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Hello everyone,

Friday was a great day at the Disneyland Resort. The weather crept into the mid-upper 70s during the afternoon and the crowds were light. Most attractions at both parks had wait times under 30 minutes with just a couple of exceptions like Nemo for most of the afternoon. The off season was here for a week at least. Next week is Presidents Day and many schools are off so I expect the crowds to return, especially if the weather stays nice.

Jason

Trip logs and mileage reports are in the Park Miles section.

Disneyland & DCA Thoughts and Observations:

• Friday marked the 7th birthday of California Adventure and there was no real evidence of this anywhere in the park. I was expecting there to be at least a CM pin/button, and I did not see any. The park was its usual self, with light attendance and you could walk on most attractions with less than 20 minute wait (many true walkons) most of the afternoon. To celebrate the birthday I decided to spend some extra time in the park so I stopped by Aladdin and then I went to watch the Electrical Parade and showed up near Golden Dreams about 5 minutes till parade time and found a bench to sit on. There was one row of guests sitting along the route and then a second row of us sitting on the benches, what a nice crowd.. or lack of. I wonder how much longer the Aladdin show is going to run, its been performing since 2003 so coming up on 5 years.
  
  
• Monsters Inc was open on Friday, I walked by a handful of times but the line was always out the door (so probably 15 minutes or so) which was beyond what I wanted to wait. From the outside there appears to be no real changes. From what I have seen/heard the only real noticeable change is load gates at the station. Everything else was normal rehab things (new paint, repairs, etc..) or sensor/ride safety items.
  
  
• Toy Story Mania is coming along, as you saw in the pictures. A great New York Times article is available and it features a time lapse of the work going on inside the attraction. Click here to read/view.
  
  
• I received an email from a fan of the site with some info on the work being done across from GRR and the Grand Californian. According to him I was partially correct, they are connecting the two. Here is the info I received:
  "From what I understand they are building a bridge that will connect the walkway by the snack area. Last I heard its just suppose to be used as an emergency exit although I could see them eventually realizing that they could pick up some traffic from people that might want to get a snack"
  
  
• I left Disneyland around 9pm since there was no Fantasmic and I could not tolerate more than a song from the band at the Tomorrowland Terrace. Once I got out to the tram stop I was greeted by a mass of people. I waited through two trams and was still two or three trams back. I could see this was going to be a while so I decided to hike back to the car. During the walk only two trams pasted me so I think I made the correct decision, wonder why so few trams were running and why the line was so long considering how quiet the parks seemed. I guess quite a few people decided to leave the same time.
  
  
• I noticed in the Disneyland park map there is a coming soon add for the Pixar Play Parade the Playhouse Disney - Live on Stage which is receiving a new show and will reopen in March.
  

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