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Well hopefully, they'll give enough advance notice about it. One way or the other, hope you eventually have a great visit there.

This was too much fun to just share with a few people I know. So here's a video that pretty much sums up 2020... Enjoy.

This will be Santa and Ms.Claus after his long delivery night tonight, heh heh.

Ha! The blanks to fill in for your "not sures".... Chicago, Tina:The Tina Turner Musical, The Temptations Musical, Six, and Evan Hansen. Great effort. I remember Universal "sort of" announcing (last year) a year end, this year, film of "Wicked", and then..........nothing. So...now we wait. I also remember that STEVEN SPIELBERG was going to be involved with it. But now....who knows? I liked the movie version of Phantom. But we REALLY ENJOYED the (then) recent live tour of the production, with this amazing set design, that was literally a "huge wide tube" that revolved and had parts that opened for certain scenes. Including this cool set of stairs that would suddenly extend from it for key scenes. It was wonderful! Personally, NOTHING beats live theatre, right?

Jolly,Jolly! Can you name all 11 Broadway shows here, sledding and sliding?

Awesome night and day shots John! But this one.... Money shot. And I love how this catches the blue at the top. Well done!

It looks like a more cleaner streamlined entry into EPCOT. I like it much better without those ....uh.... what Chuck called them! ^

Ho, Ho.... (exhales) Ho!

Sad news today... She was married to Danny Burstein, who was recently in "Moulin Rouge." She originated the role of Lily in the first Broadway production of "The Secret Garden". She also played Magnolia in the Harold Prince revival of "Showboat." More can be read about her at https://www.broadway.com/buzz/199025/rebecca-luker-golden-voiced-tony-nominee-of-show-boat-the-music-man-more-dies-at-59/

If you postpone your visit for a week, they'll possibly/probably be running their annual CoasterMANIA! by then. First Friday of June it happens, I remember. Which means it will be on (I think?) June 4th, 2021.

^ Noted.

And then there's this festive saying....

Yeah, last summer last year was the first time Playland attempted these Adults Only Nights (Fridays in July) at the park. And themed each night. We were all hoping they'd be doing it again this past summer, but then....yeah yeah blah blah happened. So, hoping it'll repeat next summer, including Neon Night! And I still have my (well, it was) new neon t-shirt to show off. From Knott's Berry Farm, when we were there in 2019! Sept. 2019

^ Eep. Really? <sighs> Here's what I'm listening to now..... I love it, too! And who knew, GLEE's nasty Sue could sing! A very jazzy "Star of Wonder" is playing now. Sooo cooool!

Now having a "Great Big Holiday Band Time" with Jane Lynch (yes it's GLEE's nasty Sue) and friends singing lots of different holiday songs as well as classics and faves of the time. She's really a good singer, when it's all in the right range for her, which it is for this CD!

^ Yours looks great! I have a few photo avatars I still enjoy using. The first was taken in the Tokyo Bay Hilton Hotel after we arrived in Tokyo Disney Resort (TPR Japan Tour-2013), the second one was taken last year (July) during the NEON Theme Adults Only Night at Playland. It's sooo me, lol! And then there's the one with me and...."Dad." Taken in Bakken Park ~ Denmark, TPR 2014 Scandinavian Tour. Such fun running into "family"!

^ We saw and enjoyed "Jingle, Jangle", too! And we saw "Christmas Chronicles" (1) since we found out Kurt and Goldie had made a second one featuring her a lot more in it, too. So we watched the first one last Sunday. Loved it. Kurt was soooo cool as Claus. Total reconstruct that worked, for us. We're watching CC2.0 tomorrow night. Not sure for now, what we'll want to repeat for next season, etc. There's so many of these seasonal movies/tv specials coming out, now. If anything the pandemic sure upped the rate of holiday films, heh. And that's great. More choices, right? And still there's space for "It's A Wonderful Life," too.

"Over The Moon" totally surprised us! And that intro number The Goddess did! Ultraluminary! We had 3D on (w/glasses) and everything just exploded at us, LOL! Loved that number.

Holiday baked goods!

Country music singer K.T. Oslin. Known for 1990's hits, including "80's Ladies", and "This Woman."

^There's also the dungeon and the haunted forest to consider, too. Actually, in the very original version of this ride, and I remember it as a scared ten year old (1963), there was a skeleton shackled to the wall of the dungeon. And as you moved towards it, the head suddenly moved forward towards you, saying "Go Back, Go Back." And those trees in that forest did overhead 'swipes' with their branchy arms, much closer (and taller) than the cleaned up version had. Ah memories. But this was all part of my "Snow White Experience," heh. Hopefully, they've figured out ways to keep some of this in the new version of the ride, including the Evil Queen/Witch.

^ Scary Adventures isn't in the MK any more. It was turned into a Princess Meet & Greet (yes?), and the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train coaster was the replacement for it's Snow White. I think the only places it is now, is in Tokyo Disneyland and Disneyland Paris.

Mickey Wreath and Minnie Candy Cane Ornaments! But it "might" be the other way around, heh. I bought them from Disneyland in my Sept. 2016 visit. What the pic looks like, uncropped.

^ I would buy two boxes (or more) of them, if I could afford it. But I can just afford only one box of each different pair, etc. And that's fine with me. Having at least one box of them, is cool. Your little Doom Buggy train looks neat, by the way. EDIT to Add: You should make a small shoe box sized display for them to "travel through," maybe using black light paints, etc. MORE EDIT to Add: Actually, I could just link up all the ride vehicle pairs together, or mix them up, for a really "Odd~OmniMover" attraction, LOL!

Tokyo Disney Resort and TOMICA are really starting to up the numbers in the TDR Ride Vehicle Collection! They've just released toy sized versions of Pooh's Hunny Hunt vehicle, and Big Thunder Mountain's main engine + a ride/mining car. Now they've just announced two more attractions' vehicles to be released December 23rd! Toy Story Mania and Ride & Go Seek! cars. From the photos shown, I am hoping, like the Haunted Mansion Doom Buggys, they are being sold in pairs. Check with eBay for these if you can't go to Japan....which of course presently, we can't. Pooh's Hunny Hunt "under glass". (o; Big Thunder, with a couple of missing mine cars. You get only one. Toy Story Mania. Woody's image is on both. And, they rotate! Monsters' Ride & Go Seek! cars. They rotate around, too! (o: