Mousecellaneous - a thread to share non-DLP related posts

[BRobson]

Seems to be very quiet at the moment - everyone must be in Disney. I am trying to plan my next escape Choices, choices

 

[Cyrano]

Seems to be very quiet at the moment - everyone must be in Disney. I am trying to plan my next escape Choices, choices

That funny. Diane who is more sensible than the rest of us said tonight " I know I may regret this. But last time we got 3 trips out of our APs"

Guess who is trawling the web for ideas and thoughts.

Just wish Eurotunnel was closer

 

[BRobson]

That funny. Diane who is more sensible than the rest of us said tonight " I know I may regret this. But last time we got 3 trips out of our APs"

Guess who is trawling the web for ideas and thoughts.

Just wish Eurotunnel was closer

Do you prefer to take the Eurotunnel to flying?

I just want to go back at Halloween before our Annual Passes run out as we are planning a big WDW trip next year. If British Airways pay out maybe I can do both

 

[milomummy]

Hello hello hello!
I've been back 'home' to the UK for a long weekend, made it through the torture that was dh's brother's wedding, almost avoided all of the swiping nasty comments his mother makes (long story there!) and made it back home to Germany relatively unscathed! Stansted airport was a nightmare, the security checks took so long that we literally had to run to the gate in order to make our flight, that was with arriving extra early!
I did get to see my family briefly which was lovely, got to see the HUGE bump that will (very soon) be my little niece. And of course, I got to shop too! As much as I like living here in Germany there is no substitute for the familiarity of UK shops, especially Tescos. Only trouble was, because we were flying we were very limited to what we could bring back, sob.
5 weeks today and we'll be driving to disney...hopefully we'll be well on our way, I'm soooooooooooooooooo excited.
Now then, I'm off to continue the arduous chore of washing, one of the bad things about having been away. Then after dh has finished playing golf, we're going off to Heide Park (German equivalent to Alton Towers) to get some 'theme park excitement'.
TTFN xx

 

[Cyrano]

New route! Glasgow to Paris from only £21.99

easyJet are pleased to announce from the 29th October 2007, we will be flying from Glasgow to Paris from only £21.99

Shame it is not Aberdeen but makes a short trip a lot easier

 

[wendybird7]

Hi guys,

I saw a video last night and checked out DLRPMagic for info on this ride.....Oh my god, I love my rollercoasters and my thrills but this one looks terrifying!!

Who is going to brave it?

6 of us are going in January so I hope at least a couple of my friends will come on with my just for the effects alone - does anyone know if it will be open the 14th-17th? It says on DLRPmagic that there are soft openings from late December so I have my fingers and toes crossed!

Seriously though, the video I seen on youtube was an onride one, and there was a guy SCREAMING for the whole 45 seconds it laste - 'NOOOOOOOOO, GOD NOOOOOOOOO', and the 7 year old girl (cannot have been any older) next to him was sitting quietly, quite the thing!

So excited about going - there's going to be THREE new rides which is such a treat

so yes...thoughts on this terrifying ride - has anyone been on the WDW or California one?

 

[BrerVixen]

I have been on the WDW one, it's amazing, it's not scary, more eerie, as the theming is so encapsulating.

The drop is fun, and no more scary (for me) than a normal rollercoaster drop

It's definatly worth a try!

 

[meeko cat]

I have been on the WDW one


Theming good and views at the top fantastic but I screamed like a baby and

only done it the once.

My older 2 kids LOVE it and go on as much as they can each trip we

have done. on the ride photos they always look like theyre having fun.

In Dec the aim is for me to try it again and my DS 9 and DH are going to do it

for the first time.......maybe my last

 

[Flossbolna]

I have been on both the WDW and California ToT. I am very much afraid of heights and just the idea of a falling ride made me sooo nervous! I went on it just because I was to proud to chicken out of it and hated it after the first ride! However my friend wanted to get back on immediately and once again I did not want to admit what a chicken I was and got on it a second time (and I was already over 30 at that time). But ever since that second ride ToT has been one of my overall favourite Disney rides!

It is a bit less scary if you sit in the back row on a seat next to the wall. The wall has a really nice bar to hold on to! However, there are actually small hand rails to hold on between the seats, and I recommend holding on to those for your first ride.

I actually like the WDW version better as the elevator car also travels horizontally. I think it is the overall better ride experience. But I think Paris will get the California version, which still is a great ride!

 

[Cyrano]

We've been watching ToT on youtube, which I think is the WDW version.
DD and DS can't wait to try this one out.
Are there height restrictions on the ride

 

[Bexx]

Are there height restrictions on the ride

Yes it's 40" / 102 cms

 

[astrodrummergirl]

Just thought I'd share these DLRP based userbars with you guys, hope you like them. There's a few more come.

