Trip Report So I guess Disney thinks Canadians do not celebrate Christmas?? A Max Trip Report- COMPLETED

A big hello to all my Disney friends:

As the title suggest this is a trip report regarding our recent Christmas adventure at Walt Disney World

Why the title you ask? I will keep you guessing on that one for a few days at least

Details leading up to the departure can be found here:

https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads...-max-the-girls-and-the-boys-do-disney.951075/

This is my 6th trip report on these boards so hopefully you have read at least one before

The reason I say that is that my style might not suit all - I can probably sum it up as

1) Shoot from the hip
2) Do not pull punches
3) Definitely not PC
4) Not always PG
5) As much Seinfeld references as @Tuvalu can handle
6) Not too heavy or too light on the Pixie dust -keep it real and call it as I see it

Quick introduction will come from:

Day 1 - Travel Day towards the US but not quite beyond the comfort of home:
Friday Dec 21, 2018

The original plan was to drive from our home in Waterloo Ont Canada to Buffalo NY on Sat Dec 22.
With a 10:35 am fight a same day drive could have worked.

We switched it up to a drive on the day before and booked a hotel in Niagara Falls Canada

(our B&B in Buffalo backed out on us - @Doc Disney can try to explain how she let us down!!!)

So here we are at the Embassy Suites on Friday enjoying our homemade Mickey cookies

Me (Max, Andrew, Clarence) and Tricia

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My younger daughter Cassie and Shane (BF)
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and my older daughter Stephanie and her fiancé Jordan
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and this is all of us at the Falls ( selfies are harder with six people!!!)
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This report will chronicle Disney trip 28 for me and lucky(?) 13 to WDW.
It is also 13 to WDW for Tricia
The girls celebrate 10 trips to the world
Trip 2 for Shane (though his memory of the first is limited)

And - 1ST TIME FOR JORDAN!!!!!!

More Day 1 to follow and then off to Buffalo the next day!!!

Welcome aboard, ashore and wherever we are!!!

Max
 
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amjt660

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amjt660

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Day 7 cont’d
We pack up the rental mini van and drive to DAK for our final (very ) partial day

I realized that I did not have any pictures of the boys magic bands so i took two of Shane's
(he is a big time Spiderman fan)
Did not get one of Jordan's - maybe @stephmax975 has one?

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Plan was to rope drop FOP and then use our FP for FOP and EE

But of course the plan did not work because Jordan was not allowed to enter

We went to GR (again) and got the same CM as on Dec 24

What happened? - well they had given us a hard ticket for Jordan on the 24th because they had issues with his MB
Then they told us to try it later in the day to see if his band was working
Unfortunately he used it to enter DAK after dinner and that counted as one of his days
So he had used up all his days on Dec 26 at DHS and now was not allowed in
She added one more day to his band and gave us 1 FP for our trouble

So FOP line was too long now so we went on Navi again (all 6 of us)

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It is not easy to take pictures of these animals, jelly fish type things or the Shaman
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Again this was a ride that everyone enjoyed (because we had just watched the movie and understood the story

Max
 
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fractal

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Day 7 cont’d
We pack up the rental mini van and drive to DAK for our final (very ) partial day

I realized that I did not have any pictures of the boys magic bands so i took two of Shane's
(he is a big time Spiderman fan)
Did not get one of Jordan's - maybe @stephmax975 has one?

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Plan was to rope drop FOP and then use our FP for FOP and EE

But of course the plan did not work because Jordan was not allowed to enter

We went to GR (again) and got the same CM as on Dec 24

What happened? - well they had given us a hard ticket for Jordan on the 24th because they had issues with his MB
Then they told us to try it later in the day to see if his band was working
Unfortunately he used it to enter DAK after dinner and that counted as one of his days
So he had used up all his days on Dec 26 at DHS and now was not allowed in
She added one more day to his band and gave us 1 FP for our trouble

So FOP line was too long now so we went on Navi again (all 6 of us)

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It is not easy to take pictures of these animals, jelly fish type things or the Shaman
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Again this was a ride that everyone enjoyed (because we had just watched the movie and understood the story

Max
They really screwed up your tickets/magic bands. I feel for you.
 

amjt660

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Just a quick detour from the trip report

4 weeks ago we built our last Corolla at our plant here in Canada
Over 30 years and 4.3 million cars later we are moving on to the next generation RAV4
Here are pictures of the very first and very last Corolla built at our site

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Oh and we being Canadian decided to do “playoff beards” during the changeover (4 weeks)
Here is my before and after pic
( way too much white in that beard!!)
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Tomorrow we will line off our first RAV that we can sell -a new era begins!

