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Avoiding Long Lines at Disney Parks

Avoiding Long Lines at Disney Parks

One of the most frustrating things about visiting the Disney theme parks (especially during the summer), is the painfully long line queues that can force visitors to wait as many as 60, 75, or even 90 minutes for Disney’s most popular rides. A 90 minute wait for a 5 minute ride is an average of 18 minutes in line per 1 minute of ride – yikes!

Disney's Fastpass Service Logo

Fortunately, both Disney World and Disneyland offer Fastpass Service for their busiest rides. Fastpass tickets allow visitors to access shorter wait lines for certain rides at designated hour-long windows. The catch is that you can only retrieve a new ticket every two hours or after the window for a previous ticket has begun. Fastpass machines are located at the entrance to all of the rides that offer Fastpass access, and the service is so popular that during peak attendance, the machines may run out of tickets as early as the mid-afternoon. The tried-and-true advice is to grab a Fastpass ticket as soon as you enter the park and another one every two hours after that.

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September 12, 2010 Post Under Latest News, Online, Theme Parks, Vacations - Read More

Disneyland in July

Disneyland in July

I visited Disneyland California for the first time this past July. My best friend and I had a blast, and even though it was the middle of the summer and we didn’t show up until after 11am, we still managed to go on 14 rides in 10 hours. Not too shabby!

Here are some of the pics from our visit!

Main Street, Disneyland, CA, photograph by Valerie Champagne

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September 6, 2010 Post Under Latest News, Theme Parks - Read More

Toy Story 3 Makes a Billion

Toy Story 3 Makes a Billion

Screenshot from Disney's Toy Story 3 (2010)

The entertainment industry is abuzz over the big news to come out of the box office this past weekend. Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 officially crossed the $1 billion mark in ticket sales, making it the first animated film to ever reach that milestone… assuming, of course, that you don’t adjust for inflation.

Time News Feed decided to put a little perspective on this achievement by using stats from Box Office Mojo and the CPI Inflation Calculator to determine a list of films that have grossed $1 billion or more when adjusted for inflation.

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September 2, 2010 Post Under Latest News, Movies - Read More

50 Great Animated Films

50 Great Animated Films

Screenshot from Disney's Fantasia (1940)

Walt Disney Pictures has a long history of producing quality animated feature films dating all the way back to 1937 with Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.  For those of us who grew up with Disney on Home Video, there are dozens of films from our childhoods which played an integral role in shaping who we are as adults – from our imaginations to our aspirations.  But the real question is… which of Disney’s films rank among the best animated films of all times?

If you were to go by the American Film Institute’s Top 10 Animated Films, then Disney (and collaborator Pixar) has made nine of the ten best American animated films, with rival Dreamwork’s Shrek sneaking in at position number eight.

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August 30, 2010 Post Under Latest News, Movies - Read More

Pinocchio Celebrates 70 Years

Pinocchio Celebrates 70 Years

Pinocchio has been re-released by Disney on DVD and Blu-ray for its 70th Anniversary.

It’s hard to believe that the Disney animated classic, Pinocchio, about a puppet’s journey to become a real boy, was made in 1940, 70 years ago. 1940…that was five years before the end of World War II, 25 years before the Voting Rights Act of 1965, 29 years before man first walked on the moon (and 46 years before the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion), and 68 years before Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States of America.

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August 30, 2010 Post Under History, Latest News, Movies - Read More