|
I read the first 13 pages of the thread (holy poo poo what a great OP), then skipped ahead to page 160. Did anything exciting happen between September 2013 and April 2016 that I should know about? Last time I was at WDW was December 2009, for reference. Braksgirl, is your email address still the one you posted in the first dozen pages of the thread? I would like to contact you to see what you can put together for my group. I am the prime mover of this trip (which includes two DVC members and one ultra-planner who at one point probably knew more about the parks than most cast members), but I live in Tokyo and can't really be bothered to keep an eye out on a daily basis for deals.
|
#
¿
May 30, 2016 04:09
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 28, 2024 08:19 |
|
|
BlueBayou posted:Disneyland is amazing and it should go without saying what my restaurant recommendation is As long as your username never changes  Edit: Mods, petition to change BlueBayou's name to McDonald's. Thanks in advance.
|
|
#
¿
Jun 10, 2016 08:02
|
|
|
Friend of a friend of a friend posted a photo online of herself wearing a Dopey 2017 medal. Didn't people say the half marathon was canceled this year due to lightning? How could she have run all four events?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 8, 2017 23:46
|
|
|
I'll be a dissenting voice. I thought Soarin was less entertaining than the pre-show with Patrick Warburton. The curvature of the screen was really obvious, especially during the Paris scene with the Eiffel Tower. Maybe that's attributable to where I was sitting, at the far left of the auditorium, but it was a serious detraction from the ride. And while this may be me just being a crotchety 31-year-old man, I thought the sound was out of balance: the noise at the jumps between scenes was much louder than it needed to be, perhaps to induce flinching/blinking and hide the transitions to the next scene. When they update it next time, I really hope they do what someone else suggested and take the riders on a tour of various Disney kingdoms. Grundulum fucked around with this message at 02:37 on Jan 15, 2017 |
|
#
¿
Jan 15, 2017 02:34
|
|
|
Reinanigans posted:Blaze Pizza looks great, and since we're trying to not break the bank on this trip (we have 3 others planned for this year, at least) this is probably where we'll end up going. You have annual passes, right? 
|
|
#
¿
Jan 16, 2017 00:58
|
|
|
Bottom Liner posted:Get a Dole Whip. And a Minnie's Bakery cookie. And a Mickey ice cream bar. And diabetes.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 26, 2017 00:15
|
|
|
TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Three table service places in the parks. Mythos (which is okay, not great), Lombard's Seafood (which is so very very bad), and Finnegans Pub (which is pretty great) I was extremely unimpressed by Mythos when I visited in 2013. How did it win "best theme park restaurant" five times (or whatever the number is)? Lack of competition? Drop in quality since its peak?
|
|
#
¿
Feb 3, 2017 05:54
|
|
|
TheBigBudgetSequel posted:prepare for vacation ruinage. frozen fastpasses are harder than loving Mine Train, goddamn. Seriously? We got both during our trip over Marathon Week, and things were surely more crowded then than they are now. Did we just get hella lucky, or do they offer different numbers of fastpasses at different times of year?
|
|
#
¿
Feb 5, 2017 05:05
|
|
|
SteelMentor posted:-We've heard incredibly mixed things about the food at the parks, and coming from a family of picky eaters we're wary of dropping any cash on food once in. Is there any recommendations of places to eat/places to avoid? Ditto for Universal. I have never been disappointed in the food in the Harry Potter parts of Universal. Both Three Broomsticks and Leaky Cauldron have been quite tasty every time I have been. If you are only at Universal for one or two days, I highly recommend the express pass upgrade to your tickets. You form a smaller line with other EP holders, and it works on every single attraction except a few in both parks (HP Forbidden Journey, HP Escape from Gringotts, Hogwarts Express spring to mind -- there may have been one or two others I forget). Some Universal properties include a free upgrade to EP for the tickets of anyone staying on-site, so it *may* be worth your time/money to change hotels. Or to book a room and never actually sleep there, simply showing up to check in and activate your express passes.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 17, 2017 05:26
|
|
|
Oh, sweet Jesus, that looks amazing. That's going on my bucket list now.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 11, 2017 15:41
|
|
|
Tatsuta Age posted:Really disappointing that Powerline never resurfaced in Disney canon anywhere. Who was his voice/song actor, anyway? Tevin Campbell MockTurtle posted:Live action Powerline concert in featuring Bruno Mars as Powerline. I'd bite. I was/am obsessed with that soundtrack. Dude had one song -- and no speaking parts -- in the entire movie, right? How could there be a soundtrack of his music? Edit: but yeah, Bruno Mars does seem like the most natural fit if Disney wanted to put on a Powerline show.
