Egg Hunt In Tokyo Disneyland
Easter is a big event at Tokyo Disneyland, something I find sort of funny, seeing as Japan doesn't actually celebrate Easter. This year's Easter event started March 25th and is on until June 15th. Though, as we painfully learnt this Thursday, they stop restocking Easter merchandise at a certain point. Christian wanted a set of cute bunny ears for the parade, but they weren't selling them anymore! SADFACE.
No matter, the parade was still on! The Easter parade is called Hippity Hoppity Springtime, and it's well worth sitting down to wait for. It has a show in the middle, so the floats all stop along the parade route, and you'll get a different show each time if you watch the parade from different places along the route. We sat down in front of Cinderella Castle, we were right behind Mickey's float and got front row seats for dancers on roller skates! I love this show and parade so much, I want to go see it again, and again! And I'm tempted to buy the cd single with the parade song, it's so catchy!
The main attraction during Easter is the Tokyo Disneyland Egg Hunt.
The easter bunnies have hidden easter eggs all over the park! There are three different courses to choose from, Beginner, Expert (Eggspert???), and Master.
You buy the maps, and if you're able to find all the correct eggs, you get a medal.
I did the Beginner course by myself a couple of weeks ago. It was a very relaxing experience, but no challenge at all. The map was a map of the park, with question marks marking the places you had to go to find your egg. There's a row of stickers at the bottom of the map, you take the sticker corresponding to the egg you've found, and stick it on the map in the right location. For the Beginner's course, there are 10 eggs total, but you only need to have 5 correct ones to collect your medal. I strolled around the park and did all 10, it took me about an hour at a leisurely pace.
With Christian here as my teammate, we decided to take on both the Expert and Master course, and yeah! They were really challenging! We spent about 4 hours egg hunting, but it was an absolute blast. That feeling when you're actually able to figure out the clue and spot an egg... PRICELESS!
Fair warning, this post will contain SPOILERS for this year's egg hunt. Read on at your own risk if you plan on taking on this year's hunt for yourself!
Expert course:
I remembered to actually take a picture of the map before starting this one .... hahah. So this is what it looks like. You get some illustrations showing you the area you need to look, and there are some text clues as well, however, you don't know which text clue goes with which illustration. That only becomes apparent once you've found the location in the illustration (or if the text clue makes more sense, you go to where you think it is and desperately look for something that looks like the illustrations). Then when you've found the egg, you stick the correct sticker on the corresponding text clue!
Here are the illustrations for the Expert course:
The text clues were:
- It looks like a cave!
- Magnificent!
- Lawn
- There is a postbox nearby
- It says 1876
Any guesses? 8D
Let's go step by step. Starting from left to right, the first illustration is from [Spoiler (click to open)]Critter Country!, the corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]It looks like a cave!.
The egg was super tiny and adorable!
[Spoiler (click to open)]
Do you see it? It's kind of hard to spot even when you know it's supposed to be there! :) And this was just the first clue of the Expert course! Phew, I'm tired already. Hahahha.
The second illustration is perhaps the easiest one to identify, it is of course the [Spoiler (click to open)]statue of Walt and Mickey looking out over the hub over to the Cinderella Castle. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Lawn.
This egg was also super tiny, and placed awkwardly compared to the illustration!!
[Spoiler (click to open)]
This is actually when we bought the Master map, just to make sure we hadn't accidentally found an egg meant for the Master course, haha.
Third illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Toontown. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]There is a postbox nearby. No picture of this one, sorry.
Fourth illustration is perhaps the most obscure one of the Expert course. It's a super close up, impossible to know until you're there! The illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Westernland. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]It says 1876. We wouldn't have found this without the text clue. There's only one place in the park where dates like this makes sense. No picture of this one either, but the egg [Spoiler (click to open)]was placed in the window display of the shop in the only Westernland building dated 1876.
Fifth illustration looks really familiar, doesn't it??? You're sure you've seen it before, right??? I ran everywhere, absolutely positive I'd seen this design before. But I kept on being wrong. The corresponding text clue, [Spoiler (click to open)]Magnificent!, didn't really help either. Until we walked through [Spoiler (click to open)]World Bazaar and had a closer look at [Spoiler (click to open)]the magic shop.
Master course:
Text clues were:
- An item to tell time
- Net
- Bear
- Waterwheel
- Magic
Let's go right to left on this one, because the right most one was the first one we figured out.
The right most illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Fantasyland, the corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Magic. Yup, it's the design on [Spoiler (click to open)]the roof of Mickey's PhilharMagic. We ran over to the attraction, but it was STILL HARD TO FIND THIS FRICKING EGG. And this was just the start of our Master course struggles....
Want to know what the egg looked like? Aight, here it is.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
I couldn't stop laughing once I'd spotted it. Talk about hiding in plain sight. It is fricking tiny, though.
So the next illustration really stumped us. This did not look familiar at all, we found it thanks to some trial and error with our remaining text clues. The illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Fantasyland, the corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Bear. [Spoiler (click to open)]Now, there are quite a lot of bears at Tokyo Disneyland. You have The Country Bear Jamboree, Hungry Bear Restaurant, Br'er Bear in Critter Country and uhm.. oh yeah, Pooh bear, Winnie the Pooh, of course.
