Trip Report WDW Livewire July 13-19!!!

expedition_evan · 07-20-2008, 04:56 PM

Last year I decided that I wanted to find a camp at WDW so i googled it and found Livewire, week at Disney World where you can spend a week at disney world surrounded by people that share the same love as you!! I really had no idea what i would be doing except going to the parks, but i though, how bad could it be? and it was so much fun!!

Day 1
it was my first time to fly by myself, but i had no problems with it at all. my plane left at 6:00 am and I arrived in Orlando at 12:30. once i got to the airport, i met up with 3 livewire representatives and i met 2 other campers. just a few minutes later i boarded the magical express and was off to the Caribbean Beach Resort.

we stayed in aruba

once i got to my room i met my roommate...they told us that we could do whatever we wanted until 7 and i wasnt about to stay at the hotel, so me, me roommate and another guy went off to Epcot!

our first ride was mission space and we did green because Dylan (the other guy we were with) said that he would throw up on orange...

we walked on the ride with no wait!

next was The Seas with Nemo and Friends

next we were in line for test track but it started pouring! so we ran to the test track store and bought ponchos!!

we made our way over to mexico and rode the Gran Fiesta Tour
then Maelstrom...once we got off of maelstrom it stopped raining!

it was getting closer to the time we needed to be back at the hotel, so we quickly walked around the world showcase to get a snack in France and the head back..

when we got back to the hotel we boarded a bus to DHS...when we got there we were all given wristbands and told to put away our cameras so i knew we were about to do something awesome!

for dinner we were led backstage by the Backlot Tour and were taken to a prop room!! they did let us take pictures in here!

we had fajitas for dinner....they were very good

after dinner...we walked backstage from the backlot tour area all the way to fantasmic! we had special seats for the show but it started lightning so it was canceled

but we all got on RRC and then ToT with very small waits!!

i was so excited about TSMM so we ran over there and had a 50 minute wait which wasnt too bad..

i LOVED toy story!!!! it was so awesom!!!

Magic Kingdom was open until 2 that night so we went over there for extra magic hours.. first we got a FP for space mountain and then rode on Buzz Lighttear and then it was time for our fast passes!

next we got on the teacups, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan and then Haunted Mansion

we ran into Goofy!

then off to Splash Mountain and BTMR...it was late so i didnt take very many pictures at the Magic Kingdom

us on the bus a 2:15 am...

thats all for Day 1...day 2 coming up soon!

expedition_evan · 07-20-2008, 07:23 PM

Day 2

for all of our meals we got meal tickets which got us an entree, side, dessert, and a drink for dinner/lunch and entree, side and drink for breakfast.. so i used my first one for breakfast at the hotel!

after breakfast we had a meeting with our group that we had been divided up into the night before. i was in the blue group...there were three groups and we each had to make a movie. the theme for our movie was a mission impossible type movie where someone was dropped into the magic kingdom and had various missions to complete... since nobody else volunteered i got to be the star of the movie lol

so we headed off the MK to shoot our first scene

the guy in the middle was our groups leader....

in our first scene i was "dropped" in the magic kingdom and given my mission assignments

then we went on tomorrowland transit authority

then we ate lunch at Cosmic Ray's

next we filmed a high-speed car chase on the Tomorrowland Speedway

my cameraman

next we filmed a scene in the Space Mountain gift shop.

then we walked over to BTMR

we were supposed the film on this ride but since our group leader wasnt with us we forgot lol

after BTMR...most of the people in my group started whining that they didnt want to be in the parks anymore and they just wanted to go to the computer lab at our hotel....so me and 2 other people stayed at the park while everyone else left

we went on the enchanted tiki room

on our way out of adventureland we saw that the parade was going on so we watched it from kindof far away, but there were no people there!

next was Mickey's Philharmagic! one of my favorites!

