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As for Harmonious, I liked the show better than ROE. The Illuminations score is some of my favorite music ever written, but the show itself left me flat. The globe section was a good idea, but just poorly executed IMO. I like the Harm show better. BUT, my increased enjoyment of the show was...

My Enchantment experience, in three acts: 1) I watched the YouTube stream on October 1. I HATED it. How could they do this to my boy? Music, fireworks, projections all much less good than HEA 2) I watched it in the beach from Poly. Still hated it. The score was boring to me, and the pyro...

I think in twenty years we'll look back and say that 2019 was the highpoint in the Walt Disney Company's history post-Walt. I think you have to give Bob Iger credit for that, and I think that when we see the CEOs that follow him... we'll all realize Iger was actually better than we probably...

Have they really though? I’m thinking Flight if Passage and a good chunk of Shanghai (Pooh, Pirates, Buzz), all are exit through the gift shop. New Fantasyland, Paris Ratatouille and Cars Land aren’t, so it seems to be a 50/50 proposition Incidentally, racking your brain to think of truly net...

I’d also put California Indy ahead of JTTCOE in the worldwide rankings, in my opinion.

Having experienced all of them and demonstrating acceptable credentials to join this conversation apparently, I’d rank them: 1. Mystic Manor 2. Shanghai Pirates 3. JTTCOE Among LPS 1. Mystic Manor 2. Pooh 3. Rat JTTCOE underwhelmed me, tbh. I thought the show scenes came off as cheesy, and...

At this point, I had done everything I wanted to do, save for riding Tron at night or seeing the fireworks show. So, I took some time to wander around and take things in. A cool little fountain, water feature in Tomorrowland. Even though Tomorrowland seemed kind of sterile, I did really like...

I only had one other must do to check off my list at this point, and that was checking out the Shanghai version of the Buzz Lightyear shooter, Buzz Lightyear's Planet Rescue. It's tucked back in Tomorrowland right under the Tron canopy, and I had to take another glamour shot just because the...

The head is indeed creepy, and that picture actually shows how the walkways are kind of narrow. Just out of frame to the right are about 40 people clogging the area waiting to take a picture. I'm not really prone to claustrophobia, but I definitely walked right up to the edge of it here. The...

After choking down my churro fail, I noticed I was right next to the entrance to the Alice in Wonderland maze, so I wandered in to check it out. This was the biggest miss to me of the entire trip. This maze just did not work for me. If I had to assign an adjective to it, it wouldn't be...

Did I mention that lines were long at this point? I had checked the headliners off my list, and wasn't going to wait 90 minutes for the same Winnie the Pooh ride we have in Florida, so I decided to take in a show. I got in line for the Captain Jack: Eye of the Storm show. I had no idea what...

I was going to go give the canoes a try. At this point though, lines were getting looong. The part of my brain saying "you don't have the patience required to wait in lines" started to win out over the "you'll probably never be here again, who cares how long the wait is" part. The canoes were...

Two random merchandise asides. One, for whatever reason they loved Zootopia here. Zootopia stuff is everywhere. Although, I think I saw it called Zootroplis on some of the stuff. Zootopia was a fine movie and all, don't get me wrong. But why is this the film that caught on in China. It was...

I kept wandering up towards the castle. I walked through the center of it for the first time. The interior is pretty cool, with a nice chandelier type thing in the middle. I went and got in line for something I didn't even know existed, the "Once Upon a Time Adventure". But, hey, there was...

Since I came in the "wrong" door when I entered the park, after lunch I decided to wander around and check out the entrance and Mickey Avenue, the Shanghai version of Main Street. I have no unique opinions to offer here other than what other people have already said. The train station is...

It was lunch time at this point. I wanted to check out the Wandering Moon restaurant. I kept reading it was the sleeper hit of this park, and as noted on the previous page, I am a sucker for Asian food in Asia, even if I have no ability to judge its quality. As I was walking to lunch I saw...

At this point, it was time for my first Tron Fast Pass. So, I wandered over from Fantasyland, passing the still under construction Toy Story Land, and into Tomorrowland. I've seen quite a bit of discussion about the aesthetic of Shanghai's Tomorrowland, should they redo Florida's using the...

After my voyage through the crystal grotto, I went back to Peter Pan. I had no idea if my Fast Pass would still be honored, or how it would work. Fortunately, the Fast Pass was still good. Peter Pan is another one that I've never been a huge fan of. I mean, it's fun and interesting and all...

A brief cultural/etiquette/social interlude here. And I'll try to be as diplomatic as possible... Two of the bigger things I had been reading that westerners had noticed were lots of spitting, and aggressive queue management (line cutting). I can say I at least encountered both of these...

After Pirates, I had a Peter Pan Fast Pass. The end of my one hour window was only four minutes or so after I got off of Pirates. Now, this is a big park. I had no idea if I'd actually be able to make it inside of four minutes. And, if I couldn't, what is the Fast Pass policy? Would I get a...