The Wazowski Report ! HalloweenTime TR Day 1 DONE & Day 2 Started !! Added 12/26!

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Great shot of the IASW Holiday exterior - and there have been a lot of them posted on DIS by people, but every now and then someone takes a picture from a certain angle or where the light is just a little bit different - not to mention that some shots are more clear because the camera used is better - and so it makes it look fresh and interesting! Also, love, love, LOVE the nighttime Teacups shot, and you and I are thinking alike, Jasmine! When I was wandering around DL during my few golden hours alone on a Sunday night, I passed the Teacups and looked at how pretty the lanterns were and was thinking, 'If someone had a really good camera this could be a fantastic, beautiful shot!' I vote for that Teacups picture to be added to the Disneyland Picture of the Day thread!

Oh, and about the Mickey/Disney t-shirts... I used to buy quite a few Mickey t-shirts in the '90s, and I took care of them so they lasted a loooooonnnng time, until they just fell apart in tatters this decade! But I stopped buying Disney shirts after the '90s, and when I wanted to get a few new black Mickey t-shirts in 2007, I couldn't find any. I like the plain black ones with a graphic on the front. I don't like white shirts as a rule. I am partial to the basic black Mickey tee, and there seemed to be none around. They had shirts in all different colors but not black! So, finally, in 2008 I began to see some black or dark, dark blue shirts pop up here and there, and then I found the great one that AXIOM and I both have in October 2008. So I haven't been buying them like crazy, but at least I know they are making a return! And I WILL wear mine in the real world!

I have seen some of the 'headless Mickey' shirts (not in that specific splattered paint design, but other designs), and I think the concept is interesting - it is a new spin on an old theme - but I haven't gotten one yet. I would just feel so bad wearing around a Mickey shirt where his cute little head was decapitated! I might, though. I have a bit of a bizarre sense of humor so I am not above it if I have to wear one!!!

Thanks Sherry !!

I agree with you about the shirts. I have a million and I tend to wear a Disney shirt at least 2-3 times a week, so I think I have enough to not have to buy some for a while though. I loooove the shirt you guys have though. Its so cool looking

I love the teacups at night. That is one of the shots I wanted to get before we left. I just LOVE Alice in Wonderland. Its so funny, sarcastic, psychedelic and colorful. I'm so in love with that area of the park! I had to get a picture of it. Its going to be my desktop image

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

OMG. You girls are so Asian! I LOVE IT!

I LOVE the picture of ShyBoy looking at the White Rabbit statue! He's like "WTH DO YOU WANT?!!!!"

Jesse with his Jesse hat. Lol. Too flippin' funny. I always wanted that Jesse hat too, it's cute!

OMG. The Dis'er ladies are so HAWT!!! Woo! Man, I wish I went!

Great TR! More MORE!!!!!!!!

Thanks Courtney! What can I say, we're pretty asian

Eric totally wanted me to take a picture of him like that with the White Rabbit, so I'll give all the kudos to him!

I think the Jessie hat is TOO cute. I tried it on but my head is too big

I wish you could have been there, as well as Sherry. Then it would be PERFECT !!! There's always next time though, right ?

 

[Sherry E]

I wish I could have been there to meet you guys too (and I would have invited myself along to go see Aladdin with you and Kerri!), so we all (including Courtney) have to make a point of actually being at DLR at the same time someday in the future. It's funny, Jasmine - you and Courtney were there at the same time in October and never saw each other, and Nancy and I were there at the same time (well, our trips overlapped) in December and because I was stressed and forgot to copy her phone number into my cell before I left, we never met! A lot of near-misses going on! I will gladly get in a big silly group photo, but I will hide in the back with my giant sunglasses because I don't want to detract from the HAWT-ness of everyone! I am a HAWT-ness killer!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Hey guys!

I only have a short period to post, but I wanted to show you guys my uploaded youtube video of our trip. I have to go to work, so here is the link ----> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDWX-fd49x8

ENJOY!

 

[pixiewings71]

Ok those are super cute pics of us!!!! and we were sooooooooooo happy to hang out with you guys too. We saw you and Kaycee on MS shopping on your last day and we ran into Shyboy in the pin store in Frontierland. I wish we'd had more time together but seriously, meeting everyone there was just sooooooooooo awesome!!!!!! It really was great for me!

