Neurotech - the weblog of Luke Reeves

Yesterday we went to Tokyo Disney. It was cool, but Good Lord it was also very painful. And a damned cold day to boot.

The rides and attractions were cool and all, but there were lines in excess of an hour for almost all of them. There was a “fast pass” system which previously I had only heard of in South Park (where I absorb most of my knowledge). I’m sure Wonderland and what not have a similiar system, where you grab a fast pass ticket for an event ahead of time and you can bypass the line to another that’s only half the size. You’re entitled to about 3 or 4 fast pass tickets a day, so it didn’t really solve the line problems.

It was still fun though. There was an awesome Star Tours/Wars ride that I remember going on in Disney World when I was a kid, and it was still pretty damned awesome. The Winnie the Pooh ride was fucked, it was the little retarded bear having a bad dream but it resembled a horrific acid trip with massive amounts of creepy imagery flying around. It reminded me of that old game Alice, where they took something that was usually pictured as innocent and warped it. I like that.

Most of the attractions were centered around faking reality, which is something else I like. I’ve always liked the Disney parks simply for the fact that their rides are kind of a manual physical virtual reality - using those creepy animatronics, holograms and so on.

We were there for the whole day I think, opening to closing. There was a big parade at the end celebrating the 20 years of either the park or Disney (which one? I don’t care). The best part of the parade was the last float that was a huge “Sponsered by Unisys” logo - heh. Disney clutches to copyright, Unisys clutches to patents - a match made in heaven.

Overall it was pretty cool, and I’d absolutely go again - but on a warmer day and with a more normal human level of sleep the previous night.