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Upsidads posted:Last time I was on guardians, assholes pushed the doors open right after the wall went up and ran to the next section Did they get kicked out?
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Upsidads posted:Last time I was on guardians, assholes pushed the doors open right after the wall went up and ran to the next section Yeah, that's what I meant. It happened every time. Those doors aren't meant to be opened manually?!
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Oct 11, 2023 22:52
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Oct 11, 2023 23:09
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CapnAndy posted:Oh, I was gonna ask if this was part and parcel with the yearly ticket price bump or if that's still expected later or what. I think the expectation is we'll not see price increases again on day tickets this year, but who knows. We were going to get park hopper for our DAK day but it looks like it's like, $85 now (could have swore it was $65 last I checked) so no thank you. DAK is plenty enjoyable for an entire day for an extra $170.
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CapnAndy posted:Big Thunder Mountain (MK), Space Mountain (MK), and Slinky Dog Dash (HS) are all Genie+, which, do you know what that is and how it works? You mentioned it without prompting, but if you're unclear, it's definitely another thing we need to talk about. I saw the name at some point but I don't know much about it. Way back, I read an exhaustive guide to making use of the old system, and I'd love to get that prepared again. Does the system support one person paying for the hotel and another paying for the tickets? WithoutTheFezOn posted:I live a similar distance away. Are you thinking of leaving their house at like 7am to make the first day a full park day, or getting to WDW later in the afternoon? They were interested in starting with a half-day, but I'm gonna try to get them there sooner. This is kind of a stupid question, but are the hotels, like, inside of the parks? Or could we drive up to one before check-in and drop our bags off? **the onsite hotels, I mean Cheston fucked around with this message at 23:33 on Oct 11, 2023 |
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Cheston posted:I saw the name at some point but I don't know much about it. Way back, I read an exhaustive guide to making use of the old system, and I'd love to get that prepared again. quote:Does the system support one person paying for the hotel and another paying for the tickets? quote:This is kind of a stupid question, but are the hotels, like, inside of the parks? They are not inside the parks, but they are inside Disney World. Disney World is a vast swath of land bigger than the island of Manhattan. It has four theme parks on it, a great many hotels, some golf courses, and a huge amount of undeveloped space. It's hard to visualize, so:  The area I circled is roughly what Disney owns, I think. The arrows are pointing at the theme parks. Your hotel will be somewhere in there; close to some of the parks, not so close to others. CapnAndy fucked around with this message at 00:39 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 00:19
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At Disneyland, a few of the hotels actually do have entry gates in their lobbies directly into the parks. They are also incredibly expensive, as you can imagine.
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And in a stroke of mild  Disneyland Paris has the Disneyland Hotel sitting directly above the turnstiles for one of the two parks, but no way of getting out directly into either of them.It's real easy to get confused about which park is which, which is why there are no stupid questions. Someone, somewhere, has told you that you need to do something, and they haven't realised you're going to a place several thousand miles away from where they think you are going.
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Oct 12, 2023 02:03
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Cheston posted:They were interested in starting with a half-day, but I'm gonna try to get them there sooner. This is kind of a stupid question, but are the hotels, like, inside of the parks? Or could we drive up to one before check-in and drop our bags off? **the onsite hotels, I mean Drove to the hotel parking lot and parked. Went to a theme park via Skyliner. At some point I got an app notification (or text message?) that the room was ready. Upon returning to the room, the phone acted as our key through the Disney app.
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Arquinsiel posted:And in a stroke of mild I got to stay at the MiraCosta in Tokyo. It is directly over the main gate and has a private entrance from the lobby into DisneySea. It was pretty cool.
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barclayed posted:America Sings. Back in 1974 CM got crushed because she got stuck between the wall of the theater and the stage IIRC. Don’t ask me why I know that off the top of my head. It happened because the DL theater rotated in the opposite direction that the one in WDW does. By turning counter-clockwise spaces now expand rather than close in. Obscure fact: There's a backstage tribute to late employee in the building's basement.
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Aphrodite posted:At Disneyland, a few of the hotels actually do have entry gates in their lobbies directly into the parks. They are also incredibly expensive, as you can imagine. I'm almost certain Grand Californian is one, but what are the others? Paradise Pier and DLH are on the other side of the street. I guess DLH technically walks you into the security checkpoint for Downtown Disney + Monorail though.
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I guess it’s not physically in the hotel, but Paradise Pier has a direct private entrance. Sounds like it’s more of a gate and walkway.
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You can walk to MK from those resorts, but that’s a hike and you’re gonna be walking all day. The Epcot resorts you can definitely walk if you’re not trying to wait for the bus, but yeah, there’s none in the actual parks.
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Boardwalk and Yacht/Beach being so close to Epcot is delightful. I've never stayed there but I've eaten at the restaurants there often and usually go to Epcot before or after. barclayed posted:America Sings. Back in 1974 CM got crushed because she got stuck between the wall of the theater and the stage IIRC. Don’t ask me why I know that off the top of my head. The Disney World COP has breakaway walls because of this. Hazo posted:I hope you got to exasperatedly ask "Why are you all crowding around a wall?" Oh yes, or tell them that when I said to step into the dead center of the room, it was not a request. Guests enjoying me being grumpy with them was about 50/50. Some got really mad, but I'd point out they were the ones denying their visit, not me. TheBigBudgetSequel fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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Oct 12, 2023 19:47
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Oh yes, or tell them that when I said to step into the dead center of the room, it was not a request.
