Day Nine, Part one, last day at Shanghai Disneyland

This was a lovely last day at Shanghai Disneyland. We had a short list of things we wanted to do, some of which we’d be ok with if we didn’t do.

Voyage to the Crystal Grotto
Peter Pan’s Flight
Once Upon a Time Adventure

Then we had a list of things we really just had to do.

Tron
Tron
Pirates
Tron
Pirates

We fastpassed Peter Pan at the Fantasyland FP Center which was right across from the Seven Dwarf Mine Train so we rode that and it broke down right as we were at the end of the ride. No problem. We just chitchated with the dad and his daughter seated behind us. Since their English was limited and my Mandarin even more so the conversation consisted of the little girl saying “how are you?” And me saying, “fine, thank you for asking.” She was a sweet little kid that giggled her way through the ride. her dad can be heard “whee-ing” louder than his daughter. Precious.

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Voyage to the Crystal Grotto

This ride is similar to the Storybook Canal ride at Disneyland Anaheim. You board a Willie Wonka looking boat for a spin around dioramas of various Disney movie scenes. In Anaheim the sets are tiny. Here they are lifesized with minor movement and water fountain features. Here’s a video of some of the highlights.

We did the Once Upon a Time Adventure which is a walk through up several flights of stairs and then through various rooms featuring scenes from the Snow White story. There were some great little illusions including several 2D animated forest creatures who stare expectantly at you until you wave…then they wave back. Clever.

Peter Pan’s Flight had the two row flying ships like Paris (the Anaheim ride has single row ships) and had several animation additions making the ride seem slightly more updated that it’s Anaheim counterpart. I’m glad we didn’t wait longer than 10 minutes for this ride since it’s so similar to the Anaheim ride.

It was only about 9:30am by this point and the humidity was up to 75% with a temp of 80 degrees. It was gross out. Fortunately, most of the ques had fans to keep the air moving but it was still gross. Knowing it was our last day we hit Pirates and Tron before heading back to the hotel for the required shower and nap.