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My Disney Navigator
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1 comment on My Disney NavigatorAttendance at Disneyworld has grown by 14% since 2008, which has given rise to an entire ecosystem of official and third party ways to combat the crowds and plan the most efficient visit. Last year, when I started planning our trip, I knew we had to get “FastPass” reservations for rides like the brand-new Avatar…
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Panels like this remind me why the Enlightenment Gallery is one of my favourite bits of the British Museum. Easily overlooked but an essential visit.
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Good piece on why Wing Commander II sold so well from a commercial, tech, and storytelling perspective. Thankfully, the author doesn’t get bogged down in the tiresome ludology vs. narrative wars.
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Why are time loop episodes so satisfying? Is it the mystery solving business? Pattern recognition circuits tickling our brains? The steady acquisition of mastery over all time?
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Disneyworld Day 8: Animal Kingdom
Our final half-day at Disneyworld! It’s been emotional. There was just one more ride we really wanted to see, which was… Navi River Journey at Animal Kingdom; yesterday, we’d improbably bagged a Fastpass for the morning. It’s a high tech slow ride, very different from Frozen Ever After in that it has no story and…
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Disneyworld Day 7: Animal Kingdom
Lazy morning today, partly because we’re running out of things to do at the parks. Most of the Disney resort hotels have a respectable if slightly aged arcade; ours had the best game ever, skeeball. Festival of The Lion King in Animal Kingdom was a good musical, although I wasn’t sold on the pair of…
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Disneyworld Day 6: Epcot
We needed to be at Epcot for 10:15am at the latest due to a valuable Fastpass, so we gave ourselves over an hour. As it turned out, there was a runDisney half-marathon ending around 9:45am, which snarled up the traffic and blocked off the ticket entry gates. It’s great that Disney organises running events and…
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Disneyworld Day 5: Kennedy Space Center
We booked a trip to Kennedy Space Center today with Gray Line, which looked like the best choice for people staying at Disneyworld who don’t (or in our case, can’t) drive. By and large it worked out pretty well – we got picked up directly from our hotel. Unfortunately, our coach driver provided wholly unwelcome…
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Disneyworld Day 4: Magic Kingdom
Breakfast at Be Our Guest was an exceptionally unmagical experience because we had to orbit the three dining rooms for five minutes waiting for a table to be freed up. Clearly the restaurant operates on having a minimum of (say) 2% of tables being free, which isn’t really enough to avoid an annoying search. Part…
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Disneyworld Day 3: Hollywood Studios, Animal Kingdom, The Void, Disney Springs
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Hollywood Studios lived up to its reputation as “the half day park”. The problem is that the theming of “hey, we’re in Hollywood” just isn’t as interesting or as resonant as it used to be, certainly not compared to other parks or even Epcot. Which is I guess why they’re adding on Toy Story and…
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