Max
 

amjt660

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More Pandora store
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In the queue
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The last one was not the real thing - just what they show in the pre show - we never actually got to see the avatar in the water
(@AKemily 's boyfriend???)

I was able to ride more in the middle of the room and loved the ride even more.

Artistic shot ??
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The delay at the gate did have a silver lining - an extra FP - so we found S and T and headed over to Dino for a second ride
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This time Stitch had his picture taken
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and I know @Darstarr beat me too it but I love this shirt so I will post it again
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Max
 
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lostpro9het

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Just a quick detour from the trip report

4 weeks ago we built our last Corolla at our plant here in Canada
Over 30 years and 4.3 million cars later we are moving on to the next generation RAV4
Here are pictures of the very first and very last Corolla built at our site

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Oh and we being Canadian decided to do “playoff beards” during the changeover (4 weeks)
Here is my before and after pic
( way too much white in that beard!!)
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Tomorrow we will line off our first RAV that we can sell -a new era begins!

Max
The beard works...that is all.
 

sheriffwoody

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I may end up getting a RAV4 in a couple of years! I remember you commenting on them when I rented one and complained about not being able to figure out the radio :hilarious: I'm sure if I bought one, the dealership could help me figure it out. ha! Very neat that you have the first and last Corolla's made there on display.
 

krause

Well-Known Member
Just a quick detour from the trip report

4 weeks ago we built our last Corolla at our plant here in Canada
Over 30 years and 4.3 million cars later we are moving on to the next generation RAV4
Here are pictures of the very first and very last Corolla built at our site

View attachment 355886

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Oh and we being Canadian decided to do “playoff beards” during the changeover (4 weeks)
Here is my before and after pic
( way too much white in that beard!!)
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Tomorrow we will line off our first RAV that we can sell -a new era begins!

Max

Ugh I despise playoff beards (no offence of course :hilarious:) Something I have to look forward to in the coming months GoJetsGo
 

Captain Barbossa

Well-Known Member
Just a quick detour from the trip report

4 weeks ago we built our last Corolla at our plant here in Canada
Over 30 years and 4.3 million cars later we are moving on to the next generation RAV4
Here are pictures of the very first and very last Corolla built at our site

View attachment 355886

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Oh and we being Canadian decided to do “playoff beards” during the changeover (4 weeks)
Here is my before and after pic
( way too much white in that beard!!)
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Tomorrow we will line off our first RAV that we can sell -a new era begins!

Max
I come from a very strict Toyota family. My mom bought a brand new 98 Corolla back in 1998. 14 years and 347,863 miles later (that thing lasted forever and was still going strong), she decided it was time to retire the Corolla and get a new Camry.
 

Tony the Tigger

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I know others love it but it was a total miss for us
My family loves the atmosphere of Sci-Fi but I don’t think the atmosphere makes up for the mediocre food.
It was a once and done for us too, we went in 2008 and it was terrible. The cars are cool but that is about it.
Yeah, Sci-fi is all about the ambiance... my steak was just ok.

Correct! One and done for us, too.

Tomorrow we will line off our first RAV that we can sell -a new era begins!

Maybe you can fix the new grille.

My 2018 with a cute front 😊👍🏻👍🏻
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...and the mistake they made for 2019: 😢👎🏻👎🏻
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Boo hiss, back to the Test Track.

(I’ve got 34 months left on this lease, maybe you can get them to fix it by then?)
 

WDisneyW

Active Member
Just a quick detour from the trip report

4 weeks ago we built our last Corolla at our plant here in Canada
Over 30 years and 4.3 million cars later we are moving on to the next generation RAV4
Here are pictures of the very first and very last Corolla built at our site

View attachment 355886

View attachment 355885

Oh and we being Canadian decided to do “playoff beards” during the changeover (4 weeks)
Here is my before and after pic
( way too much white in that beard!!)
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Tomorrow we will line off our first RAV that we can sell -a new era begins!

Max
You got to accept the white in the beard.... I did :D
 

amjt660

Premium Member
Original Poster
Onward to Everest with our third FP of the morning
Time stamp on the first pic is 9:37am
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I rode with Jordan ( we realized on our last ride of the trip that we had not sat together o a ride yet)

Line ups in AK and DHS were long
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We called it after the ride ( I will post the PP pictures in the next post)

One thing to note is that our van did not have a Florida licence plate
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Max
 

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