The Forbidden Eye's Calm before the Storm Trip Report 1/16/2010

Hi everyone, welcome to another TR! Note that I'm still in the process in uploading my pics so this will most likley be photo heavy. I just have one concern though.

I'm going to cover my Oprea House visits and I took pics of the Lincoln AA. Now officialy, no one was suppose to take pics during the show. But the CM said no Flash Photography so I don't know what the official stance is. Anyway, I'll still post the pics of it and that'll be the only time I'll do it.

Part one coming up soon.

Note: My pics are currently unviewable at the moment due to bandwith being exceeded. It won't clear until the 28th I believe. My slideshow of my trip can be viewed at the third page. I apologize for the inconvience.

Part One

I arrived at Disneyland around 9AM. I went to Indy first as usual. The first time around, the line was only 10-15 minutes and it didn't warrant a single rider pass use. I then went to the Haunted Mansion. The line was 5 minutes. And no. No Hatbox Ghost.

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Then I went to Fantasyland and decided to go on Peter Pan. I clocked the line at 30 even though the posted time was 20.

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Opera House Part A coming up

great stuff so far. nice pic of pans ships :-)

Opera house Part A

So before I went to the Opra House, I went to have some lunch at Rancho Del Zocalo. Then i went to Big Thunder Mountain. The wait was 10 minutes.

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Then I decided to go to the Oprea House.

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Discovered this new picture in the pre-show lobby. It was put in Friday night.

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And it's Walt Disney as a Kid!

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More coming Up!

Doesn't seem too busy for a Saturday (with a convention).

that picture of the two walts is awesome. i'm currently reading Neal Gabler's biography of walt and it's riveting stuff!

More Opera House pics.

So I mentioned that I took pics of the Lincoln AA during the show. Now, I still don't know what the idea is of each CM differenating from "No Photography" to "No Flash Photography" even though the official rule is no photos. Well, I got the latter and decided to try it only once and thats it. So enjoy these pics of the new A. Lincoln.

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As I was leaving the Oprea House for now, I discovered that new potraits were put in the Post Show Area over the past several weeks.

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Then I discovered the first attraction poster for Lincoln. Not sure if this is the actual one or a replica.

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Next segment of this TR coming up!

Great pictures!

Great pictures! I love the one of Walt as a kid, and also the Great Moments ones. Good job! Thanks once again for sharing!

Disney Character Craziness (Including PH first round and PFF)
So after that, I walked around for a bit.

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I then headed to PH early than usual. I waited at least 10-15 minutes. Now the odd thing was, as Dan said after I met up with him after the first round, they were short on fairies so only, Silvermist, Terence and Tink were out for the day. No 4th fairy was present. When I went in, it was just Tink and Terence.

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After that, I was about to go to PFF when i ran into Dan. I decided to join him at Coke Corner where we watched the Musical Chairs thing over there.

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Bert Stopped by.

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After it was done, we headed to PFF. The line was really kind of short. I clocked it around 25-30 minutes. We were joined by a former Micechatter while we were waiting.

When we went in, we first saw Aurora.

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Then Snow White. Dan was hoping we would see her on the account that he had his poison apple.

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Then we saw Mulan.

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We then parted ways because Dan had to work.

More coming up!

great pictures! Can't wait for more!

I love the Alice pictures!

Pixie Hollow Round Two and Oprea House Round Two

After I splitted with Dan, I went to IJA for a quick spin.

Used the Single Rider line.

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Heres the Hidden Mickey in the Office.

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I then went to the Oprea House for some quick pics since I had time before PH closed for the day.

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One of the best shows DIsney has ever created (saying that since WOC will bump F! to #2 once it debuts.)

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Left the Oprea House before the next show began. I then made my way to PH where I chatted with some Character Hosts that I know. Then it was time to go in.

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Maybe it's time to keep an eye on the plants around this figure since it looks like that will engulf it soon.

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Silvermist was out this time and signed my book that I brought with me again. Now that just leaves Iridessa and Rosetta.

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Then I went to Tink. We did our pic behind the Fall Scepter and with the Book I had.

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Heres the scan of Sil's Autograph. Located on the top left.

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Then went to the Photo Store to pick up a pic from the first round.

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Disney's California Adventure Coming Up!

so you do ride the rides!! i thought it was only a rumor ;)

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Originally Posted by GummiBears_Rock

so you do ride the rides!! i thought it was only a rumor ;)

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Rumor? LOL

Last Minute DL Tasks.

So I was going to leave when the fireworks started so I decided to hit DCA to wrap up the night. Before that though, I went to IJA via DLRR via NOS.

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At the photo shop. Pics below are at the DLRR MSUSA Station.

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After that, then I headed to DCA. Oh, and I saw Tony Baxter and the Sherman Bros! No pics with them though. Thats alright. I didn't want to disturb them.

At DCA, I took a quick peak at BSC.

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The POM

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Went to Midway Mania! to see my sister at work then hit MFW.

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Taken mere secends before my gondola swung!

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Then, I made my towards: THE TWLIGHT ZONE

Now, Picture if you will............ I was the last rider for the night.

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This is me hanging on for dear life!

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"The next time you check into a deserted hotel, make sure you know what vacancy you're filling. Or you might just end up going to.........The Twlight Zone"

THE END (For real, thats basically the end.)