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ducktracy · 5 years

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131. i’d love to take orders from you (1936)

release date: may 16th, 1936

series: looney tunes

director: tex avery

starring: elmore vincent (pa scarecrow)

another merrie melody that would often be reused as an underscore in future cartoons (prominently in porky’s last stand as an underscore). this time, a little scarecrow longs to follow in the footsteps of his father.

our story begins in a spacious corn field, surveyed by a hungry crow above. pan across to meet a scarecrow in the distance. the crow lands right next to the scarecrow and prepares to indulge itself in a spare cob of corn lying on the ground, seemingly unbothered by the scarecrow’s presence. a stupid little dummy frozen in a pose—kid’s stuff for a smart crow. however, the crow quickly realizes that this scarecrow ISN’T just a run of the mill frozen dummy: the scarecrow bares its teeth and bristles at the crow, effectively shooing it away.

the scarecrow admires his work and stretches, cracking his back after a long day of work. his watch (an hour glass) signals it’s quittin’ time. snagging his lunchbox, the bag of hay happily strolls on home to a jaunty underscore of the titular song. the walk is full of character and the score compliments it very nicely, a happy and endearing atmosphere.

he arrives home, just in time for a tiny scarecrow to peer out of the window expectantly. the father scarecrow opens the gate and winks at the audience knowingly, quite obviously aware of his child’s presence. predictably, the scarecrow opens the door and pretends to have the straw scared out of him as his son tries to be as intimidating as possible. the father lifts up his son, who asks “did i scare ya, daddy?” he’s met with an encouraging “yessir! you sure scared me that time!”

all is well as he marches inside, his son perched on his shoulder. he meets his wife and they exchange a kiss, the son happily ducking beneath them. the mother inquires about the father’s day, who gently places his eager son down. he mentions that he scared 10 crows away—big news to junior, who couldn’t be prouder of his old man. ma tells pa that junior wants to play scarecrow, and that they should do so together while she whips up a meal. truth is only added to her statement as the little scarecrow eagerly tugs at his father’s pants.

and now we launch into a spoken version of “i’d love to take orders from you” as pa leads his son to a “scare chart”, ready to show him how to be the best scarecrow in all the land. pa shows off the various poses and the son mimics them (hence the song title, taking orders from his father.) there are some intriguing angles, particularly a lovely shot of the father’s legs in the foreground framing his son in the center. the song is cute and fun, hard to dislike.

on the wall hangs a tin pan. pa proposes that with each snack to the pan (creating a bell sound), the son must show off what he learned. the bells keep on coming and the son performs his poses in rapid fire succession. while not as exaggerated as other instances, it’s still a fun way of tex incorporating his knack for speed. the father is satisfied, handing off junior to ma to put to bed while he fixes himself dinner.

ma carries her son into his room, undressing him (a silhouette shot from outside, a curtain obstructing our view) and tucking him into bed. she gives him a kiss and turns out the light. suddenly, junior’s eyes widen. he jumps out of bed and says his prayers, wishing to be a “biiiig scarecrow, just like my daddy.” he snuggles into bed... and whips out of bed once more to coda with a quick “amen!”, a gag made funny with tex’s timing.

morning arrives, junior awoken by the crows of a nearby rooster. an idea hatches. junior gets himself dressed and creeps out of his bedroom—pa’s still asleep. all according to plan. he tiptoes across the house so as not to wake him, poking his head out the front door and doing the same happy, sneaky, knowing squint-n-point his father had done previously.

strolling along casually, whistling inconspicuously, junior slowly approaches the rooster perched on the fence outside. just as the rooster begins to crow, junior gives pose #2 (one his father lauded himself), and sure enough the rooster is effectively startled. success! junior puffs out his chest and marches along outside, terrorizing every animal in sight with good ol’ #2: a squirrel hammering away at a nut, who runs into a tree and rides an elevator to the top branch to continue his duties, and a rabbit gnawing away at a carrot and diving into a number of rabbit holes (a gag that’s reminiscent of the hayseed, looney, whack-a-mole bugs bunny portrayed by the hardaway-dalton cartoons.)

now his biggest test yet. junior stands in the very spot his esteemed father stood the day previously, same lone corn cob strewn on the ground. yet that’s not the only similarity: the crow from the day prior also returns, ready to feast on his corn. what follows is a very amusing scene of junior attempting to scare the giant crow with #2, waddling around at every corner and raising his hackles. the crow merely ignores the kid and continues to feast. what makes this scene 10x funnier is knowing that archive footage courtesy of bob clampett exists of tex avery and bob clampett acting out the scene for reference, tex as junior and bob as the crow (i’m actually not certain if that’s bob, but i don’t know of any other animator who looks like that.)

the crow finally finishes his meal, and junior’s efforts are more futile than ever. unamused with the scarecrow’s meager attempts to scare him, the crow retaliates by giving the scarecrow a taste of his own medicine. and, of course, junior is scared shitless. he makes a run for it, scrambling around in place as he only digs himself into the ground.

what’s a cartoon without a chase sequence? the crow gangs up on the scarecrow, who attempts to cut corners by running straight through the cornfield. following right behind, the crow cuts up the corn with its wings, a fun visual, reminiscent of country boy when the corn stalks fall back into place in bundles afterwards to the beat of the music (a hurried rendition of the title song.) while junior runs, he attempts to scare off the scarecrow with everything he knows, periodically posing, yet to no avail. the crow is too intimidating. another fun camera angle of an overhead shot from the crow’s point of view.

desperate, junior goes back to ol’ reliable, #2. and this time, it works! the crow recoils and all of the color drains, literally turning him white with fear—the first time this gag was ever used! it would become commonplace in the looney tunes universe. the crow flies away, and we see why junior is so effective: behind him tower two legs. pan up to reveal pa also doing #2, the real perpetrator, unbeknownst to junior.

junior is as revitalized as ever, grinning ear to ear as he runs back down the path for good measure, scowling and puffing out his chest. accomplished with his work, he turns around, marching pridefully straight into a blockade of legs. everything starts to register (some lovely subtle head movements and animation by bob clampett, who is the only animator i can seem to identify at this point—i’ll change that!), and junior laughs sheepishly, sputtering “o-oh, hello daddy!” pa scoops up his shadow, talking about how his mother’s been looking for him everywhere. father and son head home, reunited at last.

that night: pa lounges by the fire, reading while junior explains in depth the events of his exciting day: “no sir! i wasn’t a mere afraid of that ol’ crow, ma! i just stood there like this, and pretty soon down flew a great, great, great, GREAT big crow! and just then, i did like this—“ a shadow of a crow is projected onto the wall next to junior, and the all too familiar caw terrifies junior out of his wits. he cozies up to his mother for protection, and we pan over to see pa himself making a shadow puppet of the crow with the light from the fireplace—iris out.

for a tex avery cartoon, this one certainly felt much more freleng-esque. never a bad thing, though! friz doesn’t at all get enough credit for his merrie melodies, especially during the dark days of 1934 and the earlier half of 1935. this cartoon was much more cute than it was funny, but it definitely does cute really well. junior was very likable and relatable, as was pa. the scene with junior attempting to scare off the crow is great, but i think half of that is attributed to the fact that all i can see is tex himself acting out the scene. the music was lovely as ever, and overall the cartoon was extremely endearing, happy, and cute. i definitely think it’s good for a quick pick me up!

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#lt #i’d love to take orders from you #reviews #long post #avery

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glowyjellyfish · 5 years

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I don’t know whether people talk about wdw planning on tumblr, but I don’t think my family wants to hear me ramble about this, so here we go.

—I wanted to put a “keep reading” break here but tumblr Mobile won’t let me—

I discovered this morning that WDW has started reservations for the Star Wars Land things. Okay, great, I think, it’s only been a day or two. Nnnnnope. Look, I had a perfectly good plan: hit up Star Wars Land at the crack of dawn and get the coolest/most popular things done first, then shopping and food, then disperse to the rest of the park before the off-site masses arrive at 9, for which I obtained my fastpasses outside Star Wars Land. Now I find that the Cantina is booked solid for breakfast--the only time it actually offers food, I think, and while I want to try a drink I’m not big on alcohol and was more interested in getting breakfast there--and I was only able to get a reservation for 10:35, sandwiched between my fastpasses for the Tower of Terror and MuppetVision 3D (which I know is unnecessary, but a. What the hell else am i gonna use that tier 2 fastpass on, and b. It worries me that lack of fastpass usage at this less-popular attraction might make clueless executives decide it’s not worth keeping, despite it not needing fastpasses in the slightest because it’s a show). And I could only get a reservation for Savi’s lightsabers at 5:10, which is fine, I was planning on an afternoon break and coming back for rerides and fireworks if possible, but it still screws with my Very Sensible Plan and means I may have to throw my fastpasses out the window, Which Is Dumb.

