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Great pictures of the studios and of the parade. I asked Angel to look at one of the pictures (it was one of the themed food places) and asked her which park - she said "mom that is DHS", I told her she was right but this one was in Paris
Love the pictures of the hotels, I like the look of the Newport Hotel, very regal sitting there over the river.
All caught up! Love your trip report, as usual Congrats on beating Mark at Buzz!
Oh, and of course I'm one of those idiots who can't get enough of Crush's Coaster! It's my all-time favorite thrill ride (along with the Tower of Terror, of course)
Sorry you weren't felling well but glad the nap helped. I love the face of the boy looking at Mark at the word in the stone like "what is this crazy man doing?"
Also I had to laugh at the Aladin picture. I suppose France doesn't have a large selection of Arabic personnel. At least the Florida parks can get face characters of a closer ethnicity to their animated counter parts.
Thursday 10 June – part six: this is one heck of a parade!
Then we wandered back through the Disney Village. We decided that we’d head back into the Studios to see if we could catch Stitch Live. Wouldn’t you know it? It was half an hour away, so we whiled away some of the time taking some photos and then headed into line for it.
Now we had really enjoyed Stitch Live the last time we were here in December 2008, so I had high hopes. It wasn’t to be, as the show was really no different at all since the last time we’d seen it. At least there’s a bit of variation with Turtle Talk with Crush, which is a similar format, but this had not changed at all. : We could instantly work out what each of the people interacting with Stitch would end up doing within the show, which was a shame.
When we came out of there, we decided to head out of the park. We were having real issues with the Studios, as we did want to see Animagique, but the next showing of that was 30 minutes away and that’s not long enough to do much, but was too long for us to wait. That’s the problem with this park, it’s just too focused on shows that only take place at certain times of the day and, of course, none of them are programmed to finish just as the next one starts. It is a pain....
We were going to go back to the hotel, but as we got there, I suggested maybe we should go and have a look in the Emporium, as we were in the mood for browsing. It ended up being the best possible thing to do.
When we got in, we quickly realised that the parade was underway and we also realised that it wasn’t too busy along the railroad platform, so we headed up there and managed to get a great spot, where we could easily shoot the parade from above. Once again, even though we’d turned up at the last minute, we’d managed to snag great spots to see the parade. This was a really cool parade, with some very different floats to the ones you’re used to from Orlando. For starters, some had one theme on the front, then another completely different one on the back, which was a real novelty for us. We loved it and got lots and lots of photos.
Next: these Cast Members do not know what they’re doing
Terrific shots of the parade! It looks like a great once to see - glad your luck was good on that, since it didn't seem to be at the Studios.
Love those Green Army Men!
What a wonderful view of the parade. Love all the pictures, the floats were really great. The Alice in Wonderland and the Lion King floats look amazing.
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the parade pictures - they were so excited to see Aladdin & Jasmine in their Genie car 
Congrats on beating Mark at Buzz!
It's my all-time favorite thrill ride (along with the Tower of Terror, of course) 
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: We could instantly work out what each of the people interacting with Stitch would end up doing within the show, which was a shame. 
This was a really cool parade, with some very different floats to the ones you’re used to from Orlando. For starters, some had one theme on the front, then another completely different one on the back, which was a real novelty for us. We loved it and got lots and lots of photos. 
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