WonkaKid
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2009
In recent weeks and months, I, among others, have posted about/bemoaned the lack of inexpensive postcards at Disneyland. Up until about six months ago, cards for $2 or less (with AP discount) had nice pics of things like the DL castle and/or Mickey and Minnie. In place of those, now the park only offers $5-$8 cards that are artistic renderings of attractions. I hate them, in part because recipients may not even know what they’re meant to represent. The ridiculous prices don’t help either. In any case, I discovered last week that non-Disney stores near to the park offer better cards… and for only $.90! I picked up a few yesterday (pic below). I’ll bring them to the park soon so that I can at least mail them from there. I suspect this may be obvious to others but as a local park-goer, I never visit the nearby souvenir shops.
Side note: on my way to the souvenir store on Harbor, there was a guy preaching loudly about religious issues. It was moderately annoying but whateves. On my way back, however, he crossed the Disney property line and security moved quickly to remind him of the boundaries. In typical Disney fashion, they were exceptionally kind and pleasant about it. I'd expect no less.
Brief park report. I made excellent time getting into the structure and to the park gates yesterday. The lane I was in opened at 7:00 but the other two to my left of me didn’t right away for some reason. The three cars ahead of me all had passes that were scanned, which takes far less time than when guests try to pay (seemingly) with pennies, foreign currency and voided credit cards. I got the second parking spot in the structure (!!), made it to a security lane with no one ahead of me, jumped onto an empty tram and it took off almost immediately (I remained the sole rider throughout, which is the first time that's happened). We stopped at the best point possible (sometimes the trams drive all the way around the drop-off point before letting guests disembark) and I beat a friend to the gates for the first time ever! We were among the first into the park but some kid (he was at least 16, so not really a kid, exactly) skip-ran ahead of us and ruined my customary empty Main Street pic. I’m no graphics editor but I’ve done my best to remove him from the pic. I’m sure that if anyone looks closely, it’ll be obvious to them.
Overall, it was a great day. Two high points:
I have park maps for anyone who’d like a set. Simply send me a DM (“Start Conversation”) and I’ll get some in the mail for you.
Park pics. Just a few this time.
This is the image I edited to remove the runner. Don't look too closely or you'll ruin the magic ;-).
My second-place parking spot!
Me on my chauffeur-driven tram ;-).
Postcards from a nearby souvenir shop.
Side note: on my way to the souvenir store on Harbor, there was a guy preaching loudly about religious issues. It was moderately annoying but whateves. On my way back, however, he crossed the Disney property line and security moved quickly to remind him of the boundaries. In typical Disney fashion, they were exceptionally kind and pleasant about it. I'd expect no less.
Brief park report. I made excellent time getting into the structure and to the park gates yesterday. The lane I was in opened at 7:00 but the other two to my left of me didn’t right away for some reason. The three cars ahead of me all had passes that were scanned, which takes far less time than when guests try to pay (seemingly) with pennies, foreign currency and voided credit cards. I got the second parking spot in the structure (!!), made it to a security lane with no one ahead of me, jumped onto an empty tram and it took off almost immediately (I remained the sole rider throughout, which is the first time that's happened). We stopped at the best point possible (sometimes the trams drive all the way around the drop-off point before letting guests disembark) and I beat a friend to the gates for the first time ever! We were among the first into the park but some kid (he was at least 16, so not really a kid, exactly) skip-ran ahead of us and ruined my customary empty Main Street pic. I’m no graphics editor but I’ve done my best to remove him from the pic. I’m sure that if anyone looks closely, it’ll be obvious to them.
Overall, it was a great day. Two high points:
- I believe that it was @DnA2010 who saw me talking to some friends at the porch and she said hello. I’d sent her park maps about six weeks ago. It’s always nice to meet fellow Dissers face-to-face and she was super nice.
- I met a great family at the porch and they asked for Buzz tips. They’re all good and both of the kids (a sister and a brother aged about 11 and 12 – it was the younger daughter’s birthday) have broken 1M at some point. Later I ran into them all at Buzz and we compared scores several times at the photo kiosk. The kids hadn’t managed to break 1M that day but I gave each of them the opportunity to take credit for one of my scores (around 1.3M). They seemed to love that. They come often and I hope to see them again. I spent longer than usual on Buzz because I wanted to break 2M and give the girl credit for it, since it was her birthday. Never got past 1.7M, though :-(.
I have park maps for anyone who’d like a set. Simply send me a DM (“Start Conversation”) and I’ll get some in the mail for you.
Park pics. Just a few this time.
This is the image I edited to remove the runner. Don't look too closely or you'll ruin the magic ;-).
My second-place parking spot!
Me on my chauffeur-driven tram ;-).
Postcards from a nearby souvenir shop.
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). The little store next to Candy Cane is great, also the CVS and other souvenir shop across from CCI. We always shop at that one because they have a great collection of OOP Loungef backpacks.
Nothing like hearing someone screaming through a loud speaking about sodomites at 7:30am!
