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Photo Tour of Toyville Trolley Park at Tokyo DisneySea

September 27, 2017

It’s been five months since The Gaijin Ghost first had an article published on another site. In a guest post dated April 27, 2017, yours truly wrote for TDR Explorer about Toyville Trolley Park, which is sort of a sub-port within the larger port of American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea. This post was submitted on a trial basis, prior to entering the WordPress system as a contributor over there. Writing it involved referencing some translated information from the official Tokyo Disney Resort blog.

For the author, it was as much a learning experience as it would be for readers, inasmuch as the Tokyo Disney Resort blog called to attention certain unsung details of the Toyville Trolley Park area, things I had never noticed, such as the trolley track and the mock box office windows built into the entrance arch. On a trip to DisneySea earlier this year after the opening of Nemo & Friends SeaRider, I managed to catch Toyville Trolley Park at a time when it was relatively deserted, since its star attraction, the park’s most popular ride, Toy Story Mania!, was temporarily closed for refurbishment.

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The marquee for Big Band Beat and the Broadway Music Theatre in American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea.

The marquee for Big Band Beat and the Broadway Music Theatre in American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea.

Jive Talkin’ Bout ‘Big Band Beat’

April 15, 2017

This post delves more into Big Band Beat, a show that recently made the list of The Gaijin Ghost’s Five Favorite Rides & Shows at Tokyo DisneySea.

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Streamers fly down at the end of the grand finale during a 2016 showing of A Table Is Waiting in American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea.

Streamers fly down at the end of the grand finale during a 2016 showing of A Table Is Waiting in American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea.

TDR Hall of Fame: 'A Table Is Waiting'

March 17, 2017

A Table Is Waiting, which ran for six years in American Waterfront at Tokyo DisneySea, belongs in its own separate wing of The Gaijin Ghost’s TDR Museum. Simply put, this show is a Hall-of-Famer. The costumes were great, the title song was catchy, and the food theme made it easy to follow the show’s nominal “plot,” even if you were coming at it from the perspective of someone who could not understand a word of Japanese.

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Tags tokyo disney resort, tokyo disneysea, american waterfront