Sidenote: although I like the fastpass+ advance reservation system more than most people who complain about it, there is something intensely insane about the way you have to plan WDW vacations. That is coming from someone who enjoys making a detailed plan a year in advance, mind you. You can book your hotel room roughly a year in advance, but dining plans and room discounts only come out months in advance. You have to make dining reservations 180 days in advance, which means you have to decide which park you want to be in on which days by then--and they don’t release extra magic hours or party dates that early. So you must have a pretty good plan by then, but then you have to wait four months before you can make your fastpass reservations, and that’s if you’re staying onsite. Meanwhile, I personally planned my trip at this time expecting that the Skyliner and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway would be open for me to experience and I would miss the Star Wars crowds; the executives instead decided to fasttrack a fraction of Star Wars Land and delay the work that was designed to support it. I might luck out and get a soft opening of the Skyliner, but its official opening date is the day I leave. I am excited about Star Wars Land, but I am deeply disappointed about the Skyliner and the way the company has been shuffling around opening dates to try to manipulate their bottom line.

ANYWAY back to My Plan. I guess the thing to do now is to just… hit up the Millenium Falcon at the crack of dawn, and do a round of shopping and non-Cantina foods, then hit up Toy Story Land and the Tower of Terror and Star Tours before the off-site people arrive, or at least during the first hour the off-site people will be allowed in the park, when most of them will be at Star Wars Land. Then the Cantina reservation, another round of shopping (I like to think things over a lot, okay? And i am planning to spend so much money on souvenirs), then EXTREMELY EARLY lunch at one of the other places I’d like to try (I have not had the opportunity to try Woody’s Lunchbox yet, and I am perhaps the only person on the planet who was excited about the theming of PizzaRizzo (because of growing up on The Muppets Take Manhattan, see), and I nearly missed it entirely in the three years since I’ve been to WDW), and then get outta there for several hours. And I guess returning in the evening for lightsabers means I should try to go to the restaurant for dinner, ride whatever I can, and see the fireworks if it’s not too crowded for me to enjoy hanging around until then.

It’s not a bad revised plan. I’m just very annoyed that the Plan I have been working on for months so that I’d know what to get fastpasses for, just… doesn’t even matter and will need to be thrown out, and those fastpasses probably won’t even have a chance to be used. I do have a second DHS day on which I am planning to be more loose and avoid too much Star Wars, and since there’s like six rides and a handful of shows in the park I might not even need that and might hit up Epcot instead. Just… oh my god, WDW, let me make my plan and keep it. I don’t need to repeatedly get anxiety that I Don’t Know What I’m Doing Anymore over the course of planning my vacation.

Plus, I know that the entire issue with the lightsabers and the cantina is the extremely (foolishly) limited capacity, but the way the reservations got snapped up has me concerned that my impression that WDW won’t be that much more crowded than a regular September is just… wrong. I know Disney was worried and released a ton of hotel discounts to lure people in, but maybe there are a bazillion local APs or people staying off-site! Things that didn’t factor into Disneyland much because of all their AP blackouts and the way most DL visitors are local AP holders! See, this is exactly what I was trying to avoid having to worry about when I booked my hotel for early fall.

#wdw #wdw planning #star wars land #galaxy’s edge #i apologize for rambling i just feel better if I feel that i am talking to someone

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notheroic · 2 years

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Day 3 - our first full park day at Hollywood Studios. We proved that Genie+ may actually be worth the money since we got a Lightning Lane for almost every ride in the park meaning we’ve ridden everything at least once. Rise of the Resistance blew our minds and Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway was very cool. Reunited with Woody’s Lunchbox Grilled Cheese. Some fun ride photos on Rock’n’Roller Coaster (which was having a day of breakdowns) and Tower of Terror. And some expensive time in Galaxy’s Edge building a lightsaber and getting some robes. A more chill day at Animal Kingdom tomorrow. (at Hollywood Studios) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cibgh0irjqh/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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villiansarepeopletoo · 6 years

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To Infinity and Beyond: What to Expect in Toy Story Land

As a cast member, one of the best things about constantly being surrounded by Disney is knowing what’s real and what’s rumor. It was an awesome feeling scrolling through Facebook and seeing all these crazy rumors about what was happening in Disney World and knowing they weren't true (but sometimes wishing they were). I loved being in the know, and just as my program was ending, Toy Story Land was just beginning.

I moved back home the week Toy story Land opened, so I really wish I could've stayed just to go on opening day…But ill make it back down there soon to see what it’s all about. In the mean time I’ll live vicariously through all my friends that are still Making Magic. Through the help of Snapchat, Instagram, Facebook and all these beautiful tools to post everything they are doing, my friends have kept me up to speed on how totally immersive Toy Story Land is, and it is definitely next on my to do list. I still think Andy’s Lunchbox was a lame idea and Disney World is more than deserving of our own Pizza Planet…But its fine. I’m not bitter.

From what I’ve seen and heard, Toy Story Land’s ultimate success has been in the atmosphere. The incredible, larger than life characters that are scattered throughout “Andy’s Backyard” are the perfect size to make everyone feel like they’re a toy.

“Toy Story Land…what an immersive area. From the moment you walk in you are treated like a toy! Your imagination gets to go places no where else in the parks takes you! Also, the Slinky Dog roller coaster is just enough more than a family coaster to keep the adults wanting more and just enough not to scare the lil ones. Such a perfect ride. My only negative would be that the “land” itself wasn’t as big as I had imagined it. It feels very small, and I assumed with me being a “toy” in a backyard, that it would feel huge!” -Victor, Server at Disney’s Contemporary Resort

“I think it perfectly captured the essence of being shrunken down to toy size right down to the benches in the land. The benches made of popsicle sticks that still had colorful stains on them were my absolute favorite. It definitely met my expectations and slinky dog dash exceeded them! It’s a fun ride for the entire family and has children feeling like they’re on an exciting thrill ride without it being too overwhelming. I think it’s 100% worth visiting!” -Carlee, QSFB at Epcot’s World Showcase

Disney thinks of everything, I know my opinion is biased but...it’s true. Before I started my program, I hadn’t been to Disney in years. A lot had changed by the time I earned my ears and took my first trip through the parks. One of the biggest changes I noticed were the queues. Imagineers have gone out of their way to make almost every second of waiting in line both interactive and entertaining, and apparently it’s no different with the new attractions in Toy Story Land.

“One of the things I loved most about Toy Story Mania wasn't the ride itself but the queue. I always loved walking into Andy's room and with the size proportions actually getting the chance to feel like a toy. It was absolutely amazing getting to walk into Andy's Backyard and getting that same feeling/perspective in an even larger sense with such a big area. I also thought the queue for slinky dog did an awesome job of setting up the Story for the attraction with Andy's toy roller coaster building kit and walking through that. The ride itself had several surprises and I especially enjoyed the huge singing Wheezy animatronics at the end.” -Ron Server, at Disney’s Contemporary Resort

I’ve talked to so many people since the new attractions opened and there’s been a mixed bag of reactions. My last week in Florida, Disney was hosting a random selection of cast members to be chosen to test ride Slinky Dog Dash and Alien Swirling Saucers. Everyone was waiting for the email with their date and time and people were begging for shift swaps to go to opening day. That was a really cool perk for cast members, but everyone had different reviews about the rides. But none were as ready for it as my friend Kristin and especially Eric, who are both College Program employees. They both definitely went in with high expectations.

