Next up on the vacation is The Magic Kingdom. Disney magic! A whole kingdom of it! Okay calm down. Enjoy the pictures.
Main Street is the place you enter. Can you believe this is July 6th? Usually 4th of July week is a sea of people in here. Or so I've been told. Not like I come here every year or anything. Anyway, it's a lot less packed than we expected. Good for us, I guess?
It was so hot, we decided to make our way down the street through the connecting air-conditioned gift shops. It's so hot outside, but the guy inside has a massive blow torch! He's making the glass figures, cool! I mean, um... hot?
These tiny things might seem super expensive, but that's real hand-made art, it should be expensive.
I made sure to get the price tag in the picture. Yes, that's $250,000. Disney World has got you covered, if you're a billionaire and still want a souvenir.
Way in the distance, you can see there's a show going on at the castle. Anna and Elsa are singing a song. That castle is so... impressive? Pretty? Cool? I'm having trouble finding the right word here.
We had an appointment to keep in Tomorrowland. We had purchased the Lightning Lane passes for the new Tron ride. It was going to be soon, but we still had a little bit of time to spend on something nearby.
One of my favorite things here is the Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor. It's like a live comedy show. With actual monsters!
None of us were clever enough to think of a good joke to text in. Put us on the spot, why don't you? I'll come prepared next time with a good one.
It's odd to think how the whole attraction is such a huge spoiler for the movie. It's almost 100% required that you had to have seen Monsters, Inc. for the place to make any sense at all. Why are the monsters wanting us to laugh instead of scream?
The show is an amazing technology where the cartoon monsters are "live" on screen as they tell the improv jokes. And they are totally winging it. For example, they put this guy on the screen with the caption "feels the urge to dance" and poke at him until he does a silly dance. It's all very genuinely funny.
It was almost too hot to be outside, even for a small amount of time. Carousel of Progress is something we've seen a bunch before, but it's nice and cool in there. Sorry if you now have the song stuck in your head. Hey, the song is pretty good.
We have a few minutes before our ride time, and the gift shop is right outside of it. New merch for the new ride!
Modern detailed articulated figures for the Tron characters? Awwww yeah. I mean; greetings, programs!
Shirts? Of course. We're in a gift shop.
This ReAction company does retro-style figures for a lot of different things. It turns out these ones for Tron are close to what the original action figures looked like in the first place.
Original Light Cycles! The new ride is based on the Light Cycles from the sequel movie, so they don't look like this.
The replica tokens are $3 each! That's an insane mark-up! Remember when these were only a quarter?
They had silver and gold tokens, with a few different designs on each color. Getting a full set is not cheap, but you gotta admit, it's an amazing collectible for a movie based on arcade games.
Dress like a computer program!
Get yourself an authentic Light Cycle Helmet! It says it's not a real protective helemet, in case you might think it was. So probably don't wear it with your real bicycle. That might be silly.
The remote control car has a cycle-looking controller. That's not confusing at all. There might be a cycle that uses that. We were kind of rushing through so I don't really have details here.
Somebody at Disney thinks kids want personalized action figures. They did it for Avatar, and here's the thing for Tron. Get your face on a figure!
We watched as some kid got his figure made. It's a whole experience where it comes out of the machine and all. It was kind of neat, after all. The box looks like an arcade machine!
The jackets do indeed have lights in them. In case you might think they cheaped-out. It's bright in here, so we really couldn't tell how awesome it looked, or not.
The expensive Identity Disc replicas were all sold out. The only one in the store was held aloft by that lone mannequin. I can jump up there! Do you think they'd sell it to me if I went all "Karen" on them?!
Color team t-shirts. There was a few things here that had color choices as teams. I guess programs are kind of boring to use simple colors instead of like, cool mascots.
They seemed to assign attitudes to the colors. Like your color determined your strategy choices. Which is kinda like how computer program games work, so I guess it makes sense.
If Blue always wins, why do the other colors even play? What an oddly boastful thing to say. Like, if they lose, would it be embarrassing to have worn this shirt?
Hey, that's not a Tron thing! Eh, it's "space" and whatever... Everybody loves Grogu, okay?!
Off to the brand-new super impressive Tron Ride building area. Check out that giant canopy over the track!
Wooooosh! The cycles zoom overhead as you make your way across the place.
Due to the way Disney does the line queue thing these days, we had to buy our way onto this ride. Since we started the day in Animal Kingdom, and came here after lunch. It's complicated, and expensive, but at least we don't have to wait in a hours-long line. And it's the newest thing here, so the line needs to be complicated in order to be fair. If that makes any sense.
6:35! That's us! You technically have a full hour to get to the ride once it's your time you paid for, but why not be there right on time?!
If you remember the movie, that's the laser thing that zaps you into the computer. They didn't really explain it too much, don't worry about it. You gotta get in the computer somehow.
Inside looks so cool. The glowing lines and all. This is what people think of when you say "Tron"!
They try to explain how to get into the cycles. It's such a different way to ride a ride. You have to sit on a real cycle with your knees bent and all, it's a combination of super comfy, and totally un-comfortable. And something they tried really hard to make easy even though it's not.
They encourage you to put ALL of your stuff in a free locker, right before you ride the ride. Phones and Minty and all. So technically "I" did not get to ride this ride, not even in a pocket I might have fallen out of. I'll share my friend's story about the ride area right before you get into the ride. The music playing was ominous long low tones, raising in intensity and then calming down again. It's the same music that was playing on the phone when he was booking the Galactic Starcruiser. And he was on hold for almost FIVE FULL HOURS listening to that music from the Tron ride, looping over and over. It was personally both hilarious and haunting to hear it again. Good thing he was in there for a much shorter time.
Off the ride! It was good, not the greatest, but solid, and the theme-ing is top-notch. Again, the sitting in the cycle was a total mix of awesome and what-is-going-on?! Looks like it's sponsored by Enterprise Rental Cars, the logos are all over the ride exit.
They have ads for customer service reps that are computer programs. Is this THE automated computer voice we all dislike talking to? Representative! Representative! I'd like to talk to a real Operator!? Operator!
"enterprise" with a little "e". There was no Green Team merch in the gift shop? I should be a fan of Green Team since it has the cheeky Star Trek reference, with the whole Enterprise name and all.
The canopy mesh was translucent, and you could see through it a little. Check out the sun. Can you see the orange circle over there? Neat. Did I mention it was 100 degrees outside during the whole week?
As we left out of Tomorrowland behind the Tron ride, our friend mentioned this was a new sign for the place they put up when they did all the new landscaping around here. Should we come back tomorrow? Not like real-tomorrow, but sometime-in-the-future-tomorrow.
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