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Disney's Christmas Carol Train Donna and I drove down from Gettysburg Saturday to the B&O Museum in Baltimore to take the tour of the Christmas Carol train. It has been making its way throughout the USA promoting the release in November of Disney's newest film, The Christmas Carol starring Jim Carrey. Admission was free and it was certainly worth the trip for all Disney movie fans as well as lovers of Dickens' immortal classic tale. We snaked our way through the lines. Our wait was an hour. When we left, the waiting period had increased to two hours. The AMTRAK train had been wrapped in snow flakes and London scenes from the movie. Entering the first train car, Disney had placed on display a copy of the first edition of Dickens' The Christmas Carol as well as pages from Nicholas Nickleby and The Pickwick Papers. Also on display were Dickens' portrait, quill pen and inkwell. The second car was devoted to costumes from the movie. They were beautiful. The third car showcased scenes from the movie: Fred's Foyer, Scrooge & Marley's shop by night and day, the London-Royal Exchange, and Fred's house. The next car displayed scale models of some of the buildings used in the movie. Then came the car where they set up a mannequin to show you how Performance technology works. In short, Jim Carrey had to wear a suit and head gear that captured his every move and sound. I always thought that they made the movie and then had the actors voice over. Actually, the opposite happens: the actors have to act out the entire movie and then their movements are captured and translated via computer to the animated character. I can't imagine acting out an entire movie in such a sterile - no sets! - environment, just using your imagination to flesh out what is going on around you in a movie. Amazing! You then passed through a car with suspended monitors depicting stages of production. The next to last car contained stations where you and your kids could use HP technology to morph pictures of yourself into characters from the movie. You could, of course, buy these as you left! The last car presented a festive holiday room complete with fireplace and turkey dinner! Here you were welcome to take a photo of yourself. We took a photo of the family in front of us and they took a photo of Donna and me. We're going to use that one for our Christmas cards this year! Upon exiting the train, you made your way to the theater where you got to experience 3-D scenes from the movie. Very impressive! Upon leaving they gave us $1 off coupons for the Imax movie to be shown at the Baltimore Science Center as well as a coupon for 50% off companion fare for AMTRAK! I've posted some of the photos we took below. Enjoy!
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Ruby writes: "My grandchildren are interested in learning the "Mickey Mouse" theme song the Mousekeeters used to sing on their tv show. However, some of the words I have forgotten. I can remember the beginning but after we spell Mickey Mouse's name the part that ''forever let us ...." is the part I can not remember the exact words. I tried finding a place to write to Disney on his website but to no avail. Do you by any chance have the words to the song? Thank you for your help." "Forever we will hold your banner high-high-high-high!" For the rest of the lyrics, click here.
Ellen writes: "why didn't Disney come out with The Song of the South on DVD? I just loved that movie." Disney had been selling The Song of the South outside the USA, but since December, 2001 they have totally withdrawn the video worldwide. They feel that the portrayal of blacks in the film is not socially acceptable. For more details, click here. For information on ordering, click here.
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