“Slinky dog dash to me is the cousin of Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. Its fun and at certain points, faster than expected. It has a lot going for it for the family perspective, but alien swirling saucers is clearly meant for the little toys. While the theme is enjoyable, alien swirling saucer needs a little more for the big kids. While it’s true that toy story land is family friendly to include younger kids in mind since the film is geared towards them, all the kids that originally watched the first toy story are just like Andy in the third film, in their 20s. It would’ve been nice to have a few more young at heart but “grown up” rides or other qualities to go off of. Given that, toy story is a fun spot to hit, but once you do it the first time, the second and third will feel just like another amazingly well themed area that Disney has pulled off but won’t be as busy as some of the other rides, like Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster, located at Hollywood Studios.” -Kristin, Bus Greeter

“While the new rides don’t deliver top notch thrills like Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster and Tower of Terror, they are a genuinely fun pair of rides.

The thing that impressed me most about the land is definitely the theme inside of the land. The story behind toy story land is that you’re being shrunk down to the size of a toy in Andy’s backyard and it does truly feel like you are the size of a toy. Between the giant wooden fence and the massive footprints on the ground from Andy’s shoe, it is an extremely immersive area of the park. And Disney didn’t skip on the small details either whether it be the fun Easter eggs you can try to find throughout the land or the fact that the railings near alien swirling saucers spell out their famous “Oooooh”

Toy story land in my opinion lives up to the hype and it adds in a new element to a park that was desperate for a jolt of new energy. I think this land will be warmly welcomed by fans of Disney and toy story and it is the perfect thing to hold crowds over until the real star of the future for Hollywood Studios, Star Wars: galaxy’s edge, opens late next year.” -Eric, Seater at the Sci-Fi Dine in Theater

The question I asked all these Cast Members was, “Is it worth it?” Is it worth the two and three hour lines, is it worth working through the masses of people? I think the general consensus was yes. It completely lives up to the hype. The expectations of high speed crazy rides in Disney World will always be let down. Disney targets “Safe-D Begins With Me” and entertainment for children. Are you really surprised the rides aren’t crazy? But their ultimate goal of making every guest feel completely transported into the world of Woody and Buzz was met with flying colors. And Hollywood Studios needed this more than any other area of Walt Disney World.

#toystory #toystoryland #DisneyWorld #DisneyBehindtheScenes #disneycastmember #CastMemberQuotes #CastConnection #WaltDisneyWorld #Woody #Buzz #Jessie #SlinkyDogDash #VillainsArePeopleToo #MeganDowning #DisneyBackStage #DisneyVacationPlanning #toinfinityandbeyond

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imagineared · 7 years

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*:･ﾟ✧ °o° BUCKET LIST

Though I have been to Disney World seven times now, there’s still plenty that I have never done, and there’s always going to be more I haven’t, but there are things I definitely want to do – so here’s a list of that, that I will work through on my program ( and subsequent programs ) and perhaps add or subtract to. The number of things in each section will vary. Here it goes!

GENERAL PARK THINGS / RESORTS

IF EXTENDED: Audition for the Candlelight Processional Choir

Bowl and Eat at Splitsville Luxury Lanes

Bring an Autograph Book for Kids Dressed as Characters to Sign

Do the Kitchen Sink with Roommates or Friends

Do Some VoluntEAR Events ( At Least Three )

Earn a Four Keys Card

Fill an Entire Autograph Book

Go to All FOUR Main Parks in a Day

Go to BOTH of the Water Parks

Go to a Camp Fire at Fort Wilderness

Go to the Festival of the Arts

Go to the Flower and Garden Festival

IF EXTENDED: Go to a Candlelight Processional

IF EXTENDED: Go to the Food and Wine Festival

IF EXTENDED: Go to Mickey’s Not So Scary Halloween Party

IF EXTENDED: Go to Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party

Go to Movie Night at a Resort

Meet the Infamous Richard at the Grand Floridian

Ride an Amphicar at Disney Springs

Ride Characters in Flight at Disney Springs

Ride EVERY Ride / See EVERY Show at Animal Kingdom

Ride EVERY Ride / See EVERY Show at Epcot

Ride EVERY Ride / See EVERY Show at Hollywood Studios

Ride EVERY Ride / See EVERY Show at Magic Kingdom

See a Concert at the House of Blues

See a Movie and Eat at the Disney Springs AMC

Stay at Least Once at the Boardwalk

Stay at Least Once at Animal Kingdom Lodge

Stay at Least Once at the Polynesian

Stay at Least Once at the Grand Floridian

Stay at Least Once at the Contemporary

Stay in a Pirate Room at Caribbean Beach

Stay in a Royal Guest Room at Port Orleans Riverside

Visit Every Disney Resort and Have a Drink or Food There

Work in Every Park + Disney Springs and Water Parks

Work in Every Disney Owned Store in Disney Springs ( The Art of Disney, Basin, Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique - if Merch is a Prt with Register / Check-In, Disney’s Design a Tee, Disney’s Candy Cauldron - If Food Trained, Disney’s Days of Christmas, Disney’s Pin Traders, Disney’s Wonderful World of Memories, Goofy’s Candy Company - If Food Trained, The LEGO Store, Market Place Co-Op, Market Place Co-Op Cherry Tree Lane, Market Place Co-Op D-Tech on Demand - If Personalization Trained, Market Place Co-Op Disney Centerpiece, Market Place Co-Op Disney Tag, Market Place Co-Op Twenty-Eighth and Main, Market Place Co-Op Wonderground Gallery, Mickey’s Pantry - If Food Trained, Once Upon a Toy, Star Wars Galactic Outpost - If Possible, Star Wars Trading Post - If Possible, Tren-D, World of Disney )

Work in Every Resort ( If Put in a Resort - All Star Movies, All Star Music, All Star Sports, Animal Kingdom Lodge, Art of Animation, Beach Club, Boardwalk, Caribbean Beach, Contemporary, Coronado Springs, Fort Wilderness, French Quarter, Grand Floridian, Old Key West, Polynesian, Pop Century, Riverside, Saratoga Springs, Wilderness Lodge, Yacht Club )

CHARACTER VISITS

Alice

Anna

Ariel at Her Grotto

Baymax

Captain Jack Sparrow

Elsa

The Fairy Godmother

Hades ( Unlikely, But Hopeful )

Hercules ( Unlikely, But Hopeful )

Jasmine

Megara ( Unlikely, But Hopeful )

Moana

Pain and Panic ( Unlikely, But Hopeful )

Peter Pan

Rafiki

Rapunzel

Talking Mickey Mouse

Tiana

Tinker Bell

Wendy

MAGIC KINGDOM

Be There at Least Once at Rope Drop and Watch the Welcome Show

Do a Backstage Haunted Mansion Tour

Do a Pirate’s Adventure

Do the Mountain Run ( Splash, Space, Big Thunder )

Eat at Cinderella’s Castle

Go to Bibbidi Bobbidi Boutique and Get a Package ( If I Can )

Go to Pirate League and Get the Mermaid Look ( If I Can )

Ride Every Ride I Haven’t

Ride Haunted Mansion 13 Times in a Row

Ride Haunted Mansion with the Lights On

Ride Space Mountain with the Lights On

See Every Show I Haven’t

See the Rainy Day Cavalcade

Stay for the Kiss Goodnight

Try a Mac ‘N Cheese Hotdog at Casey’s Corner

Visit and Do All Sorcerers of the Magic Kingdom Spots

Work at Big Top Souvenirs At Least Once

Work at Bonjour! Village Gifts At Least Once

Work at The Emporium At Least Once

Work at Memento Mori At Least Once

Work at Plaza del Sol Caribe Bazaar At Least Once

Work at Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe At Least Once

HOLLYWOOD STUDIOS

Be Picked for the Indiana Jones Show

Be There at Least Once at Rope Drop

Do a Backstage Tower of Terror Tour

Get My Face Painted

Go to a Toy Story Land Preview

Meet the Live Show Casts

Ride Every Ride I Haven’t

Ride Tower of Terror 13 Times in a Row

See Every Show I Haven’t

Work at Rock Around the Shop At Least Once

Work on Sunset Boulevard

Work at Tattooine Traders At Least Once ( If Possible )

Work at Tower Photo ( If Photo Trained ) or Tower Hotel Gifts At Least Once

ANIMAL KINGDOM

Become a Wilderness Explorer

Be There at Least Once at Rope Drop

Do the Wild Africa Trek

Meet the Live Show Casts

Ride Every Ride I Haven’t

Ride the Rides in DinoLand USA

See Every Show I Haven’t

Work in Asia’s Merchandise Spots ( Perhaps at the End of Everest )

