| ||||||||||
 |
| | LinkBack | Thread Tools | Display Modes |
08-16-2009, 11:41 PM
| #1 |
| Circle of Ancients   Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere
Posts: 14,564
 |  Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. This Sunday thrax, DisneyIPresume, and myself made the ultimate sacrifice and took time out of our day to go check out G-Force at the El Capitan in Hollywood. Since traffic gets somewhat heavy around the Hollywood and Highland area we decided to park at Universal City and catch the Metro down to the El Capitan. While waiting thrax and I admired the tile work.    After a few minutes the train came by and we were off to our destination. At $1.25 one way it really beats the price of parking anywhere else in the Hollywood area. Since we arrived at Hollywood and Highland early we decided to walk around and check out Grauman's Chinese theatre.    DisneyIPresume and thrax  Me and thrax  The doors of Grauman's  I was really here for the G-Force experience! After acting like tourists and oogling at Grauman's and around Hollywood Blvd we slowly made our way to the El Capitan to get ready for G-Force!   Look at the excitement on their faces!!!  I always make it a point to get VIP seating every time I go to the El Capitan. It alleviates a lot of the hassle since it included a reserved seat, popcorn, drink and THE G-FORCE EXPERIENCE!!! Another reason I enjoy going to the El Capitan every once in a while is their wonderful pre-show. This one is from last year when I went to go see Wall-E, but the beginning is always the same for all the movies. You get the organist playing some music, the anticipation builds up with the curtain rising ... and then you see your movie. With Wall-E we got a little show with some Disney Characters thrown in there. After the movie we went across the street towards the Kodak Theatre to finally get a taste of the G-Force experience!   Chewbacca listening to his iPod  Almost there ... And I'll leave it here for now. I'll go into the G-Force experience ... Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum ... and Universal Studios tomorrow!!!
__________________ |
|  |
|
08-16-2009, 11:51 PM
| #2 |
| I see mouse people  Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Southern California
Posts: 953
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Nice work! Looks like you had a lot of fun. Great pics and great TR...waiting for the rest!
__________________ (Disney Legal Department Disclaimer: Nothing in this correspondence shall be construed to be an admission, denial, agreement, repudiation or approval of any rumor, claim or statement, whether written, recorded, broadcast or sent via brain wave. Void where prohibited. This is not legal tender. You must be this tall to read this letter. Your mileage may vary. Residents of Guam, Puerto Rico and all US Territories exempt. Same goes for Liechtenstein. Please keep your hands and arms inside your clothes at all times. You can't handle the truth. This whole courtroom's out of order. E pluribus unum. We cannot be held responsible for the things we do, say or write. The contents of this disclaimer are protected by US and foreign copyright, and may not be reproduced or replayed without the express written permission of the National Basketball Association. Please consider the environment before printing this out. Thank you, come again).-Steve DeGaetano |
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 12:03 AM
| #3 |
| Beach Expert  Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: A beach town that Harbor Blvd was named after
Posts: 7,688
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. It was a lot of fun. The El Capitan Theatre is amazing! |
| |
|
08-17-2009, 12:10 AM
| #4 |
| Goofy Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: in wonderland.
Posts: 10,004
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Great trip report. glad to hear you all had fun. how was the movie by the way? |
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 12:14 AM
| #5 |
| Turkeys Still Can't Fly  | Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Glad to see you all had such a good time! Nice work so far, Liz. I din't know that the park had a star on the walk of fame!
__________________ --Barry LET'S GO ANGELS! |
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 12:35 AM
| #6 |
| PEZZ in the Fez MiceEars Crew Member  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Pandemonium Fortress
Posts: 36,685
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Awesome! Post the rest right now! |
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 12:38 AM
| #7 |
| was voted off the Axiom  Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Los Angeles
Posts: 2,375
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Ha! I never thought I'd see the Universal City Redline station in a trip report. |
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 12:56 AM
| #8 | |||
| Circle of Ancients Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere
Posts: 14,564
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Quote:
Quote:
Quote:
__________________ | |||
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 12:58 AM
| #9 | |
| Turkeys Still Can't Fly | Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Quote:
 ..
