Poppie's Trip Report Day Three...Technical Problems!!!!

[poppie123]

Day Three

Today we have a bit of a lie in, I don’t even attempt to wake my Daughter until 8.45am. I know she is starting to struggle with the amount of walking as the night before she had been complaining the her knees hurt. She may be 13 but she is rather small for her age and often gets mistaken for a 10 year old. In fact when we went to buy her some ski wear last year the man in the Decathlon store thought she was 8. She was not impressed I can tell you. I know her knees must have been quite bad as she had taken a couple of pain killers and she hates taking them (she still can’t swallow them properly) We head down to breakfast for 9.30 and notice how much quieter it is. Today there is no long queue and no takeaway breakfast in operation.

For today I have a plan, I decided yesterday that we should head to the parks later so that we can last out for the parade and candlebration. My aim is to get to the parks around midday do a couple of rides, have some lunch, more rides and then settle down to watch the parade.

First stop Frontierland where we grab a fastpass for Thunder Mountain and then head off to Indiana Jones. Much to my Daughters disgust when we reach Indiana it is shut due to a technical fault, with no idea how long the ride will be out of action for we decide that whilst we are in Adventureland we may as well have a go on POTC. With only a 5 mins wait time we are on the ride pretty much straight away. Imagine our dismay when nearing the end of the ride it comes to a standstill, the emergency lights come on and an announcement is made that there is a technical problem which they are trying to fix and would we all please remain seated. All my Daughter could think about wasn’t the fact we were stuck on this ride but that if we didn’t move soon we would miss our fastpass time slot for BTM. Finally after around 10 mins we started moving again, and made it just in time to ride Big Thunder Mountain.

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Next we decide to have a walk round Fantasyland as we hadn’t really been in there much at all. We went through the maze, which I have to admit was quite amusing trying to figure out how to get to the tower thing in the middle and then had a go on snow white as there were only a few people queing. I can understand why they say it may be a bit frightening to small children, it is rather dark in places not the sort of ride we were expecting. We were going to go on Peter pan’s flight but the wait time board was not working and judging by the queue and the fact that the fastpass return times were between an hour and a half and two hours later we decided to give it a miss.
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For lunch we weren’t that hungry so stopped off at the bakeshop where my daughter had a ham and cheese baguette and I had a doughnut and a packet of crisps. This was more than enough after having such a late breakfast.

Next we headed over to Discoveryland and to Autopia, the wait time said 45 mins but as we had time to kill until the parade we decided we may as well just wait it out. In fact the actual wait time was 30 mins in the end. My daughter loved this ride and I was so pleased it was open as on our previous visit it had been closed. She decided she wanted to drive and we laughed so much because she couldn’t control where the car was going. It’s a shame I couldn’t take a picture of her but is really was quite impossible to get her and the car in the shot whilst sitting next to her. She begged me to go on Space Mountain but after yesterday the answer was a most definite NO!! she sulked a bit, said she would never come with me again but she got over it. Well for today anyway.
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At 3.30 we settled down to watch the parade, the route was already pretty choc o bloc with people waiting and we found the only place to grab a space was right up by Mainstreet station. We took some pics which I think show just how busy the parks were. Ok, so they may not be as busy as in the Summer but I think for February the place is quite busy !!
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After the parade we have a wonder around the shops as my daughter wanted to buy a few bits. We then grabbed another fastpass for BTM which had a return time of between 6.00 and 6.30pm. That meant we could just about watch Candlebration and then dash through to ride it.
Candlebration was great, I am glad it was nearly dark as I am sure watching it when it was light would not be the same.
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We then head straight over to Frontierland and to our disappointment BTM was……..,well you guessed closed due to a technical fault. We were told that we could return tomorrow and use our fastpasses then. We headed over to Indiana ( I think this is becoming my daughters favourite ride) which was by this time open again and rode that instead. On the way back we passed back through Frontierland and noticed that there were still loads of people hanging around BTM, i decided to stay put for a few minutes. Then just as we were about to go I heard the unmistakable sound of the BTM train, as It rounded the corner near the fastpass entrance we noted it was full of CM’S. The man collecting the fastpass tickets joked that they had closed it so that the staff could ride it, I hope he was joking !!!!!!
With the ride now open again we thought we might as well go on. My daughter moaned as we were in carriage 7 as she wanted to be near the back. I told her that it didn’t really matter where you sat as it was completely different riding it at night. Of course I was right and it was great fun. To top it all off when we came back round there were only a few people waiting near the back carriages to go and and we were told we could ride again. What a brilliant end to the day.!!!!!