EPCOT

Be There at Least Once at Rope Drop

Do Agent P’s World Showcase Adventure

Duffy Bear Being Signed At Every Country

Pick a Pearl at Japan Pavilion

Ride Every Ride I Haven’t

See Every Show I Haven’t

Try a Food or Candy from Each of the Countries in the World Showcase ( Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, America, Japan, Morocco, France, UK, Canada ) #eataroundtheworld

Work at MouseGears ( At Least Once )

RESTAURANTS ( FULL SERVICE )

Epcot - Biergarten

Epcot - Garden Grill

Epcot - Les Chefs de France

Epcot - San Angel Inn

Epcot - Tutto Italia Ristorante

Epcot - Via Napoli

Hollywood Studios - 50′s Prime Time Cafe

Hollywood Studios - The Hollywood Brown Derby

Magic Kingdom - Cinderella’s Royal Table

Magic Kingdom - Jungle Navigation Co. Ltd. Skipper Canteen

Magic Kingdom - Liberty Tree Tavern

Magic Kingdom - The Plaza Restaurant

Magic Kingdom - Tony’s Town Square Restaurant

Disney Springs - The Edison

Disney Springs - Enzo’s Hideaway Tunnel Bar and Restaurant

Disney Springs - Frontera Cocina

Disney Springs - Homecomin’ - Florida Kitchen and Southern Shine

Disney Springs - House of Blues Restaurant & Bar

Disney Springs - Jaleo

Disney Springs - Maria & Enzo’s Ristorante

Disney Springs - Planet Hollywood Observatory

Disney Springs - Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant

Disney Springs - Terralina Crafted Italian

Disney Springs - T-Rex Cafe

Disney Springs - Wolfgang Puck Bar and Grill

The Boardwalk - Trattoria Al Forno ( Breakfast )

Wilderness Lodge - Whispering Canyon Cafe

RESTAURANTS ( QUICK SERVICE / SNACK )

Animal Kingdom - Eight Spoon Cafe

Epcot: Choza de Margarita

Hollywood Studios - Pizzerizzo

Hollywood Studios - Woody’s Lunchbox ( When Open )

Magic Kingdom - Be Our Guest Restaurant

Magic Kingdom - Casey’s Corner

Magic Kingdom - Gaston’s Tavern

Magic Kingdom - Plaza Ice Cream Parlor

Disney Springs - Daily Poutine

Disney Springs - D-Luxe Burger

Disney Springs - Pizza Ponte

Disney Springs - The Polite Pig

#*bucketlist #*dcpadventures #*list #*2018dcplist

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chrisdiamantopoulos · 5 years