 

[disneyL0VE]

Ok those are super cute pics of us!!!! and we were sooooooooooo happy to hang out with you guys too. We saw you and Kaycee on MS shopping on your last day and we ran into Shyboy in the pin store in Frontierland. I wish we'd had more time together but seriously, meeting everyone there was just sooooooooooo awesome!!!!!! It really was great for me!

I love the picture of us Kerri !! We seriously COULDN'T stop talking about you & Micah the rest of our trip Jaz & I wish we could've ran into you guys one last time before we all went home, but that's okay We all hope to get together with you again .. along with EVERYONE ELSEEEEE

 

[shyboy72]

HAHAHAHHA!!!! Lots of fun.. Can't wait to go again..

 

[travelmel]

Wazo!

Wow! Those are such extraordinaire pics of The Blue Fairy, Fantasia, The Teacups, It's a Small World, and all the PEOPLE in between!



You are an amazing photographer!! I kid you not you should do a coffeetable book.... gear it towards KIDS... it will sell, I promise!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Monday January 5th: Day 3

Kaycee's Unbirthday

Since we spent 2 full days at the parks until closing, we were kind of happy that the park opened at 10 today. We slept in for a while and took our time to get ready but still managed to be a little late for our Minnie & Friends PS at 9:40 am (we got there at 9:50). We were lead through the shops on the right side of Main Street and led to the Plaza Inn. They still had Main Street closed off for the park opening and there was a stampede of people there. It was CRAZY! I mean, its MONDAY after New Years. Why isn’t everyone at school and work ? This was a bad sign already. We got led into the Plaza Inn, but not before taking pictures (I bought it because I’m a sucker for pictures!).

We were lead towards the left side of the building and got to eat way in the back where all the lovely windows are (it looked like a hot house for plants). They had a lovely selection of food: sausage, ham, bacon, scrambled eggs, biscuits & gravy, french toast, waffles, fruit, an omelete bar, and a wonderful selection of drinks. The food was great and the character interaction was amazing.

(mmm, good bacon)

Apparently the fairy god mother was talking to TheAXIOM while we were all out getting food and he told her it was his sister’s birthday. So she screamed out for Kaycee and walked clear across the place to go see her! It was too funny. Throughout the meal different characters kept taking Jesse’s hat and posing cool for us with it on. It was funny.

(he was sleeping on Kaycee)

One of the highlights of the meal was when Minnie dropped by. There was a little girl standing by the bathrooms outside of the restaurant and she was waving at Minnie. She waved back and the little girl blew her two air kisses and Minnie blew some back and the little girl was so thrilled. She had this big twinkle in her eye and she ran to get her grandma to show her what happened. It was so magical. Then, Captain Hook came over and I knew there was going to be trouble. He looked over at Kaycee because she had her birthday hat on and pin and he was messing with her and me! I asked if we could take a picture with him and he slowly moved over to us, and knocked off my EARS as the picture was getting taken ! What a cod fish! Haha!

All the characters were saying Happy Birthday to Kaycee because she wore her pin & hat, but her real birthday was tomorrow. (She wanted to get a full day's worth of wearing the hat).

At the end of the meal, Tigger came over and was pointing at the balloon a CM gave me and I looked up. He slowly moved over to me and out of nowhere he bonked me on the head and ran away giggling! So rude ! Everyone thought it was super funny though. After, Dale came over and had a sword fight with one of the nearby kids. His brother came to the rescue and both of them stabbed Dale. He rolled over on the ground and pretended to die. It was really funny !

As we were leaving Eeyore and Dale were trying to court a young lady by giving her the flowers on the table, salt and pepper shakers, forks, napkins, etc. The CM told them it wasn’t cute and what they should do was pick up a sugar packet and say “excuse me miss, I think you dropped your name tag” and Eeyore rolled on the ground and laughed for days! It was sooo funny!

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[wazowskiLOVER:)]

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After the meal, we went over to the castle and FINALLLLLY went through the Sleeping Beauty Walkthrough. It was so fantastic!! You all should really see it. But before going in, we got some classic castle pictures taken.

After we walked through some shops like the place where they have coats of arms for families. That was really neat ! Then we made our way to Casey Jr. to ride it for the first time (sorry I said it was on Sunday, but I’m totally blending days together). We talked to a CM there and he said he saw a wedding there recently that was over a $1 Million !!?! He said they purchased the shooting star firework and EVERYTHING! Crazy business.

Then after we finally went on the teacups. Us girls were still full and in no mood to throw up, so we let the boys stay in one cup and we hung out in ours and barely spun it.

