Day 161 - Hollywood Studios

We were up and off so we could get into Disney’s Hollywood Studios park at 09:30. Danny had done some quick research online and discovered a top tip for this park: The major ride here is the Toy Story Midway Mania! Ride and the queues get big fast. We had learned that you have to make your way straight to it and grab yourself one of the free FASTPASS tickets that gives you a designated time to return to this ride and you’ll pretty much get straight on the ride. Once you have a pass you can’t get another one for a ride for a good couple of hours depending on the ticket and so this prevents abuse of this system; it also means you have to choose your FASTPASSES wisely.

We then started working our way through almost everything the park had to offer, popping back to the Toy Story ride at 14:00 to see what all the fuss was about. By this time the FASTPASS machines for this ride had been closed as all the passes were gone for the day! The queue time was still at a steady 140 minutes which is the longest queue time either of us has ever seen at a theme park – we got on within 5! Just so you know, it is an awesome ride; one of the ones where you shoot things to score points but it’s all Toy Story styled so it’s cool.

We slowly conquered the entire park, missing out only one or two things and then we went to get in line for the Fastasmic! show that started at 21:00. This show was pretty good too and was a great way to finish up the day.

We both left drained but completely satisfied with our 12 ½ hour day at the park, our highlights of the day being: Toy Story Midway Mania! Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, and the Fantasmic! show.