Let the (Soaken Wet) Memories Begin TR- Update 12/8

[justakrazymom]

I do have to give it to Disney. Completely genius of them to do this. Because Phineas and Ferb are new, the line gets really long really quick but seems to go by so fast when they are entertaining you! Finally it was our turn!

Agreed! It went super fast for us because Declan was picked to be in the pre-show too ( ok ok I basically tossed him at the guy running it)..

 

[Lady Lallie]

That whole second half of the update was completely foreign to me. I have never watched Phineas & Ferb. Bow Chicka what?

I can't believe the wait was 40 minutes at 9:08, that is so ridiculous. I really wish the Toy Story Mania mad rush would die down. It needs too. It's been many years since it opened, over 3 I think. Sigh. I guess that just goes to show how little there is to do at Hollywood Studios.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Agreed! It went super fast for us because Declan was picked to be in the pre-show too ( ok ok I basically tossed him at the guy running it)..

That whole second half of the update was completely foreign to me. I have never watched Phineas & Ferb. Bow Chicka what?

I can't believe the wait was 40 minutes at 9:08, that is so ridiculous. I really wish the Toy Story Mania mad rush would die down. It needs too. It's been many years since it opened, over 3 I think. Sigh. I guess that just goes to show how little there is to do at Hollywood Studios.

Apparently the song is called Gitchee Gitchee Goo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AijGOPpI3bw&feature=related

Time to learn these things LL

TSM opened 5/31/2008! You would think it opened that week the way the crowds still stampede there. For the record, the FPs were gone when we went back over by that area before lunch.

 

[Lady Lallie]

Apparently the song is called Gitchee Gitchee Goo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AijGOPpI3bw&feature=related

Time to learn these things LL

TSM opened 5/31/2008! You would think it opened that week the way the crowds still stampede there. For the record, the FPs were gone when we went back over by that area before lunch.

I will watch when I get home, can't at work.

I know I need learn these things but I have a few years, right?

It's ridiculous that it is still like this. Maybe because it is popular and a slower loading ride? I don't know but on all of my trips the FPs are gone or at park closing by the time we get back there to redeem our 2nd set of FPs.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I will watch when I get home, can't at work.

I know I need learn these things but I have a few years, right?

It's ridiculous that it is still like this. Maybe because it is popular and a slower loading ride? I don't know but on all of my trips the FPs are gone or at park closing by the time we get back there to redeem our 2nd set of FPs.

Fair enough But it's actually a really good show. I will warn you if you watch, you'll get TOTALLY sucked in!

 

[rockin2it]

We love Phineas & Ferb in our house too! Your daughter's dress and bows are so cute as well! My daughter got to participate in the same backstory as your daughter. my daughter played one of the "guitars" though. it did make the line go by so quickly..loved it!

 

[eecteacher82]

I've been a bad DIS friend...no comments in like 3 or 4 updates!! Let me get caught back up right this minute!

I can't how excited Olivia was to finally meet Aisling! She talked about it for the whole ride up to WDW. She talked about it for the whole ride into the park. She talked about it the whole time we were walking back to HM to meet up with you guys. She talked about it the whole time we were waiting for you guys outside HM. Get the idea of just how EXCITED she was to meet her new friend?! The girls really did have a blast hanging out that day (and Aisling was never bossy that I recall)!

I know what you mean about CM! We somehow end up there on pretty much every trip, but I can never figure out why! I guess b/c it is the first character meal we ever took Livy too when she was 15 months old and she HATED the characters! It must just be sentimental.

The P&F meet was set up really cute! The girls were pretty well occupied in line! What cracked me up was the CM who kept making us scoot up in line, pretty much on top of the people in front of us to "make more room"...when there was nobody behind us and there was a whole other row to use for the line!

Can't wait to see what is up next!

 

[Jennifer48]

Running of the bulls for TSM is getting old, I agree.

I Phineas & Ferb! Its seriously one of my favorite shows. I watched it so much and DH used to make fun of me and now he loves it too!

I want Aisling's P&F custom!! I'll settle for the hair bows. My hair is longer than hers now anyways

 

[SOUTHERNtinkerBELLE]

Woah - I was so behind with your updates! I haven't been able to get on the boards all week. I'm all caught up now, though!

Let's see - love Aisling's HM outfit! The pictures that you got inside are so good. I especially love the one of the glowing blue lady (don't know her technical name ). We think of Pecos Bills as our MK cs standby, too. We always seem to end up there. So many people complain about the kids meals at the parks, you would think that they would change them! Everyone likes variety, no matter how old you are!

Cute cute cute CM outfit! Your experience there sounds just like the one we had - not very good. The food wasn't good at all. I can't believe you had to wait all of that time to see Mickey!

I agree about the MSEP, too. I wish they would bring back Spectro! I know a lot of people love the MSEP, but I don't think it even comes close to Spectro. We didn't even bother stopping to watch it on the honeymoon. I do love the Magic Memories and You show though! We saw it the night of the dessert party, so I haven't seen it up close. I definitely teared up watching it!

