DCA's World of Color

Gn2Dlnd · 08-17-2010, 12:04 PM

Here's my no-hassle WOC viewing technique, tested twice so far. First, buy a picanic meal for 14 bucks, they seem to be available until pretty late in the day and they're good. I bought one a couple Saturdays ago, just before the window closed at 7 pm. The meal comes with a yellow zone fastpass for the 10:15 show. Yellow is as close to center audience as you can get, without buying a 40 dollar meal at one of the sit-downs. That meal gets you a blue pass, which is "house center." They don't seem to be available at all for same day dining, reservations are required. Bleah. Take your picanic meal, in its fancy reusable WOC tote-bag, across the esplanade, and find a nice place inside Disneyland to eat. Watch the first performance of Fantasmic! from the bridge in front of Pirates. As soon as the exit music starts, high-tail it through Adventureland to the middle of Main Street. Enjoy the fireworks. Now leisurely stroll back across the esplanade, wave at Glow-fest as you walk directly to the WOC viewing area, and present your fastpass to one of the thousand-and-one crowd control folks there. They will happily point you towards the yellow zone, no herding into the drippy back walkways of Grizzly River Rapids required. Easy peasy! I'm short, so the back row, up against the flowerbed, works perfectly for me. The viewing area is sufficiently elevated, and you can see the entire panorama of the show. If you want the front-row-of-the-Cineramadome experience, pop for the $6.50 poncho and make your way to the front of the crowd. Trust me, you'll have plenty of room to spread out. Most of the audience wants to stay out of the "splash-zone."

Fantasmic! is a heck of a lot more fun than WOC, but, take away the herding and the crowding and the waiting, and WOC's faults fade immensely, making it well worth experiencing. Plus, picanic and shopping tote! (Get the Asian) I'm thinking the 2 hour free lockers at GRR would be a great place to stash your pre-bought poncho and shopping-tote while you go see Fantasmic! if you don't want to schlep.

08-17-2010, 12:04 PM	#28
Gn2Dlnd Parmmadore Jim Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Casita del Queso Posts: 3,810	Here's my no-hassle WOC viewing technique, tested twice so far. First, buy a picanic meal for 14 bucks, they seem to be available until pretty late in the day and they're good. I bought one a couple Saturdays ago, just before the window closed at 7 pm. The meal comes with a yellow zone fastpass for the 10:15 show. Yellow is as close to center audience as you can get, without buying a 40 dollar meal at one of the sit-downs. That meal gets you a blue pass, which is "house center." They don't seem to be available at all for same day dining, reservations are required. Bleah. Take your picanic meal, in its fancy reusable WOC tote-bag, across the esplanade, and find a nice place inside Disneyland to eat. Watch the first performance of Fantasmic! from the bridge in front of Pirates. As soon as the exit music starts, high-tail it through Adventureland to the middle of Main Street. Enjoy the fireworks. Now leisurely stroll back across the esplanade, wave at Glow-fest as you walk directly to the WOC viewing area, and present your fastpass to one of the thousand-and-one crowd control folks there. They will happily point you towards the yellow zone, no herding into the drippy back walkways of Grizzly River Rapids required. Easy peasy! I'm short, so the back row, up against the flowerbed, works perfectly for me. The viewing area is sufficiently elevated, and you can see the entire panorama of the show. If you want the front-row-of-the-Cineramadome experience, pop for the $6.50 poncho and make your way to the front of the crowd. Trust me, you'll have plenty of room to spread out. Most of the audience wants to stay out of the "splash-zone." Fantasmic! is a heck of a lot more fun than WOC, but, take away the herding and the crowding and the waiting, and WOC's faults fade immensely, making it well worth experiencing. Plus, picanic and shopping tote! (Get the Asian) I'm thinking the 2 hour free lockers at GRR would be a great place to stash your pre-bought poncho and shopping-tote while you go see Fantasmic! if you don't want to schlep. __________________ Does anyone still wear a hat?
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