DLP with the Baloos Day 4

[davewasbaloo]

We had breakfast in the Manhatten Restaurant, followed by another morning in the Studios.

Tried the ToT and loved it. Same with Stitch, even better than Turtle Talk (and me made friends with a lovely dutch family of AP holders). We enjoyed Animagique as usual, and the kids loved the Animation exhibit (I still cry during the montage - so stupid, I know).

They were trialling Crush Fastpass, which was aweful - stand by waits at nearly 3 hours for it and while Sarah queued for 25 min for fastpasses, the time zipped by nearly 4 hours. It meant we could not use the 3:30 slots as we had 4pm reservations. It also drove the wait times for Cars up to an hour and the Carpets were at 45 min (same level crowds before FP the couple of days before - those were 25 and 10 mins respectively). If this isn't a sign that FP is evil, I don't know what is.

We had some good character encounters, and then went to the Steakhouse for dinner. Once again it was sublime, and Patrick was serving. You see he is quite important to us, as on Mikey's first trip to DLP age 12 weeks, Patrick made a huge fuss over us, and put bread plates by Mikey to give him mouse ears (you may remember the photos). He also held him while we ate our main course to give us some piece. Well he remembered us!!!! So cool. and gave Jessie some free ice cream. So nice.

It was a great meal, we then shopped in the Village and headed back for a swim and an early night.

Here are the pics:

http://www.kodakgallery.co.uk/I.jsp?...localeid=en_GB

[pussnboots]

Originally Posted by davewasbaloo

[...] and the kids loved the Animation exhibit (I still cry during the montage - so stupid, I know).

So do I. Tell no one.

[davewasbaloo]

A sign of a true piece of art huh?

[pussnboots]

Originally Posted by davewasbaloo

A sign of a true piece of art huh?

Of course. And they did a very good job editing it all together. Here's a tip: Sit in the back, in the disabled section. Sure, it's not really politically correct, but in the unlikely event that a dozen disabled people should come wheeling in, you will obviously stand up. The good part is that no one can see you when you lose it over a cartoon deer.

[nathan detroit]

Now then, I cry too BUT not at the Bambi bit. This is because the child providing Bambi's dubbed voice (can't remember if its French or German) doesn't do it justice. My tear ducts don't work due to this pedantic point!
I get very emotional at the beginning of the tour when in the presence of an actual multi-plane camera. Of course this is counter-acted by the bizarre choice to dub Roy Disney into French and add English subs!
Art of Animation - you giveth and then taketh away!

[TDLFAN]

Baloo.. don't you think that it's quite terrible that using Fastpass puts you in the uncomfortable position of having to "choose" what to do and what to sacrifice so you can enjoy your day?
Another reason why FP is flawed and needs to go.

Also, with all those fabulous pics of the food you had for this day... I am amazed DanYoung has not popped in this topic yet!!

[davewasbaloo]

fastpass is evil, pure and simple.

as for Dan, he doesn't tend to venture very often into DLP areas, does he? But if he's reading, just to annoy him - the food at DLP is better than most places at WDW!

[TDLFAN]

That Danno needs to get himself a girlfriend and and stay off WDW bad restaurants. I agree that DLP has a great selection of food options... but Baloo.. wait until you experience the vast array of food offered at both of the TDR parks. Problem there is... by japanese standards, the food portions are small.

fastpass is evil, pure and simple

I am sorry, I didn't quite hear what you said there... can you say that louder and more frequently on these boards?

[davewasbaloo]

Originally Posted by TDLFAN

That Danno needs to get himself a girlfriend and and stay off WDW bad restaurants. I agree that DLP has a great selection of food options... but Baloo.. wait until you experience the vast array of food offered at both of the TDR parks. Problem there is... by japanese standards, the food portions are small.



I am sorry, I didn't quite hear what you said there... can you say that louder and more frequently on these boards?

I am more of a quality over quantity guy, so I am looking forward to tasting my way around TDL.

BTW - Fastpass is EVIL