Jakes' Disneyland Update SuperThread!

[Jake]

Welcome to the first (unless my other PTR is moved into this thread) of many Disneyland Resort updates! Brought to you by, who else? Me!

Lets get started, shall we?
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Some workers were replacing concrete tiles in the main plaza.

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I hit up DCA first, and this is what it looked like at opening. Heck. Yes.

With dreams of getting marathon action on California Screamin' I was dismayed - but not surprised at the sight of this..

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What a shock, closed again!

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I ran over to MalliB00mer, it was a walk on. Got four rides, this ride offers great views.

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Toy Story Mania is looking great! The smell of paint was in the air as I walked by.

I don't have any pictures but I was able to score five rides on Mullholland Madness, and three rides on Tower of Terror in less than an hour. Life is gooood.

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Welcome to Disneyland!

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The Castle looks a-mazing.

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It's a Small World is decked out for Christmas.

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I hit up Roger Rabbit's CarToon Spin.

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I love this ride.

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To close this update a slightly blurry picture of Sleeping Beauty's Castle at night.

Thanks for reading!

[Dan]

Nice update...glad to see Toy Story Mania is progressing well, I can't wait for it to open!

[Top Thrill Dragster]

WOW :eek:, the castle looks absolutely beautiful! Nice update.

[Jake]

Thanks guys.

^^ Yes, its coming along quite nicely. I know you can't tell from the picture, but it looks like they're moving on to some of the finishing touches of the attraction!

^ It does look absolutely beautiful, especially while the fireworks are going off.

[antcat]

That last picture is awesome. The castle looks AMAZING lit up at night! Toy Story also looks like it's coming along nicely. Nice update!

[Jake]

Thanks :).

I'll be going again on Monday, don't expect a full on PTR (I'll be with some General Public friends), but I will update you on this PeopleMover rumor that's floating around!

[zburns999]

That last picture is sick. Is the castle decorated this way every year?

[Brandon]

That last picture is sick. Is the castle decorated this way every year?

No, this was the first year that Disney put the lighting nets on the castle to achieve the winter ice and icesickle look. This was the first year WDWR's Magic Kingdom got this type of holiday decoration as well.


Very nice update Jake. I cant wait to see your upcoming update on Monday. It should be intresting if these construction walls that have been "showing up every so often" are there again on Monday. If you want to attempt to get some good shots of the tunnel that these construction walls have been showing up, just let me know. I'll help you find good positions. :)

Also, you might want to get a few shots of Toy Story Mania. The tarps are starting to come down finally. :D

[Jake]

Thanks guys.

I'll see what I can do, I'll get my nerd on and check out the track from Space Mountain's queue. My GP friend is bound to want to ride it... ugh.

Toy Story Mania will most definitely be updated :).

Anything else?

[Jake]

Alright, my update has been posted on the main site..

http://www.rollercoasterpro.com/updates/dlr12.25.07/

Check it out.

[Jake]

I'll be taking a trip to the park on Thursday.

I probably wont take too many pictures, but we'll see.

[Batman: The Member]

I can't believe that California Screamin was closed again! Is it ever open?!

[ArrowOwnzU]

It opens up at 1 every day.

[Jake]

^ ...Sure it does. ;)

Welcome to my first Disneyland update of the new year!

We start our visit in the Happiest Place on Earth, Disneyland.

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This will be my last day to ride the Haunted Mansion Holiday until next year.. :(

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The holiday decorations will start to come down after Sunday.

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The River Belle Terrace is now open.

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You'll see an up close and personal view of Pirates Lair later on!

On to California Adventure!

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The touch screens are now gone, and you have to order the old fashioned way again.. (Taste Pilots Grill)

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Progress continues on the new section for the Grand Californian hotel

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That's right! California Screamin' is FINALLY open.

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A little look behind the magic walls of Toy Story Mania.

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This attraction is looking GREAT!

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It's been ages since they've run the purple train!

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One last look at Toy Story Mania.

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California Screamin' was running as good as it usually does.. in other words, it was just fine.

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A new facade for the Hollywood Pictures Backlot.

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Back to Disneyland!

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Star Tours managed to pull in a one hour line all day, which in my mind is NUTS.

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A Canadian marching band played at the start of the parade.

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The start of the parade.

While I have plenty of parade pictures, I'll just show a couple more..

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Scary Snowmen.

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Santa closes the parade.. woo.

