Live trip report - May 6-7

Hey all.. Time for another live trip report

Checking into the caribbean resort for the night... The wife and I are trying to stay in a different resort each trip.

I know its a bad picture but it seems there are new paint jobs for Disney Cruise busses. It looks a lot more like the ships paint scheme.

Funny little towel critter waiting for us when we got to our room.

Were headin over to epcot if these severe thunderstorms stay away!

 

[napnet]

Well the storm passed and it was horrible.. Limbs and sorts everywhere... Weather said gusts of 60 mph. Sitting on the epcot monorail waiting for it to go. Evidently one is broken down on the beam...

Japan has temporary dining set up

Parts of japan are uncovered and look great. Very bright paint

 

[napnet]

Lion King setup was really neat... Don't remember it last year.

Artists drawing of Animal Kingdom Villas was out.

Lotus blossom café looks great after its refurb

Malestrom shut down

 

[napnet]

Donald pinata on the grand fiesta tour

Grand Fiesta Tour was an excelent refurb... Screens were extremely bright and hidef. Well done Disney. Found a hidden mickey made up of some drums sitting in a boat.

Oddesy Center is open from 9 to 5..

New tip board

Last ride on spaceship earth prior to it being shut down tomorrow

 

[napnet]

Super Driver was fun and the graphics were good

Center of the room had this globe screen that was neat

Body Builder was a hoot as well. It took awhile to get the hang of... The shadows are the key.. The guy from the princess bride (bald guy who dies from poison.. Can't remember his name) is the voice of the body

 

[disneypirate]

thanks for the update!!

 

[napnet]

Watching Wishes and the water pagent from the Polynesian. Time for dinner at Ohana! After this, EMH at the Magic Kingdom till midnight

 

[supapampam]

thanks for the live report.

 

[napnet]

You can't really see it but the poly monorail station has tarps covering the outside with a sign indicating its under refurb.

Also, there is what looks like a pile driver where the north contemporary resort was. Also, the land has been cleared out. Its too dark for a pic but I will try tomorrow... G'night!

 

[Jerm]

I love these life trip reports really gets me excited for next week at this time when I will be there. One question, how were the waits for everything? I can kind of make out the tip board but that does not tell the full story.

J

 

[napnet]

the crowds were very light... 30 min wait on TT. there was also some severe storms that passed through around 4 that might have cleared the parks out. I expect it to be light tomorrow

 

[napnet]

Contemporary construction is going strong... There is a crane digging deep holes for the foundation of something big... The auger drill had to be 6 stories tall... Ill take pics later

Opening celebration for the morning at MK. Never gone to the park for an opening.

Tomorrowland still closed when we got there... We were the sixth rocket on space mountain. The star effects were not working so it was really dark in space.

My wife got to ride astro orbiter by her self for her birthday. She thought it was so fun not having any other rockets infront of her to spoil the view.

Its still dead in the park.

Riding the indy cars for the first time... The hundred times I've gone to wdw I have never ridden it.

 

[napnet]

Minor rehabs seem to be going on all around MK.

Rehab work being done next to the Dumbo queue

Rehab work on part of the peter pan queue

Rehab work on the dvc sales desk and behind it next to the shooting gallery

HM is down and has been for most of the morning.

The wife saying yelling 'george isn't real' the while riding pirates just trying to tempt fate.

There are new sales desk in pirates

El pirata el perico looks to be opening today

 

[napnet]

Rehab going on at the swiss family tree house.. Looks like work on the supports and the building structure. They cut away parts of the skin to do work.

Work still going on on the new toy story ride... I heard a jack hammer going for the whole time we walked by

The new fastpass queue for RnRC is great... A ton faster now. There is a ramp where the old queue was.

Still a big crane between RnRC and TT

 

[napnet]

The smoke from volusia county fires seem to be moving in... You can barely see the poly and can't see the dolpin.

Well my wife won a dream at Momma Melrose as she was chef of the day... We finally won something

Rehab continues with tower of terror... It was dead..empty...rode it twice with no wait.

Monorail pink badly need a refurb.. It was ripped up and carpet was badly stained.

 

[Kman101]

Wow. You lucked out on no crowds and wait time.

I was at MGM and Disney yesterday and lines were terrible and the park was packed. I figured it was because it was Sunday. Weather was terrible, storming like crazy (well, for about an hour). Luckilly though, after the storm cleared, Splash Mountain had no wait at all, even though it said 30 minutes.

I'm jealous you had hardly any wait times at Epcot and it wasn't busy. I was there on Friday (again, probably wrong time to go but I was there for a specific reason) and wait times were atrocious. Fast passes were all gone so I literally rode nothing.

I was at Animal Kingdom briefly today (meeting some friends) and it was atrocious. PACKED like you wouldn't believe. Although FastPasses for Everest weren't working so they used the FastPass area as an entrance and wait was 30 minutes. Safari had 60 minute wait times. The line for Nemo was ridiculous.

I lucked out last week I guess on my birthday trip and pretty much hit everything with next to no wait.

What times did you hit the parks? What days again?

 

[napnet]

Construction on mystery contemporary project.

That's it headin home!

 

[doop]

Thanks for the report and pictures! Project Tomorrow looks great, I'm really excited to see it next time.

 

[nibblesandbits]

thanks for the report! Love your live ones!