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Back in the old days, it was actually possible to visit every site on the Internet about Disney. Nowadays, it's not even possible to count all the sites on the Internet about Disney. I visit quite a few of them compiling the Hullabaloo, and often I find gems - digitally buried treasure - maintained by folks who love Disney so much it doesn't matter that the traffic to their sites may be a trickle. In Daily DIZcovery, I'll pick a different dynamite Disney site every day, typically one you've never heard about, and hopefully turn their trickle into a torrent.
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Themagical
Disney thrill rides - without the lines!
Lots of sites call themselves magical. Most are mundane-ical.
(That's not a word, is it?)
I found a site that calls itself magical, literally. And it is!
Themagical (which also isn't a word) is run by Martijn Leseman in the Netherlands. It has no articles, no trip reports, no database of Disney data. It doesn't need them. Because what it does have is simulations of Disney thrill rides.
Each of the several simulations on Themagical were programmed in Flash and allow users to experience a Disney thrill ride from the relative safety of their homes.
The simulations include Expedition Everest, Big Thunder Railroad, Space Mountain, and Tower of Terror. So far, the simulations have been played over half a million times!
To play, all you need is a Flash-enabled browser (which virtually everyone has), some time, and some skill. If you register for a free account, you'll be ranked by how well you do; top players are listed on the site.
I can't do justice to Themagical in a brief DIZcovery. You must experience it for yourself.
And then come back to DisneyDispatch in the days ahead for my interview with Randy Reighard, a member of the Themagical team, and a special movie of me playing one of his simulations. Don't laugh!
Save it for the movie...
Come back tomorrow for another Daily DIZcovery!
Stuff Not to Skip
- The Magical
http://www.themagical.nl