Will be going to AK for the first time in October - I took the list of attractions and am stripping it down to the ones I'm looking forward to:
Dinosaur
Expedition Everest
Festival of the Lion King
Finding Nemo - The Musical
Flights of Wonder
It's Tough to be a Bug
Kali River Rapids
Kilimanjaro Safari
I'm looking forward to these, and planning to use the "Unofficial Guide" touring plan to catch them when they're not too crowded:
Maharajah Jungle Trek
Pangani Exploration Trail
The whole Chester & Hester thing looks cute but skipable - but DS4 will probably have none of that. I can see trying Primeval Whirl - I like Wild Mouse coasters, but not so much spinning. Will probably regret it.
Probably won't be able to fit all this in, especially all the shows, but definitely want to see at least FOLK and FoW.
Seems to me like for newbies at least, it's enough for a day, and we have time and tickets to return later in the week if we want to try some of the attractions again.
Plus, we'll have to find and gawk at De'Vine and Bamboo for a little while.
My wife is a bamboo lover (the plant, not the dude) - she covets other peoples' huge shocks of bamboo where we live, and we're growing one ourselves, so she'll love looking at the bamboo and other plants.
I grew up going to the Monkey Jungle, Parrot Jungle, and Seaquarium in Miami instead of WDW - there wasn't actually much to "do" there, but we had fun anyway!
Does anyone remember a place called "Planet Ocean" which was in or near Miami? That place was very cool, more of a museum, but I think not far off from the more educational stuff in Epcot.