You may love the attraction, or you may hate it, but Captain EO is leaving Walt Disney World very soon. On December 6th, the attraction, which returned to the park after the death of the attraction’s star, Michael Jackson, and has stayed since then will close for good.
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In recent months, the Golden Eye Theater has largely been used to display previews for new Disney and Pixar movies. Both Inside Out and Tomorrowland had preview films playing there. Now, it seems Disney is turning this into a more permanent event.
Replacing Captain EO in the Golden Eye Theater will be a brand new movie experience. Inside, guests will soon be able to view Disney and Pixar animated shorts!
As part of the changes to the theater, it will be converted to a 4D theater from its current 3D state. Opening this December, this renovation definitely sounds like it will be an interesting and fast way to improve an existing attraction! I’m glad it will be open by the Holidays so I can experience it!
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Recently, Disney announced new details for Shanghai Disneyland, which included a new version of the popular “Soarin” ride at Epcot and Disney’s California Adventure, called Soarin’ Over the World. Today, they announced that this new version will be coming to both Epcot and Disney’s California Adventure.
The new film will feature scenes from all across the world, unlike the current California themed movie. Hopefully, this new film will create a new and revitalized form of the ride, which has been undergoing improvements at both the Florida and California parks.
The other day, while at Disneyland, a cast member let us know of these additions, and I reported them on twitter. So, I guess you heard it first at Theme Parks and Travels!
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Six Flags Great Adventure is by far the best Six Flags park that I’ve been to! It has some great coasters such as El Toro, the airtime filled INTAMIN woodie as seen above, and Nitro, an amazing B&M hypercoaster. They are also home to Kingda Ka (the giant green roller coaster in the background), the world’s tallest roller coaster (until Skyplex comes in 2017) and Zumanjaro, the world’s tallest drop tower (on the front of Kingda Ka, it isn’t in this picture). It’s a great park, but the theming isn’t as good as other parks! I strongly recommend visiting this park!
Universal Studios Orlando is home to rides from The Simpsons, Despicable Me, Harry Potter, and so much more! This is one of my favorite parks! It provides thrills through what has become a decent amount of thrill rides, but I like some other parks just a little bit more. If you are in Orlando, you have to go to Universal!
#8-Busch Gardens Williamsburg
Busch Gardens Williamsburg is home to some amazing B&Ms! The one in the video (Scroll Down for Subscription Link) above is The Griffon, their B&M Dive Machine! The park also has Apollo’s Chariot, an awesome B&M hypercoaster, and Verbolten, not a B&M, but a great Zierer ride for the whole family with the only vertical drop on a roller coaster in the United States. This park is a hybrid on theming and thrills, which is what I love in a park. It has some of the best theme park landscaping around!
Busch Gardens loves B&Ms! This park is home to Sheikra, Kumba, and Montu, three amazing and powerful B&Ms! On top of that, they have some INTAMIN glory in the Flying Drop tower Falcon’s Fury, and the ride for everyone to enjoy, Cheetah Hunt! This park has a great Safari, some great coasters, and some good landscaping. The theming is relatively good, like its sister park in Williamsburg. Definitely head over to this park from next time you are in Florida!
#6-Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia
Kings Dominion gets points for being my home park! I love I-305 and Volcano, Oh the INTAMIN glory of this park! You can’t forget a ride on Dominator, the B&M floorless coaster, and of course the classic, Premier Rides built, Flight of Fear. Kings Dominion is not the best park by any means, but it is a great local park, it definitely is the best in the region!
#5-EPCOT at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
EPCOT, or the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow was Walt Disney’s biggest dream. Unfortunately, it was nothing like he planned it to be. He planned it as the sprawling city of the future, with what was actually built as its centerpiece. EPCOT is a permanent world’s fair, not the city of tomorrow. Fortunately for us, EPCOT has some great thrill rides, like Test Track, and some awesome family rides like SOARIN! This park has beautiful theming throughout, and delicious food, especially in the world showcase!
