Wednesday, July 14, 2004

Rehabilitation For Robots

I think this place is around 10 years old, and it already has its fair share of non-working robots. Particularly impressive is Small World. We've been on that ride 8 times now (enough for me to want to hunt down the writer of the tune and dump him or her head first into a bucket of donkey faeces.)

If you've never experienced the joy of this ride then I'll describe it... imagine hundreds upon hundreds of singing dolls, garbed in the national dress of various countries and surrounded by scenery of impressively low production values. Most of the dolls are animated in some way - twitching in time to to the music while unseeing eyes stare malevolently over the unfortunate souls trapped in their boats because the ride has stalled again.

The last scene of the ride is very pink and very sparkly. Hence the 8 times.

However, as with most of the rides, various bits don't work. And when you have so many robots, the effect is quite pronounced. Most look like unfortunate stroke victims who should be in physiotherapy rather than attempting the can-can. Or perhaps the spasmodic twitching, and failure of limbs to function is a result of having to listen to That Tune for the last 10 years. God knows, I've heard it 8 times and my legs stop working and eye starts twitching when first born suggests going on it again (as she has done just now...)