Continuing with my trip report now...
Part One can be found here
Attractions
We of course as always managed to experience a variety of attractions on our trip. Here is a complete list of everything we did, complete with what was a new experience for us listed next to individual items.
Big Thunder Mountain
Phantom Manor
Space Mountain: Mission 2
Orbitron
Dumbo the Flying Elephant (new to Jon and Dan)
Le Carrousel de Lancelot
Mad Hatter’s Tea Cups
Blanche-Neige et les Sept Nains
Les Voyages de Pinocchio
Peter Pan’s Flight
“it’s a small world”
Les Mysteres du Nautilus
Le Passage Enchante d’Aladdin
Adventure Isle
Sleeping Beauty Castle - tableau and lair
Armageddon Special Effects (new to Jon)
Crush’s Coaster (new to Jon)
Casey Jr. - le Petit Train du Cirque (new to Jon)
Le Pays des Contes de Fees
River Rogue Keelboats (new to Jon)
Autopia (new to Jon)
Buzz Lightyear Laser Blast
Alice’s Curious Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean
It’s Party Time with Mickey and Friends (new to Jon)
It’s Party Time with Mickey and Friends, and the Disney Villains (new to Jon and Dan)
It’s Dance Time in Discoveryland (new to Jon)
Winnie the Pooh and Friends, too! (new to Jon, this version new to Dan)
Merlin and the Witch Academy (new to Jon and Dan)
The Disney’s “Not-So-Scary” Halloween Show (new to Jon and Dan)
The Disney’s “Not-So-Scary” Halloween Cars Cavalcade (new to Jon and Dan)
Minnie’s Halloween Party Train (complete Party Train new to Jon, Halloween version new to Dan)
Once Upon a Dream Parade
Halloween Pre-Parade (new to Jon and Dan)
Stars n Cars (new to Jon and Dan)
The Disney Witches Dancing Spells Party (new to Jon and Dan)
FantIllusion (completely new to Jon, Halloween extension new to Dan)
Mickey and his Magic Halloween Night (new to Jon and Dan)
Of course things like Dumbo aren’t entirely new experiences, as we have rode them it in Florida, but for DLP it was new. It’s always fun to compare experiences of similar attractions across the resorts, even if it is something such as Dumbo! (And we have to be able to say we’ve done everything, right?!)
Characters again
As you can see from the list in the previous character section (in Part One), we were exceptionally lucky this trip in meeting some very unusual characters - even by DLP’s standards! I met 27 new characters and performers, and met 28 characters that I had met before, but in new outfits. Jon met new 22 characters, and new 28 outfits.
We also have over the course of our trips to DLP now come to discover some good locations for regularly meeting some random and indeed rare characters.
Oddly enough, the Main Street Lounge area of the Disneyland Hotel is very good first thing in the morning, up until about 11am. The ISAW gates / outside Pizzeria Bella Notte is THE spot for characters (one day we counted as many as 21 characters up there that randomly came out all at once!), and over by the gates next to Colonel Haithi’s is a good semi-regular (though somewhat more sporadic) location.
These locations have provided us with some of the best “random and rare ones” that we have met, including Chicken Little, Maleficent, Robin Hood and Launchpad McQuack.
More later! :)
Dan.