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The exterior of Sinbad's Storybook Voyage really pops at night. The entire Arabian Coast area of the park is probably the best lit section of Tokyo Disney Sea at night, which makes it a lot of fun to photograph.
The beautiful Megara, of Disney's Hercules, was posing for photographers at Tokyo's Disney Sea during my recent visit to Japan.
Whenever I see this photo, or several other of my photos from Tokyo Disney Sea I automatically hear Phil Collins singing Take Me Home.
Once you've been to Tokyo Disney, it always feels like home.
Detail and texture abound in the Arabian Coast of Tokyo Disney Sea. I can't wait to go back and explore this area further.
Sinbad's Storybook Adventure is easily the best dark ride featuring animatronics in any Disney park. The movement and detail on the animatronics is simply superb. It's also a perfect example of making a dark ride that takes the right amount of time to properly tell the story.
What makes it even better is that it is virtually a walk on at any time.
I was in this area with my makeshift camera holder shooting some brackets of this AMAZING plaza in the Arabian Coast when the fireworks started. I had no idea where the fireworks were going to be in the sky and I was facing the opposite direction from this shot. Several people with cameras ran past me and were looking up at the sky. For a moment, I had no idea what they were doing or what was going on. I turned around to see what all the fuss was about and low & behold, there was fireworks.
I spun my camera around as fast as I could and propped it up on my camera bag to get the angle I needed and pressed the shutter. The settings on the camera were still set up for a specific exposure and I didn't have time to change it, so all I could do was hope something came out of it. I got lucky and got a few keepers.
Just another gorgeous day on the Arabian Coastline of Tokyo Disney Sea...
By the way, if you look to the right side of the photo you'll see a piece of Cinderella Castle sticking up. That's how close the parks are to each other.
Meandering through the Arabian Coast of Tokyo Disney Sea you'll find lovely little alley ways filled with visual treasures.
Now that I've photographed every square inch of Cars Land in Disney California Adventure and all of its glorious neon from every angle, I found a new muse.
The Arabian Coast in Tokyo Disney Sea has so many angles and small alleys that I could spend a week taking pictures of it and still find new things to shoot.
Just looking at all my photos of it makes me yearn to get on a plane and go back.
Soon....
With Disneyland just raising their prices again to ridiculous levels, I thought it's time to once again show why Tokyo Disney is a better alternative.
The two parks, Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo Disney Sea blow away any of the parks in the US, and are actually cheaper than any of the US parks.
So the next time you are planning a trip to one of the US Disney Parks, consider Tokyo Disneyland as a MUCH better and more cost effective alternative.
Probably my favorite area of Tokyo Disney Sea is the Arabian Coast. The spaciousness of the area and detail are just perfect.
I really enjoyed hanging out in this place and just absorbing the atmosphere. It was also virtually empty at night, which was AWESOME!
So here's my tale of woe..
Two nights before this photo was taken I photographed the fireworks inside a little plaza in the Arabian Coast, which let me know exactly where the bursts would be.
I took that information and plotted out other good locations to shoot fireworks from. This location was my next target. I got there a half hour before the fireworks were scheduled to go and got all set up to shoot them.
In my usual fashion I started shooting brackets of the foreground to layer into the fireworks shots. I had to keep deleting my photos because boats would come through the river every few minutes or plane after plane after plane would fly through the scene with blinking lights making annoying streaks through the sky.
I took probably 30 photos to get 9 of them that were useable. And then comes the announcement. "Due to bad weather conditions, the fireworks has been cancelled."
As you can see by the calm water and non blurry palm trees, there was no wind whatsoever and the sky was completely clear. The park was not very crowded so my guess is that they didn't want to spend the money on the fireworks because the park wasn't crowded enough.
DAMN IT!
Out of the 5 nights I tried to shoot fireworks, they only did them on 1. Every other night I set up to shoot them and they got cancelled. Most of those nights were very windy, so I do understand but this night there was no reason whatsoever to cancel them other than saving money.
Sinbad's ship sits ready to make way in case Sinbad ever gets Chandu and escapes from the adjacent dark ride.
Genie seems to be the main Disney element throughout the Arabian Coastline area of Tokyo Disney Sea.