Epcot Fireworks
There’s something about Disney firework displays. Just the sound of it makes you go, “Oh yeah. That’s going to be awesome.” Probably because it’s Disney and we all expect them to dump a ton of money into pretty much anything they’re doing (except with employees). Right?
Well, let me just say that at the Magic Kingdom, it’s true. The fireworks display is pretty darn awesome. I wanted to take pictures of every firework. But, there were way too many and the exposure would have been all defunct… Anyway, those fireworks are awesome. The explosive action doesn’t stop until after the finale! Just like a fireworks display should be…
However, Epcot apparently missed the tutorial on How to Properly Put on an Entertaining Fireworks Show because it was lacking in the fireworks and the entertainment; both of which are necessary for an Entertaining Fireworks Show…
Let me break it down for you (in case you’re on your way and your hopes are way UP HERE so that you know that the show is so down here…
They always say, lead and finish well, and what you do in-between is irrelevant. This is what Epcot must have heard because the show starts off pretty cool. (Mind you, this is from a male’s perspective.) There’s some fireworks and a ROARING, EXPLOSIVE FIRE barge thing (which my wife thought was accidental, and that someone was being burned alive on…) (It wasn’t.) and that was pretty cool. You could feel the flames from far away, and that’s always impressive for some reason. Makes you think, “Boy, that’s a lot of fire. Cool.”
But then… everything went away. And there was darkness and Disney music.
Then, a big globe-shaped jumbo-tron screen starts spinning and CREEPING it’s way across the lagoon. I’m trying to hold myself back from adding superfluous adverbs to “CREEPING” to show how slow it really was creeping for the sake of my writing critique group… BUT IT WAS SOOOO SLOOOWWWW!!!! (Meanwhile, an editor just fainted.)
Anyway, an hour later, when the globe thing finally made it to the center… it just kept spinning, showing picutres of… I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT OF BECAUSE IT WAS TOO FAR AWAY.
Then some more fireworks, not alot though, shot up and went bang, but by this time, I’m somewhere else in my mind. Thinking about the best route to take to get to my car and gathering my energy to sprint through the crowds soon. The globe opens and there’s a torch inside…
Let me say that again. The globe opens like a flower, and there’s a burning torch inside. Like, the Olympic torch… Let me be the first to say… LAAAAME.
Then some more fireworks went up quickly and that was the finale. Ugh. By that point there’s an announcer on the loudspeakers saying something, but being muffled by 1000′s of voices and cries of babies and commotion. And the first thing my wife says is, “Well that wasn’t great.”
I need a t-shirt that says, “I watched the lousy fireworks show and all I got was this great shirt.”
BUT, of all the things the Epcot fireworks weren’t, it was still a great day to for my wife and I to celebrate our second anniversary! (Which is today!) Marriage is pretty great, and significantly outshines those fireworks!
