visit to CA, but no lightning McQueen or Mater!

[DisneyZell]

so we went to CA last week (Tuesday), and had an absolute blast. My 4 year old can now ride everything except California Screaming, so we had a great time bouncing around the park riding basically everything else.

When we woke up it was pouring rain, but by the time we got to the park it was beautiful and stayed that way all day long. The only bummer of the morning was that Tower of Terror was closed for the first few hours.

However, a big pet peeve started later that day. Our 4 year old is a HUGE Lightning McQueen fan. It was advertised that he and Mater would be out, and he was so excited. So at the first designated time we made our way over from Tower of Terror to outside that theater (Golden dreams I think?). There were CM's standing there looking like a pit crew. We walked up.

"Oh, they are stuck in Radiator Springs, so couldn't make it for this showing."

we asked about later...oh, you need to check back. Which we did. Again, and again and again. 4 times we walked over only to find these same folks dressed in yellow telling us they were stuck in Radiator Springs. Not that we had that much to do that day, but come on...make a friggin decision so the kids don't keep having their hopes up in order to have them dashed. I can understand missing one showing...but all of them? Characters are a part of the allure of Disney, and if you take those away, Disney loses alot IMHO.

Add to this the need of the CM's to stay in character (we even went to guest services to ask...their response was "there was a storm in Radiator Springs so they couldn't get out". Um, my kids weren't with me, you can give me a straight answer.

This one thing can definately damper a day...and what would have been a perfect day was definately marred by the fact that we kept hauling ourselves over there for nothing...

sorry to dump...but it was annoying!!!

 

[Ksquared]

Add to this the need of the CM's to stay in character (we even went to guest services to ask...their response was "there was a storm in Radiator Springs so they couldn't get out". Um, my kids weren't with me, you can give me a straight answer.

I had to chuckle at this......It certainly must have added to your frustration to get that kind of answer when your kids were not around!

Definitely a bummer. My son also loves Lightning McQueen so I hope there are no storms in Radiator Springs next month!

 

[DisneyZell]

I had to chuckle at this......It certainly must have added to your frustration to get that kind of answer when your kids were not around!

Definitely a bummer. My son also loves Lightning McQueen so I hope there are no storms in Radiator Springs next month!

Exactly...you can come out of character when the parents are alone. I'd like to visit Radiator Springs now that apparently it must exist!

 

[DisQueen]

Maybe there's a secret road behind Toon Town??? Sorry you didn't get to see the cars. That is frustrating.

 

[maddiesmommie]

This will be really important to my 3.5 yr old DS,too. Where do you find out which characters will be hanging out and where in the parks?

 

[DisneyZell]

when you walk in you can get a map and a schedule that will show you all the show times, and it also tells you where it will take place.

 

[dizlover21]

There exuse is hilarious!! I was there in January and saw them. They drove around the California Park. They started over where that giant dinosaur is by the food courts.. Hopefully they will still be there if you get to go back, becuase they are a pretty big movie right now. Mater was really cute. I took a pic of him becuase his tooth was too funny.