Day 1 (Wednesday)
WEDNESDAY (NIGHT):
I forgot to mention this part from the previous entry. When we left Magic Kingdom, we tried to get into Epcot just to check it out. We rode the monorail over and unfortunately, the Disney pass will only allow you in one park a day. So we left Epcot and went to Disney Downtown when it started to rain and ducked into this restaurant called Wolfgang Puck's (not making this up). Then we ate there and went back to our cabin in Fort Wilderness.
THURSDAY, MARCH 10:
We're all going to Epcot which I was stoked for.
It's the Epcot Center! It's called Spaceship Earth. It's supposed to be a ride but screw it--we didn't ride it cause it sucks.
Here is another pic of Spaceship Earth with big plaques with tiny names of people.
Lucky for us it was HGTV's Floral Month or something so there's grass statues of everything. Here's Lotso the Bear from Toy Story 3. SPOILER: Lotso is an a**hole, go to Hell Lotso, no one loves you.
Oooo look, it's Mickey Mouse!!!
It's Lightning McQueen!!!
We are in the Land of Tomorrow, not to be confused with Magic Kingdom's Tomorrowland. This future land makes Tomorrowland look like The Jetsons. WHY AREN'T ALL THE BUILDING HERE MADE OF CHROME, DAMMIT!!??
Here is the monorail zipping above us! At 40 mph (64 kph), not very futuristic if you ask me.
This is a nice flower bed you could see while riding the monorail. Freakin sweet.
It's the water-spitting things I remember a long time ago! They are not as impressive as before--they spray randomly with not much accuracy--they don't hit the same exact spot always and it wasn't windy.
Nice friggin fountain.
We're now entering this mall called The Land. This has to be the best name ever conceived. Really, we're on land, it makes perfect sense.
Actually, I don't think there was much to do in here except stop at a few restaurants or go on a few rides. But it looks big and impressive, I admit.
Inside The Land, we went on this one ride called Soarin'. You walk down these long-ass hallways until David Puddy tells you to fasten your seat-a-belt and you watch a 5-minute IMAX aerial video while this machine lifts you slightly into the air. Sounds great.
Ok, we get it, Land of Tomorrow is great, but what else is there? Well, there's the World Showcase. I had no idea how interesting this place was because there's a couple of acres room displaying the intricacies of a bunch of countries. This includes buildings, restaurants, stores, and even employees from said country working there. So it's like you're actually in another country, I guess. Let's check it out.
Okay, let's start with Canada, eh.
Martin Short? But I thought he wanted to go to Dinosaur World!!!
A little concert stage in Canada. I presume they play Rush concerts every hour on the hour. Otherwise, what else could there be...Dudley Do-Right routines?
This is the United Kingdom. My mom is so fascinated with anything UK-related that it's ridonkulous.
A flower garden. We would revisit this place later since we're were haulin' ass through the whole place.
It's the crocodile from Peter Pan with two birds walking by. Perfect picture!!!
Now here's France. Boooooooring cause you can't walk by the fake Eiffel Tower. And it's nothing but expensive restaurants and perfume stores. No thanks.
A closer picture of France.
Now we're in Morocco. This is the token Arabic country. Unfortunately, not much to do here either.
YES, we made it to Japan!! LOL, I just turned into a weaboo. I'm just joking.
Another pic of Japan; I would come back here later.
Another cool Japanese picture.
Now we're in America. Somehow, the Philadelphia State Hall comes to mind. This is where foreigners come to learn about the Founding Fathers, the Constitution of the United States, GOD, GUNS, GUTS, AND WIDE OPEN SPACES!!!
As we're walking, we pass by a miniature train village. I love stuff like this.
GET ALONG LITTLE DOGGIE!!
We're walking somewhere. I think this is Germany.
Yes, we're in Germany. This must be where the fat bratwurst-eating kids go. This is where I go to honor my white German heritage...as does 50% of all Americans belong, I'm so special.
If you go in the gift shop and pull a secret lever behind in the beer mug shelf, you'll discover a secret rave club gettin down to the house music. We're all living in America, Coca-Cola, Wonderbra...
This is Italy. Italy sucks cause it looks like Spain. Italy also sucks cause there's no Ferrari museum. And I don't want to eat pizza and spaghetti so screw it.
Look, it's Lady and the Tramp, lol!!!
