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Fun Find Friday!

By Brent Dodge

May 18, 2012

Location: Africa, Disney's Animal Kingdom

Sometimes you will stumble across something in a Disney park that you will find hilarious. Most of the time it is a crazy sign, weird paint job, or, my favorite, bad puns. While most of the time you know Imagineers hid these treasures on purpose, other times you may question what they actually mean. Let's head over to the Harambe Train Station for today's Fun Find Friday (which cracks me up every time).

Just after passing through the turnstiles head towards the left load platform. While here you will find a bulletin board with several notifications, dealing with Harambe and the train station, posted. The one I want to focus on today is on the far right.

As you can see on the above notification, the train service has stopped going to Shabi, an actual place located in Zimbabwe. So what's the joke? I'd like to preface this by pointing out that this is my interpretation of it, and if the Imagineers put this up the way I think it's done then this is hilarious! We need a good ol' story time to realize how I got to this point.

So a little over a year ago I was studying like crazy for the D23 Scavenger Hunt. In the process I would travel to the parks, take loads of pictures, and then write trivia questions dealing with what I saw. I took a picture similar to the one above and turned the question into: "What location does the train no longer have service to?" The way I'd always answer the question was by saying, "Not to Shabi" (not too shabby). Not too shabby is a semi common slang phrase which fits perfectly with the location of Shabi in the fictional town of Harambe.

So who knows if that's what Imagineers wanted us to take away from the sign, but if it indeed was, that my friends was definitely not too shabby on their part!

 

May 11, 2012

Location: Storybook Circus, Magic Kingdom

That's right folks, we have entered Storybook Circus once again! It's amazing that an area that isn't even complete and is still relatively small has so many fun finds just waiting to be discovered. Today we are headed back to The Barnstormer as we take a little look at the history of Goofy!

When the Barnstormer used to be in Mickey's Toontown Fair the airplane was pretty basic and had no true story to it, besides being a crop duster:

While the new plane hasn't had a lot of upgrades, it has had an interesting addition to the back of the plane in the form of having both planes (yes, there are only two ride vehicles for The Barnstormer) by having both planes be numbered. What are the numbers? As you can see below 32 and 19. But what's the significance behind these two numbers?

So why are these two numbers so important? We need to go back to the Mickey Mouse short cartoon entitled Mickey's Revue. In the short Mickey is trying to put on a performance but one dog in the audience continues to laugh and laugh and laugh distracting everyone in the audience. Who was the dog? Dippy Dawg of course. Eventually Dippy Dawg would be renamed Goofy. Why is all of this important? The year the short cartoon debuted was 1932 (the two numbers found on the backside of the planes)!

 

Past Fun Find Fridays

Magic Kingdom

Main Street, USA
     - Now Casting
     - Let's try and stay on task
     - The Proprietor of the Emporium
     - The Vandals of Main Street
Adventureland
     - A Pirate's Life for Ye
     - Looking for movie gold!
Frontierland
     - Planet Hollywood of the West
Liberty Square
     - Two you must sea
Fantasyland
     - A Giant Surprise!
     - Hidden Mary Blair
     - Jousting for attention
     - Waking up Tinker Bell
Storybook Circus
     - What's your sign?
     - H2 oh Yeah!
     - Talk about your baggage
Mickey's Toontown Fair
     - Punny Book
Tomorrowland
     - 1401 - The Sequel!
     - Roger, Roger!
     - Want to grab a drink?
     - A Wonderful Place

Epcot

Future World
     - Cutting Edge or go with the flow?

     - Oh! There you are!
Future World East
     - The Car of the Future!
Future World West

     - The Center of the World
     - Dig a Little Deeper
     - Doors for the Imagination
     - In the big long line, you're gonna go explore!
American Adventure
     - It's Story time!

France
     - Tale as Old as Time...

United Kingdom
     - Write place, Write Time

Disney's Hollywood Studios

Animation Courtyard
     - And at last you see the light
     - Thanks for the Memories!
Echo Lake
     - Who is the Rocketeer?
     - Writing on the Wall
     - You've Got Mail
Hollywood Boulevard
     - What's in a name?
Pixar Place
     - Decoding the Message
Streets of America
     - It's time to light the lights...
     - Wait for it
Sunset Boulevard
    
- Break in case of Emergency
     - Don't be sad!
     - Drop on by!
     - Red Car
     - Special Delivery for Mr. Serling!

Disney's Animal Kingdom

Discovery Island
         - The creator of the Tree of Life
Africa
         - Cattle Call
Asia
         - Over where the sun Shrines
         - Where do I need to go?
Dinoland, USA
         - Translation please!
         - Parking is how much!?!?
         - Dinosaurs and Superheroes?
         - Need some travel advice?
Everywhere
         - A Dragon! A Dragon! I swear I saw a Dragon!

Downtown Disney

Marketplace
     - Check it out you blockhead!
Pleasure Island
     - Not just a walkway!
D-Street
     - Who is the fairest one of all?

Resorts

Beach and Yacht Club
     - Keep your drawers on!
     - This one won't life you up
Contemporary
     - Watch out!
Pop Century
     - Looking at Pops

Walt Disney World

Everywhere
     - 1401
     - Plane Crazy
     - Safety begins with ye
     - Stairs to Where?
     - Transportation Cards

Disneyland
     - Coke Corner

Disney Cruise Line

Disney Fantasy
     - Don't walk all over me!


Walt Disney Studios

Lot
     - Crossroads of the World











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