Today's real entry, and those WTFers can take the proverbial hikerooni

Aside from the Mt. Fuji roller coaster, there are some other attractions we won’t be visiting in EPCOT next week.
Country areas: Equatorial Africa (until Morocco came aboard, the only African country interested in sponsoring a pavilion was South Africa during the apartheid years, so that was a non-starter); the Soviet Union, with the "Ivan and the Magic Pike" folktale ride-through (alert readers may recall that there no longer is a Soviet Union, which may have had something to do with Boris Yeltsin’s priorities vis-à-vis WDW during his term in office); Switzerland, with a Matterhorn coaster (presumably they’re too busy defending the pope).
Attractions: Meet the World ride, a history of Japan that looks something like the Carousel of Progress; a puppet-sized Pinocchio area, with ride, in Italy; an Alice ride in England; the rivers of Germany ride; the Canadian log flume (although perhaps this last one never was planned, and is just rumor, unlike all the others, for which there is concept art of one sort or another).

There’s an awful lot of space behind and around the various existing pavilions, so it’s not as if there isn’t room for this stuff (check it out on Google Earth). Of course, blue sky and reality aren’t always the same, especially with a company that has a literal blue sky division like Imagineering. Speaking of lost attractions, one of the saddest things in the World has to be the dust on the floor of the once productive animation building, although I understand that the corporation is planning a new drawn movie in the future, despite having announced that drawing is dead. The right medium for the right project, n’est-ce pas? It’s not as if, since now we have Picasso, we can throw away the Botticellis, if you get my drift. Anyhow, if there’s nothing else on the internet, there’s a babaga-load of Disney sites. Travel, nostalgia, personal, corporate, you name it. But then again, you name practically anything, and there’s probably a babaga-load of sites about it. If it wasn’t for fanboys, we wouldn’t have no boys at all…

And to think, I could be going to TOC tomorrow. It’s nice to have the weekend off for a change, although a couple of the Sailors might feel otherwise. The high point of all my Lexington visits has to be the ribs place that ran out of ribs. And soda. And ice cream. And whatever else Vaughan ordered, as he ordered it. The place seemed to have had a virtual No Vaughans Served Here sign. JV, fortunately being of mild mien and manner, took it all without once giving off the smell of burning martyr. He only punched out two servers, a cook, and the valet parking guy before we were able to get him back to the campus. As I say, a high point if there ever was one.