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TrpltJanie
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Posted 02-08-03 12:42 PM
Trip report--November 30th-December 14th
Main characters:
Me-mid 30's with a frazzled look permanmently etched on my "nun-like" face
Brad-my husband the straight man in our "Burns and Allen" marriage
The Chorus:
Sarah- 8 years, batty over Digimon and Dinosaurs
My 4 year old triplets:
Jonathan-adores Buzz Lightyear
Rachel-carries her much loved "Dot" beanie everywhere she goes
Samuel-loves cars and always has a pocket full of toy cars
My mother-semi-retired school teacher
Richard-my oldest brother with his 11 year old daughter
Michael-my youngest brother with Devon, his 5 year old son
Day 8th-December 7th***excuse my misspellings, grammar mistakes, and etc. I was typing as fast as I could in keeping up with my train of thought.
I LOVE LUCY! When we first walked into Universal Studio park, the first thing I saw was this sign: "Lucy--A tribute" and promptly went bananas. I took off once again with me zipping around the people and objects while I pushed Rachel in the stroller. The reason why I always pushed Rachel around is that she's at that clingy stage and gets terrified if I'm not in her line of sight. I know she is only four years old but I sometimes feel like a weird siamese twin.
I heard my mother and Brad yell "No Janie!! No Janie!" while my brothers threw their arms up in the air and took a "puff, cough, wheeze" break. I turned around, faced them and dramatically yanked my earpiece off then turned around again so they could see my "2 pregnancies and four kids ruined fanny" and spanked myself.
I think I shocked a group of dour looking people wearing same t-shirts walking by. Ahhh, family reunions, a very good way of telling Aunt Bertha how I hated those neon orange knitted slippers with lime green poofy balls at the tip of the slippers. I looked like one of Santa's lunatic elves everytime I wore those "bleah" slippers.
Brad saw me do that and took off after me leaving the boys with my family. I saw him coming, freaked out, and took off. Poor Rachel, she hung on for dear life while I squeaked "Excuse me! Excuse me!" (when I freak out, I squeak) Looking back, I don't know why I kept saying that when there wasn't THAT many people at the park that day.
I was a few feet away from the Lucy store when Brad grabbed me by the collar and barked. "You'll get your chance when we leave the park for the day and I don't want to lug stuff around all day long if you buy some stuff now."
Me: whimpering. "But.....but...."
Brad: (talks like stern parent No....no... you'll.....have....the...chance....(waves his arms around)to......buy.....some ......stuff?
Me: (wailing like Lucy)"I caaaan't waaaaaiiit!"
Brad: (soothing) "Okay you can buy one thing and you get the rest later. Is that all right?"
Me: (pretends to dry my tears) Oh....okay.....
Brad: "I'll give you five minutes to get ONE thing so I'll go get your family while you buy something."
Me: "Oh, you're so sweet!"
10 minutes later, I came out of the store carrying two bags of I Love Lucy stuff and my whole family groaned. I pulled out a box of chocolates with a picture of Lucy and Ethel making chocolates on the front, opened the box and started stuffing my face and Brad did his "Ricky Ricardo's frustrated with his wife" look.
Sarah: "Mom, can I have one?"
Me: (snarling)
Sarah: "I want to try one."
Me: (snarling and barking)
Sarah: "Daddy! Mommy won't share!"
Me: (snarling)
Brad: "Janie! SHARE!"
Me: "NO!"
What happened next was so comical and my mother laughed so hard that she had tears coming out of her eyes.
Brad: (very irritated with me) "Janie--KNOCK IT OFF!"
Me: "MAKE ME!"
While I was distracted by Brad, Sarah snatched the box out of my hands, ran, and hid behind my mother.
Me: "That's mine! Those Lucy chocolates are MINE!"
Sarah: "Nyah!"
I ran over to her, tried to grab the box as Sarah dodged my chunky arm and I accidently knocked it out of her hand. It flew through the air in slow motion, landed face down on the asphalt, and scattered most of its contents.
Me: "My chocolates!" (blubbering)
Sarah: "Whoops! Sowwy!"
