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Anybody have any idea why the 8:50pm show was cancelled last night?

As the title states; my partner and I are visiting the park for the first time later this year. We're only going to get one day out of our visit, so any help for understanding how the park operates is welcome! I've been reading up from other people in this subreddit and taking notes.

The main thing is I haven't been to a Disney park in general in like 15 years. I have 0 knowledge of how their apps, online reservations, etc. work, so that's the biggest learning curve at the moment

Been seeing heaps on people but can't find it anywhere for sale.

30th October. This was meant to be a live post but was in bot jail for a few days .. Got there at 10:05 , family of 5, definitely not crowded (calendar showed green yesterday) and rain this morning helped (stoped at 11 and has been very hot since). Queues have been fine, used DPA for soaring and 40 anniversary for Indy (at 10:05 the first available slot was 4.20) Soaring was great, really made done and the artwork in the rotunda really well made. indy is ok, a good rollercoaster but nothing unique imo.

However Frozen is impossible to get to, no DPA and no standby. We did get into Fantasy Spring thanks to DPA for Peter Pan and checked the sights. Peter Pan was awesome.

Now hoping they reissue standby for Frozen (it's 3.30).

Toys Story was a 30 minute wait, ok all things considered.

Nemo (Japanese only, it's ok not great) and Aquatopia (just ok) were 5 mins. 20,000 under was 15 mins. We didn't care for Journey but that was not DPA available.

Overall a nice day, restaurant waits are short. The sights are beautiful so come anyway.

We took internal transfer boat coming back from Fantasy Spring to Med Harbour as had walked previously so made moving to NY area much better.

Does anyone know the story about the crashed plane with the C-P3O reference on the side?

I was at Disney Sea on Sunday and my husband and I kept checking for Frozen on the app. I gave up by 4 pm but my husband kept trying. When we were literally in line for dinner around 6:30 pm we found a 7:55 to 8:45 slot available! So just wanted to post this to let y’all know not to lose hope and keep checking!

Just experienced a Wednesday DisneySea trip. I didn't do a great job researching, but I feel like some information is a bit scattered. Here is what I learned from my experience.

GETTING INTO THE PARK: I intended to get there by 5:30, but overslept. Got to the park at 6:30. There was already a huge group of lines. They started taking people through bag checkbat 8:00, not 8:30, so, when my wife finally got to the park with the kids at 8:35-8:40, I had to let several groups through (meaning several groups through all the different lines.

By the time we got through bag check and in the park, Frozen's Disney Premier Access was already gone and we could only reserve the Stand-by tickets.

DPA AND OTHER PASS TIP: Pro tip here, but youu can only reserve one DPA, Stand-by, and 40th Anniversary Priority Pass at a time, BUT (and I didn't know this), the next available reservations open up for you in one hour. That means the earliest of birds get best access to DPA throughout the day. So, going back to the GETTING INTO THE PARK note, you should try to arrive as early as possible since passes do run out. You may not even get stand by tickets to the most popular areas' rides (which you need to access thr most popular area, Fantasy Springs.

FANTASY SPRINGS: Definitely the best part of Tokyo Disney and Tokyi DisneySea. The details incorporated into this area is unmatched. Beautifully designed. I'm not fanatic over Disney, but I definitely appreciated everything. Think Star Wars Land in Anaheim with 2x-4x more detail.

FOOD/CONCESSIONS: Mobile Order is the way to go to reserve and get food at various installations. Unless you love popcorn, do NOT rely on the stalls along the park. I have no idea what the obsession is with popcorn in Japan (perhaps it's the most convenient, cost-effective, and efficient snack), but we had a hard time finding a booth that did NOT sell pop corn ONLY. Note, that each stand only carries 1 type of snack/popcorn. For example, if you like caramel popcorn, I saw one near the Agraba section and never again, so grab it up if you want. I tried the roast beef popcorn and thought it was disgusting, but my youngest didn't seem to mind it.

Lmk if you have any questions.

