LMA is truly the biggest waste of an hour on the Disney property. It's the one attraction in all of Disney World I would not ever see again (I'll even go see Under New Management the next time I go), unless it got a MASSIVE overhaul and somehow became entertaining. I don't know, theme it to "Cars" or something.
My general feeling about it filling to capacity is more that it is NEW than it is good. In a couple years, when word-of-mouth has spread, I doubt it will be filling to capacity, though I could be wrong about this. Personally, though, I can't think of one thing I'd recommend to anyone about this show. You wait 30 minutes in the blazing Florida Sun to get in (no shade at all when I went); then, even though I was one of the earliest to get in line, I still somehow got stuck sitting in the front rows, which have no shade in the morning/early afternoon; next, you sit through a lot of talking and setup just to see a two minute scene that looks so controlled you never for a moment feel like there's any kind of danger involved; more blathering ensues, and then another two-minute controlled stunt...and so on, and so on. Then there's that ending. Was that supposed to be climatic? Was I supposed to be somehow excited? Again, it was all so...well...controlled. I guess that's just the word for this show. I left feeling like I'd sat through a sauna watching some lame ESPN 2 special. Yeah, can't wait to do that again.
Let's compare that to Indy. True, the queue is a bit uncovered, but the stadium itself is totally covered, so that's a real bonus in Florida. And I find the times inbetween the stunts (which I think look thousands of times more dangerous than anything in LMA), to be incredibly fascinating. Watching the sets separate and everyone get everything in place for the next "shot" is more entertaining than whatever the host is doing, so I'm always deeply engrossed for the whole 30 minutes. Maybe it's because I'm a big Indiana Jones fan, or maybe it's because I'm just a big behind-the-scenes movie show fan, or maybe it's because I'm not a fan of car chases and similar stunts. I don't know. What I do know is that Indy will always get a visit from me, LMA never will again. Bring back Residential Street, or better yet, make it another "attraction" in the tour like Catastrophe Canyon.