Me: "AAAAUUGGGHHHHH! Get away you filthy birds!"
Those Alfred Hitchock-y birds came out of nowhere, grabbed the pieces of chocolates, then flew off before I could stop them. My mother fell over laughing when I ran over there and tried to scare them off. These suckers really didn't care about a wild eyed woman screeching at them and I had one with ONE sorry lookin' foot come after me prompting me to screech "Augh! It's a Alfred bird! An Alfred bird! Shoo!"
Gee! I was so unhappy that I had to throw away an ENTIRE box of chocolates and Brad told me that it was my fault because I wouldn't share. Well duuuuuuhhhhhh! We've been married for a long time now and he's telling ME to share my chocolates with others?? Even if it is my own child? Phhhfffttt!
Grabbed a quick lunch at Mel's Diner and yes, the damn birds followed us. While Brad, my brothers, and my mother went to get our lunch, I found two tables in front of the diner and got the kids seated at the tables then hurried over to the strollers that were parked across the road in front of the diner, and got the wet wipes so I could wash my kids hands before they started eating.
When I got back, I found a scary looking bird perched on the top of a chair next to Samuel and that feathered felon STARED at my little boy as he ate his french fries. I SWEAR on my family's dog's grave, that this bird had a malevolent glint in its beady black eyes and he was sizing up Samuel to see if it was worth pecking out my little boy's big, blue eyes over a handful of greasy fries.
I yelled "Boo!" at the bird and it didn't flinch so I had to say it a several times before he decided that it wasn't worth dealing with a whacko woman and flew away to find another victim.
Afer lunch, we decided to split up so my mother went off on her own while my brothers and their kids took Sarah with them.
The first ride that we went on with our triplets was "Back to the Future." I had ridden the ride a couple of times when it first opened and everything was brand new and spiffy but now, it looked rather worn and a little dated. Maybe it is time to re-vamp the ride and make a different movie this time around.
I was so excited that I bounced off of the walls in the waiting room. I kept saying "We're here! I'll be able to hear the sound effects! I can't believe we're here! Pinch me! We're actually here!" Thank goodness that we were the only ones in that room because other guests would have kicked the door down and ran out out of the room screaming. "She's insane!"
I adored Doc's voice. He made it sound like he was a bit eecentric and the inflection of his voice went really well with his expressive face and body.
As for Biff, I was disappointed because I kinda imagined his voice a little bit more MEAN. I don't know. I guess I have NO idea what a bully sounds like. Come to think of it, I think I'll give a call to certain bully and when he answers the phone, I'll scream "I don't wear hearing aids anymore so HA! HA! Bush cow!" and slam the phone down.
I was shaking when we got into the car and when the door closed with a soft click, I went bonkers! "I heard the click! It means the show starts NOW!"
The sound effects weren't as good as Spiderman. Pre-implant, I wasn't really into the ride in 1991 but this time, the sound effects truly ADDED to the thrill of the ride. Going through time had a nice zapping sound with a neat "pop" as we arrived in a different time. The dino noises was wild and hearing the ice break off and crash was (in Ned Flander's voice) Ab-diddley-so-diddley-lute-diddley neato!
The ride stopped with a loud thump and everybody got out of the car except me. I just sat there with a silly smile on my face for a moment then before I realized that my family was waiting for me and scooted out of the car.
Trotted over to E.T. and found the rest of my family including my mother by accident and we decided to hang out together for the rest of the day. I wasn't sure that if I heard crickets as soft music played while we walked through the maze to get to the platform because I was busy with Rachel who bawled her head off because she fell down, scraped her knee a bit, and caused it to bleed a little bit. She hates the sight of blood and when she gets one little cut, she freaks out big time and it takes a while for me to calm her down.
When Brad and I rode the ride for the first time in 1991, we thought it was hokey in a good way so going on it again with the sound effects, I felt the sounds made the ride a whole lot more hokey-- still in a very good way--especially when we visited E.T.'s homeworld. I snickered when I heard that sappy, happy music welcoming E.T. home after we "whooshed" through a dark tunnel with white twinkling lights.
