That’s right, if you want to buy a custom MagicBand on your trip to Walt Disney World, you now can. The new MagicBand on Demand station opened recently in the Tomorrowland Power & Light Co. building, which is located next to the exit of Space Mountain.
Inside, guests can choose from eight colors and over forty graphics to create their own personalized MagicBand. At the end of the process, the MagicBand can be customized to include the guest’s name.
In addition to customization of MagicBands, the location will also feature the ability to customize a D-Tech phone case. The price of these MagicBands is $21.95, and the addition of a name will bump that up to $29.95.
Overall, this sounds like a pretty cool new way to customize your experience at Walt Disney World, but I’m not sure that I would pay over $20 to customize something I will only wear on my trip to Disney World. It’s overpriced unless you will be visiting multiple times throughout the year (and even then I’m not sure it’s worth it).
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Yesterday, at the D23 Expo, a new restaurant was announced for the Magic Kingdom. The restaurant will be themed to one of the most famous and popular attractions at any Disney park, the Jungle Cruise.
The restaurant’s name will be the “Skipper Canteen.” It will feature rooms themed to things such as the Jungle Cruises skippers’s mess hall and a once hidden adventurers society room. The staff will be Jungle Cruise skippers. The restaurant is slated to open later this year.
To me, this sounds like it will be a well themed and fun restaurant. I definitely need to eat there next time I’m at the Magic Kingdom!
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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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Hello Everyone! Welcome to park (no pun intended) #2 of A Very Disney Christmas! After an afternoon at Hollywood Studios, we decided to spend the day at the Magic Kingdom! We have brought you an update full of great pictures, writing, and even a video! Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to edit all of our videos, so they will show up later, but we have one! So let’s get started with this article!
The Grand Floridian Hotel looks great in the morning sunshine!
Good Morning Magic Kingdom! Thousands of tourists are ready to go down your beautiful Main Street!
Main Street was decorated for Christmas! As always, the decorations were fantastic!
Ooh! Artsy train station!
The architecture on the Main Street Buildings is exquisite. The Imagineers are careful and pay attention to each and every detail.
I see the Cinderella castle (and a pre-Christmas crowd)!
I wonder what that wire was for? It went down to Tomorrowland Terrace.
Mickey and Minnie have some holiday spirit!
Even the Tomorrowland sign is covered in detail!
The construction had begun at the central hub.
The world of the future as envisioned in the past.
First up was Space Ranger Spin! I love this Toy Story Themed shooter! This is a must do for us, and families. It rarely ever has lines if you go early!
Next was Space Mountain. I didn’t take a picture, but I got one of my last Disney World credits (by riding the second side)! Then came the TTA PeopleMover!
You can see the construction up there on the PeopleMover.
Next we swung around the Tomorrowland Speedway!
I see Space Mountain and the now closed arcade! Next we would venture inside Space Mountain!
More of the Hub Construction from December!
Looking at the castle from the future!
A closeup of the castle! What’s that wire doing there?
Here’s a great shot of a classic coaster!
From a little bit closer!
The Storybook Circus section of New Fantasyland looks fantastic!
Barnstormer was my last Disney World coaster credit!
Another view of this beautiful section of the park!
The castle was poking out through the trees!
Dumbo! This ride has an excessively long Looking queue, but it was only a five minute wait.
It’s Dwarf Mountain, the newest mountain in the Disney collection!
I wonder where all the crowds are? It’s three days before Christmas and nobody was at Dumbo!
Oh! That’s where they are!
75 minutes! It’s a good thing we had a fastpass (to be used later in the day)!
The back of the castle!
Peter Pan’s flight suddenly got a long line!
But, It’s a Small World didn’t! By the time we got off, the lines had shifted between the rides!
Poor Rock, it must of hurt him to have fallen on Fred!
Haunted Mansion is a classic, but someone in our group hates it!
Splash Mountain! We wouldn’t do this until later when we had a FastPass!
A reborn Disney Classic!
The fifty minutes was closer to 35 minutes!
Guess-Is it the Jungle or the Jungle Cruise?
If you guessed either of those, you are wrong! It was actually the Jingle Cruise full of fun Christmas puns!
Ursus H. Bear founded the greatest show on Earth, the Country Bear Jamboree!
A fun little show with the best bears around!
Look, it’s the Haunted Mansion!
The Ye Olde Christmas Shoppe was extra busy since it was the 21st of December!
Side view of the Cinderella Castle, with Space Mountain poking out!
After a quick lunch at Tomorrowland Terrace, as it was the least crowded restaurant, we waited thirty minutes for Asto-Orbiter!
Astro Orbiter offers a nice view of the area, but the capacity is miserable!
After riding Space Mountain again, we went back over to Frontierland to ride Splash Mountain! I love Splash Mountain. The drop was simply awesome! Next, we headed back to our room at the Polynesian Village Resort, took a break, and had some pizza for dinner! We came back to the Magic Kingdom late and rode Laugh Floor, hopped on the PeopleMover, and managed to miss most of the fireworks. Then we rode Seven Dwarfs Mine Train for the first time. Here’s a nighttime POV:
On our way out, I snapped this with a GoPro! It looks like Cinderella Castle is a thousand feet tall!
After a long day of riding great rides, dodging selfie sticks, and navigating through tourists, we went back to the hotel and got some sleep before another long day at three parks!
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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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Today in Ride Renovations and Re-Designs we have Stitch’s Great Escape! I hate this ride with a true passion and I want to see it destroyed! This is probably the worst ride at all of Walt Disney World. It’s unpopular, it scares little kids, and it doesn’t do Tomorrowland justice in my opinion. Stitch’s Great Escape replaced the ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter ride in 2004 and uses the same ride mechanics. Lilo and Stitch is a popular Disney movie, but it deserves a different attraction, and so does Tomorrowland.
The real question is what could replace it? It is a ride without a large footprint, so it would have to be a compact ride. One of the things Tomorrowland would lack, without Stitch’s Great Escape, would be a simulator ride. Tomorrowland has a good show (Laugh Floor), a good coaster (Space Mountain), a good flat ride (Astro Orbiter), and a few slow moving rides, so I think that Disney should add in a moderate or fast simulator ride. It doesn’t have to have as many vehicles as something like Star Tours, but a ride more like Despicable Me Minion Mayhem would fit into a smaller amount of space, and could provide for a moderate thrill ride.
The building in the Upper left side is partially Stitch’s Great Escape.
Now, the last question is what that simulator ride could be themed to? My idea is to put in a ride where you are flying through the city of Tomorrow on a flying car. This would fit with the retro-futuristic ideas of Tomorrowland, but then I realized that it could be themed to the upcoming movie Tomorrowland. From the previews I’ve seen, it has some sort of flying vehicle. Also, the movie looks like it will be a success, so why not capitalize on that? If I were to re-do Stitch’s Great Escape, I’d change it to a ride about flying through the city of the future, like in the upcoming movie Tomorrowland!
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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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