After several rides that had a lot of digitally created content, I wondered if DCA didn’t have any animatronic rides. But the Little Mermaid ride was full of animatronics. I also loved looking at the details in the park, like this great under-the-sea chandelier and the shell decorations.
I also had a great time people watching. So many things to observe.
Our lunch was at the Carthay Circle Lounge, providing ample people watching like that picture I took above. Our food was delicious and there wasn’t too much of it, which is good when one needs to hold onto the contents of ones stomach for rides. We had heard tell of the Carthay Circle biscuits, but our waiter told us they didn’t make it through the Snap (a.k.a. the pandemic.) Funny joke. So those went untasted.
After lunch, we wandered into Avengers Campus just in time for the Spider-Man show.
These cast members (with Avengers-branded uniforms) helped everyone stand in the right spot so that traffic could still pass through while the show was happening.
Spider-Man appeared and did some cool parkour moves.
Then he did some web slinging and flew from building to building. Matt told me later that that was an animatronic. After that, he lowered down to street level…
…as I have expertly captured in this photo. At that time, the cast members herded us into a line and said firmly and repeatedly, “Hands up for a high-five from Spider-Man!” I put my hands up and got a high-five from Spider-Man. But he was high fiving quickly, so it was more like a high-three.
Here we are on the Toy Story Mania ride.
My scores were not great (21,00 vs. Matt’s 63,700). I note that our accuracy was the same, 22%, so Matt clearly did a better job than me picking his targets.
Here we are standing in line for Mater’s Junkyard Jamboree.
And riding that same ride.
It was a fun jamboree.
More great details from Cars Land.
Including some Burma-Shave–type signs.
The great disappointment was that the Incredicoaster was closed on the day we visited. As a huge fan of rollercoasters, I was looking forward to that ride. It also was closed in the worst way: they had three cars running all day, so every time I would come within hearing distance, I would perk up, hoping it was open, but it never was.
The best ride in the park (due to the Incredicoaster not being an option) was the Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout. It had a very fun opening bit with Rocket setting the stage, and the ride itself, a tower drop in complete darkness) was So. Much. Fun.
It kept breaking down, so I was glad we got to ride it when it was running.