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Wednesday Photo Challenge 3-28-12 Answer

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Well, it would appear that I blew it!  I made the picture too hard!  My brother told me that if I make it too hard I won’t get as many entries.  He was right!  I didn’t get as many guesses as we normally do and the ones I did get were ALL WRONG!  But good guesses!  I cropped the image ever so slightly as I felt UN-cropped would give it away.  So here it is un-cropped. Guess again then I reveal it below:

 

 

Did you guess right?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That’s right! Goofy’s Sky School!

These tools are located at the unload area of the ride. Right next to one of the control panels (I cropped out!).  This last weekend my 4 year old daughter was finally tall enough to ride.  She had been waiting for weeks for this, so it was a very exciting moment!  And she LOVED it!  My mom, not so much…

Thanks to everybody who participated! Sorry nobody got it right.  We’ll see if I do better next time.  Seeya next week!

Wednesday Photo Challenge 3-28-12

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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!

Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-29-12 Answer

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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! 😀

Wednesday Photo Challenge 2-29-12

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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. 😀

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!

Monday Magic Audio Challenge #2 Answer

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Some of you loled at this one. Some of you gave me guff for being too easy… again.

MANY of you were wrong. In fact one of you who told me it was “too easy”, was also wrong.

DANIEL, co-host of the podcast and walking encyclopedia/GPS navigator of everything DLR, got it wrong the first time.

Who’s loling now?

If you said California Screamin’, you were close, but wrong. Toy Story Midway Mania, also wrong. If you said Paradise Pier, wrong. And if you said all of the above together, you were still wrong.

Yes, it is Paradise Pier, California Screamin’ and Toy Story Midway Mania in the clip, but the correct answer was an attraction that can’t be heard in the clip.

To recap, when I issued the challenge, I said that a woman in the sound clip gives relevant information about an attraction in close proximity to where the clip was captured.

The question was:

What attraction she is referring to?

About 10 seconds into the clip the woman says “Only some of them swing” to her young daughter. She is, of course, referring to the gondolas on:

Mickey’s Fun Wheel

Not only do some of them swing, but some of them also slide; which is why I’ll never ride one of those gondolas on that Ferris Wheel.

I have a hard time with heights as it is. I tend to stay away from Ferris Wheels altogether.

Going up high, I can handle if there is a drop– like Tower of Terror or one of the many insane roller coasters at Six Flags. But going up high and sitting there scares the tar outta me.

I don’t look out the window on airplanes. Let’s leave it at that and move on.

Anyway, I placed the clip at the top of the page so you can listen again. 🙂

Some of you didn’t use the exact name of the attraction, but you knew what it is, so that’s correctness in my book.

You ALL knew where I was, and if the question was where am I, you’d have all been correct and I’d be a chump for thinking that you wouldn’t know that.

So I threw a curve-ball.

Some of you hit it and some of you struck out. All and all, I’d say it was a successful challenge.

Thank you to everybody who participated!

The winners are:

  • Chad Elliott
  • Rob
  • Robert Erickson
  • Alison Hodgson
  • Angie
  • Kevin Healy
  • Lyndsey
  • Becca Lovato Hart
  • rosannaring 
  • Bunnyaimee
  • 1DizFanatic
I hope to see you all on the Wednesday Photo Challenge, and then next Monday for Audio Challenge #3!