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08/18/11 - My thoughts and observations from my quick trip on Thursday to the Disneyland Resort
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08/18/11 - My thoughts and observations from my quick trip on Thursday to the Disneyland Resort

Hello all,

I was in Anaheim Thursday for the D23 Expo and thanks to a quick checkin process and better than expected traffic I came across four hours of free time in the mid afternoon so we headed to the parks for a quick tour. Overall the crowds seemed to be about what you would expect for summer during the week. Since I was just there on Friday not much had changed, just some construction updates as you saw in the photo update.

Jason

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

Disneyland & DCA Thoughts and Observations:

  • First stop of the day was DCA to try and visit the Fun Wheel, which I lucked out and there was not a long line. As you saw in the pictures Cars Land is moving along and almost on a daily basis more visible progress is being made and details are emerging. I was just there Friday and in that short time even you can notice the difference. For example the trees by Maters or the Wing nut on Flos

  • I did not spend that much time in Disneyland this trip. I relaxed a bit, ate, and walked a circle around the park but nothing really jumped out at me to talk about. The stage that was set up for the Tribute to Betty Taylor & Wally Boag looked great. I spoke with some that attended and they said it was very well done. The parks blog posted something about it too.

  • I finally made it on the monorail to get some pictures of Buena Vista Street work, and having the Golden Gate gone sure made it easier!

  • Spent some time at the Disneyland Hotel, as you saw they have started to work on the Lobby area. So far the impact seems minimal just a longer hike to get to the restaurants. Wonder what they will do when it comes time for the front desk area?

  • On this trip I also played around a bit with the official Disney Parks MobileMagic app for Android. The other day I noticed it was a free download so I did. It has the potential to be a useful application for someone like me. I thought the user interface was a little too heavy, especially for trying to use it on the go in the parks. I would have liked to have seen an option to turn some of the features off. My goal was to use it for wait times and I thought having to wait for the GPS, etc.. made for a slow load every time I clicked on it. I would have liked a non GPS version that came up quicker. The wait times seemed fairly accurate and having the Fastpass information was great. I thought the connection time was a little on the slow side and I think that was because of the heavy overhead and GPS. All in all it was interesting and the price was right, not sure if I would pay what they were initially charging for, I think some of the free ones that have a lot of users submitting times are just as good if not better sometimes.

Interesting Web Finds/Notes:
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Be sure to check out the picture update that goes with this Geekspeak column, it can be found in our Disneyland Resort Pictorial Update section

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