To answer some questions...
Heya, thanks for all the compliments on the shots... I just took as many as I could possibly take, and culled out the fairly decent ones. There were a lot of bad shots, as the camera I was using is fairly limited in dark situations..
As to what happened on the Splash Mountain ride: The boats all jammed up on the turn just before heading into the closing sequence with the paddle boad and the gators and all that fun stuff. We sat there for about 15 minutes, and everyone was drumming on the logs and singing, it was so fun! There were about 6 logs jammed up on each other. Then the CMs came and got us out of the logs and walked us along the side, and instead of taking us out through the nearest exit, they walked us the rest of the way through the ride!!!! All of the sound was off, and the figures were all still moving and going through their motions, so it was too cool.
I got my pics with the gators, and then as I went to pass Brer Rabbit, a CM said "Here, give me your camera" and took my pic with Him! She said that is was the least she could do for me after all that wait (which actually was really fun). Then, we walked backstage and through the catacombs and the alley in between the ride and some other building, and out through the emergency exit right next to the regular exit.
I have video of the entire event, from getting stuck to getting out of the logs to walking through the ride! Everything! It was sooooo cool. I am so sad to be back home, but I think that I am going again soon in the off-season, this time with my girlfriend. It was fun with dad, of course, but there was just something missing without her there. She's really cool.
Any more questions, and I will be glad to answer. As to the main question,
"When will you post the video?", I have to answer this way: I am not sure how to edit it, or what I should allow to be shown, or where I would show it. I want to make sure that everything would be okay with Disney and the moderators of this site, so it is being worked on even as we speak. The backstage part is okay, but the coolest part is without a doubt the video of me walking through the ride with all of the AA characters right next to me. I will let you know what's up very soon, but as I said, there are certain issues that would have to be considered before posting anything in video format.
Keep the comments coming, there are sooooo many things that I could tell you about the trip.... Like when a CM shut the front doors of Haunted Mansion and let me take a solo trip so that I could take video... It was soooooo creepy, I was locked in the lobby, all alone for like 5 minutes with the freezing air conditioning running, and that music, WHOAH! Gave me the willies. The video is fairly good, too, not as good as RU's, but I did it all in nightshot (I had to cover up the IR lamp because the CM's hollered at me to turn off my lamp on the 1st day I was there).
Have a good one, talk to you soon.
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