Trip Report “Excuse me ma’am, can you put your phone away? Snow White doesn’t like apples” March 2019 *COMPLETED*

Sadly, I’ve been back in the real world for 4 days, but I’m glad to say that it was a great trip! Different, but still great. Surprisingly, the Disney depression is not very high (not sure if that’s a good thing :hilarious:), but I don’t want to take any risks, so let’s get this TR started!

For those of you who are just joining, I’d like to say welcome and feel free to read my PTR for background info.


Before I start, I want to warn everyone that I only have a month left before the semester is over. :joyfull: With that being said, the next 4 weeks might get extremely busy and I may not have a lot of time to post, so please bear with me. I don’t want to drag this TR out like I did with the last one, but I make no promises. :hilarious:

Up next: Travel Day
 
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Captain Barbossa

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EPCOT continued

The rain was beginning to pick up.
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Our first FP of the day was for TT, but obviously it was down due to the rain, so we decided to hit up Mission: Space.

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After Mission: Space, we headed towards FW West. We still had about 30mins until our LwtL FP, so we decided to go kill some time at the Seas.

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We must’ve stopped in Innoventions for some random reason along the way.
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It still aggravates me that the Sum of all Thrills is visible and appears to still be intact. I absolutely loved this ride. Idk why they can’t open it back up, especially when EPCOT could use more things for guests to do.

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I think this is really cool. It’s made up entirely by waste from the ocean that has washed up ashore. It was also promoting the new Disneynature film, Penguins. I really want to see it!

Made it to the Seas.
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Up next: More Seas
 

Janir

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EPCOT continued
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We must’ve stopped in Innoventions for some random reason along the way.
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It still aggravates me that the Sum of all Thrills is visible and appears to still be intact. I absolutely loved this ride. Idk why they can’t open it back up, especially when EPCOT could use more things for guests to do.
It was my understanding that there was a licensing deal that went away and never renewed. note the Harry Potter ride thru Hogwarts uses the same robotics system. dunno if there was something going on between licensing of tech.
I agree why shut down SoaT and just leave it sitting there. Easy enough to just go ahead and run it unless there is some licensing issues. IDK.
 

MinnieM123

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Those were some clear photos of fish, etc., in the tank. I would have thought that with the somewhat low lighting in the area, they might not come out that sharp. Great pictures! :happy:
 

Captain Barbossa

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Finishing up the Seas

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Our FP window had opened up, so we headed to the Land.
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5 minutes after I took this picture of the famous carpet wall, I checked WDWMagic while waiting in line for LwtL and saw that it had just been announced that Awesome Planet was coming to the Harvest Theater. What a coincidence!

Please excuse my crappy pictures of the crocodiles.
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Can anyone spot the hidden Mickey?
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Up next: More LwtL
 

Captain Barbossa

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EPCOT continued

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There was a short wait for the Gran Fiesta Tour, so we jumped in line.
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There was a family ahead of us that had 2 little boys. As the line was moving, one of the boys stopped dead in his tracks and yacked everywhere, and I mean everywhere. It was horrible. I felt bad for the kid because he was embarrassed and his mother was borderline aggressively yelling at him for throwing up. Idk why she was angry with him because it was clear that the kid was sick and couldn’t help it. She was still chewing him out when we got off.

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Up next: More GFT
 

Captain Barbossa

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EPCOT continued

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We soon arrived at our destination.
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I went ahead and checked us in. It was 1:05, but our ADR wasn’t until 1:20.

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We only waited 5mins before the buzzer went off. (Woohoo! 10mins early!) We were seated outside, but luckily they had the area covered and there were also plenty of heat lamps. (It was cold and the rain had started again)

The view from our table.
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This was the first time that either of us had eaten at R&C.

I felt like I could’ve gone for something hot to drink, like coffee or tea, but just went with water. L got some sort of hard cider.
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What should we order?

