Disney Theme Parks

Oooh. I had noticed the blocks falling down but I had never connected them with the diamonds for some reason...

Disney: the only place where waiting in line is sometime more fun then the actual ride. Space Mountain has fully playable video games while you wait in line.

I tell people that all the time and they think I'm crazy! "Waiting in line is never any fun!"

All they care about is their rides...

And all such people usually care about vis-a-vis the ride is that it be as fast as possible. I'm like dude, if that's all you're after, did you or did you not come here in a car? You could have just driven out to the desert and hit the gas on the straightaways with your windows rolled down. It would have been much cheaper for you.

Yeah...That's always lame. Most of my family is like that and they find my love of the lines at Disneyland and the other crap in the park very odd. "Why don't you want to go to Knotts?"

Because I hate those sorts of rides and want to look at all the neat crap in a park like Disneyland...DOES KNOTTS HAVE THE STAR TOURS LINE?! I THINK NOT.

I love fun lines! I finally got my family to understand when we went to Harry Potter World in Universal; the line that goes through Hogwarts is magnificent.

I want to go there so bad...ohhhh.

I really like the lines: I have, more then once (especially on the Space Mountain ride) just stood their in line when the line was completely empty.

Another great part about living in Florida and being homeschooled: We only visit Disney world during the slow seasons, so there are like, 50 people in the entire park. We have had times when we will get off one of the big rides, turn around, and walk right back on with No wait.

I like having an Annual Pass, because then I can visit several times a year and don't feel like I have to rush all the time. I can soak in the ambience and do a little exploring on side paths. You'd be amazed by how many "hidden areas" there are in Disneyland—perfectly "legal" for guests to get into, just out of the way and partially out of sight of the main walkways.

Yeah, my family has annual passes too...although we want to take a Disney cruise, so this year might be the first in a long time that we don't renew them...

edited 24th Aug '11 7:04:31 AM by Beorc

I love the tremor pole in the Indian Jones line. We never went to cartoonland though.

You mean Toontown? I'll tell you what I tell pretty much everyone about pretty much everything there: you should try it once. There isn't much for adults to do in Toontown, but you might get a chuckle out of it. The Roger Rabbit ride is pretty fun.

RISE, THREAD, RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE!!!

So I've been working on this...thing, for a while, all about Disneyland. (It could be applied to the other parks as well, but Disneyland is the one I'm familiar with and love the most, hence the focus.) I'm not quite sure how to classify it...it's sort of a fanfic by way of WMG and an Alternate Reality Game, and it has the heart and soul of a tabletop RPG. Call it an exercise in worldbuilding.

The basic premise is something like Kingdom Hearts crossed with the Kingdom Keepers books—Disneyland functions as a portal to a multifaceted world/set of worlds based on the major attractions and inhabited by animated characters. Monsters called Bogeys constantly invade these worlds and try to consume the creative energy that they are made of, so a secret society of Cast Members, called the Knights of the Magic Kingdom, was formed to combat them. The Knights have the ability to cross over into the alternate world, where they can transform into "characters" based on the lands of the park and use the powers and skills this brings them to fight the Bogeys.

It sounds rather cheesy, I know, but this is the culmination of my 35 years as a Disneyland nut, and I'd really love for some other fans of the parks to check it out. For now, the best place to get all the info is my blog—just go back to the earliest posts and read them in order. It starts out with a bunch of "story chapters" which are not all straightforward prose and which are in anachronic order, and then gets to some more encyclopedic stuff. Eventually I'd like to create a real website with a forum and places for people to submit stories about their Knights, but my Website-fu is weak.

Let me know what you think!

...!!!!!

I must read through this now omg.

I have been to Disneyland/CA multiple times and World once.

Personal preference has Disneyland as top dog. But Cal Adv has the World of Color ride and Animal Kingdom has the Everest Ride...

Karalora, that sounds amazing.

I've been to Disney World at least three or four times and it's always a magical adventure~

It's also hilarious because a) tourists (my family notwithstanding, natch) and b) we know what to expect in terms of attraction times/waiting in lines and know how to work a Fastpass, so we can navigate through the parks without much trouble and get through most of what we wanted to see in record time.

I miss going to Walt Disney World. It was the only place where you get to escape reality and enjoy having fun with you friends and family.

The Happiest Place on Earth, indeed.

Just wondering if anyone's made it through my entire blog yet...

RISE, THREAD! RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE (again)!

So here's something fun. I got Main Street, USA.

We're comparing ourselves to lands now?

Disney planning to incorporate drone technology in their theme parks

The idea of Disney having articulate flying marionettes for outdoor performances in the future is making my inner child squee.

edited 22nd Aug '14 6:35:58 PM by Servbot

I recently started a new Disneyland blog. There's not much there yet, but I have plenty of topics I plan to tackle.

Last night my parents showed my niece a video about Walt Disney World, but she didn't pay much attention, mainly because her parents had already trained her to tune it out as "just an ad."

I remember going to Walt Disney World for a '98 family reunion. The coolest parts I remember are that it was just a few months after the Animal Kingdom portion of the park debuted to the public (I still have the souvenir binoculars from when we went there), and when we went on one of the Latin American-themed showcase rides at Epcot, the combined total weight of myself and the relatives in the boat caused it to malfunction at the start of the ride.

I also remember reading that the area around the Muppets 3*D Vision was going to be a full-fledged theme park. What was going to be in it?