Changing my Fate

Thought the title was appropriate for the new movie coming out soon (which I am very excited to see by the way) and for the news I am about to share.

For the past year, I have been working as a special education teacher and, while I love my kids with all my heart and love teaching them, the school and politics within caused several problems for me. The environment became uncomfortable and I did not feel like I was able to give my all to what I was doing. So I began searching for somewhere that might allow me to grow and learn, to challenge me and work to my full potential.

After lots of work and searching and a lot of help from some great friends, I am happy to announce that, after my WDW trip with my sister this week, I will be starting a brand new adventure in Florida. In the next several weeks, I will be moving into my new apartment in Kissimmee, FL.

That is not all though; As of the first week in July, I will begin my training for a new position...working in Hollywood Studios! I am excited to be within this park, not because it is my favorite park-actually the opposite-I do not know much about the Studios and hope to learn more and get a better appreciation for it.  It is an attractions position, but I look at it as a starting point on a huge opportunity to grow within the company. I had always hoped that this would become a reality and now it finally has!

I will still be working for Celebrations (though, over the next few weeks, please be patient with me as far as answering emails and interacting via Social Media) and I still hope to blog and interact, hopefully more now that I will be close to the magic. I want to make Twitterscursions a regular thing that I do hopefully a couple times a month so that I can bring the magic more to those of you who live farther away.

I will be at least tweeting along on my moving journey, so please follow along! I am naturally nervous, but am looking forward to sharing this new adventure with you! :)

Interactive Queue Ideas: Hollywood Studios

Continuing the Interactive Queues Discussion, here are some attractions in Hollywood Studios that could benefit from this addition.

Great Movie Ride – Yes, I know, this is relatively interactive already with the movies and all, but if nothing else, they need to add movie trailers! If you are in the queue for over 15 minutes, which is more than likely the case, you are going to keep seeing a repeat of the same 10 or so trailers and it gets boring after a while.  Please add new movies to that queue, they don’t all have to be just the ones for the scenes in the attraction, there can be others as well!

Voyage of the Little Mermaid – If not the inside part of this queue, at least the outside needs some sort of entertainment.  Maybe a screen wall that shows different pictures of sea creatures floating by or a giant interactive touch screen that allows people to poke and make ripples in the water with fish going by. 

Rock 'n' Roller Coaster – Different queue ideas have been tried for this before and I was not preset for these, so I am not sure how they turned out, but this queue could use some kind of boost.  I still think I like the queue idea for this like the one they are going to use for Dumbo, where you are part of a group and you are able to wander around the queue area until your group is called to board.

Those are the rides I suggest for this park.  I have also seen people suggest Tower of Terror and Toy Story Mania, but I say Heck NO! because they have such an interesting and visually appealing queue with so much to look at.  Interactive stuff in those queues would just take away from them. (See my post on Toy Story Mania's Queue)  Feel free to leave a comment below to let me know if you agree or disagree with my ideas or if you have some of your own!

Oh, and I have heard from several sources that Disney has confirmed that there will be more interactive queues to come in the future, so maybe these possibilities will become a reality!  We shall have to wait and see.  Look soon for my Epcot Interactive Queue.

Weekly DDL Post

This week on the Disney Driven Life, I look at the additions made to one of my favorite walk through attractions, Walt Disney: One Man's Dream! There seems to be some cool additions made, so click here to read the article and find out what they are!

Weekly DDL Post

This week on the Disney Driven Life, I cover information that happened a couple weeks ago about Hollywood Studios and the new Art of Animation Resort.  Find out about it by clicking here!

Weekly DDL Post

This week on the Disney Drive Life, I look at some of the announcement made last week for the Disney property! Big stuff happening at Epcot and Hollywood Studios, so check it out here!

Weekly DDL Post

This week on the Disney Driven Life, my article gives some information on the upcoming event in Hollywood Studios, Star Wars Weekends. Preparing for my June trip as well, I go into detail about who and what is expected during the weekends of the event. To check out the article, click here.

Weekly DDL Post

This week on the Disney Driven Life, I talk about the refurbishments happening to the MuppetVision 3D show in Hollywood Studios..some popular ones and some not so popular ones....read about it here at the Disney Driven Life.