it was time to use our fastpasses that we got when our leader wasnt looking

then we did Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor

then we took the back walkway to Mickey's Toontown Fair

we walked through mickey's house next

then we went on Potc and then off to Tomorrowland Terrace for dinner with everybody

after dinner Animal Kingdom was having extra magic hours so we went over there

our first ride was Expedition Everest with only a 20 minute wait

after EE, we went on Dinosaur where i found one of my friends from home, so we got to ride togther! after that we went back to EE and went to single rider line...
then we went to Primeval Whirl and i ran into some of other people at the camp so i stayed with them the rest of the night because the people i was with wanted to go back to the hotel... and i got to help them film some of their movie

after that we went on EE 3 times in a row...it was AWESOME!! lol

after that it was back to the hotel and the end of day 2!

stitchon · 07-20-2008, 07:47 PM

Wow, I think I'd want to do something like this! To google I go!

expedition_evan · 07-20-2008, 08:19 PM

Day 3

Day 3 started off with the Y.E.S. program....our bus dropped us off backstage behind Main Street and we met our tourguides

our tour started off with learning about magnets and then we got on TTA to see how electromagnets powered it

we had to answer a few questions about it

then we went on Mickey's Philharmagic to learn about how sound made the ride better

next we learned about the uses of scrim

then we went on HM

after we rode on HM, we got to go BACKSTAGE!!!

we went in the ballroom scene to see how they made that scene...it was amazing!!

after that we all went on iasw

lunch was at Columbia Harbour House and then off to Splash Mountain to film a scene...but we only filmed a pre-ride scene and we didnt go on the ride

next we went on potc

after this my group, once again, wanted to go back to the hotel to play on the computer...so me ant 2 others went to DHS

we took the monorail to the ticket and transportation center

we were about to go on Rock'n'Roller Coaster but the ride shut down

we went to Beauty and the Beast

it was a fun show

i made reservations for the 3 of us at Les Chefs de France because i didnt feel like eating fast food for every single one of my meals...since the reservation was so last minute, it wasnt until late so we had got a snack at Pizza Planet with one of our meal tickets that we wouldnt be using

while we were having dinner it started pouring so we put on our ponchos and ran to Muppet Vision....after the show it was still raining so we made a mad dash through the rain to get to Star Tours and after the ride we lost Jomary lol but then we found her!

after that we went over to Epcot and went on Spaceship Earth...it was my first time to go on it since the update and i like it!

we slowly made our way over to France and then it was finally time to eat!!

i ordered the sauteed scallops with black tiger shrimp...it was very good!!! and then i had creme brulee for dessert!!

after that it was time for Epcot's extra magic hours so i met up with some other people and we went on Mission Space...the green again

in line for Test Track

after that was Nemo and then i bought some Pirate Mickey Ears!!
then we went on Spaceship Earth and ended day 3

coming up....day 4!!

expedition_evan · 07-20-2008, 08:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stitchon

Wow, I think I'd want to do something like this! To google I go!

if you have any questions about this camp ill be more than happy to answer them for you...it was so much fun!!!

expedition_evan · 07-20-2008, 09:28 PM

Day 4

On day 3, a few of asked if we could get to MK before the park opened and then be at the hotel whenever they told us that we need to but we were told no and the counselors got mad at us and said that we werent group oriented...this kindof made us mad because they entire group barely ever did anything together.... so then we they told us that we could sleep in until 9 but we still couldnt go to Mk......

so after we woke up on day 4 we had to work on our movie....which is not fun at all when you are sitting in a dark hotel room filled with computers when you could be in the best place in the world!

since editing a movie was so boring... me and a few people that werent in my group escaped and went to get tattoos lol

we decided that we had been gone long enough so we went back. since only half of our group was working on the movie while the rest were swimming, our leader promised us that we wouldnt have to work on the viedo after we got back from our ideas tour. later it was time for my group to go to the i.d.e.a.s. studio!!!

we boarded the bus to DHS

we were led backstage by the art of animation and led to ideas!

i.d.e.a.s is a post production company and we took a quick tour of the place...

