Concourse B

Concourse "B" was to the right of the sign. I hope nobody went in there! I did once and I saw the frozen corpses of those who worked for Imagineering and had good ideas. Yep. Ugly sight.

Concourse "A" on the other hand...........

Close-up departure

A closer view of the right side. I'm not going to post all of the pics I took of this sign for now. I'll post all of them at the end though. Like I said, there are so many similar shots out there so I'll save mine for a massive bundle when I run out of material.

Speaking of that, I have posted 119 of my personal pictures so far not counting what Chief posted or the pics I grabbed from ebay. 119 and, folks, and we aren't even close to the end:)

Now departing

I like it when I saw this sign for the first time because I love airports. That's right, Hoot Gibson LOVES airports. I'd marry an airport if I could.

The most photographed thing in Horizons

This was my only pic on the Departure sign prior to having some supernatural fire lit under my ass. It's not a BAD shot for film because you can still make out the destinations. Where do you think Villa-Du-mer was? I don't know but you could get there either by sky train or sea train! Figure that one out.

Over the years MANY pictures of this sign have surfaced. I keep a file of downloaded Horizons pics that I started in '98 and this element takes the cake. I'm glad for it because it was beautiful. It reminds me of "If You Had Wings" which had a similar blinking destination chosen for you.

This rocks

I made something

Chief and I wanted a hot version of the Desert Farm chick as our mascot. I thought I'd try my hand at it and it evolved into a shirt design. Presenting the Official Mesa Verde Times shop of Tomorrow!

The Foyer

Remember how tranquile this area was? The music kicked in, your eyes adjusted, you could see your own legs in the mirror, Hoot and Chief could see your legs telling them it was time to ride.......

Thank You

I'd like to thank our new friends for the kind words and I hope you enjoy this thing called "Mesa Verde Times".

There have been some new questions as to how and why did this. For the new people, just start at the beginning and read on.

10+ years ago when we did this we had NO idea that someday we would share it all and that so many people would enjoy it. This has been incredible so far and we're not even close to being finished!

THANK YOU HORIZONS FANS!

Turn the wrong way.

If you turned the wrong way you were either drunk or in a wheelchair. That's the wheelchair door over there but I really did see a drunk guy go that way once.

No, the drunk guy was NOT me.

I went to the end once and found some sort of office and a restroom to the left. The foul stench of minimum wage hung heavy in the air. I felt like a little bunny rabbit who had wandered into a dog pen where mean, smelly, low paid dogs lay thirsty to ruin our fun.

To the right was the wheelchair entrance into the load area.

POW!

A blast of orange scented AC hits you right in your FACE!!! You're also greeted with the message that is the mantra of this holy place. A message that will guide you through the realms of tomorrow that lay within. A message that will transform your stupid ass into a thoughtful, caring, sharing, human being ready to help build a better world for the future!

Back out front

Ok let's follow these nice people back inside.

The Magic Paint Brush

Remember this post I made back in May? It had a shot of a ride vehicle maintenance room we had found when we were exploring the catwalks on one of our "extended visits". Well here is a video clip of that room, I know its short, but would you really want to watch five minutes of this?

I have no idea if this was the only room that provided access to the top of the vehicles, but its the only one we found during our catwalk exploration. And if I recall correctly, I dont think we visited this room more than once, we thought it was cool when we found it, but after that we were like what is there really to see here?

Story time

Story time with Uncle Hoot:


Chief and I were coming close to the end of our adventures and equaly close to our beloved ride closing down. How would we end this adventure? We thought of a million cool ideas. Here are a few:

1. We were going to pick one omnimover car just behind us and load it full of every prop we could move. Chairs, lamps, anything not nailed down. Imagine what the cast members would have thought when all of this SHIT came to unload! HAHA.

2. We were going to spend the day running naked through the scenes until we got arrested.

3. We wanted to carry Super Soakers in with us and drench any and all guests just as they rounded the "Scuba Class" into the undersea area. How cool would that have been? Just like you were going under water!

Ah......to do it all again.

Cool little sign

I liked this sign. I also like the fact that "Test Track" still looks like World of Motion from this angle.