Friday, May 11, 2012

Make Me an (Imaginary) Imagineer! - Magical Blogorail Blue


Welcome to those of you joining me from "Meet the Magic" and those of you just hopping aboard. I am the Final stop on our Magical Blogorail.



As someone who has battled the paranormal, one Yeti lovingly nicknamed "Harold" by those in the know, on more than one occasion, I've certainly had my share of close scrapes and developed a capacity to scream my lungs out with the best of them.

So when the opportunity came to the Blogorail to discuss the top attraction, if given the chance, we would transfer from one Disney Park to our favorite Disney Park, in my case Disneyland, it really wasn't much of a stretch to jump to the attraction I'm most excited about one day riding when I get my own turn at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom, Expedition Everest!

Disneyland's Matterhorn

It's pretty easy to tell why this one would be at the top of my list. After all, the comparisons between it and another of my favorite Yeti-battling attractions would be pretty clear to anyone who could see the two side by side. And lucky for you, I've gone ahead and pretty much done that here. Can you see it?!

Walt Disney World's Expedition Everest 
Spooky, ain't it?

Being the self-proclaimed "thrill ride" nut that I am, the idea of an attraction with an amazing queue and track itself (Asian monastery and yeti museum, anyone?), as well as one irritated yeti (who wouldn't be with a great thundering mine ride blowing through your home), sounds like the perfect attraction to me!  And what's this?  It runs backwards as well?  Where do I sign up?!  It seems like just the right kind of attraction for me, and I actually think it would work pretty well inside Disneyland Park given the right opportunity and framework.  Although I would never go so far as to say "take my Matterhorn and give me Everest", if human beings ever develop the power of teleportation, and they can swap them out for a day, doggone it, I might just say yeti!  I mean, yes!!  It's definitely something that I cannot wait to ride one day, and stands at the top of my list of Disney attractions that I have yet to ride, and there's little doubt that once I hit the gates at Animal Kingdom some day, I will head straight for this one without hesitation.

In the meantime, since we're talking about battling yetis, here's a quick snippet of us doing battle with our own one evening before the Matterhorn went down for refurbishments.  I guess it will have to tide us over until we can meet the east coast version, whom we hear can be quite a bit nastier.




Thank you for joining Magical Blogorail Blue this month. We will be back Friday, June 8th with an all new theme. Keep checking in with our blogs in between loops to keep up to date with our Disney info, photos and stories. If you are looking for more Disney magic, you can make your way over to The Magical Blogorail website to see all our members and their blogs, as well as all our previous loops.”

Here is the map of our Magical Blogorail should you happen to have to make a stop along the way and want to reboard:
1st Stop ~ The CanaDisney Blog
2nd Stop ~ Disney Babies Blog
3rd Stop ~ Cooking with Mickey
4th Stop ~ Meet the Magic
Final Stop ~ Days in the Park

Thursday, May 10, 2012

Cars Land is Almost Here...

...and we have the commercial to prove it!


As a couple of Disneyland fiends who could not be more excited to see Cars Land finally land at Disney California Adventure Park, this did nothing to calm us down.

It's only 36 days away!  Where will you be when it hits?!

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Leaving The Grid on Flying Tires - ParkCast #10


In this episode, we’re going back in time and revisiting some character information from a previous episode as Mark got to meet one of his “goofy” heroes.  We’re also bidding a fond farewell to some of our favorite Disneyland spots, and looking FORWARD to a few more.  And the debate over the Dole Whip and the Mint Julep rages on as we discuss that timeless question: “Can a beverage be an attraction”?  Lastly, Mark gets his day in the spotlight as we finally reveal one of his favorite, and a very personal, Mickey in our Hidden Mickey segment.  So pull up your chair and sit a spell; we’ll all be happy that you did!

You can listen to our show, the Days in the ParkCast, on our podcast website at http://www.daysintheparkcast.com, or in the iTunes store



Originally recorded: 4/29/12
Final Edits and Release: 5/4/12
Hosted by: Chad Elliott & Mark Treiger

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Random Ramblings Around The Parks - "Almost" Wordless Wednesday

We're back! Well, sort of. We won't be back to full speed for a couple of weeks yet, unfortunately. And we promise to let you guys know exactly what has been going on that's kept us away for so long, though we can't promise it's particularly enthralling.

In the meantime though, we did manage a recent trip into The Park for some photos we thought we could share today. We hope that you'll like them as much as we did taking them.

Enjoy!

You have to start your "Day" off right

Knowing who we get to draw ahead of time? Score!

It was unfortunately closed, and all we got was this pretty cool picture


With a cold beverage in hand, one of the best views in The Parks

Drink from the cup that is Jessica? #ThatAintRight

We think that Randall gets a bad rap. He cares!


She's waving directly at Chad. He just knows it!

Chicken Alfredo and "Remember..." at the Plaza Inn to end the day. Pretty much perfect in every way.


Focused on the Magic