And we're in China which I always thought was neat. It doesn't have the video games that Japan does, but we still love it anyway!!! Fortunately, no Tienanmen Square/Communist tank replicas.
This is Norway. I'm not terribly interested in Scandinavia & vikings in general so there wasn't much to do here.
And this is the last country on the list, Mexico. Finally, we stop and eat some overpriced tacos. If you go inside this pyramid, you enter some Maxican villa/marketplace
At this point, I think our family decided to split up into pieces and just walk which way. All I know is that I went back to Japan to check out the store.
Wow, holy s***, I gotta tell ya I was a bit stoked to come here. OMG, Pokemon toys, Naruto t-shirts, Hello Kitty stuff, WWWEEEEEE!!!!
Up until this point, I hadn't by anything with my money. So I saw all those Pokemon plushies and started grabbing some of them. Okay, so I kind of do like Pokemon, but not THAT much (I haven't played any Pokemon games besides Red/Blue). So I get a couple of Pokemon--Snivy, Palkia, Ho-oh, and some other guys. Then I looked for Sega-related stuff. There was just a few Sonic-related items so I grabbed a hat. As I take this to the cash register, the young man behind me made an interesting comment:
GUY: You've got good taste there, my friend.
ME: Ehh, not enough Sega stuff here.
GUY: I hear you. You like Pokemon?
ME: Not that much. I figured I'm not going have the chance to buy these Pokemon toys in a long time.
GUY: Yes, I got the new Pokemon Black/White, etc. blahblahblah I forgot....
I think I could've talked more, but I don't know...I was just buying a bunch of Pokemon toys, I felt like a bit of a loser. The nice Japanese lady at the register said thank you and bowed for me so I bowed back...yeah, better get used to hanging out with actual Japanese people if I want to chill with Yu Suzuki and make the new Daytona game.
But this store didn't carry just anime stuff, it also had samurai swords! I have no interest in swords, just gimme a gun or a ballistic knife or something.
I scoured the rest of the store looking for anything else Sega-related but there was nothing...you can buy more t-shirts, kimonos, mats...uh, and some pocky. Hey, I'll just stick with the Milky Way bars.
So I'm hopping from country to country with my dad and we stop by the Chinese museum...wow, the Terracotta army...this place is both FUN and EDUCATIONAL!!
Then we go back to Germany and look at the shot glasses they had there. Wow, they had a lot of shot glasses (no pictures, sorry).
We go into the Mexican pyramid and here's an entire village of Mexican stuff. Arriba, arriba, andalay!! Jump da border!! Via con Dios.
BUT WAIT, THERE'S EVEN MORE!! There's another cool ride in Epcot called the Test Track. Okay, now you know anything car-related makes me giddy. Let's go check it out.
This is the entrance to the Test Track, brought to you by Government Motors (GM)!
You get inside and it's like a crash test facility. Only instead of test dummies, they use real people, I think.
After we're taken into a room and forced to watch a video of some clipboard guy who'll subject your car to grueling test, you get in the six-seater car. What a lame-ass car. No steering wheels to hold on to. Hardass plastic seats. If this is the car of the future, I'm gonna be pissed.
We're in the car and we're ready to roll!
This is the last picture I got with my camera before I flew out and beaned an unsuspecting ride attendant in the face. JK. This is the ride on YouTube (not my video):
You go at 70 mph (113 kph) for about ten seconds at the end, making it the fastest ride in Disney World, apparently. Lame, I wanted to ride in a stock car at 180+ mph. I mean, I drive 70 mph on the highway, the only difference here is that I'm on rails and there's no car roof. Didn't change the fact that it was fun.
After the ride, you're deposited into this Shameless GM Self-Promotion Room with fuel cell cars! Yes!
A Camaro, NICE.
I don't know what car this is but it looks hella cool.
Damn, look at all these cars, just like freakin Gran Turismo...
Before you leave, you have to check out the 9 pm fireworks show. There's a big lake that all the countries border. All this crap blows up in this island out there. Terrorist attack in Disney World!!!
And then out comes this illuminated globe. Apparently in praise of the United Nations which hasn't done anything to change the fact that more than half of the world's countries are totalitarian hellholes. WTG, Disney.
And then there's an assload of fireworks.
Then we go back to our little Fort Wilderness cabin. The end, will post Friday/Saturday real soon.
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