They were going a million miles per hour! I thought for suure they’d be sick on the way out!

As we left, we went to see what the line was like for the Matterhorn. NO way. We’re not waiting. So we got FPs for Space and headed over to DCA to get some more TSMM action going!

Before we went to Paradise Pier, we went to Condor Flats and took pictures with Mater & Lightening McQueen and went on Soarin'. Most of them have never been on Soarin' and they liked it; especially the scents. Very cool

The line at TSMM was only 30 minutes (it was actually a little less than that) and we had a blast again (of course). Then we went to Screamin’ and waited for about 12 minutes. It was pretty sweet. We figured we should head back after because we wanted to get warm clothes for the evening since it was going to be 38 degrees out tonight!

(tickle fight!)

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[Sherry E]

Great pictures with Hook, Chip, Dale and Pooh & his gang!! One question - I have never been able to determine this from what anyone has posted on DIS. Is the Minnie & Friends breakfast an all-you-can-eat buffet, or is it just 'buffeteria style', where you go up to the counter with your tray and tell the person behind the glass what you want and they pile it on your plate (which is what Plaza Inn is during the rest of the day, I think)? At first I thought that all the character meals were all-you-can-eat-buffets, but then someone posted something to make me think differently at some point and I have been confused.

Also, I have heard conflicting reports about Minnie's - some say it's their favorite of the character meals and some say it is their least favorite. I have heard reports of children running around after the characters and how there isn't much structure to it, unlike the other character meals. Now I love Goofy's and have only had good experiences there, and I know a lot of other people do too, but I know there are a few people who don't like Goofy's Kitchen AT ALL, so I don't know what to make of the conflicting Minnie's reports. I trust your opinion, though. So is is kind of chaotic, with children running around, chasing characters and everything being kind of frantic and frenzied? Because I would really like to try it in the future, just for the different characters to visit with. I would never banish Goofy's from my DLR agendas, but I would like to try Minnie's as well on the next weekend trip.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

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On the way out we headed towards Bug’sland and went to go see Its tough to be a bug! Shyboy72 didn’t want to watch, so he went to P.T. Flea to look at pins and we enjoyed the show. It was SOOO good. I LOOOVED it . I think that is going to be a regular for me. Oh & how gross were those feelings on the chairs ! Me and Kaycee TOTALLY screamed and jumped up! Haha !!

By the time we left the park it was about 4, so we went to McDonalds to get some food and went to the hotel. We rested for an hour, then got up and going to head back to DL. Everyone was pretty much exhausted by then, but we had to keep truckin’. When we got there, people were waiting on Main Street to see the fireworks and the crowds were worse than Sunday! ?!?! It was crazy!

We went on Space Mountain & Shyboy72 went to Starcade to play some games while we did, and after we tried to head over to Adventureland.

We headed to Jungle Cruise because the guys wanted to see it at night. The jokes were pretty much the same (bleh) and the line was pretty long. After, the fireworks were getting started, so we went on Indie. That line was pretty dang short because we were trying to find all the Hidden Mickeys in there and its hard to do when you have to walk through everything. Oh btw, we had been searching for the hidden mickeys all weekend and crossing them off of my book when we found them! After that ride, we went on Pirates. By then, Fantasmic was just starting. It was walk on and no wait whatsoever (it was a long wait all weekend, so we waited until Monday to go on it. I know, crazy). After, we went on BTMR and were the last car to go on the ride! It was pretty cool . When we walked out, I pulled out my trusty tripod and we went all over Frontierland, NOS, and Main Street so I could finish off taking pictures . The security was politely pushing us out of the park.

We slowly walked towards the front and stopped in front of the tree and hung out under it for a good 30 minutes. How awesome is that? By then, the crowds were pretty much gone and TheAXIOM and I heard ‘Put on your Sunday Clothes’ and HAD to skip down Main Street. It was too perfect! The park closed at 8, so we got back to the hotel around 9:30. I popped some nacho dip in the microwave and we snacked and reminisced/packed for the rest of the night.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Great pictures with Hook, Chip, Dale and Pooh & his gang!! One question - I have never been able to determine this from what anyone has posted on DIS. Is the Minnie & Friends breakfast an all-you-can-eat buffet, or is it just 'buffeteria style', where you go up to the counter with your tray and tell the person behind the glass what you want and they pile it on your plate (which is what Plaza Inn is during the rest of the day, I think)? At first I thought that all the character meals were all-you-can-eat-buffets, but then someone posted something to make me think differently at some point and I have been confused.

