Tuesday, July 21^st, Disney day 3

Today we are going to Disney Hollywood Studios.

Last night, I changed out the scooter, but the replacement is no good either. Last night, I couldn’t make it up the ramp of the bus. I figured maybe the scooter needed to be charged. After a night of charging the scooter, just trying to drive it to the bus station, I just didn’t feel it could make it up the ramp either, so I called up Walker Mobility and made arrangements to have this scooter replaced with another.

Yesterday, I noticed a bus heading towards the studios couldn’t handle scooters. Today, the same issue. One bus pulls in, cant handle a scooter. So we wait for another bus. This one too cant handle scooters. I saw a bus monitor and complained/asked how I should be getting to the studios with my scooter? He looked at his tablet and said there should be a normal Disney bus that can handle scooters in a couple of minutes. He was right. I made it up the ramp without issue, my mother needed help.

Entering the studio, the bag check security guard takes a good look at the monopod before deciding it is ok to enter with.

We head to Muppetvision, perhaps for the last time as there has been rumors for years about it closing.

After Muppetvision, we go to Toy Story and use the Fast pass here. This was the one that concerned me to use, as it had to be timed just right. We timed it right and enter without a problem.

I am player 1

We then entered Great Movie Ride using my DAS.

The attraction has under some changes since last year. It has been rethemed with American Movie Classics cable channel, AMC for short. The ride portion is the same. Some minor differenced in monologue. The movie trailer portion in the queue area changed. So was the ending montage. I like the ending montage better.

After that we head to Voyage of the Little Mermaid, the studios Little Mermaid attraction.

After that we headed to Sunset Strip where my mother and I shared a chicken and rib dinner. I got a large diet soda and two ice waters, and a extra plate.

We headed out of the park to visit our family at the Yacht Club. We take the path from the Studios to the Boardwalk. If I didn’t notice it before, I notice it now, my scooters top speed is slower then my mothers. I don’t feel like changing out the scooter again, getting ridiculous. So I make due.

We make it to the resort before the rest of my family does. We park out scooters just outside of the resort by the buses. We visit and relax in their room. It’s a single large room with just two large beds and it has a balcony.

We leave their room, do a tour of the Boardwalk before we head back to the studios and go in and see One Mans Dream.

My favorite item to look for… the Nautilus from the movie, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea.

My mother says something that scares me… she wants to see something Frozen.

I first get a DAS return time for Toy Story then search and find something, a Frozen short cartoon that opens every 30 minutes. The first part of the showing is a making of documentary. Then the animation short about the sister with the magic tries to throw a birthday party for the other sister, and the hyjinx that follows.

We then used the DAS for Toy Story. Here is something interesting happened. I am about to enter the FP entrance of Toy Story when a woman with a child in a wheel chair tried to get in front of me with some sort of pass. I figured a party of two really didn’t matter, but after she entered, she said she was a party of 7. That bothered me, maybe made a sound indicating it, after all, I was in front of her, just about to enter. Well.. she was nice and let me and my mother enter in front of her party.

We then went to eat at Hollywood and Vine. We didn’t like where they seated us at first, but sat and stayed there. We got our tickets for Fantasmic as I booked the Fantasmic Dinner Package. After eating we had about an hour to kill before heading to the Fantasmic theater. What to do?

We just went to the theater which was already open, parked our scooters on the top and moved down to a row, hopefully it wont be blocked as I am going to try and broadcast it live besides recording it.

Here is the hidef video I took of the show.

And I did do a Ustream broadcast too, even though no one was watching, I did broadcast it and here is that video.

After Fantasmic was over, we wait for the crowd to lesson before we attempt to leave the theater. When we make it to the street, we see the Frozen Fireworks but head out of the park. They have corals in the streets for people who want to watch the fireworks. And a clear path for people who want to leave the park. The CM’s keep the clear path moving, as if someone stops to look at the fireworks, they get the person walking again.

We make it out of the park and to the bus for the ride back to the resort.

Once back in the resort, I plug the charger into the scooter and it is indicating it is fully charged. I plug in my mothers charger and its shows it is charging my scooter, so it looks like the charger failed. Will deal with it tomorrow, perhaps the scooter is being charged, just not indicating it is charging.