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>[EVIL LAUGHING.] So bad. [LOUD POOF.] I am the terror that flaps in the night! I am the pebble in the penny loafer of depravity! I am Darkwing Duck? Ah, so you've heard of me. Let's get dangerous. Ow! [GRUNTS.] Dangerous? Aah! [GRUNTS.] Dangerous [BOTH GRUNT.] Oh, my goodness. Okay! You think a few very painful explosions can stop me? Now, let's see who you really are [GASPS.] Me?! Whoa, what a twist! What?! I never saw that coming! Wait, haven't you seen this episode? Seventy-five times! But never in a parking lot. Sadly, beloved TV show Darkwing Duck, starring me, Jim Starling, was canceled before we could end this story. But there's no end to the savings at Siesta Rick's Sofa Fiesta! [MICROPHONE FEEDBACK.] [SIGHS.] Let's get comfortable! Ha-ha! I'll be signing autographs for one and all! - [CROWD GRUMBLING.] - If one and all want one! - No! - Oh, my gosh, no. Buncha ingrates. - You good? - Yep. Totally cool. Thanks for being here. [CLEARS THROAT.] Okay, keep it together! "I am your biggest fan!" No. "I have modeled my entire life after yours. " "I wanna keep you in a big jar in my closet!" [LAUGHS.] Calm down, buddy. Jim Starling's just a regular guy. I've been to plenty of these signings, and one day, I'm actually gonna meet him. Wait. If you've seen him so many times, how come you've never talked to him? [JIM STARLING.] Next! - Uhh - [DRAKE GRUNTS.] This is why. [THEME MUSIC PLAYING.] Ducktales Whoo-ooh Look, I'm the one and only Darkwing Duck. I need a real gig. I'm bigger than sofa store openings. Eh I don't care that they sell recliners, too! [CLEARING THROAT.] [GROANS.] Mr. Starling, you have meant so much to me. I I actually have a very important question for you. Y-Y Great. Who do I make this out to? Oh! Um, uh, I am the terror that flaps in the night! [CHUCKLES.] I am the president of your fan club. I am [JIM STARLING.] Yeah, yeah. That'll be 15 bucks. Stay dangerous. Waaaiiit! Uh, yes? A fresh-faced new fan! I knew the kids still loved me. [LAUGHS.] Who do I make this out to? [GRUNTS.] Oh, the fainter's back. He'd really appreciate it if you could sign his poster? [DEWEY.] "#DarkwingDuck" Whoa! That's weird. "Darkwing Duck" is trending number one worldwide. What?! Gimme! It says here they're making a movie of Darkwing Duck! They are? We am?! Darkwing Duck is back, baby! He is?! - [EXCLAIMS.] - [BOTH GRUNT.] It's him! Uhh [ALL GRUNT.] [LAUNCHPAD GRUNTING.] Launchpad! Stop looking in the rearview mirror. Yup! Totally profesh. No problem-ohh - [BRAKES SQUEAL.] - Hey! Fragile cargo, huh! [CHUCKLES.] Back on top. Arriving on set for a big-shot movie in style. Thanks for the ride, fans. Wow. I am going to a real movie studio! Where larger-than-life big-screen legends are born! And you get to ride there with a real-life movie star! [SNIFFING.] Musky. Are we sure about this guy? Why wouldn't the studio send a car for him? Or, you know, tell him the movie exists? They couldn't make a movie without him. Jim Starling is Darkwing Duck! Ya dang right he is, buddy! Heh. [GASPS.] I'm his buddy! Uhh Oh, man. I hope whoever owns the studio isn't mad at Wait, what the ?! Sorry, you need more money for ? The grand finale of my film. A psychological examination of man's inhumanity to man! Alistair, I haven't seen a movie since 1938. This studio was built to make cheap Office Safety Videos for my company. You convinced me a "fun little action movie" would double my profits, but you're already over budget. If you want one penny more, I have to be consulted on all decisions. How dare you, sir? An artist's integrity Splendid. The movie should be in color. Color's all the rage these days. Oh! And the villain is going to need a mustache to twirl whenever he does something evil. Heh You have a movie studio that could fulfill a starry-eyed boy's cinematic dreams. Why didn't you tell me?! To avoid this exact conversation. Okay, yeah, no, I can see that. I am the terror that flaps in the night. - I am the comeback the audience demands! - [ALL GASP.] I am a huge fan, Alistair Borswan! I mean, I've never actually seen your work, but you're British, so I'm sure that it's very classy, and yeah Uh, yes. And you are? [LAUGHING.] British and funny? Whoa! This feels like the beginning of a great creative partnership! Aw, cool! A big-budget reboot of a thing I loved as a kid! Those are always great! Is Darkwing's motorcycle in it? Is he still a noble hero who gets back up and fights for right, no matter what evil throws at him? You're keeping the theme song, right? Would you like to see the trailer? Ooh! Aah! [GIGGLING.] [THUNDER CRACKING.] [NARRATOR.] Within every man, there is a war. - Not of action, but of ideas. - [DEWEY.] Ugh! - [NARRATOR.] There is no right or wrong. - [MAN SCREAMING.] No heroes or villains. Only darkness. - [PEOPLE SCREAMING.] - There is one man who can fight the darkness. [LAUNCHPAD.] Yeah! Here we go, baby! [THUNDER CRASHES.] - [NARRATOR.] With more darkness. - [LAUNCHPAD.] What's this, now? - [SCREAMING.] - It's the Dark-wing! Run! You can't just flap around in the night! You'll terrify people! It's too dangerous! [Narrator.] Darkwing: First Darkness. This film not suitable for children. That is not Darkwing Duck! DW'd never hurt innocent people or set the city on fire. Not on purpose. But are we all not both the heroes and the villains of our own story? What? I don't What?! Well, I kinda like it! Grim, gritty. Shows off my dark, smoldering side. Ooh! Ahh! - I kinda hated it. - What?! I didn't understand what was happening or what the bad guy was doing or even who the bad guy was. I knew he needed a moustache! It needs aliens! Oh! Or ninjas! Or the streetwise sidekick who skateboards everywhere and talks in catchphrases, like ya Dewey! This is your main audience. If this fiasco is gonna make money, it has to appeal to the most childish child I know. Dewey's in charge. - What?! No! - Yes! Let's talk musical numbers! How many is not enough? Don't listen to these yahoos. We're making art! When do we start? Uh, we're almost finished, actually. Ah. So we're shooting the Darkwing scenes last. No. Of course! I'll be be put in with CGI! [CHUCKLES.] [SIGHS.] You are not playing Darkwing Duck. He is. [COOL GUITAR RIFF PLAYING.] - Huh? - You?! Mr. Starling! Uh, we met at the signing. You fell on me, remember? It was a huge honor. Uh, do you have any words of wisdom for the man stepping into your cape? [BOTH EXCLAIMING.] [GRUNTING.] [BONES CRACKING.] That is not the Darkwing Duck I know and love! Yeah! It's not me! I wish there was some way we could show them - how great the old - Original. uh, original Darkwing is. Hey, maybe there is. Are you with me, sidekick? Okay. What's the plan? I break onto the set, you find this new hack actor's trailer, lock him up. I replace him in the finale, they see I'm obviously better, I'm back on top! Any questions? - Seven. - Pick the most important one. "Breaking in," "locking up. " Doesn't that sound not heroic? When the chips are down and everyone's against him, what does Darkwing Duck do? Get back up and fight for right. And I'm Darkwing Duck, right? Of course! I'll have to disguise myself to get past the guard. Luckily, I can disappear into any role. I am the courier who delivers the [SPUTTERING, COUGHING.] Whoo! [COUGHS.] [GRUNTS.] What production you delivering to? [COUGHING.] Darkwing Duck. [COUGHS.] Huh? Never heard of it. What?! Remake of the popular TV show. A superhero for the ages? [GUARD.] Oh! Like Gizmoduck. [JIM STARLING.] No! Not like Gizmoduck! [GRUMBLING.] Like Gizmod - Darkwing Duck! - [GROANS.] [JIM STARLING.] "Let's get dangerous. " Badaba! None of this rings a bell, seriously? Uh, we got a situation. Requesting backup. [GRUNTS.] [GUARD RADIO CHATTER.] [GRUNTS.] [STRUGGLING.] [GRUNTING.] Mmm Aah! Unh! Perfect. Now, I wait for that phony actor, lock the door, and us, the good guys, win. Totally heroic. Mm. [GRUNTING.] It's already locked. The plan is falling apart. Help! I'm trapped in a prison of guilt! [GRUNTING.] Fear not, helpless Oh, hey, it's you. I I heard your cries, and I freed you from my trailer? What what what are you doing in my trailer? Definitely not locking you in here to sabotage your movie buddy? Ahh [EXCLAIMS.] - [EXCLAIMS.] - [CRASHES INTO TOILET.] Aw, man. I'm sorry. You will be, villain! [BOTH EXCLAIMING.] I've just gotta fix the movie to make Darkwing look like a hero! Oh, so what, you're gonna hold me hostage? Yeah. Real heroic. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! [LAUNCHPAD GRUNTS.] Wait, don't touch that! Whoa! A vintage Darkwing Duck Grim Avenger Grape Shampoo bottle?! [GRUNTING.] - [HEAVY GRUNT.] - Oh! My Darkwing Adventures comics! It's a complete run! Huh? [GASPS.] Is that ? [BOTH.] A hyper-rare Battle-Hat Darkwing Duck Action Figure! I thought these were banned because they posed a blinding hazard for kids! May I? Ah, a keen eye. I insist. Ow! Cool! [JIM STARLING SCREAMING.] Gentlemen, thank you for coming to today's presentation. What is this? Oh, you're in the "Splash Zone. " Sir, you cannot expect me to hand over the finale of my grim, complex masterpiece to this child. Filmmaking is a team effort! You've got to be open to new ideas. The time: dusk. Neon! Drama! Those big lightning tower things! An epic showdown between Darkwing Duck and the villainous villain Megavolt! - Question. - Who has a moustache. Question rescinded. Your pyro-pandemonium is passÃ©, Hot Couture! Au contraire, Darkwing. I'm setting the fashion world on fire! [WHOOSHING SOUNDS.] Oh, no! Aah! Work through the pain. You got this. Oops. My bad. Hey, I had that same lunchbox as a kid. Not like this one. Now, shocking as it may sound, I was not the coolest kid growing up. What? No. I know, right? But one day, I saw this show about this hero. He was unstoppable. No matter how many times he was beat up or blown up or electrocuted [LAUNCHPAD.] No matter how many planes he crashed or or how much property damage he caused [DRAKE.] He always got back up and fought for what's right. [LAUNCHPAD.] So you got that lunchbox, everyone saw how cool you are, and they stopped beating you up! [DRAKE.] Oh, no. They they beat me up much harder. But I kept getting up. Look, I know this movie's not perfect. But I really want to make it better. Then, maybe I can be on the lunchbox that inspires some other kid like me. And a cut of the toy sales would be nice. You are a true fan. We can save this movie! We gotta tell Mr. Starling. Yeah, I I don't know. He kind of wants to make me not alive anymore. Get your cape. We're gonna save Darkwing Duck. [PANTING.] [GASPS.] How hard can it be to find an idiot in a purple cape? Follow me, Darkwing Dance Crew. To stardom! [DANCERS.] One, two, three, and four. Up and down and left and right. Left and right and up and down. Up and down and left and right. It's so easy, it's so right. Up and down and left and right. - Up and down and left and right. - [YELPS.] - Left and right and up and down. - [GRUNTS.] Up and down and left and right. Dewey, the actor playing Darkwing is a big fan, so Jim can give him pointers and help make him more heroic, and together, we're going to convince Borswan to fix the movie. Have you seen Jim? He might be on my set! They're letting me do whatever I want, and it's crazy and huge, and I don't even know if it's any good. Follow me! [BOTH.] Making movies is fun! [STRUGGLING.] Mr. Starling! There you are. - Mm! - I am so sorry about everything. You helped me through a really rough time. Your heart is in my lunchbox. Come work on the movie with me. Together, we can inspire a new generation and make the best Darkwing Duck ever! Yes. I will. [GRUNTING.] Ow! Oh! Why? We! Fix movie. Together. Why? Stupid. Movie star. Face. Get. In! - [BIRDS CHIRPING.] - [PANTING.] Showtime! [EVIL LAUGHING.] [MUSIC PLAYING.] What?! No, no, no, no, no, no! Easy, Matthew. Don't want that baby out of tune for the big musical number. What did you do to my psychological masterpiece? I added chainsaw jugglers. You're welcome. [SAWING.] - I don't know about this. - Thank you! The villain's moustache has to be at least twice as twirly. [SIGHS.] - [SIGHS, EXCLAIMS.] - Listen Ignore all these distractions. Stick to our script. Darkwing confronts Megavolt, surrenders, then takes a knee. [SCOFFS.] Excuse me! I didn't work this hard to make a comeback just to lose a fight to that joker. Oh! There you are! Did you find ? Uh, that actor kid? Yeah. Said I could film the finale. - He did? - Oh, yeah. Stubbed his toe really badly and just quit. Movie stars. One little boo-boo and they fall apart. That doesn't sound like him. And why are you saying things all mean? And action! You can't defeat me! I'm awesome! Surrender, and do it now! I've lost the ability to surrender to a two-bit, ten-watt dim bulb like you! Wait. Who is that? Why isn't his robot face coming off? [JIM STARLING.] Feast on this! [GRUNTS.] [CREW PANICKING.] Quick! Cut! No cuts! - Jim Starling never cuts! - Huh? [JIM STARLING.] I'll film this finale if it kills me. And everyone on this roof! [DRAKE.] I am the terror that flaps in the night. I am the overstuffed burrito that spills onto the lap of crime. I am Darkwing Duck! No, I am! [GRUNTING.] [WHIMPERING.] What is that idiot doing? Drawing fire. Get everyone out! Ugh! [GRUNTING.] We've gotta stop the flames! I'll keep him distracted. You turn on the rain machine. [BOTH.] Let's. Get. Dangerous. - This is so cool! - [GASPS.] I know! It feels so right! [BOTH EXHALE.] [GROWLS.] Ha-ha! What?! I knocked you out cold. Like, a lot! I don't want to brag, but I'm incredibly strong and resilient. Oh, really? - Darkwing! - No! [EVIL LAUGHTER.] Uh, what? Get back up. Darkwing! No! [GROANING.] [PIANO KEYS PLAY.] [EXCLAIMS.] Why won't you stay down? [EXCLAIMING.] [MACHINE WHIRRING.] Keep getting up [GROWLS.] [GASPS, GRUNTS.] [BOTH GRUNTING, EXCLAIMING.] Uncle Scrooge, stop the bad guy! Which is the bad guy?! If only one had a blasted moustache! [BOTH GRUNTING, EXCLAIMING.] Oh! [GROANS.] [STRAINING.] Aah! Show's over, Dead Meat Duck. [GRUNTS.] Stop! You're not a villain. You're a hero. Our hero. No matter how hopeless things got, Darkwing Duck got back up and did what was right. For Darkwing Duck is bigger than one man. He is the hope that flaps in the night. This may be the most eloquent Launchpad has ever been. He knows a lot about this one thing. But he is light. Just. And the most tenacious part of all good men. Um, Launchpad? Inspiring the citizenry to rise to a new Promethean Hey, dummy, it's about to blow! You really can't stop him once he gets started. Well, yeah. He's your biggest fan. [LAUNCHPAD.] one who subjugates his will. To the will of the common good. A caring duck of mystery. A champion of right. Who is the cunning mind behind that shadowy disguise? - I got ya! - No, I got him! about ourselv unh! [BOTH GRUNT.] [SCREAMS.] [BOTH GASP.] [STRUGGLING.] That was the perfect end! A hero grappling with his dark id. In a cleansing rain! Here's the footage. [GASPS.] [MUSIC PLAYING.] No! Over the entire fight? It's my masterpiece. Well, this was a disaster. I'm shutting this down. There will never be a Darkwing Duck movie. Well, there's still no sign of Starling. The movie's ruined, I lost my big break, my hero tried to kill me, and, oh! I blew him up. Oh, what am I gonna do now? What Darkwing Duck always does: Get back up. You know, you could do this for real. What? Be a superhero? I mean sure, I'm scrappy, I'm brave, I look great in the cape. Gizmoduck does it. I am better than Gizmoduck. It's one thing to play a hero. And it's another thing to actually be a hero. Do it for Jim. I don't know, I This whole thing sounds like it could get Dangerous? You already got one fan. "Drake Mallard. " Never heard of ya. [JIM STARLING.] It was all a setup. That hack put my fan in danger to steal the glory and humiliate me. They want grim and gritty, huh? Happy to play the part. [EVIL LAUGHTER.]

