Like the day before, Felix woke up to the sound of Calhoun doing her morning exercises. Ralph and Elsa woke up shortly thereafter. Ralph went to wash off in the pool while Elsa took a nice, cold shower. Calhoun and Felix got a table set up in the breakfast room, followed by Ralph and Elsa, then Anna and Kristoff. Ralph piled with bacon and scrambled eggs onto his plate. Elsa had a slice of toast with strawberry jam and an apple. Calhoun got a plate with sausage and scrambled eggs, as well as a banana. Felix had pancakes drenched in maple syrup. Kristoff had sausage, pancakes, and an apple. Anna a waffle with syrup, a few strips of bacon, and a cup of tea.
For their last day at Virtual Disneyland, they decided to start at California Adventure. Ralph was once again randomly pulled aside for a security check. They got to the turnstiles for the park, where Ralph had to go in through the alternate entrance again. While the other patrons were heading to Hollywood Land, Grizzly Peak, and Cars Land, they headed back to Paradise Pier. Anna raced for the mostly-empty California Screamin', with Kristoff, Felix, and Calhoun following suit. Elsa and Ralph, in the meantime, went to the also pretty-empty Toy Story Midway Mania. Both Ralph and Elsa got entire seats to themselves. Ralph got the red and blue seats on one side, while Elsa got the blue seat behind him. The two had fun just firing randomly at the midway games the animate toys hosted, even if the ride wasn't that comfortable for Ralph. And on California Screamin', Anna and Kristoff were happily throwing their hands in the air, while Calhoun and Felix kissed every time he got scared. And due to the short lines at that time, they went on their respective rides several times in a row. But after about an hour or so, the people began to crowd up the lines for the rides. The six met back up in front of King Triton's Carousel.
"So where to now?" Calhoun asked.
Felix pointed to the Ferris Wheel towering above them. "How about that?" he suggested.
"I dunno," Anna commented, "Ferris Wheels scare me…"
"I think it looks like fun," Elsa commented, "Count me in." Ralph, Calhoun, and Kristoff also expressed interest in riding it. Reluctantly, Anna agreed to join them.
The line for the Ferris Wheel, named Mickey's Fun Wheel, was very short. There were two kinds of gondolas. Two-thirds of them were on rails, while the remaining 8 were stationary.
"I am going on one of the stationary ones," Anna insisted.
"I'll go with you, Anna," Kristoff said, "I don't exactly think those swinging gondolas look safe. Or at the very least, they don't look like fun."
"That's okay, guys," Ralph said, "We'll tell you what the ride in the swinging gondolas is like."
However, as they got up to the gondola boarding platform, Ralph was instructed that he had to wait for the next gondola, as the Cast Members were afraid that in a full gondola, Ralph could cause it to fall of its rails, which would glitch the game. So Ralph watched as his friends and his wife got onto the gondola. Ralph waved good-bye to them, saddened that he could not ride with them. The next gondola came up, which Ralph sat in all by himself.
In the gondola with Felix, Calhoun, and Elsa, Calhoun was taking photographs of the magnificent scenery. As they went up, the gondola moved along its rails, swaying as the wheel stopped. Calhoun was able to get some great pictures as the gondola was moving.
Felix noticed how sad Elsa was. "You wish Ralph was here, don't you?"
Elsa sighed, "Yeah. Poor guy. We haven't gotten to spend as much time together during this trip as I'd like." She rubbed her hand against the barriers on the gondola's window. "I suppose that's the problem with being a crossover couple; we don't get to see each other as often as Anna and Kristoff do, and I was hoping that we could spend a good amount of time together while here. But poor Ralph is too big to stick with us on several of the rides."
Meanwhile, Ralph was having the exact same thought, all alone in his gondola. "I can't believe how many times Elsa and I have been separated on this trip. How many times have I had to ride by myself, without the love of my life, if I even get to ride at all? How often during this trip has my height been a hindrance to myself and my friends?" He began tearing up.
When the wheel was done making its revolutions, Anna eagerly got off the ride. "If I never rode that again," she told Kristoff, "it would be too soon."
"So you liked it," Kristoff commented.
"Real funny," she said, "Let's take away those protective rails and see how you deal with a fear of falling out." Elsa glumly walked over to her sister with Felix and Calhoun in tow. "I can tell you didn't think much of the ride either, sis."
"No," Elsa said, holding back tears. She looked behind her at the next gondola being unloaded. She saw a tall man with wild mahogany hair step out. When their eyes met, they ran towards each other. Elsa jumped into Ralph's arms. "I don't know why, Ralphie," she said, "But I missed you on that ride."
Ralph hugged his wife gently. "I missed you, too, sweetie," he replied.
After Ralph and Elsa stood hugging for a minute or two, Calhoun said, "I know you two are happy to be reunited, but I think there's a lot more we should do on our last day here than watching you two hug."
Elsa wiped icy tears from the sides of her face. "Sorry," she said. The two joined back up with the others and the group walked along the West side of Paradise Pier.