I finally decided to check out "Pirates Lair" on the formerly Tom Sawyers Island. I had some doubts going into it, but I was very impressed by what I saw! The caves were extremely well done, and there was plenty in there to keep everyone entertained. I saw "Captain Jack Sparrow" and I have to say the actor did an AMAZING job.

Some pictures..

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A huge swinging bridge.

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Some more of the island.

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Seem familiar?

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And to close this update, a shot of Fantasmic!

Thanks for reading!

[Jake]

Thanks, and your probably right.

I'll be going (again!) on Friday! So expect yet another update from me this weekend.

[ArrowOwnzU]

Heh, I'll be there on Friday as well. So expect an update from me as well. You've got some competition Jake.

[Jake]

A little competition never hurt anybody, right? ;)

I'll be wearing my maverick sweatshirt, have blonde hair and will look nerdy! If you see me, come say hi, cause I'll probably be alone.

[ArrowOwnzU]

Yeah that's pretty nerdy. I'll probably be wearing something normal, but at least you don't have some hanson hair like JD71. But yeah, If I see you I'll make fun of you or something.

[Jake]

^ Sounds good, I can't wait ;).

Yeah, my hair doesn't go past my neck :p.

[Jake]

Excuse the double post...

I'm going again tonight for a little while, so.. yup.

Welcome to yet another Disneyland Resort update, from yours truly.

We start our adventures in, where else? Disney's California Adventure!

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California Screamin' was open, and it was only 12:00pm... so I suppose that they will no longer need to keep it closed until 1pm.

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Toy Story Mania's Walls have been moved.

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Excuse the poor quality, the zoom on my camera isn't very good.

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The ride is looking fantastic.

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Another shot

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Moving over to the other side of the construction walls.

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I can't wait to ride this..

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Or at the very least for these darn walls to be taken down.

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The crane is still.. craning.

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Ooo reflections!

Well that's enough of California Adventure.. time to go to the Magic Kingdom.

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The lights have been taken off the castle. But the flocking remains.

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Refurbishment is going on at the Mad Teacup ride.. thing.. The wonderful smell of unleaded paint was in the air!

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The Haunted Mansion.. is down.. to take away the Nightmare stuff.. :(.

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I guess they were working on replacing the.. top things..

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The all new Dreams Suite is under construction as we speak.

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The magic pole in Indiana Jones is back!

So I decided to check out Innoventions, because I hadn't been in there for a while.. As soon as I stepped in, I remembered why.

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So boring.. nothing to do..

Basically a good amount of the building was shut off because of "Project tomorrow". So it consisted of a few things. A place where you can play some stitch video games. A big room with a guy driving around on a segway, and a miriad of body functional.. stuff.. It was all very limited, and very boring.

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The outside of this building is being refurbished - but you can still shop during all of this madness!

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And to close this update, Sleeping Beauty's Castle at night.


Thanks for reading!

[sheikra182]

Nice job on the PTR Jake, it looks very good. It's also good to see Screamin running at a earlier time now. Not to much longer until TSM is open.

[Jake]

Thanks.

Yes, I'm hoping it opens up before summer.

[sheikra182]

Well everything looks to be on schedual with the ride so you never know it may open before summer. Best part about TSM has got to be the fact that it will help decrease the lines of some rides in DCA.

[Curly]

^I'm thinking the opposite.

With more people being brought into DCA to get on 'tEh T0Y St0Ry' ride, it'll increase the number of people in the park which I believe will make for an increase in queue times for just about every popular attraction in the park.

[Dan]

Well everything looks to be on schedual with the ride so you never know it may open before summer. Best part about TSM has got to be the fact that it will help decrease the lines of some rides in DCA.If you've ever been to a ride opening, you would know that this, while in theory plausible, just isn't correct. As Carlos said, it just draws more people into the park. Nobody's going to spend an entire day in Toy Story Mania.

[Jake]

So it's been over a month, but I'm going to Disneyland tomorrow! Expect an update and the like.

[Jake]

My trip report should be up by tomorrow, but in the mean time I filmed the fireworks on the night I was there. Waited an hour and a half for the spot as well..

So you can either check out the two part youtube version here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=6uIeNDosajI) and here (http://youtube.com/watch?v=exdyH21TtgE). Or you can go here (http://www.amusementcast.com/users/jake/video/fireworks.zip) to download the "condensed" but higher quality version. The original file is nearly two gigs, obviously a little too big for my server.

Anyway, enjoy!

[Jake]

So I went to Disneyland last night, but did not bring my camera. However some things I noticed..


