Day 4 27th March 2008 Studios
I woke up at around 6-30am, before our wake up call which was booked for 6 -55am. We were all on the ball and ready for breakfast by 7-25am. We had a lovely, leisurely breakfast before heading off to the main park, arriving at around 8-20am We hadn’t rushed around, as it was chucking it down with rain, but we were not downhearted, and made use of our ponchos.
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Main Street really is an amazing site when it is completely empty
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We made straight for Space mountain, having two turns and thoroughly enjoying it. We all tried to see who could look most scared for the ride photo, but the booth was not open at that time so I tried to catch the moment on my camera.
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The boys were desperate to destroy Zurg again on Buzz, and even escaped with hostages!!
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We then headed back to Fantasyland so that Becks & Jordan could re-visit Peter Pan. Me and Lisa went along, purely to keep them company (tee hee). The boys all went on the teacups, before Jakey insisted on riding the carousel again, and this time he sat on his own horse and absolutely loved it.
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Max went on with Granny Leese and Jordan managed to hop on board too.
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Look - no hands
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The girls loved Cinderellas carriage, parked up outside the auberge de cendrillon restaurant
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The rain had stopped now, as we immediately made our way round to the Studio Park, arriving just after opening at 10am. I shot off to Fastpass TOT, with a return time of 11-05am, before meeting the others at Crush. Even though the park had only just opened, the queue time was already at 60 minutes, but we decided to do it anyway, so Becks, Ben, Jordan & I joined the queue. The disabled pass does not work as well in the Studios, as the lines have been made wheelchair friendly, so you just join the normal queue. The ride was very enjoyable, but not worth such a long wait. I don’t think Jordan was too impressed, as he found the spinning in the dark a bit scary, but at least he gave it a go! We met the others outside the animation studio, before rushing along just in time for Becky, Liam, Ben & Lisa to make the fastpass time for TOT.
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Becks really did love this ride. I kept the boys occupied with donuts & pop, and took the opportunity to sneak in a coffee, before they got back from the tower.
We moved on to the Studio tour next,
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and this time we did get to the front of line, which was a good job really, as we wanted to make the Cars Motors Action show. I thought the younger boys would be terrified of catastrophe canyon, but they quite enjoyed it, but then Max screamed at the London scene! So off we went to the motors action show, and this was to prove a huge hit with everyone, especially Jordan. We got a prime position, right in the centre & on the front row. It felt as though we were in the middle of the action. Jordan is car mad anyway, so this really had him smiling. Jakey was also totally spellbound, and very impressed, especially when the biker caught fire.
We had to rush straight off to the parade next, and while it was very good, it was never going to live up to the main park parade. There was not as much character interaction, but the boys seemed to enjoy it anyway.
Straight off now to do one of Bens favourites, the Rock & Roller Coaster.
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This was his first ever coaster in America, and this was equally as good. Becks loved it and wanted to go straight back on, but Lisa had checked out Stitch Live, and the English version was due to start very shortly. All the kids loved this show, and I must say it was quite good, but if I’m honest I preferred the one in America, but that’s probably because I liked Crush as a character more than I like Stitch.
It was time for us to rush back to the main park now for our Tea Party appointment in Plaza Gardens. There was a very good selection of sweets, but as you got to the end of the buffet, there was sausages, omelettes, tomatoes and potato balls. This was a little strange, as you had already filled your plate with the sweet stuff. Surely these should come first??
Yet again the character interaction was brilliant. We had Tigger first, followed by that flippin dog, who haunted us yet again, I'm sure Becks shot under the table when she saw him coming!! We love you really Pluto!!
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We had Mr Smee again next, followed by Pinocchio and then the boys were thrilled to see Eeyore.
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A new character for us was Governor Radcliff from Pocahontas, but I don’t think any of us have ever seen this film. He gave a very good reaction though, when Liam asked him to smile, which was very difficult with that dead pan face!
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We also had Minnie again, but unfortunately I was too busy filling my face again, or filming with the video camera to catch every one of the characters. Another couple of old favourites, Robin Hood & Friar Tuck also visited us.
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Next came Prince John, but he was in a really bad mood, throwing the kids autograph books on the floor and insisting that they bow down to him and kiss his hand.
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Another new one for us was the Genie from Aladdin, and he was very popular, although he didn’t grant Liams wish to be able to stay for another few weeks!!
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All the characters spent lots of time with us, and an added bonus was being able to watch the parade pass by through the window. The Plaza Gardens building reminded us of Crystal Palace in the Magic Kingdom, and we had just as good a time in each of the locations.
To be continued below