#4-Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
The Magic Kingdom is the most visited theme park on earth for a reason. It is one of the most well themed parks on Earth, with a wide array of classic and modern attractions such as Space Mountain, the Jungle Cruise, It’s a Small World, the Haunted Mansion, The Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, and countless others! The Magic Kingdom is great for every age, from 1 to 100, the headline park of Walt Disney World is fantastic!
#3-Hollywood Studios at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida
Disney’s Hollywood Studios is the last Disney park on the list, but I want to give an honorable mention to the Animal Kingdom, it needs some more rides to be great. Hollywood Studios is a park in transition, there are so many rides closed in this park. I can’t wait to see what the transition will bring to this park. Even with the closures, this is my favorite Disney park, because it has theming and thrills! From The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, the best drop tower that I’ve been on, to Rock n’ Roller Coaster, which has some awesome Aerosmith music, to Toy Story Midway Mania, the fun family shooter, Hollywood Studios is jam packed with some of the best rides in the country! This park is worth your time while you are in Orlando!
#2-Islands of Adventure at the Universal Orlando Resort in Orlando, Florida
I love Islands of Adventure, they have a bit of everything! It is the best place to find thrills and theming combined together! From the Marvel Universe, to Jurassic Park, and Harry Potter, this park has it all! It has some great dark rides like Spiderman and The Forbidden Journey, it has the family friendly Dr. Seuss and Toon Lagoon areas of the park, and three amazing B&M coasters (Dragon Challenge is two roller coasters)! This is by far the best mix of theming and amazing thrills that I know!
The Thrill Capital of the world is home to Millennium Force, the number one roller coaster on earth, Maverick, the insane INTAMIN Blitz, Gatekeeper, an awesome B&M WingRider, and so many more insane coasters! This park pushes the boundaries of roller coasters, they were the ones who started the Coaster Wars! It may not have too much theming, but this is by far my favorite park because of the insane thrills of this glorious park!
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That’s right, the five best gift shops! This article is for those of you who crave awesome Disney merchandise and other cool stuff. The five shops on the list either have great variety or completely unique merchandise! There are so many great gift shops at Walt Disney World that it’s impossible to include them all, so I have compiled a list of some of the best. I have an honorable mention for The Art of Disney in EPCOT and everything in the World Showcase, they are the best shops! If you have a gift shop you like a lot, tell us in the comments or tell us on Social Media, we love to hear your opinion!
#5-Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe in The Magic Kingdom isn’t big, but they stick to a fun holiday theme! We love the ornaments that are sold in that store! It’s simply a fun, themed store.
#4-Main Street Emporium is great when you’re trying to find awesome Disney clothes, and nearly every piece of merchandise, in the Magic Kingdom. Although, some other stores are better in our opinion, but not in the Magic Kingdom!
#3-Mitsukoshi Department Store in EPCOT is our favorite in the world showcase. It’s HUGE, it’s definitely a department store! It has everything from Japanese foods to Pokemon. You can find everything Japanese in this store!
#2-The Contemporary Hotel Gift Shops are a couple of gift shops at one end of the contemporary. You can find a lot of various Disney items in these stores. The two stores offer a large selection of objects that make them some of the best stores. I recommend stopping here on your way out of the Magic Kingdom!
#1-Mouse Gear is so large that it needs a map. It’s located right in the center of EPCOT and has everything you can think of related to Disney! It’s the largest gift shop that we know of at Walt Disney World. This is an urgent stop on any visit to EPCOT for us!
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Yesterday was five underrated Disney Attractions, today is five overrated Disney Attractions! These attractions are rides that I feel either are bad and Disney titles them as amazing, or good with lines that are way too long! I have an honorable mention for the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train. The Mine Train is a great ride, but you need to do it early, late, or with a FastPass. Do not wait in the ninety minute plus long lines! *These lines are part of the “new-ride buzz” and should die down eventually!
#5-Peter Pan’s Flight is a classic Disney attraction where you fly over scenes from the story of Peter Pan. It’s good for children and is a slow moving ride, but it often gets waits of an hour or more. Peter Pan’s Flight is fun, but don’t do it if it’s an hour long wait, wait for a five minute line instead, which occasionally happens)!