Toy Story Mania looks completed.
The goat on Big Thunder is back.
And I could be wrong, but it appeared they were testing a new monorail. However I only got a glance.. so can anyone confirm this?


That's about it, but I had a great visit. It was good to get that Knott's "taste" out of my mouth ;).

[rollercoasterfreak91]

If it was the red monorail you saw, then yes, there's video footage of it testing on youtube. If you saw one of the other ones, then they're new.

[coastermatt]

I can't see the pictures, is it just me...

[disneylhand]

It's just a trip report . . .

-disneylhand

[Jake]

I didn't have my camera.. so it was just text, sorry.

I was planning to go today, but some stuff came up. Ah well, maybe after spring break is over.

[JD71]

http://www.rollercoasterpro.com/community/showpost.php?p=8446&postcount=14
I think he's talking about this.

[Jake]

Ah, yes. My server got deleted, so I lost all of those pictures.

[coastermatt]

http://www.rollercoasterpro.com/community/showpost.php?p=8446&postcount=14
I think he's talking about this.

Yeah...maybe you should edit the posts? :ohmy:

[Jake]

Are you even reading my posts? I lost all the data on that server, so I no longer have those pictures. And to be honest, I don't feel like going back and deleting all those posts.

[coastermatt]

Oh, I thought you'd have backups of the pictures. Yeah I am reading your posts...

[Jake]

I'm going on Monday, expect an update of some sort.

[Jake]

Here's my update, it's a little longer then most, enjoy.

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Welcome to the Disneyland Resort… oh jeez.. it looks crowded already.

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This looks.. promising.. not.

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This tram is different then most at the resort.

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Oh, the lines aren’t so bad at all!

We went to Indiana Jones to snag some fast passes, in order to maximize our ride time.

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The dreams suite above Pirates of the Caribbean

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The first stop of the day, and my personal favorite, Haunted Mansion!

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Ah! A ghost! Oh.. wait, it’s just a flash.

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One of the stretching portraits in the elevator. I bought a deck of cards where all the face cards were one of the four portraits! And for only five dollars! Gee.. I’m a sucker.

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One of the infamous bat chain knobs. They look pretty cool, actually!

After our ride on the Haunted Mansion we strolled over to the Pirates of the Caribbean. We then got a fastpass for Splash Mountain.

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One of several “Mountains” to be found on the resort, a fantastic log flume.

After we got a couple of fastpasses we went to use our passes for Indiana Jones. Sadly, I didn’t take any pictures of our favorite adventurer, so on to the Jungle Cruise to burn some time while waiting to ride Splash Mountain!

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All bow to the ancient elephant god!

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This is new since the last time I rode, a cool sequence actually. There is an explosion over near the cans of gasoline, followed by a cheesy Cast Member line.

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It’s the backside of water!

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A one of a kind, elephant.. except.. not.

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Animal activists complained due to the terrible ear wiggling disease that has infected all the Hippos!

Well after a ride on Splash Mountain (No photos as I had my camera in the backpack to keep it dry. So over to Big Thunder Mountain Railroad we go!

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Big Thunder signage.

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The finale here used to be much cooler, if I remember correctly.

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The mountain of Big Thunder.

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Big Thunder has a great train, very well themed.

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The second lifthill of the ride, the ride utilizes three lift hills for multiple show sequences I believe. Someone correct me if I am mistaken.

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There is some decent airtime on this ride. Well, for a Disney attraction at least! ;)

After our spin on Big Thunder we decided to go ride the Matterhorn, in order to finish up our rounds of the park!

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My favorite mountain at the park, the Matterhorn!

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This paint scheme seems so.. 1970 to me.

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“May the power of Christ compel you!” (He’s exorcizing the Arrow from this attraction)

After we rode the Matterhorn, it was time to head over to Disneyland’s younger sibling that no one likes, California Adventure! Yay!

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They were running at max capacity over at California Screamin’. This train is about to launch.

Now on to the Toy Story Mania update portion of this trip report.

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The building is looking great!

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Another look.

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There will be a gift shop at the exit of this attraction.

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The logo for this attraction, a little small, but it gets the point across, right?

At this point we had gotten a fastpass for California Screamin’ and we’re off to tour the rest of the park.

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This ride is great, but lacks in popularity.

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We walked to Mullholland Madness and hopped into the twenty minutes queue.

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The work is moving along for the added rooms for the Grand Californian hotel.

