Thursday, September 8, 2011

Drinking Fountains of the Future

Welcome to my second post on Drinking Fountains in the Park. I apologize for this being so late, but I've been busy busy busy. So let me set this up:

I finished my grading of Tomorrow Land's drinking fountains last night with Space Mountain's Non-FP (Fast Pass) queue's fountain. Maybe you can guess that its location is inconvenient so you can likely guess it takes a hit for that....I'm getting ahead of my self.....I'm gonna give the order of the WFs (water fountains) by order of appearance from entering from main street.
Here we go:

WF#1
Outside the Little Green Men Store Command shop, exit of Buzz Lightyear.
Tucked away in a little nook.
Flow: 2/5 Dribbles out and has a low stream.
Location: 4/5 Away from traffic, in the sun, can get crowded by strollers.
Temperature: 2/4 Starts tepid, ends tepid.
Theme: 2/3 On "spacy" pillars.
Size: 3/3 Two sizes, independent of each other.
Overall 13/20 Decent, not the worst. But the Temp. and Stream make it an uncomfortable drink. Move along.

WF#2
Space Mountain Exit, Behind the Arcade and near Restrooms.
Flow: 3/5 High but thin.
Location 3/5 Crowded due to the Handicap line, Good shade, too close to restrooms.
Temperature: 2/4 For a WF in shade, the water is still mediocre.
Theme: 2/3 Boring hardware, but saved from lower points by the painting of Earth above it.
Size: 3/3 Two sizes
Overall Score 13/20 Not tasty, almost warm. Has shade, but loud surroundings.

WF#3
Walking past Captain EO, up the walkway to Space Mountain, on the right of the path.
Flow: 5/5 Away, and High.
Location: 5/5 In shade, and away from the path. Great moment of need.
Temperature: 3/4 Nice and refreshing. It doesn't make your teeth chatter, but it'll make you feel better after drinking.
Theme: 1/3 Standard, Boring
Size: 3/3 Three sizes accommodated.
Overall Score: 17/20 Very good find.Worth looking for. DO STOP BEFORE GOING ON SPACE MOUNTAIN. The only fault it has is that it's boring; but Captain EO music can be heard from this spot.

WF#4
Exit of Autopia
Flow: 4/5
Location: 3/5 Tons of strollers around, no shade.
Temperature: 2/4 room temperature....outside!
Theme: 3/3 Themed towards the Nemo Submarine attraction.
Size: 3/3
Overall Score: 15/20 Strollers in your way, Flow good, Temp. not cool(excuse pun) Theme and Size saved the day. Usable

WF#5
Space Mountain non-FP queue.
Flow: 4/5
Location: 2/5 Inconvenient in line. Rushed.
Temperature: 2/4
Theme: 1/4 On top of normal pipes....Silver???
Size: 3/3
Overall Score: 12/20 BORING!!!! It's in a line....what did you expect? plus it's warm. Pass on it.

WF#6
Space Mountain FP queue.
Flow: 1/5
Location: 2/5
Temperature: 2/5
Theme: 1/3
Size: 3/3
Overall Score: 9/20 Rushed, Boring, Warm...This better NOT be the water of Tomorrow!! I'm not touching my lips to the metal for this!!!

WF#7
Exit of Star Tours, farthest back exit of attraction.
Flow: 3/5
Location: 3/5
Temperature: 4/4
Theme: 1/3
Size: 3/3
Overall Score: 14/20 Great COLD water....In a galaxy far far away....anyways, it's hard to reach; you have to be getting off the ride to get there. But besides the line for this Attraction, this water is worth getting to.

WF#8
Exit of Star Tours, don't get confused with the last one. This is right before leaving down the ramp.
Flow: 3/5
Location: 3/5
Temperature: 3/4
Theme: 1/3
Size: 3/3
Overall Score: 13/20 Not bad...But when you're as close to the previous WF, just walk over and get that instead. Still a good option for an attraction dependent WF