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radmooseLast week my BearCub invited me over for a few days. Unfortunatly, he had to work. On his way to work, he dropped my off at "Disneyland Resort" so I could hang out ther for the day. I have an AP so it didn't cost me anything to go.
Had a pretty good time for being there alone.
Throughout the day I helped people take pictures so ALL of the family could be in them. That was fun ( and I gave out a "Make Someone Smile" Akola card.)
Due to the on and off rain, the parks were not crowded and the longest rides were still 30 minutes or less. (Yes, Splash Mountain was operating as well the Big River Run at DCA) I skipped Indiana Jones earlier as it was 30 minutes and later when I walked by, it was posted as "10 minutes" but that was probably the amount of time it took to walk to get to the car. We walked all the way to the film, where they stopped us for what seemed like 30 seconds and then we were over to boarding the car. (On the way, I did stop to push the pole. Also went out of teh way to go pull the rope and when I did the group of people around cheered.. it was kinda funny, and they they all insisted that I get back in line where I was (as about 30 people passed)
The "Christmas" parade was a big disappointment... to even the cast members. Due to 'inclement weather' they changed the parade.
I was walking back into Disneyland (DL) after being over at California Adventure (DCA) and just after I walked thru the gates I saw a couple cast members just staring thru the tunnel. Their supervisoor came over and said something like "Why did you stop?" They pointed thru the tunnel and the supervisor said, "Oh, that is the Cavelcade of Christmas" and they all laughed.
As I walked thru the tunnel I saw the 'parade.'
Santa and Mrs. Clause in the red 'fire truck,' Mickey and Minnie in the 'yellow coach' and about a dozen cast members and characters hanging out in the 'green double-decker bus.'
People had been lining up for over an hour to see that. They had roped off the parade route as usual and have dozens of cast members in black jackets lining the route. All of the visitors just had this dazed look on their face. One kid that I walked by said "That was it? We waited for THAT?!"
As I got to the other end of Main Street, a group of cast members were standing around, kinda looking disappointed themselves. One of them said as I walked by "After that, If I had spent $300 to take my family to Disneyland, I would want a refund." Another cast member hit him and told him to be quiet.
The transformation of the castle was ok, and the 'snow' was kinda lame since it was so cold the 'snow' (aka soapy things) clumped together and it looked like big clumps of soap. One person standing right beneath the 'snow' machine was covered in teh stuff. I walked thru the castle helping people take pictures again and saw that the Sleeping Beauty walkthrough was open again, so I went thru that. On my way out I was going to go thru the back way to the Haunted Mansion but decided I wanted to get a churro (the line was longer than the rides earlier.) I am so glad that I did.
As I walked by past the Storybook boats and Matterhorn for the churro,music started blasting from the speakers down the road to It's A Small World, and then the christmas lights all over IASM came on, and proceeded to flicker and then go out along with the music sounding like a malfunction. Hundreds (if not thousands) of people just stood there. Then all of a sudden music at high speed starts and video is projected on top of the facade for IASM giving 'life' to all of the parts of it. It is hard to discribe, but each 'part' has it's own video going as well as large animation across the face.. and then building up to a big flash and all the lights came on. It was amazing to see and a great surprise.
I am glad I went to go get the churro. I didn't know about this nor ever heard about it before. It wasn't on any of the schedules or anything. (About 5:30pm) Honestly, that was the biggest surprise that I have had at DL in years. It was very cool.
Later that night, before the BearCub picked me up, I was stuck on the train for about 45 minutes as well as in the Monorail. I did get to sit in the back 'pod' of the new Monorail, so that was kinda fun.
My BearCub asked me to go on Space Mountain as that is his favorite ride. So I made sure that I did even though I was really tired. Since I was tired, bored and well, a moger, I had some 'fun' on the ride. The lady in front of me kept going "Whoop!" at almost every turn and bump. It was annoying in a way yet funny. She was there with her husband and two kids. They seemed to have been on it a few times. So, again, being a moger, I decided that I would um, "moose" her =P As we came to the part where the picture is taken, they smiled and looked at the camera, and I put up my hands making moose antlers on her head. Yup, she was moosed!
As we left, I knew that I could easily be recognized and well, I wasn't sure how she (or her family) would take it, so I got out of there quick but close enough to see her reaction. They came out and were looking at the monitors when she saw it, and she screamed! and then started doing this choking laugh.. .laughing so hard that she propbably did pee, and then the rest of the family saw it and were laughing too. Everyone stopped around there and walked over to see and started smiling or laughing.
