| Walt Disney World in Orlando Florida is 49 square | | | | ship into a tailspin. All the more fun is if someone |
| miles. The size of a whole city and inside the | | | | else hits your ship's target spot. |
| World, as it is known, there are unlimited ways to | | | | 6. The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh at |
| entertain yourself. I have listed the ten most | | | | Magic Kingdom provides a bit of nostalgia for |
| enjoyable attractions at Disney World appropriate | | | | parents and a sense of wonder in the little ones . |
| for all ages. | | | | Seeing Pooh and friends come alive in the |
| 1. From EPCOT the winner is Honey I shrunk the | | | | Hundred Acre Wood will warm your heart. This |
| Audience. The audience in this attraction appears | | | | one gets busy though so you may want to use a |
| to have been shrunk down to the size of ants as | | | | fast pass if the park is packed. |
| a giant film shows on the screen. As rodents run | | | | 7. The fireworks show is best viewed from Magic |
| past in the movie your chair shakes appropriately. | | | | Kingdom. Depending on the time of year there |
| When someone on screen sneezes you will get a | | | | are different themes to this one but one thing |
| light mist in your face. This one has everyone | | | | remains constant Disney doesn't do anything |
| squealing with delight. This is an attraction for all | | | | halfway and this is no exception. One year I saw |
| ages. | | | | the Fourth of July fireworks and the explosions |
| 2. From The Magic Kingdom comes the Buzz | | | | were in the shape of stars. The show was visible |
| Lightyear Space Ranger spin. You are enlisted to | | | | all the way from the Disney Pop Century hotel |
| help Buzz save the Universe.. The way you | | | | which is not right next door. All ages will ooh and |
| achieve this is by way of laser cannons that are | | | | gasp over the show. |
| set in front of you in a futuristic car hurling | | | | 8. Mickey's PhilharMagic show is a 3D short movie |
| through space. Your car will spin while you try to | | | | shown on the largest seamless screen ever built. |
| hit targets out in the Universe. The effects are | | | | As per all things Disney it is not just a film. This |
| achieve with black light and glow in the dark | | | | attraction has the audience watching a scene |
| surfaces. Kids get great joy out of making their | | | | from Fantasia where Donald Duck puts on |
| parents dizzy on this one. Do not miss this one. | | | | Mickey's magical hat and is catapulted into the |
| 3. Disney-MGM Studious Back lot Tour at | | | | audience. You will smell the scents and feel water |
| Disney-MGM is an informative excursion. Guests | | | | and a surprising but not painful sting as well have |
| get to tour through movie sets on a tram. It is | | | | a visual experience like no other. This may be the |
| fascinating to see what goes on behind the | | | | most entertaining twelve minutes you ever spend |
| scenes to create special effects and different | | | | in a movie theater. Bring the kiddies but don't sit |
| scenes. At the end you are taken through floods | | | | back fully in your chair if you want to avoid the |
| and explosions before being shown how it is done. | | | | sting. |
| 4. Disneyquest at Downtown Disney is an often | | | | 9. At EPCOT the are many national pavilions. The |
| overlooked indoor theme park. This larger than life | | | | best of all is the Mexico Pavilion. Inside there is a |
| arcade provides a welcome respite from the | | | | slow boat ride around the Rio el Tiempo Volcano. |
| broiling Florida sun. It is five stories high of | | | | This is a gentle and peaceful ride that serves to |
| interactive entertainment. On the Pirates of the | | | | calm overstimulated children and quell the fire of |
| Caribbean attraction inside Disneyquest you an up | | | | aching feet in adults. |
| to three others are manning a schooner fighting | | | | 10. Dinosaur at Disney's Animal Kingdom is not an |
| against pirates and sea monsters. One plays the | | | | Aladar ride as I was led to believe. There is a life |
| roll of captain steering the vessel while the others | | | | size Aladar from the kids movie called Dinosaur |
| are busy launching cannons at the bad guys. Just | | | | standing right outside but don't let that fool you. |
| when you think it is over a giant sea creature | | | | You and your fellow victims are strapped into |
| tries to board your ship and you must defend | | | | large metal jeep like vehicles and taken on a trip |
| once again. This attraction will take your mind off | | | | back in time to when the great beasts roamed |
| of anything else as you will be preoccupied with | | | | the earth. At the end you find out you have |
| your own survival. Fun is the operative word | | | | mistakenly transported a dinosaur forward to |
| here, for all ages. | | | | modern times. It is more transfixing that |
| 5. Also from Disneyquest is the Extraterrestrial | | | | frightening unless like myself you are worried you |
| Alien Encounter where you can blast and be | | | | may fall out of the car and be electrocuted on |
| blasted inside of small spaceship that you fly. | | | | the track. My fellow pint sized riders had a |
| Actually you drive it around a floor painted like the | | | | rollicking good time while I rode in terror. Take |
| milky way. One person steers while the other | | | | your chances. There is a height restriction on this |
| shoots large rubber cannons from the ship. If you | | | | one of 40 inches. |
| hit an opponent at just the place it will send their | | | | |