__________________ --Barry LET'S GO ANGELS! | |
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 10:30 AM
| #10 |
| Minion  Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Golden State
Posts: 1,397
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Waiting for more! Yeah, how was the movie?
__________________ I want my cake back!  |
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 09:05 PM
| #11 | ||
| High on Hello Kitty!  Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: 24 miles from Disneyland
Posts: 4,033
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Quote:
__________________ Quote:
| ||
|
| |
|
08-17-2009, 10:14 PM
| #12 |
| Circle of Ancients Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere
Posts: 14,564
|  Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. So ... the adventure continues! Once inside we were immediately surrounded by movie sets to our left and right.  This is the pet shop where the guinea pigs and mole end up.  The tubes where the G-Force team escapes.  The homes/training set up of the G-Force team.  The stars of the movie The first area involved you inserting a bendable device through holes so that you could disarm it. Both thrax and I failed at that one ... here's thrax giving it a try though.  Next to that was a bug splat area. Here's DIP trying to smash some bugs!  And here's some video of thrax running around ... There was also an obstacle course which thrax and I ran through. Sadly I accidentally deleted that video ...  . Know that thrax beat me by a mile though ... there were zip lines ... tunnels to crawl through ... ropes to swing by ... and walls to jump over. Here's a picture I managed not to delete of a portion of the course. Exercises were posted up in the queue for the obstacle course and I thought they were so cute!  After that there was a shooting gallery type area where you shot at evil electronic devices. Here's thrax saving the world!  Our skills with following Mooch the fly to decipher his message was next. You followed the guide on the map with a marker and it eventually gave you a picture. There were three in all.   There was also an area with coloring pages to keep the kiddies occupied.  Once we had jumped through all the hoops there was a final area where you were pictured in front of a green screen and the image placed in a movie scene.   Here's one of the images we got.  And finally we arrived at the end of the G-Force experience!  By this time we were guinea pigged out ... and HUNGRY! So we headed across the street to Mel's Drive In for some lunch.  BUT WAIT ... THERE'S MORE!!!!! (which will be continued tomorrow ... )
__________________ |
|
| |
|
08-18-2009, 11:17 AM
| #13 |
| Minion Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Golden State
Posts: 1,397
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Aggg! That looks like so much fun!
__________________ I want my cake back! |
|
| |
|
08-18-2009, 11:23 AM
| #14 | |
| Circle of Ancients Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Somewhere
Posts: 14,564
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Quote:
I believe that this particular movie runs into early September, so if you're in the area and want to check it out you still have time.
__________________ | |
|
| |
|
08-18-2009, 11:57 AM
| #15 |
| Chillin' with AshfordT  Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Corona
Posts: 49,367
| Re: Going Metro, Grauman's, and Guinea Pigs ... with a side of creatures. Very cool Liz! At least you were surrounded by handsome....Guinea Pigs! |
|
| |
|
| Bookmarks |
| Tags |
| el capitan, g-force, grauman's, ripley's, universal studios |
| Thread Tools | |
| Display Modes | |
| |
Similar Threads | ||||
| Thread | Thread Starter | Forum | Replies | Last Post |
 In Search Of . . . the Creatures of DL, Universal and Sea World! | Aladdin | Disneyland Resort | 24 | 08-04-2009 08:55 PM |
| Guys are curious creatures....I just can't figure them out... | krystledm | Gibson Girls | 11 | 10-27-2008 01:52 PM |
| Grauman's Chinese Theater Sold..... Again | TheDisneyInquisitor | Entertainment Lounge | 12 | 09-19-2007 01:20 AM |
| Side by Side Double Strollers for Rent anywhere in Anaheim? | Megastrophy | Disneyland Resort | 22 | 11-11-2006 08:50 PM |
| New Pirates Side by Side Video of old and new rehabed version AND Press event Photos! | tk421-sw | Community Outpost | 4 | 04-09-2006 08:48 PM |
Linear Mode
