GO AND VISIT EPCOT IN FLORIDA FORSURE IF YOU'RE CRAZY ENOUGH TO BE SEEN DEAD IN AMERICA

Theme parks, sometimes referred to as fun parks, have lost a bit of their appeal over the years in the same period of time when the internet and social media has become the new excitement in the lives of the younger generation. The cost of gaining entry to them i am sure is increasingly putting many people off visiting them. Just down the road from me on the Gold Coast, you have Dreamworld, Sea World and Warner Brothers Movie World, in the current harsh economic times we are living through here in Queensland i am quite sure the only thing keeping these three fun parks alive is the stoic japanese tourism market, which is propping up the crowd numbers while many australians (mainly locals), continue to try & find that magical spare $300 needed to get them and their family into one of the parks for the day, including food and drinks. I am sure all these fun parks are safe from being shut down and the land their situated on to be re-developed for commercial development, but nothing is totally impossible in this world. Take MAGIC MOUNTAIN at Nobby Beach on the Gold Coast, the fun park was closed down to make way for a resort which bears the name of Magic Mountain Resort. The fun park closed in 1991 after 29 years of operation, it was a bit crappy to be honest, a bit nondescript, the most exciting ride i will always remember was the chairlifts. Chairlifts! Am i joking? Yeah, it deserved to be demolished and turned into a state of the art restaurant and residential precinct. On the other side of the Pacific, i have been to Disneyland in LA and a theme park which has kind of become somewhat of an entrepreneurial achronism of the mid 80`s dream, Florida's EPCOT CENTRE. It really is like the World Expo which never ended, situated around a man made lake, it showcases a variety of pavilions on a country by country basis in a village atmosphere. One of the most interesting ones i found when i visited EPCOT was the Morocco village. But they're all very interesting, and of course if you like beer, dont miss the German one. There are so many beer fests going down there all the time. EPCOT is (or was) renowned back in 1987 when i was there as being the forerunner in interactive, reality based rides, i realise after a few times they may become a bit tiresome & boring but for a first time visitor EPCOT should still be able to captivate you 25 years after they done the same for me with a number of rides forming part of the FUTURE WORLD. Slightly outdated by now maybe, but visiting EPCOT is still a lot more rewarding experience than not having a holiday in Florida and sitting at home on a computer wasting your life away on social media. Visiting EPCOT all these years later would probaly convince me just how far humans haven't come with technology, just ask most of the 500 million facebook and Twitter users in the world. If you are planning a trip to the US, and you are in the vicinity of Florida, definitely go to EPCOT, which by the way is part of the Disney theme park chain. That's if you want to be seen dead in Barack Obama's america many years after the mid 80`s dream ended.