.

About 50 Disney characters dance on the ship in a ribbon routine. The sequence is accompanied by searchlights, fountains, and pyrotechnics. Pretty awesome stuff. 

We had more guesses than usual this time, and everyone was right! Lol!

Ashley Hodgson

Lacey Axemaker (We love you too.)

Teresa Hale

LilLeopard (Twitter)

Alison Hodgson

Lillian Tadamichi

We’ll have a new one for you next week, so when you’re in the Disneyland Resort (Disneyland, Disney California Adventure, Downtown Disney and all of the Disney hotels), keep your eyes peeled and take in everything.

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