Other than California Screamin' and Toy Story Midway Mania, Paradise Pier did not offer much in the way of rides, and other than the aforementioned examples, none of them interested the six arcade characters. One ride they walked by was a Wild Mouse roller coaster. "Hey, Anna," Kristoff facetiously commented, "You wanna ride that?"
"Ick," the princess replied, "No thanks. That thing makes me want to puke just looking at it." Anna saw the Little Mermaid ride coming up. "Why don't we go on that one again?" The others, not really finding any other rides to go on in the area, agreed to go on the ride.
The line was short for the ride once again. They rode as couples like the time before. Even though Ralph and Elsa didn't fit comfortably in their clamshell, they were happy to be able to ride together. As they saw Ariel and Eric about to kiss, they also kissed.
After the ride was over, the six tried to figure out where to go next. Kristoff pointed out the Pacific Wharf area next to Paradise Pier. "We haven't been in that area yet, have we?"
"Nope," Ralph commented, "We haven't been in that area." The six went over.
While crossing the bridge, Calhoun spotted the giant (fake) net full of the catch of the day. She took out her camera. "Hey, Kristoff!" she said. She pointed to the net. "Would you mind standing there? I wanna get a picture of someone there."
"Sure thing, Calhoun," Kristoff responded. He quickly walked over to the net and posed in the pile of plastic fish. Calhoun took a picture. Kristoff noticed how tasty the air in Pacific Wharf smelled. "Man," he commented, "I'm getting hungry just standing around here…" When he was rejoined by his friends, he asked, "Are you guys hungry?"
Ralph sniffed the air. "Well, now that you mention it," he said, "I haven't eaten in over 2 hours…"
Calhoun looked at her watch. "Well, we could get an early lunch, beat the lunch rush. Let's look for a good place to eat in this area."
The six walked around Pacific Wharf, observing the different restaurants it had to offer. There was a brewery, a Mexican grill, a stand selling frozen margaritas (which Calhoun was happy to learn was not to promote Frozen), and an ice cream parlor, but the group decided to go to Lucky Fortune Cookery, an Asian restaurant.
"There are no Asian restaurant games in the arcade," Ralph commented, "Let's try something new food-wise on this trip."
The menu for Lucky Fortune was quite simple. There were three proteins and four sauces for the rice bowls. Ralph and Felix got Teriyaki chicken, Elsa had Mandarin Orange tofu, Calhoun and Kristoff ate Spicy Korean Beef, and Anna ordered Spicy Korean Tofu. Their meals came in paper take-out boxes, and the proteins were placed on top of cooked vegetables and rice. While his friends easily ate their food with chopsticks, Ralph was struggling to even grasp them.
"Stupid chopsticks," he grumbled, "Why can't they make these things more accommodating for guys like me?" He dropped one on the table. "Darn it…" He struggled to pick up the chopstick.
The others saw how much Ralph was struggling. Elsa leaned in and said, "Ralph, since it doesn't seem like anyone else is watching, I think it would be okay if you just poured the food right into your mouth. We won't tell anyone."
"Really?" Ralph asked. He then tossed the other chopstick away and poured the teriyaki chicken, rice, and vegetables right into his mouth.
"Sometimes manners must be forsaken in favor of simplicity," Elsa commented. She returned to slowly eating her food.
When everyone was done eating, they walked through Pacific Wharf some more. Walking through eventually led them to a road underneath an arch carved into a large rock. They followed it into a rocky canyon.
"Quite an abrupt shift from a portside town to a canyon, isn't it?" Felix commented. The road led to the quiet desert town of Radiator Springs. As they walked, a couple of cars raced by in the fenced-off area to the right. They walked by a restaurant with the design of a gas station. The road eventually led to an intersection in the middle of the town.
There was a ride across the street, with a tire motif. They got in line and rode it. The ride was a bumper car ride with everyone driving tires. Ralph was able to fit into his tire, albeit barely. Nothing particularly stood out about the ride; it was a standard bumper car ride.
After getting off the tire ride, the six noticed how people were going down the road, to Town Hall, and turning to the right. The six went the same way and were led to the queue for Radiator Springs Racers. The line was about 45 minutes long.
"We might as well try out this ride, since it seems really popular," Ralph said. The others agreed and got in line. The queue went through the desert, under a bridge, by a fountain (which resembled the front of an old-fashioned car), and by a couple of old gas pumps.
When they got to the boarding platform, Ralph was pulled aside while his friends all got to sit in one car. He was given his own car. He sat in the backseat with him feet in the front. The Cast Members strapped his legs down with the seat belts. As his car was leaving, the Cast Members advised him to bend over so that he didn't hit his head on anything.
The cars started driving through the desert, driving by trees and rocks. After passing under a rock tunnel, there was a stunning waterfall towering above the road. Past that was a stunning view of the park, particularly the Hollywood Tower Hotel. The cars then went into a dark tunnel…and were almost hit by a large semi with eyes. The cars then had to swerve to avoid hitting other sentient automobiles, and narrowly avoided being hit by an oncoming train.
