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10/30/09 - My thoughts and observations from Fridays visit to the Disneyland Resort.
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10/30/09 - My thoughts and observations from Fridays visit to the Disneyland Resort.

Hello all,

Friday was a surprisingly calm day at the Disneyland Resort. I was expecting traffic jams to get in and wall to wall guests inside and was pleasantly surprised. Maybe I just lucked out with my timing.. the parks had a healthy crowd but it seemed lighter than the past few visits. Parking was even easy. Though the Lazygeek reported seeing them setting up cones to block off the garage when he arrived (about 5 minutes after me).

Jason

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

Disneyland & DCA Thoughts and Observations:

  • As you saw in the pictorial update we spent the first portion of the trip over at DCA checking out the World of Color progress. Its amazing how the water makes you feel like things are really moving along. Only a couple more weeks and the Bay should be back to its filled state, assuming there are no problems. The viewing area seems to be moving again, all be it at a very slow pace. I do not have anything else overly interesting to report from DCA. It was kind of odd to see the Christmas decorations up so early but I guess with the holidays so close together there is no other choice.

  • Looking at the entertainment guides for the weekend they changed them from last trip. The Halloween Round-up and Candy Corn Acres are gone and in its place are the Blue Sky Cellar (DCA) and Pixie Hollow (Disneyland). Also they have the alternate street party times now for the days DCA closes early. Also found it interesting how the Blue Sky Cellar is listed as New...

  • Speaking of New the Magic Shop on Main Street has re-opened under new management. Disney no longer operates it. To the casual observer there is no real change. Just some new displays in the windows and items for sale inside. I am glad to see it stayed a Magic Shop but find it interesting they have gone back to outsourcing the shops, seems like history is repeating itself again... hopefully this time around with a better result.

  • The Disneyland Railroad was back in service. I did not notice any changes (I only went from NOS to Tomorrowland though). Also the Go Coaster has returned and looks great, well let me rephrase, the attraction itself looks bright and back to its original state, but the train looked dull still to us.

  • The Haunted Mansion went down again while we were in line. This time around they were evacuating the attraction and guests were coming out the emergency exits so I bailed on the line and did not get to ride this time around.

  • Main Street filled in to be fairly crowded for the Halloween Screams fireworks, but not as jammed as weeks past. Maybe the projections on the midst screens out in NOS held some of the crowd (if anyone has pictures they would like to share from over there drop me an email. I had a first time viewer of the show with me and wanted them to see it from Main Street so I never was able to see the screens myself, except for on Youtube of course.

  • On Saturday morning we made a quick stop at the Disneyland Resort due to it being someones birthday and they wanted to pick up their gift card but due to there being a couple football games we wanted to watch we headed for home. Anyways on that brief trip I spent some time roaming Downtown Disney and I was surprised at the number of people also roaming around for a Saturday morning around 10am. There were several groups of kids, who seemed to be on a scavenger hunt as well as other small groups walking around. I thought that was an interesting idea, not sure if it was because of a birthday or for Halloween.


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