Squirrel Attack

So today I was sitting at a picnic table outside Innoventions, yes I work at Disney World, and as I was sitting there an Innoventions cast member came out of the door with a pest control cast member.  He looked at me and asked if I had called about the squirrel attack.

Naturally I thought, "Squirrel attack?  Really?"  So I told him it wasn't me.  But someone coming out of a door and asking if I was attacked by a squirrel was the best thing I've experienced in a while and I told him how much I appreciated that being the most random thing I've experienced today.  We shared a laugh and they left.

After that I looked down and saw this under my picnic table.

Long story short.  I made a new friend.

A very photogenic friend!

Avatar Coming To Disney's Animal Kingdom

Okay, so Disney has partnered with the ever so conceited James Cameron to bring Avatar to Disney's Animal Kingdom.  Now anybody that knows me knows that I'm one of the biggest Disney fans around so I figured I needed to put my 2 cents in on this.

I'm all for Disney partnering with 3rd party companies.  I mean it gave us Star Tours and Star Wars Weekends, then we got the Indiana Jones ride and show.  Let's not forget my favorite 3rd party ride...

(This elevator goes directly too...The Twilight Zone)

So I'm not against them bringing a non-Disney thing into a Disney theme park.  I don't know if I'm okay with them devoting an entire land to Avatar though.  I'm sure Disney could do it justice and I think it'll be pretty cool to see the world of Avatar in person but I wonder how much staying power Avatar has.

I mean if you asked me I couldn't tell you a lot of facts about Avatar.  I mean I know the main guy's name is Jake and they look for Unobtainium (the most creative name for a rare mineral/gem/rock/whatever it is)  but other than that I really couldn't tell you much more.  (They turn into blue people and try to save a tree.)  I think Disney should've gone a different route.  I mean you have lands in Animal Kingdom devoted to different areas of the world and then you have Dino-Land which is okay cause they're proven to exist.  There was suppose to be an area devoted to mythical creatures but they scrapped it so we could go to Mickey's Cabana Land as I like to call it.  But does Avatar have the power to pull in people like Star Wars does?  I don't think so.  I think the new land will pull in people now and hopefully it will when the sequels come out but I don't think it's that popular of a movie.  I mean it's a big movie and everyone saw it but nobody talks about Avatar or wants to watch it over and over again like Star Wars.  If they had Avatar weekend at Animal Kingdom then I don't think people would go.

Overall I think Disney missed a major opportunity and I think if they were going to put a new land in Animal Kingdom then they should have went with the mythological creature land that's been on the back burner since the beginning of Animal Kingdom.  I think it's going to be much more popular than Avatar in the long one unless the sequels do just as well as the original then they might have something on their hands but as of right now I think the Avatar land will be just something else in the park, not a big attraction.

Because I Forget To Blog A Lot

Well it's been a pretty eventful end of 2009 and begins of 2o1o. Well I did well at the end of this semester and got myself off acedemic probation. Well kind of. Kind of meaning they didn't take away my scholarships they just docked me for $350 bucks. Like this school isn't already getting enough of my money!

One of the stranger things I've done lately is that I've actually started using my MySpace more. I had kind of forgotten about it and just kind of left it sitting. But in case anybody wants to add me, I am officially using that thing again! Hooray!!

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Um...what else to update people about. I went to Disney World over Christmas. Had a blast with the family and I mean it was a pretty good bit of us that went down this time. Here's us with Mickey Mouse! :

So all in all it was a pretty awesome time down there. Left on Christmas Day and did like a long weekend trip getting back on that Tuesday. Speaking of Christmas I got one of those Yoostar things. It's already been returned. Personally it was bought for me as a gift because I like making videos and a green screen was awesome. This thing isn't worth it for me. It's very limited with what you can do.

I figured I'd make a new paragraph to tell you how much Yoostar sucks. You can only use scenes they give you. You can't upload anything to it. It's all secure. It also blocks you from uploading to Youtube for some reason. You can use it on Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter but that's pretty much it. So for someone wanting to be creative by making Youtube videos that are original and creative. It's not worth it at all. Plus it costs like $170. But I got to keep the refund money so that was pretty sweet! :) I think Yoostar would be worth it if you just want to use it as some fun family activity but it's not worth it if you want it for anything else. It's just another techno toy.

Well I think that's about all I have to say. So until next time I decide to update this thing!

-Joe/E

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