Tag: Toy Story Land

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    DisneyDawgs now has a VLOG!  Check out our first vlog and let us know what you think.

     

  • Top 5 Quick Service Restaurants in Walt Disney World

    Below is a list and description of what DisneyDawgs considers the top-five Quick Service Restaurants that are within one of the four theme parks.  Those quick-service restaurants located in Disney Springs or either of the waterparks were not considered for this list.

    ABC Commissary

    Commissary LaneLocated on Commissary Lane in Hollywood Studios, the ABC Commissary offers a quick and inexpensive meal.  They offer a menu of quick food.  Ribs, Fish, Chicken and Burgers.  The service is usually quick and the restaurant is clean.  This is a great place to jump into if you want to grab a quick, inexpensive meal and still make it in time for your FastPass for Slinky Dog Rollercoaster.

    This location offers order ahead on the MyDisney Mobile App and also offers Reservations after 4PM.  From the Disney World website: ”

    Enjoy your dinner at this Fast Casual dining location—now accepting reservations! This gives you priority entry at your booking time.

    Starting at 4:00 PM daily, you can enjoy a fast-casual dinner experience allowing you to place an order at one of the cash registers, take a pager and find a comfortable place to sit. Then, when the order is ready, we’ll bring the food right to your table.

    Feast on scrumptious dinner fare like our Southwest BBQ Burger or Fish and Shrimp Platter paired with a Watermelon Margarita or Happy Daze cocktail. And don’t let the credits roll on your meal before enjoying a delectable dessert like our Apple Almond Tart.

    Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café

    Sonny Delight at Cosmic Ray's Starlight CafeLocated in Tomorrowland in the Magic Kingdom, Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café is one of the, if not the busiest Quick-Service Restaurants on all of Disney property.  With a menu of basically Burgers and Chicken, the food is good.  The thing that makes this restaurant so busy is the entertainment.  Sonny Delight, the alien animatronic from Yew Nork City on Planet Zork has been entertaining guests with his lounge-style act and playing the Astro-Organ at Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café since 1995.

    As of the time of this post, Sonny is currently down for refurbishment.  We hope that this is only temporary.

    This location offers Order ahead on the My Disney Experience App on your cellphone.  Like I said, Cosmic Ray’s is extremely busy at all hours of the day.  Seating can be at a premium, so be patient.  Also, if you are done with your meal, please be courteous and clean your table and make room so that some that is trying to eat their meal, has a place to sit.

    Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Café

    Nacho Rio Grande at Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and CaféLocated in Frontierland at Magic Kingdom, Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Café offers a variety of Mexican and Southwestern style meals. From Chicken Fajitas to Taco Trios to the Southwest Burger.  Prices here are reasonable and the food is good.  Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Café has one of the largest dining rooms for a quick-service restaurant in all of Disney World and for the most part, finding a seat is usually not a problem.

    One of the big draws to Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Café is the secret menu item that they offer.  For those that do not know, some of the Disney World restaurants have a “secrete menu”.  These are items that are not on the regular menu, but can be ordered if asked for. Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Café secrete menu item is Nachos Rio Grande.  This item can only be ordered between the hours of 3 and 6PM and will feed 6-8+ people.  When ordered, you will have a special table reserved for you and your group. Once the Nachos Rio Grande is ready, Pecos Bill Tall Tale Inn and Café cast members make a production bringing your order out in a covered wagon styled cart and a parade of every cast member ringing cowbells and hooting and hollering. Once you have finished the Nachos Rio Grande, your party is treated to a special ceremony where you are taught about Pecos Bill’s Code of the Wild West and each member receives a sheriff’s badge and cowboy hat.  The price tag for this experience is pretty steep though, $90+ for nachos.  But it would be an experience that everyone in your party would not soon forget.

    This location offers Order ahead on the My Disney Experience App on your cellphone.

    Pinocchio Village Haus

    Pinocchio Village HausLocated in Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom, Pinocchio Village Haus serves more of an Italian style menu with chicken parmesan sandwiches to pizza, pasta and salads.  Themed, as you would imagine, to the story of Pinocchio, the restaurant is quaint and may seem quite small.  The hidden gem of this restaurant is the outdoor seating, but few know of the hidden seating here.  There are stairs that lead to an upstairs dining room that is quiet and not many people visit.  This alone would be a big plus for a quick-serve restaurant, but if you look around upstairs, there are window that view into the It’s a Small World ride loading area.  While you eat your meal, you are able to watch other guests embark on their journey through It’s a Small World.

    This location offers Order ahead on the My Disney Experience App on your cellphone.

    Restaurantosaurus

    RestaurantosaurusLocated in DinoLand USA at Animal Kingdom, Restaurantosaurus offers an American style menu featuring burgers, chicken and seafood.  The restaurant is styled as the quarters of a paleontology dig site.  The humor of the students can be seen throughout all of the rooms of the restaurant.  As with Cosmic Ray’s Starlight Café, the dining room of this restaurant is quite large,not as large as Cosmic Ray’s, so you should not have any problems finding a seat inside the air conditioned restaurant.  If seating is at a premium, there is plenty of outdoor seating.

     

    This location offers Order ahead on the My Disney Experience App on your cellphone.

