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What a great start to your trip so far! Lunch looked delicious - glad you got the credit card issue sorted out. Sorry about the maintenance issues - sounds like Disney dropped the ball a little on that one.
What a delicious lunch! Glad you got the MB issue squared away. Sorry about maintenance and their lack of enthusiasm!
I was glad the issue was easily resolved!
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Lunch looked so yummy!
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What a great start to your trip so far! Lunch looked delicious - glad you got the credit card issue sorted out. Sorry about the maintenance issues - sounds like Disney dropped the ball a little on that one.
Can't wait to hear more!
Yes, the credit card issue was easy to take care of.
It would have been nice if they'd been a little more concerned about the maintenance things.
About 2:40 we headed out for DHS. We usually choose to walk rather than take a boat. It's actually quicker if you account for waiting for the boat and making the other resort stops.
These are posted along the way...
Those of us who had bags went through bag check and I think 3 of the 4 of us were asked to go through the metal detector. According to the time stamp on my pictures, it was 2:49 when we entered the park, so it didn’t take us long at all!
We entered the park and made our way down Hollywood Blvd...
Photo bombed! The photographer said something about being photo bombed and "Not on my watch!" But I guess it made it in anyway.
(the way the PP pictures are sorted, it's hard to tell what order they were taken, so I'm posting them all together. )
When we got close to the end, we realized people were gathering for the “March of the First Order” show. It was scheduled to start at 3:00 so we decided to find a spot in the shade and wait the 5 minutes.
The projection towers are a pretty huge!
It was a cool way to begin our afternoon in the Studios, but nothing we’d go out of our way to see again.
Then we headed to Toy Story Mania to use our first FP of the trip! My score on the left. Jeff always wins!
Our next FP was for Star Tours at 4:05 so we had some time to kill. We headed for Star Wars Launch Bay, passing these guys on our way.
We just browsed around in the gift shop for a while.
Then over to Star Tours.
We had FP, but it was only a 5 minute wait, so we got in the Stand by line. We were in a vehicle a few minutes later. When the CM asked everyone to pull on the yellow strap, some guy in the row ahead of us pulled his and the buckle came undone. Yikes! I never saw that happen before. They were not able to get the buckle to stay, so they moved him to another seat since there were empty seats in our ship. After he was settled, we got the spiel, the CM walked out, doors closed and we sat there. After a minute or so he came back in with another CM and they were checking doors, looking at the panel, etc. Clearly something was not right. Eventually, we were asked to exit the ship and were placed in queue for the adjoining ship. We watched the pre-show video again and then we filed into our new ship. Yay! Ready for take-off! Tom ended up being the rebel spy, so that was fun. The flight was a little too turbulent for me though, so after we exited and everyone else wanted to go back on using our FP, I declined and waited in the gift shop.
After their second ride we wandered over to Sunset Blvd and poked around in the shops on our way to our third FP of the day – Tower of Terror.
At 5:05, when that was ripe we walked right on and into the front row of our elevator. The windows on our side of the tower opened only once and the rest of the time we saw nothing but walls. A little disappointing as it’s usually fun to look outside at the park as you’re screaming!
A fun day at Studios with plenty of attractions. I've often walked to Studios as well as it's a bit faster.
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October 6, 2017-Enjoying an amazing dinner at Victoria & Albert's with PP's Dot and Drew
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Sorry to see you guys got photo bombed by that kid hopefully someone ruined all her pics by having to be in them
I know! I was not happy when I realized she was in that picture. I didn't realize it when I was adding borders and such because the pictures aren't very big at that point. And I really liked our pose so I'd added several borders to that shot. Then I saw her after downloading them, and was like "WHAT!" Shame on her for ruining our shot!
After ToT we headed back down Sunset Blvd. and, deciding to look for a 4th FP, we sat at one of the tables in the Sunset Ranch Market…or whatever that place is called. I don’t have a smart phone, but Tom had the app on his phone and signed in as me to be able to make FPs. He was scrolling through and after refreshing, found a FP for Rock n Roller Coaster for 5:25. It was 5:21 at the time! Score! We were glad we hadn’t walked too far before pulling over to look at the app. So we headed back to RnRC, stopping for a FP photo on the way. The photographer was from Scotland and was super friendly and not very busy, so we chatted with him for a while before our photos.
At RnRC, we walked right into the pre-show room and within a few minutes were screaming through the streets of Hollywood! Ride photos are always so flattering! NOT!
A few PP pics I missed earlier...
It was about 6:00 and we were hot and tired. We walked back to BWV to relax a bit and freshen up.
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the shops by the ToT!! You guys look like you are having a great day so far!!
I've often walked to Studios as well as it's a bit faster.
Shame on her for ruining our shot!
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