We walked out of the E.T. ride and I told everybody that we had to check out "Kongfrontation" so I could hear that oversized gorilla roar. Michael shook his head and told me that King Kong was "dead". Uh? I disagreed with him and he whipped out the park guide and showed it to me.
Michael: "See? It is not there anymore!"
Me: (looking at the guide more closely) "Is this the correct park?"
Michael: (grabs the guide out of my hands) "It's gone so let's go on Twister."
I squabbled with Michael for a bit over the Kong ride on the way to Twister and asked him if he was SURE that it was closed. I'm pretty disappointed that I never had the opportunity to experience it sound-wise. Stoopid Universal bigwigs.
Twister was the ultimate hokey attraction of all time. We stood in front of a stage and I heard the UE say. "Hang on! It is gonna be windy!" before he started the attraction. It was interesting to hear the build up of the roaring as the "twister" got closer and closer and it intermixed with the sounds from the movie on the outdoor screen. I practically fell to the ground laughing so hard when I heard a deep "Moooooooo..." as a plastic cow floated by. The shower of sparks and that bang when a transformer blew. That sound was NOWHERE near to the sound of a REAL transformer exploding.
I had the implant for several months and was in process of hearing and indentifying the sounds so at that moment, everything was new to me. A electrical storm rolled in and I thought "Neat-O!" because I loved driving my van through puddles--especially HUGE puddles---and hear the water splash against the side of the van so when it was drizzling as I got the kids in the van, buckled them up, got behind the steering wheel and was ready to pull out of the driveway when I heard this loud bang and from the corner of my left eye, I saw a intense blue flash and a shower of orange sparks. I freaked out and my kids freaked out and we all ran back into the house like a bunch of drunken Keystone cops. I shook so bad and freaked out even more when I realized that there was no power so I pulled out five flashlights and turned ALL of them on. It was late afternoon and we certainly did need that many but I was so terrified. I didn't even look out of the window to take a closer look at the origin of the blue flash. I didn't even talk about it for a while because I was so freaked out over it.
Back to "Twister", I could not stop laughing at the scene before me, trees fell over, truck flying by, and etc. In my opinion, I think the Twister sounds made it funny...I mean a cow mooing as it floats by? That is good for a laugh right there.
After Twister, My mother decided to my triplets with her to check out Fievel's playground so she could sit down for a while and watch the kids play while the rest of us went on Jaws and Earthquake.
Jaws was surreal to say at the least. We got a very hyper UE piloting the boat and it was a hoot to hear him talk at warp speed. The ride started out slow with him pointing out various things along the seashore and doing the everyday chatter until we went around the bend and saw damage to a fish warehouse, pieces of a boat floating, and a little bit of a fire burning on the surface of the water. The pilot "freaked", grabbed his on his two way radio and screamed into that saying that something happened and the dock employees were nowhere to be found. (I had to snifle my laughs when he did that)
He pulled out his rifle and did a big show of priming the gun with several clicks. He kept telling us that we're safe (click!) and he'll make sure (click!) that we'll get back to the dock (click!) in one piece. (click!) Sarah got nervous and cuddled up to ME...not Brad. I teased her "I'm not big enough to fight off a shark so would you be better off to stick with Daddy?" She shook her head and said "No, You're meaner and you're good at biting people's heads off...." Brad and my brothers snort-laughed at it. Yeah Riiiiigggghhht! My own daughter tossing barbs of her own.
We went through a warehouse and heard a lot of thuds, bangs, and creaks as the pilot said "He's coming after us! He's going through the warehouse to get a bite out of us but I won't let him!" My head was spinning around as I tried to "follow" the sounds as it came closer and closer to us.
The next thing I did was stupid and I got a head whack from Brad. I screamed "BOO!" and everybody jumped! There were two rows of other guests in front of us and they all turned to look at me. Eeep! I gave them a very sheepish smile while Brad smacked me on the head. The pilot barked an order at me saying that I must not attract the attention of the killer shark and that if I did it again, he'll feed me to the shark. Hehehehehehe...everybody did laugh over it except for Michael and Richard...they CHEERED! Sheesh!