Also, I have heard conflicting reports about Minnie's - some say it's their favorite of the character meals and some say it is their least favorite. I have heard reports of children running around after the characters and how there isn't much structure to it, unlike the other character meals. Now I love Goofy's and have only had good experiences there, and I know a lot of other people do too, but I know there are a few people who don't like Goofy's Kitchen AT ALL, so I don't know what to make of the conflicting Minnie's reports. I trust your opinion, though. So is is kind of chaotic, with children running around, chasing characters and everything being kind of frantic and frenzied? Because I would really like to try it in the future, just for the different characters to visit with. I would never banish Goofy's from my DLR agendas, but I would like to try Minnie's as well on the next weekend trip.

It is pretty much an all you can eat buffet. It is kind of buffeteria style though where you tell them what you want, but you can go back as many times as you want. I personally liked it a lot because we were in that corner, but I did see some kids running around (but thats kind of what kids do when characters are around). I didn't see people getting chaotic though.

There also were CMs with the characters keeping everyone in line, so it really isn't as bad as people are painting it to be. We enjoyed it A LOt; almost more than Goofy's. I think we do just because we've been going the past couple of times to Goofy's Kitchen. You should try it; a slow day would be better too.

 

[kaoden39]

Gotta love those sexy 3D glasses!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Gotta love those sexy 3D glasses!

Oh yeah They're so HOT !

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Wazo!

Wow! Those are such extraordinaire pics of The Blue Fairy, Fantasia, The Teacups, It's a Small World, and all the PEOPLE in between!



You are an amazing photographer!! I kid you not you should do a coffeetable book.... gear it towards KIDS... it will sell, I promise!

Thats so sweet of you Mel ! My mom says thank you !

I'm really having a lot of fun with photography; especially at DLR. Its combining two of my loves together. Its fantastic !! I'd like to do a tablebook one day. I've already printed a book of my photography on a kind of do it yourself website and I'd LOOOOVE to do it once I have a wide range of photographs to contribute to it. I guess I'll just have to go to DLR a little bit more

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

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By the time we left the park it was about 4, so we went to McDonalds to get some food and went to the hotel. We rested for an hour, then got up and going to head back to DL. Everyone was pretty much exhausted by then, but we had to keep truckin’. When we got there, people were waiting on Main Street to see the fireworks and the crowds were worse than Sunday! ?!?! It was crazy!

Hi WazowskiLOVER,
I just started reading your TR. Looks like you all had a great time. Love the photos! I give you credit carrying the tripod everywhere. It's a lot of work! I'm still on vacation in Las Vegas right now. I just noticed the above quote. I was there at the park on Monday Jan 5. Fireworks weren't on the schedule that day. In fact, IIRC, the Xmas tree already came down Sunday night after park closing. Am I losing my mind? I was fighting off a cold from the week before Dec 31 and thought I didn't need to go to the DR, but it got worse being out and about everyday in DL in the cold weather. So maybe I am losing my mind about fireworks on that Monday. The last day I recall them showing it was Sunday...
Actually I just looked at a DL schedule (the one they have at the turnstile) for that Monday through Thursday (Jan 5-8) and there were no fireworks scheduled those days, only Fantasmic. Did you see the fireworks that Monday? I only recall seeing F! from Monday on. Maybe I am losing it and DL changed the calendar again and didn't update it!

Oh yeah, I saw the lady with the huge 4" heeled boots, too. She must've been in pain from trying to walk around in those! Nuts!

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

Hi WazowskiLOVER,
I just started reading your TR. Looks like you all had a great time. Love the photos! I give you credit carrying the tripod everywhere. It's a lot of work! I'm still on vacation in Las Vegas right now. I just noticed the above quote. I was there at the park on Monday Jan 5. Fireworks weren't on the schedule that day. In fact, IIRC, the Xmas tree already came down Sunday night after park closing. Am I losing my mind? I was fighting off a cold from the week before Dec 31 and thought I didn't need to go to the DR, but it got worse being out and about everyday in DL in the cold weather. So maybe I am losing my mind about fireworks on that Monday. The last day I recall them showing it was Sunday...
Actually I just looked at a DL schedule (the one they have at the turnstile) for that Monday through Thursday (Jan 5-8) and there were no fireworks scheduled those days, only Fantasmic. Did you see the fireworks that Monday? I only recall seeing F! from Monday on. Maybe I am losing it and DL changed the calendar again and didn't update it!

