Photo TR: WDW! Aug 2 - 7

Well, to spare everyone from a long written TR, I'll just hit the high points and the low points really quickly here and then on to the pics!

Alrighty, well last week my g/f Liz and I went down to visit my old roommate Carrie and some other friends and go to the parks! It's always nice to go to Disney for nothing. It was nice to have Liz there with me because she hasnt been there for like 10 years so unlike me and everyone else I know, she never worked there and didnt know everything inside and out!

SOARIN' --- AMAZINGGGG.. I'll never get over this ride. I rode it out in Cali and it blew me away, and I rode it in March at Epcot during a preview and was blown away again. I dont care if it's the same as CA's (for now anyways) because its just an awesome, totally imersive ride experience and I'm just happy to have it in FL! Great ride.. we rode it the first day and waited 30 minutes and then used a fastpass and got right back on.. the last day we were there tho the wait was 80 minutes.

TEST TRACK --- Always a great ride. Always a long wait too.. we used Fastpass but the time got up to 100 minutes.

LIGHTS, MOTORS, ACTION! -- This was my first time seeing this and it was crazy!! They did a great job on the "stadium" especially since the sun is mostly kept off of eveyone and the whole thing is beautifully themed. The only downside was the time it took between scenes and how quick some of the stunts were. All in all, an awesome show IMO.. but nothing can replace Indiana Jones!

MILLIONAIRE --- We didnt get in the hot seat.. sniff sniff.. however two brothers did back to back. There's gotta be some kind of secret to this I dont know.. because a lot of the time several people from the same area are in the Top 10.. I've been number 1 already (not that it matters since I was a cast member) but never in the hot seat.

TOWER OF TERROR --- I would never tell Liz what a ride was or what it did so this was funny. She only expected it to drop once, and then after that she just about ripped my shorts off she had that tight a grip. haha.. poor girl...

RNR --- EHhhh.. Good launch and first inversion but then I think the ride just dies after that.

Space Mountain -- Still has the best drop around IMO.. when ure flying into the mass of metal and then drop below it thinking ure head is about to be chopped off. Waited about 40 minutes for this, SOAKED, and then about 30 after Wishes one night. I'm still betting that in less than a year once Everest opens we'll see this go down for the refurb like DL's.

Dinosaur --- Always a fun ride! Liz wasn't expecting this either. I was glad she got the front right seat.. heh heh heh

Well, that's all I really feel like going over.. haha. We had a great time though and although the parks were relatively crowded we just abused Fastpass the whole time and got everything done we really wanted to do. The only thing we really missed was Mission:Space, but I really didnt have much desire to ride that again.. everything else we pretty much did. Including the lackluster Stitch! which even had Liz coming out saying "WTF?!".. oh well, on to the pics!

Eric, off to Cedar Point tomorrow!

Sunset from above, looked cool.. the rest of the flight back to BWI was grey..

Southwest likes to advertise themselves on their wings.. I guess?

Tea Anyone?? Not me.. Bleh..

Sorta Blurry, but the train looked really cool with the sunset.

Cool BTMR shot with the sunset.

Goin' Up Around the Bend..

Hi Liz! Thats right, look at the line for Small World!! It was a 20 minute wait. Looks nice tho since the rehab'age.

Awesome Sunset!! Looks like the Lion King.

BOOM! Finale...

Lights, Motors, Action!! Awesome show.

Just a pretty Main Street picture..

2 hours after that, sunny again... Cinderellabration in progress.. we watched for a few minutes until our attention spans maxed out.

2 hours later.. Almost looks like War of the Worlds type clouds! We got soaked..

Spaceship Earth! I'm so happy they apparently cant rip out the ride.. Look how nice and sunny it is at noon..

Me, I almost have a Robb type look on my face.. I was wondering why the House of Innoventions was a 30 minute wait.

Awesome pictures. I really like the sunset pictures. Thanks for posting.

--Sören

You have some nice pictures there. I liked the Space Moutain one with the evil clouds. On the Millionaire game, as soon as you see the correct answer pop up, rapidly hit the button (over and over again) until after all four answers pop up. This helps you to get a faster response time.

Those pix are fab-Esp the sunset 1s!! I Love WDW!!

yeah! the space mountain pic with the clouds was great! they looked very foreboding. I like the sunset pics too, very nice TR.

Nice TR!!

I didn't know Space Mtn in WDW was going down. Are they going to keep the same style ride or is it going to be like Disneylands?

Space Mt at WDW is going down? I have not heard about this. :shock:

Your pictures made me long for another trip to WDW. My last (and so far only) visit there was in July 2002.

Eric

Very nice photos! Thanks! 8)

Nice TR!!

 

I didn't know Space Mtn in WDW was going down. Are they going to keep the same style ride or is it going to be like Disneylands?

He was speculating. It's not being refurbed, as far as we know, even though it needs to be more than any other ride I can think of at the moment. It would be rediculous to redo DL's because it's the park's birthday, and leave the original hanging when it's arguably got even more issues. I don't feel safe on that thing anymore.

He was speculating. It's not being refurbed, as far as we know, even though it needs to be more than any other ride I can think of at the moment. It would be rediculous to redo DL's because it's the park's birthday, and leave the original hanging when it's arguably got even more issues. I don't feel safe on that thing anymore.

Thanks everyone! I have more pictures that hopefully I'll get around to posting later on in the week. I'm heading out to Cedar Point in.. 6 hours, guess I should sleep...

But yeah.. I was just speculating on WDW refurbing Space Mountain. It just makes too much sense to do it after Everest opens up... the MK isnt getting anything *big* in the near future, unless you call Pooh's playground and meeting thing big. That and like you said... the WDW Space Mountain has issues and needs to be redone sometime in the near future.. You never know though.. this *is* Disney afterall.. (who uses some of the best real estate at the MK to build a playground)

Eric "I wish I would've gotten pictures of Everest because it looks AMAZING" Geiple

MK hasn't gotten anything big since Splash Mountain. :?

Awesome photos.... may have to copy that tea cup pic... that is a beautiful picture and it is my daughter's favorite ride.

Shari "makes me wanna go... ok, getting out of bed in the morning makes me want to go to WDW, but THIS really makes me want to" Shoufler

I absolutely love the picture of Big Thunder going around the curve! What kind of camera are you using, and what were the settings for that? Is it digital or film? Also, LOVE the one of the teacups! They are beautiful.

-Julie

Very nice TR! That pic with BTM at sunset is very nice.