DisneyLand Tokyo

We spent our afternoon at Disneyland, grabbing the Disney rail to get here, which was very cute given the train cars had fluffy seats and handrails!

We did four animatronic rides here. There were six that we had on the list of ones to potentially do, but the beauty and the beast one had a two and a half hour wait, and the monsters inc one had a two hour wait. We weren't that invested haha, whereas the other four had between 20-40 minute waits which is reasonable.

The first ride was a Pinocchio one, and it flew through. You barely had a second to look at anything, flying about on the cart as if we were on a mouse cart coaster that dashes here and there rapidly. Which I would have loved it to be a little slower so we could take the animatronics in, but Michael said it matched the chaos of the story, so he enjoyed it.

Next up was It's A Small World... With Groot. This version of it's a small world was on crack. It was so funny. They had included every Disney, Pixar and warner bros character under the sun. From ant man, to Alladin, to the hulk (who was in Greece?), miss marvel, chip and dale, plus fifty thousand versions of Groot. In saying that, the music was the best version yet, as it doesn't just play the same song over and over in the same tone. They now vary depending on the room, and many are instrumental. It was way better in that regard, and probably my fave version of the ride over the four parks I've done it in, if only for how many times I laughed at how ridiculous it was. Oh, and Australia was given like the tiniest section, with literally a rainbow kangaroo, some koalas, and Groot playing a didgeredoo. Thanks Disney, tell us what you really think 🤣🤣🤣

The third ride was a snow white animatronic, and it was the darkest of the rides we've done today. Again, it zoomed along, but it was still enjoyable.

Lastly, we did the Peter pans adventure. This one was cool. It was in flying boats, so you flew around the animatronics that were telling the entire story of Peter Pan. It was heaps of fun and VERY pretty.

We also caught the afternoon parade (and by caught I mean we got caught because you can't move because everywhere is blocked off), and the floats were massive. We managed to nab some seats across from a bridge and just chilled out and watched the floats go by, before we ducked down to check out the gift shops (nothing of interest) and then waited for our bus back to Tokyo Skytree.

Oh, and the count on Michael's specific US bomber jacket across both Disney parks was approx 108. With 98% of those being on cute Japanese girls. He's decided to keep track of it for the whole trip for fun in his physical Japan journal.Read more