55 and 50 Party - Disneyland and Zlick!

[RStar]

Well Lash, you'll be visiting during the 60th anniversary, perhaps there will be much merriment to be had then. Do you know the month of your visit?

[LSPoorEeyorick]

We had a great time at the party, iSm - we were impressed (as always) by your marked eye for detail and decor. A celebration befitting the tandem excellence of the birthday park and the birthday boy. : )

[keith - SuPeR K!]

The past few days have been nothing short of amazing. I have to say thank you so very much to iSm for asking me to help out- I am deeply honored to have been part of this already infamous event, and I couldn't be happier with how everything turned out! (Bonita! Bonita! Bonita!) I feel so proud of what we accomplished It may seem like the entire moving in, setting up, and tearing down process was a ridiculous amount of work, but it was so much fun to experience first hand that I would hardly call it work... From beginning to end it was a crazy, amazing, fun, exciting, challenging, creative, insane, brilliant, swanky, completely satisfying, EPIC experience! Thank you to everyone who came and enjoyed themselves! You all looked wonderful and it was such a treat to see everyone so happy!!!

GO TEAM!

[innerSpaceman]

Wow. Just wow.


What a blow out! Thanks all for sharing in the ultimate swank fest. I had such a good time, and everything exceeded my beautiful expectations. I'm so pleased it appeared everyone had a grand old time, and this was indeed the most EPIC endeavor I have ever concocted.


What a fantastic bunch of friends I have. The showering of love was overwhelming and appreciated.


The manifestation of my Disneyland-homage design fest was thrilling to me as it sprung from mind to reality. Not quite finished one hour after the party started (!), it was 98% of what I envisioned, 8% beyond what I had envisioned - and, best of all, seemed to me to fulfill its objective as a squee-inducer to launch universal good feelings, good times, and geekasms. The Fifty Five Fifty Party was so unbelievably rad, and the following days and nights of Disneyland Birthday loungifying of tomorrow, and after-party of trippiness were amazing as well.


I'm glad I'll have a scar to always remind me of the fantasticness!



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While I'm so pleased that beauty, swankness, and fun galore sprang from my drawing board to the world - I somewhat regret the amount of toil and effort my insanity imposed on even a willing and beguiled crew of talented assistants.


Special thanks to keith - SuPeR K! and Omar for above-and-beyondness, start-to-finish participation and contributions that elevated you two to absolute co-hosts of this epic event.

OMG, you guys, you should have seen the high-speed and efficient coordination of the tear-down when the hotel graciously provided us a whole half-hour of extra check-out time to remove 98% of everything wonderful in that suite (only the rad 60's fireplace was original) and crammed it into a guest room one-80th the size across the hall. THIS WOULD HAVE FAILED if it were not for the Wolf Pack and their conscripted friends. OMG, the biggest thanks to you for saving the day.

(Off the board, my friends Randy and Mardeen and their boy Ryland from my Ren Faire days also helped tremendously with tear-down. Kelly, Mark and Duke also helped with set-up, as did Ginny - who also worked tear-down. Of course, my sister Leigh and her husband Richard did a big part of the set-up, and the "get-it" room that induced so many gasp reactions - the Pirate Lair - was almost exclusively their execution of my conception. Wow!)



And did I mention that Wow! is the word most in my mind? Tired is the word most in my soul. This was an exhausting enterprise for 50-year-old me, but what a 50th birthday it was.

Thanks again everyone! I hope all of you had a terrific time, and my suspicions that you did make it all worthwhile, and make me so.damn.happy!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Welcome Back, Kink of Swank!!

Ooh, tell us about the velvet rope gift! I saw you unwrapping it across the way but didn't get to look at it.

What other swank gifts did you get?? The few I saw were stellar.

[innerSpaceman]

Pfft, yours among the absolute best. The 50th Birthday Photo Collage worthy of display in Disneyland was the funniest, bestest thing ever. And the collectible figure? Well, how much longer do I have to decide? I want them all!!! Right now, I still want to go with Jungle Cruise Skipper. He's so cute!

[Kevy Baby]

Yeah, but what was the story behind the velvet rope gift (as CP refers to it - I only saw that it was something memorable to you but didn't hear the story)?

[innerSpaceman]

I haven't had time to read the plaque yet - but the shadow box with the velvet rope contains a swarth of cigarette-burned carpet and of course the velvet rope from none other than Grauman's Chinese Theater. They were swiped from a garbage bin behind the theater by my friend Peter (btw, here's his photos of the shindig) right after the first 6-week camp-out, line-up in Hollywood for the Star Wars prequels.

I had been a veteran of the original trilogy's line-ups in Hollywood, and joined this new group of fun kids for the next generation's follow-ups. Little did I know then that I'd be making more lifelong friends. But '99 was followed by 2002, and then 2005, and then our friendships continued to this day.

So Peter has hoarded this stuff in his garage, hoping some day to frame it for a special occasion. Wow!

I was so touched by this elegant and unusual momento of great times and the beginnings of wonderful friendships. The whole gang of them got together for the much more expensive part of framing the wonderful items ... and it was easily the best group gift of the night (ok, the only group gift of the night), and truly one of the most magnificent birthday gifts I have ever received.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

and truly one of the most magnificent birthday gifts I have ever received.

I'll say, what an inspired and personal gift that was!

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

Pfft, yours among the absolute best. The 50th Birthday Photo Collage worthy of display in Disneyland was the funniest, bestest thing ever.

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And the collectible figure? Well, how much longer do I have to decide? I want them all!!! Right now, I still want to go with Jungle Cruise Skipper. He's so cute!

Good question. Anyone know when the Kevin Kidney figures are released, all I've seen is "later this summer".

Paraphrase of the conversation after Steve learned that we will be gifting him one his choice of those figures when they are released:

Steve: Oh no, what a difficult choice! Because...

Me: ...the Tomorrowland one is the obvious choice thematically

Steve: Yes, but then...

Me: ...the Skipper is more your type

Steve: He's totally my type!


For the record, if they were already out and we had just gone and bought one, we would have bought the Skipper.

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by RStar

Well Lash, you'll be visiting during the 60th anniversary, perhaps there will be much merriment to be had then. Do you know the month of your visit?

I will be trying my hardest to talk the Stoat into July... Hmmm - the 60th... Maybe I'd better book the hotel room now.