The majority of the show, outside of the opening and closing song, is a whirlwind tour of Disneyland. It kicks off with Adventureland and the Enchanted Tiki Room, Jungle Cruise, and POTC.
Next up is Westernland with the Mark Twain riverboat, Big Thunder Mountain, and Country Bear Jamboree.
Fantasyland is more of a Disney movie montage than a ride montage.
Haunted Mansion gets a segment all to itself, much like in RDCT (it's almost the same soundtrack too!)
Then it's Toontown, also with some familiar sounding music!
Tomorrowland is a mix to Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters, and Star Tours.
And of course, the finale!
Sadly, this beautiful show only ran for the 35th anniversary and didn't even get a replacement. I suppose we all have to make do with YouTube. Get this up on the TV and treat yourselves!
With the show over, there wasn't much time left until the park closed. I rushed over to Westernland so I could use my Big Thunder Mountain Fastpass. When I got there, I discovered that CMs were only allowing people with FP to enter the queue, so it was lucky that I had one!
Surprisingly, this actually isn't an exact clone! Sure, it has similar beats but it's its own attraction. And riding at night is actually the best time to ride Big Thunder Mountain, in my personal opinion! Although I don't know about anyone else but I always hate the start of the ride. The chain lift and the waterfall combined with the echoey cavern, it's overwhelmingly noisy. I have to plug up my ears until we get out! Other than that, it's as great as the others. I could have jumped back in queue to ride again, were it not for the FP only thing.
Once I was off Thunder Mountain, I had maybe 10 minutes until the park was due to close. So I rushed back to Fantasyland to see if my Pooh's Hunny Hunt plan would work. It turns out that there was nobody around, so it definitely did! I literally walked straight through the queue and into a hunny pot without stopping.
So Pooh's Hunny Hunt is one of the top attractions in the park, and with good reason. It's a massive improvement on the other Winnie the Pooh rides, and the trackless aspect (one of the first rides to use the technology) really gets you involved in the scenes. It's a fun ride, and a great way to end the night. However, at the time, I had hyped it up in my mind as THE ride to do. And while I enjoyed it, I wouldn't say it was my my favourite. It didn't reach those lofty expectations, sadly. Nevertheless, here's the ride video. There's even a look inside the gift shop, which was closed by the time I came off the ride.
Not only was the gift shop closed, the park had closed as well. And it was practically empty in Fantasyland.
On the way back, I noticed a CM had drawn Donald and Daisy on the floor with water by the tea cups!
I slowly walked back to the front of the park. None of the shops were open, as far as I could tell. A far cry from WDW where the shops stay open long after the rides have stopped. But if you do feel like some last minute shopping, I believe Bon Voyage stays open an hour longer than the parks do.
I didn't stop, however. I returned to the station and didn't have to wait long before the hotel bus arrived. When I got back to Maihama Eurasia, I stopped at one of the vending machines in the corridor that led to my room and bought a Hershey's ice cream wafer that had caught my eye earlier on. It wasn't that great... Luckily, I still had half of my Mickey Mouse bread and the cherry custard pie. Not the most nutritious dinner but I wasn't complaining!
After such a jam-packed day, I was more than happy to get into bed and rest, knowing that I had another full day of Disney goodness just waiting for me!
Next up is Westernland with the Mark Twain riverboat, Big Thunder Mountain, and Country Bear Jamboree.
Fantasyland is more of a Disney movie montage than a ride montage.
Haunted Mansion gets a segment all to itself, much like in RDCT (it's almost the same soundtrack too!)
Then it's Toontown, also with some familiar sounding music!
Tomorrowland is a mix to Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear's Astro Blasters, and Star Tours.
And of course, the finale!
Sadly, this beautiful show only ran for the 35th anniversary and didn't even get a replacement. I suppose we all have to make do with YouTube. Get this up on the TV and treat yourselves!
With the show over, there wasn't much time left until the park closed. I rushed over to Westernland so I could use my Big Thunder Mountain Fastpass. When I got there, I discovered that CMs were only allowing people with FP to enter the queue, so it was lucky that I had one!
Surprisingly, this actually isn't an exact clone! Sure, it has similar beats but it's its own attraction. And riding at night is actually the best time to ride Big Thunder Mountain, in my personal opinion! Although I don't know about anyone else but I always hate the start of the ride. The chain lift and the waterfall combined with the echoey cavern, it's overwhelmingly noisy. I have to plug up my ears until we get out! Other than that, it's as great as the others. I could have jumped back in queue to ride again, were it not for the FP only thing.
Once I was off Thunder Mountain, I had maybe 10 minutes until the park was due to close. So I rushed back to Fantasyland to see if my Pooh's Hunny Hunt plan would work. It turns out that there was nobody around, so it definitely did! I literally walked straight through the queue and into a hunny pot without stopping.
So Pooh's Hunny Hunt is one of the top attractions in the park, and with good reason. It's a massive improvement on the other Winnie the Pooh rides, and the trackless aspect (one of the first rides to use the technology) really gets you involved in the scenes. It's a fun ride, and a great way to end the night. However, at the time, I had hyped it up in my mind as THE ride to do. And while I enjoyed it, I wouldn't say it was my my favourite. It didn't reach those lofty expectations, sadly. Nevertheless, here's the ride video. There's even a look inside the gift shop, which was closed by the time I came off the ride.
Not only was the gift shop closed, the park had closed as well. And it was practically empty in Fantasyland.
On the way back, I noticed a CM had drawn Donald and Daisy on the floor with water by the tea cups!
I slowly walked back to the front of the park. None of the shops were open, as far as I could tell. A far cry from WDW where the shops stay open long after the rides have stopped. But if you do feel like some last minute shopping, I believe Bon Voyage stays open an hour longer than the parks do.
I didn't stop, however. I returned to the station and didn't have to wait long before the hotel bus arrived. When I got back to Maihama Eurasia, I stopped at one of the vending machines in the corridor that led to my room and bought a Hershey's ice cream wafer that had caught my eye earlier on. It wasn't that great... Luckily, I still had half of my Mickey Mouse bread and the cherry custard pie. Not the most nutritious dinner but I wasn't complaining!
After such a jam-packed day, I was more than happy to get into bed and rest, knowing that I had another full day of Disney goodness just waiting for me!
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