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From: tanida@norns.css.gov (Tom Tanida)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: FAQ, part 1, question 12
Date: 15 Sep 92 17:08:32 GMT
Reply-To: tanida@norns.css.gov (Tom Tanida)

This somehow seemed to have been omitted from part 1.  Sorry 'bout that.
Thanks to todd%uvmark@merk.com for pointing this out.

-Tom
tanida@esosun.css.gov


12) What are the Magic Kingdom Club benefits?

     As a Magic Kingdom Club (MKC) member, you receive the following
benefits:
     - Special offers on Theme Park admission (usually 10%- there's a price
          guide), including EuroDisney and Tokyo Disneyland
     - 10-30% discount on WDW resort accommodations
     - Ability to take advantage of special vacation packages
     - 10% discount on merchandise at The Disney Stores
     - Reduced admission to Pleasure Island, Typhoon Lagoon, River Country,
          and Discovery Island (at WDW), and the Queen Mary and Spruce
          Goose attractions (Long Beach, CA)
     - Membership in Entertainment Publications' Travel America for half
          price
     - Up to 30% discounts with National Car Rental
     - 10% discount on Delta Air Lines tickets when traveling to the theme
          parks
     - 10% discount on Premier's Caribbean Cruise and Walt Disney World
          Week
     - 15% discount on cruises aboard the Royal Caribbean Cruise Line
     - 10% discount on the Norwegian Cruise Line
     - 20% nightly discounts at The Hotel Queen Mary
     - 10% discount at the Paradise Guest Ranch in Wyoming
     - Special Club Vacations in San Diego, CA
     
     There are a wide variety of vacation packages to choose from, with the
prices depending on where you stay and for how long, and what time of year
you visit the theme parks.
     I believe there is no charge for joining the MKC if your employer has
a group number.

     You can also join as a MKC Gold Card member.  You receive a
personalized, embossed Gold Card, a two-year subscription to Disney News
magazine (8 issues, worth $14.95), and a membership kit, containing a tote
bag, key chain, travel video, and 5 Disney Dollars.  The price for joining
is $49 for two years.  You also receive a list of toll free numbers to call
to make travel reservations.
     There is also a Magic Years Club for those over 60 years of age.  It
costs $35 for a 5-year membership, and has the same benefits as the
standard MKC, plus a few extras (an embossed card, tote bag, key chain,
bumper sticker, Magic Key newsletter).
     The phone numbers for the MKC, MKC Gold Card, and Magic Years Club are
given in question #99, below.
From: Rich_Koster@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Rich Koster)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Cartoon Man-On-The-Street
Date: 6 Sep 92 01:51:46 GMT
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

From "Electronic Media" August 24, 1992:
 
QUICK TAKES
 
"How have cartoons evolved over the years?"
 
    Fred Flintstone, making comeback on The Cartoon Network: "If anyone
knows evolution, it's me.  And since you're asking, cartoons are getting
much too advanced.  In my day, we had to chisel the drawings in stone.
This paper and pencil stuff seems too sophisticated to me, and computers
will never capture the essence of the Stone Age."
 
    Tazmanian Devil, star of the series "Taz-Mania": "@#%$#*!  Taz think
new cartoons not enough eating!  Need more eating!  @#%$#!"
 
    Goofy, "Goof Troop" star who made transition from big screen to
little screen: "Gawrsh -- I give up.  How?"
 
    Casper, the Friendly Ghost, series distributed by Claster Television:
"When I started out in this business, I was invisible, but so was the
cartoon marketplace.  Now we're so big -- I'm even going Hollywood,
starring
in my own feature film next year."

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From: leem@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov (Lee Mellinger)
Subject: Re: 101dogs
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (NASA)
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:21:51 GMT

In article <BuEwGD.11D@newcastle.ac.uk> Kevin.McGarvey@newcastle.ac.uk (Kevin.McGarvey) writes:
:Does anyone know whether 101 Dalmations is to be released on VHS format?????
:
:			Cheers!!!

It was here in the U.S. about six months ago.  