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An interesting map attached to the side of the ride.

After we took a spin on California Screamin’ (we saw the Toy Story Mania vehicles testing) we headed back to Disneyland. After spending an hour trying to find something to eat on main street (due to indecision on my brothers and I’s part) we met up with the rest of our family at Indiana Jones.

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They want your blood. But your first born would be good too!

After a few more re-rides and a cancellation of the fireworks it was just about time to head home.

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The secret to surviving a shark attack, revealed!

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To infinity and.. dorks..

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Main Street all lit up pretty :D.

And that was our day at the Disneyland Resort! I had a lot of fun, as usual and hope to go back soon. Thanks for reading!

[Jake]

I'll be going to Disneyland tomorrow, and a week from tomorrow. I'll finally get to ride Toy Story Mania, and check out the Indiana Jones show. Score! :)

[Jake]

So, for those curious I posted my Toy Story Mania review right here. (http://www.coasterdom.com)

And I caught a bit of the Indiana Jones show, and must say it wasn't that great. No sound effects, very cheesy dialogue, although the stunts were pretty well executed.

I'll be there tomorrow and hopefully take more pictures.

[Steelinwood]

Your lucky to be there, I have to wait till next april to go with my school.

[Brandon]

So, for those curious I posted my Toy Story Mania review right here. (http://www.coasterdom.com)

And I caught a bit of the Indiana Jones show, and must say it wasn't that great. No sound effects, very cheesy dialogue, although the stunts were pretty well executed.

I'll be there tomorrow and hopefully take more pictures.

I'm sorry, but, isnt that spam if you just post a link?

It would be nice if you posted a little more here instead of a link to Coasterdom, and a two sentence review of the Indy stunt show. Coasterdom ad's here: http://www.rcprocommunity.com/showthread.php?t=441

[Jake]

Call it what you will, I didn't have many pictures of the ride to post. So, I don't know what you wanted to see. Either way expect pictures tomorrow. I'm getting on the tram now.

[thedeadfrog]

We then got a fastpass for Splash Mountain.

Why? If memory serves me right, Splash mountain is the only ride in Disneyland[NOT CA] that still has a single rider line...

[Jake]

Because some people like to ride with their group. Besides the fastpss line moves quicker than the single rider line anyway. I'm getting the pictures ready for uploading now, and I should have the trip report/update up tonight, if not earlier. :)

[Jake]

As I said, here is my trip report from Monday, enjoy :).

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It's the year...years.. of a million dreams at the Disneyland Resort. Since obviously Disney couldn't come up with a more clever advertising scheme. Sad.

So we started off our day at Disney's California Adventure park, as we didn't get to the resort until ten.

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Paradise Pier, chilling.

Our first stop (Our refers to my Sister and I, always a pet peeve of mine when people say "we" but don't specify who that is exactly.) was Toy Story Mania of course!

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Taken while in line for Toy Story Mania.

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The Toy Story Mania/Midway Mania/Whatever the official name is logo.

Only a forty minute wait for the ride, always worth it.

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This is where the cars go to enter the actual show building.

Always a great ride, I got a score of around 170,000. I still haven't broken the 200,000 barrier, but I'm getting there.

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Next up was California Screamin' with a twenty minute wait, although the digital clock never really turns out in the pictures..

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Excuse the blur, but who would like to guess what this "seat" is?

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So close to being perfect.. ah well.

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One of the new "restaurants" on the pier.

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Looking back at the now Toy Story Mania dominated Paradise Pier.

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I ate lunch here, it's not that expensive and the food is pretty darn good!

On our way out of the park, after riding Toy Story Mania, Tower of Terror and California Screamin' we bumped into a family of four that had been awarded Dream Fastpasses earlier in the day. They had two young kids, and said they couldn't use the rest of the tabs on the pass, so they gave them to us! So this is what we got...

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Booyah!

We decided to use the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad fastpass first, and then we headed over to..

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Splash Mountain! Skipping a sixty minute wait, and instead waiting about five minutes. I can dig it.

We didn't get too wet, not complaints there. Although it was a bit warm out, that heavily chlorinated water feels really gross.

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Next up, the Haunted Mansion, which goes down for the Holiday overlay very soon.

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Then we hit up Pirates of the Caribbean. Only a fifteen minute wait, as usual. This picture looks "up" the stairs that lead to the Disneyland Dreams Suite.

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Boat number one! I thought this was picture worthy, as there are over fifty boats in all - I believe.

