Adventure Excite, Pirates do Crave these Things: Disney at New Years Pt. 3

Day 2:

As you see the spires as you walk into the gate, and the people coming from over a few dozen countries entering in mass to see an icon known the world over, you can’t feel anything but excited, as a kid, to see Disney World for the first time. But as an adult, I was somewhat excited. It looks like that magic may have worn off a bit since I was younger.

We get onto the monorail and I recall seeing a similar scene when seeing Japanese people get on the subway on tv—basically us cramming in to a small railcar. Then you see the people, a couple hundred at a time enter the gate. A quick check of bags coming in and you are on the busiest main street on earth. You see the happy and excited children head down the street with parents who have a whole arrange of emotions to excitement to impatience because of their jumping, wound up children.

We hit Adventureland first, as you can tell the newer Disney movies had taken over. We had a adequate selection of eats, but we ended up eating at Frontierland and Pecos Bill’s hamburger place. Each stand and restaurant had a limited, but different fair. It would be nice to have a bigger selection.

While we were eating, I took a look at the map and helped plan out our day, just like an invading army. We hit Frontier first and get some fast passes to the train ride and the water ride, then double back to Adventureland to stand in line for Pirates, and head back to Frontierland to catch our fast pass rides.

We hit Pirates and it was a pretty long wait. We were outside for a good half an hour, then went inside and the line just went on and on. Several rides we had actually had some video screens with some trivia. And some rides had sponsors. So why not have video screens along the lines of popular rides? Publicize your new movies, or the ride’s movie that is now out on DVD. Plus advertising. Trivia maybe? It will make the line seem shorter. Also consider some animatronic scenes.

We finally get into the ride and hit the standard, dated animatronic scenes. Like I said earlier, they really need to update their system. They incorporated Capt. Jack Sparrow into the ride, which again made me a little disillusioned. The old ride was just of various scenes. On a lighter note, we get stuck in one portion for ten to fifteen minutes, and of course, they are singing the same song over and over again. “Yo ho. Yo ho, a sailor’s life for me.” After the hundredth time, I started yelling for some Jimmy Buffet’s “A Pirate at 40.” They finally got the ride going again. The ride was shorter than I remember in Disneyland. That’s minus the fifteen minutes we heard “Yo ho, Yo ho, a sailor’s light for me.” Crap, I have that song in my head again…