On the importance of attraction names
 

So I'm at lunch with my whole department yesterday when conversation (through no fault of my own) turned towards Disney. One coworker, "M", was discussing his recent visit to DCA. He turns to another coworker, "W", and says, "Yeah, well you told me that Hollywood Hotel thing isn't scary." W, initially confused about what attraction he was talking about, eventually remembers the conversation and looks surprised. "You were scared by that?" They go back and forth for a while, I'm laughing all the time.

Then, during the back and forth, someone mentions DCA again, and W says, "Wait, that's not in the California place. I've never been to the California thing." M says, "But you told me about that ride and said it wasn't scary." W: "I was talking about the one in Disneyland, you know, that ghost...haunted..." At this point I step in, "The Haunted Mansion?" "Yeah, that one."

So apparantly W told M that the Haunted Mansion isn't scary, M shows up and decides that it was ToT that W was talking about. Hillarity ensues.

Ah, small brained people....

Hmm, both of these folks are rather intelligent. Just a bit of miscommunication between people who don't know either park as well as most of us do.

That's what I ment. I was being a t-i-c egotist. :)

This is what needs to be done: someone must make a DL map with the actual attraction names replaced by the common incorrect name. The Haunted House, Star Wars... I can see the t-shirt already.

I like the Pirate ride.

Sigh...My mother in law, who goes to DL three or four times a year, still calls BTMRR, "Runaway Mine Train." :rolleyes:

I like Disneyland Resort's Grand Canyon Hotel... the last time I was there, I saw Mickey the Mouse.
:D

I still get email from people asking me if I know that the Country Bears are gone. Up until it reopened I had people asking me if I knew that Space Mountain was closed.

When the subs open in the summer there are going to be a fair number of people who visit the park and are unaware that they were ever gone.

It is good to be reminded occasionally that for most people the fact that I could probably name the proper name for every attraction, store, and dining location at the Disneyland Resort is just as pointless and geeky as being able to name the on base percentage for every player on the 1983 Seattle Mariners.

Hmm, I wouldn't go as far as saying it's just as pointless. My above example alone is enough to show that being able to accurately identify an attraction has some practical usefulness (and would have saved my poor coworker quite the fright).