Monday March 6- Hollywood Studios
This was originally supposed to be our AK day, but due to ROL we switched up our schedule. We didn't sleep in per se, but we weren't up early either. We had breakfast at the resort again and then got ready for the day. I don't remember what time we arrived at HS, but our first FP wasn't until around noon, so we had time to kill. When we got there, we decided to browse the shops along the main drag. While we were doing that we heard the Stormtrooper March outside so we stepped outside and watched that for a few minutes. When we went back inside I picked up birthday presents for my niece and nephew (Star Wars costumes) and a scarf for a friend who asked me to grab one for her. Can I just say that I love resort shipping? It was so nice not to have to carry that stuff around with me all day.
Once we were done shopping, we watched a bit of the Star Wars show that was going on in front of the Chinese Theater. We didn't see all of it because we needed to get over to Indiana Jones for our FP. After the show we made our way to Star Tours for our second FP. This was the one ride at HS I definitely wanted to get on because it was down refurbishment when we were there in 2011. After that we decided to take in Muppets 3D Vision.
At this point we had a little time, but not much before our lunch ADR at Sci Fi, so we hopped in the line to meet Chip & Dale. I wasn't thrilled with the QS options at HS and had never eaten at Sci Fi so it seemed like a good choice to have a late lunch (I think our reservation was for 2:30ish). We checked in a few minutes before our reservation time and got seated around 10-15 minutes later. We both enjoyed the atmosphere, and I would definitely eat there again even though I can't remember for the life of me at the moment what I ate.
I don't remember how long our lunch lasted, but when we were finished it wasn't quite time to get in line for our Toy Story Mania FP, so we went over to the Great Movie Ride and hopped in that line. We were expecting a wait long enough to push us into our FP window, but after about 15 minutes or so in line, they started calling for parties of 2 or less to come to the front. They were using those smaller parties to fill in the gaps. It was quite a nice surprise to not have to wait in the long line! (For a time frame reference, the line was about 40 minutes long according to the
MDE app; we actually waited about half of that). I love GMR and was sad that it was closed so I was happy that we got on it while we were there.
After GMR, it was time for our TSM fast passes. Woohoo! I love this ride. If memory serves me correctly, I won this time (she kicked my butt when we were there in 2011). We then stepped into One Man's Dream and browsed all of the stuff in there which was cool. They had the yellow dress Emma Watson wore in the new Beauty & the Beast on display. It's so much more beautiful in person than on screen. They also were showing long previews of the movie (it came out the following week), so it was cool to see that ahead of time. As we were finishing up with that, the Star Wars show in front of the Chinese Theater was getting ready to start again, so we stopped and watch it in its entirety this time. After that we visited Launch Bay and met Chewbacca. The line for Kylo Ren was longer than either of us really wanted to wait, so we moved along. We did meet a Jawa though!
At this point we weren't really sure what to do, because we wanted to stay for the Star Wars Galactic Spectacular Show but it was still about 2 hours away. The line for RNRC was almost an hour's wait, and I really wanted to ride it (S was relatively ambivalent about it) since I didn't get to on the last trip. So we made our way down there and the line was longer, so we decided to wait in the single rider line. I think we waited about 45 minutes and it was nice that we ended up on the same train. After that Fantasmic was getting ready to start, but we knew that we wouldn't be able to see that and the Star Wars show so we skipped it. The wait for Tower of Terror though was 10 minutes so we walked right onto that!
After we got off that, we were hungry for something to snack on so we stopped at Hollywood Scoops and got ice cream sandwiches. The Cast Member working the register was a student in the College Program from the university I work at so that was cool to talk with him about that. We made our way back to the Chinese Theater and found ourselves a place to stop and eat. After we finished those we moved out into the open a little so that we'd get a good view of the Star Wars Galactic Spectacular Show. The show as awesome!
After the show was over, we made our way back to our resort and settled in for the evening.