Our 3rd Annual Holiday Trip to DL in November - November 22nd - 25th, 2013 Post #3416

[tksbaskets]

Nice update! Do you know if the nice Walt Disney statue model will be in DCA?

TK

 

[mvf-m11c]

Great pics of Cars Land! I had no idea how much they had done already!!

Thank you Jillian. In just a short time, the details of Cadillac Range is becoming more and more just like the movie.

Nice update! Do you know if the nice Walt Disney statue model will be in DCA?

TK

Thank you TK. The Walt Disney and Mickey statue will be in DCA at BVS. Unlike the Partners statue at DL MS Hub which you can't touch it, but the one in DCA will be be touchable. I heard from the BVS presentation back at the D23 Expo that the statue will be right on the corner close to the fountain which will be the new Hub for DCA.

 

[tksbaskets]

Thank you Jillian. In just a short time, the details of Cadillac Range is becoming more and more just like the movie.




Thank you TK. The Walt Disney and Mickey statue will be in DCA at BVS. Unlike the Partners statue at DL MS Hub which you can't touch it, but the one in DCA will be be touchable. I heard from the BVS presentation back at the D23 Expo that the statue will be right on the corner close to the fountain which will be the new Hub for DCA.

Sweet!

 

[WDWJonasGirl]

Love the trip report Bret!!

 

[mvf-m11c]

Love the trip report Bret!!

Thank you Kaitlin

Now its time to get back to the TR and now is time to get some pics of the Halloween decorations at DL.

Day 1 – September 24, 2011 – Part 4​

After leaving the walls of BVS, I was in the Hollywood Studios Backlot and just roamed around and see if I can find any Halloween decorations. Unfortunately there weren’t any Halloween decorations around the area.

While I walked down HBS I saw Woody walking down the street

I can’t believe about the accident the next day at Aladdin, it was a usual day at the front entrance that afternoon.

ToT

After leaving HBS, I head on over to ABL. It was good to walk through ABL especially seeing Francis’ Ladybug Boogie. Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree ride will incorporate the same ride technology as FLB. But when I was in there, I just walked through.

I exited ABL and it was time to head on out of the park and over to DL.

On the way out I had to get the Carthay Circle Theater tower. You can see the tower from ABL.

I had to go through Condor Flats and through Soarin to get back to the turnstile

The entrance and exit to DCA. It was weird at first to enter and exit the park from the backside of Soarin, but it was decent.

I head on out of DCA and now was time for the picture taking at DL.

Before when I went through the turnstile, I had to get some pictures of the Halloween pumpkin character heads which of course are Mickey, Minnie, Pluto, Donald & Goofy. The first pictures are on the left side of the turnstile.

Pumpkin Pluto

Pumpkin Mickey

Pumpkin Goofy

Pumpkin Minnie

Pumpkin Donald

The turnstiles on the right with the Pumpkin character heads.

I went through the turnstile and it was time for the picture taking. There were quite a number of people trying to get a picture of the flower shape Mickey during the Halloween season. Even I didn’t get the engine in the picture which was the Fred Gurley pulling Holiday 5 car set also with the Lily Belle.

I had to wait awhile until it was clear to take a picture without any people.

It was already 12:15pm when I got in DL.

That’s it for now and I will get back to you tomorrow with more pics of the Halloween decorations.

 

[kaoden39]

The fall colors are so beautiful!! I love all of them.

 

[tksbaskets]

Great picture of the Halloween Mickey outside the train station

 

[mvf-m11c]

The fall colors are so beautiful!! I love all of them.

The colors were great and it was nice to see a Halloween Mickey at the front of the MS RR station. Thank you Michele

Great picture of the Halloween Mickey outside the train station

Thank you TK. It took quite awhile to get the picture of the Halloween Mickey since so many guests wanted to take a picture of it before they enter the park.


Now its time to get back to the TR.

Day 1 – September 24, 2011 – Part 5​

After taking pictures of the front of the turnstile & DLRR station with any Halloween decorations, now its time to get pictures inside MS USA.

On the way in, there were quite a number of people trying to get pictures of the characters in their Halloween costumes. I didn't get any when I entered the park, but I did get some later during the day so that will have to wait. At first MS didn't seem that busy that afternoon, but it did pick up later during the day in which some of the ride wait times were close to summertime. But that was not I was here for.

GMwML has some nice fall touches to the building

After passing GMwML, I just walked down MS and look for any Halloween decorations.

Disney Showcase store

The giant Mickey pumpkin which was nice to see, but I couldn't get a front face shot since there were a lot of people trying to get a picture of it. On both sides, but the one that was the longest was the one facing down MS towards SB castle.

After taking a picture of the Mickey Halloween pumpkin, now I am getting the pics of the pumpkins in the window, outside and through the window displays.

You can see me through the window when I was taking the picture

Some nice Halloween merchandise at the window display

That's it for this post and I will get back to you later today.