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For Chuck Ellis, This Free 1964 Valiant Became the Dream Machine

The ideals of horsepower come in many designs. Some simply like it brutal—all power, all the time. Some like technology: What is the coolest way to make the air pump under the hood as complicated as possible? Some like economy—maybe not totin’ it all out of the factory in the lunchbox à la Johnny Cash, but definitely finding ways to stay within budget. For Chuck Ellis, it was none of the above. Actually, he’d been dreaming about a vintage Mustang as his first car when this 1964 Plymouth Valiant was offered to him for free back in 1997, before he even had a driver’s license.

We met Chuck and his wife, Carolyn, at the 2017 Carlisle All-Chrysler Nationals, where he was showing off his just-completed A-body Mopar. What makes this impressive is a couple of things that some Car Crafters may never even attempt. First, they drove up from Florida to Pennsylvania on a fresh restoration, which was a ride of just less than 1,000 miles…in each direction. Second, this was Chuck’s first car project. Actually, it’s his only car project, and, in fact, the only vintage car he has ever owned.

There is still 225 ci of Plymouth’s “leaning tower of power” tucked into the little 1964 Valiant body. Produced in a year that echoed the final reflection of both Virgil Exner and the Italian firm of Ghia in Chrysler’s early-’60s Plymouths, this car deserves a little introduction. Chrysler Engineering had originally tilted the new engine—first in 170ci and later in the more popular 225ci configurations—to allow it to fit under the low hood of Valiant, which debuted as a sports model in 1960, in competition with the new Ford Falcon and Chevrolet Corvair. The original Valiant, which was a stand-alone model before joining the Plymouth family, had an aluminum engine. It was tipped to the left to allow clearance for the water pump at the side instead of at the front of the engine, thereby opening up right side of the engine bay for a more impressive intake and exhaust system.

The Valiant package was even the subject of the 1960 Chrysler SAE meeting in Detroit. Perhaps its best claim to fame was its dominance in NASCAR’s pair of first and only “compact series” events that January, where driver Marvin Panch used his factory-tweaked version to lead all the other Valiants to victory; the Fords and Chevy lost both events so badly that Big Bill France subsequently cancelled the program! Factory Race Program coordinator Tom Hoover later noted that, other than the 426 Hemi, the Slant Six was the most efficient engine Chrysler built in this era. (For the complete story of the Sixes and Hemis, from a technical perspective, SAE’s book Chrysler Engines 1922-1998 by former Chrysler engineer Willem Weertman is worth every penny.)

Back to 15-year-old Chuck, who was cutting those Mustang pictures out of Auto Traders when his father, a local mailman, heard from a fellow letter carrier about an old car abandoned in a carport in a house that had sold. They went to see it, found out that the little old lady who owned it had put about 50,000 miles on it before it ended up parked a decade earlier, and her son was glad to give it to them if they would take it out quickly. The new owners of her house were not happy it was still there when their moving van had arrived. As they towed it home, Chuck’s dad, Rik, said, “Son, you have a year to get it running, or it’s out of here.”

A year. Chuck liked cars but knew nothing about them. However, it was the ’90s, and he was pretty savvy about computers. He was taking repair classes at a local technical school and met a guy who was having some trouble with the books but could spin wrenches. They agreed to help each other out. Meanwhile, he began chasing parts to get the car running again.

“That November, my dad and I drove up to Ocala, Florida, for my first big car show, the annual Mopars with Big Daddy event at Don Garlits’ place. I was excited to get to the swap meet and get the parts I’d need to get the car running. The first booth I went to was manned by an ornery old dude. I told him what I had and he said, “I’ll give you a hundred bucks for that car right now. A kid like you is just gonna ruin it anyway.” That made me mad. More importantly, it made me determined. I was going to do awesome things with this car.”

Chuck was successful in his mission and got the car running two months before the deadline from Dad. Now 16 years old and with a driver’s license, the car was Chuck’s vbest version of the cars he’d grown up seeing on TV. “During that time it became known as the ‘Flying Valiant’ because I was always trying make the car act like the cars in The Dukes of Hazzard or Starsky and Hutch, driving through fields and trying to grab air off hills. I successfully got it fully airborne one time, and that’s why it no longer has the original 170 under the hood. I still don’t know how I didn’t bend the unibody and destroy the car. The only damage was to the engine (it threw a rod six weeks later) and to the front passenger shock that bent in half,” Chuck says.

Despite that, the car served as regular transportation for a number of years, with JC Whitney seat covers and an economy, “quick-bake” paintjob. Then in 2011, the transmission mount broke and sent the fan right into the radiator. The car was off the road again, but would never be the same.

“The accident proved to be a catalyst for the life of the car. I knew I couldn’t keep patching the car up while I drove it forever, and that the tin worm was only going to get worse unless major surgery was performed. We’d finally gotten a house with a garage and I realized it was going to be now or never, and if I was going to do this restoration, I was going to do it right.”

