takeme2epcot
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It's so easy to take Disney World for granted.
I was just thinking about that the other day as my wife Leslie and I gear up for FW in November.
Allow me to relate a story.
My father, brother, brother's wife, and I were on one of the boats once, headed from, I think, the Contemporary over to FW. Just by luck, we happened to be onboard right when the fireworks started. We were the only people on the boat.
The boat's captain stopped the boat and positioned it just so so that we could get an awesome view of the fireworks.
The thing that struck me the most was the fact that they had the "Wishes" show piped in over the boat's speakers.
There we were, on a boat in the middle of the darkness of Bay Lake, and we had a private showing of "Wishes," complete with sound.
Now stop and think about that experience. A lot of us would take it for granted. "Yeah, that's Disney," we'd think. But think about it -- someone actually took the time to think, "Some of our guests may be on one of the boats during the fireworks. We need to figure out a way to pipe the show's music onto all the boats."
If it were any other amusement park, you wouldn't get sound on the boat. You'd just be on the boat and say, "Oh, look...I guess they're shooting off the fireworks," as the boat would dutifully continue on unaffected to your destination.
Disney rules. It's the way the world should be.
I was just thinking about that the other day as my wife Leslie and I gear up for FW in November.
Allow me to relate a story.
My father, brother, brother's wife, and I were on one of the boats once, headed from, I think, the Contemporary over to FW. Just by luck, we happened to be onboard right when the fireworks started. We were the only people on the boat.
The boat's captain stopped the boat and positioned it just so so that we could get an awesome view of the fireworks.
The thing that struck me the most was the fact that they had the "Wishes" show piped in over the boat's speakers.
There we were, on a boat in the middle of the darkness of Bay Lake, and we had a private showing of "Wishes," complete with sound.
Now stop and think about that experience. A lot of us would take it for granted. "Yeah, that's Disney," we'd think. But think about it -- someone actually took the time to think, "Some of our guests may be on one of the boats during the fireworks. We need to figure out a way to pipe the show's music onto all the boats."
If it were any other amusement park, you wouldn't get sound on the boat. You'd just be on the boat and say, "Oh, look...I guess they're shooting off the fireworks," as the boat would dutifully continue on unaffected to your destination.
Disney rules. It's the way the world should be.
I can't wait!
