Nice pod cast

"Jared T" tipped us off to this pod cast from MiceCast.com

It's an honor that they chose to focus on "Mesa Verde Times". Many thanks to them.

Good stuff through and through. I like the fact that they use foul language and aren't afraid to to voice their opinions. They call Chief and I "Ballsy" 37 times as well.

The one thing that we need to make clear is that Horizons was NEVER empty. Some of our pics and video may make it seem that way but Future world was always slow later in the evening. Horizons was so busy that sometimes we didn't get a "gap" and had to go home empty handed.

Good show from Micecast and I plan to listen to all of their casts.


http://www.micecast.com

Happy Birthday Dear Davey Part 1.5

Here's a panorama we took without a flash. It's cool but it hardly documents the scene.

You'll soon be treated to another "Hoot and Chief True Life Action Comic" all about how Chief found his way into this scene and how his Grandmother's closet door revealed a secret.

Happy Birthday Dear Davey Pt 1

The Space Colony Birthday scene! One of the coolest in Horizons but almost impossible to photograph! The slanted windows (used to achieve the Peppers Ghost effect) completely enclosed the room leaving no visible way "in". We tried to get pics with a flash, without a flash etc but all we ever got were crummy pics like this one. It looks like a grenade just went off behind the couch! One way or another we were going to get in there. We did:)

The actual figures that made up the Hologram effect were located directly above your ride vehicle. If you held your camera way out and pointed it upward you could get some pretty good shots of these half body animatronic figures. Still it was random and you never knew what you were going to get. We made up our minds to get up there. We did:)

Athene Computer

Try our new search engine! It's powered by a 2086 Athene Home Computer and can help you find specific things within our blog. It's fun.

More kick ass art!

This stuff ROCKS ROCKS ROCKS! Old school WDW fans unite and if you have a baby, get it that "Now is the Time" onesy!!!

Incredibly cool designs that are now endorsed by Hoot and Chief!

http://www.zazzle.com/cousinorville

Again.....

If you ever want to contact Chief and I, our email is:

mesaverdetimes@gmail.com

By all means drop us a line or two!

Happy Birthday

Happy 26th Birthday Horizons! We love you and you'll always be here with us!

-Hoot and Chief

The Time We Were Chased Part Two

The exciting conclusion of "Hoot and Chief True Life Adventure Comics"!



The Time We Were Chased Part Two.



Our heroes are in a tricky spot! They're being pursued by some mean people and need to get their stuff and get out!








It was worth a try. At least we could get our video cameras.





We were ready to go.

We were only 10 cars behind our pursuers!



We waited and waited for Mesa verde.

Finally we had passed the Harvester scene and could hear the sounds of the Kitchen. Time to go.


We made a break for the secret cave to the left of the cat and fish vignette. The following is a map of where our hide out was (base camp), just below the kitchen and ride vehicles.

We were reunited with our electronic devices!

We decided to crawl to the Harvester scene and check out the ride's status. We went between the background painting and the model groves.

YES!!!!!!!!!!!

They had given up the chase! They couldn't find us and gave the go ahead to let people ride! There was one more problem.

Chief was all for it. We were pretty sure that the guests who were about to plainly see us wouldn't know what was going on and even if they did tell, we'd be half way home by the time anyone responded.

So we did it. Nothing to worry about, folks!

We weren't out of the woods yet.

That might seem pretty stupid but it's all we had. So we did it!

At unload there were 3 or 4 employees. No maintenance man. The employees gave us looks like they suspected we were the ones behind the mischief. The girl snickered when she told us to have a good night.

FUCK! IT WORKED!!! A couple of people tried to tell on us but we just kept on walking.

We simply blended into the crowd and left the park. We went straight home and drank beer with Sunnycide and watched our evenings video offerings.

-The End

The Time We Were Chased Part One

You all know by now that we MUST have been detected at least once. Well it happened for sure. Here's a little comic strip of how it went down. I'm no artist, folks, but this should do. here's the True Life Adventure.

Once upon a time we were walking behind the cars in Horizons. We'd gotten too comfortable with it.

We came across a FAT maintenance man!

Good Lord! He was waiting for the ride to close so he get busy sleeping.

He turned his flashlight on us and gave us chase! We were skinny and could run like rabbits!Chief remembered a door we had used many times. It led to the "Future from the 50's" scene. We were actually in the Sea Castle scenes.

In an act of pure brilliance Chief locked the door! This gave us plenty of time to find a hiding place.

We walked underneath the "Easy living" scene to find our trusted hiding place.

Here's the layout of "the Hole's: location. Imagine the Easy Living scene. Our "hole" was a square of the background painting cut away like a doggy door revealing an unfinished room. I don't know how we originally found it but we had been there several times since.

We were fucked...

After some time we heard the ride system fire up and the audio got louder.

I snuck out to the edge of the Easy Living set....

They were riding through looking for us!!!!!!!!!!

We had to get crafty and QUICK!

Do they make it out of there alive!!!!!!!!!? Find out in the next issue "The Time We got Chased Part Two"!

111

I can't believe we have 111 "Last of the Cool people". We thank every one of you.

Back to Nova Cite

The Grandparents only really like three people in their extended family. The red head grand daughter, their Captain Nemo son in law, and a baby. Is that Davey who lives in space? Who's kid was that a picture of? Some Imagineer or maybe a bean counter at Disney? Is that child REALLY 27-28 years old now? Why is Hoot Gibson so damned handsome?

 

No offense to the sculptors at Disney but you have to admit those Animatronic figures look nothing like the actors themselves. Not even the baby, who was a direct copy of the baby in "The Home of Future Living" at the Magic Kingdom. I hate to even question their skills but I'm curious. Would they have to pay the actors more for an exact likeness? Hmmmm...

Early Catwalk Adventures

Here are some shots from our early catwalk adventures. I think this was actually during our first "extended stay" adventure. And of course it was very dark up there in the catwalk area and we didnt have super-night-vision cameras, but I still think Hoot got some great shots here.

I remember these trips being particularly exciting because we were finally free to just explore, without the rush of the jump-out, get shots, jump-back-in trips. And we were finally able to make it to areas that we were just not able to get to before, and so it was almost like xmas morning opening presents feeling, such as when we finally saw where those models were, just hanging right there upside down in front of us. :)

Original Art

Now we're talkin'! Check out these awesome Horizon's/EPCOT Center based original works of art! One of our fine readers, Jenn, rendered these masterpieces on canvas and I'm blown away. Check out the entire collection:


http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=30927787

PS If you own a Monet throw it in the lake and replace it with with some Flavor Grapes!

One more Mesa Model

"Horizons FX 63". One look says it all.