Disney’s Awesome Things #5: Seeing Yourself on Spaceship Earth

#5 When the new Spaceship Earth was revealed a couple years ago, a lot of people bashed it for having a plain ending. People said they wanted to see more final scenes rather than animations of the future.

Whichever side you take on this heated Disney debate, you must admit the instant the introduction of “Welcome to your Future” starts rolling, you get excited. The three other family/friends in your time machine are all laughing at each others’ deformed, cropped photos.

Meanwhile your face has been plastered up on the huge globe in the post-ride area by Siemens, for the whole world to view. Isn’t it awesome? I just don’t understand how people can complain about watching a comical futuristic video with you and your friend as the stars. Funny!

Disney’s Awesome Things #4: Finding a Valid, Usable Fastpass

#4 Coordinating Fastpasses can be a rough job. After all, you must get the family together, organize all the tickets, and hope you can schedule different attraction times to fit everyone’s schedule. Whew!

After all that hard work – sweat pouring off your face and everything – you look down. You look down and see a piece of paper. What is it?

It’s your ticket to a half-hour journey to bliss away from your family. It’s a Fastpass to some attraction, which means while everyone else eats ice cream at Mrs. Potts, you get to sneak off and ride your last ride for the night.

To the person that dropped this: thank you. I know you’ll miss it, but your Fastpass is in good hands. Now go on and use that wonderful, valid ticket to happieness, okay?

Photo: Cory Disbrow

Disney’s Awesome Things: A Series

You may or may not be familiar with the blog 1000 Awesome Things – a very simple yet popular blog counting down 1000 awesome little things in life. Anything from the sound of snow crunching under your boots to brushing your teeth with a new toothbrush, this blog has it all.

So I thought, what if I brought this idea into a Disney perspective? Well, it’s time to begin! Over the next few months, I will be posting a new series – Disney’s Awesome Things. This will simply be a collection of one-hundred awesome things in Walt Disney World.

Need more details? I don’t think so – this is one series you’ll just have to experience with me as the posts come! Once you read a few, you’ll get the general idea. We’re counting one-hundred awesome things at WDW – big or small.

If everything goes as planned, a Disney’s Awesome Things post will be published two times a week on Monday and Friday. Wednesday will be another article not part of the series.

Ideas, Ideas. Clearly the hardest part is coming up with 100 items! I already have a rather large list, containing about 65 things – so I’m off to a good start I’d say. But I would love your help as well. Comment on this post to give me your ideas!

Photo by Joe Penniston