Lee

"Mit Pulver und Blei, die Gedanken sind frei."

|Lee F. Mellinger                 Caltech/Jet Propulsion Laboratory - NASA
|4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109 818/354-1163  FTS 792-1163     
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From: carols@world.std.com (Carol Springs)
Subject: Re: I'm finally going to WDW
Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 06:05:20 GMT

In article <92254.123152ICWFM@ASUACAD.BITNET> <ICWFM@ASUACAD.BITNET> writes:

>In just about 2 weeks I'll be on my way to Walt Disney World.  Does anyone
>have current information about:

>Park Hours from 9/26 - 10/2

I have hours from the present to September 30; no reason to think they'll
change substantially the first couple of days in October.  EPCOT is open
9 a.m. to 9 p.m. the whole time, and IllumiNations runs there every night
at 9 (at least through September 30).  Daytime fireworks at EPCOT, with 
delta kites and parasails, are done September 12-16, 19-23, and 26-30 at 
3 p.m.

The Magic Kingdom is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to
9 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays, except for Saturday September 12, when it
closes at 7 p.m. to the general public.  (An evening of Christian music,
Night of Joy, is scheduled there September 11 and 12.)  SpectroMagic runs
during the remainder of September only on the 13th, 19th, 20th, 26th, and
27th, at 8 p.m.  

Disney-MGM Studios is open from 9 to 8 on Saturdays, 9 to 7 all other days.
Fireworks there are scheduled for September 12, 19, and 26 at 8 p.m.

>What rides might be closed.

The only show or ride I saw closed for the whole day in the past few days 
at WDW was Carousel of Progress in Tomorrowland.  I don't know whether there 
was any major problem with the show.  Other attractions had intermittent
technical problems and were closed for some periods -- Splash Mountain in 
Frontierland, Cranium Command at Wonders of Life (EPCOT).

Don't worry about lines; they shouldn't be much of a problem at the time
you're visiting.
 
 
-- 
Carol Springs                      carols@world.std.com
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From: mcdonald@netcom.com (James T. Mc Donald III)
Subject: Re: Closures at Disneyland
Date: Wed, 16 Sep 92 01:18:28 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

In article <720@mtinews.mti.com> adrian@mti.mti.com (Adrian McCarthy) writes:
>In article <nbvn#j+.mcdonald@netcom.com> mcdonald@netcom.com (James T. Mc Donald III) writes:
>>As of Labor Day, 7 September 1992, the following attractions are closed
>>for annual refurb:
>>
>>	-Haunted Mansion (for about a month, possibly more, as it is time for
>>	its five year cleaning.
>>
>>	-It's A Small World (big wall up around it, caused most likely by the
>>	construction of Mickey's Starland.
>
>Timeout!  Hold everything.  I was there on 7-Sep-1992 also.  We didn't ride
>the Haunted Mansion because the line was too long, but it seemed open.
>We rode It's a Small World.  There is a big fence nearby for Mickey's Toontown,
>but it was not affecting Small World in any way.
>
>Did they give you this info over the phone?
>
>Aid.  (adrian@lexcel.com)

My apologies. I was there for dinner on  8 September 1992. Guess Disney magic
strikes again.  The Mansion was closed, all gates locked up, including the one
near the exit.  And It's a Small World had the big, huge, off-green walls 
around it, with a small path leading to the former Videopolis.


Jim Mc Donald
mcdonald@netcom.com


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From: greg@pomona.claremont.edu (Tigger)
Subject: Re: Donald in Mathematicsland
Organization: Pomona College
Distribution: usa
Date: 15 Sep 92 11:10:15 PDT

In article <1992Sep14.145303.14278@cbnewsi.cb.att.com>, calvin@cbnewsi.cb.att.com (scott.a.kaye) writes:
>
> 	Does anyone know if Donald in Mathematicsland has been or will be
> released on VHS??  I remember watching it back in elementary school, and I
> really enjoyed it.

Hee hee.  One of my alltime favorites.  :-)  Yes, it is available on VHS.
I rent it periodically...

