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Tomorrowland Eats and Thrills
After our thrilling bobsled ride, it was about 2:00, and we were both a little hungry having not really had an actual meal yet today. Of course, we did have dinner plans for later, so we didn’t want to eat a whole meal. We stopped at Tomorrowland Terrace and got some bottled water and an order of french fries to share.
This was a fun little break for us - a snack, sunshine, and we got to see the beginning of the jedi training which takes place right next to this CS location. (At DL, the jedi training is still for those kids who get picked out of the crowd as opposed to the way that they now do it at DHS where you sign your kids up in advance.)
Soon, however, this was beckoning us.
As you can see, there was only a 10-minute wait, so we were all about Space!
The queue for Space Mountain at DL is funny - you walk up this long ramp, and then the queue is on the top of the building. The views are really nice!
There was no wait today, but I would imagine that there are times when there are long looping lines amongst the chains up here. But for today, we were able to zip right through into the indoor portion of the queue, which I would imagine also gets backed up at busier times of the year. We, however, were able to just walk along until we got to the ride vehicles.
I love the ride vehicles on DL’s version of this attraction because you can sit next to your fellow traveler. Also, the entire ride is much more smooth than the WDW version.
We enjoyed our ride - of course!
At this point, it was about 3:00, so we decided that we would do one more ride and see if we could meet some characters before heading back to the hotel to change and meet up with our friends. We headed through Tomorrowland, and this little beauty caught our eye.
Oh Buzz - so fun!
Now, my dear WDW friends, I hate to tell you this, but this is one of the dual-coast attractions that is just far superior at DL. Why, you ask? Well, THE GUNS COME OFF THE VEHICLE - you can AIM! It’s fabulous! I mean, I still suck at it because I can never tell which red dot is mine, but at least on this version, I feel like I stand a chance of hitting something!
The ride photo option at WDW is much better, however. For some reason, you can’t scan it on your PP+ card - instead, you have to email it to yourself (which means waiting in line behind other people emailing their photos to themselves), and the quality is awful. However, THE GUNS COME OFF THE VEHICLE!
After our fun ride, we wandered up Main Street and found a bunch of characters out meeting guests. However, all of their lines had just been closed (this happened to us almost every day on Main Street for some reason!). Willow was not in the mood to wait the 10 minutes or so for them to return, so we left the park.
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I will not bother to ride it WDW again unless I am being drug on by a child not wanting to ride alone. But I would be with the masses headed there at rope drop in DL! 
Looking forward to reading more! 
I will ONLY ride GRR when it is HOT out. I hate being soaked and walking around the park. They do have a way to control the "splash" of the rafts during the winter. You must have been on a warm day when they didn't feel the need to turn it down a notch! Sometimes that geyser at the end gets you more soaked than anything. 