Wow! What a transportation nightmare! I was going to comment that that was why I like to drive to the parks, but I guess even I would have had a hard time getting to the TTC that night! I can't believe it took you two hours to get back to the BC!

And, for the third time in this response, I am going to agree with you again about the TSM dash. I kind of enjoyed it once, but then it lost its appeal. I hate that I have to plan my whole day around getting there in time for that attraction. I'm glad that you at least got your FPs quickly!

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

We love Phineas & Ferb in our house too! Your daughter's dress and bows are so cute as well! My daughter got to participate in the same backstory as your daughter. my daughter played one of the "guitars" though. it did make the line go by so quickly..loved it!

Isn't it such a funny show???

I've been a bad DIS friend...no comments in like 3 or 4 updates!! Let me get caught back up right this minute!

I can't how excited Olivia was to finally meet Aisling! She talked about it for the whole ride up to WDW. She talked about it for the whole ride into the park. She talked about it the whole time we were walking back to HM to meet up with you guys. She talked about it the whole time we were waiting for you guys outside HM. Get the idea of just how EXCITED she was to meet her new friend?! The girls really did have a blast hanging out that day (and Aisling was never bossy that I recall)!

I know what you mean about CM! We somehow end up there on pretty much every trip, but I can never figure out why! I guess b/c it is the first character meal we ever took Livy too when she was 15 months old and she HATED the characters! It must just be sentimental.

The P&F meet was set up really cute! The girls were pretty well occupied in line! What cracked me up was the CM who kept making us scoot up in line, pretty much on top of the people in front of us to "make more room"...when there was nobody behind us and there was a whole other row to use for the line!

Can't wait to see what is up next!

Was wondering what happened to you!!!

Running of the bulls for TSM is getting old, I agree.

I Phineas & Ferb! Its seriously one of my favorite shows. I watched it so much and DH used to make fun of me and now he loves it too!

I want Aisling's P&F custom!! I'll settle for the hair bows. My hair is longer than hers now anyways

DH??? Really??? I know him you know

You can borrow the bows whenever you want!

Woah - I was so behind with your updates! I haven't been able to get on the boards all week. I'm all caught up now, though!

Let's see - love Aisling's HM outfit! The pictures that you got inside are so good. I especially love the one of the glowing blue lady (don't know her technical name ). We think of Pecos Bills as our MK cs standby, too. We always seem to end up there. So many people complain about the kids meals at the parks, you would think that they would change them! Everyone likes variety, no matter how old you are!

Cute cute cute CM outfit! Your experience there sounds just like the one we had - not very good. The food wasn't good at all. I can't believe you had to wait all of that time to see Mickey!

I agree about the MSEP, too. I wish they would bring back Spectro! I know a lot of people love the MSEP, but I don't think it even comes close to Spectro. We didn't even bother stopping to watch it on the honeymoon. I do love the Magic Memories and You show though! We saw it the night of the dessert party, so I haven't seen it up close. I definitely teared up watching it!

Wow! What a transportation nightmare! I was going to comment that that was why I like to drive to the parks, but I guess even I would have had a hard time getting to the TTC that night! I can't believe it took you two hours to get back to the BC!

And, for the third time in this response, I am going to agree with you again about the TSM dash. I kind of enjoyed it once, but then it lost its appeal. I hate that I have to plan my whole day around getting there in time for that attraction. I'm glad that you at least got your FPs quickly!

I really am starting to think that the TSM thing has become such a Disney Urban Legend thing that it's never going to die down. I don't recall another ride that even when it first opened...you HAD to get to first thing or the FPs would be gone. If we all just agreed to stop doing that, there would be plenty of FPs to go around.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Did a super long update and my computer rebooted itself...deleting my update. UGGHHHH!!!!


Anyway, Phineas and Ferb seemed to enjoy their meet and greet with our ladies

Phineas particularly liked that Candace was on Aisling's backside

After meeting Phineas and Ferb, Aisling wanted to do a little holiday modeling

At this point, the adults figured that everyone was ready to cool down a bit so off to Muppets we went. Erin has way cuter pics of waiting for the Muppets to start.

Next up was the new and improved Star Tours. I can't comment on the improvements because although I braved it...I kept my eyes shut

Has any of my Disboutiquer friends seen this sign???

After cooling down on the rides and grabbing some drinks, we decided to head over to check out the one thing that I've been dying to do at DHS… drawing class!! We got over there and there was about a 15-20 minute wait for the next class. It was technically filled but they told us they often can squeeze in standbys so Randy and I held our place in line while Erin took the girls to play. We luckily made it in the first class!!!

Our class was filled with folks who had already done the class so finding someone to draw took awhile. The teacher finally found a few and we voted. The winner proved to us that we will never been Imagineers. Any guesses who we drew???



BUZZ LIGHTYEAR!

Here is our attempts…

Randy’s

Aisling’s

Mine

After class, we decided that we should split up for lunch/afternoon break. But Aisling wanted to do one more ride. Remember those FPs will still had for RnRC??? Well it wasn’t that. Aisling chickened out. Instead, she wanted to visit an old friend.


