Sleeping Beauties

After this picture was taken, Megan started telling me that she thinks THIS is now her favorite Disney Princess.

Ugh...

Sleeping Bubber

Megan vs Sleeping Beauty.

Pictures shortly to follow.

Sleep Tape

One of the creepiest inventions I've ever heard about. You put tape over your eye lids when you sleep so it looks like your awake at night.

I should buy these and not tell Megan one night. Ha ha ha ha! Oooooh....that'd be a bad idea.

But funny.

Epcot at night

Pretty nice don't you think?

Say, when did this blog turn into a "Disney" blog anyway?! Sorry about the constant barrage of pics and videos from our trip last year but it's been a hectic 2014 and I haven't had time to post anything else.

But don't worry, I'll get those creative juices flowing again soon and may even have a brand new "theme" for my blog. Who knows?!

Now that's I'm retired from drawing comics, it's "Sky's the limit" for what I can focus on next! I have a few ideas of where I'd like to go with it but haven't decided which way I want to proceed yet.

When I do though, you folks will be the first to know. Until then! Thanks for your patience and enjoy the rest of the trip!

Star Wars Saga RPG COMPLETE!!

I finally got them all! My next conquest will be Fantasy Flight's "Edge of the Empire" RPG's and I'll have everything.

Tis a good day indeed!

Ireland Taste Test

Ireland

 As night fall came to us, we reached Ireland...

...in search of some tasty Lobster and Seafood pie!

Find out what I thought about it next...

Canada Taste Test

Canada

 Next we visited our neighbors to the north in Canada.

And tried some Cheddar Cheese soup.

Megan LOVES cheese but for some odd reason refused to try it. Weird.

Check out the video coming soon!

Greece Taste Test

Greece

 For a country with a broken economy you'd think they'd have better things to do than be at Disney's Food and Wine festival, but we tried them anyway!

The chicken gyro with tzatziki sauce had Megan more excited to try it than me!

Video coming soon...

Hawaii Taste Test (2)

Hawaii Taste Test (1)

Hawaii

 Our next stop was one I was looking forward to that day, Hawaii!

Here we tried 2 menu items. The Tuna Poke, seaweed salad with lotus root chips and (for me) the Kalua pork slider with sweet and sour pineapple chutney and spicy mayonnaise.

A DOUBLE dose of videos coming at you shortly.

Scotland Taste Test

Scotland

          On our return to Epcot we hit the Food and Wine Festival once again! Our first stop? Scotland.
                                     
We tried the Seared Salmon with cauliflower puree, watercress with malt vinaigrette.

Taste Test video coming up next!

Ab Hancer

The only guaranteed way to get a six pack in minutes!

Whoever thought of this was a brilliant man.

April movie review

There's only one movie coming out for April that I'm interested in seeing. The new Captain America movie looks good but also has a chance to revive the lame TV show "Agents of SHEILD" as well.

Supposedly, the story line from the show is going to cross over to the big screen in this film but it's unsure at what capacity. How things have gone so far with the show, any "hype" from the Marvel movies has turned out flat for it's TV counterpart. So I have to wonder if it'll be that big a deal at all when we finally get around to it.

Either way, I'm predicting this movie to be better than the first, which to me looked "forced" because they already knew they wanted to do an Avenger movie by then and just squirted the first movie out to establish a character.

K, that's all! Did I miss any other movies for this month?

The answer: No.

Epcot China (3)

 Some pics from China

It's all about the zen baybay!

Epcot China (2)

It really surprises me how talented some people can be.

Epcot China (1)

While visiting China we ran across an incredible show on skates!

Fun at Epcot (5)

 My Captain of the Guard hat

 Megan's Monster hat

 Woody

 My impersonation of Megan

 Captain Matt Sparrow

The Mad Bubber!

We make Disney look so much fun, don't you think?

Fun at Epcot (4)

 Time to show you some of pics that day too.

 My mom loves coo-coo clocks. She'd had loved this display in Germany.

 Megan's Beer Hat

 My Rice hat

Megan's Arabian Princess hat

Fun at Epcot (3)

Everybody walk the dinosaur!

Fun at Epcot (2)

Hey! If I see a drum, I'm banging on it.

No question.

