Baby Groot's House of Fun! (Formerly - Haunted Mansion needs to go)

Disney Irish

Disney Irish

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JayWaters said:
I am actually dead serious. It’s not Disney’s greatest ride, but Mission Breakout is a solid ride with an entertaining queue.

Maybe I give too much credit to queues, but I think entertaining queues significantly make a ride better and I don’t know why so many rides fail at this. But waiting in line for Mission Breakout (once you make it inside), Star Tours, the Haunted Mansion, and the late Back to the Future Ride at Universal barely felt like waiting.

But I will never forgive the long corridors of the Indiana Jones Adventure and the original Test Track where you did and saw nothing (until the very end when Sallah popped up).
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I'm not sure if you're remembering Indy correctly from back in 1995. Indy was one of the first interactive queues in my opinion. Its lost much of that now, but originally you were handed the below card to search for a hidden message. That along with the other elements like the falling ceiling, etc., gave you something to do while waiting.

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I enjoy MB and the queue, especially being a Marvel fan, but I wouldn't say its better than Indy. MB is just the next incarnation of the movie attraction by Disney, while attractions like Star Tours and Indy are the Granddaddy....
 
TROR

TROR

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JayWaters said:
I am actually dead serious. It’s not Disney’s greatest ride, but Mission Breakout is a solid ride with an entertaining queue.

Maybe I give too much credit to queues, but I think entertaining queues significantly make a ride better and I don’t know why so many rides fail at this. But waiting in line for Mission Breakout (once you make it inside), Star Tours, the Haunted Mansion, and the late Back to the Future Ride at Universal barely felt like waiting.

But I will never forgive the long corridors of the Indiana Jones Adventure and the original Test Track where you did and saw nothing (until the very end when Sallah popped up).
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Tower of Terror had a way better queue, though??? And so does Indiana Jones??? Mission Breakout has a bunch of stuff but it doesn't tell a story. It's terrible. It's awful. Such a bad attraction.
 
JayWaters

JayWaters

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Disney Irish Bruh said:
I'm not sure if you're remembering Indy correctly from back in 1995. Indy was one of the first interactive queues in my opinion. Its lost much of that now, but originally you were handed the below card to search for a hidden message. That along with the other elements like the falling ceiling, etc., gave you something to do while waiting.

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I enjoy MB and the queue, especially being a Marvel fan, but I wouldn't say its better than Indy. MB is just the next incarnation of the movie attraction by Disney, while attractions like Star Tours and Indy are the Granddaddy....
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I really got to know the queue well the four hours I spent waiting for my first ride on Indy. I know about the cipher but don’t recall it from my first ride. Either it didn’t entertain me much or they had already stopped handing them out by the time I rode. I just remember that line going on and on with the hope that in the next room would be the ride...but no...just more beige walls. If your going through with a fastpass or the single rider it’s fine. Pretty set pieces but that’s it until Sallah at near the end (other than a rope you can pull that doesn’t work half the time)..

Tower of Terror had a hotel lobby for a queue.*

Star Tours though I think has the best queue of any ride. Really emerses you in the world before you even set foot on the ride.

Anyway, don’t want to beat a dead horse. But I like Mission Breakout.

*Note: I do like Tower of Terror, but I just think the CA version was subpar compared to Florida. The missing 5th Dimension scene removed the best part of the ride.
 
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mickEblu

mickEblu

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At this point I’m just glad they didn’t cut into the front lawn of the Mansion. I hate seeing all these trees and planters going for 2 feet of extra space and stroller parking. Just to try to see a silver lining without the planter the HM looks a bit more menacing or foreboding from that angle.
 
BasiltheBatLord

BasiltheBatLord

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They just need to start charging for stroller entry already.

Honestly if your kid is stroller age I think they’re too young for Disney anyway, they won’t remember that much of it, they’ll be too short for some of the E-tickets and overall their sense of interactivity with the park won’t be enough to really enjoy it. Plus parents somehow don’t realize that no stroller = kid who is tired and ready to go home at the end of the day instead of screaming and crying.
 
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mickEblu

mickEblu

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BasiltheBatLord said:
They just need to start charging for stroller entry already.

Honestly if you’re kid is stroller age I think they’re too young for Disney anyway, they won’t remember that much of it, they’ll be too short for some of the E-tickets and overall their sense of interactivity with the park won’t be enough to really enjoy it. Plus parents somehow don’t realize that no stroller = kid who is tired and ready to go home at the end of the day instead of screaming and crying.
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Not sure I agree with the stroller age kids being too young for Disneyland but I’ve been trying to put my son on the ground so he can walk around DL since he was 2 or maybe even 18 months. The places at the park where he won’t get trampled are few and far between. So I usually go home with severe back pain. He either wants to be down or in our arms. Stroller not so much.
 
Curious Constance

Curious Constance

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BasiltheBatLord said:
They just need to start charging for stroller entry already.
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As a mom who's been there, I never thought I'd agree with this statement. I know how hard it is to be the pack rat for a family of four while walking for miles a day and in charge of two small kids. Doing it without a stroller is almost unthinkable with very small children. It just is.

But at the same time, the size of the strollers and age of the children riding in them have gotten out of hand, and something needs to be done to counteract the negative impact that all guests are experiencing.
 
NateD1226

NateD1226

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BasiltheBatLord said:
They just need to start charging for stroller entry already.

Honestly if you’re kid is stroller age I think they’re too young for Disney anyway, they won’t remember that much of it, they’ll be too short for some of the E-tickets and overall their sense of interactivity with the park won’t be enough to really enjoy it. Plus parents somehow don’t realize that no stroller = kid who is tired and ready to go home at the end of the day instead of screaming and crying.
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They need to charge for the 6-8 year olds sitting in the strollers.
 
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drizgirl

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Curious Constance said:
As a mom who's been there, I never thought I'd agree with this statement. I know how hard it is to be the pack rat for a family of four while walking for miles a day and in charge of two small kids. Doing it without a stroller is almost unthinkable with very small children. It just is.

But at the same time, the size of the strollers and age of the children riding in them have gotten out of hand, and something needs to be done to counteract the negative impact that all guests are experiencing.
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They can start by not allowing in those massive wagon strollers.
 

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