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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,918
    Go read about the "rainbow targets" in the new ride.
    Thank me later.

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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,844
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    Go read about the "rainbow targets" in the new ride.
    Thank me later.

    I'll look it up.
    This weekend we rock Portland
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,918
    Poncier said:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    Go read about the "rainbow targets" in the new ride.
    Thank me later.

    I'll look it up.
    The makeover on Buzz is great. They really did a nice job on the ride. Wife and I were bummed for months while they were doing the makeover. 
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  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,844
    Just the photo alone is a huge improvement over what those used to ne, so I can imagine how much better the ride is.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,918
    So, the new Muppet Coaster opened this past week. As annual pass holders we were able to ride it earlier in the week with only a 20 minute wait time. Yesterday the wait time was 2 hours. LOL

    But the new merchandise showed up, and of course Kathy and I bought one of each. Haha 


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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,803
    Not a big disney fan, but muppets are always cool. I like the Swedish Chef!
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,918
    edited May 29
    Get_Right said:
    Not a big disney fan, but muppets are always cool. I like the Swedish Chef!
    Jim Henson was one of the coolest people to walk the planet.
    I would have LOVED to go out and had a few drinks with Jim and Charles Schultz. 
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,803
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    Get_Right said:
    Not a big disney fan, but muppets are always cool. I like the Swedish Chef!
    Jim Henson was one of the coolest people to walk the planet.
    I would have LOVED to go out and had a few drinks with Jim and Charles Schultz. 
    Funny you mention Charles Schulz. We have a signed book of Peanuts cartoons that has been in our family for more than 55 years.  
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 23,514
    Get_Right said:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    Get_Right said:
    Not a big disney fan, but muppets are always cool. I like the Swedish Chef!
    Jim Henson was one of the coolest people to walk the planet.
    I would have LOVED to go out and had a few drinks with Jim and Charles Schultz. 
    Funny you mention Charles Schulz. We have a signed book of Peanuts cartoons that has been in our family for more than 55 years.  
    Wow hang on to that 
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  • Get_Right
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    edited May 29
    Gern Blansten said:
    Get_Right said:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    Get_Right said:
    Not a big disney fan, but muppets are always cool. I like the Swedish Chef!
    Jim Henson was one of the coolest people to walk the planet.
    I would have LOVED to go out and had a few drinks with Jim and Charles Schultz. 
    Funny you mention Charles Schulz. We have a signed book of Peanuts cartoons that has been in our family for more than 55 years.  
    Wow hang on to that 
    I think we have a superman and a batman one as well. One of my relatives was a producer on that campy batman show with Adam West. I guess in the 70s it was trendy to sell bound comics with signatures. I have a bunch of old autographs in different forms. Ironically, I never got one from Eddie Vedder. Or Mickey Mouse.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,918
    edited May 29
    Get_Right said:
    Gern Blansten said:
    Get_Right said:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    Get_Right said:
    Not a big disney fan, but muppets are always cool. I like the Swedish Chef!
    Jim Henson was one of the coolest people to walk the planet.
    I would have LOVED to go out and had a few drinks with Jim and Charles Schultz. 
    Funny you mention Charles Schulz. We have a signed book of Peanuts cartoons that has been in our family for more than 55 years.  
    Wow hang on to that 
    I think we have a superman and a batman one as well. One of my relatives was a producer on that campy batman show with Adam West. I guess in the 70s it was trendy to sell bound comics with signatures. I have a bunch of old autographs in different forms. Ironically, I never got one from Eddie Vedder. Or Mickey Mouse.
    As a child I had a kick ass autograph collection. But they all disappeared in a long story that I am not getting into here. Haha 

    One of my favorites was opening the mailbox on Christmas Eve when I was 12? And there was a envelope from Atlanta with an autograph from Henry Aaron. 

    Another was when I met Jesse Owens. Yes that guy! The guy who went to Germany and showed Hitler what's what. Pretty crazy. But like I said that collection no longer exists. As a 60 year old man it still pisses me off. 

