Rivers of Light and Arts Festival Recap -CM107

Capturing Magic

Heather is giving us a recap of her experience at Rivers of Light and the Arts Festival. She has some great insider tips for photo ops! Panel Steph (Capturingmagic_ on Twitter and Instagram) and ModernPhotoSolutions on Instagram and Facebook Heather (I Love Characters. heatherw25 on Twitter and Instagram. ilovecharacters on FB) Tanya (everymagicmoment.com. Tanyah666 on Twitter and Instagram) (Transcripts below) Steph Clay: Hey everyone. Welcome to Capturing Magic. I'm Steph Clay. I'm here today with Tonya Hickman, who can be found at EveryMagicMoment.com, and she goes by Tonyah666 across social media. Hi, Tonya. Tonya Hickman: Hi. Steph Clay: How are you? Tonya Hickman: I'm good. Steph Clay: Thanks for being here again today. Tonya Hickman: Thanks. Steph Clay: We have also joining us today, Heather Winfield, who can be found at HeatherW.com/Character, and she is HeatherW25 across social media. Hi, Heather. Heather W.: Hi. Steph Clay: Thanks for being here today. Heather W.: Thank you. Steph Clay: Okay. Today we are going to be talking about Rivers of Light and the Arts Festival, because you just got back from a trip, and you were able to experience both of those. Heather W.: Yeah. I went ... Rivers of Light started and they started with the having the FastPass for it. I didn't think I was going to be able to get it for my first day and it popped up so I was really excited. I pretty much got off the plane and threw my stuff in the room, and went to Animal Kingdom. I've been dying to see it because it's been over a year that we've been hearing about it. Steph Clay: Yeah. You had a FastPass for it. Heather W.: Yeah. I had a FastPass. Steph Clay: Tell us how everything works. Heather W.: First thing was the night we got there and I didn't know where the line was. They pointed us to one way but that was from the DinoLand area, but that was the ... They have dining packages, so I think that's where the dining package was. Then, there's another place and then that was the standby line. I had to walk all the way around, it's on the other side where Everest is. Make sure you go in the right place because walked all the way around. They do have ... You know the PhotoPass thing you hold? Steph Clay: Yes. The sign? Heather W.: Yeah, the sign. They had one by one of the lines, like right by the DinoLand one. I got a picture there and then I also got one when I was seated. Steph Clay: Oh, good. Heather W.: If you want those. Yeah. We went in. They opened, it was about an hour early. I know when you get a FastPass you don't ... The whole point is to not wait, but I figured since ... I had a friend who was there. She said, "Yeah, they're open," so I thought I might as well just go, might as well just get as good a seat as I can get. We waited an hour, even with the FastPass. I think they were really good seats. Obviously, I wasn't in the other section so I don't know how much better or worse it is compared to anything else, but they all kinda looked the same. It's kind of in a circle. They had the Jungle Book fill-in show for a couple months. If you were at that, it's the same theater, but it's ... From what I was looking at other seats, it kind of looked like ... You know with Fantasmic, you know the theater, so you'd be on the side or you'd be in the center. We were in the center, I guess. They have multiple barges and the lotus flower things. I think you would pretty much be able to see anywhere you want, it just depends on if you wanted a guaranteed seat or you just want to have to stand and wait in a line. The good thing with us getting there early is that the seating, if you're in the first, I want to say it was four rows, there's a lot of ... It's very tiered so that if you're shorter like...