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    • TravelerA North American Journey
      2
      Day 149

      Orlando

      December 20, 2022 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 20 °C

      Life 2.0 : "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."

      It is day 67 of the US Traverse. We have made our way to the most southern point of our trip – Orlando. San Francisco is now more than 5 000 km in the past, and Montreal, our final destination 2 300 km into the future. Major distances by car but minor if you travel with an X Wing Starfighter.

      Today will be spent at Disney’s Hollywood Studios and more importantly the Star Wars Galaxy Edge theme park.

      The Galaxy Edge Park and rides are truly magnificent, both in scale and detail. Old and young can lose themselves in the fantasy world created by George Lucas and the Disney team.

      The little boy in the photo captured my interest. He impatiently waited in his Republic Trooper uniform for his turn with Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter. All dressed up - a true believer.  

      One day when he’s older he might reflect on the stories behind the story and appreciate how George Lucas masterfully orchestrated the age-old tale of democracies being turned into dictatorships and a need from people, under certain conditions, to be freed from freedom.

      Most of us would say more freedom is good. Freedom of expression, freedom from those in power and freedom to do what we want. But history has shown that when people feel powerless and frustrated, the freedom they deeply ache for is a freedom FROM individual responsibility.

      Make it someone else’s problem - Lose awareness of your individual self and become an anonymous member of a unified group. Be relieved from the burdens of will, decisions and being responsible.

      But as Jyn Erso said in Rogue One: “We have hope. Rebellions are built on hope.”

      “You feel empty. You feel alone. Lonely. Almost frightened, but also strong, yes? The name for what you are feeling is freedom. How did you expect it to feel? You are free, and that can be lonely, and empty, and frightening. But it is also powerful.”

      But that is all in the future for our little trooper.

      As for today...

      He can just enjoy the magic that I experienced in 1978 in a cinema when the words scrolled over the screen:

      “A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away....”      Read more

    • Ice Ice Disney
      11
      Day 36

      Park hopper plus PLUS

      January 14, 2023 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 15 °C

      We had in our minds a leisurely few days of strolling around the parks, but a few things happened:
      1. FOMO: that ugly beast again
      2. Genie plus: another ugly beast. We don't like the concept of paying for fast passes beforehand, but also didn't want to spend all our time in lines. The problem is that it works and once you pay for it you don't want to waste it
      3. No dining plan available at the moment and "bots" taking over the dining bookings: we had less TS meals
      4. Less available time because we were booked into the Halcyon
      End result: 3 very, very busy days (hence no penguin for a bit) that were a complete whirlwind. They were, however, lots of fun and made even more fun because we got to share all the new rides, snacks, shows etc with the Berlee clan. Thanks Berlees!
      This is our first full day: Hollywood Studios      Read more

    • TravelerBig Ol Holiday
      Day 34

      Disney Day 3 - Hollywood Studios

      June 23, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C

      Today I woke up and packed up my stuff as I was moving hotels to meet my two friends Jamie and Jensen! I grabbed an uber and he wasn't the best as he told me he was from the Tampa area. I ended up guiding him based on the map from my phone... I finally arrived and Jamie was waiting for me in the lobby. It was so so good to see her again! We went up to the room dropped my stuff off and headed to Hollywood Studios on the ferry.
      It was a quick 10 minute ride and we were there.
      First ride we headed to was tower of terror, which is a drop ride. It was very fun. Next we headed to the rock n rollercoaster which is a quick, thrilling rollercoaster with music from Aerosmith? Very random band but a very fun ride. We then went to Mickey and Minnies Runaway Train ride which was a fun story ride with some really fun animatronics.
      We headed to grab Jamie coffee and went to a frozen sing-along. This was literally just watching the movie with some cast members around in the background, I had expected singing and dancing...

      We then walked through star wars world, luckily Jamie nor I had any interest in stopping and doing the big rides, one of which had a wait time of 4 hours at one point. We ended up at Toy Story mania which was a really fun ride where you play arcade shooting games from your cart. We decided to get lunch and I told Jamie to find me the most ridiculous thing in the park. She picked out a hot dog with Mac and Cheese in it... We are quickly and headed to a beauty and the beast short play which actually had singing and dancing. It was very good! Then we headed to the slinky dog coaster which we knew would be a 90 minute wait. Unfortunately that turned into a 2 hour wait, buut it was nice to have a friend to wait with for once! The ride was fine, not worth the long wait.
      We were wrecked and it was so hot by this point, we headed to the Muppets 3D movie to sit and cold off. It was a bit of fun. Then we got drinks and sat and people watched for a bit. So interesting to see wild children and exhausted parents. Next we went on Star Tours, the only star wars ride of the day which was good.
      We went on the tower and rock n rollercoaster again, then decided on having brownies for dinner followed by watching fantasmic, a nighttime show with water, fire, acrobatics and heaps of the characters. We then headed back to the hotel to find Jensen, as she had arrived! It was so so nice catching up and chatting, it's just like old times.
      We have a big day tomorrow, I'm so excited!      Read more

    • TravelerDisney en famille
      Day 3

      Jour 3 : Hollywood studio!

