{"id":42,"date":"2010-06-12T04:36:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-12T04:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=42"},"modified":"2010-06-12T04:36:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-12T04:36:00","slug":"disneyland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/?p=42","title":{"rendered":"Disneyland"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thursday we spent the day at Disneyland.\u00a0 We drove to Anaheim early in the morning, and Diana braved heavy traffic and weird parking directions to get us there within an hour of the park opening.\u00a0 I was immediately surprised by the short wait to enter the park.\u00a0 Er, did I say wait?\u00a0 There was no wait.\u00a0 Which I’m sure meant long lines inside, right?\u00a0 No, not so much.\u00a0 The Peter Pan ride just inside the main gate is usually a long wait, I’m told.\u00a0 We waited about 15 minutes.\u00a0 Then Mr. Toad’s wild ride — 5 minutes.\u00a0 Buzz Lightyear?\u00a0 Five minutes.\u00a0 There was even a three-minute wait in there at some point during the day.\u00a0 The longest we waited was at the Finding Nemo Submarine Adventure.\u00a0 That one was a 20-minute line.\u00a0 We used a fast pass at Indiana Jones, and there was a bit of a wait there, but otherwise, the park was uncrowded.<\/p>\n

The weather was very nice.\u00a0 It was overcast much of the morning and never hot all day.<\/p>\n

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Now, I don’t recall visiting Disneyland, but I do have many memories of Disneyworld<\/i> back when I was in second grade.\u00a0 Toad’s Wild Ride and Peter Pan’s flight were just as I remembered, but there were many new & different things.\u00a0 (Is it just me, or is the castle here much smaller than the one in Florida!?)<\/p>\n

Changes:<\/p>\n

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  • There have been many changes to Pirates of the Caribbean since the films came out.\u00a0 There are many cameos of Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow, and some of the vignettes are removed or changed.\u00a0 This California version begins with a leisurely cruise through a bayou past real diners at a real restaurant.\u00a0 Pretty cool.<\/li>\n
  • The submarine ride in Florida was based on 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.\u00a0 That ride is paved over now, but the California ride (which was always slightly different) is now a Finding Nemo adventure.\u00a0 They have a system for projecting animated clips that are visible from the sub’s portholes.\u00a0 This was an interesting ride<\/li>\n
  • The Swiss Family Robinson Treehouse is now Tarzan’s Treehouse.\u00a0 Vignettes of cheetahs and gorillas have been installed and the transformation is complete.\u00a0 So it is completely unclear why the treehouse is made of ship parts.\u00a0 Odd. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    New:<\/p>\n

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    • Indiana Jones is a new ride since I’d visited, and reminded me of a new-generation Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride.<\/li>\n
    • Buzz Lightyear was fun.\u00a0 In this ride, you use a joystick to spin your car (an updated Mad Hatter?) and use a ray gun to shoot at targets throughout the ride, collecting points.\u00a0 Very exciting.<\/li>\n
    • Star Tours seemed very dated, but was new to me.\u00a0 A 4-D ride based on Star Wars characters.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      We had a really good time and actually left the park about 5 o’clock feeling like we got to do everything we wanted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Thursday we spent the day at Disneyland.\u00a0 We drove to Anaheim early in the morning, and Diana braved heavy traffic and weird parking directions to get us there within an hour of the park opening.\u00a0 I was immediately surprised by the short wait to enter the park.\u00a0 Er, did I say wait?\u00a0 There was no […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/specksweb.com\/sandpapershoes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}