treacle abroad: Splashu Mountain

Everywhere in Toyko is packed with people and Tokyo Disneyland was no execption. I mean really, haven't they all been by now?! Two hours is the longest time I've EVER waited in any queue and such was the wait for the ride Splash Mountain.

The real reason anyone goes on this ride is for that drop down the mountain side towards the end. It gets the heart pumping. So we stood in this queue watching people scream as they went down it for about an hour. The next hour was spent queuing in a cave. It's really a bit of false hope reaching the cave entrance as you think your turn is just around the next bend.. but no.. the queue winds on and on down the cave too!

Two hours later, at which time Ad notes we could've watched a whole movie whilst waiting, we finally get our turn! Excitedly we hop into our 8 seater boat and we're off! Our boat meanders around the bends and we gaze around caverns which tell the tale of Brer Rabbit to tunes to the like of Zippidy Doo Dah.

A minute into our 10 minute ride, our boat gets halted at one of the bends.. we're sitting there for a few minutes wondering if this is a feature of the ride when the music stops and we hear someone speaking in Japanese over the loudspeaker.. and then the music resumes.. oh well, gives us a chance to look around and give those singing pelicans a closer inspection. Music cuts out again, more Japanese over the loudspeaker.. then back to singing pelicans.. this must of happened around 5 times before we hear a prerecorded message in English apologising for the delay and to stay put in our boats until we are escorted out!

And that's what happened! Finally someone came and unlocked our safety bars so we could get off the boat and out we hopped. When I asked the Crew member who had come to get us why we were stopped, the one word response was "Maintenance".

We were lead down the back lots of the studio (to find that it had become dark while we were queuing in the cave) and sent back into Disneyland with 1 priority no wait ride ticket and no further explanations. So in summary, 2 hour wait, 1 minute ride, no heart pumping drop down the side of a mountain.

That's really the end of this post, but here are some other snaps of our time at Tokyo Disneyland.