Originally Posted By dagobert This guy is going on a fantastic journey. He is going to visit all Disney parks worldwide in 80 hours and he plans to spend 45 minutes in each park. <a target="blank" rel="nofollow" href="http://mousearoundtheworld.com/">http://mousearoundtheworld.com/</a>
Originally Posted By believe WHY?!?!? for G's sake? Wait for it. Because they're there! or Maybe he's only got 4 days vacation.
Originally Posted By 9oldmen Why doesn't he wait a few months until after Shanghai opens so he can include that? Unless Shanghai was on the itinerary and I missed it.
Originally Posted By Mr X Unless he's being given a guided tour, what could he possibly do in any of the parks in under an hour? I agree, sounds silly. There's a Japanese TV show where they do something silly like this (I think it's "how many European countries can you visit in a day" or something), but in that case they have to do "something" and eat "something" etc., in each locale before they leave. It'd make some sense if it was more like "ride space mountain, thunder mountain and pirates in each locale", and skip the time-limit part. But whatever. It's a hype, I suppose. I'd do it if the flights were first class, except I'd skip the Disney part and just hang out in the lounges between flights. ;D
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I've visited HKDL and DLR on back-to-back days. It just so happened that our HKDL visit was on the last full day of our trip, and we flew home the next day. With the international date line, we landed in LAX around 11am. A friend and I were both APers at the time, so we figured it was worth a shot and headed down for a few hours at the park (we did a few rides, though I don't remember what specifically; we also got photos in front of the giant stained glass map of all the Disney parks in World of Disney), and headed home around dusk because the day had been about 30 hours long at that point We did it for the novelty of it, and because it just happened to work into our travel plans without costing us anything extra. Planning a whole trip like this just sounds like a royal pain in the butt
Originally Posted By Mr X FWIW, I've visited most of WDW, then Disneyland, and finally Tokyo Disneyland in the space of roughly three travel days (travel day one being the first leg from Florida to Anaheim). I was technically "on the clock", and even though it was a business/pleasure kind of trip it was pretty much fun all-told BUT there was no real rush on the itinerary (and it was all decent hotels and business class flights and such). Plus I walked into all the parks from backstage and spend little time in lines (but I was touring as a guest in all cases). Anyway, this sounds a heck of a lot more extreme.
Originally Posted By Mr X Also for the record I believe WorldDisney (what ever happened to THAT guy!?) rode IndyJones in Anaheim and then less than 24 hours later rode the DisneySea version with me...he gave me the official fresh-minded critique in the midst of the ride (the DisneySea version was decidedly superior) when everyone else on LP was arguing the point. Again, that wasn't a planned thing per-se, he just happened to have been at Disneyland shortly before heading to Tokyo and so it was a fun hype to compare. So yeah, "super park-hopping" can be a fun thing, if not taken to extremes.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA It's just a gimmick - a thing - like standing in line to collect Park pins and merchandise or watching the new 'Star Wars'' movie for 24 hours. It's not my idea of fun. Diff'rent strokes For Diff'rent folks And so on and so on And doobie-doobie-doo
Originally Posted By Mr X ***It's just a gimmick - a thing - like standing in line to collect Park pins and merchandise or watching the new 'Star Wars'' movie for 24 hours.*** For me, the neatest thing about this guys' plan is the circling the globe part. Sure, he picked "Disney Parks" as waypoints, but in any case that does seem like a fun thing to do. I'd certainly want to expand any such trip from "80 hours" to "a few days" or more, but the coolness factor of circumnavigating the globe, for me, is a fun sort of trip to consider. I actually did "both halves" (and many thanks to some LP friends who helped make that possible!), and even that was a hype for me (hey, I'm a geek, what can I say!?). Tokyo - Newark and back, followed by Tokyo - London - Newark and back...full circle, just not all at once.
Originally Posted By phruby >>I've visited HKDL and DLR on back-to-back days. Since you crossed the international date line does that mean you were literally in two places at the same time?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros ^^Depending how you want to look at it, yes. The flight from Hong Kong to LAX is about 14 hours, yet you land about 90 minutes before you took off. Somehow, the sun sets and rises during that time, and yet it's still all the same day That said, the two places I would have been during the bonus time were both airports, so it didn't really seem like I was making the most of it : /
Originally Posted By Mr X I was on a flight once from Narita (Tokyo) to Boston where the departure time and arrival time were exactly the same. When we landed a tad on the early side, thus "arriving before we'd departed", I was slightly disappointed. I really wanted to be on a flight that took no time at all.
Originally Posted By SuperDry I was once with Mr X in TDS, and WorldDisney in DCA, on the very same day. I managed to do TDL, TDS, DCA, and DL on a single calendar day, with a little help from the international date line and a non-stop Tokyo-LAX flight. That was a long day.
Originally Posted By SuperDry I'm all for long-distance, short-duration trips, if that's all you have time for. But to go literally all around the world, stepping foot in each Disney park for just 45 minutes, in 8 hours is well beyond even my threshold of ridiculousness. Although, some would probably say the same thing about how long I've waited in a park line for some thing or another.
