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StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Cesar R M said:
Note that Magic Kingdom still felt like the usual low season. Unlikely how it felt in DHS or Animal Kingdom. which were packed to the seams.

It was still busy, in the morning a few minutes after rope drop.. Mansion was a walkon.. Peter pan was like 30 minutes and Small world was fluctuating between 30 and 60 because of the boat cleanups and disinfection.

I was surprised that the characters were consistently appearing in specific areas at random times. They did an awesome job in spreading the crowds.
For example. In frontier land... The beards were above the Jamboree building, and in the bridge to Adventure Land, next to the jamboree building. Chip and Dale in cowboy suits were also appearing randomly.
Mr. Incredible and Stitch appeared in tomorrowland (which was almost empty except for the crowds going for the Buzz ride and Space Mountain).
Random princesses appeared one after another in the railway station in the beginning of the Main Street square.
Also, characters like Captain Sparrow were near their attractions.
Not to mention the random cavalcades. Mickey and the Gang dancing in one of the soundssational floats. Pooh with Peter Pan, Aladdin, Pixie and a third character I do not remember right now were in the Sounsational mickey float. Also...
Like this pandemic reminds people of a zombie apocalypse.. Disney necro-revived again the castle float for the third cavalcade which featured all the princesses and the fairy godmother in the top.
I think there was a fourth cavalcade but missed it. It had a shinny cloud style float (seen from far with my camera).
The best part is they were very good at pushing the people to follow them. And Disney's managers cheekily used this to throw the next cavalcade a few minutes later instead of an hour later on. Dividing the crowds even more and using the clearing effect the first one did.

Anyway so far it was pretty uneventful.
There are no new attractions and all the weight was as always on the mine train. Which once had up to 120minute wait (almost an entire circle and half around the attraction).
Pirates was fine, it moved pretty fast and like the others ( its a small world) also had random shutdowns to disinfect the boats.
Infact, Pirates looked pretty good. Even the mist effect on the opening pirates vs fort scene was working.
All animatronics looked fine except Johnny's last one, which looked crocked lol.
Then went to my favourite Flight of Peter Pan. Which had the usual line at first look. But It was obviously half of it because of the distancing. Took like 15 to 20 minutes to get in.
Then headed immediately to Is a small World, which is still under repairs on the outer façade (had a covering).
After that I decided to head to get some food, so went to frontier land since most of the small restaurants are closed and I sure as hell did not want pizza. They even closed down my favo Harbour restaurant. I also noticed at this point that they had fully drained the small lake of the boat and were fixing tom sawyers island.
I decided not to waste money on Liberty square restaurants and went to try to get a hotdog. Thats how I got some photos of Chip and Dale and the bears. Then found that the hot dog stand was closed and only had Pecos as option.
Pecos was SLAMMED with people. I mean to the max. People were eating outside as well because of lack of space inside.
At this point the first cavalcade I noticed went out, took some photos and some videos before going to eat.
Not a fan of the texmex food there..
Anyway, next I went to pirates, which was also pretty full. Took a picture of Captain Sparrow before going in.
Headed to the castle where I seen a second cavalcade with Mickey and Co.
From there I went towards the mine train. Where it was above 120 minutes. Pooh's attraction was also busy so went directly to the Little Mermaid show, which had a lengthy wait as well but moved fast.
After that, returned all the way just to find that Mansion was above 90 minutes so I went to the castle area, took some photos and managed to catch the third cavalcade.
Took some very nice castle pictures too. After this... Then headed for tomorrowland.
After checking for characters and only finding Mr. Incredible. Decided to go to the carousel of progress to rest my poor feet.
Then decided to cross around, buy some drinks then headed back to the castle where the number of people had diminished considerably.
Took a ton of photos and headed back to Liberty Square then to the Mansion, which had a 30 minute wait.
After this, moved onto its a small world again because my mother asked for some video. This was her favorite attraction.
Then headed towards the mine train to see if it was worth waiting for. The line was 50% less than before so boarded.
Its fun..but too short for the wait..
Then headed to Pooh's hunny hunt. Something that I always wondered why in all images the rabbit had clothes drying in the background but he never wears clothes?
Anyway, after this... I went back to the castle via the Royal carousel. For more photos and get some photos taken by photopass as another cavalcade moved in.
after this went back to tomorrowland to get a picture of Stitch and went back to the liberty square again.. where I sat on the area by Liberty Square and just laid there an hour before the park closure.. to rest my poor legs.
Managed to watch the last cavalcade of the day and after took some photos of my favourite statues in the fastpass area of the magic kingdom castle area and then called the day by going home.
I decided to use the ferry. After all the Dolphin had no direct buses anymore. So we had to go to the transportation section.
aaand then went home.

