Day Seven, part two, Shanghai Disneyland 

Once locked into the car your body weight is resting on your knees stomach and chest as well as your butt. Your hands hold onto the “handlebars.” This is a surprisingly comfortable way to ride a coaster and probably makes it a more exciting ride. At he beginning of the ride you are launched outside at blazing speed, then you get a kick of ever more speed before shooting up some hills and curves in the outside portion of the ride. You (the blue light cycle) are then thrown into a light cycle race vs. the evil (for some reason) yellow light cycle. Everything looks very Tron like, neon everywhere, plus some fun animation and mirrors to make it look like the yellow Cycle is really out to get you, until you make them crash and thus win the race. We rode this sucker 5 times and could ride it 10 more times without getting tired of it. Such a fun and extreme ride!

Our time in Tomorrow Land included trips to the Star Wars Launch Bay (nearly completely empty. Perhaps Star Wars isn’t that big of a deal here?) where we posed with Kylo Ren and A lonely Darth Vader. 

Mike adopted a child while on the Falcon

We also got to sit in a replica of the Millennium  Falcon. All of this with no waiting.

A spin on Shanghai’s version of Buzz Light Year’s Astro Blasters was next. Similar to the Anaheim ride but instead of different shapes targets that “are worth more when they’re lit” you shoot at different sized targets,  the smaller the target the higher the point value. Fun! Mike kicked my butt score wise. Except for this time when his gun was malfunctioning.

Time for a quick nap (quick since the park was only open until 8pm.) We returned refreshed and after another go on Pirates and several Tron rides we explored the lands of the park we hadn’t yet visited. From everywhere you have great views of an incredible castle. The largest castle of all the Disney Parks represents all of the princesses, not just Cinderella. 

The views aren’t as spectacular as Tokyo DisneySea but the castle looks beautiful from most parts of the park.There are several areas that are green spaces meant for picnicking. Its unusual to see this in a Disney theme park. Kind of cool though.

Neither Mike nor I are big parade fans but we caught bits of one walking from land to land. The Mulan horse was beautiful. 

Our final goal was to ride Tron at night. The night lighting on the outside portion of the ride made this a worthy goal. After this we grabbed a meal to go and headed back to the room and called it a realatively early night. 

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