mickey916
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10/28 continued…Making the Most of our Final Party Time
After the parade we walked to Fantasyland and finally had a chance to see the beautiful lanterns near the Tangled restrooms. So Pretty! I liked the purple and green trees too!
We went through the treat line at Mickey’s Philharmagic and Donald Duck was there greeting fans in his Halloween costume. Very cute! However, CMs were rather aggressively telling people to keep the line moving as people were attempting to stop and take a photo. There weren’t even many people going through the lines but the CMs didn’t allow people to stop. My flyby photo came out pretty good. I appreciate that they want to keep the lines moving but it is odd to have characters along the lines that people obviously want to stop to greet and expect people not to stop.
We walked around taking some cool photos of the Halloween inspired decor.
Beast’s Castle…
Seven Dwarf Pumpkins
We headed to Tomorrowland next and stopped in for a bit at Monsters Inc Laugh Floor. This was a treat stop but they also allowed people to sit in the theater while the monsters told jokes and commented on people’s costumes as they walked by. It was very funny and a nice rest stop.
The newly refurbished Astro Orbiter looked so pretty all lit up.
Space Mountain had an overlay for the party called Deep Space Mountain where the ride is in total darkness with spooky music playing. I rode it with only a 5 minute wait. It’s usually fairly dark but it definitely was completely dark. It was a bit unnerving to not be able to see anything ahead of me. I don’t remember the spooky music at all but there was a 9-ish year old girl seated behind me that screeched a very high pitched, ear-piercing screech the entire time so I probably just couldn’t hear the music. I’m not a huge fan of Space Mountain anyways but this was worse than usual. I felt much more jerked around probably because I couldn’t see the turns coming to prepare for them mentally. My back (and ears) hurt a bit when I got off.
Space Mountain was lit up very well though in green and orange so at least it was pretty.
After my ride on Space Mountain it was time for the fireworks. We watched them from the Tomorrowland bridge. It wasn’t too crowded and we had a decent view. My pictures didn’t come out great though so I won't include them here.
I’ve always wanted to ride Tron at night so I headed there next. The ride was a walk on.
I didn’t really notice the outside portion too much as it went by so quickly but I love the Ares overlay. I think it’s better than the original.
We rode the People Mover, stopped for a couple Photopass photos and then went to Liberty Square to see the headless horseman lead the second parade.
I took some more photos of decorations. I love this lit-up Mickey wreath!
We finished our night in Adventureland.
We went through the Skipper Canteen treat trail and rode the Jungle Cruise. I had read online that there was some sort of special treat given to people after riding Jungle Cruise but we didn’t get anything. Maybe it was too late in the evening. We rounded out our evening by stopping by the Pirate Band again. Yes, they were still playing just before midnight! I don’t know if these musicians perform anywhere else but they were awesome!
We didn’t stick around for the final showing of Hocus Pocus on the stage and opted to head out with the crowds. We took the ferry boat back to the TTC as the monorail line was really packed.
Overall we had a fabulous 15 hour day in the park. The morning was great with lots of rides and minimal waits. We got way more candy than we anticipated as we hadn’t really planned on going through all those lines. We ate some, donated all the non-chocolate to my sister-in-law’s classroom, and actually froze the rest for future sweet tooths. We loved the parade and the Cadaver Dans, we enjoyed the fireworks, we rode a few rides, and we loved all the special effects throughout the night. We even enjoyed (most) of the party-specific treats we tried. All that being said, I think next time we may try Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party before repeating this one. I was partially regretting that I hadn’t booked that as well for this trip (the first night of that overlapped our trip but was already sold out by the time I thought of it). While it was expensive we felt like we got our money’s worth. It was a great birthday gift!
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Up next..DH’s favorite breakfast before heading to Hollywood Studios
