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I went to the Finding Nemo ride first, because it's by far the worst line in the park. The problem is that it's a very slow loading ride. People have to actually climb in and out of the ride, which really does take forever. When I got there around 9:30 (I wanted to get there at 9 when then park opened, but I couldn't get my butt out of bed) the line was already an hour long, and the park wasn't even that busy. If you ever want to go on this ride, you seriously need to race to it first thing. No fastpasses either.
However, the ride itself is adorable. I couldn't get shots of the dark part of the ride, but they use this kind of 3-D projection type stuff for Nemo and pals. Way too cute. There's even a tiny story - Nemo gets lost again. SHOCKING STUFF.
Zero theming in the line ads insult to injury. Yup, by far the absolute worst wait for a ride in the park.
While in the hour-long line. Look at that beautiful sky! Absolutely nothing will change this beautiful day, right?
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poohmusings likes to say, FEAR THE GREY CLOUD.
Yes, those seaguls actually do say "Mine. Mine. Mine." :D The Nemo sub in the background entering the cave - the dark part of the ride. It's actually a pretty long ride.
Sidetrack for a moment. This is for the people on my flist who have recently gone SW mad. They have this "Jedi Training Academy" show, which I could see from, yes, the Nemo line. My morning was spent in the Nemo line.
SW peeps! Aren't you getting all excited? Ooooooooh!
I actually took this shot later up on the Monorail platform, but this gives an idea of how the setup for the ride works.
Everyone climbs up and down this small spiral staircase. I'd guess you get about 30 people in a sub at a time?
Finally in the sub!
Everyone gets their own wee hole to look through. This was mine. Hello, hole!
It's Disney, and so everything gets themed to the hilt. Except for the line for some reason.
"Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey."
Yesterday was the first day of their Indiana Jones promotion. They had Indiana and a bad guy running around Adventureland. This was onSwiss Family Robinson's Tarzan's Treehouse. People were also handing out brochures "Indiana Jones Summer of Hidden Mysteries" that had little games you could play - finding hidden clues for things and so on. You couldn't win anything. It was just something extra, like when they handed out Indiana Jones decoder cards for the writings in the ride line.
Now it was starting to sprinkle, and so I hopped on the train, which is very covered. And snapped a picture of Tinkerbell's butt for some reason. I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.
More random themeing. And this is a place that can really only be seen when you're on the train. They do that so well. Except for the Nemo line, apparently. (No, I will not let that go.)
The sprinkling was continuing to happen, so I decided to go to Downtown Disney to watch the Indiana Jones movie. (Had obviously been brainwashed by very hot actor running around in Adventureland.) While on the Monorail platform what do we see? That's right, Disneyphiles! MONORAIL RED! Monorail Red is very pretty and very shiny and they wouldn't let us ride it. It's still in testing mode.
The picture barely captures it, but that red is PRETTY. I'd seen other people talking about the red before (hey, I have places I lurk that are non-Who-related) and was like "okay, it's red." But...it's a pretty red. Shiny and not quite sparkly or iridescent, but there's something unique about it.
Heh. I am a massive dork in that I find this amusing with Monorail Red in the background. Why? Because apparently Monorail Red came off the truck and immediately munched part of itself because it was designed with original original specs, and not the work-in-progress specs from back in the 60s. You seriously had no idea how much of a Disneyland nerd I am, did you?
After the movie I wandered through the Grand Californian. I'd love to stay there some day, but at $400 a night, I think that'll have to be for a milestone birthday or something.
It was really raining now, and so I went to the dark rides. The ones that had inside lines. Like Roger Rabbit!
I think this door might be the answer to something...
And Roger Rabbit promptly breaks down. Flood lights come on. I was very close to the exit, but I still had to wait about 10 minutes in the car while they evacuated the rest of the ride. Of course since I was stuck somewhere, my mental conversation was basically...
"Hmm. I wonder how long I'll be here. Good thing I don't have to pee. Wait... OMG, I HAVE TO PEE. NOW. GET ME OFF!! Hang on, no. I really don't. But I'll have to pee eventually. I wonder how long I'll be here. *twiddles thumbs*"
Well, one thing that happens when it rains and doesn't let up is that the park clears out. Only the really stupid people stay. *coughs*
I'm now the proud owner of that rain poncho you see everyone sporting. It's got a castle on it. And cost $7. Pffft. (I'm standing on the Mark Twain boat and that's the entrance to Pirates of the Caribbean, in case you were curious.)
And the Haunted Mansion. Which I actually rode while in non-holiday mode. Dark ride. Rain.
I really do love Disneyland in the rain. Yeah, you get wet, but there aren't as many people and it all becomes positively relaxing watching the rain fall on the river.
That was a fun movie. I never really felt like Harrison Ford was too old to be doing this. They were smart and set it in the 50s, and so it fit his physical appearance. They did mention the age thing a few times, but for the most part it really didn't have a huge impact. I liked that.
I also liked his son Mutt. You know how it is with insta-kids - they tend to be completely annoying. But he was pretty good, I thought. They didn't make him too instantly awesome and gave him enough differences. Also, I was amused that Indiana had named himself after the dog, and his son goes and names himself a dog. HEH. And since Mutt did it without having a clue about Indiana, I'm guessing some sort of screw-loose gene. :D
Marian was funny, and the ending was cheesy, but fun cheesy.
I'm not really sold on the whole alien thing, though. When at first they were in Area 51, I thought for sure the alien stuff would be a red herring, and we'd come to find out all this stuff was really something else. But, nope. Aliens. Somehow Indiana Jones with aliens seems weird. Ancient religious mysticism? Great! Big grey aliens? Hmm.