Now living in Gainesville, Florida, Chuck’s friend, Ben Simons, had just finished restoring his family’s factory 426 Street Wedge 1964 Dodge D100 High Performance Package pick-up. After some encouragement from Ben, Chuck began working in earnest on the Valiant. He stripped the body to bare metal, sent out to be media-blasted and slowly patched up. He even took welding classes at a local technical school, and in 2016, it was ready for paint. Mike Nelson, of Mike’s Custom Car Shop aprayed the TB3 Basin Street Blue, also known as Petty Blue in some circles. The all-steel body now has mild front fender flaring to accommodate larger tires, homemade frame connectors join the front and back framerails, and the C-pillar and hood trim were shaved off. Underneath you’ll find a Hellwig front sway bar, a boxed and gusseted K-frame, Firm Feel tubular upper control arms, boxed lower control arms, and poly bushings, including the engine and trans mounts. The framerails were coated internally with Eastwood Rust Encapsulator, and the full underside of the unibody sprayed with Rhino Liner. All of the non-visible steel on the interior was painted with thermo-acoustic paint, resonant areas received Dynamat coverings, and the floor and ceiling were insulated with half-inch insulation called “The Insulator” used in light aircraft.

A 225ci version of the of the Slant Six is backed by a mildly worked automatic and an 8 ¾-inch differential from a 1971 Scamp. The engine is bored 0.060-inch over and was built by Chuck and Ben, with balanced bottom-end parts, a 9.20:1 compression ratio, an Erson cam using 340 V8 springs, a reworked ported-and-polished head with hardened seats, and Doug Dutra’s special Dutra Duals headers feeding into a single pipe. The eye candy is that Offenhauser intake supporting a dialed-in 600-cfm Edelbrock with choke, with a recurved, stock Slant Six electronic distributor set up with HEI parts for fire, and a vented, trunk-mounted Optima battery. A Ron Francis 24/7 wiring kit finished it off, and for Florida driving, a custom A/C system was fitted by Slant Six guru Charlie Schmid, who built an adapter for the Sanden A/C compressor. Feeding the cool-breeze atmosphere is a vintage Mark IV evaporator/blower underdash unit found at a swap meet.

There’s no shortage of custom work inside the car, either. In addition to the custom upholstery by Rob Philpot, Redline Gauges rebuilt a set of NOS stock gauges that included the 120-mph 1965 Barracuda speedometer, an amp gauge converted to a voltmeter, and a vintage 1970s Sun Super Tach, modernized internally. The OEM radio is now converted to AM/FM/USB/Aux/Bluetooth by Rick’s Radio Conversions, and a real 1964 Barracuda woodgrain wheel serves as the tiller. Meanwhile, in keeping with the theme of an OEM star machine modified for TV or movie use back in the day, a set of Chrysler A-pillar spotlights with both interior handles and old-school yellow KC HiLiTES covers were found and added.

Chuck’s wife, Carolyn, was all in on the project as well. She and Chuck have known each other since grade school, and she did a lot of the detail work, getting as dirty as Chuck did in the process. When it came time to rebuild the engine, it happened in their living room. She shared in the end result as well, driving part of the way on the 1,000-mile journey to the Annual Carlisle All-Chrysler event, smiling as much as Chuck did when we gave their car our celebrity-pick award.

As always, there were a lot of wild cars at Carlisle: a four-door Barracuda, Hemi convertibles, supercharged street machines, and homebuilt projects in progress. But the scarce Offy parts caught our eye, and as Chuck began pointing out the little things, the more apparent the purity of the project became. Nope, it’s not that Mustang he once dreamed of, and it’s not a 1,000 hp street terror, but it is one-of-one, and it’s Car Crafted Chuck’s way.

Tech Notes

Who: Chuck and Carolyn Ellis What: 1964 Plymouth Valiant Where: Gainesville, Florida

Body and Paint: Light customizing, like fender flaring and shaved trim, helps make a unique statement, and Chuck even went back to night school for welding classes. All the tin was hammered at home; the Petty Blue paint is gunned-on, courtesy of Mike Nelson. A 1968 Barracuda flip-top gas cap has been adapted to replace the body-color twist lock. Chassis: The factory unibody survived the rigors of youthful driving, and now features subframe connectors and upgrades like Rust Encapsulator in the framerails, a gusseted K-frame supporting the engine, and a Rhino Linings coating as protection from the elements.

Suspension: This bomber now has a Hellwig front sway bar, Firm Feel tubular upper control arms, boxed lower control arms, Bilstien shocks, and poly bushings, including the engine and trans mounts, and ESPO six-leaf springs at the rear.

Steering: Tweaked for handling and tilled with a 1964 Barracuda factory woodgrain wheel. Brakes: Wilwoods up front; OEM drums at rear.

Wheels and Tires: Thanks to Summit, the OE mini rollers gave way to nicely blended 15×6 police steelies, with OEM hub caps and fat 235/60-15 Mickey Thompson Sportsman S/Ts on all four corners.

Engine: The “leaning tower of power” gets its retro look thanks to an Offenhauser intake and 600-cfm Edelbrock carb. Other outside changes were the valve cover and detailing, with ignition via an HEI conversion; Mallory Promaster coil; recurved, stock Slant Six electronic distributor with vacuum advance; and “Flamethrower” HEI III four-pin module for spark. An Erson cam with 0.465 lift and 280/270 degrees advertised duration fills the cylinders, with Doug Dutra dual headers taking it out. Minor head work, 9.2:0 compression, and added Sanden AC complete it.

Transmission: Drag racer Mark Wilson rebuilt the original A904 transmission, adding an Edge Racing mild street 2,600-rpm stall converter.

Rear End: The rear axle is an 8 ¾ from a 1971 Scamp with a 3.23 SureGrip unit and Moser axles with green bearings.

Interior: This 2,900-pound car is street-driven and still has bench seats. The custom upholstery is by Rob Philpot of Gainesville, with the dash featuring bezels re-chromed by Layson’s, NOS stock gauges calibrated by Redline, a 1965 Barracuda 120-mph speedometer, and the alternator gauge converted to a voltmeter by Redline as well. The vintage 1970s Sun Super Tach was modernized internally by Redline, and the OEM radio has been converted to an AM/FM/USB/Aux/Bluetooth by Rick Seaman of Rick’s Radio Conversions. In keeping with the factory look, a 1964 Barracuda woodgrain steering wheel is in place.

Electronics: Chuck fitted a Ron Francis 24/7 wiring kit, added a Ford Duraspark voltage regulator now hidden in vintage Sun Tach sender box in engine bay, and put the Optima battery in the trunk.

Thanks to: Carolyn Ellis, for being the most amazing, supportive, and patient wife ever. Ben Simons, for countless hours of time, skill, and encouragement (and loaning me his fancy tools and not being mad when I broke some of them). Mike Nelson, Charlie Schmid, Mark Wilson, and Frank and Jean Paty. Thanks also to my mom and dad for giving a kid with no prior mechanical knowledge a chance to build an ugly and messy car in their carport, and my neighbors for not being too mad when I set up a makeshift paint booth in our driveway to prime the car.

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How To Ride Slinky Dog Dash with NO WAIT! Is After Hours At Disney’s Hollywood Studios Right For YOU??

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Sounds like a dream, right? Well, guess what: it’s actually exactly what happens at After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios! We’re here to tell you all about it, including our thoughts and how to determine if these events are a good investment for you. Ready? As Slinky Dog says, “hold on!”

How After Hours Events Work

After Hours events are currently offered at Magic Kingdom, Disney’s Animal Kingdom, and Disney’s Hollywood Studios. These special ticketed events started at Magic Kingdom a few years ago, but they’re new for Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom.

After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

For three hours after the park closes, After Hours guests enjoy nearly empty parks, short wait times for popular attractions, and unlimited popcorn, ice cream novelties, and select non-alcoholic beverages. Tickets are $125 each if purchased in advance or $129 each if purchased on the day of the event. (Disney Vacation Club members and Annual Passholders may be eligible for a discount, bringing the ticket down to about $99 including tax.)

See our full review of Animal Kingdom After Hours here!

Getting There

After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios officially runs from 8:30 PM – 11:30 PM, but guests are able to enter the park as early as 7:00 PM.

Hollywood Studios Entrance

Upon check-in at the park entrance, you’ll receive a wristband and a guide that lists the attractions, entertainment, and food available for the night. The wristband is important, because you’ll need to show it to move around the park and to pick up your complimentary snacks and drinks.