      July 12, 2023 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C

      Une autre journée très remplie ! Nous sommes passés de star was à la belle et la bête à toys story !!! Sans oublier la tour de la terreur ( on redemandera pas à melo de la refaire 🤣😜🤣) et au roller coaster d'aerosmith !!! Celui-là on l'a refait hihi évidemment on a eu aussi une averse ! On est en Floride !Read more

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    • TravelerOrlando/Bahamas Februar 2020
      Day 12

      Temperatursturz

      February 27, 2020 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 13 °C

      Guten Morgen aus dem Floridianischen Winter. Wir sind bei knapp über 10 Grad in den Hollywood Studios und versuchen nochmal unser Glück bei Rise of the Resistance.

      Ansonsten haben wir uns heute Parkhopping vorgenommen. Unter dem Motto „Hop until you drop“ wollen wir versuchen, heute nochmal alle 4 Parks zu besuchen. Im Idealfall endet unser letzter Tag dann heute im Magic Kingdom, bevor es morgen leider wieder nach Hause geht...Read more

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    • TravelerTrip to the US - Sep/Oct 2023
      Day 9

      Walt Disney World

      September 20, 2023 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 26 °C

      Today, I went to Magic Kingdom for a five-hour tour around the park called "Keys to the Kingdom."

      It was a very informative tour where we learned many facts about the park and how everything started.

      Disneyland in California is the original park, where Walt Disney himself was the driving creative force. But he also initiated what would become Disney World in Florida. Sadly, he passed away before they started construction on the first park, Magic Kingdom. His brother Roy continued the project and helped open the park in 1971.

      The tour also included some backstage areas that are not open to the general public. We saw this enormous tunnel system that actually runs under the park, where the employees can easily get to different places around the park. It was fun to get a glimpse behind the scenes and to see what a huge operation it is to run the biggest tourist attraction in the world.

      After the tour, I made my way to a different park, Hollywood Studios, where I tried some of my favorite rides there. One of them is modeled after the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. In fact, a big portion of the park is a very impressive Star Wars land.

      At this point, after days of sunny and very warm weather, it started to rain. A lot. Nonstop. So this made it a bit difficult to enjoy an outdoor amusement park.

      Eventually, I made it to my third Disney park of the day - the futuristic EPCOT. I tried out a new ride based on Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which was cool. Then I had dinner at a very unique restaurant, Space 220, which is meant to look like you are in space! It looks like something out of the aforementioned Star Wars, with a big "window" that shows your view of space as you are dining.

      It is one of the restaurants in Disney World that is hardest to get a reservation for, so I'm glad I was able to try it out.

      I would have liked to spend more time at Epcot, but they were closing soon, and the poor weather made it a lot less enjoyable. Still, it's a nice end to two busy days at the Disney parks.      Read more

    • Alison HandOrlando, Florida 2022
      Day 8

      Day 8 - Hollywood Studios

      October 28, 2022 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 30 °C

      Hollywood Studios - Toy Story Land, Tower of Terror and Batuu!

      Rides etc done:
      1. Tower of Terror
      2. Slinky Dog Dash
      3. Indiana Jones Show
      4. Rise of the Resistance
      5. Smugglers Run
      6. Muppets 3D show
      7. Runaway Train      Read more

    • United States
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      1
      Day 20

      Frozen

      May 18, 2019 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C

      Frozen was great - had live characters and played scenes from the movie with karaoke words on the screen. It was cute
      Met Olaf after the show and grabbed a picture
      Some Star Wars simulator was next - it was okay but pretty old compared to other rides we’ve been on.
      Indiana Jones Epic Stunt Spectacular show was next but it was a shit version of Movie Worlds Police Academy and we did t last long so it was time for a lunch break!      Read more

    • TravelerOrlando September 2018
      Day 7

      Hollywood Studios

      September 27, 2018 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

      Den Vormittag haben wir heute in den Hollywood Studios verbracht. Nachdem es heute so heiß ist, dass jede Bewegung anstrengend ist, haben wir viele Shows angeschaut.

      Ab Mittag sind wir dann zu Typhoon Lagoon geflüchtet, um uns im Wasser abzukühlen. Und jetzt geht es ins Magic Kingdom zum Feuerwerk und anschließend Shoppen...Read more

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    • TravelerUSA 2019
      Day 7

      Hollywood Studios

      October 29, 2019 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 24 °C

      Heute noch eine Stunde früher im Park, seit 05:45 in den Hollywood Studios - jetzt erstmal frühstücken.

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