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Indiana Jones was having some major technical difficulties earlier in the day, so we had to save that tab for later. Lame.

We had a tab for Roger Rabbit as well, so we went over to check it out. Sadly, when we got there it was broken down as well. Not to be discouraged by this, my brother and I (Batman: The Member) went back to California Adventure so that he could get on Toy Story Mania.

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Back again!

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Getting there, although the lighting isn't that nice.

A much shorter wait this time, only twenty minutes! We rode twice, once in the regular line, and once using the single rider line. They led to about the same wait, although less walking was involved in the single rider line.

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After Toy Story Mania twice, and California Screamin' once (We used our tab for that ride, although that was the only one we used in California Adventure.)

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The family had used this tab, so no Soarin' today! The wait wasn't all that long, but we were late for dinner as it is.

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Back in Disneyland, now to the Mexican food place.. I can't recall the name.

I don't take many night pictures, but here is what happened the rest of the evening.

After dinner I went to the Haunted Mansion once again, and than to use my Indiana Jones fastpass. Once I got off, I found a voicemail from ArrowOwnzYou, saying that he had just gotten on the tram. So we met up on mainstreet and looked around the park for something without a long line.

Eventually we ended up back at the Haunted Mansion, and after riding went over to the Monorail, as I had seen the blue one running that day.

Sadly, when it pulled in we saw that they were not loading guests. However, here are some blurry, or grainy, or both pictures. Deal with it.

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Sweet.

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My last picture of the night, thanks for reading!

If you have any questions, or wanted to point out anything I didn't address, let me know! I have some videos I will most likely upload to my YouTube account tomorrow.

[CedarFair Kinda Guy!]

Cool update man!! I'm going to DLR tomorrow after school!! :cool:

[Xtreme Descent]

Great update! I really enjoyed reading it and got a few laughs out of some of the captions, too! :p Sucks to hear about Indy and Roger Rabbit being down earlier in the day, but at least Indy was open later! Did you ride Space Mountain at all? I saw you had a tab for it on the Dream Fastpass.

[Jake]

Thank for the comments guys, I appreciate it :).

I didn't get a chance to ride Space Mountain, as I didn't make it to tomorrowland until after Shaun showed up. He didn't have a fastpass of course, so we decided to skip it. No worries though, Soace Mountain isn't a must ride for me anyway.

[ArrowOwnzU]

Monorail Blue can go to hell, I was so disappointed. If they're gonna test it during the day that's fine, but when you actually can use a Mark VII why not run one that can take guests? *cough*red*/cough*

[Jake]

I was at the park yesterday and posted an update on Coasterdom. Here are a few pictures I took while I was there.. nothing too fantastic or exciting, I'm afraid.

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I believe this sign is new? I could be wrong though.

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The Space in Space Mountain is burned out.. haha..

Here's the link (http://www.coasterdom.com/2008/09/06/disneyland-resort-update-2/#more-929) to the full update.

[Michael]

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I've seen this shot before, but I really love the lighting on this one. :)

[Jake]

It's gotten to the point for me that I need to look for different lighting as opposed to angles. It seems I've gotten nearly every shot there is to get at these parks!

[CedarFair Kinda Guy!]

I was there last night too. I noticed Space Mountain sign that was pretty funny!! (lol) It was also closed... I had a great time though, rode a lot of rides in DCA!!

[Brandon]

Ah, how I miss Mountain so...


Nice photos Jake, I checked out your update at Coasterdom and this one caught my attention.



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These types of walls were up all over the park, summer is certainly over. This particular wall encircled many of the PeopleMover supports - perhaps these walls have to do with more than simple “beautification”?
I will be following this little "beautification" project, as it pertains somewhat to the PeopleMover. Jake, if possible, do you think you can get me photos of these walls if anything changes? Please and thank you :).

Also, I was unaware of California Screamin' going down for a queue and station retheming. It seemed likely to happen but I had no idea that they would be doing it this soon. Shows how much I am out of the DLR loop. Hopefully, they can add some theme to Screamin's train roundhouse as well as add some new foliage, in the east helix, if they haven't already. The sand and dead foliage really looks drab and unappealing...

[Jake]

That's alright, a GP friend told me about the California Screamin' retheme! So we're both as out of the loop I suppose.

As far as the walls are concerned, I'll do my best if I'm there in the near future. I have a friend going in early October - and I can have him take a couple pictures if I can't get there before that.

Thanks for the comments guys, it's always appreciated.