Disney World PF Gathering and Tips for Disney Mania!

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A gathering for Disney enthusiasts is planned at Disney World during Memorial Day week (May 28 to June 5), inviting others to join for fun activities like measuring the drop rate at the Tower of Terror and pin trading. For those unable to attend, a return trip is already scheduled for Labor Day week (Sept. 3 to Sept. 11), with tips to find deals on the Disney website. The discussion includes a promise to share a shortlist of must-do attractions at Walt Disney World, encouraging contributions from others. Key tips for visiting include utilizing Disney's transportation, making reservations for dining, and understanding ticket expiration policies. The thread fosters community among Disney fans while providing practical advice for an enjoyable visit.
  • #241
Well, if things at work continue the way they have been, I will probably be unemployed by September, so I can hock my jewelry and spend the week in Disney World before I commit suicide.
 
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  • #242
Evo said:
Well, if things at work continue the way they have been, I will probably be unemployed by September, so I can hock my jewelry and spend the week in Disney World before I commit suicide.

Oh no. That will not do. I expect you to be coming back to Disney World every year, Evo! Addiction loves company. It will only be fun if you come back. Besides, I haven't introduced you to the "joy" of collecting Disney Pins! :)

Zz.
 
  • #243
Evo, we can live in cardboard boxes on the FL beaches! There are far worse places to be homeless than FL. And since there's no thermostat to fight over in a cardboard box, we'll be good roomies. :biggrin: (Uh, yeah, it looks like the person whose lab I work in is moving out of the country, so I'm in the process of figuring out whether I'm also going to be homeless by September/October...it's no fun when life gets in the way of a Disney trip.)
 
  • #244
Sure, get me hooked on collecting Disney pins once I'm destitute. :cry: I'll be standing on the street corner with my cardboard sign "need money for Disney pins".
 
  • #245
Evo said:
Sure, get me hooked on collecting Disney pins once I'm destitute. :cry: I'll be standing on the street corner with my cardboard sign "need money for Disney pins".
That's okay, I'm already working on my sign, "Will Work For Disney Pins." :smile:
 
  • #246
Evo said:
Sure, get me hooked on collecting Disney pins once I'm destitute. :cry: I'll be standing on the street corner with my cardboard sign "need money for Disney pins".

No, no! You don't understand! Go on ebay and you'll see that you can make a comfy living just by selling Disney Pins! There are many poor souls like me who'll pay top dollar just to get that last pin to make a complete set!

Besides, that sign should read "Will work for Disney Pins!" :)

Zz.

Drat! Moonbie beat me to it!
 
  • #247
Moonbear said:
That's okay, I'm already working on my sign, "Will Work For Disney Pins." :smile:
See, that's much better than my sign. :frown: I even fail at being homeless. :cry:
 
  • #248
Oooh, I have this great porcelain Disney collector's set of all the characters with furniture and ovens, utensils, etc... in a wooden house (each character has a different "room" and theme). I love that collection. I have all the certificates.
 
  • #249
Evo said:
See, that's much better than my sign. :frown: I even fail at being homeless. :cry:
Don't worry, I'll share my Boone's Farm "wine" with you. :-p (I just couldn't bring myself to call it "wine" without quotation marks.)
 
  • #250
Moonbear said:
Don't worry, I'll share my Boone's Farm "wine" with you. :-p (I just couldn't bring myself to call it "wine" without quotation marks.)
Can I live under your deck with the stray cat?
 
  • #251
Evo said:
Can I live under your deck with the stray cat?
You'll have to ask the cat. :biggrin:
 
  • #252
OK, so I'm starting on the slippery slope of Disney pin collection mania, mostly those you can find at the Walt Disney World resort.

Today, June 14th, is the release of the latest "jumbo" pin. This time it is "It's A Small World" jumbo pin. There is only 750 of such pins being released, and only at Walt Disney World.

My "agents" working at Disney World have been instructed to get two of them today. :)

Zz.
 
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  • #253
Oh no, oh no, oh no...

Remember what I said last time about Mission Space? OK, now read this...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050614/ap_on_re_us/disney_world_death

Zz.
 
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  • #254
ZapperZ said:
Oh no, oh no, oh no...

Remember what I said last time about Mission Space? OK, now read this...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050614/ap_on_re_us/disney_world_death

Zz.

Why would you take a 4-year old on a ride like that in the first place? :confused: Something tells me that ride will soon be replaced with something else. That one doesn't even sound fun, it sounds painful!
 
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  • #255
Moonbear said:
Why would you take a 4-year old on a ride like that in the first place? :confused: Something tells me that ride will soon be replaced with something else. That one doesn't even sound fun, it sounds painful!