|
|
#
¿
Mar 18, 2017 03:10
|
|
|
If you are a five-year-old girl, Frozen Ever After is only the best thing about the entire park. I think most posters on Something Awful don't fall into that demographic, though.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 6, 2017 00:43
|
|
|
Fejsze posted:Well I guess that's one way to get a better view How mature. (Click through to the article)
|
|
#
¿
Apr 7, 2017 01:51
|
|
|
Empress Brosephine posted:Or rip ride rock it? Best ride of the entire Universal complex. I will brook no argument on this point. 
|
|
#
¿
Apr 8, 2017 20:18
|
|
|
nbakyfan posted:Imagineers want the noise and vibrations of the gasoline engines. Both of which are exceptionally easy to generate while also using an electric motor.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 14, 2017 06:22
|
|
|
nbakyfan posted:This would require most likely a complete redesign of the ride vehicle because there are no speakers nor vibration makers. Plus you have to consider that the attraction runs 16-18 hours a day so finding a battery that lasts this long, with the additional electrical load now for speakers and to make vibrations, would be very difficult. And really all you are doing is offsetting emission from the tail pipe of the car to the coal fire or natural gas plant. I was expecting any sort of overhaul like this to involve a whole bunch of redesign and replacing, yes. I don't have any sort of numbers on-hand, but I wonder what -- if the guide rails were electrified to provide the power, rather than using a battery -- would be the minimum voltage needed to accelerate 200 lbs of car and up to 500 lbs of  around the track at 3 mph. Speakers don't consume that much energy relative to the energy required to get the car moving, and the motor could be simulated by a set of weighted cams on a single shaft; I'm sure there are other problems, but I am equally sure that imagineers are far cleverer than I am. Finally, when you're talking about burning fossil fuels, you want the fewest power sources possible. When your plant is huge, it's less expensive (compared against other costs) to install highly effective scrubbers to remove pollutants from the exhaust. There's no way a $50, 24hp engine would ever have as much in the way of environmental protection as a $50M, 24MW coal plant. Thus our conversation about whether the gas fumes were part of Walt's initial vision for the ride.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 14, 2017 14:40
|
|
|
chitoryu12 posted:the directors/producers being complete lunatics (they've continued to fire for "disloyalty" or drive away several other people after my fiancee and I left This goes a bit beyond the purview of this thread, but what review mechanisms are there in place to track this kind of behavior? Surely at some point someone with more authority will wonder why the "disloyalty"/turnover rate is so much higher in this group than in any other. Or is this pretty much par for the course with people at this level in Disney?
|
|
#
¿
Apr 19, 2017 04:10
|
|
|
I have to imagine that Universal has almost recouped its entire Wizarding World renovation investment on wands alone. They're stupidly popular (my family owns three, two of which are the interactive ones...), and Disney would be foolish not to try and cash in on that. They would also be foolish to limit the interactivity to just the Pandora region of the park. If those banshees are interactive at all.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 20, 2017 00:41
|
|
|
'Bout time they got an attraction worth a drat. (Yeah, it was a joke.) My wife has been claiming for a while that Frozen could carry its own themed land, like Pandora gets.
|
|
#
¿
Apr 22, 2017 00:45
|
|
|
Tim Whatley posted:http://www.orlandoweekly.com/Blogs/archives/2017/04/24/move-over-volcano-bay-rumors-point-to-a-new-volcano-coming-to-magic-kingdom What was the rumored billion dollar expansion at Epcot? No way a Edit: that Tron ride isn't even at Epcot. 
Grundulum fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Apr 26, 2017 |
|
#
¿
Apr 26, 2017 02:57
|
|
|
Empress Brosephine posted:Also why the hell do they send fast pass riders to the left space mountain station so frustrating. What's the difference between left and right? Or was it more that regular guests on the left get shafted because the right hand side doesn't deal with two streams of riders?
|
|
#
¿
Apr 27, 2017 00:45
|
|
|
RabbitMage posted:I got my packet for Disneyland a few days ago. I'm so excited (and I guess also for the wedding beforehand). Acceptable prioritization, unless the wedding beforehand is yours. If it is, the ranking is still okay if your fiancé(e) agrees with you.
|
|
#
¿
May 4, 2017 18:59
|
|
|
TheBigBudgetSequel posted:I know that the suits are scared of what will happen to Studios this summer (and probably Epcot too) if this becomes the hit it is now tracking to be. Studios suddenly becomes the park people can skip so that everyone can try the new thing. It's gonna be a ghost town. Wait, you mean the park where half of the acreage is closed down so they can build Star Wars land might be deserted relative to the parks with (1) Frozen Ever After/World Showcase, (2) Pandora, and (3) Cinderella's goddamn castle? I am shocked, shocked I tell you! 
