rustyanchor
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Sep 24, 2012
so i have started listening to the disney hipster podcast, which i love, and in one episode they discussed what they would pick as their top WDW "must-dos" à la stacey j. i think they picked 5, but excluding the water parks/downtown disney, there are currently 7 in the disney resorts video: splash mountain, it's a small world, under the sea, storybook circus/dumbo, expedition everest, soarin', and star tours. this made me start thinking about what i would pick as my "must-do" 7 attractions too if i were telling someone who's never been to WDW before. i decided to exclude the ones that stacey j. does.
7. monsters inc laugh floor - the reason i picked this is because it took me the longest time to even go in this attraction, mostly because i didn't know what it was. i think my boyfriend & i finally went in while we were killing time waiting on our space mountain fastpass window or something. we met this elderly couple in line who had been married forever and were telling us how they have been coming to disney world every year for ages and this is one of their favorite current attractions. then during our showing, the man got picked as "that guy"! it was so cute & funny. we got to talk to them again afterwards and they said he has been chosen a few times. i don't know, something about that first visit just made it special for us. i think it is often overlooked and it's really GREAT both for the technology that it utilizes and the humor, plus the fact that it changes every time you go.
6. flights of wonder - one of my favorites at animal kingdom. i think what most impresses me about flights of wonder is that i have seen similar "birds of prey" shows at zoos many times before, but disney somehow manages to make this much better. maybe it's the cheesy jokes & guano joe who i still laugh at every time, maybe it's the beautiful theming of the caravan stage area, maybe it's just the fact that i'm at disney world... but i don't know. i just love this show.
5. spaceship earth - what can i say about this ride... i find it so relaxing. i know a lot of people don't like the dame judi dench narration but i like listening to her voice. i also love the "design your future" part at the end.
4. toy story midway mania - so this is definitely an obvious choice, but i have to admit that it took me awhile to ride this because of the RIDICULOUS LINES & the fact that the fastpasses are often gone by, like, noon. hollywood studios is not a park that we have always done a full day at, so we would get there in the afternoon and NOT want to stand in a 60 min+ line for this ride. we didn't see what the big deal could be. one day when we went, the posted wait time was 45 minutes, so we both said, what the heck, let's finally ride this. well from the moment we entered the queue i was in love!! the theming is so perfect. i think we actually ended up only having to wait for like 20 minutes, and we had sooo much fun on the ride! i absolutely adore this ride and think its popularity is well-deserved (unlike its MK counterpart, the abysmal/boring buzz lightyear's space ranger spin). now i either get to DHS early or... i bite the bullet and wait in line. because we have to ride this every time.
3. fantasmic! - not a ride, but i think this still counts as an attraction?? right? i'm such a fan of fantasmic, from the corny hosts and pre-show to the amazing finale. it's perfection in my eyes.
2. haunted mansion - of course this is a "duh" must-do, but i wanted to add that i think the new queue is also a must-do. i see people skip it all the time thinking they will have a shorter wait, and i think, "oh, you poor schmucks." i love the new queue! and the new(ish) ending with the hitchhiking ghosts switching your heads & whatnot! to me this ride and splash mountain (which i didn't include since it was in the original must-dos) exemplify disney at its best.
1. pirates of the caribbean - so this is not the most exciting ride, or the shiniest, or the most fun, or whatever. and i'm sure that most people ride this anyway so it's kind of pointless to put it on a "must-do" list. but i think this will always be the ultimate disney ride and the #1 "must-do" for me. i love absolutely everything about this ride! i can't describe the happy feeling that it gives me as soon as i walk into the dark, dank queue and begin smelling that musty pirates water smell. then the ride itself is paced perfectly. I LOVE THIS RIDE!
so what are your top 7??
7. monsters inc laugh floor - the reason i picked this is because it took me the longest time to even go in this attraction, mostly because i didn't know what it was. i think my boyfriend & i finally went in while we were killing time waiting on our space mountain fastpass window or something. we met this elderly couple in line who had been married forever and were telling us how they have been coming to disney world every year for ages and this is one of their favorite current attractions. then during our showing, the man got picked as "that guy"! it was so cute & funny. we got to talk to them again afterwards and they said he has been chosen a few times. i don't know, something about that first visit just made it special for us. i think it is often overlooked and it's really GREAT both for the technology that it utilizes and the humor, plus the fact that it changes every time you go.
6. flights of wonder - one of my favorites at animal kingdom. i think what most impresses me about flights of wonder is that i have seen similar "birds of prey" shows at zoos many times before, but disney somehow manages to make this much better. maybe it's the cheesy jokes & guano joe who i still laugh at every time, maybe it's the beautiful theming of the caravan stage area, maybe it's just the fact that i'm at disney world... but i don't know. i just love this show.
5. spaceship earth - what can i say about this ride... i find it so relaxing. i know a lot of people don't like the dame judi dench narration but i like listening to her voice. i also love the "design your future" part at the end.
4. toy story midway mania - so this is definitely an obvious choice, but i have to admit that it took me awhile to ride this because of the RIDICULOUS LINES & the fact that the fastpasses are often gone by, like, noon. hollywood studios is not a park that we have always done a full day at, so we would get there in the afternoon and NOT want to stand in a 60 min+ line for this ride. we didn't see what the big deal could be. one day when we went, the posted wait time was 45 minutes, so we both said, what the heck, let's finally ride this. well from the moment we entered the queue i was in love!! the theming is so perfect. i think we actually ended up only having to wait for like 20 minutes, and we had sooo much fun on the ride! i absolutely adore this ride and think its popularity is well-deserved (unlike its MK counterpart, the abysmal/boring buzz lightyear's space ranger spin). now i either get to DHS early or... i bite the bullet and wait in line. because we have to ride this every time.
3. fantasmic! - not a ride, but i think this still counts as an attraction?? right? i'm such a fan of fantasmic, from the corny hosts and pre-show to the amazing finale. it's perfection in my eyes.
2. haunted mansion - of course this is a "duh" must-do, but i wanted to add that i think the new queue is also a must-do. i see people skip it all the time thinking they will have a shorter wait, and i think, "oh, you poor schmucks." i love the new queue! and the new(ish) ending with the hitchhiking ghosts switching your heads & whatnot! to me this ride and splash mountain (which i didn't include since it was in the original must-dos) exemplify disney at its best.
1. pirates of the caribbean - so this is not the most exciting ride, or the shiniest, or the most fun, or whatever. and i'm sure that most people ride this anyway so it's kind of pointless to put it on a "must-do" list. but i think this will always be the ultimate disney ride and the #1 "must-do" for me. i love absolutely everything about this ride! i can't describe the happy feeling that it gives me as soon as i walk into the dark, dank queue and begin smelling that musty pirates water smell. then the ride itself is paced perfectly. I LOVE THIS RIDE!
so what are your top 7??
