Today we have a rather large update from Disneyland and Disney California Adventure for you to feast your eyes on. During our visit last weekend we were kind of all over the place, which was a good thing. 

So this update has a bit of construction stuff, some Galaxy's Edge stuff, and some food and wine stuff (which we WILL get back to soon). Enjoy! 

Me: My kids are grown, I avoided ever getting a mini van!
Disneyland: Hold our Moof Juice. 

Our first stop in the morning was to get the Indy pop. I have to be 100% honest, I didn't realize it was a big one. When we walked into Wunderland Gallery in Downtown Disney to get ours I was shocked, as you can see below. 

Before taking Indy back to the car for the day, had to take him around the park a bit. 

After getting our Rise boarding group (18 FTW) I had to actually leave to run an errand. We made it to Rise with 5 minutes to spare. 

I also had to try out my new iPhone 11 Pro, rather impressed with the results. Check out a Rise of the Resistance Slide Show below. 

Video of the amazing ROTR Pre-Show and "transport"

Jake and I also had some fun and did a reverse POV

The extensive rehab for The Haunted Mansion is continuing 

Apparently some of these scrims have come down since Saturday

Over at DCA we took a quick look at the Food and Wine festival. Didn't try any treats, but we'll be back. 

Avengers Campus construction is continuing as well. 

As well as the admin building next to Luigi's. 

They're still claiming "Summer" for this to open. We'll see. 

There was some cone'struction going on in Cars Land

Back over at Disneyland, couldn't remember if we had a shot of this during our last update

And there was this thing. 

If you've followed our site for any length of time you'll know we are huge fans of single rider lines. That said, not sure it really works for Star Tours. I think our wait was pretty much the same as the stand-by line. 

No lie, I don't think I'd ridden "regular" Space Mountain since 2012. So yay!! 

​Wonder if they'll bring back the Dick Dale soundtrack for 90's night? That would be worth the admission alone. 

After saying goodbye to Jake (he had woof'ers to take care of) I went and did some other single rider things. Like Indy!! 

Look into my eyes 

Mark Twain ... Maaaaark Twaaaiiiin

It was a beautiful late afternoon, so decided to do a POV of the Mark Twain

Boop

Sunset over Galaxy's Edge 

Did single rider on the Falcon. I had only done this once before, as a pilot. I will say, there is definitely a difference between being a pilot and an engineer. The ride itself was still a ton of fun, more a difference in the movement of the cockpit. 

​Another slideshow, because why not. :) 

What a piece of junk 

There was some kind of lightsaber meet in Galaxy's Edge. This was super cool. These photos aren't watermarked so if you participated and want to use any of them, feel free to do so. :) 

I had never noticed all of the hidden mickey's before

Over in Fantasyland, some work going on with the Carousel and Snow White

It's going to look amazing when it's done 

Goodnight sweet Disneyland. We'll be back soon!! 

Happy Wednesday all!! Hope you're all having a great week so far. We're still on that post Rise of the Resistance high, but we did a lot more at Disneyland last weekend and thought we should share it with you. 

This update includes some new experiences we got to try during our visit and a look at this years Lunar new Year at Disney California Adventure. 

We always love being at Disneyland during sunrise, something magical about it. 

Obviously our main goal for the day was to experience Rise of the Resistance, which we did!

​Be sure to check out our tips for experiencing Rise of the Resistance that we posted the other day. 

While waiting for our ride time, we got to experience some classic attractions, but not this one. It was pretty chilly. 

We wrecked the halls with Jack one last time. Looking forward to OG Haunted Mansion being back soon. 

Yo. Ho. 

We actually had an interesting experience on Pirates. As we were launching the CM's at the dock made the announcement that the ride was shutting down. We went through the ride, every boat behind us was empty. We didn't stop once, not even at the final lift. 

When we got back to the entrance of the ride, it was completely empty. We have zero idea what was going on, but the ride was back open when we passed by later in the day. 

We also spent some time in Batuu as our ride time for ROTR got closer. 

We tried our first Breakfast Ronto Wrap. It was yummy. 

We also tried this thing, it was, ok. 

I got to hang out with Chewie!! We didn't see R2D2 unfortunately. 

My OMG face before we even got into the "ride" part of Rise of the Resistance. 

My review of Rise of the Resistance (no spoilers) in case you missed it the other day

After our experience on Rise of the Resistance, we needed to decompress at Lamplight. 

And check out some Lunar New Year treats

Let's go try some food!! 

