"Normal people?" I hate to break it to you, but you're spending time discussing a theme park on the Internet. Best not to throw stones in a glass house.
The deuce, you say! I couldn't tell!
Actually, the older I get the less I give a crap about whether or not anyone values my opinions. It's their loss as they will learn soon enough. How's that for a ramble. I also don't care if people know how old I am... so in just over 2 months I will be 70 if I am not murdered at the hands of a jealous husband before then.
'back in my day, when we went the parks, the longest wait for a ride was about twenty minutes' 
Usually lands are comprised of at least one headlining attraction and built out with a mix of smaller attractions. It's a relatively new and unusual circumstance for a land to open without a ride that acts as an anchor to both the land and the park.
Oh I'm not saying it's a problem, it's a potentially interesting evolution in the distribution of a Disney park's attractions. It's unusual to have a park's attractions distributed in such a way, usually the A-E tickets are more readily intermingled than DHS will have in it's coming lineup. It remains to be seen how that will influence guest satisfaction, but it's an interesting case study, and different enough that I can see why it might throw people off. It differs from traditional attraction arrangement patterns. Not something most guests will actively notice, but I wonder if they will subliminally. It seemed to have that effect on Toontown, where it was popular for guests to regard it as a "lesser-land" than the others in the Magic Kingdom.
That's fine, I won't pretend it's something that many guests actively think about. But it used to be that each land was designed with a "weinie", something that drew you in with Liz Lemon-like "I want to go to there" intensity. It hasn't necessarily been that way for every land for a little while, but I think it's something some guests do still expect from Disney given that the mainstay lands tend to follow this premise, even if they don't expect it outwardly. Some of us here do think about it consciously by the nature of our fanboyism, but the onus isn't and shouldn't be on the guests to consider it, it was only ever meant to be something they felt. Something that drew you into a place and then rewarded you for spending your time there.
"E-Ticket" as a term has made some entries into popular culture as well, such was the nature of its presence in the parks - Sally Ride famously described her experience of the Space Shuttle launch as "a real E-Ticket", and people knew what that meant.
Some did, many didn't. Some do, many don't. Do you guys really think that people lives revolve around Disney especially any of them that were born in the late 70's and that is getting to be a larger and larger number. Not your friends because they are probably Disney people as well, but, ask random people if they know what an E ticket is and please don't be hurt if they look at you like you have three heads. Sally Ride was a long time ago... two generations at least. The general Disney Fan (more then just park visits) do know what E means, but, that number is comparatively small.
Well said, my friend.Ha Geekza, touche about normal people. In retrospect, you have a point. In all honestly, I just come here to occasionally lend a hand to someone asking a question I actually know something about (which isn't much, but sometimes i can shine). I do enjoy the trip reports, as it reminds me of when i was young(er).
I've been going down to wdw, for approx thirty five years, annually, or twice a year sometimes. I've been okay with the changes. The sole change I hate, is how crowded it gets now days. There's my old timer gripe
I'm actually totally okay with getting older and not getting listened to, or people not heeding my warnings or knowledge of life lessons learned. When I was younger, I did the same thing .. now that I am older, I wish I hadn't, but i accept that as part of life in general.
Totally don't take it as an insult, to each their own. There are about a few billion people on this planet, and each and every one has a different perspective.
There will always be a good amount of people who liked the 'good ol days' and also a good amount of people that like it as it is. I really don't expect each group to ever see eye to eye, but a nice medium would be good
They do fit 4 people
Thank you for reinforcing the exact point I made in my post -- there are still people who know, but the number is probably shrinking.
I think their point is that the arrangement of the carts into long trains was not appealing to them.