EDIT: I should have included this above (again, info available in various blogs/posts), but you can only start reserving passes once you are physically within the park. This is why it's important to line up and be early to get through the bag check lines, and then on to the park ticket lines. Once you get through those two areas, you will be in the park and then attempt to reserve your various passes for rides.

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I have a weird ask. Would anyone going to Tokyo Disneyland soon be able to acquire an unused food wrapper from the Good Time Cafe and ship to me for a project I’m doing? I’ll obviously pay for shipping for it and all that. It would be super helpful :)

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Going to Tokyo Disneyland late this year and would love to ride beauty and the beast as I've heard it's amazing - however I suffer from motion sickness - very easily. For those that have done it and get motion sickness , did you feel dizzy ? How bad is it ? Any tips or advice ? Is it worth it ?

We’ll be visiting the good time cafe during our trip to Disneyland next year. I’m not sure which sandwich I am going to get. I know it’s not really something that needs to be planned in advance but I wanted to ask which people like more. The Mickey glove chicken sandwich or the Donald foot shrimp sandwich. Both are very cute and if I could eat both I would totally do it. Just wanted to see which people who’ve had both like more.

I keep seeing people here talking about the BatB souvenir popcorn bucket but I'm in DisneySea right now and I can't find it on the map? I showed the staff a picture of Otis and the gang but they said they don't have it, is it sold out? Or only at Disney Land?

Hey guys

I’ll be going with an another traveler to the Disney sea on Tuesday 22 October, whoever wants to join could let me know and we can do it together.

Able to access DPA/SB/Priority pass before going in…

So something weird happened today I’m not sure if this has happened to anyone before- but we were ABLE to buy DPA, SB and Priority pass whilst lining up to go in the park. This was at 08:30, we arrived at 6:30. We only found out because we saw the japanese girls infront of us having access to it, even they were shocked.. Def wasnt the case when we went to Disneyland a few days ago.. Will do a full report soon.

Just returned from a three-week honeymoon in Japan, with a stay at Fantasy Springs to end our trip. We did the one- day vacation package.