Fun at Epcot (1)

If you're ever in Epcot, a stop by the German caramel shop is highly recommended! I don't like caramel apples that much, but I LOVE these! The make the caramel FRESH, right in front of you while you're there.

AMAZING.

Air Supply concert

That was me releasing the dove.

Air Supply?

Disney's Eat to the Beat concert was in full swing when we went back to Epcot that day and look who was performing?

I'm not a big fan but it was kinda wild to see them on stage while we were there.

I got a video I'll post in a minute.

Back to Japan

One of the first things Megan wanted to do when we went back to Epcot was go to Japan again and get another sushi wrap.

She says she doesn't love Epcot that much, but me thinks that's not true!

Happy St Patty's Day!

Wear green, drink green beer and pinch people....in that order.

Have a good one folks!

Preview for this week...

Return to Epcot will be featured this week. See you tomorrow!

Comic Con Bust

So I tried once again this year for tickets. With a "new" system in place I w's hopeful of a better experience though this was the one was the worst yet.

Instead of "first come, first serve" they decided to create a waiting room for folks to gather in for 2 hours, then "randomly" select folks to form a line. At first they said we'd be able to see or spot in line, but  few minutes after that they changed their midst and said there would be no numbers given out.

Making me think some fishy is going on. This leaves a chance for corruption in the process wide open. Think about it, the person administrating it can move ANYONE up the list they want. We wouldn't be able to tell because we can't see if we; re next in line or one millionth!

It's a crooked way a doing things but I'm not going to lose sleep over it. DragonCon is the better convention and the one I'll always enjoy more!

Dragoncon 2014

I pleased to announce that once again we will be traveling to Dragon Con this year for 2014!

We got out tickets last month and are now assembling a group to go with us for the event.

My focus will be on getting autographed books from my favorites authors in attendance and taking a few writing workshops as well.

Should be a grand time regardless!

Go Go Power Rangers!

Megan's a huge Power Ranger fan and spotted the actual suits from the movie in the window of some random Disney store at Hollywood Studios.

She wants to be the Pink Ranger as bad as I want Stormtrooper armor.

Have a good weekend folks!

Hollywood Studios pics

 Here's us posing with some Incredibles.

 Magic Mickey

 Wreck It Ralph

 Megan hates this show, but she loves the outside of the building.

And as always, our traditional "take a picture in front of the magician hat" pic. 

Ok, that's really all I had to show tomorrow. I'll come back tomorrow with some videos. 

Bubber's drawing

Here's her finished art. She did a better job than me!

Art Class

Charity showed us this place a few years back when we went, where a Disney artist will teach you how to draw a cartoon character. It's an unknown but fun thing to do at Hollywood Studios.

Star Tours (5)

Found the video I told you about earlier. Hilarious!

All for today folks!

Star Tours (4)

 Darth Bubber!

 Bub the Ewok

 Me the Ewok

 Speeder Bike action!

My fuddy duddy of a wife didn't want to pose on the bike, guess after this pic was taken she knew she couldn't look cooler than me!

One last vid coming up...

Richie Dunn for Union Parish Sheriff 2014

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My buddy's running for Sheriff in Union Parish April 5th. To anyone living out that way I just wanted you to know he' a great honest guy who I think would be a great choice!

Looks like I'm buying a next gen console this year...

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Star Tours (3)

There's an Ewok on my back!!

Pics coming up next.

Aaron Allston R.I.P.

Last week after attending VisionCon in Missouri, Aaron Allston suffered from heart failure in the airport and passed away. This is extremely sad news to me because I was looking forward to speaking with him again at Dragoncon this year.

Author of some of the best X-wing Rouge Squadron books around, he was one of my top 3 authors. His clever wit and ingenious story telling will be missed and it will be a true shame when the Lucas Story Group dissolves all his books as pointless fan fiction. This man deserves better.

RIP sir!

Star Tours (2)

The new improved ride worked really good. I had a much better time on it than the last time I went. Megan even got to be the "Rebel" spy on the ride!!

What was funny is that she didn't know what that meant. She asked me if that was a bad thing or not.

Whoa boy. Just what I need, an Imperial sympathizer in my life!

Star Tours (1)

The Endor forest.

More vids and pics coming today.

