It's a Small World Knock-off in China

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It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Wizzard419 » Sep Tue 20, 2011 12:52 pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vajWHN5b ... r_embedded

At the start the backdrops do actually look similar to the ride.

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Amy » Sep Tue 20, 2011 1:26 pm

Yikes! I wonder if all the flashing lights are supposed to be flashing?! :shock: I wonder what the Chinese characters on the various buildings say?

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Wizzard419 » Sep Tue 20, 2011 1:47 pm

They say nothing, they are statues not animatronics.

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Amy » Sep Tue 20, 2011 1:53 pm

Wizzard419 wrote:They say nothing, they are statues not animatronics.
Noooo, the Chinese writing on the walls! :roll:
I bet this would make people appreciate the real It's a Small World more ~ at least the song isn't the same thing over and over and over...well, sort of :lol:

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by mindflipper » Sep Tue 20, 2011 2:57 pm

I agree, Wiz, in some parts it's a darn good knock-off! If you showed some people certain pictures of this ride, they would be certain that they're looking at IASW.

I do love the Zombie angle to it. I wonder how that would go down over here?

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Wizzard419 » Sep Tue 20, 2011 4:18 pm

I think the worst part (well hillarious from the viewing end) was that they must have tons of stagnant water and, thus, a dead body smell.

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Soarin08 » Sep Tue 20, 2011 4:28 pm

That's just freaky. :shock: It's bad enough getting stuck in the real thing, imagine being stuck in zombie IASW.

I could see a movie out of this....
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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by mindflipper » Sep Tue 20, 2011 6:14 pm

No Zombie version of IASW? Awww, there goes the only chance to get elizabethswann to ride it.

If DLR can have a "holiday" version, why not create a "Halloween" version for WDW IASW?

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Wizzard419 » Sep Tue 20, 2011 6:30 pm

If the install wasn't so long and it was one of those universal style holidays that they could tie cultures together, you know they would do it.

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by elizabethswann » Sep Tue 20, 2011 7:00 pm

mindflipper wrote:No Zombie version of IASW? Awww, there goes the only chance to get elizabethswann to ride it.

If DLR can have a "holiday" version, why not create a "Halloween" version for WDW IASW?
No zombies? Sad. :( :lol:

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Amy » Sep Tue 20, 2011 7:45 pm

mindflipper wrote:I agree, Wiz, in some parts it's a darn good knock-off! If you showed some people certain pictures of this ride, they would be certain that they're looking at IASW.

I do love the Zombie angle to it. I wonder how that would go down over here?
Those spinning penguins near the end were spot on!

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by MmeLeota » Sep Tue 20, 2011 8:11 pm

Wow! Ummm...Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Voltron and Zombies...oh my! :shock:
I was beginning to wonder if there were emergency oars on the boat...it couldn't go fast enough!

...really makes you appreciate IASW, huh? ;)

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by Polynesian Princess » Sep Tue 20, 2011 9:45 pm

My husband and I laughed so hard watching these. My favorite parts were the Ninja Turtles and the Mattel sign. :lol:
Can't wait to take my twin boys on their first trip to Walt Disney World! Planning on heading there sometime Feb-May 2014!

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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by horizons1 » Sep Wed 21, 2011 1:58 pm

The other video (also from TPR) of the other knock-off in China had better decor and lighting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SX7I5Zdp ... ure=relmfu
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Re: It's a Small World Knock-off in China

Post by mindflipper » Sep Wed 21, 2011 3:20 pm

Wizzard419 wrote:If the install wasn't so long and it was one of those universal style holidays that they could tie cultures together, you know they would do it.
...at Disneyland, not at Disney World.

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