Archive for August 28th 2006

California Fun Part Three: “Living”

Unlike last year’s Bats Day, we spent quite some time in the park before we saw any large groups of goths…we knew that we were there on the right weekend (after all, we had gone to the Bats Day Black Market the previous morning), so it was only a matter of time before a sea of black-clad gloom washed over Disneyland…

We headed first to the Snow White show at the back edge of Fantasyland…like last year, we were there with other Bats Day people to cheer on the villains and to boo Snow White and her dwarf-y friends…by the time the show was over, it was time to go over to Sleeping Beauty Castle for the first photo…the first Cultie I saw this year was Bizzaro, along with his girlfriend, Kayla (is that spelled right?)…we spotted Troy soon after, and then Scott and Christina…throughout the day, I mostly hung out with Troy, though we met up with Irk, Lee Press-On, Smokin’ Joe, and a few other ‘Friends of the Eye’…there are a lot of goofy pictures from the day on Drunk Rockers, and few other web sites and message boards…

At the Haunted Mansion ride through, I was number 730…not as impressive as being number 900 last year, but we can’t get everything…what I did get. however, was a new tassel-locking clip for my Fez…it’s like one of the squeezy locks for drawstrings, only cooler because it’s inside my Fez…

The Haunted Mansion has undergone some renovations since last year, though not as many people flocked to it as they did to Pirates of the Caribbean, since it was not publicized as much (by Disney, at least)…there were a few details mentioned on MiceAge, but few other sources had information….the main change was the altering of the storyline…the thing was that very few guests were aware that there even was a storyline, since the attraction just seemed like a series of individual scenes…there really were a couple of stories, and I’m sure that Doombuggies