I heard a THUD and a tip of a shark's nose as he came up on the opposite side of the boat and rocked the boat a bit. The pilot was in fine form: screaming while blasting away at the shark with his rifle. Poor Sarah, she was freaking out so bad and I was hysterical from laughing. It was so SURREAL! The shark went after us several times and I loved that "blam-blam!" and that "DIE! DIE!" scream.
The kicker was hearing the pilot yell at another UE as we approached the dock. "There is a shark loose! We gotta call the military and blow that damn shark out of the water!" It was priceless to hear him say that.
We scooted over to Earthquake and I tried to get UE's attention so I could volunteer Michael to be the victim in the show before the Earthquake ride but Michael backed away from me without me realizing that and I grabbed a hold of a belt and tried to push "Michael" in front of me and in the corner of my eye, I was a bit startled to see white hair so I turned my head to take a good look at "Michael" and was mortified that I had grabbed a strange man's belt and his wife was getting all hissy about it!. Michael could NOT stop laughing. I was soooo embarrassed but I wanted Michael to volunteer so I could make fun of him afterwards but they didn't pick him. :-( DANG!
The pre-show was okay and I snickered when a volunteer did this pitiful scream as she "fell" from the platform.
Got on the subway and once again, I was shaking with excitement. "It is gonna be cool to hear it after wondering and imagining the sounds all those years!" Sarah sat by Brad with a "He's bigger and can protect me!" Ooooooh, so I bite heads off of sharks and falling rocks bounce Brad's thick skull. Not bad for a set of deranged parents.
It started out with a soft, low rumble and the posters on the subway walls rattled a little bit but it was interesting to hear it build so quickly because when I rode that ride in 1991, all I "heard" was the truck banging against the pillar and feeling the rumbles in my chest so it was nice to hear the soft sounds.
Loved that "pop" and the hiss when the water pipes broke and that "FOOM!" noise from broken gas line. The best one was the gas truck slid toward us with screeches and thuds before it hit the pillar with a loud clang. The big noises were there but I was listening to the "smaller" noises for my memory sound file and to see if I could zero in a particular sound. The glass shattering, loud craaaaack when the ground buckled, another subway crashing into a wall, loud booms, and etc. Some people on the subway screamed a few times and one of the screamers had that weird scream (she sat in front of us): it was more of that inhale then...."aaaauuuuggghhhh-----squeeeeeeak!" I never heard that whistle-scream before. Wild, I thought the snort-laugh was funny but her screams were so ODD!
Took a quick ride on Woody Woodpecker's rollercoaster. Nothing notable however, that roller coaster had that weird laugh. I think I better dig out a tape of Woody Woodpecker cartoons and re-check that bird's manical laugh.
Went over to "Terminator 2" attraction and my mother and my triplets joined us there. I had Rachel in my lap with my arms wrapped around her. The boys were jumping up and down 'cause they were gonna see a "real live robo." because Brad told them that on our way to be seated in that huge theater.
The show was packed with sounds...more so than "Honey, I shrunk the audience." The zapping noise from the time machine, running steps, gunfire, screaming, a loud snap as the evil terminator broke the hostess's neck---that was creepy because I never expected to hear that but when I asked Brad about it, he didn't recall hearing that sound so I could be wrong but still...that was very creepy---and I was so glad when it was finally over. That liveaction/3-D movie was NOT my cup of hot chocolate. My boys thought it was pretty cool but Rachel and Sarah didn't think it was all that great.
I didn't go on Men in Black ride becasue my head was throbbing a bit and I think that the Terminator show triggered another round of oversimulation. Brad and my brothers were the only ones tall enough to go on the ride so they went ahead while my mother and I took the kids and checked out the street sets. I loved the space shuttle prop and took a picture of my kids *standing* next to it. The New York skyline was just as amazing also. Then, we went over to Bone Yard so they could check out the bones.
