ToTBellHop
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Diet E-ticket? E-ticket lite? It puts the “E” in litE?
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WaltWiz1901
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Just as good a time as any to point out that the ticket levels are, contemporarily, used internally to communicate the scale and scope of an attraction more than anything else - it has nothing to do with demand or enjoyment factor or Lightning Lane monetization
Peter Pan's Flight, very much an old-school C-ticket dark ride (and even designated as a C on many of the ticket books from which the classifications originated), is a Multi Pass attraction - does that make Pan an E now?
Slinky Dog Dash is very much a slightly beefed-up junior coaster - is the Barnstormer a D or E too?
And if basic flat rides like Swirling Saucers are Cs, then are basic dark rides (Snow White, Toad, Pooh, Pinocchio, etc.) Ds?
Professortango1
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TSMM is a D ticket with an E-ticket boarding area. Slinky is like someone cross-bred Barnstormer/Go-Coaster with a D-ticket. If they had bothered to actually do the landscaping as planned, there might be an argument for a light E-Ticket, but simply being a little bigger than a kiddie coaster without much more Disney-quality storytelling/themeing doesn't qualify it in my opinion. It's kind of the inverse of SDMT, which is a C-ticket coaster/darkride trying to wear the clothes of an E-ticket. If either had just a little more, they would be satisfying for what they are. But both feel lackluster like the experience we receive isn't equal to the experience the attraction sells you on.
TheRealSkull
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This is my personal choice, but I don't base my ticket level opinions according to how Lightning Lane ranks them.
TheMaxRebo
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Guess it depends on how you looks at them, but thinking on the headliner of an area/what draws you in, I think Slink Dog qualifies - certainly does for my family
I mean, looking at the original "E Tickets" and it included things like the rafts to Tom Sawyer Island - so I don't think it is just the most advanced, biggest and greatest - or hasn't been historically.
If you want to only call the tippy top rides - basically just the LLSP rides - an E Ticket then no Slinky wouldn't qualify
Professortango1
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I look at an E-ticket as the shining example of Disney quality. It has great storytelling, a large sense of scale, is immersive. The rafts count, not because of the rafts themselves, but because they unlock TSI, a fully-immersive faux wilderness filled with explorable caverns, interactive elements, and tons of character.
The only reason I visit Toy Story Land is for Midway Mania.
Disgruntled Walt
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I'm going to be at Toy Story Land this summer for the first time since it opened. Is Slinky Dog Dash worth going on with my 8 yr old niece who hates fast roller coasters and my 7 yr old nephew who likes them?
FiestaFunKid
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It might actually be perfect for that mix - enough thrill for kids that young, but not overly intense. I'd put it a little above mine train b/c of the height and a couple of the turns, but definatley below the intensity level of big thunder.
TheMaxRebo
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Personally I think it is the best family coaster at Disney - better than Mine Train. It's just fun but it does has some decent trills (for a family coaster) so guess depends how much the 8 year old hates them
TheMaxRebo
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Obviously different ways to look at it but I don't see how the rafts/TSI can be a e-ticket over Slinky
And for us Slinky is absolutely the main draw to TSL. TSM is an "if we have time" attraction
And Slinky definitely isn't a "no doubt about it" E-ticket but to me is what the new land was built around and what people focus on for rope drop or utilize after hours event time for, etc
Professortango1
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Better than Big Thunder, Space Mountain, and Matterhorn? I'd agree that it's better than Goofy's Sky School and Barnstormer/Go-Coaster.
Professortango1
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Quality of presentation. Slinky is the thematic equivalent of Dumbo. Its cute and fun and has the Disney charm to it, but it doesn't feel "real" or immersive. I'm not sucked into the story or world in the same way I am when exploring caverns, shooting at enemies via lookouts, seeing a "real" fort, balancing on giant rocks that move, and experiencing a "real" wilderness. The only really immersive thing about Slinky is Wheezy, which is cool but very minor to the attraction experience. Enchanted Tales with Belle is far closer to an E-ticket than Slinky for me.
People also focus on Peter Pan's Flight for rope drop and extra magic hours. It doesn't make it an E-ticket, it makes it a popular ride with poor capacity.
TheMaxRebo
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I don't consider those others family coaster
ToTBellHop
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TheMaxRebo
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probably - and honestly main thing I was comparing it to was Mine Train which gets a lot of focus as great as kids "first real coaster" - and I think Slinky is better in that role
My 8 yr old grandson favorite ride is Slinky Dog--he usually gets us to take him at least 2 times every trip to WDW.
UNCgolf
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I think Mine Train is a better ride than Slinky, but Slinky is definitely more of a "real" coaster, for better or worse.
ToTBellHop
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Mine Train’s wait times after a decade continue to defy explanation. It’s a fun ride but I’m not waiting 90 min for it. Last trip we snuck on during the fireworks and were rewarded with a deer who looked like he had just had a stroke.
TheMaxRebo
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I feel like at Disney things snowball as word gets out it is popular so people strategize to get in it and mental energy to make sure you get on it or your trip is ruined, which makes the line longer which makes people spend even more time ensuring they get to ride, and so on
Like no reason Peter Pan should get the line it does but everyone knows the line is long so focus on riding it, etc