I am sitting in a Starbuck’s enjoying a breakfast sandwich and a dirty chai, and as of this writing, I have already spent 12 hours at Disneyland, and I am still pretty tired, as I have that three hour time differential to deal with.
I highly recommend Disneyland at some point. At some point, Tomorrowland rides got a sort of steampunk makeover, and I was able to watch one of the last showings of Captain EO, which was the Francis Ford Coppolla, George Lucas and (wait for it) Michael Jackson 3d movie slash music video collaboration.
The theater also has external lighting that matches the on screen action and the floor actually thumps in time to the beat of the music and for explosions.
Captain Eo is pretty amazing. You get a little bit of Star Wars in there, you’ve got Michael Jackson acting like Michael Jackson, you have some claymation, there’s some good film making in there, people in rubber suits, and suddenly you’ve got Michael Jackson hitting the grey suited minions of this Evil Queen that turns their outfits into the chiffon orange future proof outfits indicative of the year 1986.
Also there are robots popping and locking.
Oh, and whips.
Did I mention this was created in 1986 and is absolutely as fabulous as anything with Michael Jackson in the 1980s could be?
I realized one of the last times I saw it was in 1993, on Grad Night at Disneyland and then I realized I was watching it now, and it is twenty years later.
I was only slightly consoled by the lady in front of me who said that she saw it earlier than me, and her grad night was in 1985.