Sunset Boulevard

Attractions

During our After Hours experience at Hollywood Studios, the following attractions were open:

Star Tours — The Adventures Continue

Slinky Dog Dash

Alien Swirling Saucers

Toy Story Mania!

Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith

The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

At Star Tours, the wait was never more than five minutes.

Star Tours Wait Time

We had only three people in our Starspeeder 1000 for the trip to Tatooine and Geonosis. (We may or may not have been the Rebel Spy, too!)

Star Tours

Over in Toy Story Land, the wait for Slinky Dog Dash was just TEN MINUTES.

Slinky Dog Dash Wait Time

Alien Swirling Saucers, another attraction in Andy’s Backyard, had a five minute wait time the entire evening. Oooooh!

Alien Swirling Saucers Wait Time

Wait times for the popular Toy Story Mania attraction ranged from 5 – 10 minutes.

Toy Story Mania Wait Time

We literally walked through the Toy Story Mania queue without encountering another human!

Empty Toy Story Mania Queue

Meanwhile, over at Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster, you’d have to wait no more than five minutes to hop in a car and experience the streets of Los Angeles.

Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Wait Time

And at Tower of Terror, the wait time was an appropriately-spooky 13 minutes.

Tower of Terror

Characters and Entertainment

Character Meet and Greets

During our visit, Hollywood Studios had a great variety of characters available to meet, and the waits were never longer than five minutes.

Olaf

Minnie Mouse and Mickey Mouse

Toy Story Pals, including Buzz Lightyear, Woody, and Jessie

BB-8

Chewbacca

Kylo Ren

Olaf happily showed us his bottle of summer sunscreen.

Olaf

Wait times to see Sorcerer Mickey and Hollywood Minnie can often reach 60 minutes or more on a regular day in the park. But at After Hours? We met ’em both in under 5 minutes.

Mickey Mouse

It was so fun to see Minnie and Mickey in these picture-perfect costumes!

Minnie Mouse

At Star Wars Launch Bay, Chewbacca posed for a photo and then greeted us with the best Wookiee hug.

Chewbacca

BB-8 was impossibly cute.

BB-8

Kylo Ren, not surprisingly, tried to convert us to the Dark Side.

Kylo Ren

Entertainment

Sunset Seasons Greetings – complete with faux snowfall! – played throughout the night on Sunset Boulevard. Since Sunset Boulevard can sometimes get a bit crowded with guests during normal evening park hours, it was magical to be able to experience this show on a practically empty street multiple times throughout the night.

Sunset Seasons Greetings

The film at Star Wars Launch Bay was also available to experience approximately every 10 minutes throughout the evening.

Wait Times at Star Wars Launch Bay

Food and Beverage

One of the major perks to the After Hours events is that unlimited select snacks and drinks are included with the price of your ticket!

Complimentary Snack Stand

At Hollywood Studios, the following complimentary snacks and drinks were available at popcorn carts and snack stands throughout the Hollywood Boulevard and Sunset Boulevard areas:

Popcorn

Ice cream novelties, including Mickey Premium Ice Cream Bars, Mickey Premium Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Sandwiches, and Edy’s Fruit Bars

Bottled drinks, including Coke, Diet Coke, Sprite, and Dasani Water

The snack stands were plentiful and we never had wait in line. Just walk up, ask for what you want, and enjoy!

Empty Toy Story Land

Normal pricing is $5 for popcorn, $5.75 for Mickey bars and sandwiches, and just under $4 for bottled sodas and water, so depending on how much you plan to snack, this could work out to offset the cost of your ticket quite a bit — especially if you’re choosing to do After Hours in place of a day in the park, which costs a similar amount, but doesn’t include unlimited snacks and drinks.

Sunset Boulevard

If you’d like a more substantial meal or an adult beverage, there are plenty of other food and drink items available for purchase. Woody’s Lunchbox in Toy Story Land, Anaheim Produce on Sunset Boulevard, and KRNR The Rock Station outside of Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster were open and serving their full menus.

Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith

There was also a drink stand offering a special themed After Hours Midnight Margarita. This adult beverage was available for purchase outside of Sunshine Day Cafe.

Midnight Margarita

Merchandise

While most of the merchandise locations in the park were closed, there were still plenty of opportunities to shop in practically empty stores. Mickey’s of Hollywood, Rock Around the Shop, Tower Hotel Gifts, Tatooine Traders, Launch Bay Cargo, and stands throughout Toy Story Land were all open for After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

Tatooine Traders

Our Thoughts

This reviewer had never attended an After Hours event before and was admittedly skeptical, but we honestly had a great experience. No lines. Tasty snacks. Cute characters. A nearly-empty park.

Chinese Theater with no crowds!

As an added bonus, After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios felt especially magical to experience during the holiday season. The Christmas decor, carols, and falling snow on Sunset Boulevard were absolutely magical, and being able to have an unobstructed view was such a treat.

Sunset Seasons Greetings

Check out all of those wide open spaces!

Empty Hollywood Boulevard

Back in the Muppet Courtyard, it really felt like we were alone in the park.

Muppet Courtyard

Even better? Every Cast Member we encountered was especially cheerful, kind, and helpful, which made After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios even more fun.

Is After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios Right for You?

If you want to experience popular attractions with no wait while stuffing yourself with delicious popcorn and Mickey bars, then yes. We think these After Hours events would be particularly good for adults or families with older kids.

Hollywood Boulevard

Little ones might not enjoy After Hours as much due to the late night schedule, absence of Disney Junior characters (Sofia the First, Vampirina, and Jake from Jake and the Neverland Pirates were already asleep for the night), and lack of kid-oriented shows (no Frozen Singalong or Voyage of the Little Mermaid). Also, tickets for kids are the same price as tickets for adults.

Empty Toy Story Land

We get it: at $125 per ticket, these events are not cheap. So here are a few things to consider as you make your decision:

After Hours costs about as much as a day ticket to the park on a busy day. If your goal is riding popular rides as much as possible, booking an After Hours event instead of purchasing a Magic Your Way ticket for that day may make more sense for you. It’s a similar cost, but more access to rides without the hassle of booking fastpasses or dealing with crazy crowds; PLUS you can offset the cost with complimentary snacks and drinks.

If you can’t stand crowds and lines or are traveling with a guest who has sensory processing difficulties, this could be a decent solution for you.

Some After Hours events — especially those at Hollywood Studios and Animal Kingdom — are probably not a good deal for small children. Most child-oriented rides, attractions, and shows in these parks aren’t open for After Hours. This is not necessarily the case in Magic Kingdom, where fantasyland rides are available.

While After Hours only officially runs for three hours, guests have reported being able to get into the park at 7PM with their After Hours ticket. Depending on the official closing time for the park that day, that could get you an extra 1 to 3 hours in a park during its regular operating hours to take advantage of rides and attractions that might be closed during After Hours.

At around $125 a pop, After Hours can get very expensive if you’re traveling with a large group or big family and are planning on also paying for a regular park ticket on the day you’re attending the event.

So if you are into popular rides, want to accomplish a lot in a just few hours — or just really enjoy eating heaps of ice cream — checking out an After Hours event at Walt Disney World might just be worth it for you. But crunch the numbers and make sure it’s right for YOUR family before pulling the trigger.

PS: Don’t forget to check out our review of After Hours at Disney’s Animal Kingdom, too!

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Disclosure: In nearly all circumstances, Disney Food Blog writers and photographers pay full price for their own travel, hotel, food, beverage, and event tickets. We do this because it’s important to us as journalists to ensure not only that we give you unbiased opinions, but also that you can trust us to do so since we’re paying our own way. On rare occasions, when we are invited by a company to attend a preview as media, and when we choose to accept that invitation, we will always make you, our readers, aware of that situation. Today, we were invited by Disney World to attend After Hours at Disney’s Hollywood Studios. Note that when we attend events as media we are 1) Not required to review that event/food on any of our channels, and 2) Not required to review that event/food favorably. You can always count on DFB to give you a 100% unbiased and honest review of any event that we attend, food that we eat, or beverage that we drink. You can see more in our Disclosure Policy. Thank you for reading. — AJ

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