Disney Draft Day:Winter Olympic Teams

Game on! This week we’re drafting our Winter Olympics dream teams from the rank of world class athletes that populate our favorite Disney theme parks and movies! But first, all the week’s travel news, including face masks are back in at Universal Orlando Resort, Japanese mystery flights from a vending machine, returning home with an expired passport, returning to Disney World’s All Star Sports resort, and weird New Year’s traditions!  Sharpen your skates and watch out for the zamboni, it’s time to hit the trail with the Gold Key Adventurers Society!

 

 In the spirit of fair play, inclusion, and equality, it’s time for us to get absolutely silly. Your job today is to draft the best possible teams of athletes for a series of Olympic events. And since we prefer to spend our time with space aliens, fairytale princesses and hillbilly bears, your pool of potential team members is any character-whether human, fantastical, or animatronic, that you would find in a Disney theme park. Remember, we’re doing this draft style. So once an athlete has been selected for a team, they’re off the board for the rest of the game. Also, we run our drafts the way we run from snipers, in a serpentine pattern, so the person who goes last in round 1 goes first in round 2. Let’s get started!

Links:

• Face coverings indoors return to Universal Orlando, I guess we need to talk about Omicron for a minute?
  https://www.themeparkprofessor.com/2021/12/face-coverings-are-now-required-indoor-at-universal-orlando/  
• Japanese Mystery Flight Vending Machine
  https://www.travelandleisure.com/travel-tips/offbeat/peach-aviation-flight-vending-machine 
• Returning home with an expired passport
  https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2021/12/28/expired-passports-extension-march-31/9038098002/ 
• All Star Sports finally has a reopening date
  https://bit.ly/AllStarSportsOpening 
• New Years in Scotland-Hogmanay and the Loony Dook
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogmanay#Customs 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-loony-dook 

https://www.findingtheuniverse.com/loony-dook-edinburgh-hogmanay-scotland/ 

 

Our Disney World Winter Olympics teams:

Bobsled (3 man teams)

• Heather: Big Al, Dash, Baymax
• Jeff: Kristoff, Bob Chapek, Bob Iger
• Jess: Maui,Michael Eisner, Pocahontas
• Dan: Sven, Frozone, Vanellope 

Couples Figure Skating (2 characters)

• Heather: Gonzo, Camilla
• Jeff: Mrs Incredible, Mr Incredible
• Jess: Quasimodo,Disneyland’s Big Al
• Dan: Tarzan,Turk

Downhill Skiing (2 character)

• Heather: Goofy,Kylo Ren
• Jeff: Max Goof,Herbie The Love Bug
• Jess: Bob Chapek, Carl Frederickson
• Dan: Chip,Dale

Freestyle Snowboard (3 character team)

• Heather: Elsa,Sanka Kofi,Snow Trooper
• Jeff: Olaf,Kick Buttowski,Mickey Mouse
• Jess: Bart Simpson,Poochie,Air Bud
• Dan: PJ, Huey Duck,Michaelangelo

Curling (4 man team)

• Heather: King Fergus, Winnie Sanderson,Ludwig Von Drake,Swedish Chef
• Jeff: Ursula,Angela Lansbury from Bedknobs and Broomsticks,Anna,Bo Peep
• Jess: Cinderella,Jabba The Hutt,Abraham Lincoln,Walt Disney’s Frozen Head
• Dan: Skipper Frank,Donald Duck, SSE Storyteller,Fantasia broom

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