Dugette
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Dec 26, 2009
We made it over to Tomorrowland and parked the stroller. Went over to Buzz and followed the FP+ entrance queue. Strangely, there was a long line and no Mickey Head Magic Band scanner anywhere to be seen. 
It seemed really strange to me, as most rides have you scan your band towards the entrance to the FP+ queue. And this line wasnt moving much at all. After a few minutes, I decided that I probably misread a sign and ended up in the standby queue. So, we stepped out and went to find a Cast Member. Nope, turns out that I was in the right place and it was just set up weird. Ugh, back in line and now we lost our place! 
Oh, well, lets take some pictures while we wait:
Hey, look, the line is actually moving! We made it to the Magic Band scanner at 4:07pm, so it wasnt terrible. Once we got inside the buiding, it was actually very speedy, unlike the Standby line:
Our line basically just cruised right along to the ride. We took a quick peek at Buzz along the way:
Izzy had just recently seen Toy Story 1 & 2 for the first time and had begun to take an interest in the Toy Story character decals on her bedroom walls. She seemed to like seeing Buzz in there.
Almost there:
We got on and I showed Izzy what to do with her blaster. She was way too wrapped up in looking around to care, though. Also, I quickly discovered that selfies in a dark ride are challenging:
You totally see us there, right?
Despite accompanying a toddler, I hoped to get a respectable score. If youve been a longtime follower of my TRs, you may recall that a mission we had during our Year of Disney in 2010 was to max out Buzz at 999,999 points. We used to be REALLY bad at the ride. I mean just pathetic. So, we found a video online that demonstrated where to find the high-value targets (like 100k points per hit). Once we were armed with that knowledge, our scores improved dramatically, but we still couldnt max out. Finally, on a ride-breakdown-pause, Dug managed to do it! Woo hoo!
On one of our other trips, we met up with friends and my friend did the same thing as Dug ride paused and he maxed out! 
But not me. Poor me. 
I could never get it. I was never in the right spot when the ride stopped, I guess. So, keep this in mind.
I knew the first high-value target (and the only one Id ever been any good at) was just past the entrance, on the left. However, Id learned on past trips that I really only have good luck getting it when I am sitting on the left of the ride vehicle. And I was on the right. Oops. I dont think I was able to hit it at all this ride. Boo, there goes my chance of getting a high score.
But I just kept on shooting things. I think I may have gotten the volcano target once (100k, but I NEVER get it) and I must have gotten just a ton of smaller things because I looked down at one point and saw this:
What?!?! The ride hadnt even broken down! I could do this!!!
So, I got serious. I had to get this. I was spinning all around and aiming for things and Izzy seemed cool with it. She was just looking around, not interested in using her blaster. I managed to get some high-value target in the dark tunnel not sure what, though. And, with all this, I did manage the elusive 999,999!
And then the ride broke down right after that. Ha. I used the chance to take pictures (yes, selfies were still dark, but I was trying) and also to help Izzy get a few points of her own:
We made it off and checked out the ride photos. I love how hard Im concentrating in this
:
After that, I decided that I should get that classic picture with a kid locked inside the jail cell with Zurg, as wed never done that. There was no line, just one family with kids in the cell. I waited patiently. And waited. And waited. These people were apparently just letting their kids play in there without realizing it was a photo op. Izzy didnt seem terribly sure about it anyway, so we just took a terrible selfie before heading out:
Up next: Ever seen a line for the Peoplemover before?
It seemed really strange to me, as most rides have you scan your band towards the entrance to the FP+ queue. And this line wasnt moving much at all. After a few minutes, I decided that I probably misread a sign and ended up in the standby queue. So, we stepped out and went to find a Cast Member. Nope, turns out that I was in the right place and it was just set up weird. Ugh, back in line and now we lost our place! Oh, well, lets take some pictures while we wait:
Hey, look, the line is actually moving! We made it to the Magic Band scanner at 4:07pm, so it wasnt terrible. Once we got inside the buiding, it was actually very speedy, unlike the Standby line:
Our line basically just cruised right along to the ride. We took a quick peek at Buzz along the way:
Izzy had just recently seen Toy Story 1 & 2 for the first time and had begun to take an interest in the Toy Story character decals on her bedroom walls. She seemed to like seeing Buzz in there.
Almost there:
We got on and I showed Izzy what to do with her blaster. She was way too wrapped up in looking around to care, though. Also, I quickly discovered that selfies in a dark ride are challenging:
You totally see us there, right?
Despite accompanying a toddler, I hoped to get a respectable score. If youve been a longtime follower of my TRs, you may recall that a mission we had during our Year of Disney in 2010 was to max out Buzz at 999,999 points. We used to be REALLY bad at the ride. I mean just pathetic. So, we found a video online that demonstrated where to find the high-value targets (like 100k points per hit). Once we were armed with that knowledge, our scores improved dramatically, but we still couldnt max out. Finally, on a ride-breakdown-pause, Dug managed to do it! Woo hoo!
On one of our other trips, we met up with friends and my friend did the same thing as Dug ride paused and he maxed out! But not me. Poor me. I could never get it. I was never in the right spot when the ride stopped, I guess. So, keep this in mind. I knew the first high-value target (and the only one Id ever been any good at) was just past the entrance, on the left. However, Id learned on past trips that I really only have good luck getting it when I am sitting on the left of the ride vehicle. And I was on the right. Oops. I dont think I was able to hit it at all this ride. Boo, there goes my chance of getting a high score.
But I just kept on shooting things. I think I may have gotten the volcano target once (100k, but I NEVER get it) and I must have gotten just a ton of smaller things because I looked down at one point and saw this:
What?!?! The ride hadnt even broken down! I could do this!!!
So, I got serious. I had to get this. I was spinning all around and aiming for things and Izzy seemed cool with it. She was just looking around, not interested in using her blaster. I managed to get some high-value target in the dark tunnel not sure what, though. And, with all this, I did manage the elusive 999,999!
And then the ride broke down right after that. Ha. I used the chance to take pictures (yes, selfies were still dark, but I was trying) and also to help Izzy get a few points of her own:
We made it off and checked out the ride photos. I love how hard Im concentrating in this
:
After that, I decided that I should get that classic picture with a kid locked inside the jail cell with Zurg, as wed never done that. There was no line, just one family with kids in the cell. I waited patiently. And waited. And waited. These people were apparently just letting their kids play in there without realizing it was a photo op. Izzy didnt seem terribly sure about it anyway, so we just took a terrible selfie before heading out:
Up next: Ever seen a line for the Peoplemover before?
And the ride stopped suddenly right after that not sure, but it certainly appeared that their antics halted the ride. So, like a good DIS-er, I took a picture of them on the way down the ramp:
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