The Promise of Spring: Flower & Garden Festival 4.0 -- A Cam and Luke TR COMPLETED 8/27 - Page 38 - PassPorter - A Community of Walt Disney World, Disneyland, Disney Cruise Line, and General Travel Forums
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Love, love all your Rivers of Light photos! I had no idea what the story line was when I saw ROL and I totally understood the storyline. I loved it, it completely has magic in it. Love the floats, the water show, the music is amazing!! I want a CD of it if they ever come out with one. But as you say not everything at Disney is for everyone.
You had a fabulous day, thanks for bringing us along.
Wow! I cannot wait to see ROL! Some of your dusk pictures look more like paintings than photos because of the lighting. Love that!
Did you happen to notice at all where handicapped seating might be? I am hoping for the dining package - I already have an ADR for Tiffins that I hope to convert, but we still may be using Mike's wheelchair so would need handicapped seating (assuming what you were in were bleachers?)
Rivers of light looks beautiful, I can't wait to see it the next time we go. I love animals and I don't think I will miss fireworks at this park. ( There are so many at other parks) I'm sure we will love it, plus getting to stay in ak after dark is cool
Wow...Rivers of Light looks spectacular! While I enjoy fireworks, this is more my kind of show. Thanks for sharing your amazing photos and description of it!
Animal Kingdom is our favorite park. I did hear many people not to happy with the ROL show. You are right, what is great and awesome for some are not for others. I personally think I will enjoy the show and so will my DGD and my DGS. All the pictures are beautiful and your narration of it was great.
My DD, DGd and I will be taking a girl's birthday trip in September and we have a ressie at Tusker House and seating for the 1st River of Light show in the evening. Thanks for the preview! Can't wait to see in person.
Thank you for the wonderful description of the show! I am really looking forward to seeing it. Good idea to hang back a bit to avoid the shoulder to shoulder crowds. We'll probably do the same thing. But I'm not looking forward to the masses of people waiting for the busses!
Our November trip will have us staying much further away than AKL, so I really don't look forward to the lengthy bus wait. Maybe we'll hang out longer in the park before heading to the bus stop.
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Cam, that was unbelievable coverage of the ROL show and not easy doing it at night with moving objects, color changes and flashing of various colors! I was looking forward to this show but then again it had a lot to live up to with the coverage on the various Disney fan sites and the delays. But with your photos I know how good of a show it is, but I will not watch video of it before my trip! Glad you had great seats for the show via the dining package and I'm sure those are better than a FP+ option as you are paying for the former and is the way to go!
I can't believe you had to wait for the fifth or sixth bus to the AKL! Wishes and Illuminations have generally been the worst for lines at park closing with the buses and I don't think I've been on more than a third bus as I find a way to get there quickly and can snake my way through the crowds as I've gotten accustomed to doing at WDW with lots of experience !
Once again, awesome job with the ROL show coverage!!!
Thanks! We do feel that the dining package is worth it for the specific seating area. It was also a great deal on dinner at Tiffins.
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Originally Posted by chezp
Oh wow, Rivers of Light looks like something I'll absolutely love. It's just my sort of thing. Thank you so much for all the photos and the detail, as I've been on the fence about it, given some of the reviews I've read to date.
I'm trying to remember and I don't know if you do - at what point were you able to book dining packages for this?
For this trip I was able to get the reservation the day they were first opened up so fairly close to the 180 days mark, I think. But I'm trying right now to get one for the November trip. Park Hours are not up and neither are show times, so no reservation are being taken yet for ROL dining packages. September and October just opened up in June with a shortened schedule of Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. In the spring it was showing every night.
You captured the show beautifully, it is making me so excited for our Oct trip.
Thanks! Going through my photos for this update got me excited about going back for this in November.
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Originally Posted by lindawdw
Your storytelling was so beautiful for ROL!!! We're not planning on doing the dining package so I'm not sure how easy it will be to get seating but we do plan on watching it from different vantage points around the river if we can't get seats. It's tough at night's end after a long day to have to wait for a bus that long but it sounds like the show was well worth it.
