Waiting for Disney Junior and some of the action.
After that thrilling show, we went to Toy Story 3. It was a pretty cool ride where you load up in cars and then get taken around to different booths for target practice where you shoot your gun and try to pop digital balloons, break plates, etc. Drew rode with me (she scored 16,3000 points with 24% accuracy and I had 60,300 points with 34% accuracy). Trevor managed 74,000 points and 34% accuracy and Ryan, the gamer among us got 174,000 with 33% accuracy. So Ryan is the best at shooting games and Trevor has obviously inherited some skills.... After that, the kids and I ran over to sign up for Jedi Training Academy while Ryan went to get FastPass for Tower of Terror. Wandering around where I know the sign ups were and can't find them...because they are already full for the day!!! It is only like 1030!!! I was expecting giant fits and I have to admit I was really mad at myself on missing out on this opportunity - again but the kids took it pretty well. However, now is when Drew decides she is hungry and asks to go back to the hotel - this could be a long day.
Next we went to a cute Muppet Show and then had lunch at Pizza Planet - which the children pointed out was the restaurant on Toy Story. After that we wandered a little around Honey I Shrunk the Kids which had larger than life bugs and slides and climbing things.
Straddling an ant...
Then we cut across the park for our FastPass at Tower of Terror. This only had a 40" height limit and I understood it to be a free fall ride that Drew might enjoy. She doesn't like rollercoasters much because she doesn't have enough body control to keep from slamming around despite her ginormous height. She was a little fearful but we talked her into it.
Here is fearful Drew in line...
The idea is that you are sitting in an elevator that falls down a shaft and you do fall ridiculously fast and in the dark and then back up and back down randomly. Drew immediately became completely hysterical and I was panicking and trying to comfort her which meant looking to the side while my backpack floated in the air above my lap trying not to throw up. So sorry Drew, hopefully you aren't scarred for life. Trevor loved it but Ryan and I feel like terrible parents.
To make it up to her, we went to see Beauty and the Beast next which was a fantastic stage show. Trevor and I did sneak off to watch other kids participate in Jedi Training Academy while Ryan and Drew held seats in the auditorium for us. The scale of Jedi Training Academy was much smaller than last year (probably due to Star Wars weekend then) with only about 1/3 the number of Padawans and no Ventress or Ahsoka and that is probably why it filled so fast.
Beauty and the Beast Stage Show
We then stopped for some Mickey Ice Cream and found ourselves front row for the afternoon parade of Pixar Pals. It was cute and I am proud to know that we caught a Disney mishap - which I don't think happens often. If you look at the middle picture below you will notice that Mr Potatohead's arm fell off!! Crowd Control had to pick it up for him. You don't see anything but perfection down here so that was unusual. I kind of wondered if someone would get fired over that one - like imagining Mickey cursing someone out!
After the parade there was a big gap with nothing going on. It was like 330 in the afternoon, we had a FastPass for the Rock n Rollercoaster for 445-545 and only three possible things left to do - Indiana Jones, Lights, Motors, Action, or Backlot Tour - all of which happen at the same time so you can really only do one. So, Drew was begging to go back to the hotel because she was tired. She and I headed for Lights, Motors, Action and waited in line with me holding her so she could try to go to sleep for an hour. Ryan and Trevor met up with a green army man for an autograph...
Lights, Motors, Action was pretty cool - showing how special effects create chase scenes in movies. It was the highlight of Trevor's day I think. Drew was bored and amused herself by being the most uncomfortable lap child ever and repeatedly accidentally kicking the nice woman sitting next to us.
After the action show, Trevor and I headed over to the Rock 'n' Roller Coaster and Ryan and Drew went back to play as bugs. It was a cool coaster with a super-fast acceleration at the beginning and it is inside in the dark like Space Mountain. It had an awesome upside down loop at the very beginning and some nice twisting turns as well.
We had some thoughts of maybe eating dinner in the park and then going to the awesome nighttime spectacular Fantasmic but the line was already starting at 545 for a 730 show and we were losing the kids. So we left the park and hit Bahama Breeze on the way home and had two very wound up kids tucked in by 800.
Today was okay. I am still disappointed that we missed Jedi Training Academy but now I feel like we've really seen Hollywood Studios. I honestly could have been done at 200 after Beauty and the Beast - the last 4 hours were a little painful. Tomorrow we hit Seaworld for the first time and I've still got research to do...
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