Florida 01/26 – Epcot + Magic Kingdom
By this day we had pretty much covered everything new in the area that we had needed to, a both satisfying and saddening accomplishment when faced with lots of simple ‘revisit’ time. I don’t do well with that. We had one day worth of Disney left to use up and this was the last date on which we could do so, so decided to cobble together an attempt at a sort of highlight tour of old and new.
Day 6 – Epcot again
Back in dismal Disney, everything was significantly worse than it had been earlier in the week, which was still saying something for the time of year. Logic behind being here was our single go at Guardians being a little lackluster. Wanted to give it another opportunity, but the queue was ruined upon arrival.
Test Track hadn’t fully fleshed out yet, so here we are again. Great ride, love the update.
Not wanting to get too down about Epcot, we took a wander just to soak up the sights more, rather than sweating over attractions.
Here’s England, unconvincingly.
Morocco, maybe.
Spoilers.
Wanted to try some pizza in Italy, so here’s a picture of China, but they weren’t open yet. That was annoying, and then by the time lunchtime rolled around, the park got even more unpleasantly busy to the point that you couldn’t really move effectively along pathways, ruling out another lap around the pavilions.
So, under the guise of a lunchtime lull, here’s Guardians again, with a slower and longer queue.
Pre-show was still broken, we positioned ourselves better for the escape so that wasn’t so bad. Then, 1/6*1/6, we got the same stupid song again.
This time, instead of being distracted by any visuals, I tried to focus solely on the dialogue in an attempt to understand what was happening in the story. It didn’t really help, the clash with the music is pretty obnoxious. You win obviously, something something I am Groot and you’re done.
Nah. Better than Tron, but what isn’t?
Speaking of, here’s Magic Kingdom again
Rather than focusing on the +1, today was an opportunity to focus on the attractions we actually like at this park.
It was still grim as anything, multiple hour queues even for food outlets, difficult to walk anywhere, and the weather had returned just to the cusp of “I’m probably going to get sunburnt and slightly ill now if we do this much longer.”
Haunted Mansion looked worse than it was, stretching way beyond the entrance and alongside some construction walls where the steamboat used to be. They provided shade.
Got to play with an interactive thing in the queue, so that was new. Then the pre-show is great because of course it is. Then the bottleneck to the station sucks. Then the ride is great because of course it is. It’s not Christmas.
Pirates of the Caribbean. I love all the Pirates. Often forget the key differences between them, but Florida ain’t one of the better ones. Ends on a travelator so that’s a bonus.
And Space Mountain, after it spited us the other day. Nearly did again as we got to the gates and it decided to go all ’70s temperamental on us. A million staff were on hand and got it going again to a round of applause.
Best coaster on resort.
1 wild lap on that left us happy, happy enough to leave immediately after and never look back.
Then the monorail was broken, so we had to take a bus. 6 rides in 12 hours, what a time to be alive.