Also, if anyone has anymore ideas for some, they are much appriechiated

 

[Cyrano]

Just thought I'd share these DLRP based userbars with you guys, hope you like them. There's a few more come.

These are great. Shame that I've maxed out my signature entitlement here

 

[Cyrano]

Not the type of story anyone wants to read about, but good to read that he was apprehended

PARIS (Reuters) - French police have detained a man who admitted sprinkling itching powder on young children at the Disneyland theme park near Paris and filming them as they scratched themselves, a judicial source said on Wednesday.

The 50-year-old was arrested on Sunday after a German tourist spotted him sprinkling her 11-year-old niece's underwear with itching powder, the source said.

A police search of the man's home later revealed a hoard of child pornography on his computer, and child porn DVDs and video footage hidden in a secret compartment in his bathroom.

The source said the videos included sequences of the suspect raping one of his nieces, and of a series of sexual assaults on other minors.

The man, who admitted the offences, according to the source, was placed under formal investigation on Monday and released on conditions that included an order to seek treatment.

He faces up to 20 years in prison if convicted of raping a minor and 10 years for aggravated sexual assault on minors.

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1244122007

 

[milomummy]

What a terribly sad world we live in

 

[NIK]

Can anyone advise me re camcorders??? Not strictly a DLRP query I know but I'm planning to take a camcorder with me next time I go! so I hope you'll forgive the tenuous link.

I'm clueless when it comes to these things - what kind of camcorders do other DISers use? Am I better to go for one of the DVD based or a Tape based Camcorder? Does anyone have any recommendations for one to use filming at night - I'm hoping to get footage of Fantillusion if it is running when I go next time.

I'm looking for something really simple [like me! ] so I'm not forever fiddling with instruction books when the dog's doing something cute.

You know how it is - they do something GUARANTEED to get you £250 on You've been Framed but by the time you've fought to get the thing out of the bag, switched it on and faffed about with it the crittur has got bored and wandered off.

All suggestions gratefully received

 

[Cubitus]

I have a Panasonic NV-GS230EG (MiniDV), bought in 2005, but not using it so often.

I remember having a hard time to decide between MiniDV (small tape cassettes) and mini-DVD recording. The big advantage on the latter is easy handling of mini DVD media. Just finisch your recording, put it in your PC, and you're done. MiniDV tapes first have to be copied to the PC. You should consider what you gonna do with the recordings. Just show them instantly or do all the clipping and cutting (then the advantage of "instant PC use" might get less important).

For whatever reasons I decided to get MiniDV anyway (in 2005 there were just super expensive or "beta phase" DVD camcorders available).

Mine has been not too pricey, got 3CCD which means you got triple of the resolution, optical zoom, but only electronic stabilisation (optical stabilisation is meant to be much better, could make a difference when filmind on rides etc, but as soon as you try to film RnR Coaster I guess it's completely unimportant which kind of stabilisation your camcorder had when being catapulted out of the cars *lol*)

All the controls are pretty easy to use. I looked at some touchscreen camcorders (I think from Sony), but I think the concept of touchscreen is nonsense on camcorders (way too fiddly, you shouldn't wear gloves etc.). Mind got a joypad thingie, just 4 directions and a OK button, and it's even useable without using the TFT screen.

Mine got also a night mode which I never tried, and a quick record button which is nice to do instant recordings, BUT you'll need to have the device in some standby state which will need considerable amounts of power. There may be better features to have the corder ready whenever dog starts to be cute...

Just my 5 cent, and, oh, board admin, you might edit the thread to have a more detailed topic (NIK, it's always good to use a descriptive topic after all :)

Cheers
Oliver ••••

 

[Ware Bears]

OMG thank goodness he has been caught.

 

[Flossbolna]

Hi Oliver, love it that you are eating your ears instead of earning them!

 

[Ware Bears]

Nikki, we bought our first camcorder last year and we didn't have a clue either. We went round a couple of shops asking questions and read loads online ~ in the end we bought a mini DV tape one as the DVD ones were still too expensive (in our opinion) for a first camcorder, especially if we didn't take to it. We bought it online too, it was over £500 in the shops but we paid just a little over £300.

Ours has got nightshot mode which I used for Fantillusion last summer ~ it is crystal clear but the colours are a little lacking so when I filmed SpectroMagic (the night-time parade at WDW) earlier this year I just used normal mode. The end result maybe isn't quite so sharp but all the colours are still vibrant and I am very pleased with it. I still haven't got around to doing any editing but a friend who has assures me it's very easy.

Hope this helps.