I�m already late with this column so I won�t waste more time with an introduction. Just a quick disclaimer - I�m only including things here I saw for myself. So no World of Color, no new Disney Store, etc. And with that caveat I finally present my Top 5 Surprises (and Disappointments) of 2010.

#5 Surprise: AMC Pleasure Island Concession Stand of the Future
A few months ago we noticed walls were up hiding one of the concession stands at the Pleasure Island AMC. It was like a secret project with no visibility at all - not even from the second floor. Then one day we see a release saying �The Concession Stand of the Future� is coming and my life changed for ever. I love going to the movies, I love going to the AMC Pleasure Island and I love going to the concession stand. When they added pizza a couple of years ago I jumped for joy (and that�s not easy!). But now pizza is just the beginning � mozzarella sticks, skinny cow ice cream, more than 100 varieties of Coke products, flavored popcorn - and these are just the things my vegeterian self can enjoy. It�s a dream come true. And we still have the Dine-In theater to look forward to! Hopefully it makes the 2011 list

#5 Disappointment: Summer Nightastic
I�ll be honest - I wanted symmetry. I wanted 5 surprises and 5 disappointments and I struggled to find a fifth. I went with Summer Nightastic not so much for what it was, but for what it wasn�t. It wasn�t good enough to be the main summer push for the Walt Disney World Resort. I realize New Fantasyland is under way but there are four parks and not one of them had anything major added this spring/summer and that�s a disappointment. Top that off with the major thrust of Summer Nightastic being the Main Street Electrical Parade which they changed since I last saw and not for the better. The moving lights are cool when they�re moving. When they�re not (which is most of the time), it looks like those light bulbs are not working which didn�t come off well for me. It�s also a parade - as great and historical that it is - that has already had multiple send-offs and been used to easily prop up a park more than once already. Come on, man!

#4 Surprise: LOST Final Season
I love LOST and awaited the sixth and final season with much anticipation. Other than a slow period at the start of Season 3 it never disappointed me as it had so many other fans. But come on - how do you satisfactorily end a show like this. You just can�t. You can give all the answers in the world and I�ll still want more. So ultimately I only hoped it would be a fun ride and resolved that that would be good enough. On ye of little faith! The solution to not giving enough answers? Don�t give hardly any! Just give vague answers to some of the riddles with the oft-repeated line �this is what answers look like on LOST.�.  It worked for me. But ultimately the reason I felt satisfied was the flash sideways ending. The package was wrapped up so nice and neat and completely and beautifully that I just felt fully satisfied that the journey had come to an end and I was glad to be a part of it. For me, it was truly perfect.

#4 Disappointment: Give-A-Day, Get-A-Day Promotion
What a wonderful concept. On the heels of the come-on-your-birthday-free promotion Disney Parks introduces a give-a-day-to-charity-and-come-free promotion. A great idea meant to get 1,000,000 to volunteer. We participated by cleaning soap for a few hours so those in poorer countries would have this simple but life saving item. And thousands of others did as well. In fact, by March they had reached their 1,000,000 volunteer goal and called off the program. A year-long promotion that lasted until March. Disappointing...