3/4ths of our family is California born, so we are really charmed by the novelty of EPCOT. For Dad his earliest exposure to EPCOT is probably the introductory sequence of the Disney Sunday Movie. Mom was a fan of the special episodes when sitcoms would visit Walt Disney World.
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| Epcot: WELCOME |
It seemed so far off to us and a place we weren’t super familiar with or very likely to go to. But in the 3 years we have been visiting Walt Disney World it has become one of our favorite things about the resort. Teenage Son loves all sorts of 1980’s stuff and Toddler Son loves “The Golf Ball” so there ends up being something for everyone at this park.
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| Toddler Son loves the trams and has the toy version |
Teenage Son is a Figment Fanatic, and Toddler Son is not far behind. On our last trip Teenage Son was pretty much “Figment” in his T-Shirt & hat.
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| Follow the footprints to find Figment at the end |
The whole family enjoyed our time at Figment’s home : The Imagination Pavilion. Everyone enjoyed the Disney*Pixar film festival. This attraction gets some flak for being something you can do at home if you own the DVD's which we admittedly do. But we don't have a giant 3-D screen at home or any "4-D" effects like rumbling seats or water sprayed in our faces so it does offer something unique!
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| Fun at Figment's Imagination Pavilion |
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| Please remember to leave your 3-D glasses in the receptacles as you exit the theater |
We had a fastpass for Spaceship Earth and then had lunch at the Garden Grill in The Land Pavilion.
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| Spaceship Earth fun |
After lunch we visited the remnants of Innoventions and enjoyed exploring the Colortopia exhibit followed by a ride on Mission: Space. We rode the green mission which was still a pretty thrilling trip in low earth orbit. The visual effects have been greatly improved and there is still a nice range of motion without the spinning of the orange mission. Toddler Son enjoyed his time in the after show playground.
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| Future World East fun |
In the afternoon we went to meet Caballero Donald, something we've wanted to do for a while. Donald gave Dad a hard time for his Mickey Backpack.
Teenage Son, our very own Agent P decided to play a round of the "Agent P World Showcase Adventure" which took us to France and then back to Mexico.
We worked in a Friendship Boat cruise in there (EPCOT is so enormous it is exhausting traveling back and forth sometimes). We had managed to score a Frozen: Ever After fastpass so we went on that, we all love that ride.
The "Gran Fiesta Tour with the Three Caballeros" called to us next (Toddler Son calls this ride "Little Small World"). The whole family rode together once in the front row, then Mom & Teenage Son went to play another round of "Agent P's World Showcase Adventure" while Dad and Toddler Son rode "Little Small World" 2 more times. "Gran Fiesta Tour" is usually a walk on...which is great but a little surprising as there are not many rides at EPCOT. We find this boat ride through "Mexico" in search of Donald Duck to be very charming.
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| France |
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| United Kingdom |
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| Floating Flowers of Future World |
Our next stop was "Living with The Land" boat ride, sliding into one of the last boats before it closed for the night.
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| Monorail outside of Land Pavilion on the way to The Seas |
After that we closed out our day at "The Seas with Nemo". The Seas Pavilion always reminds Mom & Dad of that "Full House" episode where Uncle Jesse & Joey are doing a radio show in the tank.
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| real live giant sea turtle |
The tank highlight for us was seeing the giant sea turtle (the real one not "Crush"! ha ha ha). And that was the end of another great day at EPCOT.
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