 

[Lil' Grumpy]

..thanks so very much!

ok~we're back! what a trip. why , oh~wow! it seem we always have
an adventure whenever we go, even after all these years.

tired, we are! why? because it was liked 100 degrees every day. really.

had problems @ atlanta again! our plane broke on the run way....
so eventually , they put us on another one, .

the crew on the new plane were very & !!! liked really

! they didn't want to give up their plane! oh,


did i mentioned we were by 10 am, every day?!


must be something in the water ...or just the way we try to have
relaxing vacations that makes stuff happens. [ or i was born under a
catalysis sign, ]

for example, @ castaway cay ....i was slowed getting to lunch &
another family sit down besides my family. i had no place to sit so my
wife motioned me to sit with another family near by. we made friends
with them & they were really good company. i told my wife ( across
the other table ) , this guy has a great wife. she asked .
well because i noticed she was very calmed even though all these
young ladies kept coming up to her husband asking him for pictures.
my wife balled me out.."don't you know who he is?! ( he had joined
in after we all started eating)...joey fatone. he & his family was
super nice. his daughter had curly hair..cute as a button, & she had
him around her little finger! she reminded me of a s. temple.

*i got out of the dog house , by asking if he would mind taking pictures
with my daughter..& wife. he was very nice about it. and that
got me a few brownie points!

i think that the thing i like about disney the most, giving families
wonderful opportunties to bond and share family times!

as you can tell, i still have heat exhaustion.

however, i got to say...your pictures and stories really makes me
want to do a halloween trip! great presentation!

 

[mvf-m11c]

..thanks so very much!

ok~we're back! what a trip. why , oh~wow! it seem we always have
an adventure whenever we go, even after all these years.

tired, we are! why? because it was liked 100 degrees every day. really.

had problems @ atlanta again! our plane broke on the run way....
so eventually , they put us on another one, .

the crew on the new plane were very & !!! liked really

! they didn't want to give up their plane! oh,


did i mentioned we were by 10 am, every day?!


must be something in the water ...or just the way we try to have
relaxing vacations that makes stuff happens. [ or i was born under a
catalysis sign, ]

for example, @ castaway cay ....i was slowed getting to lunch &
another family sit down besides my family. i had no place to sit so my
wife motioned me to sit with another family near by. we made friends
with them & they were really good company. i told my wife ( across
the other table ) , this guy has a great wife. she asked .
well because i noticed she was very calmed even though all these
young ladies kept coming up to her husband asking him for pictures.
my wife balled me out.."don't you know who he is?! ( he had joined
in after we all started eating)...joey fatone. he & his family was
super nice. his daughter had curly hair..cute as a button, & she had
him around her little finger! she reminded me of a s. temple.

*i got out of the dog house , by asking if he would mind taking pictures
with my daughter..& wife. he was very nice about it. and that
got me a few brownie points!

i think that the thing i like about disney the most, giving families
wonderful opportunties to bond and share family times!

as you can tell, i still have heat exhaustion.

however, i got to say...your pictures and stories really makes me
want to do a halloween trip! great presentation!

Glad that you got back home safely and had a great time during your trip. I'm sorry to hear about the plane problem.

That is neat to hear that you met Joey Fatone during your trip.

Thank you. You should try to go to DL during the Halloween season next year. Not only with the Halloween decorations, but also you got to try SMGG which is an exciting ride. The waiting time that one day trip I did last week was long.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Day 1 – September 24, 2011 – Part 6​

After MS, I head on over to TL and get a FP for SMGG. The whole walk from MS was really exciting to see all the Halloween decorations outside the buildings, inside the windows, etc. Before I go to the Hub and get the Halloween decorations and the flowers, I had to get a FP for SMGG first. The line will be at least 40+ minute wait in the afternoon.

When I approached TL, ST was already at 40 minute wait while BLAB and AO were at there actually long wait times in the afternoon which was at least 20+ minute wait.

So I head on over to SMGG and the wait time was already at 40 minute wait. So I couldn’t go on SMGG until I get a FP.

When I got my FP, it was all the way up till 3pm to 4pm. Talk about a long wait time, but that is nothing in compare to ST which the FPs are already gone by the morning.

I left TL and head on over to the Hub and get the pictures of the Halloween decorations.

Over at the Hub, it was nice to take some photos of the Hub with the Halloween decorations

Here are more pics of the flowers for you Deej at DL Hub

Now I got each of the 7 pumpkin characters for each land they represent.


Buzz for Tomorrowland

Roger Rabbit for Toontown

Tinker Bell for Fantasyland

Winnie the Pooh for Critter Country

Woody for Frontierland

Jack Skellington for New Orlean Squares

Tarzan for Adventureland

Hub with the other pumpkins

More photos of the flowers by the Hub

The park started to pick up with more and more guests coming in.

