disneyhockeymad
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- Joined
- Oct 4, 2007
So today was the first full day of our holiday, and it just so happened to coincide with the last day of the Star Wars weekend, so off we trotted to Hollywood Studios. I was determined to get us up and in the park for rope drop, which wasnt actually that much of a chore, we were all up and about, presumably excited about the up and coming holiday, or just wide awake and still on British time!
So we got up, got dressed and hopped into the car to find our way to this sign and WDW...
It's hard to explain just how happy I was to see this sign, even though I saw it yesterday, it was more exciting and far more enjoyable in the morning and indeed in the light, I got excited. Take my word for it!
We arrived at HS at about 8:30ish, which I was very very proud of, my family did me proud! Straight inside the park to be greeted by one of the things I was looking forward to most, the Stormtroopers on the roof.
I even found the way that they get up there, was very very funny to watch, there's just something about watching Stormtroopers getting into a lift and then riding it up to the roof that makes you burst out laughing!
From there we hit the mass that was forming outside the hat, the main holding area if you like, there wasn't much of a group forming at the time, most had stopped to take pictures such as this...
It just so happens some of us can take photos of the interesting stuff and still get in the queue at a decent place, that is a row from the front! Oooh yer! Then all of a sudden it was ready, steady, go.... mass run to TSM, of which I was part of it. I say run, I mean more powerwalk, only mass powerwalk doesnt have the same effect that run does, so for the purpose of this trip report, it was run.
Anyways... we made it to TSM, near the front of the queue... only it broke down, just as we joined the queue, so what would have been a 15 minute queue, turned into a half an hour queue, but it was a highly comical half an hour queue, so I was suitably impressed! Mum and I spent our time running between the fastpass queue, the normal queue and just running around in general, we dont do well waiting in queues as you will learn, so we amused ourselves, ending in a sprint finish back from the fastpass queue... fastpass less I must say, I was NOT waiting in those queues, they were half an hour in themselves... back to the TSM normal queue to rejoin my brother and dad who were swiftly moving through the queue.
My awesome camera skills whilst walking enabled me to take these photos with minimal distress to the people behind, so enjoy...
this was supposed to be the walking talking animatronic Mr Potato head, unfortunately we think this may have been what broke down, so this is all we got to see, and indeed was all we saw for the rest of the 2 weeks we were there...
Here are the cars...
The ride was amazing, infact the whole concept of it was amazing, the 3D-ness was awesome, I personally found it so much more enjoyable than Buzz Lightyear spin in MK, it was just far more enjoyable, the way the ride spins you and the effects you get are so much fun, mum and I could not stop laughing the entire time we were on it. It's also amazing for mum because she is someone who can't see 3D but she still managed to gain the highest score, beating all of us by miles...
Doesn't seem fair does it!! haha
After TSM we trekked it over to the Rockin' Roller Coaster to grab some fastpasses before heading to the Voyage of the Little Mermaid, now for my all time favourite disney film, I used to pretend I was here, ginger hair and all, I was a little disappointed, don't get me wrong it was amazing, but a little short, and it skipped over so many parts of the story, I can't help but feel if they made it slightly more like beauty and the beast it would be so much better, and a far better hit. But maybe that's just me?!
After the Little Mermaid we went to use our FP for RnR, still love that ride, even though the one in Paris is better... has an extra loop at the end!
Suitably windswept we made our way over to pick out a prime viewing space for the parade, of which there were none, we were a tad late, so we made do with another spot, until they closed the walk way, then we jumped! Prime viewing spot- tick! This was one parade I was not gonna miss, I'd heard so much about it on Dis and it was the last ever showing, definately not to be missed! Pictures speak more sense than me, so enjoy!
the famous people...
(lovely and British
)
I reached my image limit... continued below!
So we got up, got dressed and hopped into the car to find our way to this sign and WDW...
It's hard to explain just how happy I was to see this sign, even though I saw it yesterday, it was more exciting and far more enjoyable in the morning and indeed in the light, I got excited. Take my word for it!
We arrived at HS at about 8:30ish, which I was very very proud of, my family did me proud! Straight inside the park to be greeted by one of the things I was looking forward to most, the Stormtroopers on the roof.
I even found the way that they get up there, was very very funny to watch, there's just something about watching Stormtroopers getting into a lift and then riding it up to the roof that makes you burst out laughing!
From there we hit the mass that was forming outside the hat, the main holding area if you like, there wasn't much of a group forming at the time, most had stopped to take pictures such as this...
It just so happens some of us can take photos of the interesting stuff and still get in the queue at a decent place, that is a row from the front! Oooh yer! Then all of a sudden it was ready, steady, go.... mass run to TSM, of which I was part of it. I say run, I mean more powerwalk, only mass powerwalk doesnt have the same effect that run does, so for the purpose of this trip report, it was run.
Anyways... we made it to TSM, near the front of the queue... only it broke down, just as we joined the queue, so what would have been a 15 minute queue, turned into a half an hour queue, but it was a highly comical half an hour queue, so I was suitably impressed! Mum and I spent our time running between the fastpass queue, the normal queue and just running around in general, we dont do well waiting in queues as you will learn, so we amused ourselves, ending in a sprint finish back from the fastpass queue... fastpass less I must say, I was NOT waiting in those queues, they were half an hour in themselves... back to the TSM normal queue to rejoin my brother and dad who were swiftly moving through the queue.
My awesome camera skills whilst walking enabled me to take these photos with minimal distress to the people behind, so enjoy...
this was supposed to be the walking talking animatronic Mr Potato head, unfortunately we think this may have been what broke down, so this is all we got to see, and indeed was all we saw for the rest of the 2 weeks we were there...
Here are the cars...
The ride was amazing, infact the whole concept of it was amazing, the 3D-ness was awesome, I personally found it so much more enjoyable than Buzz Lightyear spin in MK, it was just far more enjoyable, the way the ride spins you and the effects you get are so much fun, mum and I could not stop laughing the entire time we were on it. It's also amazing for mum because she is someone who can't see 3D but she still managed to gain the highest score, beating all of us by miles...
Doesn't seem fair does it!! haha
After TSM we trekked it over to the Rockin' Roller Coaster to grab some fastpasses before heading to the Voyage of the Little Mermaid, now for my all time favourite disney film, I used to pretend I was here, ginger hair and all, I was a little disappointed, don't get me wrong it was amazing, but a little short, and it skipped over so many parts of the story, I can't help but feel if they made it slightly more like beauty and the beast it would be so much better, and a far better hit. But maybe that's just me?!
After the Little Mermaid we went to use our FP for RnR, still love that ride, even though the one in Paris is better... has an extra loop at the end!Suitably windswept we made our way over to pick out a prime viewing space for the parade, of which there were none, we were a tad late, so we made do with another spot, until they closed the walk way, then we jumped! Prime viewing spot- tick! This was one parade I was not gonna miss, I'd heard so much about it on Dis and it was the last ever showing, definately not to be missed! Pictures speak more sense than me, so enjoy!
the famous people...
(lovely and British
)I reached my image limit... continued below!
rotfl
(I don't know why I felt like putting him there!)
.I can't wait to ride TSM next year 
.Looking forward to more.x.
Thats what I call a fan 
