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Wondering, Wandering Wednesday Photo Challenge

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Happy Hump-Day everybody! Well, as I hope will become a tradition here at the DisGeek Podcast Web Site, every Wednesday I will post a photo and issue a challenge for our readers to answer a question about it.

This Wednesday’s Challenge is this:

This waterfall is an integral part of what attraction in the Disneyland Resort? 

If you know, or think you know the answer, drop me a line.

You can do this by:

Leaving a comment here (certanly 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 wonderful, wandering Wednesday!

Episode 24 – “Pump House!”

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Daniel and Paul takes a look at what on the Drawing Board and talk Buena Vista Street.  Plus a visit to the Main Street Newsstand and we have our Tip of the Week.  Finally Paul rants about “Cinderella”.

News

Turkey Day Reservations Open at Disneyland Resort
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/10/turkey-day-reservations-open-at-disneyland-resort/

DISNEYLAND

CHOC Walk draws 14,000 to Disneyland
http://www.ocregister.com/news/choc-322266-disney-disneyland.html

Refurbs

  • Main Street Photos Refurb is complete
  • Walls are up at Plaza Pavilion to transform it into Jolly Holiday Bakery
  • Walls are down at the Adventure Land Restrooms right across form Tiki Room. Rock are now a dark green color.
  • Pirates Referb continues. Tarps are up in front of what used to be the Disney Gallery. Pirates is set to reopen Nov 23rd.
  • It’s a Small World closed OCT 24 for set ip of the holiday version. Reopens NOV 10

Special Passholder Event at Disneyland (Event Happened)
http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2011/10/rsvp-now-for-special-annual-passholder-event-at-disneyland-park/

Al Lutzs mentions this…About how Disney is trying to get passholders who don’t visit very often to come to events where Disney can test spending habits
http://miceage.micechat.com/allutz/al092711a.htm

Disney Collection mimics Halloween’s Haunted Mansion
http://www.ocregister.com/news/mansion-319327-sandahl-collection.html

DCA

Carthy Circle Signage appears on “Pump House”.

Parade Lighting fixtures and speakers are popping up near the Carthy Circle Theatre area.

Flying Carpet Flips During Aladdin Show at DCA
http://www.ocregister.com/news/aladdin-318986-disney-performers.html

California Screaming has reopened with a new loop installed. It’s actually shaped a little different. Supposedly the old loop caused lots of stress on the ride and needed tons of upkeep. The new loop fixes this issue.

Blue Sky Cellar Reopened. They focus now on Buena Vista Street. This re-opening is what prompted me to do our on the drawing board feature. This exhibit shows off all of the concept art of the buildings, has these cool posters for the Red Car Trolley, Sorin’ over California, and Tower of Terror. So check it out next time you are in DCA.

RANDOM
Ryan Gosling on Conan
http://justjared.buzznet.com/2011/09/20/ryan-gosling-talks-killer-cats-in-disneyland/

Flashmob marriage proposal at Downtown Disney
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Su1YLAjty-U

Steve Jobs passes away

Feature – On The Drawing Board – Buena Vista Street

Tip of the Week – Wi-Fi at DLR Hotels

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Wednesday Photo Challenge Answer: Tomorrowland Terrace/Jedi Training Academy

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Every Wednesday we test your DLR knowledge with a photograph taken somewhere in the Disneyland Resort.  A good number of people guessed, but only a handful nailed it.

That gorgeous planter is one of several landmarks belonging to Tomorrowland Terrace  in Tomorrowland and have been there since 2006 when the Terrace was redesigned for the third time since 1967.

It currently hosts the “Jedi Training Academy”, where kids between the ages of 4 and 12 are randomly chosen to participate in the show to become Jedi padawan and face off against Darth Maul and Darth Vader.

That’s something I would have LOVED to do when I was a kid! How awesome is it to be a kid in Disneyland these days?

Anyway, those of you who answered Tomorowland Terrace or Jedi Training Academy were correct!

To those of you who answered “Tomorrowland”, close, but no cookie. Remember that the question was “where, precisely, can one find the planter.” 😉

Here is the list of this week’s winners:

Daniel Aird

Rei

Kerry D.

Teresa Hale

“LilLeopard” (Twitter)

“Littletwinstar” (Twitter)

Elizabeth Tsuzaki

Sarah Weinberg

And to those who gave it a shot, thank you so much for participating! It’s great to know our Podcast listeners and Blog Readers are involved, lol, you’re usually so quiet! 😉

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.  This time you guys got off easy. Next time may not be such a cakewalk.

Wandering & Wondering Wednesday Photo Challenge

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Inspired by our friends at the Days In The Park blog, I have decided to rip a page out of their book of awesome and start a guessing game of my own. So just to be clear, in this scenario, Days in the Park is Madonna and I’m Lady Gaga.

I started doing this game on Facebook and quickly found that while we had a lot of players, as soon as someone answered correctly (without me confirming it or anything), the game stopped. Dead.

So, in the hopes that more people can join in the game, I have decided to bring the concept here to DisGeek.com where we are able to keep things quieter than we can on Facebook. 😉

Every Wednesday I will post a photo and issue a challenge for our readers to answer a question about it.

While I plan to make tougher challenges, I’ll start us off with something rather easy.

Where, precisely, can this planter of sword ferns be found in the Disneyland Resort? 

If you know, or think you know the answer, drop me a line.

You can do this by:

Leaving a comment here (certanly 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, that will leave you either smacking yourself in the forehead or saying “yep, I knew it”.

Have a great wonderful, wandering Wednesday!

On Mondays, be sure to head over to Days In The Park for their “Magical Mystery Monday” photo challenge.