Up early and in line by 7am for Day One of the D23 Expo! The line is insane! We're glad we got here early! We picked up our lanyards and guides, made a quick tour of the show floor to get our bearings and Wayne got in the Arena line for the Disney Legends Ceremony. I spent some more time walking the show floor while Wayne kept our place in line. It quickly became apparent that I would need some sort of bag to hold all the items I was receiving. Happily, the Disney Store was handing out nice blue bags! I joined Wayne in line and we headed into the Arena. The Legends Ceremony was beautiful! We especially enjoyed hearing the new Disney Legends, Paige O'Hara, Jodi Benson, Lea Salongo and Anika Noni Rose, sing the songs of the Princesses they voiced! We exited the Arena after the ceremony and got right back in the Arena line for the Parks and Resorts presentation. Once we entered the Arena, we had good seats and had a nice view of the presentation. There were no new announcements, but some excellent reports, video and fly throughs on the progress of the Fantasyland expansion at WDW, Cars Land at DCA, Aulani and some other fun things. I know several attendees have complained about the presentation and its lack of new announcements, but I enjoyed it. I think we all may have been a bit spoiled by all the project announcements at the first Expo. We visited the Mickey's of Glendale store and transferred a significant amount of wealth from our bottom line to Disney's. We just couldn't resist the wonderful imagineering items available! We waited and waited and waited in line for something to eat at one of the convention center's food outlets. They were out of almost everything. I ended up with loaded nachos and Wayne with loaded fries. Not a very healthy selection, but we were really hungry! I remember the food locations being not so great at the last Expo. Apparently, ACC hasn't learned much in the interim. We will try the grab and go upstairs by the Treasures of the Walt Disney Archives tomorrow We visited the Parks and Resorts Pavilion and the Carousel of Projects Exhibit. We had a great time exploring the HUGE WDW Fantasyland Model, The Seven Dwarves Mine Train ride vehicle, the Cars Land ride vehicles, the huge Disney Fantasy Bow, the Mademoiselle Minnie sculpture for the Fantasy and all the other exhibits. Sadly, we weren't able to attend any other presentations because the queues filled before we could get in line. Once again, just as it was at the first Expo, we had to choose between spending all of our time waiting in line or miss some presentations. At the first Expo, we elected to spend more time in line and see presentations. This time we decided to allow ourselves more time on the show floor. We visited the D23 Dream Store and transferred some more of our quickly dwindling net worth to Disney! :-) . Then, back to the hotel for dinner and another early bedtime to prepare for Expo, Day Two.
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