"My work is done here." I just smiled and walked on.
Had a pretty good time for being there alone.
Throughout the day I helped people take pictures so ALL of the family could be in them. That was fun ( and I gave out a "Make Someone Smile" Akola card.)
Due to the on and off rain, the parks were not crowded and the longest rides were still 30 minutes or less. (Yes, Splash Mountain was operating as well the Big River Run at DCA) I skipped Indiana Jones earlier as it was 30 minutes and later when I walked by, it was posted as "10 minutes" but that was probably the amount of time it took to walk to get to the car. We walked all the way to the film, where they stopped us for what seemed like 30 seconds and then we were over to boarding the car. (On the way, I did stop to push the pole. Also went out of teh way to go pull the rope and when I did the group of people around cheered.. it was kinda funny, and they they all insisted that I get back in line where I was (as about 30 people passed)
The "Christmas" parade was a big disappointment... to even the cast members. Due to 'inclement weather' they changed the parade.
I was walking back into Disneyland (DL) after being over at California Adventure (DCA) and just after I walked thru the gates I saw a couple cast members just staring thru the tunnel. Their supervisoor came over and said something like "Why did you stop?" They pointed thru the tunnel and the supervisor said, "Oh, that is the Cavelcade of Christmas" and they all laughed.
As I walked thru the tunnel I saw the 'parade.'
Santa and Mrs. Clause in the red 'fire truck,' Mickey and Minnie in the 'yellow coach' and about a dozen cast members and characters hanging out in the 'green double-decker bus.'
People had been lining up for over an hour to see that. They had roped off the parade route as usual and have dozens of cast members in black jackets lining the route. All of the visitors just had this dazed look on their face. One kid that I walked by said "That was it? We waited for THAT?!"
As I got to the other end of Main Street, a group of cast members were standing around, kinda looking disappointed themselves. One of them said as I walked by "After that, If I had spent $300 to take my family to Disneyland, I would want a refund." Another cast member hit him and told him to be quiet.
The transformation of the castle was ok, and the 'snow' was kinda lame since it was so cold the 'snow' (aka soapy things) clumped together and it looked like big clumps of soap. One person standing right beneath the 'snow' machine was covered in teh stuff. I walked thru the castle helping people take pictures again and saw that the Sleeping Beauty walkthrough was open again, so I went thru that. On my way out I was going to go thru the back way to the Haunted Mansion but decided I wanted to get a churro (the line was longer than the rides earlier.) I am so glad that I did.
As I walked by past the Storybook boats and Matterhorn for the churro,music started blasting from the speakers down the road to It's A Small World, and then the christmas lights all over IASM came on, and proceeded to flicker and then go out along with the music sounding like a malfunction. Hundreds (if not thousands) of people just stood there. Then all of a sudden music at high speed starts and video is projected on top of the facade for IASM giving 'life' to all of the parts of it. It is hard to discribe, but each 'part' has it's own video going as well as large animation across the face.. and then building up to a big flash and all the lights came on. It was amazing to see and a great surprise.
I am glad I went to go get the churro. I didn't know about this nor ever heard about it before. It wasn't on any of the schedules or anything. (About 5:30pm) Honestly, that was the biggest surprise that I have had at DL in years. It was very cool.
Later that night, before the BearCub picked me up, I was stuck on the train for about 45 minutes as well as in the Monorail. I did get to sit in the back 'pod' of the new Monorail, so that was kinda fun.
My BearCub asked me to go on Space Mountain as that is his favorite ride. So I made sure that I did even though I was really tired. Since I was tired, bored and well, a moger, I had some 'fun' on the ride. The lady in front of me kept going "Whoop!" at almost every turn and bump. It was annoying in a way yet funny. She was there with her husband and two kids. They seemed to have been on it a few times. So, again, being a moger, I decided that I would um, "moose" her =P As we came to the part where the picture is taken, they smiled and looked at the camera, and I put up my hands making moose antlers on her head. Yup, she was moosed!
As we left, I knew that I could easily be recognized and well, I wasn't sure how she (or her family) would take it, so I got out of there quick but close enough to see her reaction. They came out and were looking at the monitors when she saw it, and she screamed! and then started doing this choking laugh.. .laughing so hard that she propbably did pee, and then the rest of the family saw it and were laughing too. Everyone stopped around there and walked over to see and started smiling or laughing.
"My work is done here." I just smiled and walked on.
