ZapperZ's and Philaduckia's Blog on everything Disney. We are Disney Vacation Club members, Walt Disney World Annual Passholders, and Disney Pin collector. All of them make for a very lethal combination! :)
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Here's a bit of nostalgia from many years ago. It was still called Downtown Disney, and there was still Pleasure Island. This was in front of the Lego store.
I didn't take this one. This was taken by a cast member who was escorting us as we did the Wild Africa Trek at Disney's Animal Kingdom. Of course this is a photo over the crocs that you see during the Kilimanjaro Safari ride. It was such a fun thing to do, we'd love to do it again.
Missed posting a photo yesterday, so there will be two today.
Yesterday was May the 4th, with his the unofficial Star Wars Day for May The 4th Be With You. So the first photo is a Star Wars related one. This is from Disney's Hollywood Studios.
The second one is from Castaway Cay when we stop over twice during a DVC Member Cruise.
Didn't get to post a photo yesterday, so today, I'll post two.
First one is a blast from the past. I miss the Gates of Winter, and one can only hope that they'll bring it back in one form or another. Although, we the financial hit Disney is taking with the shutdown, who knows what will happen after this is all over.
The second photo is from Animal Kingdom Lodge. This was taken during one of our Wanyama Safari trip at that resort. Obviously, it was giraffe feeding time here.
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I'm going to start posting a photo a day of Disney theme parks and Resorts (including Disney Cruise Line) during their shutdown, just to get some Disney Magic going. Here's my first one.
Rise of the Resistance attraction at DHS has finally opened (with some technical difficulties from the reports I read about last night's opening and press preview).
I must admit, somehow this reminds me of the Great Movie Ride married to Star Tours. I wonder how long before Disney starts to cut back on many of the cast members who are live characters on the attraction, and how frequent will the technical problems be that will shut down the ride.
This is our Jack Skellington tree for Halloween 2019.
We started off with a basic Jack Skellington tree that we probably bought at Walgreens from a few years ago. Then we added two sets of Jack Skellington head ornaments that we got from Hallmark. Those filled up the tree quite a bit, and this is what we end up with.
If you haven't seen it, here is a video of Epcot Forever on its opening night.
It isn't bad, and certainly not as disappointing as the show that replaced Wishes at the Magic Kingdom. I think die-hard Epcot fans will like it more than a casual visitor because of the nostalgia factor. So my guess is that the majority of Epcot's visitors will not be familiar with many of the tunes being played during the show. The overall music, though, is not as catchy and as spectacular/melodic as the original Illuminations - Reflections of Earth. But at least they incorporated, for my nostalgia benefit, snippets of Tapestry of Nations, which is my all-time most favorite Disney music.
There were anything spectacular with respect to the show itself, other than the kites. They were neat, but considering the number of cast members they have to employ during the show to do that, I don't see that one lasting for long, even if this is a temporary show. There are also a few "dead" spots during the show where nothing happens for several seconds. So the transition from one to the other was too obvious.
All in all, it isn't a poor replacement for Illuminations, but it isn't as good. Now they have an almost impossible task of coming up with something more spectacular next year when they replace this one.
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