#they're at EPCOT now !!!! riding guardians of the galaxy !!!!

[ittyybittybaker]

(KICKS DOWN DOOR) HI YES HELLO HI! MY SWEET BAEKER

The Foxes Take Disney (the sound of reverie) PLEASE!!! - @jtl-fics

HELLO MY DEAREST!!!

Here's a bit of Neil riding his first roller coaster (and my favorite ride at Disney !!!)

Neil had told Andrew that he didn't have to go on the ride with him, but Andrew had just rolled his eyes and pushed him through the turnstile into the queue. Neil knew Andrew didn't like heights so he had given him an opportunity to sit it out, but he also knew that Andrew would suffer through the biggest drops if it meant keeping Neil in his line of sight. It was sweet, even if Neil thought he was being a little ridiculous. Security at Disney was more strict than some 'high security' buildings he'd snuck into during his time on the run.

Luckily for Andrew, this particular ride didn't have any particularly large drops. It does, however, go incredibly fast, according to the Disney blogs Kevin had made them read on the way over. Neil knows Andrew loves to drive fast in the Mas, so he hoped his need for speed applied to theme park rides as well. Neil wasn't exactly sure what to expect, if he was being honest. He had always thought of roller coasters as the rickety old things he saw on tv or in movies, and he certainly never thought he would ever ride one.

This particular ride was based on some superhero movie that Matt had tried to get him to watch, but he hadn't really paid attention because Andrew had fallen asleep on his shoulder and was warm and solid against his side. It was hard to pay attention to most things when Andrew was touching him. Neil still enjoyed himself, even if he didn't really know the characters or the storyline. A disco song played throughout the ride that reminded him of his mother, and it would've been jarring if Andrew’s vice-like grip on his hand hadn't kept him in the moment. It was hard to fall into bad memories when he didn't know up from down as they zoomed through twists and turns and round planets while Andrew gripped him tight.

He let out involuntary whoops and giggles and he felt a rush he never knew he could feel off an exy court. For a small, surreal moment, he felt like a child; he felt like he was flying.

[off-color-darkrai]

NOTE: This is MY arbitrary opinion. You don't have to agree with it. You can, but you don't have to.

So, I grew up going to Disney World and Disneyland, it was a fundamental part of my childhood.

If someone asked me if I was going to take my own kids there if I had any... I'd likely say No.

You heard me, no.

Disney has been scrambling for a while now, story wise, imagination wise, (if I have to see another shitty live action remake of an originally good movie remade to be terrible to appeal to modern audiences I'm going to hurl). It's like they're embarrassed to be related to pre 2015 Disney.

Disney is acting like a stereotypical emo teen freaking out about back when they weren't annoying and lame, and trying to seem cool now by trying to destroy everything that people used to like about them. They've added and upgraded rides and lands before, test-track has been upgraded at least twice, Animal Kingdom had the expedition Everest ride added and Avatar land, etc. but all of these updates were either simply updates, or were pretty spaced out.

What Disney is doing with it's parks right now is wildly different.

They're clearing out multiple classic rides at multiple parks on the same time table, for what? They've already removed almost all of the original rides from Hollywood Studios, and they're threatening to take out the rest, not to mention they forgot the park's theme in their push to add a bunch of rides from newer franchises that keep breaking down.

Does anyone remember that Hollywood Studios was supposed to show off how movies were made? It had a backlot tour, a stunt show, the rides were themed around sound stages, they had art of animation where you sometimes got to see some of the newer movies in the works. They had an amazing playground based on 'honey I shrunk the kid's. Couldn't we have tied galaxies edge in using the sound stage entrance scheme? Who thought it was a good idea to cut the Indiana Jones stunt show's run? Personally I'd love to watch a Marvel stunt show.

Epcot was supposed to celebrate humanity, future world divided into natural innovation and technological innovation, while the rest of Epcot celebrated world culture and diversity. Epcot is doing better than a lot of the other lands/kingdoms, but I have no clue why Guardians of the Galaxy is right next to Mission Space and not in Hollywood Studios or something. Again, Marvel Stunt show people, come on.

Animal Kingdom is about to lose Dinoland USA right as they finally got to live up to the promise of having existing animals, extinct animals, and imaginary animals (which they're supposed to have had since the beginning, if you'll notice the dragon on the signage and the dragon head on one of the ticket kiosks). I'm all for the Pacific islands, south America area, I just don't like them removing the dinosaurs for it.

And last, but not least... Magic Kingdom... Oh boy Magic Kingdom... Why is Tom Sawyer Island becoming Car's themed? Why did you take the country songs out of country bear jamboree? Why are you going to retheme big thunder mountain? Why isn't Tiana's bayou a sit down river ride and restaurant while splash mountain is about Brother Bear? Why did you ruin the flow of Haunted Mansion's in ride story by putting the hat box ghost in the foyer before the sayance instead of at the top of the stairs by constance? Why must you shit on my childhood? Why are you like this?!

I'm not going to shell out the massive amount of money I would have to shell out to go to Disney to ride a bunch of rides I have no nostalgia for, full of brand new perpetually broken animatronics, for new age Disney movies, half of which suck because the writing is trash that my imaginary kids could write better than. You're shocked you're losing money? Gee, I wonder why.

If they chill out and calm the fat down and stop over charging and trying to get rid of anything that happened or was created before 2015, maybe I'll reconsider. For now they're just pitiful, (and way too expensive).

[kristoffbjorgman]

So of the stuff they're currently planning/building for WDW what are you most excited about? Personally I'm between the Tron Coaster and the Mickey and Minnie ride (Which I know almost nothing about but that's a good thing! Surprises!). But there's so much coming!

that concept art of a revamped future world had me shook like I know it probably won’t end up looking like that but the fact that disney’s at least confident enough with some of the stuff going on it in to show it to the public is exciting!

Tron coaster looks cool although I wish they’d just demolish the speedway already, it’s gonna look even more out of place now

The mickey ride looks interesting although I wish they could have found somewhere else to put it! The Great Movie Ride was never one of my favourites but idk why they decided to tear it down for a new ride instead of making a new show building for it because hollywood studios needs as many attractions as it can get until the new areas are ready (plus now until toy story land opens next year hollywood studios has a grand total of 4 rides open which is ridiculous)If it was a contracting issue they had with TCM then they could have just rethemed the ride around disney movies instead

I’m glad ellen is finally RIP, it was kind of embarrassing how worn down and shabby that whole ride was. It’ll be interesting to see what kind of e-ticket ride they’re planning on putting in there and honestly I’m fine with the Guardians of the Galaxy theme, it’ll probably make a hell of a lot more sense than “Ellen has a nightmare she’s on Jeopardy and Bill Nye is there then they go back in time and visit dinosaurs” and the whole “peter quill visited the park as a kid” will hopefully have a lot of throwbacks to 80′s-era epcot

don’t care about mission space so I have no opinion on the new movie

the fact that the Ratatouille ride will be taking up the space between France and Morocco (ie the fact that disney’s cool with moving all the backstage stuff that currently sits in that space) has me more excited for the possibility of new country pavilions than I am for the ride

the fucking gondolas are a terrible idea and are going to made epcot cast members lives a living hell why does disney insist on having the most complicated transportation system! I’m certain they’ll stop running buses between the gondola resorts and dhs/epcot as well now which is going to confuse guests so much especially at epcot when there’s 2 entrances! International Gateway is absolutely not equipped to handle any more crowds than it already has and the lines for the gondola are going to get so backed up at night if they’re the only things connecting BOTH epcot and hollywood studios to Pop Century and Art of Animation, 2 of the biggest resorts on property