Across the walkway from Toy Story Midway Mania, theres a door with most likely a line stretching along the wall.
Without much signage or fanfare, this is the new Meet and Greet for the Toy Story characters.
The queue is designed to be interactive and offers photo ops along the way.
The design takes you through the movies entering into different scenes.
At the entrance is a map showing you the layout and there are directions on the floor.
In addition, at each photo op, there is a set of footprints indicating the best vantage point for taking the picture.
This would be great if it wasnt so crowded all the time since its hard to hang back and stand on the feet while the little ones are in the photo op.
Ive found that while you are setting up, other peoples little ones charge ahead and their parents dont stop them.
This was especially hard touring solo as I was trying to get shots of the photo ops themselves.
But if a child saw an empty one, they ran ahead and jumped into my photos.
Despite my issues, it was still better than standing in line with nothing to do.
And I thought how much more fun it would be with the kids next time.
So, lets go through it.
The first area is Andys Room.
The background is Andys bed and the photo op is to take a ride in Buzzs spaceship.
This is one of the most popular (as you could imagine).
From Andys Room, we head to Pizza Planet to join the Little Green Men.
This one is a lot of fun as well.
And its hard to take the picture without thinking The craaaaaaane or I have been chosen!
Next up, we head to Sids room.
Theres some foreground imagery of some of his toys as well as this background:
Its hard to take pictures here as its the corner of the room and the lines basically take you right next to most of the displays.
And theres no place to back up in order to get a wider shot.
Oh well
The Evil Zurg is up next.
I liked this one but its hard to get the right angle here.
Standing on the footprints is key here but its hard as they are far from the wall and people will jump in front of you.
Across from Zurg is a rocketship with Velcro straps hanging off it.
The idea is to wrap your children up in the Velcro to simulate being strapped to the rocket as it takes off during the finale of Toy Story.
A cute idea but the Velcro is used and battered and barely works anymore.
So I didnt take a picture here.
Jumping into Toy Story 2, we meet the Prospector next and you can pretend you are the one in the package.
I finally decided, I need to be in one of these pics, so I asked the person next to me and they kindly obliged:
Last stop is the airport.
The background shows the luggage carousels criss-crossing throughout the airport.
And if you look closely, you can see the gang trying to save Jessie from the luggage.
The photo op is in the foreground where you can pretend to be in the luggage stuck with Jessie.
Then you see a CM who gives you the standard Photopass instructions.
And, around the corner is Andys bed complete with your favorite characters and a Photopass photographer!
This is a great idea since the kids arent jumping ahead in line to see the chars since they dont even know they are there!
They were glad to see me and shook my hand
Before posing all together.
What a bunch of toys!
Then I headed back into the alley that is
Pixar Place.
On the way back to the front of the park, I noticed another detail of the Toy Story gift shop.
The ceiling is made of the old Battleship game:
But I had no time for shopping it was off to the Magic of Animation to see what I could find.
Anyone tired yet?
Can you believe it's still the same day?
I love going there and seeing the history of Disney! I think it is a wonderful tribute to Walt and a must see for Disney fans!
