Day 5
Today I just have a adr for dinner at Coral
Reef. I use my Finding Nemo t-shirt, “Hi my name is Bruce” the shark. I wonder how many people will get it?
I am lazy,
I get out of bed by
The lady next door to my room
was bitching on her cell phone about people.
How bad they are. She leaves her ecv
outside the room to charge. She was also smoking outside her room while
sitting on her ECV. If she was smoking near my ac intake I would show her
nasty.
I waited a couple of minutes wait for the next Epcot bus. He pulls in and starts to let passengers
on. Hello?? What about me ?? They usually board ECV’s
before other people board. The third
person to board points me out the bus driver.
He stops others from boarding and lowers the bus, extends the ramp for
me.
I head to Sunshine Seasons
and have breakfast there.
I liked the French toast
better then the waffles they usually give.
After eating I use my GAC
pass to ride Soarin, then I
head to Imagination Pavilion.
There are rumors that this
attraction will be shut down and be a total rehab with a new theme. So I treat this as a last ride. Here is the video.
I then head to ride the new
version of Test Track. I have a fast pass
plus for this later, so I use my GAC card.
I am brought into a preshow area. Using RFID technology on my
Magic Band to create a unique car on a touch screen. I finish early, but still have to wait before
the doors open. When they do, I have to
go up a ramp. The trouble with going up
ramps in a scooter, they tend to roll backwards about ½ a foot before going
forward. Its
like going from a brake to forward by going through neutral. I am paying careful attention to make sure no
one is behind me. The combined weight of
me and the ECV could be close to 400 pounds, causing major damage if I run over
someone’s foot.
I make it up to ride without
any problems. When waiting to board the
car, you are supposed to scan your Magic Band so along the ride, you will get
statistics comparing your ride to the car you created. If you don’t have a Magic Band, they supply
you with a card that has a chip built in.
The post ride activities has you creating a commercial, emailing it to
people or yourself. Then use a old style video game to drive your car on a race course
with other people. Again, this is all
done using the RFID chip to have the system ID who you are and the car you
create. Here is the video.
They create a commercial for
you after the ride, here is the video of the
commercial.
After Test Track, I head to
Mission Space. The family I was with
didn’t press any buttons when told to do so, lucky for computer override J
I head to
After eating I head to the
American Adventure to see the show.
When I enter the pavilion, I am directed to a hidden elevator and
allowed to wait on the second floor, watching the performers below.
Even though I am escorted to the back of the
theater, I leave my scooter in the rear of the theater and sit up front. Since this show is light in terms of
attendance, it is ok. I like to be close
enough to see the smoke from Mark Twain’s cigar.
After the show, I have a fastpass plus for Mission Space, so I head there.
In the preshow area,
I am teamed with a family of there.
After the preshow, before we board, the mother
and daughter decide not to ride. Then
the father leaves too. So the CM’s reteam me with another
family missing one person.
After MS, I head to Universe
of Energy. I enter the pavilion just
before boarding people on the ride. A
stranger thing happened here. In the
portion where you are going through the dinosaurs, when you see Ellen fighting
the snake on the left, there are spitting dinosaurs on the right. This time when I was looking at the
dinosaurs, I got hit in the eyes with a stream of water,
a little more powerful then I would think is safe. But I don’t have any eye problems. Before leaving the area, I talk to the CM at
the attractions entrance about this. He
tells me, nothing to worry about, some guests get it in the mouth and that they
use purified water. I have no ill
effects, so not too worried.
Next I had a fast pass plus
time for Test Track, so I went back there. Here is a photo of the car I
created.
Not a big deal, but I wanted
to share it.
When we went outdoors, the wind bothered my
eyes so much, they started to tear up. I
had to hold my hand over my eyes. I
guess the water hitting me in the eyes did bother me. Here is the video of the ride.
And the
commercial of it.
I now have a FP+ for Soarin, so I head across the plaza to back to The Land.
After Soarin,
with a certain amount of angst, I head to Spaceship Earth. They use a stock face, not my edited head shot
where they remove the interlocking NY from my hat. I don’t bother to send the email with the
video of it to myself, I have it recorded on my
personal video. Here is that video.
I check in a little early for
my dinner ADR at Coral Reef. They have
lots of people waiting, so I figure it will be a long wait.
Here is a photo of a scuba
diver picking up something in the tank.
I had a good meal,
steak. I didn’t go for the appetizer as
I usually get here. And for dessert, their lava cake.
After dinner, I am tired, but
more importantly, my scooter is tired. I
also looked at my scheduled fastpass plus times. I think I meant to do a water park in the am
today, but forgot about it. Instead I
will head back to my resort, go to Downtown Disney and try out Disneyquest. Its been years since I went inside. I look over my schedule
tomorrow, and decide to do
I get off the bus at my
resort and I see a truck from my scooter rental company sitting there. So
I approached him, told them my battery is almost dead, perhaps there is a
problem? He asks me what time I stopped charging it, and started to use
it. It was about
hours on a single charge, I was in my 11th hour. I will worry if I will
rent from them again next year.
I was using my digital camera to take video, which killed three sets of
batteries, so I wanted to charge those batteries back in my room. I also
wanted to remove all the content off the digital cameras memory card and back
it up too.
I left my room about
I entered the place, they weren't permanently setup for magicband,
but had a portable unit, scanned it and I was good to go. I told them I
didn’t know pretty much what to do, they sent me to
the 3rd floor.
They had video game setup here. The first game I tried was a tank battle game
that I was playing against some kid next to me, maybe 8 or 9. He gave up
playing after I killed his tank too many times :) Yea..
I know.. I was picking on a 8
year old, but he was there before I was.
I was walking around and saw a new version of a old style sub game that I first
played back in my teens, I played with that till
I got almost a million points. It’s a fun game where you see a ship
crossing the screen in front of you, you need to aim
your torpedo to sink it. There is a skill to this... which I still
have ;)
I tried some flying games, not that good on those type
games. I looked up the stairs and saw more video games. These were
first person shooting games that you hold a full size gun.
Let me tell you this story. Maybe 15 to 20 years, where I worked as a
field tech, we worked in the office with the sales office. The sales
people had a great quarter and were rewarded with a night out at a sports
bar. They invited the field techs too. They had this large screen
TV game where you have a computer gun in your hand to shoot the bad guys.
When I finished playing, everyone was looking at me at what I just did.
To me, it was no big deal, you pull the trigger, and
move onto the next target, squeeze, next target. you
don’t keep looking to know you dropped the bad guy, you know you did :)
So I saw nothing but different first person shooting games. I was in heaven.
First game I played, I hit #1 score. Then they told me the place was
closing. Disneyquest closes at 10?? I guess.
You know something, the hour I spent at Disneyquest
is probable the best memory of this trip I had so far. I had fun :)
Its been a long time since I went into my stand,
closed one eye... and squeezed the trigger ;) I may not have the
coordination to have Mickey jump from one moving gear to another anymore.
But I can still do a good job at a shooting game ;)
I head to the bus stations by
Planet Hollywood. I am waiting by the Pop bus station when a driver calls me
over to the bus station next to me. It
seems he is also a pop century bus, but had to park here. I am on the bus and headed back to my resort.
Mouse(house)keeping leaves me a butterfly by my sink today.
