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I would love to see them onscreen. I fear that Anne McCaffery was probably right. Her son, Todd McCaffery has written out some books in her world, and while they are good, they don't have quite the same feel to them. He has been to a number of conventions where I was able to speak with him, and he was once excited that a canadian producer was looking into the books as a possible movie series. This was just after the 2nd Jurassic Park movie came out, and Todd was dabbling in computer art with the dragons. I guess nothing ever came from that.

I think people put too much faith in critics. I know you have to choose where your money goes, but I don't think these movies are so bad. I liked John Carter of Mars, and I loved The Lone Ranger. In fact, that movie was the first one in a long time where I was wanting to watch it again, immediately. It was fun and unexpectedly different. The critic I follow gave Artemis Fowl an F, and I can't understand why. The movie entertained me, and I was not bored and I enjoyed the story very much. It's a B in my book. I guess I'm easily amused. I haven't wanted to walk out on a mov

I got mine on Saturday! One on the fridge and 2 on the car. Love 'em! Thanks for making these.

I'm missing my invoice. @yahoo.com is the e-mail, please.

I have to say, I have never been so happy to have retained Jason as my travel advisor for this round. My reservations aren't until December, so I expect things will change a number of times before I get there. Nice to have someone watching it like a hawk for me. Thanks Jason, for all you do!

I will take a set, and one extra 'missing the mouse' please. 3 total.

Since when has that ever stopped a blogger / youtuber?

I am holding onto my hope for my December vacation. I'm betting the parks will be open again, the question is will my Disney fund remain intact through all this.

That'll give a bit of humor to the grim situations. If you see a doctor or nurse wearing a poncho with the mouse, you can honestly say: " what kind of Mickey Mouse operation is this?!"

I can't tell if that's sarcasm or not.. lol. Easter doesn't mean much to Buddhists. Anyway, gave me a giggle for the morning.

Since you carry the virus 5 to 14 days before symptoms show up, he was probably ill when he got on the plane, or caught it on the plane to Orlando in the first place. This is a disaster of such a magnitude as I never expected to see. Even staying home now for a month, it's not going to stop infections, and IF everyone tries to return to business as normal in May, then it will fire up again, and we will just have kicked the curve down the line. The virus is here to stay, and all we can do is try to slow it down so the hospitals can keep up and hope that someone can create a vaccine, fas

Sounds like a really fun and educational trip! What great memories you will build.

I will miss riding SE when I visit this December, but I am excited for the new version. EPCOT has always been the park that I don't mind them changing. It almost always brings on amazing and fun new content. With the exception of Frozen. RIP Maelstrom.

So for WDW, what would the best solution have been? Considering the difficulties in getting this ride online, on both coasts, should they have waited until they could have done the CM previews in order to run high demand stress tests? Even if the ride at DHS was operating at full capacity, the BP option is still better than opening with all standby lines. Not having to wait 2, 4, 6 or more hours in line is a good thing, to my way of thinking. It doesn't matter if the ride is running perfectly. Because it is new, it will still have a huge demand on it for a number of years. Look at 7DMT.

I'm not sure it's ridiculous. We were all joking about lines all the way up to New York for this new land when it opened. If the system was not set up this way, we would be seeing 8 hour lines or more for the ride. 90 minutes is reasonable, considering. Galaxies Edge is by far the biggest, most popular expansion of a Disney park, ever. There are so many Star Wars fans out there that want to experience this that Disney is going to be making bank on it for years. Most of us were smart enough to plan our vacations for AFTER the entire area was opened, and we are seeing the influx of those fan

I really hope one of the more active, hardcore LARPing groups gets together to do this experience. I would really want to watch, and would love to participate. I'm sure the regular guests will be totally freaked out, though. I wonder how Disney will handle it if player groups start showing up.

I have not been to the Fort's dog park, but I have owned and loved whippets since 1983. I've had over 8 whippets in my life, and fostered a dozen others for whippet rescue. Since you have over a year to plan here are my suggestions for your new whippet family member: Teach your whippet to respect baby gates in your house. If the dog learns not to jump a baby gate, they generally will not jump a short fence. Make a flirt pole and teach your pup to love it. I use a buggy whip ( bought at a feed store) with a 4 foot length of rope on it. I have a rubber donut tied on the

HA! of course I can find chorizo. It's everywhere, and I don't really like the stuff I find here. What they served at EPCOT though.. OMG. I guess they make them there. They are just barely bigger than cocktail sausages, have a firmer texture than most Mexican chorizo, but still have the chili/ garlic flavor profile. It's a little less than a year until my next visit to WDW, and I can't wait to get back to that restaurant.

San Angel Inn was good. I remember a nice shrimp cocktail, and overlooking the Three Caballeros ride is fun. I prefer La Hacienda de San Angel, outside the pyramid. The 2 person grilled sampler was SO over the top good. We got the one with beef, chicken and chorizo. I thought I would like the beef the best, and it was really good, but I still dream about being able to find those little sausages again. Everything about that meal was amazing to me. The sides, the dessert, the chicken was even better than the beef. Also, I can't go to EPCOT without eating at least once at Nine Drago

From the way Josh ( easywdw) was talking about the virtual queue, that is the DAS return time. There is no standby line, and no FP+ for RotR. Once your boarding group is called, you have 2 hours to get to the ride. Everyone is reporting that once you get your boarding group called, your wait time will be no longer than 10 to 20 minutes. If the ride goes down while you are in the early part of the queue, you will get an anytime FP+ added digitally to your MDE. If you are already on the preshow or ride when it goes down, you will get a paper anytime FP+. Those FP+ are the ONLY ones c

What a nice story. I love these little bits of magic.

I second the French Bakery at EPCOT for breakfast. Sit outside in the area, and it's the perfect setting to discuss things like 'Where in the world would you really like to visit?" and gets a great 'what do you want your future to be' conversation rolling. It's fun to hear what your kids dreams are, when they are that close to adulthood. To keep the conversation moving, agree with everything, don't bring reality like money into it.

I'll bet you anything that $40 is their normal rate per night, and the $100 rate is for special events. Someone forgot to put the special event rate into the system, for the dates of the Balloon Fiesta. I would speak to someone there in management, to try to hold onto that rate. I know that when the hotel chain I worked for forgot to enter their event rates in time, they honored the rates as long as the reservation had no changes. If you changed the reservation at all, even to just cancel some days, the event rates would apply. I am pretty sure it is legal for them to change the

Nice! My husband is the big Star Wars fan, and he is happily tucking away money for his lightsaber. He'll be happy to know it's going to be worth it. I get attached to the ships, so I expect I'll be crying when I see the Millenium Falcon for the first time. For instance, in the Star Trek universe, I did not shed a tear when Spock died. But when they blew up the Enterprise, I jumped up, shouted "NO!" and broke down crying in the theater. Thanks for the up to date reporting, it's very helpful!!

But Jason... the urgent question.. did you get your lightsaber?!