M-O-U-S-E Tasty Food

Best part of Disney? Delicious tasty taste food. Some of the things I desperately miss from good 'ol America. This Disney also had some treats I never thought of before, but I know that at least two sisters will love...

 The first item of Disney stuff once you get off the train. 

Big 'ol Disney hotel across the street from the park. Mark my words, next time I go to Disney, I want to stay in the official Disney hotel and eat at the Blue Bayou. I love the Pirates ride so much, I would live there if possible.  

 I actually don't like the Nightmare Before Christmas theme to the Haunted Mansion, I thought it was good as it was. Nighmare Before Christmas also genuinely freaks me right out...compound that with the fact that all the characters spoke in Japanese, and I was uncomfortable on that ride. It also so happens that I have been to Disney twice in the last 10 years, and they were both during the time they did the Nightmare Before Halloween. 

Asian Pirate band. No biggie.  

I am usually not a sucker for souvenirs, but I thought this was cool. I will say that there were a whole lot of people who thought it was funny to watch a big white guy walk around with a duck bill in his mouth... 

 ...it didn't help that I would quack at them every so often. 

A picture of all the Disney merchandise, if you squint, you can see Curry Peanuts on the top shelf.  

 Ah yes, the people patiently waiting for the parade for an hour and a half...

 Inside the new-ish Monsters Inc. Ride and Go Seek. It was a lot like the Buzz Lightyear ride, but not quite as fun. 

Inside the Disney PhilharMagic hall. It is a new Disney 3D show, which was quite awesome. 

 I like this display because it has a treasure map. Treasure map=pirates, pirates=awesome. 

The PhilharMagic show has Donald going through old Disney movies. All the singing was in Japanese...obviously. Confusing, but entertaining.  

Disney disguises the vending machines. Sneaky sneaks. 

Easy there sisters (see: Bec and Cyndi). Curry flavored popcorn. Yep, you heard me. I waited for 20 minutes in line to eat this. Freaking awesome. The best flavor they had. Other flavors include: Honey, Soy Sauce and Salt, Chocolate and Caramel.  

They had churros also. They had cinnamon, maple, strawberry and pumpkin flavored.  

 Boom. Check it out. 

These little buggers are even shaped like Mickey. You can see my arm there... 

 That there is a delicious crepe. Strawberry and cream. 

TURKEY LEG! BOO YAH! I love me some Turkey Leg! 

Another sneakily disguised vending machine.  

The castle. 

 The passage through the castle made creepy.

A big old mosaic of all the scenes from Cinderella.  

 Look at me, now I am a fancy photographer because I took a long exposure picture. I think I am going to start a photography Facebook page and start doing weddings...

 See my skillz?

As we were leaving  

Isn't that hotel charming? Imagine how much more charming it is when you have been walking around for 15 straight hours.  

In total, I saw about 40 foreigners out of the 80,000+ people I saw there. It isn't like I kept count (I totally did). 

Next time, I will chronicle my adventures in Tokyo to the busiest intersection in the world and a statue for a dog. 

M-I-C-K-E-Y Too Many People for Me

So this adventure was all to get to the magical land of Disney. I will start by saying that there were a lot of people there. I mean...A LOT! I am sure that the park was at capacity (what with it being a holiday weekend). Evidently, capacity at Tokyo Disneyland is around 85,000 people. I am usually ok with crowds, but this was too much.  

 Waiting in line to get into the park

 This was still a half an hour before the park opened

...aaand they're off! As soon as the gates were open, people were running to get in line for the fast passes. Sprinting as though it were the Tokyo Disney Marathon. I quickly found out why...by the time we got to where we were going (Space Mountain), the FastPass line was telling us to come back at 3:30 in the afternoon.  

 We didn't actually get onto the line immediately because we had to wait to get our wheelchair thingy signed. Now allow me to back up: my friend Emily that I went with sprained both ankles a few weeks ago, so she was in a wheelchair. The wheelchair will be addressed shortly. 

 The castle and Halloween decorations. 

Looking back toward the World Bazaar (which is the Tokyo equivalent of Main Street USA). Everything in Tokyo Disney was almost identical to everything you would find in Disneyland.  

 Adventureland

 This is in line for the Tiki Tiki Tiki Tiki Room. 

The Tiki room is Stitch themed, and all the birds sing about Stitch, who comes out and sings with the birds...unfortunately, all the singing and dialogue is in Japanese. I don't speak Japanese, this was to be the theme for the day.  

They gave us these fancy subtitle things that were even designed to fit the motif.  

 The Halloween band dressed in orange. 

 I like the subtitles at the bottom.

The best ride ever. I loved this ride because everything was in English except the talking skeleton head at the beginning of the ride.  

 Here are some kids who did some kind of show in front of the castle. They were wearing sweet little swimmer caps.

More little swimmers. 

 More of the Halloween decorations. They had some stupid parade that went through the park every two hours, and the Japanese people would line up for the entire two hours making it impossible to get through to anywhere. 

 On the left of this picture you can see the line for turkey legs. I had heard the joke that Japan's national sport is standing in line, and I can say with confidence that that is correct.  

 My view for most of the day. See how many people?

Now I begin my rant about pushing a wheelchair through Disneyland. It may be that this Disneyland is more crowded than others, but I don't remember having so much trouble with pushing a stroller while we were at Disneyland last time. It could be that the Japanese don't look in the same place as Americans when they walk. I noticed that people don't look at me in the eye as I walk down the street. It could also be that I am an American. 

What makes this a problem is that it makes it next to impossible to move a wheelchair through the park without running over people. As a culture, the Japanese have a smaller 'bubble' socially. This also makes moving a wheelchair a nightmare. I had about 400 mini panic attacks anytime anyone would come near. Children would dart out in front of the chair, people would try to shoot impossible gaps between the chair and a wall, and they would just stop and no one would be moving in any direction for a solid 10 minutes.

All in all, other than the 3 1/2 hour lines that people were waiting in, it was a good. Very Disneytastic. I can honestly say that it was pretty much like the regular old Disneyland, but more Japanese stuff. 

Next post: Disney Food and the rest of the stuff I didn't bore you with this time!