Jungle Cruise SNOOZLES™
Today is GDB friend Chris Merritt's birthday!
The Jungle Cruise is often relegated to Snoozle Sundays, because so many bad photos have been taken on that attraction. Well, not really bad, just misunderstood. Today's examples are definitely misunderstood.
Elephants are very particular about their hygiene, and taken frequent baths, or a shower when they can get one. Like the fellow below, who just had a nice schvitz, and now he's enjoying the cool cascade of the Limpopo River. Or wherever. I just wanted to say "Limpopo", and can you blame me?
This photographer must have been bitten by a tsetse fly, and now he has blurred vision due to the dreaded sleeping sickness. Darn you, tsetse fly!
Well what do you know, he didn't have trypanosomiasis, he was just experiencing a case of the yips. Thank goodness! He got over those yips in time to take this pretty decent photo of the African Veldt scene.
9 comments:
Major-
For me it's the Alapahoochee River.
Happy birthday, Chris-!
Happy birthday, Chris! Cool animated birthday card, with a B-day cake taking the place of the Hatbox Ghost's head.
You can't fool us, Major. That's a real elephant sitting under the waterfall! ;-) You've told us how people on other sites have mistaken this animatronic pachyderm for the real thing.
I wonder if an elephant can even sit like this in real life?
My, this one is very "misunderstood". The little kid-in-red is either pointing at the tsetse fly that made the photographer have blurry vision, or he's giving us the middle finger salute. I am NOT looking at the 'chest area' of the girl in the blue gingham dress. Nope. Not me.
Ooh! That IS a nice photo of the Veldt tableau. Did you know that giraffes chew their food 3,752,869 times before swallowing it? Well, these giraffes do anyway.
I think the blurry pic is the only one that qualifies as a misunderstood Snoozle today, Major. Thanks!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, CHRIS!
For anyone wondering why the Hatbox Ghost is making an appearance for Chris Merritt's birthday - it's because Chris was instrumental in getting the Hatbox Ghost returned to Disneyland.
Long-Forgotten blog has some excellent posts on the Hatbox Ghost - but THIS POST is best, as it explains how Chris 'got the ball rolling.' (Thank you, Chris!)
Thank you, Major, for hosting today's birthday party!
Lou and Sue
Happy Birthday Chris, and thanks Sue for taking me down a long Haunted Mansion rabbit hole this morning. The Hatbox Ghost has been oddly placed in WDW and has received much press...but it may be a "Tony Baxter Treehouse".....also known as TBT....and the definition is "JUST BE THANKFUL IT'S THERE". As we all know the Treehouse was on it's way to TRE-land, and the Hatbox Ghost didn't make it to TRE exactly, as it is pre-TRE...with the exception of the Viewliner, which is the newly termed "LouTRE" Possibly other LouTRE (in my book) are the Flying Saucers...20000 Leagues Walkthrough....House of the Future...and the Babes in Toyland Walkthrough (well....maybe not the last...) in any case, some "TBT" can be explored in future editions of GDB. Onto the Jungle Cruise: yep...there it is. The costume looks more headed into the late 70's-when Khaki was "in"....I still see big dobbing lights there for nighttime riders....and I suppose when those were changed/removed would possibly date this further. Guest fashions are innocuous, but do indicate we haven't yet slid into modern times and pajama-party-chic....or as Karl Lagerfeld has been quoted "when you have completely given up". Don't hate on me: that's Karl. The veldt scene has lovely landscaping...that does not happen by accident as it does in the wild. The Jungle Cruise is a very carefully crafted world from a flora perspective: a testament to very talented people who made sand into convincing jungles. Thanks Major for the Snooze's(tm) and Happy Birthday again to Chris: who successfully de-TRE'd "Barbie Sleeping Beauty Castle."
Happy Birthday Chris! Many happy returns of the day! Thank you for your efforts on behalf of the Hatbox Ghost, reversing a bit of the recent Park trends.
It looks like that elephant has “completely given up” and thrown fashion to the winds along with his togs. JB, I can confirm, I have seen posts on Twitter of similar pictures where the poster thinks the waterfall elephant is a real animal.
In contrast, HBG is a style icon, maintaining fine sartorial and personal grooming standards, an example to all!
Thanks Major!
JG
Nanook, oh I see… you’re one of those Alapahoochee people! Typical! ;-)
JB, I just put in a regular photo, I don’t understand how it became animated. I’ve seen elephants sitting on their behinds sort of like the “showering elephant”, though maybe not quite as upright. You know, in circuses and stuff. Hey, I think that kid IS flipping us off! The Veldt photo is nice, too bad I have 250 others just like it.
Lou and Sue, I’m just glad that Chris didn’t bring back the “Disappearing Pants Ghost”.
Bu, most Haunted Mansion lore is pretty fascinating, though I do wish that the Imagineers would stop feeling the need to keep “explaining” more and more mysteries. “What’s the deal with the bride?”. Don’t explain it! The mystery is what makes it interesting! Explain it, and the reaction is, “Oh, that’s the deal?”. Hey, I’ll be happy to add the Babes in Toyland walk-thru to things that are TRE (even though it was in the Opera House, and I am glad that we got Mr. Lincoln). I admit that I like khaki, though I don’t wear it much lately. I’m happy to say that I have never worn my pajamas out in public (not counting when we had to evacuate at 2:00 AM because of a brush fire nearby). Jeans are plenty comfy.
JG, I’ve seen pictures of other Jungle Cruise elephants presented as living, breathing pachyderms “at play”. Like the mama and baby elephants. I guess that’s a tribute to the skill of the sculptors, but it’s still kind of baffling.
HBG on GDB, OMG! And DPG! (The one that Major mentioned.)
And a Happy Birthday Chris! Pretty cool update to our ghost who I'll now call the the Cake-box Ghost! Major, in your reference to Lou and Sue...at least our elephants had their trunks on! Yep, the blurry photo leaving the dock...that CM looks very much like my co-worker Chris N, a great guy who married a great CM, Kathy. Khakis were "in" for the length of my tenure of 7 years in the 70s in one form or another. KS
Wow! Thanks so much everyone! That's a super cool gif and much appreciated. - Chris M
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