Tokyo Disneyland

Disneyland. The place where dreams come true.

I have been blessed enough to go to Hong Kong Disneyland when I was younger. It was pretty fun as there weren't many people at the park. But we went there after two hence missing the parades, and soon after it rained and we were stuck on 'It's A Small World' ride for two hair-tearing hours. 

But Tokyo Disneyland is a different story. It was larger, better and more Disney than Hong Kong. 

We took a long bus ride to get there. We were quite worried while we were going there because the sky was looking gray. But we checked the weather forecast the day before and it assured us that it was the weather was going to be gorgeous. And the weather forecast in Japan is never wrong. 

As the bus stopped at the first station, we immediately rushed out because WE'RE HERE IN DISNEYLAND MUTHAFAKAS!!! It wasn't until we walked quite a distance towards the entrance when we heard: Welcome to DisneySea! Oh hell naw. We got off the wrong stop.

Yes. We were lost. But Tokyo being Tokyo, had a monorail service to bring us from DisneySea to Disneyland. And I s2g the monorail is hella cute, with hidden mickeys all around. 

And then finally  we were at Disneyland!

I was sad that I had to buy adult tickets. 

I think it was at this point that we lost it. I wanted to run straight to the castle and spam the camera right then. It was only 9am but there was people everywhere already, but more on that later. 

The people in charge asked me to get down. 

You think this is a lot of photos, but I wasn't happy with the photos of me and the castle. So I continued it later. Stay tuned. 

After spazzing out in front of the castle, we headed straight for Adventure Land because we didn't get to go to the one in Hong Kong. 

And the first ride we took was Western River Railroad as we wanted to see the sights first.

Map studying

The ride was already spilling with lines of people and Disneyland had just opened. But we got an even bigger shock when the line moved inwards a little. We thought we had reached the point where we could get on the ride, but turns out the line brached off into a hidden section and the line was not as short as it seemed.

This was the part where we thought we could get on, but we had to move inwards and line up longer.

Mum said this looked like a postcard. 

This is a ride. You had to actually canoe. 

It was a pretty mild ride, with fake animals and fake Native Americans. But it was nice, seeing sights with Japanese narration. Next, we went to ride the Pirates of The Caribbean ride. That was a much more exciting ride, but photography wasn't allowed inside because it ruined the magic. 

It was a really good ride. You gotta give props to Disney for their robotics. Captain Jack Sparrow was so lifelike. It makes you wonder what Johnny Depp must feel like, when he rides the ride. It's a truly must-ride ride. (Absolute overuse of the word 'ride', I'm not very sorry) 

And then we sought out the Curry Popcorn. There are actually lots of different flavoured popcorn in Tokyo Disneyland but we were more curious about the curry one. 

Well, it tasted really spicy, but not the hot and pedas kind. It was just the spice. I would have preferred if they made it hotter, but Japanese don't to hot-spicy. But hey, it was a good try. It was 310 yen tho. We thought it was pricey at first, but then as the day progressed we kinda got used to it. 

We bought the popcorn thinking we could maybe slowly eat it while we lined up for the next ride: Big Thunder Mountain, but we were very very wrong. Here's why:

P/s: this was just the outside

Deyh got angmoh at Tokyo Disneyland deyh

You gotta give them props for the decor man

DISNEYLAND JUST OPENED

Yeah the photos above were our semangat faces because we havent's seen how long the line for the ride actually was. Lining up was so boring. I was lucky enough to have brought a book to Disneyland. My brother was farming mushrooms (no he really was. The game). And Joey was listening to music. You could see how the rest of the line was coping with the boredom. The two girls behind us in Mickey ears already selfied like, a thousand times when we got to the middle of the line. And there was a group of teens Mario Kart-ing on their NDSes.

Yeah. We lined up for 90 minutes for a bloody roller coaster. And it wasn't even that thrilling. But it was a nice ride lah. 

Then we brought our hungry asses to lunch! We decided to eat in Westernland because we were at Westernland. And it wasn't that expensive as well. We bought two sets and we split it between the three of us. It was quite filling. I think we only spent around RM 20+ per person for this meal which is saying something because it's Disneyland. The place where we got our food was listed as 'cheap' on their map. You should probably check out the map properly buying your meal because my aunt went to a restaurant that was listed as 'slightly expensive' and spent RM120 for a two-person meal. And you don't have to worry about the quality of the food in Disneyland. It might not be healthy, but it sure as heck tastes good. 

FOUND AFFORDABLE FOOD FACE

And then we went to the parade. Oh. It was magical. The Japanese already booked their places for the parade when it was 11am. The parade starts at 2pm. And the sun was hitting us with full force on that day. You gotta give the Japs a standing ovation man. Being the midget that I am, I desperately tried to capture as much of the parade I could whilst being squished by tons and tons of (taller) people. I hope these photos does the parade justice. 

My favourite princess! :) 

 

Alice

King Mickey, everyone

This is our PARADE FINISH LIAO faces

After the parade, we went off for more adventures at Tomorrowland! But we had to pass by the castle first, and I honestly couldn't resist spamming the camera for an instagram-worthy shot, heh. 

I honestly could not resist. I'm not sorry. 

More adventures at Tomorrowland! We didn't try out the rides that we already played in Hong Kong, but we did go into the 4D theatre for a short movie (Michael Jackson's Captain EO), and we tried out the new Star Wars ride. Those two were totally awesome

We then decided to take a chillpill and have some Disneyland snacks!

It tasted like frozen orange juice. 

Mickey shaped churros! 

We then went to Toontwon in hopes of meeting the characters. But unfortunately, there were none, and you had to line up for 80 minutes to meet a man in a Mickey suit. So instead, we went for the Roger Rabbit ride. It was suhhh trippy. The rest of the rides were a little to childish for our tastes, so we went for dinner instead.  We wanted pizza, so we had to trudge all the way back to Tomorrowland for it. 

Again, us being the smart people we are, decided to buy a few of the pizzas and split it between us. We didn't spend that much on this meal either, and it was delicious. 

By this time, night has fallen in Disneyland and we waited for it's light parade. It was magical. I don't think the photos translate how amazing it was, because I don't know how to shoot in low-light, but #ITried 

Guess who?

Then after the light show, we went towards the castle for the fireworks. But it was at this babi moment that the sky decided to rain. *sigh* The exact same thing happened in Hong Kong, it rained and they kept postponing the fireworks show. But as we were waiting under our umbrellas, there was an announcement about the cancellation of a show. And everyone left. So did we, we had to meet up with the other people who travelled with us. We were dragged along with the crowd and it was all very chaotic. 

This was the point where I was very tired, so there are no more photos because I got lazy. And this is also the reason why I did not take photos of the fireworks show which decided to appear after all because it wasn't the fireworks they cancelled it was another show sigh. The fireworks show was all very technical and cool. Yes. I liked it alot. Pity we left our nice spot. 

So I guess that's it. The Disneyland experience. 

I hope you guys are at least slightly amused by my photographs because they really are extremely gorgeous and it makes me happy to see them. 

To end this, I'll post a few photos of my favourite Disneyland outfits!

I want to go to more Disneylands. I will never get tired of it. 

Disney-fied Angel