AUTHOR'S NOTE
Hey, all you beautiful people! Katie here and I am so excited. IM GOING TO DISNEYLAND SOON! So freaking happy. I will be bringing back new materials and ideas for the story as well as getting an accurate time estimate for the touring plan that our hosts are using. Anyway, WOOH!
Another note it that, sometime in the near future, we will be taking a small hiatus. We have finals approching, my graduation, our dance recital, and I am taking a trip to Europe! A lot of stuff needs our attention, but this will be a very small break where I can catch up on writing. We will not be posing on May 22, 27, and 29th as well as June 3rd and 5th. After that, we will be back in full swing all summer. Please remember us and keep up the Reviews. It really makes my day to read them.
Thanks and Here is the story!
Chapter 22
"What show are we going to, guys?" Haruhi asked as they exited the Pizza place.
"Ever heard of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson?" Katie asked with clever glint in her eye. "You must have heard of the moonwalker?"
"Of course we have!" Tamaki said, twirling around in his usual kingly fashion. "Thriller, Billy Jean, Man in the Mirror!"
"Well, this is his own Disney show called Captain EO!" Steph said with glee. "It has a quirky cast of characters, amazing dancing and singing-"
"And is directed by Francis Coppola with George Lucas as the executive producer!" Katie said with a knowing smile. "But the film was bashed by critics as being one of the worst MJ performance ever, but I happen to like it. It is also in 3-D."
"It sounds fun!" The twins exclaimed. They took Steph between them and skipped off. Haruhi grabbed a moonwalking Tamaki and dragged him towards the theater. Honey was zooming away with Mori walking behind him. Kyoya offered Katie his arm with a smile as she babbled on about Tomorrowland while he listened intently.
They arrived at the theater and sat down on the floor. Kyoya was writing down all Katie was talking about while she was happy to provide her knowledge about her favorite place as Mori and Haruhi listened to her stories and wisdom on Disneyland. Tamaki, Honey, and the twins were playing 'name that ride' with Steph and were having a blast while waiting the five minutes before the pre-show started.
The pre-show was about how the film was shot and made, which was very interesting. Then it was time to enter the theater. They were given 3-D glasses and put them on as the lights began to dim. There wasn't a lot of people in the theater besides the host club and their guides, so the host club sat in the middle of the theater.
As the film started, they felt the theater rumbling. As the spaceship, VOYAGE, was engaged in a battle, everyone was shocked when they felt their seats shaking and moving like the ship was.
"Oh, did I forget to mention that the seats will move?" Katie said with a slight smile. "Oh well." Everyone was holding on tightly, despite the fact they weren't shaking a lot. They met EO's ragtag crew and discovered his mission: to deliver a gift to a being called the 'Supreme Leader' who lives on a rotting, metal planet. They met Michael Jackson as the Captain and watched as he approached the leader. He was sentenced to one hundred years of torture, but he says that he sees the beauty inside her and he has the key to unlock it. The key was a song.
The bumbling crew turned out to be excellent musicians and arranged instruments, but one of the members, the clumsy Hooter, tripped and stopped the spell EO was creating by breaking his instrument. The Leader orders her guards to get EO. Hooter manages to fix his machine, which gives the captain power to transform the guards into backup dancers.
After a battle of song and dance, EO manages to transform the Supreme Leader into a lovely greek goddess and her planate into a green and elegant temple. She thanks the captain and he sings and dances off, ending the show.
It was cute and clever, with nice special effects and good music. Haruhi loved the dancing, Kyoya loved the production value, the twins loved the music, Honey loved the crew, and Mori loved the fight/dance. But Tamaki was enthralled by MJ as Captain EO. The message of beauty through song and dance related to the Host King and he left the theater in a state of awe.
While he was bumbling around in a daze, the rest of the group were talking about the show.
"WHAT?" the twins said in shocked unison. "It cost how much?"
"Well, it cost approximately thirty million dollars to produce. In the original production in 1986, there were a lot more special effects such as lasers, lights, and beams. And there was a cost for all the big names." Katie was telling them.
Kyoya was scribbling in his notebook furiously, trying to do that math. "But… that cost would amount to… per minute I mean…"
"One-point seventy six million dollars per minute, yeah." Katie said. Haruhi nearly fainted at that amount. Kyoya's pen stopped for a minute before it burst on the page again. Kaoru asked the question everyone was thinking.
"How many yen is that...?"
Kyoya looked up with the answer. "3,571,200,000 yen, give or take." Everyone was quite for a minute, shocked. It was an amazing amount and it astounded everyone there.
"Disney really doesn't do things by half, do they?" Honey asked. Katie smiled and shook her head. She knew the cost of perfection.
Tamaki was eager to find out what they were doing next. "Will wonders ever cease in this magical place and what journeys lie ahead?"
Steph laughed loudly before telling Tamaki that they were going to split up for two hours. Everyone agreed to meet up near Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters in two hours after they explored Tomorrowland. So they split off to enjoy this place.
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