Santa ... Shannon

Pangani Trail in Africa, AK? Looks like bird cage mesh.

So the NASCAR attraction which uses otherwise useless space is going away, but NBA is getting plunked down in the middle of prime territory and evicting a reasonably popular attraction? Yep, that sounds about right.

Any kind of line-voltage electrical installation in a public space has to be permitted and inspected. So no construction necessary. But I bet they also inspect the megatrees and props hung overhead.

I basically do 3 things in FutureWorld these days, ClubCool, Soarin' and Listen to the Land. This is the farmer's mailbox on the latter, and is an homage to the opening year for EPCOT Center. The colorful thing is rooster on the mailbox.

Looks German, to me.

Yep. Mostly wanted to share the pic because I don't often hear people mention the railroad remnants here.

, "Leave him alone and whatever you do, don't try and take a selfie with him!"

 

You just know they said that because some knucklehead actually tried it...

Ok, I'm done, you win at Internet for today! LOL

Here's one that will be easy for a bunch of folks, but I bet there are a bunch of others who have never seen it. Since it is sooo easy, I'll need a pretty precise answer for this one!

Ok, one more while I'm on a roll.

You never sausage a dinghy! Never thought I'd se a Lamborghini at the Fort, but there it is. WTF!

Now, here's a guy who probably DID get ejected. This is not quite the Fort, but pretty close. This was at Shades of Green. The staff acted like this was an everyday occurrence and I think they said a groundskeeper (!) would be along soon to relocate him. Not because he was a threat, he just wants to sunbathe, but because stupid non-Floridians were apt to overstep a line and make it into an unsafe situation. To which I say "What the Fort?"

Wait, the guy that followed them into the bathroom wasn't ejected?  That's wrong and very disturbing! I think if that happened to me I would have called the police and filed a report at the very least.

I agree, and the mom was really shaken up by it, too. Now, of course, I only heard one side of that story, but she was pretty convincing to me. WTF?

BTW, the story behind the "tent move" was pretty disturbing. Turns out there was a mom and her daughters camping in another loop and a man followed them into the comfort station. She confronted him and he flipped. The family ended up hiding in a stall and the guy barricaded them in with a trash can. Of course, she reported the incident to management and they DID NOT eject the guy!!! WTF!!! But they offered to move her to another campsite. WTF! So they decided it would be easier to move the already-erected tents erect! WTF? They were able to do it in a mere 4 trips, driving at 2mph with a helper walking alongside holding the tents on! Of course, they could have done it in one trip at full speed if they took down the tents, but that's the Fort for ya! I guess these guys were glad to put down the pots of brown paint for a few hours!

Ok, I have a few WTF pics! First up, this one from last November:

That is a Fort maintenance truck, delivering an erected tent to a site. WTF? Actually they delivered two! Double WTF!?

I was glad to see that they extended it, but it's a little disconcerting that they've decided to do it six months at a shot now it seems. Hopefully they aren't doing it to lessen the shock when they decide not to renew it one of these days. Not that anybody should feel entitled to a discount, especially not me as nothing more than a military brat.

As of today you can book through Nov 6, 2016, which should be late enough to do both MNSSHP and MVMCP and Food & Wine! Party dates, of course, have not been announced, so you may want to pad a couple more days to the end.

It was embarrassingly bad by the early '90s, so they've had TWENTY-FIVE YEARS to come up with something better. The preview was a perfect opportunity to transition. Opportunity squandered.

Really sad news. One might have hoped they would use this opportunity to update to something "attractive"... you know, they used to call these attractions. :-/

Correction: SAVORY breakfast in a waffle cone does not sound appealing.

Say, if you rent a locker can I sub-let one of the shelves? You are a non-smoker, right? I wouldn't want my bologna sandwich absorbing any odors.

Ah! Red light, yes!

Looks like it could be in TestTrack.

I give... I've never seen anything like that. Love the color, though!

Pretty amazing that Disney would allow such an "unauthorized" version of MM to appear on-property... thematically appropriate or not!

I'd say that is certainly in Harambe Village at AK, but I have never seen this, so I can't narrow the location. Probably back toward the new(ish) FOTLK?

Whew!