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Gads. One of my first jobs was working in a Disney Store. Not a good match for me---"Yeah, Zippity-damn-do-da to you too, pal!"
After 3 Christmases working in a toy store I think I might be able to relate.
I was never a huge fan of theme parks. Rides lost their allure for me a long time ago.
Although there was one that I enjoyed - basically you walk into a giant food processor and it spins around so fast that it sucks you back against the wall, then the floor drops away and you are stuck halfway up.
And of course the karaoke booths.
Although there was one that I enjoyed - basically you walk into a giant food processor and it spins around so fast that it sucks you back against the wall, then the floor drops away and you are stuck halfway up.
And of course the karaoke booths.
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Ah, the Gravitron! I remember it well. I always loved how the inside kinda looked like the control room of the TARDIS.
^ The one I was on didn't look like that. It was actually a completely featureless cylinder and had nothing in it except the (variable) floor. And I think there was actually some kind of vacuum-like thing behind the walls which helped to pull people back.
We're major Disney lovers here, we belong to the Disney Vacation Club and go to WDW at least twice a year. We also got married down at the WDW.
^Nice! Awesome photos.
Some of the best Disneyland and Disneyworld photos are of newlyweds. Love 'em! 
I went to Disneyland with my college marching band when our football team played in a bowl game. We marched in the night parade. The day was all free time- we had fun. I loved Star Tours and Captain EO (this was almost 22 years ago, remember...).
I should dig up some of my pics and scan them.
I should dig up some of my pics and scan them.
I've been to Busch Gardens a few times. We're planning a day trip there when we are in Virginia for the week at the end of the month. I can't ride them anymore but I loved Loch Ness and the Big Bad Wolf (now gone
)Here are a few from one of our Disney Trips:
Was behind this car today and saw the bumper sticker, it made me laugh.
Me either. I don't like crowded public places. Same reason why I've never been to a trek convention.
My mom and her sisters/my aunts a long time ago when one of their six brothers/my uncle got married...
Yes, it was the 80's...
Yes, it was the 80's...
I was big Disneyland fan when I was in my teens and twenties. Went several times a year with my friends. We all worked at at theme park in Northern California, so it was a bit of a busman's holiday. When I got married the wife and I honeymooned at Disney World. Somewhere I got pictures.
Here's me on part of the Teide mountains in Tenerife (taken last month). There are quite a few flat bits, and they actually used that place as a set for Star Wars IV Tatooine.
The photo's really thin because it was a group photo (cropped), and I didn't want to post anyone else without their permission.
The photo's really thin because it was a group photo (cropped), and I didn't want to post anyone else without their permission.
Very nice theme-park images everyone. 
I should post some of my own
Some years ago when grandma died she had decreed that some of the money she left should go to the rest of the family having a great time together... my parents decided to do that by taking all of us on a trip to Florida.
Obviously the Disney park was one of the things we did:
Mum, me, nephew, sister w. niece, brother in-law and dad.
My nephew and I spend most of the day apart from the rest of them -dodging the everlasting parade of parades that is the magic kingdom
and only met up with the family twice.
Lunch(ish)
Time for the fireworks
In case you were wondering what I looked like when I tried very much not to laugh until mum had taken a picture of me, look here.
I should post some of my own
Some years ago when grandma died she had decreed that some of the money she left should go to the rest of the family having a great time together... my parents decided to do that by taking all of us on a trip to Florida.
Obviously the Disney park was one of the things we did:
Mum, me, nephew, sister w. niece, brother in-law and dad.
My nephew and I spend most of the day apart from the rest of them -dodging the everlasting parade of parades that is the magic kingdom
and only met up with the family twice.
Lunch(ish)
Time for the fireworks
In case you were wondering what I looked like when I tried very much not to laugh until mum had taken a picture of me, look here.
The Spin-Out at Magic Mountain used to be like this—just a cylindrical room about eight feet in diameter and maybe ten high—only there was no vacuum. You stood against a section of wall and centrifugal force did the rest.
State fairs and other amusement parks have those centrifugal rides as well...I've been in quite a few over the years. They tend to be like the inside of the Jupiter 2 from the original LOST IN SPACE only no decorations, detailing or windows of any kind. You lay against the smooth metal wall and, as you said, let centrifugal force do the rest. I never really flock to the centrifuge rides...my tastes in park rides lie elsewhere, but they can be kind of fun.
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