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by UncleScrooge477
Jun Tue 24, 2014 11:16 am
Forum: Disney Around the World
Topic: Trip Planning after Shanghai opens
Replies: 10
Views: 8914

Re: Trip Planning after Shanghai opens

Amy - working on the majority shareholder thing. Planning a corporate takeover soon. Again, though, Powerball will be a key factor...
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Tue 24, 2014 11:15 am
Forum: General Resorts and Cruise Lines
Topic: An old Find while cleaning
Replies: 17
Views: 16780

Re: An old Find while cleaning

I'm always disappointed we never made it to the old boardwalk trail, off the southern/eastern end of the campground. It was the same boardwalk that was near River Country, but at the "other" end of the beach. The wife and I tried to bushwhack it a couple of years back - barely got into the...
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Tue 24, 2014 11:06 am
Forum: Walt Disney World Resort
Topic: Moving to be near the Mouse!!!!
Replies: 58
Views: 37573

Re: Moving to be near the Mouse!!!!

It's Florida, so their idea of upper class is wearing clothes new from JC Penny. :D Golden Oak is weird, they don't actually bill themselves as a senior community, they make no mentions of it nor have an age requirement. They only heavily imply it in the images. Though, for park access, they probab...
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Sun 22, 2014 8:19 pm
Forum: Walt Disney World Resort
Topic: Favorite people watching location
Replies: 23
Views: 13760

Re: Favorite people watching location

A number of years back they had drained some of the moat (maybe when the castle was a pink cake? My years get mixed up) and you could see the tracks for the swan boats, so I kept asking when they would refurbish the boats and bring them back...well, no such luck. But I do, sort of, remember riding ...
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Sun 22, 2014 8:17 pm
Forum: Walt Disney World Resort
Topic: Moving to be near the Mouse!!!!
Replies: 58
Views: 37573

Re: Moving to be near the Mouse!!!!

After looking at the Golden Oak community (online of course) I don't think I'd want to live there. All of us here would want to live like kids down there if we could always stay on property, and I have a feeling that community wouldn't allow anything like that. I see those places being more for eve...
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Thu 19, 2014 2:43 pm
Forum: Walt Disney World Resort
Topic: Disney Transport Bus Roster
Replies: 106
Views: 156822

Re: Disney Transport Bus Roster

I used to drive 1967 and 1966 GMC 35 and 40 footers, and sometimes some 30 ft Bluebirds, back when I drove for Blacksburg Transit in the late-80s. Those were the days...met my wife there, too! And that's a story best left for another day, and another thread...

By the way, Go Hokies...
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Thu 19, 2014 1:12 pm
Forum: Walt Disney World Resort
Topic: Favorite people watching location
Replies: 23
Views: 13760

Re: Favorite people watching location

For MK, I like sitting on a bench in the old Swan Boat Dock in the Plaza rose garden..... Um, I hate to break it to you but... (you know it is gone now right??) A number of years back they had drained some of the moat (maybe when the castle was a pink cake? My years get mixed up) and you could see ...
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Thu 19, 2014 1:02 pm
Forum: Walt Disney World Resort
Topic: Moving to be near the Mouse!!!!
Replies: 58
Views: 37573

Re: Moving to be near the Mouse!!!!

With the people that visit Disney every day, week, month, year, What do people do for a living to be able to visit sooooo often. COME ON POWERBALL !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P :goofy: Yup - that's what we're waiting for. I'm hoping to win enough to buy TONS of DVC points, and basically just live in one of th...
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Thu 19, 2014 12:47 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Monorail Purple - New station
Replies: 10
Views: 5853

Re: Monorail Purple - New station

jderoche5 wrote:More Disney Music options is always a good thing in my book!
Yup! That's a fact!
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Thu 12, 2014 3:07 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Monorail Purple - New station
Replies: 10
Views: 5853

Re: Monorail Purple - New station

Just back into the country, and I finally have a steady internet connection, and just NOW found Monorail Purple! Neat! And my favorite color, too!!! THANKS THANKS THANKS
by UncleScrooge477
Jun Thu 12, 2014 3:05 pm
Forum: News
Topic: Returning Streams: Main St, Future Land, Holiday, etc...
Replies: 29
Views: 92498

Re: Returning Streams: Main St, Future Land, Holiday, etc...

Just discovered Monorail Purple - neat!
by UncleScrooge477
May Sun 11, 2014 4:30 pm
Forum: Walt Disney World Resort
Topic: New Hard Ticket Events Coming to WDW.
Replies: 14
Views: 6376

Re: New Hard Ticket Events Coming to WDW.

Okay - cost aside, I really really REALLY like AK after dark. It is hard to find late-evening times when it is dark enough to see it, but the theme and lighting after dark (or late dusk) is really pretty. Now, with cost - uhmmm, yeah, it seems pricey. But once I buy enough DVC points to spend 52 wee...
by UncleScrooge477
May Sun 11, 2014 4:24 pm
Forum: Walt Disney World Resort
Topic: Monorail for sale
Replies: 18
Views: 16340

Re: Monorail for sale

None of my bids have been successful yet (HA ha ha ha...). I'm concerned, though, that the bigger cost will be the installation of pylons and the beam, much less a switching system and a roundhouse!
by UncleScrooge477
May Sun 11, 2014 4:22 pm
Forum: General Resorts and Cruise Lines
Topic: An old Find while cleaning
Replies: 17
Views: 16780

Re: An old Find while cleaning

I, too, like the older material they used. I've been eyeballing some of the old Fort Wilderness stuff, as we find that we now camp there more than any other visit (unless it is a conference - I got lucky TWICE in 2013). But the flyer brings back memories. We actually visited the Disney Info center t...
by UncleScrooge477
May Sun 11, 2014 4:13 pm
Forum: Disney Around the World
Topic: Trip Planning after Shanghai opens
Replies: 10
Views: 8914

Re: Trip Planning after Shanghai opens

There wasn't any kind of universal ticket when I visited the parks in Paris, Japan and California all in one trip, but that was a little over 10 years ago now. I don't believe they have added something like that, but it never hurts to ask. Thanks - I'm hopeful that something might become a possibil...