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Globe Trekker style Jungle Adventure and Indiana Jones Ride
Welcome to the Jungle! Sure, this is no Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull blockbuster, but for all who like Disney, travel shows and fun spoof videos, then how lucky are you to spend the next 13 minutes of your life right here enjoying all three of those things at once? That hardly ever happens!
This video is actually three Disneyland attractions cleverly wrapped intro one video and disguised as a copycat show of a popular public television travel program GlobeTrekker. Introduction to Adventureland Tarzan's Treehouse, The Jungle Boat Cruise ride, and Indiana Jones Temple of the Forbidden Eye ride are all here and revealed in a way never seen before. Sure there may be things that just don't add up...like European Mayans that invent the drinking fountain, a riverboat cruise up the Congo that includes wildlife from South America, and four-wheeling inside of ancient temple ruins in India to name just a few. But hey, that's all part of the suspension of disbelief kind of fun included here.
A little background...
Ever wanted to make your own version of your favorite t.v. show? No? Three days before heading to Disneyland in the fall of 2007, I had this crazy idea that I ran by my wife...let's take our video camera and create a spoof of one of our favorite Travel Channel shows - Globe Trekker. We did some quick planning, came up with some wardrobe and script ideas, packed our bags and some video gear and we were off to the Magic Kingdom...Ian Wright and Megan McCormick style. Oh yes, and we emailed Comedian Tim Babb from LA who we had never met before (and who had never seen Globe Trekker himself). We found his Disney page on youtube and asked him if he would meet us in Adventureland and play the part of our guide, Danger Dave, in our travel show parody and pilot episode of "Globe Tracker". Tim has his own collection of original videos at http://www.youtube.com/timbabbcomedian. Check him out.
Tim came dressed perfectly for his part and literally within about 10 minutes of my wife and I meeting with Tim and tossing around a few ideas, we started filming and were done within a few hours. Everything was unrehearsed and improvised. There were only a handful of instances where we did two or three takes of a scene!
Filming was the easy part. The editing and pulling together music, graphics, intro animation etc., were all done in little bits over the course of several months as time allowed.
There are two more episodes that have been filmed and are still in the works...so stay tuned.
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Thanks for watching!
-Boyd
