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Hello all,

Friday was a great afternoon/evening at the Disneyland Resort. The crowds were about normal, maybe a bit on the light side, for mid August and the weather was mild. The lines at most attractions were under an hour, with Nemo even hovering under an hour much of the time.

Jason

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Disneyland & DCA Thoughts and Observations:

• Friday marked the end of some of the Summer entertainment offerings. Namely the 2008 All American College Band wrapped up their summer. Also I hear the Green Army Men near the tram stop and the Honda promotion are both over now too. I thought it was a nice touch that the College Band was present for the Flag Retreat.
  
  
• No sign of the Blue Monorail, I had heard they were doing some day time testing recently so I was hoping to get some shots. Also saw on another website that Monorail Orange has arrived at the resort, so now they have four monorails on the beamway... only one, the Mark V Purple, actually carries guests all day. Monorail Red is on reduced hours and reduced capacity still because of heat.
  
  
• I noticed when I stopped for dinner they now swipe your annual pass to apply the discount (at least at the corn dog wagon).
  
  
• I wanted to stop by Innoventions again to see if they opened up anything on the outer ring yet, but the line was still quite long, it appeared only a couple of pods were loading still... wonder when the rest will start up again.
  
  
• Took a spin on Toy Story Mania to end the evening, waited about 45 minutes. They were cutting off the single rider line due to the long wait for it, seemed at about a dozen people or so they did this. The standby line kept moving so it was not too bad. I still want to know who/why they approved to have some of the queue in a non air conditioned space with poor airflow. Even on a cool evening like Friday that room was quite warm. Its funny to me that I still get about the same score, no matter what I try to do... I seem to get between 120K and 150K.
  
  
• Nothing else really comes to mind from the day. I spent some time wandering around trying to get some shots of some of the anticipated projects for the off season with hopes of having before/after shots.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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