At Disney, All That Glows Does Not Explode

Usually, if something is glowing, it's a bad sign. Like radiation. Or Uncle Rummy's nose at the Christmas party. Or the countdown sequence on an explosive device.

In Disney World, however, you can rest assured that nothing which glows has radioactive properties. Bruce of the fabulous blog UnknownMagicWithinWaltDisneyWorld typically doesn't glow but today he has pictures of things he found at Disney that do glow - and that cost a lot of money if you want to take them home with you.

Among Bruce's radiant discoveries are the little plastic ice cubes and little clip-on characters that glow in different colors and that can be added to your beverage for a mere several dollars more. My daughter wanted (and got) Tinker Bell clipped onto her straw one day and played with it for at least several minutes.

In fact, I have it here with me right now. It's stopped glowing. I see it's powered by a pair of tiny round batteries and for a mere several dollars more I could replace them and probably get Tink glowing again. If only we were all powered in the same way.

The Haunted Mansion, of course, is full of things that glow an eerie spectral green and that run not on batteries but on 'sympathetic vibrations', if you believe the talking head in the crystal ball.

Bruce has other examples. And I'm sure you have some of your own. But the best Disney glow I've ever seen was on my children's faces when they were younger and I took them to the park for the first time. That I treasure because they'll never glow like that again.