It is actually a fun ride, Moonbie... at least that one time that I rode it. I wish, wish, wish I could go on it again, but I know it's not going to be pretty the second time around. It certainly is more harmless than most of the rollercoaster rides you see at many amusement parks. Even with all the reported effects, it is still one of the most popular attraction at Epcot.

However, while Mission Space and Test Track were the top attractions at Epcot, they may have both been replaced by Soarin', judging from the lines and how quickly the fast pass disappears when I was there. So if any PF'ers are coming with me this Sept., be warned. We will be lining up at Epcot when it opens and head straight to The Land to ride Soarin' multiple times! :)

Zz.
 
  • #256
I do much better on rides where I can't see what they look like before I get on them, or find out much too late. I think half my problem is I get psyched out watching the ride before I ever get on it. But, but, but, centrifugal force sounds "spinny," and I don't do spinny well. :-p I can do straight lines at high speeds, and big hills (if I don't stare at them too long first...just don't tell me the big hill I'm looking at is for the ride I'm standing in line for and I'll be fine), but as soon as the ride starts twisting, rotating or spinning at high speed, I get nauseous. The Dumbo Ride is okay, and those swings are okay, but if you get much faster than that, especially if I'm turning in a direction I'm not facing, I turn green. I can handle teacups, but even that pushes my limits, and sometimes I have to sit for a few minutes after teacups to stop spinning, and then I'll get a headache that won't go away for the rest of the day and ruins all my fun. So, I just opt to sit out the really bad, spinny rides.
 
  • #257
Disney Pins

I first got hooked on collecting Disney Pins when I found out that they release Passholder exclusive pins. As annual passholder, I started gobbling up these pins as soon as they came out. They are much sought-after, and they are certainly one of the desired pins for trading.

During the last visit to Disney World a couple of weeks ago, several new pins were or have been released. Below are just two out of a "few" that I obtained.

Zz.
 
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  • #258
ZapperZ said:
I first got hooked on collecting Disney Pins when I found out that they release Passholder exclusive pins. As annual passholder, I started gobbling up these pins as soon as they came out. They are much sought-after, and they are certainly one of the desired pins for trading.

During the last visit to Disney World a couple of weeks ago, several new pins were or have been released. Below are just two out of a "few" that I obtained.

Zz.
Darn you Zz! These pins are cool, (that small world one is really pretty), now I want pins to go with my porcelain Disney collection. :devil:
 
  • #259
Evo said:
Darn you Zz! These pins are cool, (that small world one is really pretty), now I want pins to go with my porcelain Disney collection. :devil:

Evo dear, I have one Passholder exclusive pin with YOUR name on it! And I have one for Moonbie also. :)

I also have an incomplete set of Stitch Great Adventure pins (4 or 5 of them out of an unknown number in the set) that I'm GIVING away either by trading or whatever. I'll save them for you if you want them...

Zz.
 
  • #260
ZapperZ said:
Evo dear, I have one Passholder exclusive pin with YOUR name on it! And I have one for Moonbie also. :)

I also have an incomplete set of Stitch Great Adventure pins (4 or 5 of them out of an unknown number in the set) that I'm GIVING away either by trading or whatever. I'll save them for you if you want them...

Zz.
Ooooh yes! We need to talk. :approve:

(will work for Disney pins) :biggrin:
 
  • #261
Aww...isn't ZZ so sweet! Well, the good news is I won't be jobless and homeless, the bad news is I'll be moving at the beginning of September. I'll have to wait for a later round of Disney adventures. But, I'm definitely going to get in on one of them, it just can't be September.

*starts singing, "Country roads, take me home..."* Can you guess where I'm moving? :rolleyes:
 
  • #262
Moonbear said:
Aww...isn't ZZ so sweet! Well, the good news is I won't be jobless and homeless, the bad news is I'll be moving at the beginning of September. I'll have to wait for a later round of Disney adventures. But, I'm definitely going to get in on one of them, it just can't be September.

*starts singing, "Country roads, take me home..."* Can you guess where I'm moving? :rolleyes:
It's Colorado or College Station! Did you take the position in TX?
 
  • #263
Evo said:
It's Colorado or College Station! Did you take the position in TX?
Nope...sing a few more bars of the song. :-p This is just a lateral move because the lab I currently work in is leaving the country...hence why I'm not very cheerful about it.
 
  • #264
Moonbear said:
Nope...sing a few more bars of the song. :-p This is just a lateral move because the lab I currently work in is leaving the country...hence why I'm not very cheerful about it.

Oh my god, West Virginia??!

Do they even allow people to have Disney Pins there?

<runs and hides from West Virginians>

Zz.
 
  • #265
Evo,

I sort of remember you telling me that you're a "plant freak". In any case, just to seduce you more into this pin collecting thing, tomorrow, June 17th, is the release of a set of Disney pins with the theme "Our Disney Garden 2005". Check it out:

http://eventservices.disney.go.com/pintrading/event?id=9469

These pins will only be sold at two locations in Epcot, and only 2000 sets will be available.

