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I rescind my agreement on the "Six Flags" comparison. But, it's still being worked out, in my head. For whether it's a repeat visit or not, for myself. Stay tuned.

^ No matter what time of year you visit, the resort is very crowded most of the time. With locals' support, which is wonderful. But it's still a big crowd to deal with - so first rule - ARRIVE BEFORE GATES OPEN at least ONE HOUR. I have easily gotten into a line at Tokyo Disney nearly TWO hours ahead of opening time. It works in your favour, so just gulp, and do it. Make FULL USE of FASTPASS and SINGLE RIDERS LINE, when you find it. For TDL, single riders is only for Splash Mountain. In Disney Sea, it happens at Indy, Raging Spirits and 'sometimes' at Journey and Tower of Terror...depending. It really helps, to get late evening FasrPasses, especially if you are staying on site, like we did at the Tokyo Disney Hilton on recent TPR Tours. Then you have an option of leaving the park and hitting your room for a rest. Then head back out after the dinner hour. Easy! Midweek visiting will probably be much better than on weekends at this resort. Not by a lot. But still better than... Hope you enjoy whatever you decide to do there, LOL.

Posting my first VIDEO of my TPR 2014 SCANDI Tour...and it's a "doozy"! Clocking in at nearly 2 minutes, and the main thing is, NOBODY RODE IT from the tour! I think. Will be posting after midnight, Exciting!!!

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^ Mile High Falls looks like a YOU WILL GET WET ride from start to finish! Great set of photos, thanks for sharing! And black and white still rawks for me!

Annnnnd one more, but this "coaster" might be... 'debatable'. (EDIT TO ADD: Couldn't resist. One more, and it's a VID and NOBODY {to the best of my knowledge} rode it! Will post After Midnight, PST.) Peek-a-boo? (Linnanmaki Park, Finland)

^ That's so true.... Our Bonus Park in Denmark.

We have more Brazil fans than German fans in our area. And suddenly - it's pretty quiet here, now.

"The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" The Band

^ Thanks Bob. And, I know! Only a week's gone by and it feels like it was before Christmas! Ah well. Will do my best, for the memories. Speaking of memories... shameless, Bob. Shameless. (Sarkaniemi Park, Finland)

^ HELIX !

Oh gosh I LOVED Alice when I rode it a few years back. I can't wait! Alice is one of the most original, unique dark rides Disney has ever created. They could put a version of it, in at the UK pavilion in EPCOT. But I am glad there is still only one of these to be found, at DL itself.

06/12/2014 - 6 Hours in Iceland Airport....Day Ends with Danish Steak Dinner! The flight over had nothing exciting (thankfully) to cooment on, except for that "forgotten luggage cart" the plane had to return for, from the tarmac, lol. But it put a dent in Tom's connecting flight to Copenhagen, via Reykyavik, and he had to really run for his flight. I on the other hand, had an hour cut off my original 7 hours I was having to wait in the airport, for my connection. So that helped the wait. But not much. When I finally did get to Copenhagen, I also had a good sized bottle of schnapps from Duty Free for the group's upcoming Snack/Alchohol Exchange on Friday evening. But that would wait. I also want to say this was The Fastest I have ever gotten off a plane, gotten my bag (second one down the ramp!), left the airport, gotten my train ticket (open cashier spot just as I arrived), and a minute later my train arrived! I was impressed! Several of us had planned to get a "good steak dinner somewhere," that turned out to be at a steak house right beside Tivoli Park's entrance! The staff were very pleased to have us there, and our waiter was especially fast and efficient in making sure we enjoyed our meal and evening there. The price was good and included the place's salad bar. I think we were all happy with what we got and ate. It was a great start for getting to meet up with a few old tour buddys, and meeting new ones as well. And that waiter (damn forgot his name - anyone remember?)..... mmmmmm. That's all I'll say. I think it means, leave your mental baggage at home. Good words for this tour. This was in a hallway at Reykjavik airport, after we touched down. Iceland Family portrait. I think. Open faced sandwich for lunch at the airport. Great presentation, and an eventual mess to deal with, lol. The schnapps I bought for the exchange the next night. Ceiling of our waiting area at the airport. Interesting. Arrival in Copenhagen, and this is my train car to Central Station. Our Steak House, right by Tivoli! Group shot, taken by our handsome waiter. Dinner. Steal with garlic butter was heaven. Potato was excellent. Salad Bar was varied and plentiful. A good meal that night! More of the group. Hi JC! (all in black, left) Glad we're going to be roomies again. (o: Lauren at the Salad Bar. Another shot of us all. Our Personal Photographer takes a selfie. Like I said, handsome, yes? AJ attempts to drink a rather LARGE BEER. And he succeeds! Way to go AJ! Entrance arch of Tivoli. We'll be back in a couple of days. Construction fencing artwork, on our walk back to our hotel. And we make it back, for a good night's sleep. Ready for a Bonus Park tomorrow!

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Ooo. Ooo. Amazing Race: Canada starts tomorrow night!

^ "Sunday Morning Fever" from the above. awesome.

"Fabulous, Baby" original London cast cd of "Sister Act" Patina Miller and company.

Wow. Very cool about the McDonalds, Divv. I remember, when my mom and I visited DL in....Easter 1963 (!), we took a local bus to go to Knotts Berry Farm, from where we stayed close to DL. And I remember looking to my right, and seeing that original McDs! I think this was just before they introduced Ronald to the world, lol. Great that you got to visit the place.

The drinks look delish, but...Olaf's head has already melted!!! Sadly, only at Tokyo Disneyland right now. And non-alcoholic, too. Still...very nice. Hmmm. Yummy decision to make here.

^ Somehow I manged to never find and buy the POtC LP. And just because, here's my Disney Parks CD Collection... The general collection. Incl. DL's 50th anny set; DLPR's 15th anny set; TDL's 30th set. The back of the Fantasmic cd. And the Main Street Electrical Parade is listed. (o: All from TDL, Disney Sea mostly. And Big Band Beat still rules! (o;

They offer the music for free through the company that made the song. www.imascore.com/helix/ Ooooo thanks!

Here's another artsy fartsy photo I came up with, from the 2014 Scandi Tour. It's actually the load/unload station of Piraten, at Djurs Sommerland park. Trippy, huh? And no drugs were ingested, in the making of this art photo, lol!

"Just keep on, keepin' on..."

^^ Here's my Disney Parks LP collection. And I do have the MSEP in it's entirety, but as the second track on the original FANTASMIC soundtrack cd. From the NY World's Fair, to WDW, and EPCOT. (o:

That's true. I found the worst line jumping to be at Tusenfryd, but really, that's not the park's fault, no matter how they try to enforce not to line jump. And trudging up and down those massive hills and paths got to me, for myself. I really tried planning my "route" so there wasn't too much "back and forth". But honestly, it couldn't be avoided much, up and down, up and down... And I still loved Thunder coaster, Speed Monster, and really enjoyed the new dark attractions, Thor's Hammer and Nightmare. So, I won't dump on the park. But if they get a new coaster (or something) between now and the next tour there? This may be my park to pass on.