The Fabulous Disney Babe
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Fab's Mailbag:

Emails have been pouring in since I started here at LaughingPlace.com, and I'm happy to read each and every one of them. I'd like to answer as many as possible on this site, so if it's all right for me to use your email, please say so when you contact me. If you want your name left out or a pseudonym used, let me know that, too. Sending anonymous comments or emails equals permission for the email or comment to be used on the site.

Thanks!
Fab

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Hi Michelle!

Well, when I noticed you had disappeared...I was worried and went on a search to find you. Thank God it was easy! Glad to see you have a new home on the net and best of luck! Bet you've gotten squillions of e-mails already from well-wishers! I wanted to thank you for all the information you have shared over the past few years while I have been tuning in. I recently had a meeting over at Disneyland as a possible vendor. Thanks to your great columns and photos, I was able to walk into that meeting and really know what was going on at the Disneyland Resort....Sure made me look like a star! Thanks!!! So, as my partner and I are avid martini fans, I have to ask....What is a creamsicle Martini ?

Thanks again for providing such a great column! Hope Dear Fabby makes it's debut soon too!

Good Luck!
John

Hi John!

I'm here at the Laughingest Place on Earth and excruciatingly giddily happy here.

A Creamsicle Martini is an orange cream martini. According to , a Creamsicle is: Vodka, Orange Juice, Whipped Cream, Triple Sec, and Vanilla Extract. Let me know if you like it, and I hope you get the vendor slot at Disneyland!

Fab

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Anonymous comments:

Gosh, Michelle, getting interviews with WDI bigwigs a month before you started with LP. What foresight! Or wait, weren't you using someone else's press credential then? Hm

Hello, Anonymous!

I own a travel publication called All Points Travel News, formerly known as the Orlando Insider. If you read my first article, in which I introduce myself,  it tells you all about my publications' history. I have press credentials under All Points, and I was kind enough to use them on many occasions to help out the website I happened to be writing columns for at that time.

Thanks for your concern,
Fab

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As far as YOU know, this one's Anonynony too:

My Fiancée and I were visiting Disneyland yesterday and ran into a mutual friend, one who works fairly high up in DL and in a position to know when things are changing. Our friend admonished us to visit Tom Sawyer's Island now "while we can". Evidently it will definitely be removed, supposedly due to costs. I asked if I could pass this one along anonymously, and our friend said yes. And this friend is someone you know as well. My impression is that, with this cost cutting tack, DCA will NOT just not get a cool NEW concept attraction, but, get a stripped down WDW attraction. Everything Disney appears to be doing seems to be a step back.

The mystery deepens....I'm one of those Nervous Nellie moms who winces every time her child teeters precariously on the edge of the tilting rock, but I'd really hate to see Tom Sawyer Island close. I mention on my tour an instance when it came close to closing, for a vastly different reason.

If the Island is not up to code, they will definitely have to change some things, but I hope they keep it close to Walt's original plans for it. Alice and I adore the Redwood Creek Challenge Trail at DCA. If they were to redo Tom Sawyer Island like that, we'd both be very pleased.

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Fab,

The Tower of Terror possibility for DCA would be a stripped down version of the WDW hotel. At best, they would just remove all the cool lateral movements of the elevator cars, hopefully keeping the extensive theming. But, being put on the "back lot" means that a totally themed hotel would actually be out of theme. It just won't really fit anywhere very well. My impression is that, with this cost cutting tack, DCA will NOT just not get a cool NEW concept attraction, but, get a stripped down WDW attraction. Everything Disney appears to be doing seems to be a step back.

Anonymous

That's what I've heard, too, and while it's depressing to those of us who know what the entire attraction is like, it's still going to be a real treat for those who never go to WDW. The reality of Disney theme park design is that the stockholders come before the magic. DCA desperately needs anything it can get, and it won't be getting anything new for a while, major-attraction-wise.

Fab

-- Michelle Smith

-- Posted March 16, 2001