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.. I need to ask @StarWarsGirl to give us the blessings of cold air. It was much hotter today!
Also... I decided to wear something that would make a Ken (male Karen) Jealous. I had a very bright pink shirt phosphorescent pink) and some dark blue pants and my black shoes.
There was no way someone would confuse me for a cast member... or so I believed for almost all the day.. until I got to the castle area and was taking photos of the castle.
A woman and family waved their hand and held the magicband out towards me expectantly.. XD
After that I told the lady that the photographers are THERE (right NEXT TO ME!!!) and they wore all white with light cream colored shorts and white vests!!! HOW.. HOW COULD SHE CONFUSE ME?
ohh but wait, it gets better.. after she and her family got to the line of the correct photographer.. a young couple asked me for photos XD
People also respected less the social distancing in MK than in the other parks. Too many cases of families gluing themselves to me or the persons near me.
A few well given stink eyes made them comply.
Also, some staff were kinda rude to questions lol.
Some were still gold stars.
I loved one particular dude in the mansion who had this creepy look.. like an undead dude even under the mask. Piercing eyes reminded me of those evil men villains from the 80's movies like Phantasm XD.
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Can't help you. We're getting a warm blast and our highs are suddenly back up in the 60s.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Wish me good luck. I'm going into suicide mode (lol).
I got a green polo shirt and brown pants.
That along with my brown hat and camera gear.
Any bets how many people will confuse me with a photographer or cast member?

I'm going to DHS for my final day (returning tomorrow).
Already snatched a RISE OF THE RESISTANCE place.

Today is supposed to be as hot as yesterday but hopefully same wind to keep things under control.
Will have my hoodie for late night stuff. Do not want to freeze XD
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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Cesar R M said:
Wish me good luck. I'm going into suicide mode (lol).
I got a green polo shirt and brown pants.
That along with my brown hat and camera gear.
Any bets how many people will confuse me with a photographer or cast member?

I'm going to DHS for my final day (returning tomorrow).
Already snatched a RISE OF THE RESISTANCE place.

Today is supposed to be as hot as yesterday but hopefully same wind to keep things under control.
Will have my hoodie for late night stuff. Do not want to freeze XD
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When I went to Disneyland a few years ago, the amount of people who asked me to take their picture was comical.

I was carrying around the SLR, and every now and then, someone would stop me and ask for me to use their phone to take their picture. It happened at least once a day, sometimes multiple times a day.

My friend who had no camera never got asked. 🤣
 
ImperfectPixie

ImperfectPixie

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StarWarsGirl said:
When I went to Disneyland a few years ago, the amount of people who asked me to take their picture was comical.

I was carrying around the SLR, and every now and then, someone would stop me and ask for me to use their phone to take their picture. It happened at least once a day, sometimes multiple times a day.

My friend who had no camera never got asked. 🤣
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My fannie-pack gives me away even if I have my DSLR. 😂 I refuse to carry a bag of any sort (other than a camera bag).
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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StarWarsGirl said:
When I went to Disneyland a few years ago, the amount of people who asked me to take their picture was comical.

I was carrying around the SLR, and every now and then, someone would stop me and ask for me to use their phone to take their picture. It happened at least once a day, sometimes multiple times a day.

My friend who had no camera never got asked. 🤣
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When did this happen? because you're not supposed to take photos of anyone now unless its your own party or a photophass member takes one with their gear.
This pandemic favoured Disney photophass. The cast members now outright refuse to touch your cameras and can only shot with their own.

And I think I had mentioned in my past trips that I got asked a lot as well. I think they see giant camera and they think "oh, this guy knows, lets ask!".

In my case its double funny because some of them asked me also about park stuff.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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ImperfectPixie said:
My fannie-pack gives me away even if I have my DSLR. 😂 I refuse to carry a bag of any sort (other than a camera bag).
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Not a fan of the slingshot or all in one small camera bags?
I got one from LOWEPRO and its been a tropper. Full size DSLR, 2 memory or additional battery bags. Additional slots on all sides outside. And can be expanded with zipper to handle even more stuff (usually my flash).
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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In the Parks
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Cesar R M said:
When did this happen? because you're not supposed to take photos of anyone now unless its your own party or a photophass member takes one with their gear.
This pandemic favoured Disney photophass. The cast members now outright refuse to touch your cameras and can only shot with their own.

And I think I had mentioned in my past trips that I got asked a lot as well. I think they see giant camera and they think "oh, this guy knows, lets ask!".

In my case its double funny because some of them asked me also about park stuff.
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It was years ago. No one asked this past trip due to the pandemic.

I swear that's what it is. "She has a camera. She must know how to take a picture!" 🤣
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Cesar R M said:
When did this happen? because you're not supposed to take photos of anyone now unless its your own party or a photophass member takes one with their gear.
This pandemic favoured Disney photophass. The cast members now outright refuse to touch your cameras and can only shot with their own.

And I think I had mentioned in my past trips that I got asked a lot as well. I think they see giant camera and they think "oh, this guy knows, lets ask!".

In my case its double funny because some of them asked me also about park stuff.
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That only makes sense. If I have read most of this correctly, the complaint is that the photographers that work for Disney are not allowed to take private pictures (duh) and any CM that isn't in photography is supposed to support that stand by not taking private pictures that Disney doesn't get paid for. One wouldn't pull up next to a cab driver and ask them to drive them to a location in their own car and not the cab. One also wouldn't go into a store and ask the staff what other competitive store they can find that item cheaper. I know people hate to hear it, but Disney is first and foremost a business who's mission is to make money by entertaining people and upselling to other services. It used to be common practice to let CM's take pictures, but it never made sense after they found a way to overcharge for a photograph.
 
StarWarsGirl

StarWarsGirl

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Gabe1 said:
I so love Gilmore girls, still.
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I pull this out on a regular basis...

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