3 Reasons Why RunDisney picked Avengers

Yesterday RunDisney had a Big announcement make of new race. Looking at some of the RunDisney fans Facebook groups many were hopping for a Star Wars Race around Star Wars Weekend  or an added 10k to the Wine and Dine weekend. Well, they ultimately went the route of the superheroes and choose the their Marvel smash hit The Avengers for a Super Heroes Half Marathon.

I wanted to take this post and give 3 reasons why I feel RunDisney picked the Avengers as the next race theme.

1.Location

One of the top clues for the race was that it was going to announced at pacific standard time, so that meant it was going to be a Disneyland race. Now even thou Disney owns the rights to Marvel, they do not owns the rights to them in Theme parks in the Orlando. With Islands of Adventure Theme Park, Universal Studios owns the rights to 8 of the key Marvel characters with in a 250 mile radius of Orlando. The contract will stay with Universal until:Universal stops paying the renewal fee or until Disney throws some unseen amount a money at the to buy them out. But never fear....Disney has already started the plans of bringing Marvel into its others locations outside of Orlando, with:

Tony Stark Tech Expo (Iron Man 3 Expo) at Disneyland 

 

Thor: Treasures of Asgard (Thor: The Dark World Expo) at Disneyland

 

 Marvel Avengers Academy on Disney Magic Cruise

 

 New Ride coming to Hong Kong Disneyland

 

I know! I know! Disney also owns Stars Wars. Well with Disney World having Star Wars Weekends spanning over 5 weeks also with the plans of building a Star Wars Land coming to Disney's World's Hollywood Studios as well as Disneyland Remodeling Tomorrowland Based on Star Wars, I think they may want to wait until one or the other is almost finish to have a Star Wars race. By them waiting for the one if not both parks to be finish I feel they could greatly increase the weekend by having a Half and a Full Marathon and creating a special coast to coast Star Wars Medal (I would love to see that!).

 

 

 



2. Timing

With the Box office SMASH HIT The Avengers and the Highly anticipated sequel  Avengers: the Age of Ultron set to be released May 1, 2015, Marvel is set to continue it dominance of the box office.

With the November Avengers race at Disneyland they're able to start the promotion in a Huge way. Why not bring in a new Avengers Style Expo to the Parks the same weekend of the race, or maybe even debut a brand new trailer to other Marvel related movies or Why not just turn race weekend into Disney's personal version of Comic Con.

3. Fans

If you've been to the a RunDisney event, you see not only runners but runners in customs. Some of the most popular customs (well at least a the Marathon Race Weekend) other than Disney characters, has been superheroes. Whether their Marvel or DC superheroes and their tons of them and as a big superhero fan myself who wouldn't want to run a race where you can take picture with some of your favorites as well as....Maybe even some of your favorite Disney characters dress up as their favorites.

Once again these are just a few reasons why I believe Disney picked Avengers as the next RunDisney race and by no way are these actual facts provided by RunDisney or Disney companies, just my own opinions.

What are your opinion of Rundisney's choice and what do you think will be the next race?

2014 Disney World Marathon Recap: Expo

 

I know it has taken me while to post these recaps of the 2014 Disney World Marathon Weekend but, I have been busy with moving to Florida for a new chapter in my life. So without further delay, my recaps of the Inaugural Dopey Challenge….

Unlike last year my family and I decided to turn the race weekend into a whole week since I was participating in the Dopey Challenge for 4 days, this gave me a full day to explore and enjoy myself at the expo.

Disney's Health & Fitness Expo

Wednesday, January 8, 10 a.m. - 8 p.m.

Thursday, January 9, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Friday, January 10, 9 a.m. - 7 p.m.

Saturday, January 11, 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Location: ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex

Arriving at the expo I wanting to get my packet and race bib first so I when I actually made it to the Expo building I would be free to goof around and visit every booth. I arrive around 2 on Wednesday, I must say it felt like the perfect time to go. We went straight to the HP field house where Picket pick up was a breeze, I was able to my pre order Dopey pin with no problems and I was off to play around. Leaving the Field house we made a hard right to the Champion baseball field where the had some of the expo booths set up. This where you could find Packet pick up for the kids races, Dooney and Bourke Rundisney items, Registration for the limited edition New Balance rundisney collection, many other  vendor booths, but the one thing that caught my eye and was probably the only thing I really had to wait for the weekend (besides the Character Picture) was this....

Yes a Caricature!!! Disney had two Artist drawing Pictures for anyone who wanted one...Two Thumbs up Disney!!!After I received my awesome picture off to the main event...The Jostens Center for the Health and Fitness Expo.

The Expo was set up very similar to last year except the stage for the Expo Speakers was set up next to the ESPN restaurant up stairs. Before you could make your way to the back to pick up shirts, you had to past by Huge New Balance Booth.

Just like last year New Balance released limited edition rundisney shoes, but this year they turned it up a notch with 4 new shoes designs: Goofy , Cinderella, Sorcerer Mickey
and  Pink Minnie, which the Mickey and Minnie are both available in  Adult and Kid Sizes.

After the New Balance booth off to the back to complete my collection of shirts...

The shirts are great this year, I actually like them so much that I wore a different one every day I was down there. So, Race Bib....Check!, Race T-Shits.... Check! Rundisney shopping...Check! So, What's next.... Time to play around....

 

 

 

This year I decided to do something a little different and make of video of every race and....drum roll please...the expo as well!!! Check out the video below and think me what you think. Also stay tune for the rest of recap to this awesome weekend.