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Go to Disneyland on a Wednesday Morning in September
The Happiest Place on Earth isn’t so happy when you’ve been stuck in line for Space Mountain the past two-and-a-half hours on a sweltering Saturday in July, stress-eating a Mickey-shaped pretzel. Next time, avoid the theme park masses by analyzing line data.
The Los Angeles Times has put together a wildly comprehensive guide to choosing the best time to visit Disneyland and California Adventure based on average wait times for rides. Search for your favorite, can’t-miss rides, check the chart to see when the wait is the shortest, and strategize your trip your trip accordingly.
For instance, Splash Mountain has a peak wait time of 62 minutes at 3 p.m., so do something else around that time. Unsurprisingly, the wait time for this ride is the least miserable when the park opens to the general public at 8 a.m. The Los Angeles Times recommends arriving to the parks at least a half-hour before they open. Do this if you want to maximize that $174 (on peak dates) Park Hopper ticket.
Other takeaways from the Times analysis, which used data from touringplans.com:
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- The best days to visit Disneyland and California Adventure are Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
- September and January are the best months to go, as the average wait time per ride is under 15 minutes. Avoid holidays.
- If you’re willing to break up from your crew and ride solo, the single rider lines are a godsend and can shave off more than an hour of wait time in some cases. The rides that offer them are California Screamin’, Goofy’s Sky School. Grizzly River Run, Indiana Jones Adventure, Matterhorn Bobsleds, Radiator Springs Racers and Splash Mountain.
- If you really want to go on the new Guardians of the Galaxy — Mission: Breakout! ride (which had a peak wait time of five hours when it first opened over Memorial Day weekend), head over there right at 8 a.m.—or else prepare yourself with a lot of Mickey-shaped snacks.
Don’t waste your time at Disneyland. Here’s how to avoid the lines. | Los Angeles Times
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Here’s a sneak peek of what Disney’s Star Wars Land will look like
This weekend is Disney’s D23 expo, where the company often unveils the first glimpses into what it has in store for the years ahead.
Our own Editor-and-Disney-aficionado-in-Chief Matthew Panzarino is down in LA for the event’s early access press day. Disney just pulled back the curtain on a bunch of stuff that’ll appear in the Star Wars Land parks that are set to open at Disneyland and Disneyworld in 2019, and he’s got pics of everything.
I expect we’ll see quite a bit more about Star Wars Land (and, hopefully, the tech that’ll power it) throughout the weekend, but here’s a little sneak peek of what we’ve seen so so far. Tap that right arrow to proceed through the slideshow — or if you’re on mobile, just scroll.
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Here’s a sneak peek of what Disney’s Star Wars Land will look like
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Disney’s ‘Star Wars’ theme park is taking shape
Universal Studios Japan recently released the first trailer for its in-construction Super Nintendo World attraction, and now Disney has gone one better by building an actual physical model showing off its upcoming Star Wars Land (unofficial title). Due to open in 2019 at both Disneyland in California and Disney World in Florida, the new area "will transport guests to a never-before-seen planet" — which just happens to look like every weathered, forgettable world characters from the films briefly touch down on to get a ship part or intel or what have you.
There should be plenty to do at the "remote trading port" once you’ve filled your boots with expensive merchandise and your bellies with Yoda burgers. Ride specifics are pretty hazy, but Disney has revealed that visitors will control the Millennium Falcon on a secret mission as part of one signature attraction, while the other main draw will drop guests "in the middle of a climactic battle between the First Order and the Resistance."
Star Tours, a Star Wars-inspired flight simulator, and several other attractions were up and running at various Disney parks long before the company waved a check in front of George Lucas he couldn’t pass up. Now Disney owns the rights to the extremely popular franchise, it makes sense to create a more elaborate live experience for fans to visit — especially after the shot-in-the-arm that was the last two movies. Though a few years off completion, anyone visiting Disney World in the future will be able to kill two film-inspired birds with one stone, diving into the mind of James Cameron through the new World Of Avatar experience.
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Net neutrality supporters sent over 5 million emails to the FCC
Yesterday, activists advocating for a free and open internet rallied individuals to submit over two million comments and millions of emails and phone calls to the FCC in support of Net Neutrality. Popular sites across the web, from Yelp to Pornhub (and Engadget!), urged users to contact the federal agency and Congress with a singular message: Don’t let internet service providers create faster and slower connections to boost their profit margins.
Internet advocacy nonprofit Fight For The Future tallied the participation numbers, which are still climbing: Five million emails and 124,000 calls to Congress, while protestors actually visited twenty Congressional offices. The two million comments made to the FCC almost tripled the previous record made during the "internet slowdown" advocacy day on September 10th, 2014.
Even if they didn’t take action, tens of millions of users saw the messages plastered across the web. Big sites and services like Reddit, Twitter, Netflix, Spotify, Airbnb and Amazon all either urged advocacy or pointed users to sites like BattleForTheNet.com, which supplied premade form letters to fire off to the FCC and routed users to their Congressional representative’s phone number.
The stock message to the agency, echoed by statements from Google, Facebook, Dropbox, YouTube and internet advocates, is simple: Don’t do anything. During the Obama administration, the FCC officially classified the internet a utility, meaning ISPs (in theory) can’t limit users’ speed or access to sites. Shortly after he was appointed by Trump, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai started vocalizing his disdain for Net Neutrality, calling his agency’s previous support of it a "mistake." Whether yesterday’s activism changes his mind is a question for tomorrow.
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Net neutrality supporters sent over 5 million emails to the FCC
The Best Place for Guaranteed Free-to-Use High-Quality Images for Any Reason
There are plenty of sites out there with user-generated royalty free photos
Top 5 Free Websites for Quality Copyright Free Photographs
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Whether you’re an aspiring photographer or an up-and-coming entrepreneur, it’s never a bad idea to have some stock photography websites at your disposal.
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, but few are curated and closely-monitored like Unsplash.
Powered by a community of photographers, the site is curated by Crew, a marketing agency, so that all photos that appear on the site are handpicked.
This is important for two reasons:
- You’re confident that you’re getting high-quality photos, and might even find it difficult to narrow down your choices.
- You’re confident that the photos are completely free to use.
While other sites provide Creative Commons photos, the fact that users upload the content directly to those sites means there’s no quality control and you can’t be fully confident in the licensing. But the images on Unsplash come with a generous license: they can be used for personal or commercial projects with no attribution necessary.
Unsplash has a collection of over 200,000 images, with new images added on a daily basis. The photos are contributed by over 40,000 photographers, and creating a free account allows you to follow photographers and create a collection of your favorite photos. If you’re looking for inspiration, you can also take a look at their curated collections.
If you’re looking for free-to-use, headache free photos that you can share with the confidence that you won’t be hit with a copyright violation — head over to Unsplash.
What’s your favorite place to find high-quality images to use for free? Let us know in the comments.
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