OK-zles
Today I have some OK-zles for you (not Blurzles, not Snoozles - it's important to know the difference). Both of these are perfectly OK! We'll start with this totally fine look at the Mark Twain (from October 1971). If it feels familiar, it's only because we've seen 10,000 photos that are just like it. And yet... it still sort of surprises me at the "forest" behind the steamboat. Where is everything??
Next is a decent picture (from August 1961) looking up at the Matterhorn, while two climbers ascend up the icy slopes. Watch out for abdominal snowmen!
4 comments:
"we've seen 10,000 photos that are just like it." Hmm, I counted only 9,993. I guess I missed a couple.
I really like this photo! Not sure what sets it apart from the other 9,999 photos of the Mark Twain. Maybe it's the angle of the light. Plus, even the shadows are not so dark; you can see what's there. And then there's the clear blue sky; always a plus.
Is that the roof of the Matterhorn loading station we're seeing at the bottom of the pic? We can almost tell whose climbing the Mountain: Fritz? Otto? Hans? Sleepy? Dopey? I wonder if the climbers follow the same routes every time? Or if they deliberately map out a new path each time? I like the camera angle here; looking up, up, up!
If this is a standard representation of what OK-zles are like, then bring on some more! Thanks, Major.
”Watch out for abdominal snowmen!”
….and frostbit knees.
The MH looks small from this angle.
Thanks, Major.
Major, I REALLY like the angle on that second photo. I see that you gave it a file name of, "Boring Matt." I don't think it's boring! And which one of those mountain climbers is "Matt"? ;-)
Sunday's are getting confusing, with Blurzles, Snoozles, Kaboozles, and now OKzles? (all TM). With some forensics you could probably knock down a date of the Frontierland forest...it does look marvelously lush...there are a few buildings there...clearly the forest was cleared for Big Thunder: but I actually like this scene better. Big Thunder was an employee favorite: I think the queue has something to do with it: much more interesting than playing "ring around the Matterhorn". Also: no chiropract-y is needed after riding. An abdominal snowman sounds like something from the Jersey Shore during Summer, and I am sure someone has picked up that nickname and made it their own: perhaps I will. Hans and Fritz are not a "production center" any more: so bye bye....however: if they made little plush dollies...or a whole playset...or something....(be creative) it would offset the labor cost. For their death defying acts, I am sure there wasn't much cost in the labor....and death defying might be the wait time for Pirates in August which I can attest was certainly as tenuous as a mountain climb up the Matterhorn. In fact: if given the choice, I think I'd take the Matterhorn climb over the 1000th performance of Pirates of the Caribbean. No offense to Pirates: it's a masterpiece...also at times chiropract-y worthy: and that is another story. Thanks Major and Boring Matt for the OKzles...or Okayzles...or Okay-zllllls.
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