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9/05/08 - My thoughts and observations from Fridays trip to the Disneyland Resort
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9/05/08 - My thoughts and observations from Fridays trip to the Disneyland Resort

* After you read this report you may want to check out the pictorial updates in our Disneyland Resort Pictorial Update section

Hello all,

Friday was a great day at the Disneyland Resort. The off-season has arrived so the crowds have left. Thoughout most of the afternoon you were able to roam the park and ride whatever you wanted without any substantial waits. Its been quite a while since I have seen the park this quiet on a Friday afternoon with great weather. For example Space Mountain had a 5 minute wait, Nemo was under 30, as was Toy Story Mania. Soarins line was just barely out the door and GRR was a near walk on (and considering it was mid 80s that was amazing).

Jason

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

Disneyland & DCA Thoughts and Observations:

  • As you saw in the pictorial update this brief off-season before the HalloweenTime promotion kicks off was met with quite a few walls going up around Disneyland. DCAs walls will be going up in the coming days/weeks. Due to the extremely light crowd though there really was no impact on traffic flow in any of the areas.

  • Both parks feature new guidemaps. The Disneyland one is a night scene of Tomorrowland with the new Mark VII monorails overhead, the subs and Space Mountain below. Too bad the monorails are not operational yet... Also I found it interesting that in the picture there are no railings and the area does look much nicer that way... too bad people would walk, fall, get pushed, etc.. into the lagoon if it were really that way. The DCA guide features Toy Story Midway Mania. The interesting thing to me is how on the cover it says Toy Story Mania but inside its referred to as Toy Story Midway Mania on both the fold out and the main map.

  • Is the Year of a Million Dreams (part II) finally wrapping up? The cups around both parks have been replaced with generic Coke cups. Anyone know if this is something new (maybe Coke is paying more) or is this a placeholder till the new campaign starts? Also I noticed last week but did not comment on it that the napkins have no logos on them anymore. Is this a cost saving measure or again due to the switchover?? Anyone know?

  • I stopped by Golden Dreams for one last showing. According to the blurb I saw it closed the 7th even though construction on the Little Mermaid attraction is not slated to start until next year. Guess people have had enough of Whoopi?

  • I decided to take a ride on Nemo since it was under 30 minutes, took only about 25 minutes which was not bad considering only six subs were running. Also interesting to note this was the first time I have entered the queue near the front of the attraction.. Another first, I managed to get on the right side of the sub (the rear entrance) for some reason (dumb luck) the previous trips I have always been on the left (or front loading side). Also this was my first ride after dark. I think the lighting in the main lagoon makes it slightly more interesting... much harder to take pictures though.

  • Since there was no Fantasmic the Mark Twain was operating into the evening, one of my favorite experiences to ride around the Rivers of America on a warm summer evening... just a nice way to relax. Seems this was a fairly popular idea as the boat was pretty full with the railings filled on the top two decks.

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