We walked all around the corresponding ride (which was closed for the day!), and couldn't find a single thing that looked anything like the illustration. All the other eggs had been outside or in window displays, none had been inside, but we entered the attraction's store and all the way in the back, we spotted something familiar. The lamps looked exactly like the illustration. Here is the egg!
[Spoiler (click to open)]
Wowwwww that took forever to find. Hahhahahah.
The third illustration was easy to place. Looking at it, it's easy to see that it belongs in [Spoiler (click to open)]Westernland. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Waterwheel, but we were absolutely sure that the corresponding text clue would be the one listed for the previous illustration, so we were stuck on this one for quite a while looking in the wrong place.
But we found the place from the illustration, stood there for a while, WHEN SUDDENLY THE EGG SHOWED ITSELF.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
Still don't see it? I don't blame you. It's s a [Spoiler (click to open)]almost completely black egg, placed IN one of the buckets on the waterwheel, which by the way is on the roof of a building... so you had to look up towards the blinding sun, at the right moment while the bucket with the egg was at the top of the wheel. Hot damn. FINDING THIS FELT SO GOOD, THOUGH. UNGHHHHH.
The next illustration is tricky. It can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Adventureland. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Net. You thought it would be [Spoiler (click to open)]An item to tell time, right? Yeah... so did we. Until we spotted the bananas in the illustration. And remembered that there's indeed a fruit stand in the park. So we went there, and found the egg [Spoiler (click to open)]disguised as a mango in a net inside the fruit stand. THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND, MICHAEL.
Ehem.
The last illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]World Bazaar, the corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]An item to tell time. The egg [Spoiler (click to open)]was a tiny jewel on the face of a pocket watch on display in a shop window in the only shop selling watches and jewellery in World Bazaar.
Honestly, I'd warmly recommend giving this a go if you're ever at TDL for Easter. Fair warning, it will take a while, but we did see people ask cast members for help, and I'm sure they were helpful giving hints along the way to those who needed them to speed things up a bit. We still had time for food, treats, and plenty of rides even though we did the egg hunt, we had such a good time!
Here we are at the goal, ready to have our answers checked!
All correct! Here's my medals! Goofy is the medal for the Beginner course. The Beginner course medal is a lucky draw type of deal, the medal has a few different character designs. I kind of want to do it again in an attempt to get Minnie ;___;
Silver is for the Expert course (Minnie!! :D), Gold is for the Master course (with Mickey design, of course).
I can't wait to try this again next year!!
By the way, we met Olaf during our adventures. He seems to be doing great in the sun!
No matter, the parade was still on! The Easter parade is called Hippity Hoppity Springtime, and it's well worth sitting down to wait for. It has a show in the middle, so the floats all stop along the parade route, and you'll get a different show each time if you watch the parade from different places along the route. We sat down in front of Cinderella Castle, we were right behind Mickey's float and got front row seats for dancers on roller skates! I love this show and parade so much, I want to go see it again, and again! And I'm tempted to buy the cd single with the parade song, it's so catchy!
The main attraction during Easter is the Tokyo Disneyland Egg Hunt.
The easter bunnies have hidden easter eggs all over the park! There are three different courses to choose from, Beginner, Expert (Eggspert???), and Master.
You buy the maps, and if you're able to find all the correct eggs, you get a medal.
I did the Beginner course by myself a couple of weeks ago. It was a very relaxing experience, but no challenge at all. The map was a map of the park, with question marks marking the places you had to go to find your egg. There's a row of stickers at the bottom of the map, you take the sticker corresponding to the egg you've found, and stick it on the map in the right location. For the Beginner's course, there are 10 eggs total, but you only need to have 5 correct ones to collect your medal. I strolled around the park and did all 10, it took me about an hour at a leisurely pace.
With Christian here as my teammate, we decided to take on both the Expert and Master course, and yeah! They were really challenging! We spent about 4 hours egg hunting, but it was an absolute blast. That feeling when you're actually able to figure out the clue and spot an egg... PRICELESS!
Fair warning, this post will contain SPOILERS for this year's egg hunt. Read on at your own risk if you plan on taking on this year's hunt for yourself!
Expert course:
I remembered to actually take a picture of the map before starting this one .... hahah. So this is what it looks like. You get some illustrations showing you the area you need to look, and there are some text clues as well, however, you don't know which text clue goes with which illustration. That only becomes apparent once you've found the location in the illustration (or if the text clue makes more sense, you go to where you think it is and desperately look for something that looks like the illustrations). Then when you've found the egg, you stick the correct sticker on the corresponding text clue!
Here are the illustrations for the Expert course:
The text clues were:
- It looks like a cave!
- Magnificent!
- Lawn
- There is a postbox nearby
- It says 1876
Any guesses? 8D
Let's go step by step. Starting from left to right, the first illustration is from [Spoiler (click to open)]Critter Country!, the corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]It looks like a cave!.
The egg was super tiny and adorable!