Peter Pan’s Flight is not worth the wait! Shoutout to the iPad Camera over there!
#4-Toy Story Midway Mania is one of my favorite rides at Disney, but its lines are unbearable. I waited at least an hour and a half for this in the off season before they closed down half of Hollywood Studios. I recommend this ride, but get a FastPass! For the lady that was in front of us, the line was so long that she needed to lay down on the floor and use her Samsung Phone/Tablet.
The talking Mr. Potato Head is the only thing that keeps you sane at Toy Story Midway Mania!
#3-SOARIN’ is yet another of one of my favorite rides, but the lines are yet again unbearable! We waited forty-five minutes, and that was barely worth it. Do not ride this when the lines are long, it’s not worth it!
The sign saying “Now Taking Flight from The Land” should be changed to “Taking flight after being delayed 2+ Hours!”
#2-Dinosaur! gets good reviews from most, but it’s awful. It doesn’t get long lines, but it is flat out terrible. It stopped three or four times during our ride, in the dark, until they had to evacuate us. The people behind us were saying, “not again” as if they had been stuck on it before! This ride is terrible, go ride Expedition Everest instead! The only good thing about this ride is that it got me a free any-ride fast pass! Thanks Dinosaur, for getting me onto Everest faster!
This is where we got stuck, going downhill under the giant dinosaur. At least it didn’t constantly roar at us!
#1-Mission Space is a great achievement according to some of the Imagineers, but it is overrated. I wouldn’t wait an hour for this like many do. It’s a themed centrifuge. I’ll admit that it is intense and feels like you are in a rocket, but it just isn’t that good. If they give you a barf bag, it can’t be good!
It may look pretty and fancy, but Mission Space is terrible!
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Hey everyone! Welcome to Andy’s Lists, my lists of pretty much anything travel or theme park related (mostly theme park). Today I want to share with you my list of five attractions at Walt Disney World that I feel are overlooked, and should be enjoyed by you!
#5-Carousel of Progress in Tommorowland at the Magic Kingdom is a ride that I’m guilty of overlooking. I don’t ride this enough. This is a classic Disney attraction designed by Walt himself for the World’s Fair in New York, but very few people ever ride it. I rarely go on it in my trips to Disney World simply because there’s other attractions I’d rather ride. Which would you rather go on, the Space Mountain indoor roller coaster, or a spinning theatre showing life through a few decades?
#4-Living with the Land in The Land Pavilion at EPCOT. Living with the Land is a boat ride that opened with The Land Pavilion at EPCOT. It is a tour that talks about the history of farming and how it effected the world. After the history lesson, it becomes a tour of the greenhouses of the Pavilion. It’s a relaxing, relatively short ride.
#3-Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse in Adventureland at the Magic Kingdom pretty much sums up itself with its name. This attraction is a walk-through attraction that can get some great views of the park, and from what I heard is an ideal fireworks viewing location.
#2-Tomorrowland PeopleMover in Tomorrowland at the Magic Kingdom is another of Walt’s classic attractions. It runs on some of the first Linear Induction Motors, which have revolutionized the amusement industry powering launched coasters such as California Screamin’ at Disney’s California Adventure. The ride isn’t fast, but it provides a quick tour of Tomorrowland from the sky. The ride shows off a scene in Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin and even goes into Space Mountain! Just look for it between the two tracks on the chain lift! This ride doesn’t get long lines, but is very much worth a few minutes of your time!
#1-Ellen’s Energy Adventure in the Universe of Energy Pavilion at EPCOT is probably the most overlooked attraction at all of Walt Disney World. People are thrown off by the fact that it’s a 45 minute long ride. I can tell you from experience that it’s a great break in the middle of the day as EPCOT becomes busy and overcrowded. If your willing to wait two hours for Soarin’ or Test Track, why not walk on this entertaining 45 minute show with Ellen and her “neighbor” Bill Nye the Science Guy as they go on an adventure through space and time to try and beat Ellen’s old roommate on Jeopardy!
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