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- The large tour groups were gathering this morning just past 8am in a courtyard at Pop Century. Goal was to get to the buses before them since my luck they will be going where I am going and it would be a long wait.
- The Pop Century Bus stop at 8:26am, very quiet at most stops.
- Only line was at the Magic Kingdom and it wrapped outside the queue and down to the studios queue. Glad I was not going there.
- My destination was Epcot and I arrived just after 9am (it took almost 40 minutes to wait for the bus, load, and get through security this morning).
- Almost another 10 to get through the entrance and to this point in the park.
- Decided to head for the Land first since wait times seemed mild there.
- No one heading to Imagination now.
- Almost an hour from the bus stop picture until now.. 20 minutes posted at 9:21am seemed good to us.
- Turned out to be wrong.. was watching the safety video at 9:24am (3 minutes to walk the queue, no waiting).
- Next up Living with the Land, which had no wait at all but I used a FP+ to clear one of my three for the day.
- A stamp in the sand as you enter the greenhouse.
- Some Christmas decorations in the land greenhouses
- A sand man..
- A better picture of the sand man.
- Garland on the aquaculture tanks.
- A mickey..
- On the right no alligators instead catfish.
- I spy a reindeer inspired plant ahead.
- A little hard to tell but it says Epcot
- More Christmas decorations.
- I do not recall these containers before.
- Snowflakes on the lab window.
- Stopped by Imagination Restrooms.. still payphones out there.
- random facet picture.. since it was different than most of the others I had seen.
- A small lizard on one of the lights.
- No wait at all for Imagination.. used FP+ again to clear a second lower tier though. Also interesting with empty cars they still put three adults in a row and loaded two different groups into a car.
- The walls are down and the walkways open through the little park outside Innoventions
- Stopped by Mouse Gear.. Vinyl Records
- Mugs
- Almost a Tokyo Flashback here.. a line at a cart.. this one for coffee though and relatively short by Tokyo Popcorn standards.
- Walking by the Odyssey. It is serving Craft Beer for the holidays.. just like Food and Wine.
- Walls up on the other side of the lagoon as they work along the shore.
- Not all the Beer signs were updated to Holidays Around the World.
- Other windows have the process.
- Monorail red passing by.
- Walls and marketplaces block the view of World Showcase Lagoon.
- More walls as you turn toward Mexico.
- A line for the Gran Fiesta Tour, it was just opening.
- Also a line at this store.
- Time to use a Frozen FastPass+.. 75 minute stand by.
- Some pictures from my cruise.
- Christmas decorations in Norway.
- Walking around World Showcase
- Italy
- The Christmas tree outside the American Adventure.
- Tables to eat at near the American Adventure
- Holidays Around the World silverware
- A slow roasted turkey meal for sale at the marketplace near the
- Gingerbread Washington DC Landmarks in the American Adventure lobby.
- New this year the Lincoln Memorial
- Hidden Mickeys
- A Christmas tree nearby.
- The Voices of Liberty performing
- A video clip of the Voices of Liberty
- Time to head into the show.
- Opening the American Adventure..
- Closing out the show.
- Skies are slightly darker as we left. It is only 2pm.. rain is coming.
- Location of a former kiosk for the interactive World Showcase games
- Sergio performing in Italy
- A boat entering the lagoon with the bridge up.
- Caught most of a set from Margret Almer & the Bavarian Band.. then it started to drizzle so I ran for cover.
- Hid inside the gift shops of Germany as the light rain passed through.
- Once it cleared continued my World Showcase trek by visiting China.
- A second pass through the Shanghai Disneyland exhibit.
- The skies had cleared some when we returned back outside.
- Not quite the same immersion as Tokyo DisneySea...
- The Candlelight queue ropes lead past Japan. It was 3pm, first show at 5pm
- Daruma Vendor speaking in Japan about New Years customs.
- Decided to take the boat across vs walk.
- There is one kiosk open still for the game. You play on your own phone/device now.
- Several Innoventions entrances are closed.
- Monorail red passing by as we headed for the park entrance.
- A couple guests waiting for the express bus service.
- The location is between guest relations and the restrooms.
- Stitch topiary on the way out.
- Hmm.. Animal Kingdom bus stop is now out in the Charter bus area..
- Almost there it is the second group of people.
- Found the bus stop. So why is it out here in the open as opposed to under cover like ever other WDW location? Guess they need to expand the Epcot bus stops again.