Frontierland
Well, what do you know, it's more scans from The Mysterious Benefactor! As usual, these show details from Frontierland.
Here's a random kid, climbing on some random rocks. He's up to no good! Maybe I'll report him to Disney security. "No, he didn't sass me, but he could have!". "Don't worry sir, where he's headed, he'll never sass anyone again".
I have no idea what's going on here, and I don't WANT to know. But you have to admit that you don't see four men hugging on a log every day.
I'm guessing that those kids are on Teeter-Totter Rock, named after Sir Albert Teeter-Totter. Or are they on Bad Smelling Rock? It's nice that the little girl is giving the young woman a helping hand. Before she bites her! Notice the Columbia passing in the background.
A family has just deplaned from a Huck Finn Raft, and aren't sure what to do next. The little girl is content with her box of popcorn, but Dad will need an hour or so to look at his complimentary map of the Island (held by Mom), so that he can make a full itinerary. I believe that the man with the yellow sweater is wearing an early version of a park passport around his neck.
And finally, more teeter-totter action! So many kids waiting their turn for such a simple thing. But there was a risk of injury, and so it had to go bye-bye. Let's just be grateful that we got to experience it for ourselves.
As always, THANK YOU, Mysterious Benefactor!
3 comments:
Major-
I believe the 'four men hugging' are involved in an initiation stunt. The next part of the stunt involves "getting very wet..."
Not only is 'the man in the yellow sweater' wearing [what appears to be] an early Passport to Disneyland, based on its size - from 1977, available only to Magic Kingdom Club members, but so to are little "brother and sister".
Thanks, Major.
1) That would-be sassy kid has been toiling in the churro mines under the Castle for the last 45 years.
2) I also can't imagine what those guys are attempting. Maybe they're going for the Guinness world record of four guys standing on a log without falling off. There's another guy, on the left, perfecting his tree trunk camouflage.
3) There's something almost scary about the giant-sized Columbia emerging from behind the foliage. Like that scene from "Jurassic World" where the big, modified dino (with camouflage ability) emerges from the deep jungle.
4) This is a rare view of the Old Mill. We've seen it from this angle before but hardly ever from up close like this.
5) I wonder how fast that teeter-totter rock teetered an tottered back-and-forth? I'm guessing not too fast, and not too much movement.
Nanook, Mom is also wearing one of those 'Passport' thingys. And I'd wager that Dad is too.
Fun, colorful action pics today. Thanks, MB. And thanks, Major.
If Teeter -Totter Rock had survived today , it would be called LAWSUIT LEDGE.
We used to get those unlimited passports ( excluding shooting gallery & arcades) long before they were offered to general park guests - as NANOOK pointed out , they were exclusive to Magic Kingdom Club members . The park had tested out other unlimited type tickets for regular park guests like JIMINY CRICKET TICKETS and TIGGER TICKETS … that could be used on ANY attraction. But Disney finally gave in and disbanded the A-E tickets in 1982 as that was the way the amusement industry was going. This was popular change but in the long run it made smaller attractions like Main Street Cinema , KEEL BOATS , etc unable to compete with larger “E” ticket attractions . In fact you’ll see that happening more where theme lands will have a few large complex attractions and smaller quantity rides and attractions will disappear. A good example is what’s happened to WDW’s Frontierland and the pending “new” Adventureland at Tokyo Disneyland …
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