After taking pics of the Halloween decorations around the Hub, I went on over to the Carnation Plaza Gardens. This might be the last time to see the CPG until it is turned into the Fantasy Faire in the future. It will be sad to see it go, so I thought it would be nice to walk through it for the last time. I had a lot of great times at the CPG where I like to watch the school bands or music programs that played at the CPG.

I went through the shortcut way towards Rancho Del Zocalo restaurant so I can get pictures of the Dia de los Muertos, but before I got to that area there were some garlands on top of the walkway.

That’s it for today and I will get back to you tomorrow.

 

[skiingfast]

Still thinking about the first photo. Wonder if they will get rid of the celebration theme on the Harbor entrance. Did you notice if the old parking lot entrance was being worked on too?


Interesting view of the CCT topper over the ITTBAB facade.

 

[WDWJonasGirl]

I was there that day. I'm enjoying the whole TR!!

 

[mvf-m11c]

Still thinking about the first photo. Wonder if they will get rid of the celebration theme on the Harbor entrance. Did you notice if the old parking lot entrance was being worked on too?


Interesting view of the CCT topper over the ITTBAB facade.

When I read micechat "In the Parks" it said that they are redoing the Harbor entrance. When I first looked at it, I thought that they would changed the theme after being Celebrate theme for quite awhile. When my dad and his friend dropped me off that Saturday, we came through Harbor Blvd. I don't know what the old parking lot entrance is like right now.

It was interesting to see the CCT tower from ITTBAB.

I was there that day. I'm enjoying the whole TR!!

How long were you at the park that day and hope that you had a great time.

Thank you Kaitlin.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Day 1 – September 24, 2011 – Part 7​

After leaving Rancho del Zocalo restaurant, it was a short walk to the Dia de los Muertos area where it looked the same as last years. It was nice to see the Dia de los Muertos again and I was hoping for a change, but the only change from last years and this years was close to the sign which one of the dolls was different.

This years pics

Last years pics

Most of the Dia de los Muertos was the same just like last years, but just a few changes with the little mini dolls right by the sign was the only major change. I was hoping to see the Ray Bradbury Halloween Tree, but it was covered with walls around the tree. It was a shame of not seeing the tree and the Halloween decorations.

After getting pics from Dia de los Muertos, I head on over to the back side of Frontierland and get pics from the Halloween Round Up. When I head on over to Big Thunder Ranch, there was quite a lot of people in that area and I would guess that it would be really busy over there. But I had to find out when I get over there.

That’s it for now and I will get back to you tomorrow.

 

[franandaj]

You guys are killing me with the Acronyms. I've got most of them but I'm lost on ITTBAB!

Great TR! I will also be sad to see Carnation Plaza Gardens gone having played numerous times in my Community Band on that Stage. We've played at DCA for the last few years because we seem to draw a better audience, but I'll be sad to see that stage go. I hope they put in another performance area for bands!

 

[mvf-m11c]

You guys are killing me with the Acronyms. I've got most of them but I'm lost on ITTBAB!

Great TR! I will also be sad to see Carnation Plaza Gardens gone having played numerous times in my Community Band on that Stage. We've played at DCA for the last few years because we seem to draw a better audience, but I'll be sad to see that stage go. I hope they put in another performance area for bands!

Sorry about that Allison. ITTBAB is "It's Tough To Be A Bug". I took a picture of the top of the Carthay Circle Theater in front of It's Tough to be a Bug facade.

Thank you. I had a lot of great memories of the CPG when I went to DL. Mostly is was the community bands playing and other schools from around the US have played there. I remember during the old days that they had Disney characters at the CPG. I hope that the Fantasy Faire will get good reviews or it will be a bad way to destroy a part of DL history.

 

[mvf-m11c]

Day 1 – September 24, 2011 – Part 8​

When I got over to Big Thunder Ranch, now it was time to get as many pics of the Halloween decorations. At BTR, most of the Halloween decorations were just like the same as the one back in 2010, but I was looking forward to the most is the carved character pumpkins. I know that they do different ones every week and year and it is always neat to see the carved pumpkins.

Before I went inside BTR, there was a photo area where you can take some nice pics of the Halloween decorations.

After that, I head in BTR. On the way in, it was quite a little busy with a lot of people looking and taking pictures of the carved pumpkins. There was some amazing carved pumpkins with the Disney characters on them.

Flounder

Ariel

Chuckles from Toy Story 3

Dumbo

Rapunzel

Davy Jones

Tink

The mice from Cinderella movie

A CM carving a pumpkin which is Cinderella

Mad hatter

Peter Pan and Boo

One of Tinker Bell Fairy friends

Piglet

Dory and Marlin

That’s it for now and I will get back to you later.

 

[kaoden39]

How absolutely adorable this is.

 

[WDWJonasGirl]

Love the pictures Bret!!