Up next: More R&C
 

Captain Barbossa

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R&C continued

After much deliberation, I ended up sticking with my original plan and ordered the Shepherd’s Pie, and so did L.
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After reading mixed reviews, I was a little skeptical, but I’m glad to report that both L and I thought it was very good!

The cheese topping was interesting, but everything else was good. Once you get passed the mashed potatoes, the beef and vegetables are almost soup like. The texture and consistency reminded me of chili. The portion was also bigger than I expected. Though the diameter of the bowl wasn’t huge, the bowl itself was deep and held a lot.

L had to go inside to use the restroom and when she came back she told me to be glad that we weren’t seated inside because the dining area was small and it was very noisy from all the people who were there for the pub.

Overall, we enjoyed our food and definitely plan on paying R&C another visit in the future.

After lunch, we made our way around WS.
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I hadn’t noticed this hidden Mickey before.
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We stopped for some PP pictures in Italy.
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Greetings from China!

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Up next: More WS
 

Captain Barbossa

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WS continued

L went on to Norway to get her print and have Larry sign it. I remained in China and did some more exploring.

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I was born in 2000, which was the year of the dragon.

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I went inside one of my favorite stores in WS.
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They still have a bunch of grand opening merch from Shanghai. I contemplated on getting a pin, but I didn’t.

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I left the China pavilion and headed over The Fjording in Norway. L was waiting outside when I arrived. She had already gotten her print signed and shipped to Music. (hers is of Riverside)

I had it narrowed down to 2 prints, the one of the Walter E. Disney and the one of the Roger E. Broggie. In honor of his overhaul and due to the fact that he’ll be returning home soon from Strasburg, I decided to go with the Walter. To be quite honest, I should’ve gone ahead and gotten the print of the Roger too. :hilarious:

Larry was taking the print out of the packaging so he could sign it.
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As you can see from his paintings behind him, Larry is a fantastic artist! I’m always blown away by his work.

I asked him how the progress was going on the Lilly Belle. He got this embarrassed look on his face and told me that he still hadn’t started yet. :hilarious: He said that with all of the recent art shows and signing events that he’s attended over the past year, he hasn’t had a lot of time to get back to painting. I told him that I hope his schedule eases up because I’m anxiously waiting for his painting of the Lilly Belle. :hilarious:

After I paid for the print and had it sent back to Music, I met back up with L. I checked MDE and noticed that after 6 hours of being down, SE was finally up! :joyfull: We still had our FPs (they to turned into multiple experience FPs), so we headed on over.

Apparently, everyone had the same idea that we had and the FP line was ridiculously long! We decided to let the line die down some and walked in Gateway Gifts. They usually have some unique EPCOT mech in there.

The line finally got better, so we hopped in.
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Up next: More SE
 
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SE continued

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Had to thank the Phoenicians.

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Call me crazy, but I think the burning of Rome is one of the best smells in all of WDW.
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Our Spaceship Earth

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Since his M&G is close by, we went over to see Pluto after SE.
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L’s moment with Pluto wasn’t so “magical”. He accidentally bumped into her. A few seconds later she heard a voice say “Oops! Sorry about that”. :banghead: I don’t care how old the guest is, you never break character!

Earlier, I snagged a FP for Soarin’, so I headed to the Land.

Up next: Soarin’!
 

Rista1313

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SE continued

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Had to thank the Phoenicians.

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Call me crazy, but I think the burning of Rome is one of the best smells in all of WDW.
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Our Spaceship Earth

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Since his M&G is close by, we went over to see Pluto after SE.
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L’s moment with Pluto wasn’t so “magical”. He accidentally bumped into her. A few seconds later she heard a voice say “Oops! Sorry about that”. :banghead: I don’t care how old the guest is, you never break character!

Earlier, I snagged a FP for Soarin’, so I headed to the Land.

Up next: Soarin’!

So hard though.. basic human instinct to say sorry!
 

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