My headache got worse so I tried to do the self hypnoism that my doctor showed me to do: Imagine the "old" sounds being drained from my brain so I could fill it up again with "new" sounds but it was not working at that point so I simply said "Screw this" and popped a pain pill in my mouth.
The big boys came back and Brad told me that the MIB ride was okay but he liked the Buzz ride better. We wanted to see Beetlejuice show but my headache was tougher to handle by the minute. I even offered to sit somewhere quiet while they went to the show and they all said "Nah" and assured me that it was okay if we went home right now and come back on the third day (get two days one free day pass)
The funny thing was the walk from the park to the
van was the longest walk for me and I even told Brad
"I wish my brain wouldn't quit on me when I'm having
so much fun." Oh well....life in the fast lane. 
Janie
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Mary
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Posted 02-08-03 01:12 PM
It's about time, Janie! Glad to see you had the 'banned' chocolate in your report. Of course, I expected that. Not only are you a chocolate freak but I imagine you were 'nyah, nyahing' Robb as you were writing it. Good girl.
Anyone else?
BTW, how many more installments can we expect? And will they be done before your next trip?
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TrpltJanie
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Posted 02-08-03 01:41 PM
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Mary wrote:
It's about time, Janie! Glad to see you had the 'banned' chocolate in your report. Of course, I expected that. Not only are you a chocolate freak but I imagine you were 'nyah, nyahing' Robb as you were writing it. Good girl.
Anyone else?
BTW, how many more installments can we expect? And will they be done before your next trip?
Don't rush me! I gotta do AK and MGM report..... chocolates!
chocolates!
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Tink *~*~*
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Posted 02-08-03 07:00 PM
Mary dear, don't you think poor Janie needs just a little bit of brain food (chocolate) to gather enough strength to continue producing brain salad? Have a little pity on the poor, dear thing.
Here Janie, I have one Belgian chocolate starfishie (tosses starfishie to Janie) - try to carry on, girlfriend!
Tink *~*~*
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Posted 02-08-03 07:05 PM
Actually Tink, Janie has been stalling long enough with this trip report. I propose that we keep all chocolate away from Janie until Brain Salad is complete.
Chocolate (in Janie's case) should be a reward. As for Robb, he will become one of us sooner or later.
[Edited by Mary]
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Posted 02-08-03 09:45 PM
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TrpltJanie wrote:
I was a few feet away from the Lucy store when Brad grabbed me by the collar and barked. "You'll get your chance when we leave the park for the day and I don't want to lug stuff around all day long if you buy some stuff now."
Uh...but did you make it to the Lucy display??
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Sarah: "Mom, can I have one?"
Me: (snarling)
Sarah: "I want to try one."
Me: (snarling and barking)
Sarah: "Daddy! Mommy won't share!"
Me: (snarling)
Brad: "Janie! SHARE!"
Me: "NO!"
Bad Mommy...bad
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"She's insane!"
And truer words have never been spoken. 
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I wasn't sure that if I heard crickets as soft music played while we walked through the maze to get to the platform...
It's been a few years since I rode it, but I think there are cricket sounds.
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We walked out of the E.T. ride and I told everybody that we had to check out "Kongfrontation" so I could hear that oversized gorilla roar. Michael shook his head and told me that King Kong was "dead". Uh? I disagreed with him and he whipped out the park guide and showed it to me.
You'll just have to come out to So Cal, as we still have a short version of Kong on the studio tour.
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I practically fell to the ground laughing so hard when I heard a deep "Moooooooo..." as a plastic cow floated by.
I think the flying cow is the most talked about scene from the original Twister movie. Moooooooo
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Jaws was surreal to say at the least. We got a very hyper UE piloting the boat and it was a hoot to hear him talk at warp speed.
Jaws is sort of the second generation 'Jungle Cruise' of Univeral, when it comes to playing along with the story. First time we rode, my friend's husband got so caught up in the story, when the UE was asking where the shark was, he started pointing and shouting 'it's over there'. (What a sight to see this big burly guy playing along.)
