Fantasmic, Part 2
I hadn’t read about the new show in advance, so it was a pleasant surprise to see which princess stories were highlighted. Moana’s was really cool with the water features.
The pictures can’t do it justice, but we had a great view of the floats.
The only downside was that we got fairly wet. There was a lot of mist from the water, but it was thick enough and went long enough that I felt like we were getting very wet, even though it wasn’t water being directly sprayed at us. I shouted a quick apology down the line, and hoped no one was too upset about that. It was more water than I had expected. But we had such a great view!
Steamboat Willie was the best! I love the last scene where he brings out all the Disney characters together. It’s the perfect finale.
The show ended around 9:00pm. I suggested we sit awhile while the crowd cleared out. My memory of exiting this theater was standing for a long time while the line moved slowly. It was only day two, but my feet hurt already, and I wanted to limit standing time. We didn’t wait too long though, and we were ushered through a backstage exit area. The line did move slowly, and we made it back to the Skyliner at 9:21pm.
We waited 9 minutes to get on the Skyliner. The Skyliner line always seemed to move quickly no matter how long it was, and it was a much better experience than a bus where you might wait even longer and not be guaranteed a seat on the next bus that came. We were back to our resort at 9:42pm and back to our room at 9:50pm.
We broke into the Gideon’s cookies and cake for a few bites before bed. We tried the dark coffee cake cookie which is their coffee cake cookie with a chocolate base, served only in the evening, after sunset in fact.
It was really good, but even better saved for the next morning with coffee. I love the cinnamon-sugar crumbles on top. I also broke into the cake slice we bought. This is not a great picture, but it’s the only one I have.
This was the Coffee Toffee Double Frosted cake. I probably picked the wrong flavor, but I am not a convert to Gideon’s cakes just yet. This was good, but it was heavy on the coffee flavor and light on the toffee flavor (except in that frosting on the side), and I was hoping for more of a balance between the two. Unfortunately, we didn’t get to eat much of this cake before it became too hard to eat. The cake would have been better eaten fresh, but we were so full from other treats each day, much of this slice went to waste. The cookies lasted a lot longer. At the time of first drafting this, we had been home for two weeks and still had a lot of Gideon’s cookies cut up in our freezer. I enjoyed a bite or two of Gideon’s cookies each day and they still tasted just as good. I want to say they lasted until about a month after our trip.
I’m not sure what took us so long with bedtime; I probably set up another Epsom salt soak in the bathtub before bed. But my last note of the day was that it was 11:00pm before we were in bed, and at that time, only one of the kids had fallen asleep. We had one more early morning ahead of us!
Day 2 – Hollywood Studios Stats
Fitness Stats
Steps: 18,887
Miles: 7.52
Stand Hours: 17
Park/Crowd Stats
Crowd Prediction: 9/10
Crowd Actual:
10/10
4% of ride capacity unexpectedly offline
Ride/Genie+ Stats
Rides/Attractions/Shows: 9
Total time waiting in line: 133 minutes
Average wait time per ride/show: 16.6 minutes
Longest wait: 37 minutes to meet Goofy
Genie+: $32 per person (we didn’t buy)
ILL for RotR: $25 (we didn’t buy)
Dining Plan Running Total
$543.73 value vs. $1,746 paid