I’ve been watching the streaming service Dropout (the successor to College Humor) lately. One of the offerings is a quasi-game show called “Um, Actually…” in which the host reads factual statements about a variety of book/movie/video game/comic book/etc. franchises and challenges the players to spot the incorrect bit and call him out by saying “Um, actually…[correction].” It’s immense fun of a specific nerdy kind, and I started to think we here at Micechat deserve some, targeting our mutual area of interest.
Here’s how this game would work:
1. One person makes a factual statement about something in the Disneyland Resort. It could be an attraction, a shop, a show, a restaurant, a hotel–even the parking structure! The statement should contain several details, just one of which is incorrect or inaccurate. Be as obscure as you want–it makes it more satisfying when (if) someone catches you out!
2. Other posters call out the error and correct it, prefacing their correction with “Um, actually…” like the pedantic nerds we are. The first one to do so accurately becomes the host for the next round. If multiple people give answers within a short span of time, the most accurate or detailed refutation wins.
I’ll start with an example statement to show what I have in mind, and if people are on board, it can also serve as the first round. So here goes.
When Fantasmic! debuted in the summer of 1992, it was an immediate hit, impressing audiences with dance, puppetry, movie clips projected onto sprays of water, huge inflatable figures of Chernabog and Ursula that traveled around the Rivers of America on barges, and in the show’s climax, a massive fire-breathing figure of Maleficent the dragon.