--
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|     A man's best friends:  a Harley, a Beretta and a Gund.     |
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From: fuller@enigma.bgsu.edu (A.J. Fuller)
Subject: Disney Homophobia?
Originator: fuller@enigma
Reply-To: rec.arts.disney
Organization: Bowling Green State University B.G., Oh.
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 17:34:13 GMT

The following note was recently sent through a mailing list which
deals with the U.K based musical group Erasure.  I was a bit
suprised by this and thought you all might have some additional
information or perspective...

<quoted material begins here...>
> 
> Return-Path: <lazlo@triton.unm.edu>
> From: Lazlo Nibble <lazlo@triton.unm.edu>
> Message-Id: <9209051639.AA12345@triton.unm.edu>
> Subject: Erasure vs. Disney
> To: vincent-clarke@first.cac.washington.edu
> Date: Sat, 5 Sep 92 10:39:51 MDT
> 
> I just got this news from Christian Bartholdsson in Sweden:
> 
>> The Swedish children's programme The Disney Club (cartoons&music for
>> kids aged around 8-14) had recorded a special feature on Erasure which
>> they intended to show last week.  But when the American Disney who are
>> supervising the programme got to know about this, they said "Isn't that
>> Andy Bell person gay?  Yes, he is!  Cancel the show!!".  This caused an
>> enormous outrage in Sweden, where such open homophobia is clearly taboo.
>> Other artists who are supposed to be on the show have withdrawn.  Vince
>> Clarke said they are going to sue Disney.   Andy Bell's comment was
>> "They behave like Nazis".  Some video rental chains have said they're
>> going to take all Disney movies off the shelves.  The papers have been
>> filled with angry letters from readers.  A huge PR loss for Disney, to
>> say the least. 
>>
>> I don't think there are fewer homophobics over here than in America,
>> it's just that you can't slag gay people off in public like that.   
>
> --
> Lazlo (lazlo@triton.unm.edu)
> 
> one with nintendo / halcyon symbiosis / hand thinks for itself
> 		- Damon Koronakos and Brian Roberts: HI-TECH HAIKUS

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From: dudding@sallyride.crd.ge.com (Kate Dudding)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: I'm finally going to WDW
Date: 11 Sep 92 13:22:46 GMT
Organization: GE Corporate R&D Center

Re. specific times of fireworks, parades, scheduled appearances of Mickey etc.

Near the entrance to each park is an information center which has a flyer
listing such times for each park for the entire week.  Two years ago, I got
all 3 flyers at the Magic Kingdom information center (to the left 
when you first enter).

Re. where to find gyros to eat

I imagine the information centers could also tell you that.  I used
OFFICIAL GUIDE TO WDW to find out where salads were sold.

-- 
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GE Corporate Research and Development
Bldg. KW, Room C315
PO Box 8, Schenectady, NY 12301                (518) 387-7164
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From: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com (Dillon Pyron)
Subject: Re: Articles on simulator rides?
Keywords: Star Tours, etc.
Reply-To: pyron@skndiv.dseg.ti.com
Organization: TI/DSEG VAX Support
Distribution: usa
Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:14:50 GMT


In article <72183@apple.Apple.COM>, winter@Apple.COM (Patty Winter) writes:
>Has anyone seen any articles describing the technology used in Star
>Tours and similar rides? I have the postings that have gone by here
>on the net giving brief descriptions, but my brother is looking for
>something more detailed. Perhaps something has appeared in a Disney-
>oriented magazine, a general-interest science magazine (e.g. 
>Scientific American), or a publication for fans of amusement parks?
>
Bu bu bu bu the reason I go to Disney is to forget about  6DOF simulations and
swept horizons and real-time sensor recalibration.  I want to ride through the
stars, attack a star cruiser, then run around and do it again!

That's what Disney sells, vehicles for my fantasies (well, some of the, wink
wink).
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From: mcdonald@netcom.com (James T. Mc Donald III)
Subject: Closures at Disneyland
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 92 07:19:47 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

As of Labor Day, 7 September 1992, the following attractions are closed
for annual refurb:

	-Haunted Mansion (for about a month, possibly more, as it is time for
	its five year cleaning.

