{"id":12462,"date":"2014-10-02T00:01:58","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T00:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/?p=12462"},"modified":"2014-09-30T22:27:26","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T22:27:26","slug":"carys-adventures-in-the-magic-kingdom-part-2-mickeys-not-so-scary-halloween-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/02\/carys-adventures-in-the-magic-kingdom-part-2-mickeys-not-so-scary-halloween-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Cary’s Adventures in the Magic Kingdom: Part 2: Mickey’s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"PARADELOGO\"<\/a>The next day we went to the Magic Kingdom, so I\u2019ll talk about that next. But what I\u2019m really going to focus on was something we did that night at the park: Mickey\u2019s Not-So-Scary Halloween Party!<\/p>\n

Now the first thing we did that morning was check out the newly designed Fantasyland (which needed an update), and go on the new Seven Dwarves Mine Train. I wasn\u2019t really impressed with it, though. It\u2019s just a lamer version of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad.\u00a0 But after that we went on my favorite kiddy ride: The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh.\u00a0 When I was little, one of my favorite rides was Mr. Toad\u2019s Wild Ride, so I was sad when they took it down.\u00a0 But they replaced it with an even better (and cuter) ride starring Winnie the Pooh and friends.\u00a0 I like how you ride in \u2018hunny pots.\u2019\u00a0 At one point in the ride when you meet Tigger, the whole pot jumps up and down as you bounce along with him.<\/p>\n

\"POOH1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

One cool thing about both the Winnie the Pooh ride and the Seven Dwarfs ride is that they added things to do in the line if your kids get bored. In the Winnie the Pooh ride, there\u2019s a little walk-through playground around the line where you can play in Rabbit\u2019s garden and move bees along those bead mazes like the toys you play with in doctor\u2019s office waiting rooms.\u00a0 But my favorite was the interactive honey walls where you could draw pictures with virtual honey!\u00a0 I\u2019m sure that was the germiest part of the ride, though.\u00a0 What\u2019s cool is that you don\u2019t even have to touch the screen.\u00a0 Just put your hand near it and it works just fine.\u00a0 Then you can pretend that you can control honey telekinetically!<\/p>\n

\"POOH2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Other rides we did in Fantasyland include Under the Sea: Journey of the Little Mermaid, which is another cute kiddy ride. And also It\u2019s a Small World and Peter Pan\u2019s Flight, which were both as lame as ever.\u00a0 But after that we went to my favorite part of the park: Tomorrowland!\u00a0 We rode my favorite ride at the whole park: Space Mountain.\u00a0 And also Buzz Lightyear\u2019s Star Command, which is like a video game because you get a gun to shoot at targets on the ride, and you can control where your cart spins.\u00a0 Here\u2019s Buzz briefing us on the mission in line.<\/p>\n

\"BUZZ\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And after the ride, there was Zurg behind bars at the gift shop. Poor guy.<\/p>\n

\"ZURG\"<\/a><\/p>\n

There were two new things I did in Tomorrowland as well. Stitch\u2019s Great Escape used to be two different rides I remember.\u00a0 First was Mission to Mars, which was really old.\u00a0 Then they changed it to an Alien Encounters thing which was probably too scary and intense for kids, although I still liked it.\u00a0 So they toned it down and put Stitch in it, but it was still really cute.\u00a0 Now he burps chili dog breath on you and it feels like he hops on your shoulders and pats your head!\u00a0 The other new thing was Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor, which was a really funny interactive improv comedy skit.<\/p>\n

Next we headed on over to Liberty Square to eat and ride my other favorite Magic Kingdom ride: The Haunted Mansion. Even as a child I\u2019ve always loved this ride, so I must\u2019ve been a pretty messed up kid!\u00a0 I\u2019ve always liked the gravestones you can read in the line, like these ones.<\/p>\n

\"GRAVES\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Aside from riding other things like Pirates of the Caribbean (now with Jack Sparrow), we didn\u2019t really do much else there. I did go to the Enchanted Tiki Room even though it\u2019s lame because that was my grandmother\u2019s favorite thing to do when she went there.\u00a0 So I did that in honor of her since she passed away last year.\u00a0 A while back they updated it to have Zazu and Iago in it, but they changed it back to the old way it was before this time.<\/p>\n

But what we did do was stay for the Mickey\u2019s Not-So-Scary Halloween party, where they keep the park open later. There was some pretty neat pumpkin and fall decorations around the Main Street area, but the only bummer was that it rained pretty hard for a good portion of it.\u00a0 Luckily the rain stopped just in time for the Halloween parade.\u00a0 If it\u2019s one thing that Disney knows how to do at the parks, it\u2019s parades!\u00a0 Sorry if some of these pictures didn\u2019t turn out so well.\u00a0 It was hard for the camera to focus in the dark with all the bright lights and moving floats and people.\u00a0 So there was a lot more to this parade that what I have pictured.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s Mickey and pals dressed up in Halloween costumes.<\/p>\n

\"PARADE1\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The Peter Pan cast on a pirate boat.<\/p>\n

\"PARADE2\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And also Pirates of the Caribbean. There were a lot of pirates in the parade, but then, pirates have been a strong Halloween theme for a long time.<\/p>\n

\"PARADE3\"<\/a><\/p>\n

They also had floats featuring one of my favorite rides: The Haunted Mansion. Here are some of the gravestones<\/p>\n

\"PARADE4\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And here are the ghostly dancers. They looked pretty cool up close, too!\u00a0 I even talked to one of the lady dancers for a little bit.\u00a0 It was weird!<\/p>\n

\"PARADE5\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to tell from this shot, but thanks to clever makeup and lighting, the guys on top of this float looked like ghosts, too!<\/p>\n

\"PARADE6\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The next two floats featured a barnyard theme with two very obscure Disney characters on each float. The first had Clarabelle Cow!<\/p>\n

\"PARADE7\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And after that was Henrietta Hen in the barn! In between were costumed characters of the Country Bear Jamboree and Chip N Dale as cowboys, but I didn\u2019t get to take a picture of them.<\/p>\n

\"PARADE8\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Halloween is also about candy, so next up was Vanellope Von Sweets and Wreck-It Ralph delivering candy straight from Sugar Rush!<\/p>\n

\"PARADE9\"<\/a><\/p>\n

In the shops you could buy candy from \u201cGoofy\u2019s Candy Company,\u201d so here he is on a float advertising his wares.<\/p>\n

\"PARADE10\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The last part of the parade had floats for various Disney villains, but none of them came out well except for this one of Pain and Panic from Hercules.<\/p>\n

\"PARADE11\"<\/a><\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all of the parade. After that we rode some rides at night, and it was cool to go on Big Thunder Mountain Railroad and The Haunted Mansion after dark!\u00a0 We tried to go on Space Mountain again, but it was under maintenance, unfortunately.\u00a0 But the cool thing is that we rode on the People Mover, which goes through Space Mountain.\u00a0 And since it was under maintenance, we got to see it with all the lights on!<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s all for the Magic Kingdom. Tomorrow we\u2019ll go wild at Disney\u2019s Animal Kingdom!\u00a0 –Cary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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