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January 20th, 2019            

Since Drew had a hockey tournament in Orlando, and a day in which his first and only game came at 7:00pm, we decided it would be a good opportunity to sneak in some time at one of the Disney World parks. Since Disney's Hollywood Studios was the only one we hadn't visited since receiving our season passes we decided that would be where we headed. Unfortunately, once again I did a horrible job of keeping track of which rides and attractions we visited while we were here today, so I will recap our day as best as I can.

I do know that one of our first rides was on Star Tours - The Adventure Continues., which Drew and Jayden weren't overly excited about when we got in line, but by the time we got off the ride they were very happy they took the time to wait for it. Since we were relatively close, we headed over to the Muppet«Vision 3D attraction next, where we enjoyed the zany antics of Kermit, Miss Piggy, and their friends.

At this time we had to head clear across the park to use our FastPasses for The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. The kids were a little nervous about this one too (especially Drew), but they both enjoyed it as well. Everything except the odor emanating from one of our fellow ride guests (PU!), that is!

Our final stop for the day was to check out the newest area of the park, Toy Story Land. I really enjoyed this park, as it is designed as though we were shrunk down to the size of one of Andy's toys from the Toy Story movies, and are now in his back yard. A couple of my favorite highlights from Toy Story Land were Woody's Lunch Box, which is a quick service restaurant that is a giant Woody's Roundup metal lunch box (the kind we would have carried to elementary school during our youth). One end is held up by the thermos that would have came in the lunch box, and some of the items in the lunchbox are animal crackers, Oreo cookies, and Babybel cheese. Another of my favorites was the restroom building, which was made out of Tinkertoy blocks. The sign was made up of Scrabble letter tiles, and had a round Tinkertoy container on one end, as well as a Cootie game and cereal box on the other end. There were also cooties assembled and on display.

Around the entire Toy Story Land area are giant Tinkertoy assemblies, as well as park benches that are made of half-stained popsicle sticks, Lego style garbage and recycle containers, and many more neat details, such as Andy's giant footsteps on the ground.

While we were in Toy Story Land, we decided to check out the new Alien Swirling Saucers ride. While we enjoyed this, it is probably better suited to the younger kids. We also had FastPasses for Toy Story Mania!, which Tara and I had been on many years ago, but we still all enjoyed today.

By now it was pretty much time for us to leave so that we could make it to Drew's game on time. We all wished we could have spent more time here today, but regular life calls! Oh, and (once again) I will try to be better about tracking our activities next time so that I can give a better recap!

 

Disney's Hollywood Studios

The entrance to Disney's Hollywood Studios.

The Crossroads of the World.

A look down Hollywood Boulevard.

Storm Troopers marching down Hollywood Boulevard.

Jayden and Drew in front of the Miss Piggy Fountain outside of the Muppet«Vision 3D attraction.

A Woody statue near the entrance of Toy Story Land.

A lucky young man meeting Buzz Lightyear near the entrance of Toy Story Land.

Some of the decoration near the entrance to Toy Story Land.

Another young boy meeting Woody and Jessie from the Toy Story movies.

A look at Woody's Lunch Box, a quick service restaurant.

The toy soldiers marching through Toy Story Land.

This building houses the restrooms! How cool is that!?!

A giant Buzz Lightyear statue outside the Alien Swirling Saucers ride.

Jay and Tara on the Alien Swirling Saucers ride.

Drew and Rodney on the Alien Swirling Saucers ride.

Another peek at Woody's Lunch Box. Notice the Babybel cheese wheel and the Oreo cookies?

The Green Army Men using Tinkertoy's as a lookout.

A peek at the new Star Wars land coming in near Toy Story Land.

Another look at the restroom building, including a giant Cootie!

Inside the Toy Story Mania! queue is this giant View Master slide.

Some of the escapee's from the Barrel of Monkey's spotted when exiting the Toy Story Mania! ride.

Drew, Jay, and Tara along a Popsicle wall.

A look the opposite way down Hollywood Boulevard.

Drew and Jay outside of Hollywood Studios.


 

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