Firecracker Three Cup Chicken Wings (my favorite thing we tried)

We had reservations to experience Oga's Cantina for the first time, so we headed back over to Disneyland and stopped at one of our all time favorite attractions. It's still great, even after all these years. 

Back in Galaxy's Edge, Kylo Ren is looking for somebody. 

I still can't get over how amazing it is to see the Millennium Falcon just sitting there. 

Time for the Cantina!! 

Took some video of our experience 

This is such a cool touch

The Jet Juice

She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid.

Fuzzy Tauntaun

​It was tingly for sure

T-16 Skyhopper

Definitely unique, not sure we'd get it again. Not to be used for shooting Womprats. 

As we had been up since the early morning hours (1:30am for me for some stupid reason), we decided to do one last attraction and head out. And we decided on It's a Small World. 

Sunset over Matterhorn

We had to pick up a popcorn/fries bucket for a friend

And I had to do my best Flavor Flave impression

I will say, my one disappointment is the lack of Rise of the Resistance merchandise. I don't care for the regular shirt, at all (and it had a HUGE head hole).

I did like the Passholder design with the logo, but honestly, I don't want the Passholder there. 

​Need just a plain black shirt with the Rise of the Resistance logo on it. That's it. 

Hopefully those are coming soon. 

We said goodnight to Walt and Mickey and headed home. 

It was a great night, and we're already making plans on heading back soon. 

Now that we've used our Flex Pass 3 times I think we've got a pretty good handle on it, and we'll be doing a review of that particular pass soon. So stay tuned for that!! 

Good Morning Park Journey readers, we hope you had an enjoyable weekend and that those of you that happen to be off today are enjoying another day off. 

We had an amazing weekend, not only did we spend Saturday at Disneyland, we were among the chosen few to get on Rise of the Resistance via the boarding group process. And if that wasn't enough, the 49ers won on Sunday!!



​But I digress, we wanted to share some tips to help you make the most of your Rise of the Resistance experience, and hopefully improve your odds of experiencing this amazing attraction. 

Before we move on, this article contains NO spoilers. So feel free to read on. 

Seriously, there is zero need to do this. We got to Toy Story lot at 5:30am for an 8:00am opening, and that was even too early. You only have to be in the park by 8:00am. That said ... ​

This is just to make sure you don't get nervous about getting in. We want to make sure this process is as stress free as possible. You never know when there may be a system issue, you pick a bad line, you have a ticket issue, etc. ​

When we got into the park (about an hour and 15 minutes before the park opened) everybody headed straight to Starbucks. Forget that. We went to Jolly Holiday, found a short line and sat and relaxed. 

The hub was filled with people, but 5 minutes before park opened they released all of these people into the park. ​

So we decided to just stay where we were and it worked out. 

We can't stress this enough. Download the Disneyland App. Make sure all of your groups tickets are linked on the app. On everybody's app. The more people you have trying to get a boarding group the better your chances are. ​

We think this was the biggest mistake people made. Instead of waiting for the page to refresh, click "My Status" as shown below. Another page will open and allow you to join a group from there. 

Many people actually tried to re-start the app because the Join Boarding Group button didn't refresh. And by then, it's too late. ​

Once one person in your group gets a spot, you all have a spot and the app will lock everybody else out. 

There's no need to hang out in front of the ride, or worry that you're going to miss it. You have a 2-hour ride window, so go enjoy the parks. If you have a group from 1-30 chances are your group will be called within the first 4 hours of park opening (as long as the ride does not break down). So I'd stay inside Disneyland. Groups past that, feel free to do whatever. ​

Just because you have a boarding group doesn't mean you are going to get to ride in 5 minutes. We had group 27 on Saturday and we got in to ride about 11:15 (after the ride shut down for about an hour at around 10:15, when our group was originally called). We were done about 12:10.

​The queue wait time was probably 30-40 minutes and the entire experience from beginning to end is about 20-25 minutes. ​

But we have heard of the queue being close to an hour prior to boarding. 

Seriously ya'll, this is an experience like no other. Our group of 5 were completely blown away, from beginning to end. There are jaw-dropping moments everywhere. 

So what did I think of the ride? You can see my non-spoiler review below. 

We hope these tips help you to make the most out of your experience. We've now experienced one day and seen 3 days of the process, so we are pretty sure these tips will be beneficial. 

If you've experienced Rise of the Resistance and have any additional tips, feel free to share them below!! 

We'll have a general park update posted later today including Lunar New Year fun.