we were led into foley studio where we were shown a clip from monsters inc. and we recreated all the sound from it!!

the different types of floors that they had

found this on one of the tables in there....

some of the poeple they've worked with

after that was over we were going to eat lunch at Pizza Planet, but it was packed so we went to the ABC commissary.. it wasnt looking like our leader was going to keep his promise so while we were eating i snuck away for a second and made reservations at the Rose and Crown for me and two of my friends so that he couldnt force us to edit all day! lol

so i was right that alex was going to make us stay in and work but then we got to escape with our reservations! we went over to Epcot to make it in time to eat...but i also stopped by the boardwalk to take a few pictures

dinner was delicious! i ordered potato and leek soup for my appetizer and steak and fish for my entree!

next we went over to DHS for extra magic hours and we met up with some people at the Great Movie Ride

we did single rider line on RRC and we all ended up in the same car

me and haley

after RRC, we were going to go over to ToT but Haley was scared of the ride because she hadnt ridden it in a long time and she had bad memories....we were almost in line and i decided that i would wait with haley so that the others could go on the ride...but then some lady came up to us and gave us fastpasses for the ride so we ended up going on it and Haley loved it!!

after that we walked over to the New York set area and just walked around...it was so much fun because there were absolutely no people there because everyone else was in line for ride! then we went back to tower of terror and then to TSMM

after this the park was way past closed so we went back to the hotel

up next....Day 5!

aimster · 07-20-2008, 10:14 PM

Wow very cool. And.... OMG! The puppets from Legend of the Lion King were in that prop room!

07-20-2008, 04:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
expedition_evan formerly skiingdude103 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: louisiana Posts: 157	WDW Livewire July 13-19!!! Last year I decided that I wanted to find a camp at WDW so i googled it and found Livewire, week at Disney World where you can spend a week at disney world surrounded by people that share the same love as you!! I really had no idea what i would be doing except going to the parks, but i though, how bad could it be? and it was so much fun!! Day 1 it was my first time to fly by myself, but i had no problems with it at all. my plane left at 6:00 am and I arrived in Orlando at 12:30. once i got to the airport, i met up with 3 livewire representatives and i met 2 other campers. just a few minutes later i boarded the magical express and was off to the Caribbean Beach Resort. we stayed in aruba once i got to my room i met my roommate...they told us that we could do whatever we wanted until 7 and i wasnt about to stay at the hotel, so me, me roommate and another guy went off to Epcot! our first ride was mission space and we did green because Dylan (the other guy we were with) said that he would throw up on orange... we walked on the ride with no wait! next was The Seas with Nemo and Friends next we were in line for test track but it started pouring! so we ran to the test track store and bought ponchos!! we made our way over to mexico and rode the Gran Fiesta Tour then Maelstrom...once we got off of maelstrom it stopped raining! it was getting closer to the time we needed to be back at the hotel, so we quickly walked around the world showcase to get a snack in France and the head back.. when we got back to the hotel we boarded a bus to DHS...when we got there we were all given wristbands and told to put away our cameras so i knew we were about to do something awesome! for dinner we were led backstage by the Backlot Tour and were taken to a prop room!! they did let us take pictures in here! we had fajitas for dinner....they were very good after dinner...we walked backstage from the backlot tour area all the way to fantasmic! we had special seats for the show but it started lightning so it was canceled but we all got on RRC and then ToT with very small waits!! i was so excited about TSMM so we ran over there and had a 50 minute wait which wasnt too bad.. i LOVED toy story!!!! it was so awesom!!! Magic Kingdom was open until 2 that night so we went over there for extra magic hours.. first we got a FP for space mountain and then rode on Buzz Lighttear and then it was time for our fast passes! next we got on the teacups, Winnie the Pooh, Peter Pan and then Haunted Mansion we ran into Goofy! then off to Splash Mountain and BTMR...it was late so i didnt take very many pictures at the Magic Kingdom us on the bus a 2:15 am... thats all for Day 1...day 2 coming up soon! __________________ Formerly skiingdude103 (actual member since Jan 2007) TR of my first trip to DLR!!! http://micechat.com/forums/showthrea...dec-87167.html TR from Livewire at WDW!!! http://micechat.com/forums/walt-disney-world-resort/100573-wdw-livewire-july-13-19-a.html

