Thursday, October 25, 2012

EPCOT 30th, Wreck-It Ralph, and other such nonsense.

I feel a bit bad for all of this, because I've neglected to write anything for nigh-on 20 days since I returned from Walt Disney World and EPCOT center's big 30th anniversary of existing.

I wish I had more to say, because it was both an amazing and horrific week.  I finally got to meet Leonard Kinsey and the beautiful Pentakis Dodecahedron, both of whom I am in love with, proposed to my girlfriend (they were there!  We have witnesses!) met Nomeus who, I am happy to report, is a wonderful guy, and got to meet our new roomies, Chris Wakefield of the Wakefield Report and the lovely Daniel Bennett.

We were practically rained out of our Halloween party while we were there, caught a stomach bug that made us both vomitty slobs for half the week, and missed our chance to meet Kristen Hoetzel and Aljon Go from Sorcerer Radio fame, which really cooked my grits.  I hated missing them, especially on an EMH night, but life's a bitch and then you die.  I'll see them again soon, I'm sure.

Since then, I've moved to Florida!  Yaaaay! Cue applause, please.  It beats the hell out of Kentucky, and now I'm only two hours from the world instead of eighteen.  Marvelous!  I just wish my cat wasn't such an a-hole, I'd like to get him out and moving about, interacting with his new cousins, you know?

For the EPCOT 30th, I must steer you to WDW Kingdomcast, Wakefield, and the Fanboys.  I have, unfortunately, not nearly enough to say for this trip.  Spending half of it throwing up everything will do that to you.

What I can say, however, is that Wreck-It Ralph is PHENOMENAL!  I actually expedited our move so we could get over to see it, and it was fabulous.  I even went as Fix-It Felix!  I really hate to spoil it, so I'll only say that I'll be seeing this movie about a thousand more times, that it made me cry, and that I am so grateful I had good friends there to see it with me.  We even got Hero's Duty Medals!  Check out the picture!

The event itself was awesome.  The organization was really good (I think we can thank Walt Disney Animation Studios for that) and I managed to even save my wrist band.  The medals were of really good quality, very heavy and quite lovely.  I got pounced on by Cast Members to say "I can fix it~" into a camera, so be on the lookout for me in the Disney Parks Blog coverage for the Wreck It Ralph preview!  I'd like to thank them a thousand times for the medals, the free soda and popcorn, the free MOVIE admission, and the free admission into DisneyQuest--I don't think I'd ever go in there otherwise.  Playing Fix-It Felix, Jr. on a machine was killer, too!  I placed 3rd on the machine on the 3rd floor, and I'll be back to land first place within the year.  I've been practicing.

Tomorrow we're headed to WDW to see Fantasyland (wink) and check out Pirates.  We're even staying to do the Halloween Party again, since we got rained out last time (and I'm in love with Master Gracey the Ghost Host).  We're staying at the Wilderness Lodge, which is so neat since I haven't stayed off the beaten path since Port Orleans French Quarter two years ago (it's been Bay Lake Tower ever since) and hopefully I'll have an article up Friday night.  Sound good, kids?

Until Friday!

-Candy