August 18, 2006 at 10:08 am
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This in from Reuters:
Shakeup at Disney:
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The Walt Disney Co on Thursday said it has promoted 27-year Disney veteran Meg Gilbert Crofton to president of the Walt Disney World Resort. The company also elevated 10-year Disney veteran Jim Lewis to president of Disney Vacation Club. Both Crofton and Lewis will report to Al Weiss, president of Worldwide Operations for Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. Crofton, 52, takes over for Weiss, who moved to his newly created post as part of Disney’s company-wide emphasis on taking a global approach to its businesses.
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August 1, 2006 at 2:10 pm
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This ride would have been great if I had been 6 or 7. Sadly, I’m not, so I have to give it a poor review.
The idea is not great– at an intergalactic prison, we the audience members are on our first day as guards. We got assigned low-level duty/observation. As we file in (and get strapped into our observation stations (kind of a theatre in the round), we are supposed to observe an easy transfer of simple alien prisoners. However, an emergency class 3 criminal is transferred instead (Stich) who then escapes into the prison, and wreaks “mayhem”, including Chili Cheese burps, things that run across your spine, and various other Sensu-round stimuli.
Even though you get strapped down, the ride never goes anywhere– it’s more like a sensu-round experience to make sure you don’t get up and leave, which is what I felt like doing a few times. The burp is not a nice smell.
Perhaps if I were younger, I’d like it more, but I’m not, so I didn’t. At the end of the ride, I said to my girlfriend “Well, that’s one ride I won’t go on again until they revamp it!” Here’s hoping it’s soon!
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