     

    There you have it.  This is DisneyDawgs pick of the top 5 quick-service restaurants in Walt Disney World.  Do you agree with us?  If not, let us know.  Leave a comment below and let us know what you think are the best quick-service restaurants on Disney property.

     

     

     

     

  • Leap Year #ExtraDayForMagic

    An #ExtraDayForMagic does not come around very often, as a matter of fact, it only comes once every four years.

    This year on Leap Day (February 29) Disney World is celebrating its Cast Members and the incredible job that they do.

    If you are visiting Disney World on February 29th, share the #ExtraDayForMagic hashtag to see the magical moments of Disney World.  Disney will be sharing select tagged #ExtraDayForMagic photos on the Walt Disney World Cast & Community Facebook page and the @wdw.ambassador Instagram account, so you may see one of your photos that you’ve shared.

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    Getting close to the home stretch!!!

     

  • Current Standby times at Magic Kingdom

    Here are the current stand-by times for Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort in Florida.  This week marks the start of the Spring/Easter vacations for school children in the United States and many other countries around the world.

     

  • FastPasses Booked!!!

    We’ve been waiting since September for this date, FASTPASS DAY!!!

    We have booked our FastPasses tonight and have gotten the following rides

    • Mickey & Minnie’s Runaway Railway
    • Slinky Dog Dash
    • Flight of Passage
    • Seven Dwarfs Mine Train

    We got really lucky to be able to get three of the four major rides (Rise of the Resistance is not yet available.)

    My family treats FastPass Night as many would a Fantasy Football Draft Night.  Bartering and trading for the FastPass that you want.

     

     

     

     

    Our next task for preparing for our Walt Disney World trip will be in about a month when we start to get clothing and other items that we will need for when we head down to Lake Buena Vista.  Check back for more info.

  • How Not to Forget Something on your Trip

    How Not to Forget Something on your Trip

    You have to admit that planning a trip to Disney can be quite overwhelming, and if you have small children, it can also be next to impossible.  When I took my wife and my pups to Disney for the first time, they were 2 and 4 years old.  For my wife and I to remember everything was a disaster.

    Thankfully, today, families have help through internet forums and fan sites (like this one) to help with all of the stages of planning a trip.

    Even with the resources available today, you are bound to forget something.

    That is where we come in.  With having to pack for herself, and the pups, my wife has developed a packing list that she will go through to make sure that she has not forgotten anything.  She has tweaked the list throughout the year and has it almost down to science.

    Below is the list that she uses and at the very bottom of the page is a link that you may download for free to help remember what is needed to be packed so that you do not have to either go to one of the gift shops at your resort and pay 3-5 times as much for a product or have to run out to Walmart and/or Target at midnight to get something you’ve forgotten.

    Download DisneyDawgs Ultimate Packing List

  • Four Days until FastPass+ Selection Days

    It has been a long wait since we booked our Disney trip, but it is starting to get really close now!!!  In four days we can book our FastPasses for Walt Disney World in Orlando

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  • FastPass+ Teirs to Change at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

    FastPass+ Teirs to Change at Disney’s Hollywood Studios

    With the recent openings of two new major attractions and a third coming in March, Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be currently changing its FastPass+ tier structure.

    Currently, there are two tiers for FastPass+ at Disney’s Hollywood Studios.  When booking a FastPass there, you may only choose one attraction from Tier 1 and two from Tier 2.  The main complaint about this current structure is that the following rides are all located within Tier 1

    • The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™
    • Aerosmith’s Rock n Rollercoaster
    • Slinky Dog Dash Rollercoaster
    • Toy Story Mania!
    • Alien Swirling Saucers

    These are the major rides in which guests visit Disney’s Hollywood Studios.

    Alas, there is a change coming and it seems as though Disney may have listened to the thousands and thousands of complaints about the way the rides at Disney’s Hollywood Studios were structured.

    As of February 19, 2020, there will only be two rides listed as Tier 1 for FastPass+ and they are:

    • Slinky Dog Dash Rollercoaster
    • Millennium Falcon: Smuggler’s Run (Yes, as of February 19th, FastPasses may be booked for this attraction.)

    This means that all other rides, Tower of Terror, Rock n Rollercoaster and even Toy Story Mania are now Tier 2 attractions.  This is a tremendous option now for those that are visiting Hollywood Studios.

    Don’t forget, you are not limited to just three FastPasses a day.  Once you have exhausted the three that you have chosen, you can search using the MyDisney App or one of the many kiosks for any available FastPasses.  This can be done in any of the four parks.  We have actually been able to reserve as many as 14 FastPasses in a single day.

    Now with Mickey’s Runaway Railroad slated to open in March, I think that it is a safe bet that it will be a Tier 1 FastPass and very difficult to get at first.

    So there you go, riding the attractions at Disney’s Hollywood Studios will be come much easier come February 19th and I think it is also safe to say that DHS is no longer a half-day park.

     

    Thanks for taking the time to read this article.  Please let us know how your feel about this new policy and if you think that there may be any changes to Epcot’s tiered FastPass+ structure in the near future with their additions of the Guardians of the Galaxy Rollercoaster, the Ratatouille ride and all of the new attractions coming to Epcot over the next five year.

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