Elphaba

After the Great Movie Ride (we got the Cowboy version), we headed out to the boat dock.

When we got out to the boat dock, we noticed a CM dressed in a shirt and tie with a diving mask on his face. He was hanging off the side of a small boat looking in the water. The crowd was clearly curious about what he was doing.

He informed us that a guest had dropped their iphone in the water. Randy pointed out that it was junk, they are no good once they get wet. The CM agreed but stated “sir, this is Disney, if a guest wants their phone back, we get their phone” and headed off to get DIVERS to retrieve the phone! INSANE!!!!

Aisling quickly fell asleep for her daily “nap on various modes of WDW transportation”

We got back and had a very cute towel animal version of our Bailey waiting to cuddle us for a nap! Which we did. After we got CS lunch at Hurricane Hannah's. Really not impressed. Aisling liked the whole bucket thing but their options were CS lunch were REALLY limited. Later in the week I did notice that if you go to lunch early, you can get Sushi from the Japan Pavillion which would have been fun but sadly we never got back there to try it. (they only get so much sushi so it's first come, first serve)

 

[Lady Lallie]

I love the picture of Aisling conked out on the boat.

I can't believe Disney had the divers out to get the phone that dropped. I often wonder what would happen if things got dropped and I guess they go after them, good to know.

 

[eecteacher82]

Great update! I have to say, I'm still not sure why you and I ended up on Star Tours since it makes both of us sick I do love the pic of Ash asleep on the boat! I'm far too embarrassed to show my attempt at Buzz in the drawing class....let's just say yours was MUCH better!



I thought I would hop in and add some pics that I had of our ladies up through this part of your TR. *Side note: I realized that we don't have any pictures of you and I unless you count the Dinosaur pic! *

*One of the "lovely" pics Livy took (it makes me laugh)*

 

[disneymomof1]

It never fails, as soon as I start reading something on the computer my DD "needs" it for something. So I am subbing in and will begin reading later !! After the 8 year old gets her very important work (Webkinz World) done on the computer !!

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

I love the picture of Aisling conked out on the boat.

I can't believe Disney had the divers out to get the phone that dropped. I often wonder what would happen if things got dropped and I guess they go after them, good to know.

They do! At insane lengths LOL!

Ash literally fell asleep every single day SOMEWHERE!

Great update! I have to say, I'm still not sure why you and I ended up on Star Tours since it makes both of us sick I do love the pic of Ash asleep on the boat! I'm far too embarrassed to show my attempt at Buzz in the drawing class....let's just say yours was MUCH better!

I thought I would hop in and add some pics that I had of our ladies up through this part of your TR. *Side note: I realized that we don't have any pictures of you and I unless you count the Dinosaur pic! *

Thanks for posting the pics! Aisling was clearly being bossy this day Yes, I remember telling Randy he had to take a pic of us together and he never did

And folks, I saw her drawing and it was good. She's nuts!

It never fails, as soon as I start reading something on the computer my DD "needs" it for something. So I am subbing in and will begin reading later !! After the 8 year old gets her very important work (Webkinz World) done on the computer !!

ALWAYS the way!!!

 

[Jennifer48]

Why did you keep your eyes shut on Star Tours?

Great drawings!

I can't believe there was a diver looking for someone's iPhone. I wonder what other treasures he found down there! Oh and my sister-in-law dropped hers in the pool and then placed it in a bowl of uncooked rice and it worked afterwards! So Randy is incorrect

What is Randy wearing around his neck in your PP photo?

 

[lbuzz52]

You are right- it is a great idea for Disney to add the in-line entertainment. i wish they had that when i was a kid. I too am baffled by the iphone diver.

 

[Tnkrbelle565]

Why did you keep your eyes shut on Star Tours?

Great drawings!

I can't believe there was a diver looking for someone's iPhone. I wonder what other treasures he found down there! Oh and my sister-in-law dropped hers in the pool and then placed it in a bowl of uncooked rice and it worked afterwards! So Randy is incorrect

What is Randy wearing around his neck in your PP photo?

Because I have motion sickness. The moving didn't bother me so much...it's the visuals so I had to keep my eyes shut.

That thing around his neck is a little wallet that you wear when you are running. Fits some cash and a house key. I have no clue what he had in there. Maybe some spare cash so I couldn't lose it

You are right- it is a great idea for Disney to add the in-line entertainment. i wish they had that when i was a kid. I too am baffled by the iphone diver.

Disney marketing genius...keep people in the park spending

 

[disneymomof1]

Ok, all caught up on your TR, I love all of the customs, they are so beautiful. I think my favorite picture is Aisling asleep on the bus, so reminds me of Maddie, she can fall asleep anywhere !!

 

[DisneyTiger]

The last time I rode Star Tours, I was sick for the entire day. Had to cancel our Fantasmic package at Mama Melrose. I went back to the room and slept while Jason had fun in Epcot. Not a fan, refurbished or not.