It’s after 6pm at this point, and it’s still pouring. We’re being babies about going out and getting soaked… so we buy new ponchos! (If you remember, Nicole ripped her’s last night and I was being a rebel and didn’t bring mine).
New ponchos on, we come up with a game plan. Hug the buildings as much as we can, make our way down Main St and into Tomorrowland. Sounds good right?
So we’re walking, and we’re not getting too soaked… then we realize, almost all the store on Main St are connected on the inside. What dopes! We only spent a better part of the afternoon in these places.
But it’s cold in there, and we’re almost to Tomorrowland so we tough it out in the elements.
In Tomorrowland we hit up the following attractions:
Monsters, Inc. Laugh Floor – this was my first time doing this. I was AMAZED by the Disney magic here! How do they know what people are doing? How do they hear people’s responses!? Amazed! Finally my sister clued me in. This is so great, I really love it!
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin – we got a 4th FP+ for this earlier in the day. This was another new attraction for me. I have to say, after TSMM… this attraction stinks! Haha! I think I’m just bitter because my blaster was broken and Nicole schooled me in this. It was still fun though, and the picture we got was so ridiculous. I wasn’t paying to download it, but just imagine the silliest faces ever.
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress – It’s a great big beautiful tomorrow!! This attraction is so dated, but it’s great. I haven’t seen this in a long time, and I forgot a lot of it. So this was fun.
Tomorrowland Transit Authority PeopleMover – not much to talk about here, other than this thing moved a little faster than I had expected! This brings you around all the tomorrowland attractions on an elevated track. It’s covered overhead, so we stayed dry.
Thankfully, the rain was starting to let up at this point but not enough for the 9pm parade to go on. SO, we walk over to ride the Haunted Mansion!
We walked right on. I think the posted wait time was 15 minutes, but we literally walked right up to the door.
I was getting very tired at this point, so the dark ride was making me sleepy. I don’t remember which hitchhiking ghosts we had. I think it was the one that switched our heads. I didn’t really appreciate this ride as much as I normally do. I was just wiped out.
Forging on, we stop for one last attraction – Mickey's PhilharMagic! This was another walk on, we got in just as they were closing the doors. I love this show and everything about it! I have a hard time with the 3D stuff, so I had to keep sliding my glasses down to give my eyes a break. But I still enjoyed it.
We were walking out and we walked past a family heading towards the attraction. The mom called it something totally wrong. I forget what she said, but it was something like Mickey’s Magic Music or something. We had a nice chuckle at that.
And look at the time! It’s almost 10pm and they’re going to do Wishes! We cut through Liberty Square and wind up right in front of the castle. Not the best viewing location for this by any means, but we didn’t care at this point. Hearing the music to this makes me cry. Just thinking about it while I’m typing this gives me chills. I love it so much! I swear, no one does fireworks better than Disney!
With Wishes wrapped up, we start walking back down Main St. We confirmed with a CM that the 11pm parade IS happening, so we decide to stick around. We grab spots on the curb in front of Town Square Theater, to give us prime exiting positions for when the parade ends.
I’m excited to see this parade. When we were here last, we came for Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas party – so there was no electrical parade. The
MVMCP parade was excellent though – if you’ve never done Disney during the holidays, DO IT! I highly recommend it.
So I’ve never seen the Main St Electrical Parade. During my younger Disney years, the night time parade was Spectro Magic! I LOVED Spectro. I LIVED for Spectro. I’d make my father watch both parades. I was obsessed. I wanted to be one of the butterflies in the parade.
Needless to say, MSEP had big shoes to fill in my book.