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CapnAndy posted:Stuff like this is why I assume the First Order officers in Rise of Resistance have the best job. If you gently caress up on your instructions of where to stand (and that poo poo is really not inuitive), they can get downright snippy with you -- because they're the bad guys and you're their prisoners! Mansion Maids and Butler are aloud to be a bit more aloof than average MK CMs, and the RoR First Order folks take it to the next level. I kind of love it. They are hilarious. We rode when someone was training, and they were nervous so they told us to stand on the "number color red" and my friend laughed, so the trainer got in our FACE about it and it was great
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Tower of Terror ushers are also great, because they get to keep up a vibe of "no, this ride is extremely unsafe, you shouldn't be on it, you're going to die and I find that hilarious". Bad news for people who've been unnerved by a very spooky line and preshow, good news for everyone else.
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CapnAndy posted:Tower of Terror ushers are also great, because they get to keep up a vibe of "no, this ride is extremely unsafe, you shouldn't be on it, you're going to die and I find that hilarious". Bad news for people who've been unnerved by a very spooky line and preshow, good news for everyone else. Super funny to watch people realize that the chicken exit is an actual elevator, which many of the ushers tend to play up.
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The best part is that everyone thinks they can break the Rise CMs. Maybe early on but by this point they’ve heard every clever comeback you think you have and you get nothing.
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Wait goddamnit I messed up my joke last night America Squishes
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I dunno, a ride about America literally grinding up a low wage worker in the gears of it seems super apt
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Aphrodite posted:The best part is that everyone thinks they can break the Rise CMs. lmao last time I went on some annoying chud was trying his hardest to be an annoying rear end in a top hat to get some kind of reaction. The CMs had the best response. They ignored him. The more they ignored him the harder he tried to get a response and the more they ignored him. Just refusing to give him what he wanted. Renegret fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Oct 12, 2023 |
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Boardwalk and Yacht/Beach being so close to Epcot is delightful. I've never stayed there but I've eaten at the restaurants there often and usually go to Epcot before or after. I stayed at Beach Club in 2018, and I thought it was very nice. My grandma requested a room close to the lobby because of a disability and when you looked at the map on MDE we were closer to the International Gateway than we were to the lobby itself lol.
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Arquinsiel posted:And in a stroke of mild Ling Bao has Geister Riksha basically running through it's basement, F.L.Y. goes over the roof of Charles Lindbergh and Matamba is perched on the edges of Black Mamba's trenches. AFAIK only the latter has direct entry to the park as a selling point and that's such a tight fit that the path is threaded through it's adjoining ride's vertical loop: 
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Way to cede Horizon High and half of Watermark Terrace to Disney I kid, I kid
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I’ve never stayed there but I did jump in a friend’s car who parked at Boardwalk after an Epcot day, and that’s definitely a solid location.
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CapnAndy posted:Tower of Terror ushers are also great, because they get to keep up a vibe of "no, this ride is extremely unsafe, you shouldn't be on it, you're going to die and I find that hilarious". Bad news for people who've been unnerved by a very spooky line and preshow, good news for everyone else. I was a Tower of Terror
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My in laws own dvc shares for both boardwalk and bay lake. We're loving spoiled when it comes to transportation I tell you what.
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The new free-roaming BD droids they're testing at Disneyland are adorable and rad as hell https://dlnewstoday.com/2023/10/video-imagineers-test-bd-1-style-roaming-droids-in-star-wars-galaxys-edge-at-disneyland/
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I’ve stayed at Boardwalk and being able to take an easy walk back to your room for an afternoon nap is the greatest thing ever.
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Hazo posted:The new free-roaming BD droids they're testing at Disneyland are adorable and rad as hell And no, I don't know how you handle the "what about rear end in a top hat guests who might shove one over" problem except for "people probably won't do that and eject the exceptions until they learn".
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Renegret posted:My in laws own dvc shares for both boardwalk and bay lake. I'm just gonna give in and be bougie: with an SD and my broken self, there is nothing better than curbside minnie van service. they even have dog beds and/or mats (your choice) for the SD. And I can just lay down and die for a little bit while someone else takes me to wherever the hell I'm going.
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CapnAndy posted:"Free-roaming" doing a lot of work there to cover needing a platoon of CMs, including three who are very obviously holding their remote controls. (Also, those sound like R2 noises, not BD.) But it's a step in the right direction towards what Galaxy's Edge should have always had, which is actual free-roaming droids navigating the land by AI and "helping" CMs at shops and so on. They're in "training," so maybe the CMs will be less conspicuous when they're fully deployed. Or maybe they're just being manually driven around for now in order to build a baseline for independent navigation, like a Roomba, and later we'll get our truly free-roaming droids. The noises are similar but they sound like BD to me And yes, they should definitely treat the droids like any other costumed or face characters; i.e., immediately kick out anyone who harasses them.
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I was a Tower of Terror
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CapnAndy posted:Well, c'mon, do tell. I’m not sure where to start! AMA
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SweetMercifulCrap! posted:I’m not sure where to start! AMA
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Aphrodite posted:The best part is that everyone thinks they can break the Rise CMs. Good times.
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