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I lucked upon PP one afternoon with only about a 30 min. wait so hopped in line. I had no idea that they had refurbished it and added the new features. It was a very pleasant surprise and the lady behind me with her young daughter and I talked a lot about the changes. It was really neat and made the time go much faster. The ride vehicles definitely looked shiny and "new" as well. I love the ride, but don't do it often because of the long wait times.
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Nice pictures of the new queue at Peter Pan. It certainly must improve that wait which, to me, always felt too loud, hot and squished. Love the tail on Mark. Does he have a hat that matches?
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FWIW, the pictures from your TR all seem to be in the correct orientation on my Nook.
Great update! You worked in so many rides, great timing I must say. The picture with Mark and the Tigger tail is funny. Your next update sounds odd. Can't wait to find out what that is all about.
Fabulous day at MK so far!!! I love the new look of Peter Pan.
"HEY Mark!! Stop licking the Honey!"
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Love your pictures as usual. The daylight hitting the buildings is really cool!
On a note not related to you trip....my friend's son has a farm and he has two cows, Gus and Luke. He just bought 2 new calves...they are Scottish Highlanders!! I thought of you immediately, of course! I was just so excited about it! I told her I can't wait to go see them!!
Oh please get some photos for me, if you can - I'd love to see them!
Thanks for the pics from the Peter Pan queue. I was hoping to see it last trip but we didn't get a FP+ for it and the standby time was quite high every time we went by.
Peter Pan looks really nice after its rehab. I always get stuck on IASW. Once it was for 35 minutes, so I stayed away from it for years. On my last trip I got stuck again this time at the dock waiting to get off. I think I'll stay away from it from now on.
Oh gosh, I would too! I enjoy it, but I can't imagine being stuck on it - that would be like a nightmare!
Great photos of the PP queue! I've yet to see it, so now I don't think I'll mind waiting a little bit for it. You're getting a bunch done and still quite empty in the park.
Oh bother, Mark.
I lucked upon PP one afternoon with only about a 30 min. wait so hopped in line. I had no idea that they had refurbished it and added the new features. It was a very pleasant surprise and the lady behind me with her young daughter and I talked a lot about the changes. It was really neat and made the time go much faster. The ride vehicles definitely looked shiny and "new" as well. I love the ride, but don't do it often because of the long wait times.
I can imagine how much faster the wait was with all those fun things to see.
How great to be able to walk on so many attractions!
Nice photos of the PP queue. I had forgotten about the refurb for Pan. We will certainly have to add that to our list for September.
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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.
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Your next update sounds odd. Can't wait to find out what that is all about.
I enjoy it, but I can't imagine being stuck on it - that would be like a nightmare! 
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