Two more things - the movie started out with prairie dogs. *amused for my own reasons* And I like the psych-out of the passing-the-hat at the end. No one's quite ready for that yet, junior. :D (Although...I could be interested enough to at least try a movie with Shia LaBeouf down the road.)
However, the ride itself is adorable. I couldn't get shots of the dark part of the ride, but they use this kind of 3-D projection type stuff for Nemo and pals. Way too cute. There's even a tiny story - Nemo gets lost again. SHOCKING STUFF.
Zero theming in the line ads insult to injury. Yup, by far the absolute worst wait for a ride in the park.
While in the hour-long line. Look at that beautiful sky! Absolutely nothing will change this beautiful day, right?
As
poohmusings likes to say, FEAR THE GREY CLOUD.Yes, those seaguls actually do say "Mine. Mine. Mine." :D The Nemo sub in the background entering the cave - the dark part of the ride. It's actually a pretty long ride.
Sidetrack for a moment. This is for the people on my flist who have recently gone SW mad. They have this "Jedi Training Academy" show, which I could see from, yes, the Nemo line. My morning was spent in the Nemo line.
SW peeps! Aren't you getting all excited? Ooooooooh!
I actually took this shot later up on the Monorail platform, but this gives an idea of how the setup for the ride works.
Everyone climbs up and down this small spiral staircase. I'd guess you get about 30 people in a sub at a time?
Finally in the sub!
Everyone gets their own wee hole to look through. This was mine. Hello, hole!
It's Disney, and so everything gets themed to the hilt. Except for the line for some reason.
"Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey. Hey."
Yesterday was the first day of their Indiana Jones promotion. They had Indiana and a bad guy running around Adventureland. This was on
Now it was starting to sprinkle, and so I hopped on the train, which is very covered. And snapped a picture of Tinkerbell's butt for some reason. I don't know. Your guess is as good as mine.
More random themeing. And this is a place that can really only be seen when you're on the train. They do that so well. Except for the Nemo line, apparently. (No, I will not let that go.)
The sprinkling was continuing to happen, so I decided to go to Downtown Disney to watch the Indiana Jones movie. (Had obviously been brainwashed by very hot actor running around in Adventureland.) While on the Monorail platform what do we see? That's right, Disneyphiles! MONORAIL RED! Monorail Red is very pretty and very shiny and they wouldn't let us ride it. It's still in testing mode.
The picture barely captures it, but that red is PRETTY. I'd seen other people talking about the red before (hey, I have places I lurk that are non-Who-related) and was like "okay, it's red." But...it's a pretty red. Shiny and not quite sparkly or iridescent, but there's something unique about it.
Heh. I am a massive dork in that I find this amusing with Monorail Red in the background. Why? Because apparently Monorail Red came off the truck and immediately munched part of itself because it was designed with original original specs, and not the work-in-progress specs from back in the 60s. You seriously had no idea how much of a Disneyland nerd I am, did you?
After the movie I wandered through the Grand Californian. I'd love to stay there some day, but at $400 a night, I think that'll have to be for a milestone birthday or something.
It was really raining now, and so I went to the dark rides. The ones that had inside lines. Like Roger Rabbit!
I think this door might be the answer to something...
And Roger Rabbit promptly breaks down. Flood lights come on. I was very close to the exit, but I still had to wait about 10 minutes in the car while they evacuated the rest of the ride. Of course since I was stuck somewhere, my mental conversation was basically...
"Hmm. I wonder how long I'll be here. Good thing I don't have to pee. Wait... OMG, I HAVE TO PEE. NOW. GET ME OFF!! Hang on, no. I really don't. But I'll have to pee eventually. I wonder how long I'll be here. *twiddles thumbs*"
Well, one thing that happens when it rains and doesn't let up is that the park clears out. Only the really stupid people stay. *coughs*
I'm now the proud owner of that rain poncho you see everyone sporting. It's got a castle on it. And cost $7. Pffft. (I'm standing on the Mark Twain boat and that's the entrance to Pirates of the Caribbean, in case you were curious.)
And the Haunted Mansion. Which I actually rode while in non-holiday mode. Dark ride. Rain.
I really do love Disneyland in the rain. Yeah, you get wet, but there aren't as many people and it all becomes positively relaxing watching the rain fall on the river.
That was a fun movie. I never really felt like Harrison Ford was too old to be doing this. They were smart and set it in the 50s, and so it fit his physical appearance. They did mention the age thing a few times, but for the most part it really didn't have a huge impact. I liked that.
I also liked his son Mutt. You know how it is with insta-kids - they tend to be completely annoying. But he was pretty good, I thought. They didn't make him too instantly awesome and gave him enough differences. Also, I was amused that Indiana had named himself after the dog, and his son goes and names himself a dog. HEH. And since Mutt did it without having a clue about Indiana, I'm guessing some sort of screw-loose gene. :D
Marian was funny, and the ending was cheesy, but fun cheesy.
I'm not really sold on the whole alien thing, though. When at first they were in Area 51, I thought for sure the alien stuff would be a red herring, and we'd come to find out all this stuff was really something else. But, nope. Aliens. Somehow Indiana Jones with aliens seems weird. Ancient religious mysticism? Great! Big grey aliens? Hmm.
Two more things - the movie started out with prairie dogs. *amused for my own reasons* And I like the psych-out of the passing-the-hat at the end. No one's quite ready for that yet, junior. :D (Although...I could be interested enough to at least try a movie with Shia LaBeouf down the road.)