Oh yeah, I saw the lady with the huge 4" heeled boots, too. She must've been in pain from trying to walk around in those! Nuts!

I know for a fact that the tree was still there on Monday because that picture of my cousin & I under the tree are from Monday. They didn't get rid of the tree until Monday night. Most of the decorations around the park were still up that day. All of the decorations I took pictures of in NOS were from Monday too! I was happy because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to take any nighttime shots. You could be right about the fireworks though ! My mind is escaping me on our trip and I could not get the days straight at all!

Thanks for the compliments! My tripod retracts pretty small, so it wasn't TOO bad. It fit in my backpack, which I carry with me all the time

 

[DisneySuiteFreak]

I know for a fact that the tree was still there on Monday because that picture of my cousin & I under the tree are from Monday. They didn't get rid of the tree until Monday night. Most of the decorations around the park were still up that day. All of the decorations I took pictures of in NOS were from Monday too! I was happy because I was worried that I wouldn't be able to take any nighttime shots. You could be right about the fireworks though ! My mind is escaping me on our trip and I could not get the days straight at all!

Thanks for the compliments! My tripod retracts pretty small, so it wasn't TOO bad. It fit in my backpack, which I carry with me all the time

I am so sorry!Please disregard my previous post regarding Monday. I woke up this morning and realized, hello? I wasn't in the park on Monday. I was so sick that I stayed back at the hotel and just vegged out. It was Tuesday that the tree was down and I saw the lady with the 4" boots! I don't know if she was the same one you saw the day before. This one was about 40ish looking and wearing an outfit that looked like something Cindy Lauper would've worn proudly in the 80's! I know it's coming back, but it was kind of funny looking. And I don't know how she was able to walk around in those heels all day!
One day is just completely running into the next and being sick on vacation doesn't help either! I got sick last year at DL too! BTW, what brand tripod are you using? I'm looking for a lightweight, small tripod that's easy to carry around on vacation. I have a CF one but even 2-3 pounds gets heavy lugging around all day in DL. I have a lightweight, junk one, that weighs less than 1 pound that I brought on this past trip, because I just knew the CF tripod would sit in the locker all day. It worked but I had to really keep an eye on it because obviously it's less stable than the CF tripod. I need a new one though, because this one is a little too scary unstable in the connection plate. It's actually broken, but I used it. Anyway, great job on the TR and the pics! That's for posting and please disregard my air headed previous response.

 

[wazowskiLOVER:)]

I am so sorry!Please disregard my previous post regarding Monday. I woke up this morning and realized, hello? I wasn't in the park on Monday. I was so sick that I stayed back at the hotel and just vegged out. It was Tuesday that the tree was down and I saw the lady with the 4" boots! I don't know if she was the same one you saw the day before. This one was about 40ish looking and wearing an outfit that looked like something Cindy Lauper would've worn proudly in the 80's! I know it's coming back, but it was kind of funny looking. And I don't know how she was able to walk around in those heels all day!
One day is just completely running into the next and being sick on vacation doesn't help either! I got sick last year at DL too! BTW, what brand tripod are you using? I'm looking for a lightweight, small tripod that's easy to carry around on vacation. I have a CF one but even 2-3 pounds gets heavy lugging around all day in DL. I have a lightweight, junk one, that weighs less than 1 pound that I brought on this past trip, because I just knew the CF tripod would sit in the locker all day. It worked but I had to really keep an eye on it because obviously it's less stable than the CF tripod. I need a new one though, because this one is a little too scary unstable in the connection plate. It's actually broken, but I used it. Anyway, great job on the TR and the pics! That's for posting and please disregard my air headed previous response.

No problem !! I was thinking about it and was totally confused for an hour trying to remember what day everything happened. That lady with her white boots TOTALLY stuck in my mind though. I'm just going to be honest and say that she looked crazy ! Her outfit did not look comfortable AT ALL for DL.

The tripod I'm using is the Manfrotto 785 Modo Maxi Photo Video Grip Head Tripod. I LOOVE it! I'm gonna say its like 2.5 lbs although I'm not exactly sure the actual weight. I don't think its too much of an inconvenience, plus I always think its worth it because I want to take fantastic shots of Disneyland so I can make a tablebook (thanks TravelMel for the awesome idea). I got it on amazon.com and right now if you get it from there its going for $56! I think thats a steal!