07-20-2008, 07:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
expedition_evan formerly skiingdude103 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: louisiana Posts: 157	Re: WDW Livewire July 13-19!!! Day 2 for all of our meals we got meal tickets which got us an entree, side, dessert, and a drink for dinner/lunch and entree, side and drink for breakfast.. so i used my first one for breakfast at the hotel! after breakfast we had a meeting with our group that we had been divided up into the night before. i was in the blue group...there were three groups and we each had to make a movie. the theme for our movie was a mission impossible type movie where someone was dropped into the magic kingdom and had various missions to complete... since nobody else volunteered i got to be the star of the movie lol so we headed off the MK to shoot our first scene the guy in the middle was our groups leader.... in our first scene i was "dropped" in the magic kingdom and given my mission assignments then we went on tomorrowland transit authority then we ate lunch at Cosmic Ray's next we filmed a high-speed car chase on the Tomorrowland Speedway my cameraman next we filmed a scene in the Space Mountain gift shop. then we walked over to BTMR we were supposed the film on this ride but since our group leader wasnt with us we forgot lol after BTMR...most of the people in my group started whining that they didnt want to be in the parks anymore and they just wanted to go to the computer lab at our hotel....so me and 2 other people stayed at the park while everyone else left we went on the enchanted tiki room on our way out of adventureland we saw that the parade was going on so we watched it from kindof far away, but there were no people there! next was Mickey's Philharmagic! one of my favorites! it was time to use our fastpasses that we got when our leader wasnt looking then we did Monsters Inc. Laugh Floor then we took the back walkway to Mickey's Toontown Fair we walked through mickey's house next then we went on Potc and then off to Tomorrowland Terrace for dinner with everybody after dinner Animal Kingdom was having extra magic hours so we went over there our first ride was Expedition Everest with only a 20 minute wait after EE, we went on Dinosaur where i found one of my friends from home, so we got to ride togther! after that we went back to EE and went to single rider line... then we went to Primeval Whirl and i ran into some of other people at the camp so i stayed with them the rest of the night because the people i was with wanted to go back to the hotel... and i got to help them film some of their movie after that we went on EE 3 times in a row...it was AWESOME!! lol after that it was back to the hotel and the end of day 2! __________________ Formerly skiingdude103 (actual member since Jan 2007) TR of my first trip to DLR!!! http://micechat.com/forums/showthrea...dec-87167.html TR from Livewire at WDW!!! http://micechat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100573