|
|
#
¿
May 12, 2017 05:42
|
|
|
Tokyo Disney is a close clone of Magic Kingdom, but with less comprehensible signage on the rides and shops. Tokyo DisneySea, as said above, is unlike anything in Orlando. Highly recommended if you're a Disney fan over here anyway. Also, I live in Tokyo. Hit me up with a PM if you want a list of things to visit -- when are you coming? Edit: hello, reading comprehension! If your husband is Japanese, you probably don't need any extra advice on what's worth doing.
|
|
#
¿
May 26, 2017 14:41
|
|
|
Bottom Liner posted:Oh man, if Forbidden Journey stopped in the spider section my niece would seriously pee herself. As a fellow arachnophobe, I feel for her. I just kept my eyes shut till I felt the ride start moving again. We stopped right in front of Aragog. 
|
|
#
¿
Jul 10, 2017 13:47
|
|
|
That's worth reporting to someone. If an entire browser (or even just some versions of it) isn't supported, Disney needs to know about it and fix it.
|
|
#
¿
Aug 17, 2017 17:46
|
|
|
chitoryu12 posted:riskier scares like sliders. What are those?
|
|
#
¿
Aug 29, 2017 14:28
|
|
|
Funkmaster General posted:it turns out taking a shoulder banshee to a ren fair is a legitimately good way to pick up chicks. The odds are good, but the goods are odd, eh? All this talk about DCA characters talking makes me really want to visit. I've done WDW more times than is healthy for someone who has never lived in FL or an adjacent state, but never made it to southeast California.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 9, 2017 05:19
|
|
|
Biggz posted:I ... saw a long queue and decided to get in line to see what it was for... That is hilariously Disney.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 14, 2017 05:10
|
|
|
Please, please tell me you intend to time it for the ride photo on Splash Mountain.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 14, 2017 15:25
|
|
|
Lincoln posted:It’s noon on Christmas Day, and the MDE app says there’s a 175 minute wait for Seven Dwarfs. Ugh, I don’t get it. On Christmas Day a few years back at Universal Studios, they were pulling out office staff to help manage crowds. I wound up chatting with an accountant holding a height stick while my wife and daughter went on Jurassic Flyers. Christmas is crazy.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 25, 2017 18:27
|
|
|
How many fast passes does this option allow?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 10, 2018 08:27
|
|
|
I hope Disney doesn’t do the premium tickets like Universal has. I don’t like the idea that only those who can pay more get to do more (I’ve done Universal with Express Passes twice now, and it’s frickin’ awesome, so this isn’t just resentment speaking). It takes planning, yes, but the current fast pass system is open to anyone regardless of how much they spent on their trip. I suppose I wouldn’t mind seeing a premium ticket option that gets you permanent fast pass status. But I sincerely hope Disney retains fast passes in something like their current form.
|
|
#
¿
Jan 12, 2018 05:34
|
|
|
Empress Brosephine posted:SOooooo what shoudl I do in Philly! Lick the Liberty Bell
|
|
#
¿
Jan 12, 2018 15:37
|
|
|
PurpleButterfly posted:On the subject of photography, on my solo day at MK, I spent 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM (ish) running around on a personal quest to take a particular series of photos of particular spots in the park. Do you want to elaborate on this? Was this something other people might want to try on their trips?
|
|
#
¿
Jan 23, 2018 05:11
|
|
|
Can’t be that hidden if Google knows about it: (But seriously, cool find.)
|
|
#
¿
Feb 2, 2018 03:30
|
|
|
RabbitMage posted:Not counting our honeymoon, which was still filled with family obligations That may be the first time I have ever heard anyone refer to sex as “family obligations”. Your parents/in-laws demanding grandkids soon?
|
|
#
¿
Feb 8, 2018 08:15
|
|
|
Fluffy Bunnies posted:Go to AK about 2 hours before opening. Go directly to Pandora and straight to Flight of Passage. Should be about a 25-45 minute wait. That’s still 145-165 minutes of waiting. Yeah, it’s better than 280, but I dunno.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 10, 2018 14:20
|
|
|
Bottom Liner posted:Parents got arrested for leaving kids in strollers while they road Splash Mountain, benches turned into hobo beds, etc. The second of these makes sense. What does the first one have to do with the park being open overnight? Negligent parenting doesn’t have a specific time of day.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 14, 2018 07:51
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ Apr 28, 2024 08:19 |
|
|
How in the hell is that possible? If you had the entire property to yourself, you would still spend most of the day walking from attraction to attraction and moving through the queueing areas. And that’s optimized, assuming no other people in the entirety of WDW.
|
|
#
¿
Feb 23, 2018 17:54
|
|