As a big Disney fan, I need my regular dose of Disney Magic every year! 😂
Although we've been to Disneyland many times, this is the first time that we're bringing a baby under 1 year old! Oh my... wish me luck! 😣
When we visited Hong Kong Disneyland previously in 2016, my older girl was still very willing to dress up as Snow White. She is now a tween and has completely outgrown her princess dress-up days! *sob* Thankfully, she still agreed to wear Minnie headbands with me! 😂😍
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| Family photo at the entrance! |
TOMORROWLAND
Our main purpose for visiting Hong Kong Disneyland again was to check out the new Marvel attractions at Tomorrowland! The hubby is a big Marvel fan and was finally less resistant to Disneyland as a result! 😅
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| Stark Industries |
Our first ride of the day was Ant-Man and the Wasp. I loved the detailed decoration, which was true to the film! There was no queue when we went so we could go on as many times as we liked!
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| Excited to ride the Ant-Man and the Wasp ride! |
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| In our capsule and ready to shoot some targets! |
The best part of the ride was being able to bring my baby to ride it with me! I still can't believe that the staff allowed me to carry my 7-month-old and walk on the moving travellator to board the ride vehicle while it was in motion! I was also very amazed that Littlest Girl was so cool with the darkness and flashing lights! She did not even flinch and looked really excited as if she was a part of the action as well! 😀
It was a very fun ride and definitely worth the many, many times that we went on it! 😁
The Hubby's favourite Marvel character is definitely Iron Man! We were really excited for the Iron Man Experience 4D ride!
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| Iron Man Experience |
Unfortunately, the baby can't ride this one, hence we did the parent switch (one parent rides and then switches with the other parent).
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| One of the 5 pods for the ride |
To be honest, I didn't like that they only opened one pod when there were 5 available. I get that they didn't want to open all 5 due to manpower and efficiency (as there were few guests) but the minimum should be 2 at least. This is probably the only Disneyland I've been to that opened only 1/5 of their ride vehicles! Makes me wonder how long they will survive with such dwindling visitors to the park.
The ride itself was quite good and the Hubby actually went on it twice! This is really rare for the Hubby, who hardly ever goes on any ride more than once! Like I said, big Iron Man fan! *laughs*
We queued for about 30 minutes for the Heroic Encounter with Iron Man just to meet him in person and believe me, it was worth the wait! 😄
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| Introduction to Stark Expo and Iron Man's secret technology |
In the middle of the speech, which was in Cantonese, Iron Man made his appearance!
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| We met Iron Man! Yay! |
One of the highlights of our visit for sure!
I convinced the kids to join me on Hyperspace Mountain because I loved it so much the last time. Sadly, I don't have any photos to commemorate my kids' first roller coaster experience and may not get another! Both kids looked at me in disbelief and tears at the end of the ride and cried, "it was super scary mummy!" Guess they'd probably never trust me again when I tell them a ride is "not scary"... 😅
FANTASYLAND
We went to watch Mickey & the Wonderous Book at the Storybook Theatre!
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| Enjoying a super cute ice-cream before the show |
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| The Storybook that's the heart of the whole performance |
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| Jungle Book |
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| Rapunzel and Ariel's duet |
The songs were in English but the dialogue was in Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles. I had to translate for the kids for most of the show as they couldn't really see the subtitles and didn't understand Cantonese. Other than the language difficulties, it was a great show!
FYI, the princess castle was under construction when we went and will only be ready earliest 2020. On first glance, I thought it was going to be Princess Jasmine's castle, which will be so cool! Unfortunately, I found out that it would be a combination of various castles put together to form one unique castle.
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| Transformation in progress |
They are also going to build a Frozen-themed land in the coming years! Will bring the Littlest back when she is old enough to like Frozen 🤣
The boy has never been on the Cinderella Carousel so this was just for him!
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| Super excited to be on the horses 🎠 |
In case you're wondering, I was on the carriage with the Littlest 😀
We usually have lunch at the Royal Banquet Hall when we visit because we love the princess decor!
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| Simple meal with a Disney twist |
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| Dim sum |
Food was pricey and taste very ordinary but that's how it usually is in a theme park.
After we rode The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh and the baby was allowed to ride it!
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| Winnie the Pooh ride |
Once again, she was unfazed by the darkness and the flashing lights. In fact, she was so bored that she was going to fall asleep! 😄
We rode It's a Small World next! HK is probably the only Disneyland in the world that you can ride this without queueing! 😄
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| It's a small world after all! |
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| On our boat |
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| Aladdin and Jasmine |
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| Love the beautiful national costumes of people around the world |
ADVENTURELAND
We bumped into Moana on our way to Toy Story Land!
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| Love our group photo! |
We continued walking away from Main Street, happy to skip the Flight of Fantasy Parade because we had already seen and even participated in it during our previous trip.
MYSTIC POINT
We really wanted to ride the Mystic Manor but it was down for some reason! So sad! 😭
We decided to have our dinner at the Explorer's Club Restaurant and it was a good decision. The food was good and it wasn't crowded.
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| Dinner at the Explorer's Club Restaurant |
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| Yummy fried rice with prawn and satay |
TOY STORY LAND
Toy Story Land was our last stop before we made our way back to Main Street for the evening parade.
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| Lovely photo of me and the kids |
As I was busy taking photos, the hubby called out to me that he had spotted Buzz Lightyear! By the time I rushed over, the queue was already closed and Buzz was finishing his shift 😢
We had to make do with waving and walking him out...
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| Hello Buzz! So sad that I missed out on a photo with him 😞 |
As Toy Story Land was about to close, the kids managed to squeeze in one last ride on Slinky Dog Spin!
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| Round and round we go! |
They were super sad that they couldn't ride it again!
MAIN STREET
There were no more fireworks as the castle was under construction. In its place, they've introduced a new projection show known as Mickey Projection Show at Main Street.
The finale of our day was the awesome Disney Paint the Night Parade! It was definitely another highlight of our visit!
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| Flying Tinkerbell! I think it must be really painful for her to be suspended like this! |
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| Monsters Inc |
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| Belle and Ariel! Love Ariel's float! And I still have not gotten a photo with Belle! 😞 |
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| Left: Mickey and Minnie! Right: Lightning McQueen and Mack! Love the level of detail that went into the Cars characters! |
Minnie saw our head bands and waved directly at the Eldest and I while pointing at our heads! 😄 That's why we love you Minnie! 😍
And that was the end of our magical day at Hong Kong Disneyland! 💙
Compared to our previous visit to Hong Kong Disneyland, there were a few things missing this time:
- No castle, hence, no fireworks
- Very little character meet and greet; we didn't meet any princesses at all other than Moana (I suspect because there was no castle)
- No Fairytale Forest (therefore no meet and greet with Tinkerbell or any of the villians who live in the forest)
- No Festival of the Lion King musical
- No Mystic Manor
It's really sad but overall we still had a fun experience with other highlights of the day!
DAY 5
We bid goodbye to Disney Magic before heading to the airport. We had a great time while we were here and thank God for a very safe trip!
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| Our last meal in Hong Kong before heading back to Singapore 😋 |
This was my 8th trip to Hong Kong and I'm kvery certain that it would not be my last! Till next time! 😁
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P.S: Want more Disney? Here's the full list of our experiences at Disneylands around the world:
- 2015: Tokyo Disneyland (Japan)
- 2015: Tokyo DisneySea (Japan)
- 2016: Hong Kong Disneyland (China)
- 2017: Disneyland Paris (France)
- 2018: Tokyo DisneySea (Japan)
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