07-20-2008, 07:47 PM	#3 (permalink)
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07-20-2008, 08:19 PM	#4 (permalink)
expedition_evan formerly skiingdude103 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: louisiana Posts: 157	Re: WDW Livewire July 13-19!!! Day 3 Day 3 started off with the Y.E.S. program....our bus dropped us off backstage behind Main Street and we met our tourguides our tour started off with learning about magnets and then we got on TTA to see how electromagnets powered it we had to answer a few questions about it then we went on Mickey's Philharmagic to learn about how sound made the ride better next we learned about the uses of scrim then we went on HM after we rode on HM, we got to go BACKSTAGE!!! we went in the ballroom scene to see how they made that scene...it was amazing!! after that we all went on iasw lunch was at Columbia Harbour House and then off to Splash Mountain to film a scene...but we only filmed a pre-ride scene and we didnt go on the ride next we went on potc after this my group, once again, wanted to go back to the hotel to play on the computer...so me ant 2 others went to DHS we took the monorail to the ticket and transportation center we were about to go on Rock'n'Roller Coaster but the ride shut down we went to Beauty and the Beast it was a fun show i made reservations for the 3 of us at Les Chefs de France because i didnt feel like eating fast food for every single one of my meals...since the reservation was so last minute, it wasnt until late so we had got a snack at Pizza Planet with one of our meal tickets that we wouldnt be using while we were having dinner it started pouring so we put on our ponchos and ran to Muppet Vision....after the show it was still raining so we made a mad dash through the rain to get to Star Tours and after the ride we lost Jomary lol but then we found her! after that we went over to Epcot and went on Spaceship Earth...it was my first time to go on it since the update and i like it! we slowly made our way over to France and then it was finally time to eat!! i ordered the sauteed scallops with black tiger shrimp...it was very good!!! and then i had creme brulee for dessert!! after that it was time for Epcot's extra magic hours so i met up with some other people and we went on Mission Space...the green again in line for Test Track after that was Nemo and then i bought some Pirate Mickey Ears!! then we went on Spaceship Earth and ended day 3 coming up....day 4!! __________________ Formerly skiingdude103 (actual member since Jan 2007) TR of my first trip to DLR!!! http://micechat.com/forums/showthrea...dec-87167.html TR from Livewire at WDW!!! http://micechat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100573

07-20-2008, 09:28 PM	#6 (permalink)
expedition_evan formerly skiingdude103 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: louisiana Posts: 157	Re: WDW Livewire July 13-19!!! Day 4 On day 3, a few of asked if we could get to MK before the park opened and then be at the hotel whenever they told us that we need to but we were told no and the counselors got mad at us and said that we werent group oriented...this kindof made us mad because they entire group barely ever did anything together.... so then we they told us that we could sleep in until 9 but we still couldnt go to Mk...... so after we woke up on day 4 we had to work on our movie....which is not fun at all when you are sitting in a dark hotel room filled with computers when you could be in the best place in the world! since editing a movie was so boring... me and a few people that werent in my group escaped and went to get tattoos lol we decided that we had been gone long enough so we went back. since only half of our group was working on the movie while the rest were swimming, our leader promised us that we wouldnt have to work on the viedo after we got back from our ideas tour. later it was time for my group to go to the i.d.e.a.s. studio!!! we boarded the bus to DHS we were led backstage by the art of animation and led to ideas! i.d.e.a.s is a post production company and we took a quick tour of the place... we were led into foley studio where we were shown a clip from monsters inc. and we recreated all the sound from it!! the different types of floors that they had found this on one of the tables in there.... some of the poeple they've worked with after that was over we were going to eat lunch at Pizza Planet, but it was packed so we went to the ABC commissary.. it wasnt looking like our leader was going to keep his promise so while we were eating i snuck away for a second and made reservations at the Rose and Crown for me and two of my friends so that he couldnt force us to edit all day! lol so i was right that alex was going to make us stay in and work but then we got to escape with our reservations! we went over to Epcot to make it in time to eat...but i also stopped by the boardwalk to take a few pictures dinner was delicious! i ordered potato and leek soup for my appetizer and steak and fish for my entree! next we went over to DHS for extra magic hours and we met up with some people at the Great Movie Ride we did single rider line on RRC and we all ended up in the same car me and haley after RRC, we were going to go over to ToT but Haley was scared of the ride because she hadnt ridden it in a long time and she had bad memories....we were almost in line and i decided that i would wait with haley so that the others could go on the ride...but then some lady came up to us and gave us fastpasses for the ride so we ended up going on it and Haley loved it!! after that we walked over to the New York set area and just walked around...it was so much fun because there were absolutely no people there because everyone else was in line for ride! then we went back to tower of terror and then to TSMM after this the park was way past closed so we went back to the hotel up next....Day 5! __________________ Formerly skiingdude103 (actual member since Jan 2007) TR of my first trip to DLR!!! http://micechat.com/forums/showthrea...dec-87167.html TR from Livewire at WDW!!! http://micechat.com/forums/showthread.php?t=100573