Mesa Verde wallpaper

This is my current wallpaper:)Zoom in on the pool and tennis courts.

Mesa Verde Detail

I love the painting behind the model showing life in Mesa Verde! As with the rest of the art in Horizons the detail simply floors me. Lorange juice on the veranda! I don't care what they teach you in Sunday school, Heaven looks exactly like this!

Model Citizens

I don't feel like going in order today so let's visit this fascinating piece! Here we have the kick ass model of the Pegasus! These awesome "Holograms" were seen just before you chose your ending. Some of you may remember that this pic wasn't scanned upside down but that the model hung this way to achieve the effect. This illusion was a direct descendant of the Space Mountain entry corridor effects (Keep watching "Pirates of the Magic Kingdom" for more on Space Mountain)

Glorious Chief

Bored with waiting for the gap, Chief puts on some monkey shines for the camera:)

Expanding

Hey, Horizons fans! Sorry for the slow down, Chief and I were working out the details on what will be our masterpiece blog "Pirates of the Magic Kingdom". Here you'll be able to follow our COMPLETE series of adventures ranging from July 1986 to the present. The people we've met, the things we've seen, the rides we've found ourselves in..........

"El Rio Del Tiempo" deserves it's own blog so we've made that too.

Click on my profile and join up!

Your attention please...

The Magic Kingdom Fantasyland upgrade DOES NOT include an updated version of Horizons.

More Entry Area Fun

So here we are again, waiting for a gap to get in. And for whatever reason Hoot decided to film alot of the wait, which at the time may have seemed odd or even a waste of tape. But now, some 11 years later, I am Happy for every second of video that we have. It really helps me 'go back in time' and relive these awesome adventures we had.

Excellent fan art!

Horizons fan Zac Tredway created this AWESOME piece of art that truley captures the essence of our favorite attraction! Well done, Mr Tredway, well done.

A special treat....

One of our fans known only as "Sweet C" sent us these mouth watering pics! "Sweet C" says "I'd like them to be preserved on your blog along with your amazing material". Our pleasure!



The chicks turbin from the Sea Castle Restaurant scene!


Could this be the smoking jacket of Mr Easy Living himself?! I'm getting dizzy!


I can't breath......... a kid sized wet suit! My guess is that it belonged to the little girl whos hands where on her lap. (hence the holes)


THE BOOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THE GD BOOOOOOOT!


Jules Verne's jacket! I need oxygen and quick!


A white boot! Who did it belong to?? Mom in the shuttle scene? A member of "ABBA"?


The Asian girl of Sea Castle?


SCUBA GEAR!!!!!!! My HEART STOPPED!


This is simply amazing! This kick ass patch would have lost forever! Look at it!


The space suit worn by that guy on the grid thingy....in...I'm blacking out....

"Sweet C"......a million thanks. You have now earned the Hoot and Chief Achievemnt award. This stuff is just incredible.

Waiting For The Gap

Here is a short clip to go along with the recent photos that Hoot has been posting. A little exterior shot during the daytime, and then a little bit in the queue area. We are waiting for 'the gap' of course, and as you hear me say, it was usually the only unpleasant part of our adventures. We wanted to get inside the ride, not hang around in the queue area all day. :)

Hoot is showing how we would use the mirrors in the entry hallway to let us know when someone was entering the door. So generally we would be down in the lower part, with myself watching the load belt and counting cars, and Hoot standing in a good spot that he can see the mirrors so he could tell when someone had just walked in the door. If I had counted enough empty cars and there was no one walking in the door, then we would know we had a decent gap of empty cars surrounding us for our ride. Make sense? :)

Anyway, hope everyone has a great labor day weekend, enjoy!

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.