Next Big Thing
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Would be a great way to attract people there (where they would find out about the charging station) and that side of the park is in dire need of a kiosk.
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PHOTOS - Furniture arrives at Storybook Circus D-Zone providing a nice place to rest and relax
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Matt_Black
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I know the feeling. It's like hundreds of threads complaining about the lack of trees, and then a thread about a tree at the Japan Pavilion which, if viewed from a certain angle, is right in front of Spaceship Earth, and everyone was basically "KILL IT WITH FIRE! I CAN'T SEE SPACESHIP EARTH!!!" and I'm thinking, "Why not just move over five feet in either direction?"
JenniferS
When you're the leader, you don't have to follow.
Way to come in and make friends, New Guy.
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danlb_2000
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pug
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Yeah me too but I am not sure
MrPromey
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100% agree! Steve doesn't even live on the same continent yet manages to know more about what is happening at Disney World than I do when I'm in driving distance of the damn place! When I first saw this on the front page I was initially perplexed and then as I went through and started reading comments, was actually happy that I knew about something before he did for once!
The theme is definitely backstage carny. Everything being miss-matched actually works and it all feels like really high quality furniture. It may look cheap but it definitely didn't come from a discount store because that kind of stuff wouldn't last a week in this park and as others have commented, my family has been happily taking advantage of this area for months!
For those of you who don't have young children or partners who prefer not to spend the entire day dealing with crowds (or both), I say, live-and-let live. That or go find the thread about the smoker spots and hassle them.
For those of us who do need a quiet place to get away from crowds and take a break, I am thankful that Disney has provided something out of the way that makes that possible and this post makes me happy to know that this wasn't just a short-term alternative to putting up a wall until they could figure out what kind of profit center to turn this piece of real estate into.
To put things in perspective, I've seen family's eating lunch at those pick-nick tables, people with young children who looked half passed out in the middle of the day, people with young children that need to feed them at a point when the whole family may not be stopping for a meal, people with disabled family members taking a break, mothers discreetly breast feeding*, and dads - dads who are there despite maybe not being quite as into "the magic" as everyone else in their family - completely and totally passed out like fools.
For those of us who like going to the parks who may as I will myself, admit, have a slightly unhealthy interest in them to the point that I regularly follow updates online about rumors for things that are half a decade off and sometimes debate them with strangers in a forum, it may be difficult to imagine but some people need a place to take a break from "the magic". They don't have the same stamina that we do and don't consider trying to find a free bench or stretch of empty concrete on the edge of a planter to sit on the main path of crowds to be an ideal place to do that and it is great not to have to go all the way back to a hotel room to find a place to do that for 20 minutes.
My point is, this definitely isn't Disney cheaping out. It may be a relatively cheap solution for them to a very real problem for a good sized number of guests who meet a very specific demographic that they have targeted since pretty much the beginning but the simple fact that they didn't turn this spot into another retail location or put a wall up and make it a back stage smoking area or something else like that tells me they are at least trying to improve the guest experience. It isn't an e-ticket but try not to look at the parks as a zero-sum game.
*Yes, I know that each park has one very specific place for this and other related activities, that is entirely out of the way and difficult to get to for anyone who isn't just getting to the parks** but if you actually go to the parks with younger children, you become painfully aware of exactly how difficult it is to get to those places when you need them in the middle of the day.
**with the exception of Epcot's which is just inconvenient and out of the way for everyone at all times and usually so quiet and under-utilized as a result that you feel like you've just discovered what is on the other side of the hatch like the survivors in "Lost" every time you go there.
BoarderPhreak
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Wait, what?! Disney added seating - and it's not tied to food? What is the world coming to?!
Monorail_Red_77
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At least they didn't board up this prior fastpass selection center like ahem... 20K Leagues. Anything is better than that.
Monorail_Red_77
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Funny thought:
Walt made his park to get away from the carnie type atmosphere, among other things. Here we are 60 years later theming an area to look like a carnival/circus. Kinda funny.
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JohnD
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Funny thought:
Walt made his park to get away from the carnie type atmosphere, among other things. Here we are 60 years later theming an area to look like a carnival/circus. Kinda funny.
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Well, then that goes to the theming of the entirety of Casey's Corner by the Imagineers when developing New Fantasyland.
lobelia
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@danlb_2000 I will be your internet second for your internet fight. Let's get the Thesaurus out! Nobody messes with my favorite poster.
tirian
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Oh, you mean like the circus that he put in DL for years?Funny thought:
Walt made his park to get away from the carnie type atmosphere, among other things. Here we are 60 years later theming an area to look like a carnival/circus. Kinda funny.
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Walt didn't like the seediness associated with carny atmospheres; he didn't have anything against circuses themselves. Otherwise he wouldn't have made Dumbo, Bongo, and multiple circus-themes shorts.
He also hated how entertainment venues overcharged for food and drinks once customers were trapped inside, and vowed DL wouldn't be that way. That's a big laugh.
tirian
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Does this make Disney merchandise come in D-bags?Little out-of-the-way places to sit in the shade and recharge your batteries (literally and figuratively) are a rarity at WDW. I'm glad this one now has some additional seating -- I just wish they'd call it something other than a D-zone. That sounds like a poor attempt at an insult, like something I'd have stammered at a bully when I was in middle school.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
I don't think he was trying to make friends.
I'd say he succeeded in NOT making friends
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
I'd really like to see a Ghola of Walt Disney smack around the current management. 10 likes if anyone can tell me what a Ghola is and where it came from (yes I already know)
WDWLover#1
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I don't believe that
WondersOfLife
Blink, blink. Breathe, breathe. Day in, day out.
Meh. I never cared for this land currently or before it was SBC. I could care less about this little seating area.
DisneyGentleman
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I think you mean "I couldn't care less."
"I could care less" implies that you sorta like the place.
