W minus 504
PhotoPass now has
“animated magic” photos. Not only do
they put characters in the pictures, but they move. Our three ring binder Disney albums will
continue to be made, and also be hopelessly outdated.
June 19, 2015
W minus 503
Animal Kingdom Starbucks
opens. That’s all four parks. Between my
wife and daughter, the likelihood of Chip N Dale snack company bags ending up in
our return luggage dwindles.
June 23, 2015
W minus 499
20th
Anniversary of Pocahontas gets her a
new permanent spot on Discovery Island in Animal Kingdom. Also kills my, “she’s walking the streets,”
jokes. Tarzan’s got a spot too. Either Disney is finding renewed respect for that
era of films, or (more likely) those who were kids when those came out are now
ticket buying parents.
June 30, 2015
W minus 492
Just over four months
after we get one, Disney World bans Selfie sticks in the parks. Looks like
we’re lugging the tripod on the EPCOT Death March Again.
July 7, 2015
W minus 485
Sprung the pre-grid grid
on the family. Asked for rankings of items on a scale of five: Must Do, Like to
Do, Neutral, Not Like to Do, Must Not Do.
Basically, everyone would like to do almost everything, and in general
even if they don’t want to do something, they also don’t want to prevent people
who like it. Well, that makes my job
easier. (Sigh)
July 12, 2015
W minus 480
Magic of Disney
Animation, which has been getting smaller and smaller over the years, closes up
shop completely. Mickey’s moving over to
the closed back lot tour, wonder where everyone else goes? They’re certainly making a lot of room for
something there.
July 17, 2015
W minus 475
MGM is getting a Frozen themed makeover place: Ice Palace
Boutique. Bibbidy Bobbidy is so five
minutes ago, I guess. Queen Elsa’s coup
of Cinderella’s castle can’t be far off.
July 27, 2015
W minus 465
Looks like Captain EO is back. yay.
July 28, 2015
W minus 464
The Garden Grill is taking
reservations for Breakfast and Lunch again. Woo Hoo!
Crap, I’m going to need
a new grid entry strategy. That breakfast
was phenomenal. OK, I’m technically not
supposed to eat any of that anymore, but then again, I wasn’t supposed to eat
much in the dinner there and that never stopped me.
August 5, 2015
W minus 456
Be Our Guest permanents
the trial quick serve breakfast. Hmmm,
if we could get in early for that, it might be worth it to see the place and
not take up a lunch, or a table service.
Gridding is a full time job.
August 6, 2015
W minus 455
Play and Dine adds
Character Christmas Themed Dinner with Mickey and Friends. If it’s a hit and they do it again, it’ll be
something else I need to figure out. We may need to park hop just to eat
everywhere
August 7, 2015
W minus 454
Page 2 of the
Pre-Grid-Grid, who’s going on what thrill ride to figure out where we need Fast
Passes. Left off Astro Orbiter
completely- I hate that one. Plus some of my descriptions may be
somewhat…slanted. There are some
benefits to doing all this work.
Ride
|
height required
|
Thrill factor
|
AAAAA
|
MAGIC KINGDOM
|
|
Buzz Space Ranger Spin
|
None
|
Kid aiming may cause vertigo
|
Small World
|
50"
|
80 foot drop with mag accelerator hits 120mph before loop
|
Big Thunder Mountain
|
40"
|
36mph - faster in back
|
Dwarves Mine Car
|
38"
|
34mph, vehicle smooths ride, pretty.
|
Goofy's Barnstormer
|
35"
|
25mph, adult knee and patootie squishing seats
|
Splash Mountain
|
40"
|
50' 40mph drop AAAAAHHH! Sploosh!
|
Space Mountain
|
44"
|
27mph in the dark! Ooooh!
|
Mad Tea Party
|
None
|
Spin till you vomit
|
Tomorrowland Speedway
|
32"
|
May die of fumes and boredom
|
Stitch's Great Escape
|
40"
|
Torso crushing, general grossness
|
AAAAA
|
EPCOT
|
|
Frozen Ride?
|
None?
|
Still may be backwards in a boat, LET IT GO!!
|
Mission Space
|
None
|
Simulated unless you take the possible heart attack line
|
Soarin'
|
40"
|
80 feet
|
Test Track
|
40"
|
65mph- no magnetic levitation man (4 minutes)
|
AAAAA
|
MGM
|
|
Toy Story Mania
|
None
|
Sharp spins on corners (sorry thought there was a height thing)
|
Star Tours
|
40"
|
6 axis motion, 3d glasses, may be hit by overexcited exploding
geeks
|
Terror o' Tower
|
40"
|
0 to slightly above free fall in 1.5 seconds, then up again,
repeat
|
Rock n Roller Coaster
|
48"
|
Magnetic levitation starts at 57mph double inversion! Woo!
|
AAAAA
|
ANIMAL KINGDOM
|
|
Dinosaur
|
40"
|
Bumpy-dark-giant poppy uppy things.
|
Expedition Everest
|
44"
|
50mph, with added yeti!
|
Kali River Rapids
|
38"
|
Drown due to disinterest in empty terrain.
|
Primeval Whirl
|
48+"
|
29mph and spin till you vomit
|
August 17, 2015
W minus 444
Crazy number of
announcements at D23 expo!
MGM to get a Star Wars
Land and a Toy Story Land! Great news for the future, but may mean the place is
gutted when we get there.
Soarin (over California)
is changing to Soarin’ (Around the world) that should jack up the lines and
negate whatever making the second ride would have cut down.
The Skipper Canteen
(Jungle Cruise Themed restaurant) will be open in place of the old Liberty Tree
Tavern when we get there. Sounds like it’ll have some old left over bits from
the Adventurers’ Club- Time to regrid.
There’s going to be a TRON
lightcycle ride!!! And an Iron Man Experience!!!
2 comments:
The loop in Small World is absolutely terrifying.
I'm so intrigued by the Must Not Do option. Does that mean the person answering doesn't want to go on the ride (or whatever). Or does it mean they don't want anyone else to do it either? From what you said a few lines later, it makes me think people can vote to not let anyone do it. I'm trying to picture what kind of things would be vetoed for everyone.
The more I do the pre trip questionaires, the more I realize I do them to write gags to make the kids (and adults) laugh, and get excited about getting ready for the trip, more than getting information.
I didn't want to use a 5 point numerical scale because I know my family and I'd get fractions. Instead I used descriptions starting with the Stacy channel at Disney World's "Must Do Disney" and working down. "Must Not Do" only meant that person wouldn't do it. It lets me plan out alternate activities if we're getting a fast pass or a timed visit to an attraction if multiple people wont go on.
Thanx again for reading and sharing.
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