The Muppet Show (4)

 Our picture we took with the stars of Cars

I love the look on her face in this pic! Yep, that's what I deal with everyday!

More tomorrow folks!

The Muppet Show (3)

Next up, pics!

The Muppet Show (2)

I have to say this show is worth your time!

The Muppet Show (1)

It's a show we went to on our honeymoon and it's just as good today as it was back then.

I'll be posting more vids and pics throughout the day!

Another Star Wars post

I forgot to mention. Want to know what Darth Maul's story arc was for season 6 of the Clone Wars? Well Dark horse is going to tell that story In a 4 issue series débuting this summer. I'd be surprised if they wrapped his story line and finished his arc. In a way I hope they don't.

Like I mentioned in an earlier post, "Star Wars Visionaries" (considered non-cannon at the moment) could easily do that itself since after all it was that story in Visionaries which inspired the resurgence of Darth Maul in the TV Series in the first place. Everything would fit seamlessly.

And in the "sad news" department, Hasbro has been told by Disney to "cease and desist" from making any further "expanded universe" figures. Solidifying further the assumption that they'll be throwing most of it in the garbage after this year.

Oh well. I got the final Star Wars EU book this week and now I only need to finished Dark Horse's run and I'll be done anyway. Sure gonna miss it when it's gone. But I'll have all I'll need of it once it's finished.

Clone Wars Season 6 review

SPOILERS ABOUND

Ok, so I just finished the final "Lost" season of the Clone Wars TV Series and am ready to give me final overall review.

The First story arc, episodes "The Unknown", "Conspiracy" "Fugitive" and "Orders" is about a clone's "biological malfunction" that makes him want to kill all Jedi. A pre-shadowing of Order 66.

And as all clone stories go, I found this a refreshing way to begin the season.

The 2nd story arc "An Old Friend" "The Rise of Clovis" and "Crisis of the Heart" was a Padme/Anakin story line that fell flat, just like the season usually does in the middle.

The 3rd arc focus on Jar Jar and Mace Windu "The Disappeared, Part's 1 and 2" and they held the same flatness as well. Just because this is the final season of clone wars doesn't mean I'm going to get all sentimental and say how good each episode is. I think they were hoping a lot of folks would but I just didn't see anything new for those 2 story arcs.

True I can't be too hard on them. They only had half of it finished. Then again, if this is all they had to offer than I'm glad they canceled this series before it became any worse. ]

The last 4 episodes is what has everyone raving, so let's focus on those for a bit.

"The Lost One" was an episode that explained the death of Jedi Master Syfo Dyas and it was HORRIBLE!

Not only do Anakin and Obi Wan face Count Dooku AGAIN in a lightsaber battle (further watering down the meaningless phrase in Episode 3 of "This time Anakin, let's do it together.") but the Jedi even discover Dooku is responsible for creating the Clone Army.... and they decide to do NOTHING about it?!?

It makes no sense. You could say it was nearing the end of the war and they were still needing time to think, but even that argument doesn't pop up since Finis Valorum makes an appearance in the Episode. Since he dies fairly early into the Clone Wars (Star Wars: Republic #61) than this means the war has barely even started!

Pablo Hildgado explains the TV Series as throwing a "major" wrench into the CLone Wars story line, since to have all the stories from that time period must mean the TV show (all 6 seasons) took place in the matter of a few months!

So now we know that the Jedi KNEW about Dooku's involvement in the creation of the Clone Army but sat on that information for most of the war.

Shocking and poorly thought out on the writers parts.

However, the next few episodes weren't so bad.

"Voices" stars Liam Neeson as the voice of Qui-gon Jinn in a episode that had the most intriguing story plot (not to mention amazing soundtrack) I've ever seen in any Clone Wars episode.

Excellent.

The final 2 episodes "Destiny" and "Sacrifice" were ok, but mostly pointless since it's never clear as to what Yoda needed from these mystical Force beings who ran him thru a series of test that included hanging out on an old Sith home world. Not that they were bad episodes, just meaningless.

Overall, the series was ok and of course I'll buy it if it ever comes out on DVD. But there's my 2 cents anyway.

Hollywood Studios continues tomorrow!

More pics and videos await this week from our time at Hollywood Studios so stay tuned!