{"id":365,"date":"2013-11-05T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-11-05T19:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2013-11-06T15:28:23","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T20:28:23","slug":"gamedays-2013-how-a-trip-to-disneyland-is-made-better-with-mega64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sharkpuppet.com\/wordpress\/gamedays-2013-how-a-trip-to-disneyland-is-made-better-with-mega64\/","title":{"rendered":"GameDays 2013: How A Trip To Disneyland Is Made Better With Mega64"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am a die-hard Disney theme park fan, having visited Walt Disney World in Florida and Disneyland in California countless times with my parents and sister for family vacations.<\/p>\n

But this week I did something different. On Sunday I spent a day at Disneyland with Mega64<\/a>, my favorite video game-themed comedy group on the Internet.<\/p>\n

And it was awesome.<\/b><\/p>\n

Disneyland is something of a tradition for Mega64, especially with the team\u2019s leader Rocco Botte holding an annual pass and possibly splurging all of his disposable income on collectible \u201cVinylmation\u201d figurines (which I\u2019ll get into a bit more later). And while the primary focus of Mega64\u2019s comedy is acting out video game scenarios to an unsuspecting public, they also shoot some hilarious skits<\/a> at the theme park. After releasing one such skit<\/a> in 2009 that poked fun at a particular annual group meeting at Disneyland, \u201cGameDays\u201d became the group\u2019s annual fan gathering, and it\u2019s been growing in numbers every year: we estimated 300 fans showed up to meet Mega64 at Disneyland this past Sunday.<\/p>\n

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And what amazed me was how easily the group managed to devote time toward interacting with all 300 of their fans. I met with every member of Mega64 for different periods of time; I had a brief chat on the Fantasyland docks with Derrick Accosta, and later had a conversation with Garrett Hunter and Shawn Chatfield before we took a massive group photo in front of Sleeping Beauty Castle. Later on, I had dinner with Shawn then rode all of the rides in Adventureland with Shawn and Rocco. We spent 15 hours total at Disneyland, and throughout the day all the guys from Mega64 were very energetic and friendly. I could tell Mega64 truly admires their fans, never appearing too exhausted from trying to meet with everybody.<\/p>\n

Since GameDays as an event started three years ago, Mega64 has incorporated tons of traditions that, let\u2019s just say, enhance<\/i> the Disneyland experience. On Sunday, for the first time, I took part in the GameDays staple, \u201cNo-Hands Autopia.\u201d Now I\u2019ve been on plenty of those slow-moving gas-powered pedal car rides before, but I always carefully steered so my car didn\u2019t violently bump into the steel railing it runs along. But that\u2019s not how this GameDays tradition works. Rocco, playing the Tyler Durden to my Ed Norton, told me to ride Autopia without touching the steering wheel. In summary: I\u2019m never riding Autopia the same way again.<\/p>\n

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