Travelsty: Disney Sea

I was told by a colleague that all the Disney"land" parks are the same, and since I had already been to the one in LA, I should check out DisneySea instead. So I did.

The Tokyo Disney parks are apparently a licenced affair run by one of the
train companies, rather than owned by Disney themselves.
It goes some way to explaning the Disney themed train outside the park,
and a lot of the way to explaining why we had to pay to ride it.

The giant wet globe in the park entrance area.

Some sort of open air villain themed performance.
In Japanese so I didn't understand much of what was going on.
There was a female Captain Hook, and this guy is the ominous sounding
"Mister Dalmatia" (or as I originally misheard because of the Japanese accent Mister Derbyshire)

Leads into the park proper

The volcano

Gondolas

Mediterranean harbour

The park is mostly focused around this lake and the river that loops off of it.

There was a show involving the main Disney characters singing
about the magic of wishing, and following your dreams.
Ask Emma about it, it's very catchy, and totes her favourite song ever.

This is supposed to be one of the best rides in the park

This was when you could get a fast pass for at about 11:30 in the morning.
Otherwise you could queue for two and a bit hours.

Arabian Coast.

A children's ride.

Sea themed teacups.

Under de sea!

queueing for 20,000 leagues under the sea.

Giant Phosphoresccent Squid attack!

Singing hamburger ingredients

By our powers combined!

A villain themed boat show to balance out the cloying goody goody show
from earlier. Emma was very dissapointed as despite the magic/wishes/dreams song
having been good enough to have been sung 5 or 6 times during the earlier show,
the villains didn't sing it once, and she hadn't heard it in at least an hour and a half by now...

The villains had minions that danced and did flips and waved flags around.

At which point the volcano erupted.

Then the heroes arrived and defeated the bad guys.
It all felt very forced and Deus Ex Machina, since they only spoke
about magic,wishes and dreams in Japanese, rather than singing about it
in English. Perhaps if I understood more Japanese I would have found it
more compelling and believable.

Not pictured: Us riding Indiana Jones and the Sequel that never existed - the ride.

We rode the steamboat. This guy gave a very important safety lecture.
In Japanese.
As I am prone to say every time we cross the road (as we aren't sure if cars
have to stop for us when there are no lights at a crossing) - "Not dead"

The park looks pretty spectacular at night.

As does a lot of the special villain themed Halloween stuff.

A panorama of the harbour.

The volcano at night.

Not pictured: The pre-fireworks show, which involved a dragon, with lasers and flamethrowers (you could feel the heat coming off these suckers from the shore). It was pretty cool, even if it did involve defeating the dragon with magic, wishes and dreams. Which was okay, really, because it meant Emma got to hear her favourite song again before we left. I have some video of the show if anyone really cares, it's just too long and disjointed to put up here.