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I know we're odd but we enjoy IASM - and the last couple of years we had the opportunity to stay on the ride and go multiple times so we did.
As for Mark getting a little queasy on Pooh, tell him he's not alone. For some reason that happened to me last year while we were bouncing with Tigger. It only happened once the whole time we were there and I'm still not sure why it happened.
Love all the photos BTW. I have to read your TR on my computer though because with my iPad, every other photo is upside down so it must be an iPad thing.
Saturday 21 February – part five: stop taking photos!
With that, we headed over to Tomorrowland as our Fastpass for Buzz Lightyear was ripe.
In all honesty, we didn’t need it, as this was another walk on. Where was everyone?
I did really well to begin with and here’s the proof…
As you can see, I was beating Mark, and that continued the whole way around, until the last section when he must’ve hit something with a big points score and suddenly I had lost to him again… typical!
I will say that the ride wasn’t right. There were sections that just weren’t operating properly. It was as if it knew that there weren’t many people on it and it couldn’t be bothered to do everything it should do.
When we came out of there, we were shocked to find that the Carousel of Progress was running and it was just letting people in, so in we went. There was literally just us and a family of five in the front row, so when the Cast Member did the spiel about no photos and videos, both of us decided that it wasn’t going to annoy anyone else, given we were right at the back, so we snapped away, and so did the family….
When we got into the second scene, we were told by the Cast Member over the speakers to stop taking photos. He wasn’t with us, so I can only assume that he was watching us on CCTV. Oops…
When we came of there, we were amazed to see Stitch just standing around with no-one near him. Well, we can’t have that. Off we went to greet our favourite alien!
Next we headed off on the People Mover for a slow and, in places, fast whizz around Tomorrowland. I always love this ride, and the different perspective it gives you of this part of the park. Only one thing though – when the heck did the Space Mountain section get quite so pitch black? I know it was always dark, but my goodness, it’s worse than ever now..
When we came off there, we watched what the guys were doing painting the castle, and got some photos, until the Cast Member working the People Mover came along to shoo us off. There was no need, as there was no-one else approaching the exit.
I think the upside down photo thing must be me Apple glitch, as I am reading it on my iPhone.
You sure are getting a lot done this morning! Tim always beats me at the last minute like that too. The Peoplemover is a favorite of ours too. Love the pics of CoP.
Hmmm, what WERE they doing to that spire (turret?)on the castle? Beautiful clear day and lots of rides open and barely any other people to be seen. Sounds practically perfect!
You're not imagining it, I think it was about two years ago that they refurbed Space Mountain... I definitely think it is darker now and less jerky of a ride! Makes its much more enjoyable in both aspects!
Looks like they still have the park open just for you! I think I'd have asked for a second go-round on Buzz, but maybe not if it wasn't functioning well.
You're not imagining it, I think it was about two years ago that they refurbed Space Mountain... I definitely think it is darker now and less jerky of a ride! Makes its much more enjoyable in both aspects!
Yes. It was after that refurb and they also updated the lighting along the PeopleMover track with LEDs. I really think that Disney could plus attraction a bit, though I like the fact that I can typically ride it any time I like.
You're such a rebel. Taking photos left and right and getting in trouble for it!
But what great photos they are - totally worth it!
And yes, Space Mtn got much darker over the last few years. Makes me crazy!
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I think I must be the only one who didn't notice that SM was darker than it used to be. That ride is always a must do for our family - one trip we rode it 6 times in a row. Ah, the memories.
More great pics! So nice to have MK all to yourselves. Must be that everyone was running the 10k that morning rather than taking advantage of the early opening.
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Mark's Tigger tail. Your next update doesn't sound so good.
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Off we went to greet our favourite alien! 
I know it was always dark, but my goodness, it’s worse than ever now.. 
I think I must be the only one who didn't notice that SM was darker than it used to be. That ride is always a must do for our family - one trip we rode it 6 times in a row. Ah, the memories. 
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