    I had the best of the best when it came to sports autographs. 
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  • Get_Right
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    I wore number 10 in pee wee hockey. When I was ten I sent three letters addressed to the Montreal forum. No real address. In each one asked for an autograph from Guy Lafleur, Larry Robinson and Ken Dryden. Eight months later I received three cards that were signed. Those have been lost over the years. I also played ping pong with Bucky Dent around the same time. Perry Como gave me a pair of Nike bruins at a golf tournament. I never met Elvis. Or Mickey Mouse. 
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,918
    Hahaha
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  • Get_Right
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    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:
    Hahaha

    I guess around the same time my mom took me and my brother to Disney World. Before Epcot. It was fun. I liked Busch Gardens better. I liked the Python better than Space Mountain. And a canoe made out of bud cans? Yes please. 
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  • JOEJOEJOE
    JOEJOEJOE Posts: 11,015
    edited June 1
    Since people are posting about autographs:

    What are some of your favorite autographed items?

    Mine are mostly non-sport:

    David Letterman signed baseball

    Alex Trebek Signed baseball

    Eddie Vedder signed baseball (purchased from Cubs foundation)

    The Clash concert poster signed by Joe Strummer & Mick Jones

    Baseball signed by Hank Aaron, Al Downing & Saduharo Oh
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,803
    So in February 1979 my grandmother took me and my younger brother to the Concord hotel in the catskills (now a Resorts). My brother and I were playing ping pong in a game room and who walks in? Bucky Dent. It was right after he hit the home run against the Red Sox. He played ping pong with us for about a half hour and I asked for an autograph addressed to my mom because she had a crush on him and I hated the Yankees. When she passed I went through her jewelry box and in the very bottom, low and behold, the Bucky Dent personalized autograph. We still have it.  
  • Poncier
    Poncier Posts: 18,844
    Get_Right said:
    So in February 1979 my grandmother took me and my younger brother to the Concord hotel in the catskills (now a Resorts). My brother and I were playing ping pong in a game room and who walks in? Bucky Dent. It was right after he hit the home run against the Red Sox. He played ping pong with us for about a half hour and I asked for an autograph addressed to my mom because she had a crush on him and I hated the Yankees. When she passed I went through her jewelry box and in the very bottom, low and behold, the Bucky Dent personalized autograph. We still have it.  
    Did his signature include his middle name "Fuckin"?
    That's what he became here after that pop up HR... Bucky Fuckin' Dent.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,918
    Autographs
    I HAD

    Muhammad Ali's

    Went to the airport to pick up my aunt an uncle. The first person off the plane was Ali.

    Gale Sayers.

    Met him the day he got his HOF RING.
    He signed the back of a blank check my father had.

    Ernie Banks

    Met him at Wrigley numerous times as a kid. 
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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,803
    Poncier said:
    Get_Right said:
    So in February 1979 my grandmother took me and my younger brother to the Concord hotel in the catskills (now a Resorts). My brother and I were playing ping pong in a game room and who walks in? Bucky Dent. It was right after he hit the home run against the Red Sox. He played ping pong with us for about a half hour and I asked for an autograph addressed to my mom because she had a crush on him and I hated the Yankees. When she passed I went through her jewelry box and in the very bottom, low and behold, the Bucky Dent personalized autograph. We still have it.  
    Did his signature include his middle name "Fuckin"?
    That's what he became here after that pop up HR... Bucky Fuckin' Dent.

    LOL! My ass has spent some time at Fenway. Even behind the right field pole more than a few times. As much as I was mad at him as a wise ass a punk kid Red Sox fan, he was kind, polite and generous with his time for a couple of kids. Spent some time with us. Imagine how many Sox fans have told me over the years. You played ping pong with Bucky Dent and you live in New York? EFF you!

    And for thread integrity, probably around the same time as my first and only time I went to the Magic Kingdom. Mom got mad I was bored with the bear show and it's a small world. I kept getting in line for space mountain.

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