19 MAGIC KINGDOM
How do I get out of here? Help! I want out!” No, this wasn’t the beleaguered plea of an exasperated parent being dragged around Walt Disney World Resort by a little princess – my cynical preconception of a Disney holiday experience. In fact, this was my desperate cry as I sat strapped in a centrifuge; you know, the ones they use to test astronauts’ mettle as their faces turn to jelly. A guest of Disney for a week, here to see the opening of its new Avatar world and Guardians of the Galaxy attraction over in Disneyland Resort, I’ve suddenly found myself in an extreme situation: I’ve gone from riding the teacups to a simulated space launch in as little as 10 minutes, with no way out despite prior warnings of motion sickness and claustrophobia. But it wasn’t really extreme at all; I’d simply succumbed to the trickery of Disney’s attraction builders (aka the Imagineers) and,
