Chunky See, Chunky Do! A Chunky Family TR - June 2025 Updated 8/24 The Most Magical Pixie Dusted Extra Chunky Funty and Funcle Day!

[JoAnnPan]

Wow so happy to see a TR from you!! Always follow along on Instagram

 

[Dakota731]

Where is this playground at Epcot? Even with all the rides, the kids love a playground to run wild!

 

[VAtink]

Somehow missed you started a new report, but joining in now! Can't wait to read more!

 

[PixiDustPrincess]

Where is this playground at Epcot? Even with all the rides, the kids love a playground to run wild!

Prettty sure this one is on the walkway sort of between Imagination Pavilion area and World Showcase (by where the soft serve place that was briefly a Starbucks is).

There was an older play area there, and then it went away - I was pleasantly surprised to see this new one recently! It even has nice shade sails to make it not completely miserable in the heat!

 

[chunkymonkey]

I am here! So excited to see you back with another TR! I do enjoy the insta reels though! What a tough day for CS! Been there with rough flights! I am glad she finally made it. She bounced back pretty quickly the next morning! Impressive! Looks like you all had a very fun first day! Sienna is too funny covering her eyes, but clearly she enjoyed it given the smile on her face!

Hi Katie! Happy to see you here too!
Yes CS was NOT happy, lol. She definitely should have just taken the same flight as us. She would not miss getting her character pics so she was definitely up for that the next day!
Sienna was hilarious on the rides. It's like how an ostrich hides it's head when it senses danger and she just closes her eyes lol. She loved all the rides though!

Well, I can't guarantee I'll be on Disboards much these days, but here I am (I got off Instagram, so can't follow there :/ )

Glad to see you back!! Really excited to see what this family trip looks like - Disney with kids is a whole new adventure! Definitely a bit easier when they are older if you're doing a longer stay - we did a trip with the in-laws this summer that was great fun (DS is now almost 3) but it will still be easier when he's a bit older in terms of logistics

Thank you so much! It's good to be back! The kids had a ton of fun and they were real troopers! They can't wait to go back again!

Wow so happy to see a TR from you!! Always follow along on Instagram

Thank you so much

Where is this playground at Epcot? Even with all the rides, the kids love a playground to run wild!

This one was at that walkway in between Imagination and World showcase, on the Canada side. It was very popular and a lot of kids were playing on it even though it was hot! I think kids are drawn to playgrounds like magnets lol.

Somehow missed you started a new report, but joining in now! Can't wait to read more!

Thank you so much! Happy to see you here too!

 

[chunkymonkey]

OK let’s try this again…I had a whole update typed up and then I forget that the DISBOARDS are terrible and it lost my update in the blink of an eye. I was so sad I waited a few days before finally re-attempting to write this. Hopefully it is better than the first time, but no one will ever know otherwise LOL.

The Most Magical Pixie-Dusted Extra Chunky Funty and Funcle Day!

After what was, thankfully, a restful night after our first park day, the next day of our trip, Day 2, was super magical for the kids. The kids were gifted some magical “fast passes” (remember those? LOL) that allowed them to go on any rides in any park through the lightning lane for one day, without having to book anything, no multipass, no refreshing, just walk through the lighting lanes like you’re a boss. Let’s just say I have some amazing Disney friends in my life, and for some reason they like me too, so much so that we were gifted these passes so that Steve and myself could have the most amazing Funty and Funcle day at Disney! #Chunkydusted



Really, I do have some wonderful friends thanks to Disney and am so incredibly grateful for all the friendships made on this board.




When I told the kids they could ride anything they wanted to in a day, they were kind of stunned. They thought this was a VIP tour. But we do actually have a VIP tour booked the next day! This day was an itinerary-free, go crazy kind of event. WHAT!?!

Eva: So, we can go on Tron?
Me: Yes
Caylee: And Slinky and Guardians?
Me: Yes
Bryan: So if I just want to ride Everest and Tron all day long I can do that?
Me: Well, yes, but I think you’d want to ride other things too
Bryan: OK so I can ride Everest a bunch of times and Tron a bunch of times and then maybe something else for last? (Calculates in his head how many times he can go on Tron in an hour)
Me: Well, I think we should go to all 4 parks so you have to be selective
Sienna: I can finally ride Tron!
Me: Yes!
Eva: I love Slinky!
Sienna: Can we go on Teacups?
Everyone: NO!!!

So we did actually have a plan. We planned to start in AK, then DHS, Epcot, and end at MK because Tron at night is the best!

The rest of the Adults had the meager multipass for that day so they had to do the app refreshing, the booking, etc. So they would just shadow us where they could and Steve and I could do the fun stuff, LOL. However I did purchase FoP for them just because it was our only time in AK, so we wanted to do it at least once.

