I went to the Winter Park Popcorn Flick in Central Park on May 28. They were scheduled to be showing King Kong vs. Godzilla, but it never happened. When I got there, they gave out free bags of popcorn as seen below: Once it was dark enough out, someone from the Enzian started talking about the movie and the title screen of the DVD was brought up. As soon as this happened it started pouring and the audience scattered. So much for the movie in the park...
I ate at Planet Hollywood in Downtown Disney on January 30, 2008. The restaurant at Walt Disney World is the biggest Planet Hollywood that I've seen. Compared to the Planet Hollywood in Myrtle Beach, this restaurant is humongous. The whole restaurant is housed inside of a giant 5-floored globe filled with tables and lots of movie props. Not only is this Planet Hollywood larger than Myrtle Beach's restaurant, it also has a larger menu, and everything costs a few dollars more.
My meal was started with an appetizer of Chicken Crunch. It was basically fried chicken strips dipped into a sweet batter. Sweet and chicken don't go together in my opinion. For the main course, I had the Garlic Shrimp. This consisted of soba noodles topped with shrimp, sugar snap peas, onions, peppers, garlic, and ginger in a slightly spicy sauce. I liked it, but at a price of $19.99, I didn't feel it was the best value for the food given. A few hours after I ate the meal was a problem though. Something in the Garlic Shrimp caused me to repeatedly burp out a horrible smell that reminded me of salami, meatballs, and Pepsi, all combined into one foul smelling gas. Beware... After eating, I took the steps down from my 5th floor table and looked at some of the movie props. Before heading downstairs, this was my view from where I sat: And here are some of the movie props I took pictures of. Here's a witch from Hocus Pocus: Woody from Toy Story: A giant moth from the original Dr. Dolittle: A robot from some science fiction movie that I don't recognize: One of the buildings from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Much of the sets and puppets from this movie used to be on display at MGM Studios. Rumor is that when Disney decided to update their exhibit, a few of their minimum wage employees got very lucky when they found a slew of Jack Skeleton puppets and most of Halloweentown in a dumpster somewhere on Disney property. Imagine what that stuff would go for on ebay... And then there was this saw blade from a David Copperfield TV Special:
And finally, in the pond outside of Planet Hollywood was The Jenny from Forrest Gump:
