Crafty use of Fast Pass enabled us to do three major rides before lunch and cover most of
Tomorrowland in an afternoon. However, there are no Fast Passes in Toontown and, as you can see in this picture, one member of our party wants to see it ALL. We hit one ride before calling it a night and it was one of those Disney World stories experiences: a 30-minute wait for a one minute ride.

You have seen countless LIABILITY waivers when boarding a ride or doing some adventurous activity. When is the last time you saw a ride that required you to waive intellectual property ownership of anything submitted to or created as a result of your participation in said activity in accordance with corporate governance of the first party hereafter refered to as Big Company? I had to take a picture of this. It isn’t just funny, but these are terms I need to add into some of my company’s agreements. This is great. Now I CAN write the trip off as a business expense.

Like a story told and retold by an elderly relative, Disney’s Carousel of Progress is a look forward from yesterday. Even though they’ve given the “present” a more current flavor, it is such a squeeky-clean image of now that it’s clichéd out of credibility. Still, though, this exhibit has been going since it premiered at the 1964 World’s Fair and has a warn blanket feel like a hug from your grandmother. You’ve heard it before, but you listen again because it fills you with something you can’t get anywhere else.

If you have any doubt in how important Pixar is to Walt Disney’s rescue and future, come to WDW. There’s Pixar in every park. Here in Tomorrowland, the two cultures collide. Stitch meets Monsters Inc. Both so different in their very DNA. One is the traditional cell-animated slapstick, while the other is smart and hip. Zuzu prefered Monsters Inc. I think Disney would have progressed past the Stitch kind of project and more toward the Pixar type had Walt been around today. God knows they would have been further along were it not for those dark horrible Eisner days. Talk about your scary storylines….

Ice cream for lunch. They have been looking forward to this for weeks. This place faces out toward the castle and is just off Main Street USA; such a sentimental look back at an America the we wish once was. I wonder if
one were to create a Main Street USA of today if it wouldn’t need a Wal-Mart, BestBuy, Home Depot, and any number of other ubiquitous national chains that repeat like a Chuck Jones cartoon background from coast-to-coast. Nah, the wished for is often so much better.