Dinner Show Review- Pirates Dinner Adventure in Buena Park

Dinner Show Review- Pirates Dinner Adventure in Buena Park, Califonria.

 Another in our series of Dinner Show Reviews. It has been a long while since any of the team indulged in the simple fun of Dinner Shows, so on our recent trip to California we decided it was time once again to check them out.

Pirates Dinner Adventure only has one other location, in Orlando, Florida, where we had seen the show in the past. The Buena Park location is the original and so much is different from the Orlando location, plus it seems to show has received some new upgrades (again, compared to the previous version we saw in Orlando).

Location: Buena Park, California
When: March 13th, 2014
Price: $59.95 for Adults and $36.95 for Children
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Overall Rating: Very Good
Food Rating: Good
Entertainment Rating: Very Good
Recommendation:  Worth a Visit (mostly aimed at families and kids)
Website: Pirates Dinner Adventure

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Disneyland Paris- Accident on Pirates of the Caribbean

  Pirates of the Caribbean is an iconic ride found at every Disney Park across the globe.  However, this is news we don't much enjoy reporting.

 On October 31st, Halloween Day a boy was injured at Disneyland Paris. Having somehow fallen off their Pirates of the Caribbean attraction while riding. During his fall he was struck by an oncoming boat and pinned between the boat and the ride platform. It's unknown how the boy fell or what other events happened at the time of the accident.

 Reports state the boy "leaned back and fell off the boat" but personally, I'm finding that a bit hard to believe. I've ridden the Disney World version of Pirates several thousand times in my life and have enjoyed leaning back on the backs. Never once, even as a child, could I have fallen out without doing something stupid.

 Granted, the boats at Disneyland Paris appear slightly different from those of Disney World but I still have a rather hard time believing this story.

 Either way, we're sorry a child was injured. According to reports the five year old boy, Iban, is fighting for his life in a Paris hospital.  The UK Mail Online goes on to point out the various injuries and accidents which have happened at Disneyland Paris since it's opening.

 The Vice President of the EuroDisney group, Julien Kaufman stated the park is doing everything in it's power to 'work out what happened'. This makes me wonder why they simply didn't review the ride footage from the accident? At this time, the ride is now closed pending further investigation.

-All images from the UK Mail Online

All the Little Things- Late August Edition

All those little things...

It happens to everyone, you stumble upon those smaller articles that while really fun and interesting, just don't dictate an entire blog post. So here you go folks, the random posts from Google+ and Facebook! This is picking up from our later "All those little things.." post covering Mid and Late August News links.

 

 

**Disney World** D-Tech Me Princesses

Okay, it's a cute idea but there is something very creepy about it at the same time!

 

 **Seaworld Orlando**  Luau Ending

Seaworld Orlando has decided to end it's 30 year traditional luau this September 2012.

**Dinner Shows** Orlando- Camelot Knights

Seriously? SERIOUSLY?!
What the hell is this crap? The Florida Sunshine has officially fried the brain of Baross, the man behind Pirates Dinner Adventure because this has to be the dumbest damn idea I've ever heard!

**Hershey Park** Roller-Soaker for Sale

Apparently Hershey is getting rid of one of their more interesting "roller coasters" and I use that term very loosely.  These coasters never really took off as one would say, they've got a high maintenance cost and a low complicity.  With Roller-Soaker for sale, I wonder if something else new with quickly come to Hershey park?

 

**DisneyLand** Tomorrowland of '67

Imagineering Disney is doing an excellent series on the Original Attractions and Design of Disneyland'ss very own Tomorrowland! So stop over and take a look!

**Disney World** Fantasyland Expansion

It's been gearing up for months now with more and more hints of details of the new Fantasyland Expansion at Magic Kingdom leaking threw. Yet another piece on these details!

 

**Legoland Florida** They've lost their minds..

What do you get when you add up the Hottest August on Record, A water park and 4,000 pounds of ice? Legoland!

**Funny-As-Hell** Halloween Horror Nights "Celebrity Houses that really SCARE you!".

Dwayne Bevil of the Orlando Sentinel has an excellent sense of what would be TRULY "Scary as all F**K" far better then Universal.. and they've got some of the best in the business! If these houses don't scare every single one of us in some way.. something is wrong with you. You should seek mental help NOW!

 

**Cedar Point** GateKeeper

Some sexy newly released footage of the new 2013 Winged Coaster for Cedar Point, adeptly named "GateKeeper" and  Set to open may 2013!

Pirates getting a NEW attraction- Sort Of!

Well news broke the other day in the form of a slip, Annual Pass Holders (AP) saw in their digital email that a new "Legend of Jack Sparrow" attraction would be coming to Disney Hollywood Studios Orlando this fall.  This piece wasn't in the physical copy of the news letter and was quickly removed which makes all of us think that someone at Disney made a mistake in publishing this little hint!

Well not to let the sudden hype from the internet community and psychotic fan-girls go to waste. Disney World announced today that "Legend of Jack Sparrow" is infact happening, to replace the "Narnia: Prince Caspian" attraction later this year. Narnia is set to close this September at DHS, it's inside of sound stage 4 right beside Toy Story Mania.
This whole thing is spreading like wildfire and Disney Park Blog went into damage control and simply announced this new attraction yesterday. It hit the internet running...

Now before you go nuts and think "New RIDE" just stop.
Don't even think it, we're not that lucky.

"Legends of Jack Sparrow" isn't a ride and can barely be counted as a show.
Let me explain.
Narnia and it's other previous incarnations is a walk-though attraction. It has limited effects, small screens for veiwing movie scenes and plenty of props/costumes within. Our new Pirates attraction will be along the same exact lines.  While they may try to make this new "Jack Sparrow" theme more interactive and entertaining, it's still just a space-filler in my opinion. However, I shall reserve full judgement until I see it for myself.
Don't expect to see this till Holiday Season 2012. Now that's just a personal guess since Narnia isn't closing until September 2012.

Orlando Sentinel has a quote.
"In this attraction, we'll let you walk in the footsteps of Jack Sparrow. It's not 'the making of,' not 'behind the scenes' … it is really a first-person experience," Imagineer Jason Roberts says in the post.

For more details and the press release, please head over to Disney Parks Blog.