Disneyland for Thanksgiving was great, except for the crowds.
Great dinner at La Brea Bakery, one of the fourteen venues serving variations on a traditional Thanksgiving dinner. Outside under the heat lamps, perfectly done turkey, cranberry dressing, pecan pie for dessert and full menu for those that didn't want turkey.
In the airplane and boat shop (don't remember the name) in Downtown Disney I picked up a hand carved 1/72 wood Lockheed Vega Winnie May for $13. Standoff model, looks great at ten ft., close up it's a great Christmas ornament.
Just for you guys who say that I never consider anything other than
1/72 scale, they have a very nice Boeing 747 in about 1/48 scale for only $12,000.When you are in Disneyland check out the Indiana Jones shop accross from the ride. The still had a few of the German flying wings along with figures from the movies in two scales. The Tommorrowland store has several Star Wars kits and figures.
At this year's shareholders meeting the subject of models came up. The failure of Disney to obtain or arrange for the re-release of the old MPC Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Carribean kits was underlined as a corporate screwup. Disney released several 1955-56 re-pops of games and the like, but no models. Shareholders are still fuming over the idiotic release of a pretty good film, Haunted Manson, AFTER the hot property that they knew Pirates would it be with hardly any marketing to go along with them.
My song was also mentioned, wish I had copyrighted it. Sung to the tune of the Mickey Mouse tune: "E I S N E R time for you to go". At least they had the brains to replace him with the guy who worked wonders with the cruise line, making over a billion dollars to date. . So, how about a good kit of the Wonder or the Magic (different only in a few minor details? Maybe a kit for the new Imagine, the new ship for the Pacific. That's about nine years in the making, even Disney can get that right.
If anyone has any Disney oriented kits that they would like to part with please contact me. There are many , I have only three.
Happy modeling,
Tom