20th Anniversary Trips: "Saying Goodbye to Muppets" Disney World Edition (An April Trip Report)

[Jules76126]

Mainly a lurker on your trips as I don’t always have time to comment. But looks like it was a busy few days. I saw you mention you are going to mass art. I will be curious to see what Morgan thinks compared to SCAD. I work at the college next door (luckily I don’t commute to that campus much as Boston traffic is awful).

 

[StarWarsMomofGirls!]

Park Day! Hollywood Studios, Early Entry & more!

Our first lightening lane was for Rock n' Rollercoaster. This was Morgan's request. She is not happy that they are changing it to Muppets. And since we don't know when it will be closing, we def wanted to make sure we got on at least once this trip.

So, we headed from Runaway Railway down to RnR.

We headed into line at 10:05, where the CM checking LL was super excitied about our shirts.

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It only took 7 minutes to get into the Que Room and asking for backstage passes.

I have a love hate relationship with this ride. Every time we get to the load area I think to myself, why am I doing this....
I have fomo for riding it but I don’t really love it. But I rode it anyway!

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My ride photo always looks the same! Pure terror.
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We joked that if we took every ride photo of me on the ride, they would all be the same.

After our ride to the concert, we had some time before our next LL. I think I grabbed a Star Tours LL to use in a little while.

Since we had time, we headed to Gwen’s pick of the day, Muppets 3D Vision!

We decided to go in and watch the show first. Cool off before taking photos, it was def starting to get hot.

Of course the CM here loved our shirts.
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Gwen made sure to check for the key!

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We waited 10 minutes for the next show but it was already pretty crowded in the waiting area so we couldn't really enjoy all of hte stuff.
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Show was fun as always. I will say, I have to take my glasses off every once in awhile. My eyes start to bug out with the 3D.

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As we were leaving the show, Gwen asked if she could keep her glasses… She may or may not of put the glasses in her bag… Somebody didn't listen to the rules...

After we came out of the show, we needed to get some photos with our shirts!
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We unfortunately totally forgot to go into Pizza Rizzo. That was on Gwen's list as well. I think she mostly jsut wanted to go in, not eat anything.

We headed to use the next LL, Star Tours. The wait wasn't too bad at this point but it was nice to skip the line.
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We headed in right around 11:02 and were ready to ride by 11:13.
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Gwen checking to see if she was tall enough..... This was the first ride she really was looking forward to being tall enough for riding.

We got a good combo with Darth Vader and Ashoka!
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After our ride in space, we needed a little something to eat.

It was 11:30, so the lines weren't bad yet for food. we stopped at Backlot Express. We hopped in line but there was a CM saying that mobile order would be faster. So, while we waited in line we decided what we wanted and placed an order.

Morgan and Gwen went and found a table which Andy and I waited. It was in fact faster.

Morgan requested a Wookie Cookie along with a fountain soda.
Wookiee Cookie
Two Oatmeal Cookies with Vanilla Cream Filling garnished with a Milk Chocolate Sash on top
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Andy and I decided on the Buffalo Chicken Fries to share
Buffalo Fries
Ranch-seasoned French Fries drizzled with Buffalo-Ranch Sauce and Blue Cheese Dressing
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These hit the spot. They weren't anything special but just tasty enough.

Reg fries with a side of cheese for Gwen with a Bottle of Water
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I also got a fountain Soda for Andy and I and Andy requested a
Frozen Platinum Margarita
Patrón Silver Tequila, Cointreau, and Sweet-and-Sour
No picture of either.

We grabbed a table and rested just a bit. It wasn't a long sit, long enough to eat our snacks. But we had another item on the agenda to get to!

Up next... Wrapping up our morning in Hollywood Studios

 

[StarWarsMomofGirls!]

Mainly a lurker on your trips as I don’t always have time to comment. But looks like it was a busy few days. I saw you mention you are going to mass art. I will be curious to see what Morgan thinks compared to SCAD. I work at the college next door (luckily I don’t commute to that campus much as Boston traffic is awful).

Andy and I used to live in Boston, so we know what the area is like. We think Morgan would like Boston, we just aren't sure what to expect at Mass Art. Boston traffic was one of the reasons we moved to Jersey!!! We were looking at living far outside of Boston to buy a house and just decided we didn't want to do that. Otherwise we loved Boston!

 

[Jules76126]

Seriously!!!! I am sure being a store manager has it's own stresses!!! We couldn't have a Bucee's in NJ, We don't have the space! We are going to see at least 2 more art schools, MICA and MassArt in the fall. But I think SCAD is it...


The dorms were super nice. Sounds like a lot of kids live off campus at somepoint. It is easy to do since it's in a city. But it's required for freshman. But I feel like you need to stay in a dorm for 2 years. It's living on your own with training wheels.


And yes, I think it was... It was super fun.

Yes we live about 45 mins outside the city. Fine to go in on the weekends, but a pain for work. My husband commutes in a few times a month and he always dreads it. Otherwise, Boston is a great city. MassArt is in a great location.

 

[footballmouse]

Two things, so far: love your shirts!!! and love the size of your front porch

 

[VAtink]

Somehow missed you started a new trip report! Here now and I can't wait to read more!

I cannot believe you're looking at colleges already, my goodness time has flown by, it doesn't seem that long ago I started reading your trip reports and the girls were little! How did you guys like SCAD? I have so many friends who went there and loved it. The firm I used to work at used to hire almost exclusively from SCAD, it has a great reputation!

Love the Muppets shirts!

 

[Stasieki]

Great start to the morning. I am so sad that when we were there in February, we didn't get to do the Muppets. Just bad timing when we were at HS.

 

[DLo]

Following along . Looking forward to reading more.

 

[missjackiemcg]

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The first time I ever flew was in 1995 on a Girl Scout trip to Savannah! I remember walking through here feeling so much more comfortable than I had at home in the giant Chicago airport!!!

This was the lobby for the Animation Buidling! You see the imagineering sign?

HOLY MOLEY!!! All of those pictures were awesome--SCAD looks like an incredible school. Is it her top pick?? (PS I was at MK last week with my Mom and when we walked by the Hook Hand poster at the Tangled bathrooms, I thought about your little girls with their princess wigs!!! I can't believe you are looking at colleges now!!)

Super cute!!! I love the Dumbo ones!

Fireworks were going off as we walked over. It was a beautiful evening, cool. And the walk over, I felt like we were home.

Best feeling of all! It does feel like HOME! You're not cheesy at all for thinking so.