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On leaving the park we saw Mickey at the top of Mainstreet station waving goodbye to everyone, we took a picture but as he kept moving around it didn’t come out too well. Note the time, 7.30pm I thought the park shut at 7.
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We wondered through the Disney Village on our way back and grabbed a McDonalds to take away for dinner. We needed to get an early night as tomorrow we have an early breakfast.

Day Four….. EMH and I will do Crush !!!!

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

I'm loving your reports.
I must make a mental note to look for Mickey as we are leaving next time lol.

 

[poppyolivia]

When we were there in Jan the rides (most of them) stopped and started because of Technical problems..kinda got used to it! Buzz ride was really bad for it.
Your photos are great I love the POTC ones..mine came out really bad!! I got a few of Mickey waving goodbye..mine kept coming out blurry too then I changed it to sports mode because the wee mouse kept moving fast Again thank you for sharing your photos and trip!

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

Like the pics Katrina...i never saw mickey when we left

 

[poppyolivia]

Like the pics Katrina...i never saw mickey when we left

that was the night we took our time and went for a cheesey hotdog in caseys corner then got locked in!! I still have nightmares about that!

 

[jillrobinson]

Another busy day !
We had the same thing happen to us at the end of the day at BTM last year, By the time we came off Frontierland was empty and closed except for some CM's who appeared to be having a staff meeting, it was very odd seeing everything so quiet.

In all our visits we've only seen Mickey wave Goodbye once.

Look forward to hearing all about Crush.

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

that was the night we took our time and went for a cheesey hotdog in caseys corner then got locked in!! I still have nightmares about that!

I want to get locked in lol.

 

[Ware Bears]

Another lovely day and photos ~ Big Thunder Mountain is fantastic in the dark!!

 

[marcus.ka]

Thank you for your pictures.
Please don't get me wrong but why are people making so many pictures nowadays inside POTC and PM. You can't ride these attractions anymore without having flashes after flashes. The "No Pictures inside the attractions" signs are there for a reason.
And then (even worse) most of the quests are using the "red eyes flash" that means not only one flash no even 3 or 4. I didn't know that pirates and phantoms can get red eyes if you try to picture them.

 

[fan of the TTA]

thanks for the report....i look forward to reading about day 4.

don't like indiana jones ride at all....so i think it should be closed.

last time we were there, my fave tride was star tours (and it still is) rode it so many times. also love the buz ride, shooting the lazer's are fun. BTM for me, was the ride broken more often than working. it always seemed to break down during the afternoon parade, but it still never put me off

 

[poppyolivia]

Thank you for your pictures.
Please don't get me wrong but why are people making so many pictures nowadays inside POTC and PM. You can't ride these attractions anymore without having flashes after flashes. The "No Pictures inside the attractions" signs are there for a reason.
And then (even worse) most of the quests are using the "red eyes flash" that means not only one flash no even 3 or 4. I didn't know that pirates and phantoms can get red eyes if you try to picture them.

I can see where you are coming from .... but alot of people take indoor photos with the 'natural light' setting.....in saying that mine came out rubbish!! You can tell what it is but maybe if I used the zoom I would have got on better..????

There was a few people taking photos in POTC and not one had a flash.

 

[marcus.ka]

You won’t get great pictures using the „natural light“ as it is to dark inside POTC and PM and the boats and doom buggies are moving to fast.
It annoys me that so many guests making so many pictures inside the attractions nowadays.

 

[poppie123]

I have to say in my defence that i had absolutely no idea that you could not take pictures on this ride. As i had said we pretty much walked straight on so i didn't take any notice of signs on the way. The other people in our boat were all taking pictures and so i thought it was ok to..
I know for next time.

 

[poppyolivia]

I have to say in my defence that i had absolutely no idea that you could not take pictures on this ride. As i had said we pretty much walked straight on so i didn't take any notice of signs on the way. The other people in our boat were all taking pictures and so i thought it was ok to..
I know for next time.

If it makes you feel any better Poppie, I never saw the signs either I still think your POTC photos were worth the risk!!

 

[poppyolivia]

You won’t get great pictures using the „natural light“ as it is to dark inside POTC and PM and the boats and doom buggies are moving to fast.
It annoys me that so many guests making so many pictures inside the attractions nowadays.

I could see what I took a photos of, it just looked like it was far back...would a flash have sorted that...and no I'm not going to try now knowing youre not supposed too but just outta interest or is that a zoom thing?

 

[Cyrano]

Loved your photos

We've never saw Mickey either