I'd say we get Moonbie's parents to go to Epcot tomorrow and buy several of these for us. :)

Zz.
 
  • #266
ZapperZ said:
Oh my god, West Virginia??!

Do they even allow people to have Disney Pins there?

<runs and hides from West Virginians>

Zz.
Skeeeery, huh? :smile: A few years ago, I would have never even considered it (on my first trip there, my friends were teasing me not to stand too close to any road signs, I might get shot :-p), but the area around the university has been building up by leaps and bounds. Every time I've been there (I'm usually there about once every 6 months), it's grown noticeably from the time before. Tons of new construction, some new businesses moving in, etc. They're even starting to complain about traffic :smile:...there is no perceptible traffic, but compared to the wide open highways they used to have, there are now cars on the road at rush hour. Oh, and I get the first day of hunting season as an official holiday. :biggrin: :rolleyes: I better make sure I have some orange clothes in my wardrobe for that day. :smile:

I better get a compass for the car though. I get soooooooo lost on the roads around there. It's all mountains, so by the time I'm done going up, down, and around a few times, I have no idea which way I'm going. I'm not used to having to keep track of roads in three dimensions. Hmm...maybe I need an altimeter too. :-p

I'd say we get Moonbie's parents to go to Epcot tomorrow and buy several of these for us. :)
Ha ha...well, with my parents, if I asked, they'd gladly go do me the "favor," but they'd come back with all the wrong thing. "Well, we saw these other buttons instead that were cheaper than those pins you asked for, and they had Disney characters on them too, so we got those instead so you didn't waste your money on those expensive other pins." I thought Santa was the most inept moron as a kid; he never got anything right when I sent him my Christmas list -- I asked for one thing and got something with a name that sounded somewhat like what I asked for or started with the same letter as...I started to wonder if Santa's elves knew how to read. :confused:
 
  • #267
Moonbear said:
But, but, but, centrifugal force sounds "spinny," and I don't do spinny well.
On the contrary, my dear. Some of your posts indicate that you can be highly 'spinny' when you exert yourself. :-p
Anyhow, a launch simulation most likely revolves you around a central axis to give the effect of an 'eyeballs-in' high-gee environment, rather than rotating you around your own axis as in the teacups. (Like a fast merry-go-round.)
Good luck with the move, but... now you're going to be even farther away! :cry:
 
  • #268
Danger said:
On the contrary, my dear. Some of your posts indicate that you can be highly 'spinny' when you exert yourself. :-p
Anyhow, a launch simulation most likely revolves you around a central axis to give the effect of an 'eyeballs-in' high-gee environment, rather than rotating you around your own axis as in the teacups. (Like a fast merry-go-round.)
Good luck with the move, but... now you're going to be even farther away! :cry:
It's reminding me of those "rotor" rides in most amusement parks. Test tubes go in the centrifuge, I stand on the outside until the buzzer says it has stopped moving. :biggrin:
 
  • #269
Moonbear said:
Skeeeery, huh? :smile: A few years ago, I would have never even considered it (on my first trip there, my friends were teasing me not to stand too close to any road signs, I might get shot :-p), but the area around the university has been building up by leaps and bounds. Every time I've been there (I'm usually there about once every 6 months), it's grown noticeably from the time before. Tons of new construction, some new businesses moving in, etc. They're even starting to complain about traffic :smile:...there is no perceptible traffic, but compared to the wide open highways they used to have, there are now cars on the road at rush hour. Oh, and I get the first day of hunting season as an official holiday. :biggrin: :rolleyes: I better make sure I have some orange clothes in my wardrobe for that day. :smile:

OK, I hope this is Morgantown, W. Virginia, because I don't know of any other "reputable" university in W. Virginia.

Ha ha...well, with my parents, if I asked, they'd gladly go do me the "favor," but they'd come back with all the wrong thing. "Well, we saw these other buttons instead that were cheaper than those pins you asked for, and they had Disney characters on them too, so we got those instead so you didn't waste your money on those expensive other pins." I thought Santa was the most inept moron as a kid; he never got anything right when I sent him my Christmas list -- I asked for one thing and got something with a name that sounded somewhat like what I asked for or started with the same letter as...I started to wonder if Santa's elves knew how to read. :confused:

I hate to think what you got from the tooth fairy. :)

Oh well, I'm hoping they will still have the complete set of these pins by the time I get there in early September. I hate to ask my disney sources to go get these after I've asked them to get the earlier ones already.

Zz.
 
  • #270
Moonbear said:
I stand on the outside until the buzzer says it has stopped moving. :biggrin:
Is that just to keep the lid from popping open, or is it a variation on your 'sitting on the washing machine' trick?
 

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