Introducing the Funty and Funcle VIP tour!
Where we take the kids to ride whatever they wanted to all day long!

(If you couldn’t tell, we are the FUN Aunty and FUN Uncle)

Up bright and early so that we could fully make use of our special passes, we boarded a bus to AK where we met CS and started with a few pictures to commemorate the most fun day!

Once we entered the park we made a beeline for FoP. I was taking my Funty tour guide duties very seriously

We reached FoP and we all entered through the LL. Yay!

Everyone thinks this ride is super cool except for Sienna. I wasn’t sure if she closed her eyes or not, but she was not a fan of this last time and she still wasn’t a fan this time LOL.

Next we headed to the Safari. I managed to book this with the multipass for the other adults so we were all also able to ride this together.

I got to sit next to Bryan! He was enthralled by the animals.

We got some pretty good giraffe viewing and got to see the lions too!

Let’s hear it for the back row!

Our last ride in AK was Everest and I also managed to get everyone LL for this too. I have not ridden this in a long time because it used to make me squeamish, but anything for the kids right? Maybe I have changed or maybe it was a bad day when I rode it a long time ago but it wasn’t bad at all and actually quite enjoyable. Maybe I will have to add this back into the regular rotation of rides for me!

CS has a PSA that she got frozen cokes for everyone:

And my sisters love the Frozen bananas!

After Everest I had went to get waters for everyone and I was carrying (juggling) like 4 cups of water filled with ice, and of course they had called me but I couldn’t pick up my phone! They were like where were you, we took some pictures and then realized I wasn’t in the pictures.

So I wasn’t in these pretty Everest pics.

Again, I QUIT.



So since we did all the big rides in AK we decided it was a good time to park hop. Sorry Bryan, we weren’t going to do Everest over and over! The rest of the girls wanted to go on Slinky and Guardians, and we didn’t want to split up. He didn’t care though because at this point he wanted to ride ALL the rides! My timestamp says we got to the bus stop around 11am.

So here’s where the rest of the adults split up from the kids, since I wasn’t able to get them lightning lanes to anything the kids wanted to ride, but I gave them (CS) a quick tutorial to book rides, but I am not sure if they ended up doing anything when we split up (blame it on CS, who obviously ditched everyone to get character pics) haha. But they were fine with it as it was hot and they got to sit and cool off.

The Funty and Funcle VIP tour’s next stop was Toy Story Land!

After deciding who was going to ride with who, we went to our first ride in DHS, TSMM! Sienna wanted to ride with me. She had fun even though she said she didn’t need to go on it again, LOL. I think it was too much work for her, and she’d rather the ride do all the work rather than her arm!

After TSMM we headed to everyone’s favorite, Slinky!
We did this twice, although I am missing some ride pics, it seems.

They love Slinky! It was super hot at this time, but we decided to go to Rise. The kids aren’t super big Star Wars fans but they do know some of the characters, and I knew that if we didn’t do it then we may not get a chance to, even on the VIP tour the next day as the ride was notorious for going down at random times during the day! At this time, the adults said they managed to get MMRR lightning lane so we planned to meet them there after Rise.

We got some hydration at Ronto’s Roasters:

And Bryan told me to take a picture of this lizard he spotted:

Here’s how the kids feel about being interrogated as part of the Resistance:

It was fun though to see their expressions on the ride, and especially hearing them scream during the surprise “drop” - I don’t think they remembered it from their first time two years ago!

As we were leaving Galaxy’s Edge, the kids ran into some CMs who had them do this fun hula hooping game. It was cute! Sienna was into it because she said she did this at school. She won too!

We met the parentals at MMRR. This is a fun ride for us as most of us can be together in a group in a single vehicle. The kids loved the Conga room LOL!

After MMRR, we had to decide whether we wanted to stay or hop to Epcot. I knew we were all getting overheated at this point, so I checked the app for same day dining ressies, since I knew getting a chance to sit down would be a nice break. The only place able to accommodate us all was Biergarten so we decided to book it for a late lunch/early dinner.

We still had a bit of time so I asked the kids what they wanted to do and Sienna immediately said she wanted to do Slinky again! The rest of the kids were still deciding and I asked if they wanted to do Rock n Roller or Slinky, and they all said Rock n Roller, so it was decided Steve would go with Sienna back to Slinky and I would take the rest of the kids on RnRC.

She had so much fun with her Funcle Steve!

And the rest of us had a blast with backstage passes! They call it the “upside down” ride LOL.

We spent more time in line at RnRC so when Sienna met up with the rest of the family they had some time to take some pics.

When the other kids and I were done with RnRC, we met up with them and headed out towards Epcot!


Continued in part 2...​