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Channel98 said:
Disneyland and Walt Disney World raise admission prices every year, sometimes twice in a year. For millions of families, the parks are no longer affordable. For the next four months, Disney World is offering discounted admission to guests arriving after noon: $88 plus tax. Wooh, what a bargain! JHDK will now be able to afford to go to Disney World and buy a churro!
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2 things:
- He gets the resident discount.
- Is Disneyworld empty? No? Then they don't need to lower prices. That's how the world works.
 
Disney is expensive, there is no denying that, but that have not priced out the working class. Now I get the FL discount and live 3 hours away and make enough where I can go every week and not really have to go without in other areas of my life...maybe I sacrifice some other dumb pleasures but nothing of import.

But even if I lived in ME or OH or TX I could still find my way here once or maybe twice a year. If you know what your doing the airfare and tickets are the only major expenses. You can eat and stay really cheap if you go right outside the parks. And even the cheapest hotels have free shuttles to the parks, once on Disney property all transportation is free.
 
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Speaking of which, I decided to make it a weekend this time. I'm here right now:

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I decided to go visit my aunt in Melbourne then drive over here and stay the night for once. It's a cheap motel that is fine. It's a bit rundown but not dirty and for the price it will do. I went and saw The Lion King at the Disney Springs AMC...I thought that would be a good one to see on Disney property. I'll check out at 11 tomorrow and head to the parks.

I'm thinking of doing something expensive and stupid tomorrow. Animal Kingdom has "Disney After Hours" going on tomorrow. For the low, low price of $125 (more than a third of my annual pass price) you get to stay in the park after it closes for 3 hours. They limit the number of tickets sold so you can get on all the rides with no lines. I kinda just want to ride the Avatar Flight of Passage ride like 20 times in a row. I've only been on it once (documented in this thread) and it's great but always has at least a 2 hour line. The one time I got on it was when I got to the park at opening...however, since then they open AK early every Monday for people staying at Disney hotels so I can never get on it anymore. Not sure if I'm actually going to do it but I'm seriously thinking about it. If I do it it means I won't head home until 12 am and be home by 3 am. Still enough time for me to get a full night's sleep before I have to be back at work on Tues at 3 pm.

Until then I'll be pounding TNG episodes on my laptop with preseason football on mute in the background in my cheap motel room.
 
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If it doesn't break your budget, go for it. After hours with far less people is great, isn't it. Particularly compared to a hot August day with long lines.
 
Here comes a possible 15 hour day in the parks. Still not sure if I'm doing the after hours thing, I'll keep ya posted.
 
In the tech boom 90s, DEC rented Disneyland for the attendees of DECUS one year. We had the entire park to ourselves for the evening. No lines. We could just stay on a ride as long as we wanted. That was sweet.

DEC went bust shortly after that.
 
I'm surprised nobody has pressured Disney to change that sexist name "The Magic Kingdom" to the gender-neutral "Magic Realm."
 
When I was a senior in high school, my school did a trip to Disney right before graduation. It was called "Grad Night" where we, and a few thousand other high school seniors got run of the Magic Kingdom from 9:00 PM until 5:00 AM. All rides and concessions were open. It was pretty awesome.
 
Major change of plans. I did 4 hours in EPCOT. Did:

Spaceship Earth
Living with the Land
Figment
The American Adventure
Soarin'

Then I decided I had enough and I'm now back in Boca. No After Hours at AK this week. They do it at that park for the next few weeks so maybe I'll do it later, we'll see. Overall it was a fun Disney weekend.
 
In 1998, Disney started construction on California Adventure, a new theme park adjacent to Disneyland. I thought it was a dumb idea. It's in California! Anyway, the park opened February 8, 2001 and Soarin' Over California was one of the attractions. That, too, was a dumb idea. We're in California! In 2005, the attraction was duplicated at EPCOT, which made more sense. The name was shortened to Soarin'. The sensation of soaring would be much more convincing if Disney's special effects department had used interstitial footage that makes us feel we're sailing into, and out of, clouds. Instead, one scene abruptly changes into another. I want realism!

Be honest, JHDK: You flinch every time that golf ball sails toward you, don't you? :D
 
Channel98 said:
Be honest, JHDK: You flinch every time that golf ball sails toward you, don't you? :D
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IDK abot the CA one but in FL they updated the video a few years back. You now go to a whole bunch of US and international locations then wind up back at EPCOT. They still have rather jarring cuts from scene to scene but I've never found it annoying. Also, the international theme is more appropriate for the international nature of EPCOT. I did like the CA version though.

Oh and with the new video there is no more golf ball.
 
We took a field trip to Disney my senior year of college.
We got to check out some things back stage, a little VIP to some of the operations stuff. We didn't have any special access to rides though.

It was partly to learn some lessons from the the masters, see some cool architecture, and partly to let off a little steam before the last couple of months before our final project deadlines.

Good time.

I got pneumonia.
 
I’ve only been to Disney World once. It was at the end of a drum corp tour in summer 1983. I had contracted a nasty virus and was running a 103° fever. I just rode Space Mountain a lot.
 
I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on television, but if you had a 103° fever, wouldn't you have been better off riding Splash Mountain instead of Space Mountain?
 
memebag said:
I’ve only been to Disney World once. It was at the end of a drum corp tour in summer 1983. I had contracted a nasty virus and was running a 103° fever. I just rode Space Mountain a lot.
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That sounds like just about the same thing. We drank a lot. Rode some rides. Barely slept.
The last day, everyone was heading out to check out some more stuff. We had about 6 or 7 hours before our buses picked us up. We started out for the day, and I started to feel kinda crappy, so I went back to the hotel restaurant/cafeteria thing. We had already checked out of the hotel, so there wasn't anywhere to hang out. I found a booth in the back and fell asleep. My friends woke me up and threw me on the bus. The whole drive back to Ohio, I woke up once to take a leak. (It might have been Atlanta.) Got back to my apartment, and slept for 2 days. My fever was over 100.

Finally went to the Drs and they told me I had pneumonia. That really sucked.
 
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