Today, we decided to go
to Disney Land for the gate opening. We did not want to get there at 6:00 AM to get Fast Passes for anything, we just wanted to see the spectacle. We'd heard that when the gates open, everyone runs in to get the fast passes for the big rides, Pooh's Hunny Hunt, Monster's Inc. Ride and Go Seek, and Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters. They actually do! We ran too, just for the fun of it. People are amazingly patient and well organized. As you can see, everyone just stood in their line, waiting to get in. Of course, more people were still on their way, as this was approximately 20 minutes before the gates opened. We ran to Tomorrowland, hoping to maybe get in line for either Fast Passes for later or for the rides themselves, since everyone else would be waiting in line for FastPasses. We made our way towards Tomorrowland, and then we saw the line for the FastPasses for Monster's Inc. Ride and Go Seek. It was huge. The following picture is the line for Fast Passes for the ride at 8:15 - the park opens at 8:00:
The line for Ride and Seek was massive the entire tim
e we were there. Huge. I think all of the FastPasses were gone by 9:00 AM. The line for the ride itself was never under three hours. Crazy! We grabbed a FastPass for Space Mountain and went on the ride, as the wait was under 10 minutes. This one has people sitting side by side, instead of in laps like the US versions, and is in my opinion better. I was glad we had both the FastPass and went on Standby. Before going on again, we swung around to the Monsters FastPass to see the wait time for the ride. This is at 8:43 AM, not even an hour after the park opens. The FastPasses are already gone before 7 pm and the wait time is over six hours. Six hours for a ride? I might be crazy, but I am not that crazy!
We were very interested in the Ride and Seek line. It stretched forever! It went from one end of Tomorrowland to the other. The red line in the picture is where the line was - from behind Space Mountain (#8), across Star Tours (#1) and over to #7, the actual Ride and Seek building.
It just kept going...
and going...
and going...
and going...
and going...
and continued on inside for a bit as well, I'm sure!
Popcorn
lines were still massive. The soy sauce and butter one was worth photographing. It's just popcorn! Why would you stand in line for popcorn for longer than some rides? We saw the Mickey's Music Revue, the last one in all of the Lands. It's already gone, but it was very interesting and disturbing to hear Disney classics from Snow White, Alice in Wonderland, and other cartoons sung in Japanese. There was no wait. We only had to wait for the show to begin, and the theater wasn't even one quarter full. Sad, really. It was an adorable, but obviously outdated animatronic show.
Awesome to see that and then some of the newer animatronics in other attractions to see how far the technology has come. We also saw some local wildlife. They're as tame as the ducks in all the other Disney parks I've been to. They have interesting orange tips on their beaks, but other than that are the same as US ducks. (Lee - I would like you to note that she's been trying to get a picture of these Japanese ducks since we moved here but did not get a decent close up until I pointed out this fine opporunity presented by Disney's domesticated ducks.)
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