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The next thing I did was stupid and I got a head whack from Brad. I screamed "BOO!" and everybody jumped! There were two rows of other guests in front of us and they all turned to look at me. Eeep! I gave them a very sheepish smile while Brad smacked me on the head. The pilot barked an order at me saying that I must not attract the attention of the killer shark and that if I did it again, he'll feed me to the shark. Hehehehehehe...everybody did laugh over it except for Michael and Richard...they CHEERED! Sheesh!
I swear you're worse than the kids. LOL
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The kicker was hearing the pilot yell at another UE as we approached the dock. "There is a shark loose! We gotta call the military and blow that damn shark out of the water!" It was priceless to hear him say that.
I thought the UE used to kill it at the end of the ride.
We have Earthquake on the Universal tour too. Pretty much the same as the FLA version minus the preshow. The 'story' here is that the Big One hits while your on the tour.
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I didn't go on Men in Black ride becasue my head was throbbing a bit and I think that the Terminator show triggered another round of oversimulation.
It sounds like what you need to do is pace yourself. Noisy...then quiet...then noisy again, to give yourself a chance to 'relax' between the more stimulating attractions.
If you haven't seen a lot of the movies the rides are based on, your missing some of the inside jokes, like the flying cow. As for Back to the Future, you need to see at least the original.
Soooo...when ya coming to So Cal so we can do USF, DL and CA??
[Edited by Robin]
I toss my cookies for Disney.
I wonder what inspired this new Disney T-shirt? "I'm right. You're wrong. Any Questions?"
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Posted 02-08-03 10:05 PM
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Robin wrote:
Soooo...when ya coming to So Cal so we can do USF, DL and CA??
[Edited by Robin]
I don't know about Janie but I just found out this week that we have to be in Phoenix in July for a wedding. I mentioned a side trip to So Cal to David and he IS interested. If I make it, I'll try to put a meet together. Other than you and Fab, who else is in the area?
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Posted 02-08-03 11:27 PM
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I thought the UE used to kill it at the end of the ride.
The shark is electrocuted by the under ground wire and then the gas is ignited in the water which blows him up. I have heard stories of how sometimes the special effects don't work on Jaws and they have to improvise an ending.
Bev
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Posted 02-09-03 12:26 AM
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phamton wrote:
The shark is electrocuted by the under ground wire and then the gas is ignited in the water which blows him up. I have heard stories of how sometimes the special effects don't work on Jaws and they have to improvise an ending.
Bev
That's right! He used to end up looking like a burnt marshmellow. Blech.
I toss my cookies for Disney.
I wonder what inspired this new Disney T-shirt? "I'm right. You're wrong. Any Questions?"
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Posted 02-09-03 01:15 AM
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phamton wrote:
The shark is electrocuted by the under ground wire and then the gas is ignited in the water which blows him up. I have heard stories of how sometimes the special effects don't work on Jaws and they have to improvise an ending.
Bev
I didn't see that at all Gee--it would have been cool
to hear the shark *fry* with all those cracking and
buzzing sounds.
Brad told me that he was surprised that UE didn't
kill the shark at the end.
I wonder if I could jam a sardine in a electrical outlet and check out the "frying" sound when that oily fish gets *zapped*. Might be the next best thing to running a snow blower over a pile of gravel 'cause I can't find the damn key.
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Posted 02-09-03 11:33 AM
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Tink *~*~* wrote:
Mary dear, don't you think poor Janie needs just a little bit of brain food (chocolate) to gather enough strength to continue producing brain salad? Have a little pity on the poor, dear thing.
Here Janie, I have one Belgian chocolate starfishie (tosses starfishie to Janie) - try to carry on, girlfriend!
OH THANK YOU! (stuffing my face) That was goof! (hugs Tink)
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Posted 02-09-03 12:03 PM
Well the fried shark was at UO in November when I went so it hasn't been gone too long. I wonder if they were having technical difficulties when you were there. I'll ask on the Universal board.
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Posted 02-09-03 02:59 PM
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phamton wrote:
Well the fried shark was at UO in November when I went so it hasn't been gone too long. I wonder if they were having technical difficulties when you were there. I'll ask on the Universal board.
