This man is old enough to have voted for Roosevelt in 1944! (I assume he voted Democrat)
Did you recently become a father? Because that was one of the better dad jokes.
Miss Frizzle: “Okay kids, put on your rain coats and hold on tight!”
“It had the virtue of having never been tried.” - Admiral Kirk
I came in here expecting Riker Trombone.
When you go into a place that feels haunted your skeleton is just connecting to the local WiFi.
The rhino with the hat is what got me. Little background details like that are what make Larson a genius.
“This movie forced us to update our site’s code to account for decimals in the rating system.”
Also the One Piece universe.
At least they used the correct armor.
It irks me when they use the armor from Halo 2 or the remastered game to represent Combat Evolved.
I don’t think the facts match the claim, but I completely agree with the sentiment.
For years, the ‘legit’ consumer has had to deal with ad interruptions and bad UI and service disruptions and having media removed from their library. Something that pirates don’t even have to think about. The music revolution that Jobs and Apple created with iTunes, which allowed people to just buy music and just own it and just use it however they want (no DRM) with an ease that made piracy look difficult and seem too risky to bother, never came for TV or movies or books or any other media category.
And now the streaming revolution has all but undone that progress as well. You don’t own anything, a company decides when you have or lose access to something, and even if you pay money for access you are still advertised to and your data is still sold off.
I don’t care if this is fake, KFC & Volkswagen stock would go through the roof.
It cannot be overstated how limited budgets led to some of the best writing on TV. And this episode is one of the best-written in the entire franchise.
It's also my absolute favorite shot of Uhura:
Ensign Skippy was getting a little too political, so Uhura replaced him and fired the death blow against the Romulan Bird of Prey. And she just leans back and takes it in during this dolly shot of the bridge. Stone Cold.
Social media post on Mastodon by Dan Moren.
It reads, “ My son just got me out of talking to a door-to-door cable salesman so I guess parenthood was all worth it.”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/19524185
Ol yellow eyes is rule
(Just a stock photo, but at least it's green.)
“WHO IS IN HERE??”
Next month, The Search will be 30 years old.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18821978
This is probably going to be the best picture I ever take of Cinderella's Castle. That morning was cold and wet, then the clouds disappeared and the sun lit everything up in a way you don't often see.
Taken by me in 2017, before the castle got repainted in 2020.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18317484
(Sorry, maxso216, but this is truly the shortest functional train line in Japan.)
The DisneySea Electric Railway is a 2-station line coming in at less than half a kilometer in total length (0.48km). Even at the relaxed 15kph speed of the trains, it only takes two and a half minutes to traverse the entire line. The line runs between the American Waterfront and Port Discovery areas of Tokyo DisneySea. It also has what must be the smallest fleet of rolling stock of any line in Japan; Four two-car sets, of which only two or three sets are in operation at any given time. (Fewer sets than even the Tokyo Disney Resort Line monorail.)
A trivial oddity about the trains is their numbering system. Which initially appears to not be a system at all. All eight cars of the four train sets have a unique (yet random) car number, and the set pairs are never separated from each other. The only discernible pattern with the car numbers is that the final digit in each number seems to represent in which order the sets were commissioned:
Set #1) 5591 & 1111
Set #2) 1022 & 2842
Set #3) 1783 & 5593
Set #4) 0214 & 4824Set #1 traversing the elevated tracks over American Waterfront:
The origin of the train sets are a bit of mystery. Their manufacturer is not known. Since the beginning of operation in 2001, the DisneySea Electric Railway has been sponsored by Takara Tomy - A Japanese toy company that makes functioning toy train sets, including replicas of the trains on the DisneySea Electric Railway.
Sign over the American Waterfront Station entrance:
It is possible that the train sets were designed and built by WED themselves as simply another park attraction, or possibly by Kyosan Kogyo Co. Ltd. which manufactured the sets used on the Western River Railroad in Tokyo Disneyland. The DisneySea Electric Railway sets are modeled to resemble some of the elevated streetcars used in what became the New York City subway system at the turn of the 20th century.
Preserved Brooklyn Union streetcar at the New York City Transit Museum, WikipediaAll four sets have been in service since Tokyo DisneySea opened on September 4th, 2001. Apart from having air conditioners installed in 2015, there have been no notable improvements to the trains themselves.
Is the DisneySea Electric Railway an actual train line? Yes. In addition to having two stops which allows the line to be used by park guests to easily get from one side of the park to the other, the line falls under the jurisdiction of Japan's transit authority. Despite being on private land and requiring admission to the park to use, DisneySea Electric Railway must adhere to the same standards as any other public train line.
Set #2 arriving at Port Discovery Station:
When Tokyo Disneyland was built and opened in 1983, the Western River Railroad was purposefully designed to have only one stop and run in a loop that sent riders back to where they started to avoid a law that required charging a train fare and that a departure schedule be posted and followed by the line's operators. This decision made it another attraction, rather than a functional line like the Disneyland Railroad in Anaheim. This particular law was abolished in 1987, allowing DisneySea Electric Railway to function as an actual line with destinations without needing to follow those rules.
(This is my first attempt at a long form post here, let me know how I did. All pictures are by me unless noted.)
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