Part 4: Hollywood Studios

We had a late start on Friday due to an expensive and lengthy breakfast (will explain in another post)! We headed to Hollywood Studios on Friday mid afternoon. We knew we didn't need much time at this park as a lot of the rides are for bigger kids....like my favourite--Tower of Terror. I wasn't able to go on that ride, or the Aerosmith roller coaster...sniff sniff. One ride that Paige was really excited about at this park was Toy Story Mania. We had watched some previews online before we came here. Of course the ride was jam packed with an hour wait. We chose to watch a Little Mermaid live show first, hoping that the line would die down. Paige's favourite part of the show was when "Ariel's father made her a princess", but she was scared of Ursula the sea witch.

After the show, the Toy Story line up was only 40 minutes long so we decided to wait. It seems like forever, but at least the line is moving quite quickly. And there was a lot of stuff to look at in the lineup.

Huge Barrel of Monkeys and board games on the ceiling:

Rose looking around:

Giant crayons:

Talking mister potato head. The way his mouth moved made him look real. Crazy.


Toy story mania was a 3D ride where you sat in a car that moved on a track and spun around a bit. Wearing 3D glasses you had to use a little gun to shoot at things in arcade style games on huge screens. A small screen in the car showed our scores. Paige: 5700, Mommy: 82,000, Daddy: 120,000, Rose: 0.

We didn't take any more photos mainly because we were a bit rushed and then it was dark outside! We attempted to go to 2 or 3 rides that had already closed by the time we got there...frustrating. So we headed over to Muppet Vision 3D after dinner for our last attraction, which turned out to be a pretty fun 3D movie. Paige was standing on her chair and leaning over the seat in front of her to try to catch things that were flying out of the screen. The park closes at 7:00 so some of the live shows and the Honey I Shrunk the Kids playground closed up early. So basically we only did a few things. I wouldn't go to this park again with kids this age. It was fun to see the few things we did, but I think Paige would have just as much fun if we'd just gone back to Magic Kingdom again! It was pretty cold that night too, which was a bit of a bummer.