• We were able to pick-up our packet the night before. We were staying at the Hilton Tokyo Bay (switching our initial staging location of Hyatt Regency) and we walked across the street in the pouring rain at 8:00p.m. the night before. We were met outside the Bayside monorail station by two cast members who asked if we were staying at the hotel---they had a clipboard with guest names---and I informed them we were staying the next day and wanted to pick up our vacation package now.  They asked for my name, withdrew a cellphone from their pocket, and made a call.  They told us to wait off to the side and that our packet would be brought to us. About 10 minutes later, a solitary and well-dressed cast member walked towards us in full rain gear and an umbrella.  The wind had picked up considerably by this time and as she approached I couldn’t help but laugh at the cloak-and-dagger quality of it all.  She asked for my name and reservation email, and upon checking it, asked me to confirm the same and sign for the folder, which was sealed in silver tape, and thankfully, plastic.  It was straight out of All the President’s Men.  I didn’t remember paying for the “Disney Noir Rainy-Day Courier Delivery Option” but I was happy to have it all the same. 
• The Vacation package contains/requires you to carry a lot of paperwork. It feels like being a diplomat during the Cold War. The next morning we checked out of the Hilton and checked-into Fantasy Springs. There they gave us even more paperwork for our DisneySea day: Two proof of stay documents (which were encased in plastic, signaling their importance) and two early entry passes (entry at 815 A.M. through the Fantasy Springs entrance adjacent to the hotel). When we entered Fantasy Springs, the rides were not immediately open, but once they were, we were given wristbands at our first ride---which happened to be Rapunzel. Great!  No more paperwork, right?  Just flash your wristband and go right?  Wrong.  To enter Fantasy Springs you still need your critical proof of stay, and to access the priority line you still need to scan your physical park ticket.  The cast members never even checked our wristbands once they took the trouble of giving them to us.  We laughed at this throughout the day (why do we have these again?) and treated the wristbands as a souvenir. 
• We checked in at 730 am, but could not obtain our room key until 4:30. We left our luggage at the bell desk and made it to the Tokyo Disneyland entrance plaza at 8:00am. It was pouring rain, blowing wind, and for the first time all trip...cold. This kept the crowds down. We rode everything we wanted and were back at Fantasy Springs by 7:30 p.m.
• When you consider breakfast at 7:00 am, checkout, and being at the entrance for early entry at 8:15, the turnaround is very quick at Fantasy Springs. I can hardly call it a hotel experience, which explains its spartan set-up. This is basically a convenient place to store your luggage and sleep between your park visits. You are paying for access to Fantasy Springs, not a classic resort experience. Maybe we would have felt differently during a longer stay, but if we were staying longer we would likely stay at the Hilton across the street and buy a day ticket through the app. Mira Costa appeared to be a nicer, more integrated stay experience.
• There is a feature at Fantasy Springs where you just leave your luggage in the room and they pick it up and store it for you. We set this up through the TV in the room, but curiously, they make it clear that you need to photograph the screen to show cast members your information when retrieving your luggage. This saved a step the next morning, but it was odd that a new hotel would not have this aspect of their system integrated into their normal operations POS system.  Screenshot your TV or lose your luggage seems to be...an odd way to administer what is essentially the chief service of the hotel.
• The parks were great. We did and rode everything we wanted and had time to spare. We got lucky on the crowds. All the resorts (Disney and non-Disney properties) utilize a airport limousine service that is laughably cheap considering it drives you and all your luggage to the terminal for under 2000 yen apiece. IT was a great way to end a long journey.
• The FOMO is real, they know it, and they make you pay. The primary value of the vacation package is access to Fantasy Springs. Although it is technically a part of DisneySea, aesthetically and functionally it acts as a separate "gate" (to use theme park vernacular) and entry through this gate requires an additional buy-in through the vacation package. Whether this is important enough to justify the significant premium and trouble is a matter of taste. For what it is worth, we are both former cast members and have not been to a Disney property in over 10 years. I was a ride operator at Disneyland. As such, while I enjoy a good ride, I tend to see the machine and have not been truly surprised by a ride since I was a child. The attractions at Fantasy Springs broke that streak. I audibly gasped during Peter Pan and Frozen. Maybe you score standby to one of those with a single day ticket to DisneySea, but it would be a tall order to score both.
• Our favorite experience over the two days was the 90 minutes we spent sitting on a bench in DisneySea sipping on sangria and watching the elaborate Cosplay extravaganza happening at the park. This was a true surprise to us as the Disney parks outright forbid elaborate adult costumes but here it appeared to be the primary reason for attending for many, many people.
• Vacation packages and nearby hotel stays aside, buying a ticket the day of, hopping on the subway, and spending the day absorbing the vibes at DisneySea while going on a couple rides is a perfect way to spend a day in Tokyo, and I would argue, provides a more authentic local experience than a morning at a Team Labs, or an hour at Shibuya Sky, which also require advance reservations and can get very crowded. Individual park tickets are just not that expensive, especially compared to other experiences around the City.
• I think the vacation package is worth doing, especially if you place a high value on accessing Fantasy Springs. But it is not necessary. You can have a perfectly good time building a stay a la carte, but it does require more luck doing it that way (luck on crowds, luck on access, etc.) For this trip we were not willing to chance it, but next time we will.

So, as I usually do these days I take a 10-15 minute cursory glance over Japanese twitter in regards to Disney to gauge activity levels, trends etc that would be beneficial for planning my next visit. This time I came across a topic that is somewhat trending on Twitter regarding etiquette. Specifically in regards to watching shows.

It starts with this Twitter post which has 36k likes and has since been picked up by blogs and is the topic of various Twitter threads. In this instance a customer who wanted to see the new projection mapping show found their view partially blocked by a little kid with a Mickey hat sitting on their parent's shoulders.