Thanks so much! There were people still filing in for the standby seating just minutes before the show so I would guess you could get a seat. Since we'd rested in the afternoon and sat for a an extended time waiting for and watching the show, the wait at the bus stop didn't seem to terrible. But our feet were tired for sure.
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Cam love your photo's from ROL Lucille wants me to book FP's for it now
Oh, my!! Your pictures are gorgeous and I know I will thoroughly love the Rivers of Lights. Thank you for giving such an in depth description of it.
Thanks so much! I was sure I'd love the show and it did not disappoint.
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Originally Posted by taylan1
Love, love all your Rivers of Light photos! I had no idea what the story line was when I saw ROL and I totally understood the storyline. I loved it, it completely has magic in it. Love the floats, the water show, the music is amazing!! I want a CD of it if they ever come out with one. But as you say not everything at Disney is for everyone.
You had a fabulous day, thanks for bringing us along.
I'd also buy a CD of it, and hopefully, there will be one as I have one for every other nighttime show.
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Wow! I cannot wait to see ROL! Some of your dusk pictures look more like paintings than photos because of the lighting. Love that!
Did you happen to notice at all where handicapped seating might be? I am hoping for the dining package - I already have an ADR for Tiffins that I hope to convert, but we still may be using Mike's wheelchair so would need handicapped seating (assuming what you were in were bleachers?)
Thanks! I really had fun with photos this evening.
If my memory is correct, handicap seating was along the top of the amphitheater and there were some sections in the dining package area.
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Rivers of Light is amazing! Now I see why it took so long to open.
Luke had read quite a bit about this show prior to its opening. A big part of the problem was the technology of the floats. Some of them were bumping into each other. Not good! But it all worked so smoothly by the time it opened.
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Originally Posted by bluejn
Rivers of light looks beautiful, I can't wait to see it the next time we go. I love animals and I don't think I will miss fireworks at this park. ( There are so many at other parks) I'm sure we will love it, plus getting to stay in ak after dark is cool
AK really is so cool after dark. it!
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Originally Posted by pamcarey
Beautiful photos of ROL! I really enjoyed this show too! Not as much as Illuminations, certainly, but I definitely found it very pretty and enjoyable.
Now Luke and I are excited to see the Magic Kingdom's newest nighttime show.
Wow...Rivers of Light looks spectacular! While I enjoy fireworks, this is more my kind of show. Thanks for sharing your amazing photos and description of it!
Definitely my kind of show, too. Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Roxie2006
Animal Kingdom is our favorite park. I did hear many people not to happy with the ROL show. You are right, what is great and awesome for some are not for others. I personally think I will enjoy the show and so will my DGD and my DGS. All the pictures are beautiful and your narration of it was great.
I had heard the same negative comments. After seeing it myself, I'm not sure what disappointed them, but as I said not everything is for everyone.
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Originally Posted by Grammy Grumpy
My DD, DGd and I will be taking a girl's birthday trip in September and we have a ressie at Tusker House and seating for the 1st River of Light show in the evening. Thanks for the preview! Can't wait to see in person.
Glad you were able to get Tusker House and hope you love the show and your seats. My plan is to get a ressie at Tusker House for our November trip.
Beautiful pictures of ROL. It'll be another year til I get to see it. My daughter was there when you were but she didn't stay for the whole thing. They had to leave before it was over for some reason.
That was a long wait for a bus back to AKL. At least it's close .
Liz
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I was looking forward to this show but then again it had a lot to live up to with the coverage on the various Disney fan sites and the delays. But with your photos I know how good of a show it is, but I will not watch video of it before my trip! 
Glad you had great seats for the show via the dining package and I'm sure those are better than a FP+ option as you are paying for the former and is the way to go! 
Wishes and Illuminations have generally been the worst for lines at park closing with the buses and I don't think I've been on more than a third bus as I find a way to get there quickly and can snake my way through the crowds as I've gotten accustomed to doing at WDW with lots of experience ! 
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