	-It's A Small World (big wall up around it, caused most likely by the
	construction of Mickey's Starland.

Also, does anyone out there know the standing of the company's decision on
the Columbia? Will it be used ever again during high-attendance days for
riverboat overflow?  Twice over the summer during quite busy days, it was
not being utilized.  Is it now a FANTASMIC! only ship?

Jim Mc Donald
mcdonald@netcom.com
From: jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle )
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: Theme Parks
Date: 7 Sep 92 04:35:32 GMT
Organization: California State University, Bakersfield

In article <Rich_Koster.0owm@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US> Rich_Koster@agwbbs.new-o
rleans.LA.US (Rich Koster) writes:
>Excerpted from "Electronic Media" August 24, 1992:
> 
>Profit playgrounds
> 
>Media titans move into theme parks
> 
>    Theme parks, once considered a distant offshoot of the entertainment
>business, have become profitable for media giants seeking to market and
>promote their film, TV and merchandising wares.
>    For now, no one does it as effectively as The Walt Disney Co.
Yeah!

>    But Time Warner, with its controlling interest in the Six Flags theme
>parks, and Paramount Communications, with plans to acquire the King
>Entertainment parks later this week, are moving aggressively into theme
>parks as a way of furthering their core businesses.  Time Warner, for one,
>expects its theme parks to sell $20 million in Looney Tunes merchandise
>that it would not otherwise have sold.
They could sell more if they would get more than *1* Tiny Toons hut at Magic
Mountain in Valencia.  I was very disappointed that there was only one place
that a WB theme park sold TTA stuff, and the Babs and Buster dolls don't even
look like them!  They look like wuarchive.wustl.edu's descriptions of the 
toon's .gif files -- "pink bunny" and "young Bugs Bunny" -- they don't look
much like the characters at all.  Don't those Taiwanese get to watch TTA ?!?

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Thanks Rich!

Jennifer
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Subject: Disney Halloween Costumes
From: jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle )
Date: 9 Sep 92 22:31:43 PDT
Organization: California State University, Bakersfield
Summary: Saw Belle.  No Ariel?

I traipsed by my Disney Store today, but did not enter (I have a tendency to
spend money I shouldn't when I go in).  I could see small yellow ball
gowns in the front, as if they were Belle costumes for little girls.  Since
I didn't enter, I didn't see any Ariel costumes, although I know last year
they were available for little girls through the Disney catalog.  I gotta go 
look again!  (Without my purse!)

Jennifer
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From: Rich_Koster@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Rich Koster)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Disney Christmas Cards
Distribution: world
Date: 11 Sep 92 20:52:46 CST
Organization: The Amiga GateWay BBS * New Orleans, La.

Does anyone know if Disney has ever sold Disney-themed Christmas cards? Or,
does anyone have any knowledge of Disney doing it this year?
 
Carol, my wife (you know her, she of the
long-winded-but-intelligent-posts!)
would especially like it if there were Disney Splash Mountain Christmas
cards! ;-)
 
 
From Dinosaurs: "WESAYSO -- because we don't enjoy having our feelings
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From: rcook@sdcc13.ucsd.edu (Robert Cook)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: Upcoming features
Date: 5 Sep 92 15:13:30 GMT
Organization: University of California, San Diego

Oops, just remembered something.  I first suggested that Disney do a
version of "Thumbelina."  Looks like Don Bluth's beat me to it.  My
failing memory can't recall what is next scheduled feature is, but
the ones after it are "Thumbelina" and something like "Trolls in
Central Park."  Disney's competition, however, appears to be in
trouble.  Did I say 'appears?'  More like Sullivan-Bluth studios (in
Ireland) has just laid off several hundred (trying not to
exaggerate) workers and is on the verge of filing for Chapter 11 in
the US.  So far, only MGM/UA is considering an acquisition, but
they've got their own financial problems.