Now I know this might sound really inane, but people are talking about it and I thought maybe we could share views on this. The rules do say "When viewing performances, please remove large hats or other headwear and do not raise cameras above head-level." so while sitting on shoulder's is not explicitly listed, Oriental Land Company has saw fit to try and ensure an environment where everyone is able to get a good view.

On one hand, sitting in the Frozen ride and having someone in front of me recording the entire time with their smartphone held above their head makes me sympathize however, there's something picturesque about a little kid sitting on their parent's shoulder with a Mickey hat silhouetted against the castle as fireworks through flashes of color. I don't feel to strongly either way, the parent wanted to make sure their child got a view but maybe they could have done a better location like with a wall at their backs?

According to this poll which has generated roughly 250,000 votes, there's a good amount of support for and against this. Your thoughts?

Hi everyone! Would love to know if Tokyo Disneysea also has an iconic castle like disneyland does?

I proposed to my fiancé in front of the main castle at HK Disneyland and was thinking of commemorating the moment at Disneysea too. But I wonder if Disneysea has a castle similar to disneyland?

I only have a few days in Tokyo, and have always wanted to see Tokyo DisneySea in particular. But time is really short and I’ll be coming from a hotel in the city (not at Disney).

Every article and every YouTube video puts the #1 strategy at getting there an hour before opening if you want a chance at securing passes for Fantasy Springs and the other major attractions… and the videos show the massive crowds lining up in the morning and selling out Premier Access almost immediately as they file in.

I was hoping to catch a breakfast reservation at 6:30am before I go to the park, but now fear it might be a foolish decision.

Furthermore, I’ve heard such great things about Beauty and the Beast and Pooh’s Hunny Hunt at TDL, that I’m considering getting an evening pass the day before just to see those two attractions and maybe a couple more things. But I’m starting to worry about getting there so late and seeing the headliners.

Also, best restaurants?

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Anyone have tips and advice for celebrating a birthday (adult) at Disney Sea?

went to Tokyo Disney Sea for the first time (visiting from Canada with a friend who was a CM in Disneyland California for many years!) and we had an absolute blast.

But there’s one thing that we need a Japanese speaker to help us with.

On Indiana Jones, what does that stone skull thing say before it puffs smoke/fire at you? It terrified both of us cuz it’s the one VERY different part from the ride in California hahaha

Compared to opening day, getting a second standby pass seems extremely difficult.

Still, in my opinion,the best park I’ve been to (compared to California and Orlando)

Was in Japan last week for two weeks and we found ourselves with an empty evening in Tokyo the night before flying out. Saw an ad for Halloween at Disney on the metro, and boom - spontaneously bought a night pass (5-9pm) for Wednesday night, as we were taking the train from Kyoto to Tokyo that morning. The pass seemed really affordable (way cheaper than anything in the US). We are two adults.

We ended up running late so we got to Disneyland at 6pm. There was a big light and singing show happening near the castle. Loved all the Halloween themed decor around the park. We watched for a few minutes and then started walking around to get our bearings. First we tried Pooh's ride because that was the one I was most excited for, but they had closed the standby line at that time unfortunately.

Walked over to Haunted Mansion (half hour wait), very fun ride and was fun to hear the songs in Japanese. Coming out of the ride, we ran smack dab into the parade. We found a place to stand and watch the first few floats, and then we walked back to Pooh's adventure (while watching the parade along the way), which only had a 20 minute wait!! It definitely lit up my inner child.

Coming out of the ride, the parade was still happening, so we decided to try our luck on Beauty & the Beast (showed a 55 minute wait when we first came to park, but down to 20 by the time we got there), so knocked that one out too! The tea cups dancing were so fun.

There was an hour left for the park to be open, so we hit up some shops and got some popcorn, and then headed back towards the train before the hordes descended. When we were leaving, there was a fireworks show happening above the castle.

All in all, was happy with a quick visit and hit up the rides we most wanted to go on (felt really lucky with those wait times). Unfortunately very few vegetarian options for a substantial meal, so we ended up grabbing food in the city afterwards.