Greetings and solicitations.
This will be the first of what will ideally be daily updates in this on-line journal. In the near future, we’ll have a regular Q&A set-up, plus we’re trying to figure out how to produce an on-line whack-a-mole.
Have just returned from Florida where I attended John Ordover’s 40th birthday party (while Kathleen was shangheid off to Indianapolis, in connection with her assistant editor job at Del Rey, to attend the Star Wars expo, attendance 60,000, jeez). We hit Universal on Saturday with laser-sighting as to the rides we wanted to go on: The Men in Black ride and the Spider-Man ride. The MIB ride involves riding through a shooting gallery of aliens coming out at you, and the biggest trick to the ride is knowing when precisely to hit the red button on your console which you’re told that you should not, under any circumstances, hit. Smacking it at just the right moment garners you a 100,000 point bonus. And the Spider-Man ride remains the best ride in any Florida theme park, although now I’m wondering whether they’re going to replace the cheesy animated intro with specially shot footage featuring Tobey Mcguire and J.K. Simmons who was so brilliant as Jonah Jameson. Picked up some nifty souvenirs, including an absolutely spectacular Spider-Man hockey shirt that I cannot recommend highly enough. Only thing that groused me was that my novelization of the movie was nowhere to be seen in the stores anywhere in the Park.
And yes, I’ve written a review of the film, which will be running in CBG in a couple of weeks.
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Just want to say that I’m looking forward to the site, and will check it out daily for my PAD fix!
So is there anywhere to buy one of those cool hockey shirts online, for those of us not in Florida or going soon?
Speaking of the novelization, can you possibly post (or write for BiD, or whatever) about what you added to it? There are a lot of extra scenes, and although some lines are clearly yours, as well as the references to other Marvel characters (the Jack Murdock stuff, etc), there are some scenes, like the opening one with Peter as a tot, that seem like they could have come from you, or could have been cut from the screenplay.
Thanks,
Adam
I surfed over to this site after reading about it on the Newsarama site, and I’m enjoying it. Yet another website to check out every day… 🙂
You’re assessment of the Spider-Man ride at Islands of Adventure is absolutely correct, PAD! My wife and I took our nephews to Florida three years ago, and the Spidey ride was the hightlight of our theme park visits. Incidentally, we rode it twice. As soon as we exited the first time, we got back in the entrance line for a second go-round. The second time through, the ride kept stopping and starting and finally quite all together. We had to be led out of the ride by technicians. THAT was an interesting experience, too!
I surfed over to this site after reading about it on the Newsarama site, and I’m enjoying it. Yet another website to check out every day… 🙂
You’re assessment of the Spider-Man ride at Islands of Adventure is absolutely correct, PAD! My wife and I took our nephews to Florida three years ago, and the Spidey ride was the hightlight of our theme park visits. Incidentally, we rode it twice. As soon as we exited the first time, we got back in the entrance line for a second go-round. The second time through, the ride kept stopping and starting and finally quite all together. We had to be led out of the ride by technicians. THAT was an interesting experience, too!
Just have to say one thing: the Spider-Man ride in Universal is, quite simply, awesome. Best ride in the state, hands down. Last time I went was in January – no lines anywhere, so we must’ve ridden that thing about ten times in a row. Never got old. Unlike MIB, which was pretty much just Buzz Lightyear human-style.