In the meantime, still clinging to fairy tales at the moment, Disney
might be able to adapt Rumpelstiltskin.  It looked like a silly
prospect at first, but just think about it:  Girl is trapped in
castle by her father's arrogance.  Needs to spin gold or die.  Dwarf
spins gold and asks for first child.  Princess needs to discover
dwarf's name to keep child.  Prince discovers name and tells her.
Happily ever after.  Looking closely, there's a bit of Little
Mermaid and Beauty and the Beast in it.  All Disney's got to do is
spruce up the story (how the prince discovers the name, etc) and, of
course, strengthen the female character.  Both TLM and BatB had
their problems and were rewritten for the films.

- Robert Cook
Organization: Arizona State University
Date: Thursday, 10 Sep 1992 12:31:52 MST
From: <ICWFM@ASUACAD.BITNET>
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject:    I'm finally going to WDW

In just about 2 weeks I'll be on my way to Walt Disney World.  Does anyone
have current information about:

Park Hours from 9/26 - 10/2

Parades and shows during the same time period.     And, if it is showing, where
is the best place to view Spectromagic?  I want to video tape it.

What rides might be closed.

Are any special events planned for this time?

Thanks in advance.
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Subject: Re: I am Ariel
From: jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle )
Date: 14 Sep 92 20:57:03 PDT
Organization: California State University, Bakersfield

Gotta go check that out!!

Jennifer
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From: dsm@prism.gatech.EDU (Danny McGurl)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: Why I love Disney, Part 47
Date: 6 Sep 92 05:09:16 GMT
Organization: Revelstone High Command

In article Rich_Koster@agwbbs.new-orleans.LA.US (Rich Koster) writes:
 
>3) Corporations, Disney and McDonalds come to mind though there are
>others, have a right to protect and restrict use of copyrighted logos
>and figures.  

More to the point, they have an obligation to enforce their rights or
they tend to disappear.  Trademarks and Copyrights must be enforced when you
know of violations or you end up loosing your rights.

As a result, Disney is somewhat facist in protecting it's rights because they
are worth *billions*.

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From: fag2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Farul A Ghazali)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Art of Beauty and the Beast exhibition.
Date: 15 Sep 92 22:38:25 GMT
Reply-To: fag2@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Farul A Ghazali)
Organization: Columbia University



Just got back from the Beauty and the Beast exhibit at Sotheby's. :-)
:-) :-) It was simply amazing, definitely a different experience from
just looking at the catalogs, or even the movie. There are cels from
almost every scene in the movie, very beautiful; almost lifelike at
times. Also very EXPENSIVE!!! (read thousands of dollars each). The
few scenes which were not included were, I guess, the more "visually
elaborate" ones; the opening scene, with the castle, forest and all,
and the stained glass windows used in the introduction and ending.
None of the scenes with computer generated animation were up either.
:-( I did want to see the ballroom scene.

Other interesting items from the exhibit were the hand painted model
statues, used by animators to visualize each character. There is also
a specially painted piece of Belle and the Beast with the rest of the
cast in the ballroom.

There were surprisingly not many people around at the time, so I spent
almost an hour looking at the cels, with my friend quoting almost
every line and lyric from the movie. (You've seen the movie too many
times, Zarina ;-)

This is definitely something not to be missed by any Disney fan. It's
going to be here in NYC until the end of the week.  Then, Tokyo,
Orlando, London, Milan, Paris and finally Los Angeles. BTW, the
catalog is $20, at the desk and $27 by mail order from Sotheby's.
Their number is (800) 444 3709.

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From: WTQ@psuvm.psu.edu (Reid Woolery)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Re: Why I Love Disney - Stop!
Date: 11 Sep 92 14:53:18 GMT
Organization: Penn State University

Enough already! We get the picture. The Disney company is not as saintly as we
would hope. I guess there is such a thing as reality. Some of the points that
have been made are certainly worth pondering and maybe even writing a letter
to corporate headquarters about, but this discussion is slipping into the
realm of "who cares". Let's get back to the "magic" part of the Magic Kingdom.

Just me======================>REID