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“Alas... earwax!”
MagicBand blogging.
It’s hard to believe it’s already mid-2014. The time sure has flown by. And by flown I mean dragged. And by dragged I mean, “Holy trolley-horse poop, these have been the longest years of my life.”
I started this blog back in 2010. It was a different time then. But a lot has changed: Fantasyland has grown. The Magic Kingdom is gaining a ride. Ke$ha has lost her dollar sign. Even blogging today is different.
So when the imagineers helped me move my blog from the old server to this new one, they also made some “enhancements” to my blogging platform.
Gone are the old-fashioned days of typing in a username and password to log in. Not anymore! No, sir. Now, I have a MagicBand band. So whenever I want to blog, all I have to do is:
create a MyDisneyBlogExperience account
download the MyDisneySmartphoneBloggingAppExperience app
log into the MyDisneySmartphoneBloggingAppExperience app using my MyDisneyBlogExperience username and password
link the MyDisneyBlogExperience account to my MagicBand band
call up the MyMagicalTechSupportExperience+ techs to find out why I’m getting someone else’s blog posts in my account
start all over and repeat the process until it works
find the missing page of the Substitutiary Locomotion spell
recite the spell inside the park while launching the app and twisting my MagicBand band smartly a quarter turn to the left
and voila!
See? So much simpler.
The new system even makes it easier to write the blogs themselves. Before, I had to think of something to write and write it. With the new MyDisneyBlogExperience+, though, I get to select from one of 3 conveniently predetermined blog topics. As long as I make my selection 6 months before the post date and don’t try to write two blogs within the same category of posts, the system takes care of the rest!
Well, I still have to write the post, of course. But the system takes care of all that pesky deciding and spontaneity. I’ll never have to experience things in the moment ever again.
Man. How did we live before we had all this technology?
A long-awaited return.
Hello? Hello?
Testing. One. Two. Three.
It’s working! My dictation program is back online! I can blog again!
I’d do a happy dance right now… if only I could do a happy dance. Or any dance. Or even just give a thumbs up.
Ahem.
Greetings, humans and creatures of the interwebs! My name is B. Mode, and I’m the Disco Yeti. If this is your first time joining us, you’ll want to click here to read from the beginning and catch up with the story. Trust me, you’ll thank me for it.
If you’ve read my blog before, you already know that I’m a broken animatronic yeti working for the Mouse. (No, not Chuck E. Cheese; the other Mouse.) You also know I haven’t blogged in about three years.
Where have I been all this time? Well, here in the mountain, naturally. Unfortunately, my wi-fi went out and it took three years to get a Comcast repairman up here. You know how cable companies are: “We’ll have someone out there some time between 1pm... and 2014.” And they always show up just when you’ve gone to the bathroom.
So I’ve had a lot of time to hang around. My lack of mobility sort of limits my options, but I found ways to stay busy. I took up voice-dictated needlework for a while. I tried asking Siri a bunch of rude questions until she refused to talk to me anymore. At one point, I actually got so bored that I tried watching the Johnny Depp Lone Ranger movie. But even I have my limits.
Now that I’m back, though, there’s so much to talk about! Lots of things have happened in the parks, some good, some bad, and some ugly. Never fear, we’ll get to it all.
And, hey, the current state of Disney animation seems to be pretty good (unlike the current state of my animation). We’ve had some great non-Pixar hits lately that are bringing new energy and excitement to the brand. There’s even a new movie all about me and my current condition!
For now, I’m back to blogging. I’ve moved the site to Tumblr, so you can follow me and ask me questions without all the messy spam problems we had on the old site. So whenever you see something weird, wonky, broken, or unintentionally hilarious at the parks, send me a message, and I just might post it.
It’s good to be back.
Your friend, B. Mode “So I’m a bit of a fixer-upper...” The Disco Yeti
A salute to all nations, but mostly Pandora.
Recently, the Forbidden Mountain has received thousands of emails asking my opinion on the recent announcement that Avatar will be coming to Animal Kingdom.
And I'd like to tell you how I feel. But I can't, because this is a family show.
However, I will say that Disney doesn't make these decisions lightly. Much thought goes into a major park expansion like this, and the planning is much, much more complicated than simply asking "What movie will bring us the most money?"
You see, Walt Disney World is about more than money and film franchises. It's about creating experiences for kids of all ages, making dreams come true by giving you the chance to live out your childhood fantasies. It's that special sort of pixie dust that Walt Disney himself was so famous for.
Which is why the very first time an entire land at Walt Disney World is going to be based on just one movie (it's true!), it's a movie distributed by 20th Century Fox.
...and rated PG-13.
...that you'll totally still care about in 2017.
But I'm getting ahead of myself.
What I really want to talk about today is The Muppets. Contrary to popular belief, Muppet Vision 3D did not open in 1989 with the park. It opened two years later in 1991, and is the very, very, very last thing Jim Henson actually worked on before he died in 1990. This was his last performance as Kermit the Frog, the Swedish Chef and Waldorf (the shorter one) before we got, as someone once said, "wrong-sounding Muppets."
But in 2004, Disney bought the Muppets. Not just the rights, not just a "Dry Clean Only" Sweetums costume (which is standing in for me right now, as we speak), but the whole franchise. Everything except Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock can now be used anywhere at Walt Disney World, for free, as much as they would like, forever. And what a franchise! Jim Henson started creating the characters before Disneyland even opened (it's true!), and CP's still squee every time a new YouTube video comes out because nothing else quite has that same warm, safe, friendly, funny feeling as seeing Statler and Waldorf heckle Fozzie Bear or hearing Miss Piggy do a karate chop.
So we're opening Avatarland.
Oops! I'm sorry, we're talking about the Muppets.
And let's be honest; the Muppets already have a very solid attraction. Very solid. The most recent time I was able sneak in there and don my specially made, three-foot-wide pink glasses, it was great! The only issues were the fountain outside not turning, some of the preshow TVs not having sound, the already raised penguin orchestra, the smoke when Waldo squeals his tires, the bubbles starting a minute early and ending five minutes late, Statler and Waldorf's mouths not moving, the Swedish Chef having his gun too early and then not moving, the left side of the theater already being destroyed when I came in (not my fault this time), Waldo's "football team" getting lost, Bean Bunny's mouth not moving, half the ceiling fireworks not working, the other half of the fireworks never turning off, Fozzie's squirting flower not squirting, the blown speaker behind the screen and the arrow that's supposed to hit Statler and Waldorf's box during the glorious three-hour finale.
Also, Miss Piggy was not able to finish her song due to a water ski malfunction.
So if I may dust off an old hat, I'd like to award "It's Tough to Be A Muppet 3D" a childhood-crushing:
3.5 out of 5 Disco Yetis
And to "Avatar: The Latest Potter-Killer," I give a rarely seen:
5 out of 5 Disco Yetis
Be afraid, Harry. Because the kids, they love those blue things.