[Spoiler (click to open)]
Do you see it? It's kind of hard to spot even when you know it's supposed to be there! :) And this was just the first clue of the Expert course! Phew, I'm tired already. Hahahha.
The second illustration is perhaps the easiest one to identify, it is of course the [Spoiler (click to open)]statue of Walt and Mickey looking out over the hub over to the Cinderella Castle. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Lawn.
This egg was also super tiny, and placed awkwardly compared to the illustration!!
[Spoiler (click to open)]
This is actually when we bought the Master map, just to make sure we hadn't accidentally found an egg meant for the Master course, haha.
Third illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Toontown. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]There is a postbox nearby. No picture of this one, sorry.
Fourth illustration is perhaps the most obscure one of the Expert course. It's a super close up, impossible to know until you're there! The illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Westernland. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]It says 1876. We wouldn't have found this without the text clue. There's only one place in the park where dates like this makes sense. No picture of this one either, but the egg [Spoiler (click to open)]was placed in the window display of the shop in the only Westernland building dated 1876.
Fifth illustration looks really familiar, doesn't it??? You're sure you've seen it before, right??? I ran everywhere, absolutely positive I'd seen this design before. But I kept on being wrong. The corresponding text clue, [Spoiler (click to open)]Magnificent!, didn't really help either. Until we walked through [Spoiler (click to open)]World Bazaar and had a closer look at [Spoiler (click to open)]the magic shop.
Master course:
Text clues were:
- An item to tell time
- Net
- Bear
- Waterwheel
- Magic
Let's go right to left on this one, because the right most one was the first one we figured out.
The right most illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Fantasyland, the corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Magic. Yup, it's the design on [Spoiler (click to open)]the roof of Mickey's PhilharMagic. We ran over to the attraction, but it was STILL HARD TO FIND THIS FRICKING EGG. And this was just the start of our Master course struggles....
Want to know what the egg looked like? Aight, here it is.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
I couldn't stop laughing once I'd spotted it. Talk about hiding in plain sight. It is fricking tiny, though.
So the next illustration really stumped us. This did not look familiar at all, we found it thanks to some trial and error with our remaining text clues. The illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Fantasyland, the corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Bear. [Spoiler (click to open)]Now, there are quite a lot of bears at Tokyo Disneyland. You have The Country Bear Jamboree, Hungry Bear Restaurant, Br'er Bear in Critter Country and uhm.. oh yeah, Pooh bear, Winnie the Pooh, of course.
We walked all around the corresponding ride (which was closed for the day!), and couldn't find a single thing that looked anything like the illustration. All the other eggs had been outside or in window displays, none had been inside, but we entered the attraction's store and all the way in the back, we spotted something familiar. The lamps looked exactly like the illustration. Here is the egg!
[Spoiler (click to open)]
Wowwwww that took forever to find. Hahhahahah.
The third illustration was easy to place. Looking at it, it's easy to see that it belongs in [Spoiler (click to open)]Westernland. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Waterwheel, but we were absolutely sure that the corresponding text clue would be the one listed for the previous illustration, so we were stuck on this one for quite a while looking in the wrong place.
But we found the place from the illustration, stood there for a while, WHEN SUDDENLY THE EGG SHOWED ITSELF.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
Still don't see it? I don't blame you. It's s a [Spoiler (click to open)]almost completely black egg, placed IN one of the buckets on the waterwheel, which by the way is on the roof of a building... so you had to look up towards the blinding sun, at the right moment while the bucket with the egg was at the top of the wheel. Hot damn. FINDING THIS FELT SO GOOD, THOUGH. UNGHHHHH.
The next illustration is tricky. It can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]Adventureland. The corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]Net. You thought it would be [Spoiler (click to open)]An item to tell time, right? Yeah... so did we. Until we spotted the bananas in the illustration. And remembered that there's indeed a fruit stand in the park. So we went there, and found the egg [Spoiler (click to open)]disguised as a mango in a net inside the fruit stand. THERE'S ALWAYS MONEY IN THE BANANA STAND, MICHAEL.
Ehem.
The last illustration can be found in [Spoiler (click to open)]World Bazaar, the corresponding text clue is [Spoiler (click to open)]An item to tell time. The egg [Spoiler (click to open)]was a tiny jewel on the face of a pocket watch on display in a shop window in the only shop selling watches and jewellery in World Bazaar.
Honestly, I'd warmly recommend giving this a go if you're ever at TDL for Easter. Fair warning, it will take a while, but we did see people ask cast members for help, and I'm sure they were helpful giving hints along the way to those who needed them to speed things up a bit. We still had time for food, treats, and plenty of rides even though we did the egg hunt, we had such a good time!
Here we are at the goal, ready to have our answers checked!
All correct! Here's my medals! Goofy is the medal for the Beginner course. The Beginner course medal is a lucky draw type of deal, the medal has a few different character designs. I kind of want to do it again in an attempt to get Minnie ;___;
Silver is for the Expert course (Minnie!! :D), Gold is for the Master course (with Mickey design, of course).
I can't wait to try this again next year!!
By the way, we met Olaf during our adventures. He seems to be doing great in the sun!