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Topic: EPCOT Hot Air Balloon

#	Author	Message
1	magnet Mon 4/7/2008 7:22p	I seem to remember a while back there was going to be a hot air balloon that looked like spaceship earth and which people could take tethered rides in. What happened to that idea?
2	FerretAfros Mon 4/7/2008 8:32p	I'm pretty sure I've seen a picture of it flying over the real SSE, but I don't know what ever happened to it after that. The golden Mickey balloon from the 50th seemed to make its way around for a couple weeks then fall off the face of the earth too...
3	brotherdave Tue 4/8/2008 4:50a	Wasn't the SE balloon created for the Millennium Celebration? I remember seeing a picture of it, but just can't remember when.
4	magic0214 Wed 4/9/2008 11:56a	Well this was going to be a BIG prize for the year of a million dreams. So was the Main Street Character Breakfast where they would have a table as long as Main Street down it with four guests and every character which I thought would be loads fun just I don't think you could say Hi to all the characters!
5	BlueOhanaTerror Thu 4/10/2008 11:30a	>>>Wasn't the SE balloon created for the Millennium Celebration? I remember seeing a picture of it, but just can't remember when.<<< Ummm... I couldn't resist. It was all big and cool and floaty and I had this freshly broken, sharp-and-pointy turkey leg bone and... I popped it. I'm sorry.
6	brotherdave Thu 4/10/2008 5:31p	^^^Well, that story is full of a lot of 'hot air'! :-)
7	Meekster Thu 4/24/2008 4:03a	Zee balloon in question: http://wdwscrapbook.tripod.com...oon.html
8	brotherdave Thu 4/24/2008 5:16a	Thanks, Meekster! The aerial photo over Epcot was the one I remembered!
9	FerretAfros Thu 4/24/2008 8:48a	I think I may have seen one that didn't have the wand on it. It could have just been taken from the right angle to block it out, but it seems like I would remember the wand...

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