“Have you seen the new planters at Tomorrowland?”

[fj]

Benji explains that every square inch of Disneyland has its own obsessives. There are people solely devoted to Ron Miller, the man who plays ragtime piano in Refreshment Corner at the end of Main Street. There is one woman who comes to the park every day and just rides the Indiana Jones™ Adventure over and over. Its crew gave her a crystal bowl to commemorate her thousandth time. There are Haunted Mansion people, Matterhorn people. Benji and his closest friends don’t focus on one attraction, though; they are generalists, they like everything at the park.

“Walt and his Imagineers wanted to control you — what you feel, what you see, what you think.” Exactly, I think — that’s what’s so evil about the place. But Doug continues. “That’s what people want. That’s what I like: the complete illusion. Unlike, say, Universal. They have the streets of London, but inside it’s generic shopping interiors. Here, the bank on Main Street is an actual bank.” He describes Main Street when it first opened. There was a real butcher shop, a real post office. Walt wanted to create a real world, a better world.

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[that-dang-otter.livejournal.com]

I prefer to switch the kitchen on and off for hours at a time. Far less expensive, and almost as entertaining.

Uggghhhh... this whole thing makes want to take a long, cold shower.

[shanynrose.livejournal.com]

Tomorrowland's landscaping features edible plants. Beautiful, but depressing in a way. I mean, last year we went and they had all these pepper plants, only the peppers had been allowed to overgrow and had split open. Such picture-perfect producing plants, and they can't use what the plants grow and they can take them out and switch them on a whim.

I didn't see the peppers when we went two weeks ago, but I think I remember seeing some peach trees :)