Tuesday – November 14
Disneyland Day!
Woke up early to hop on the Disney Resort Line to get in the queue to Tokyo Disneyland. It wasn’t as crowded as I thought it would be. While we waited, I tried to get on the app to get our tickets. There was bad reception, and I couldn’t get into the app, I wasn’t the only one that was having issues, there were a lot of people with their phones up in the air to get reception. Luckily, I had access to my email folders, so I was able to get our ticket QR codes there.
Once we got in, we got breakfast at the Great American Waffle Co., where we got Mickey waffles with a strawberry cream and syrup. It was a popular place, which had a long line by the time we go there.
I purchased a Premier pass for the Enchanted Tale of Beauty and the Beast. This is my favorite ride of the park. You ride a teacup, it is trackless ride, so you move all around the ride to see different scenes from the movie. The best parts were Be our Guest and the Transformation, but overall, the whole ride was quite impressive.
Throughout the day we rode:
Haunted Mansion – It had the Nightmare Before Christmas overlay like they do in the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim.
Its’ a Small World – very colorful backdrop, ride similar to Disneyland Resort in Anaheim with characters from the movies worked in throughout the ride. One thing we noticed was that the rides seem to go faster than both DL and WDW.
Pirates of the Caribbean – Red is still there!
Castle Carrousel – no Jingles, or I missed him!
Snow White’s Adventures – Still has the original ride story, where the last scene was the hag trying to lodge the boulder down to the dwarfs.
Pooh’s Hunny Hunt – The queue was really cute, it made you think that you are travelling into the book. The ride is also trackless. It was well done.
Space Mountain – Pretty much like the WDW version.
The Happy Ride with Baymax – Totally did not disappoint. It is like Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree at DL and Alien Swirling Saucers at WDW. But what makes this one special is that everyone gets into it, the ride attendees and guests waiting in the sidelines.
We had lunch at the Queen of Heart Banquet Hall. It was a cafeteria type restaurant. You enter the space, and you are transported to the queen’s garden where all the flowers are tall and was Alice in Wonderland themed.
Went to Big Pop, which is located right next to the Baymax ride to get my popcorn bucket and get the caramel popcorn. Decided on the Monsters Inc. bucket, almost forgot to get the Mickey tongs but Rick reminded me.
We took our photo in front of the castle, Tokyo Disneyland is celebrating it’s 40th year, so it was decorated for the celebration. When we went through the castle there was a shop on the side, where we got our statue for the trip, it is by the same artist that did Dumbo that we got at Shanghai Disney, it is Jimny Cricket with his conscious badge.
Got a fuzzy Mickey bucket hat, that came in handy because it was a little chilly at the park.
We found seating for the Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights right across Toon Town. Everyone on the sidewalk sat down, so we had a great view of the parade.
When the parade ended we went to the front of the castle to find a place for to view the fireworks “Sky Full of Colors.” We were disappointed with the fireworks, the castle just had lights, no projection lighting. The fireworks was to the left side of the castle, which I figured out that Disneyland and DisneySea shared the same fireworks.
After the fireworks we went to the shops, and didn’t stay too long because it was crowded and we were tired.
The park closed at 9:00, even though it closes early than the U.S. parks I felt we accomplished a lot during the day. There were a few rides that we didn’t go on, but it was the same as the ones in Disneyland Anaheim. The only ride that I wanted to go on was Monsters Inc. Hide and Seek, but it wasn’t running that day. People say that is the same as the Monsters Inc ride in Disneyland Anaheim, but with an added feature, which you have a flashlight and when you point it at a trigger something pops up.
We took the Disney Resort Line back to Bayside Station and walked back to our hotel. We got some drinks at the vending machine by the elevators on our floor and retired for the night.
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