Post #174298 by Rum Demon on Sat, Jul 23, 2005 10:42 PM

My 2nd most disappointing moment in WDW this last spring (2nd to the terrible Tiki room of course, I mean the TIKI GODS singing doowop!!?) was Main Street USA. I was in the Dinosaur portion of Wild Animal Kingdom, you know the one that feels like an old school carnival with classic midway games and such, and I suddenly had a hankering to scoot over to the Magic Kingdom Park (thanks to my flexpass). I was totally in the mood to play around in the Arcade on Main street. So we went over that evening only to find that the building facade marked "Arcade" was just another goddamn mall. Soooooo very disappointing. I really missed the penny arcade with it's Victorian coin-op goodness.

No soul to the place whatsoever. Though in it's defense, I have to say their jungle cruise ride really rocks. The whole Cambodian temple tunnels with gamelan softly playing was really awesome... but right after exiting the tunnel I got stung by a bee! Right there in the Magic Kingdom!

Uhh... where was I? What was my point? I dunno. I'm just mad I didn't make it out to Mai Kai while I was out there, because I can't forsee going back to Florida anytime soon...

-Joe