This is AWESOME!!!
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It doesn’t feel crowded!
Bowser took a little longer than I expected but we made it to Berk around 9:45. They let us in around 9:55 and we were towards the front. We met Stormfly at 10:24 and Toothless at 10:33.
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Yay!!! Toothless and Stormfly!! That’s awesome!
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Love this! I love how they ise the costume to make the characters look “animated” without making them weird looking.
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We’ve checked all of the boxes INCLUDING Battle at the Ministry! It’s been lightly sprinkling but most rides have remained up. We’re going to do a quick breather at the hotel and come back for dinner and to close the place down.
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I can’t say I’m a fan of butter beer but this was delicious and I felt very Parisian waiting for DH and DS9 to get off MoM.
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And just to be clear, this is without EP, right?
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Correct. We did not have EP. But we did not ride Minecart Madness but did not expect to. I can recap some timings tomorrow.
We are on the bus back. I think we will do the carousel and Stardust Racers and try to do Hiccup’s Winged Gliders again.
Nobody say I don’t buy my kids anything!
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DH took this pic. This show is a huge sleeper hit. It was perfect. Super cute and a tear came to my eye when Toothless flew. (I had been reading reports that he hasn’t always flown recently so I was nervous.)
It started to sprinkle and there was 10 minutes to the next show so we hustled over. I was thinking it might be full because all the rides were on delay but we got in!
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I am so glad you got to see this show and to see Toothless fly! One of my favorite things we did in all of Universal a few weeks ago!
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Honestly, it was a top notch show kind of hidden in the back. Cute story, awesome animatronics and a nice break. I think it was our favorite too!
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We rode Mine Cart Madness!
We ate dinner at Toads Cafe, cute, fine food. Kids were playing the games and we just wandered back to check out the DK area. I also wanted a treat but hate bananas so I was out of luck! Mine Cart had been down for hours but suddenly a car went by and there was a mad rush. We said let’s go and got in line. We waited about 45 minutes but it was worth it!
DS9 taught himself some spells in the line. Also it moved really well so it wasn’t so bad. Don’t attempt single rider there! Those people were camped out.
We got off around 8:30 and rode Yoshi (WHY?) and walked on Bowser’s again!
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We wandered around Berk just checking out the nighttime stuff. DS9 really wanted to do Stardust Racers and I noped right out of that.
I got an alert that Mine Cart was down to 25 minutes so DS6 and I went to do that! But poor kid chickened out. He was so proud of himself for doing TWO roller coasters and really loved Mine Cart but it was really late so we went back to the bus. It was about 9:55 anyway.
We had such a great day. Didn’t go to Darkmoor at all which was fine. We didn’t have a ton of time to wander around but I felt like we saw a ton!
Also, Ministry of Magic had a sign that it was closing early. It was still open at like 9:30 when we left that portal and I was getting times for it in the app up until it closed!
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Sounds like you did a lot! Great day!
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Sounds so fun! I’m so glad it all worked out. Cafe L’air De La Sirene seems to be the place to eat!
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So did you, or did you not ride Mine Cart Madness?
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The first post was when they took an afternoon break, so I think they rode MCM during their return trip.
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Haha ultimately we DID ride it! But yes, after we had basically said that we felt like we did everything we were planning to do. So it was definitely a bonus!
DS9 said his favorite was Stardust Racers followed closely by MIne Cart Madness. DS6 said the “Toothless show” (untrainable Dragon) was his favorite but I was really proud of him for riding two coasters. He’s never even done Barnstormer or BTMR! I think I liked Hiccups the best but MCM was really, really well done.
Everything was under 20 minutes after 8pm. We could have accomplished a lot of we wanted to race around and ride rides but we had hit a wall.
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Did he find this scary? Did you?
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