A police car came out from behind a billboard. "Slow down!" he instructed, "You're not racin' yet…"
"Ooh, racing," Ralph commented to himself, "I should be good at this…"
The police car had a rusty tow truck escort the cars into town. The tow truck decided to have a bit of mischievous fun by scaring nearby cow-like tractors. This turned out to be a bad idea when a bull-like combine machine started chasing them. The tow truck and the cars just barely managed to escape certain death and made it into town. Other sentient cars, including a jeep, a VW van, a Model T, and the semi from earlier greeted them. Ralph's car turned right, and went into a paint shop run by a low rider car, while his friends' car went to the right, into the same tire shop that housed the bumper car ride. The two cars pulled up next to each other outside of the shops. Ralph waved to his friends, who waved back at him. The two cars blasted off, racing around the desert. When the race was over, Ralph's car was the victor. He clapped happily for himself.
When they got off the ride, Ralph asked Elsa, "So doesn't the winner get a kiss?" She jokingly sighed and gave him a kiss on the cheek. "Don't I get more than that?" he asked.
"If I had won, you would have," she chuckled.
The six walked back to the intersection and walked to the right, along the road they had entered Radiator Springs on. The road led to a giant, discarded cereal box. When they walked underneath it, they found themselves in a tiny amusement park, made from giant trash. Most of the rides were for young children, so the group just walked through, not stopping to ride anything.
They found their way back to the Hollywood Tower Hotel. Felix saw how long the line was, at nearly 45 minutes long, and noticed the Fastpass machines. "Hey, guys," he suggested, "How about we get Fastpasses for this ride now, get in line now, and then get into the Fastpass line afterwards?"
"That sounds like a good idea," Kristoff said. The six went over to the Fastpass distributors. "Now how do these things work?"
A nearby Cast Member said, "Put your tickets into the slot, and a Fastpass will print out for you."
"Ah, thank you!" Each of them put their ticket into a machine. Or, in the case of Ralph, attempted to. While his friends, with their small hands, were able to put their tickets into the machines, Ralph was unable to find get the ticket out from between his thumb and index finger enough to get it into the machine, but not so far that it fell out.
"Aw, come on!" he said, under his breath, "Ah, there we go…No! Darn it…Almost got it…oh, sunnuva…"
"Excuse me, Ralph," Elsa intervened. She took Ralph's ticket, put it into the machine, and it printed out his Fastpass. She then gave both the ticket and Fastpass to Ralph.
"Thank you, Elsa," Ralph said. He put both objects into his pocket.
The six went into the queue for The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. They went through the gardens outside the hotel, and through the dusty lobby. They were sent to one of the libraries, and waited for the doors to open. When the room was filled up, they watched the same episode of The Twilight Zone as they did the time before. In 1939, the hotel's elevators were hit by lightning, and they were going to be in the very similar service elevators. The secret door opened up, revealing the boiler room. They waited in line to get onto the elevator, which took another 10 or 15 minutes. There were some annoying teenagers standing behind them in line. They got to a point where Felix yelled at them to shut up, which surprised everyone from the teenagers to Felix's friends.
"Sorry," he said, "They just were really obnoxious." Thankfully, when the line was separated into 3 groups, the irritating teens went to a different group than the arcade characters. Ralph once again caused his group to be sent to the rows in the back section. When the elevator doors opened, they saw the bellhop Benny once again. He said nothing, just led the rows into the elevator. He didn't say a single word while everyone was getting prepared to ride. Instead, when everyone was seated and buckled, he gave a thumbs-up…which slowly turned to a thumbs-down as the doors closed and the elevator dinged. The elevator jerked back. Rod Serling began his narration. The ride went dark. The elevator went up to a floor with a large mirror in front of the elevator, which was struck by lightning. The elevator went up a floor. On this floor was a hallway, leading to another elevator. The five people from the TV appeared as electric ghosts, before disappearing. The lights faded towards the other elevator. The elevator dropped suddenly. Felix kissed Calhoun to keep himself from screaming. The elevator went up and down several times, even heading to the top for a picture, before dropping all the way back down. Rod Serling concluded his narration, and the elevator doors opened. They got off the ride and went to the gift shop.
They exited the gift shop and went to the front of the ride. It was just a minute away from being time for them to use the Fastpass. However, the Cast Members were generous enough to let them redeem their Fastpasses and go in a minute early. They skipped the gardens and went straight to the front desk of the hotel. They went through the library, watched the episode, and went through the boiler room again. They got an elevator that didn't have Benny as the bellhop. Instead, the Cast Member went through the mandatory safety instructions and was about to tell them something very important, but then the doors closed. The ride took off, going to the mirror floor and the long hallway. It went up and down in random, jerky patterns. The ride ended, and the six went back to the gift shop.
After going through the gift shop, Elsa looked at the ride while they walked away. "I'm gonna miss this ride," she sadly commented.