Bev--
Do let me know because I would have LOVED to see the fried shark. I'm going to e-mail Michael my brother--he's in Argentina at the moment-- about that because he went again twice after our ride so I wanna know.
Janie
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Posted 02-09-03 03:03 PM
Robin wrote:
Soooo...when ya coming to So Cal so we can do USF, DL and CA??
We're hoping for a trip down to S. Cal next year. We were going to go back to WDW this December but decided to go down to So. Cal and have the opportunity to meet with you but since I've gone back to school--we've pushed to 2004.
I think it would be a hoot for us to check out Kong
ride!
When are you gonna post YOUR TR? Don't look at me Mary!
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Posted 02-09-03 05:32 PM
OK I posted this to a Universal board. Most of the people who post on that board live in Orlando and go almost every weekend or work at Universal.
Here's what I posted to that board: quote:
My friend just got back from UO and was talking about the "Jaws" ride. When she saw it, the shark wasn't killed and when they got back to the dock, the boat driver said, " There is a shark loose! We gotta call the military and blow that damn shark out of the water!"
Now the times I have gone, the shark bit the electrical cable and was blown up because of the sparks that hit the gasoline in the water. Please tell me that I haven't lost my mind. Has the ending changed or did my friend just experience technical difficulties?
Bev
And here are two answers I got:
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The ending has not changed... that was a fluke or your friend spaced out on the ride and made up her own ending.
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I'm sure it had alot to do with how the shark was working that day. I know at times certain sharks don't work, so they have to improvise. In your friends case, the last, "electical cable" shark was probably not working, so the skipper had to make something up to make sense of the ride.
So it looks like you had a broken shark that day.
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TrpltJanie
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Posted 02-09-03 05:40 PM
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phamton wrote:
OK I posted this to a Universal board. Most of the people who post on that board live in Orlando and go almost every weekend or work at Universal.
Here's what I posted to that board:
And here are two answers I got:
So it looks like you had a broken shark that day.
Tee hee! Spaced out and made up my own ending? Heheheheheh...I'm always spaced out but I would have loved to see the shark go ZZZZZAAAAAAP!
DANG!
Thanks Bev!
Janie
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phamton
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Posted 02-09-03 06:38 PM
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TrpltJanie wrote:
ee hee! Spaced out and made up my own ending? Heheheheheh...I'm always spaced out but I would have loved to see the shark go ZZZZZAAAAAAP!
DANG!
Thanks Bev!
Yeah I thought you'd appreciate that comment. I wanted to tell him that your entire family must have spaced out then.
Maybe you just got Charlie Tuna instead of Jaws.
Bev
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TrpltJanie
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Posted 02-10-03 12:10 AM
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Yeah I thought you'd appreciate that comment. I wanted to tell him that your entire family must have spaced out then.
Maybe you just got Charlie Tuna instead of Jaws.
Bev
Tee hee! Don't worry about the person's comment. I fell out of my chair laughing when I saw that. Hehehehehe!
I think you're right about Charlie Tuna. I wish I had known because I would have insisted that they fix the dang shark and I could go on it again just to see and hear that sound effect!
Janie
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phamton
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Posted 02-11-03 10:32 AM
Janie, I just got two more answers about your malfunctioning shark and the last one is from an actual driver of the boat at Jaws:
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Here is one of those (Common) Times when it fails to work, 3 times last months I went on it didn't work. They improv, one guy tour guide said "He's gone under the boat, I think he's snagged the electical wire." Then the other shark popped up and he went on script. "Boy we really roasted him..." http://usf.i8.com/JAWS30.jpg
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Actually, it's not improv. There are "cover" lines for every effect on JAWS. A few months back we were having a lot of problems with the Kill Shark (The one that bites the cable) but he has been working fine for several weeks.
I would really like to know who the skipper was who did the line about calling the military, because that is definitely NOT the cover. (Actually the other poster was correct, the cover line is "He's going under the boat...")
Wolf (Jaws skipper for over 2.5 years!)
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