Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway - Disneyland

SoCalDisneyLover

SoCalDisneyLover

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CaptinEO said:
The flaw in this argument is that the VQ discriminates against those who would've waited for the ride.

Out of 10k people going on a new E Ticket, who in the virtual queue would've actually cared enough to wait in a long line? You're denying tourists, die hards, and enthusiasts what was once a guaranteed shot at going on an attraction by taking away their ability to wait in line.

But don't worry, pay Disney 20 dollars per guest in your party and suddenly you can fix the problem the mouse created for their own guests. It's disgusting.

I just watched Star Tours "Behind the Attraction", they said they kept the park open 3 days straight to meet demand. Disney of the present purposefully creates and profits off demand instead.
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I was there. I was at UC Santa Barbara, and heard about it on the radio Friday night. A few of us got in the car, went to the park, and got on at 4:30 AM. Fun time. Took a couple of naps in the car, and I can't remember whether we went home Saturday night or Sunday morning.
 
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mlayton144

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el_super said:
It absolutely shows a biased toward repeat visitors that may only visit to see the new thing.
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This is totally on point - and describes many of the posters on here - they look at through this frequent visitor lens - which I suppose is a majority of DLR visitors in general. I see why some people are POd
 
lazyboy97o

lazyboy97o

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mlayton144 said:
Perhaps , but is ILL that much of a barrier for new guests or someone that goes 1x per year ?
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There's a forum on this board dedicated to helping people figure out Disney's various virtual queue schemes. Disney is currently operating three different schemes (Virtual Queues with Boarding Groups, Genie+ and Individual Lightning Lane) each with different rules that also change from time to time.
 
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Parteecia

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I went on it yesterday. Finding out if we would get on was nervewracking. At the 1 pm lottery we were group 221, estimated at 7:14 pm. By 6:45 it had stretched to 9:31 and we had given up. At 7 I checked as a joke and it was at 7:56. So we stayed. At 7:30 it was at group 220 - one away! - and went down. While we were deciding whether to wait it came back up and we got our Platinum Tickets at 7:42.

I may be easily pleased but I liked it. To me it's a solid D ticket. Yes I saw the bare ceilings but there was so much going on on the walls that my eye was quickly drawn back down . Based on what I'd read I thought the walls would be more flat but there were enough shapes for the projections. I was too busy looking around to notice which direction Goofy was facing.

To me Minnie accidentally and obliviously kicked Pluto. I was more concerned that they didn't notice he was missing and look for him.
 
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celluloid

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CaptainAmerica said:
You seem to not understand human behavior.

Pretend Cosmic Rewind was standby-only. No lightning lanes, and no virtual queues.

You'd have to be up and physically IN LINE waiting to get into Epcot way before 7am, and you'd likely be standing in that line for multiple hours.

There's no queue system on the planet in which you come strolling into the park at 10:30 and wait a reasonable amount of time for a ride that popular.
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There are not going to be that many people at this point at between 6 and 7am, getting into the park with that much of a wait by 8am or 9am.

Guardians of the Galaxy is not Diagon Alley nor is it Galaxy's Edge in their opening months. Get real.

In your scenario, No lightning lanes would make the standby wait even shorter.

For the ones that wanted it most, they would be there early. And then so on and so on and they would decide if the wait was worth it to them later by 10:30 or 11 if the two hour or so wait is still worth it to them. That is kind of how desire works.

I am glad you like it and it works well for you.

Being elsewhere for a long time to spend more of your day in the park with one new demand attraction was not designed for the guest. It was designed for their chance to spend more money as they spend more of their day.
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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celluloid said:
For the ones that wanted it most, they would be there early. And then so on and so on and they would decide if the wait was worth it to them later by 10:30 or 11 if the two hour or so wait is still worth it to them. That is kind of how desire works.
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Let me guess. You have no children, you're able-bodied, and you're in your 20s or 30s.

I like a system where "who gets to ride" isn't determined by a test of physical (and bladder) stamina.

Parteecia said:
I went on it yesterday. Finding out if we would get on was nervewracking.
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I just can't get my head around this mindset. Nervewracking, really? Over whether you will or won't get to ride a theme park ride? It's not that high stakes. If your reaction to not getting to ride something (for whatever reason... virtual queue, refurbishment, bad weather, etc.) is anything more severe than "hm, bummer, that stinks," then I think you're investing too much emotion into this whole endeavor.
 
CaptainAmerica

CaptainAmerica

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I wonder how many of the people here who are Very Upset about this are actually Disneyland cast members who are mad because Disney restricts them to the 1pm drop.

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