I put a full list of my thoughts from my trip last week in the trip report section( http://forums.wdwmagic.com/showthread.php?p=2970617#post2970617 ) but i felt a couple of them were worthy to be placed in general discusions so here goes:
I do have to say, TSM is a lot of fun! We did it twice, one with fastpass and the other in the single rider line (I just do not wait in lines over 30 minutes, and 170 minutes is absolutely absurd to me) so I unfortunately missed the Mr. Potatohead part of the queue. I will say that the ride is (obviously) more of a game than an actual ride. Which is cool and all, but while some people were saying it makes Buzz lightyear’s ride seem lame, I feel that they cant compare because buzz is still a ride.
Ok so we did Fantasmic for the first time since... i dont know its been so long, but i completely forgot why we havent been back and thats because i think it is incredibly underwhelming. the whole thing is practically a clip show projected on water. there are really only a couple scenes of actual characters and most of it is an oddly placed sequence from Pocohontas. really? pocohontas? when Mickey dreams, i find it odd thats what he dreams about. it just doesnt seem to fit to me. and then the "fight" with the dragon is basically mickey half-heartedly trying to hide while the dragon just sits there barely moving. maybe i just came on a bad night. anyway, totally not worth the wait, IMHO.
The Nemo musical was cool and confusing at the same time. I wasn’t really enjoying the songs, and probably would have preferred if they just preformed the movie without them. Also I understand the format of the show, but I found it annoying how the “voices” of the puppets would act as the character from time to time. So are we watching the puppet or the voice? Also, that’s not how I would imagine Crush’s singing voice to sound…
Monsters Inc was hilarious! First time doing it since its opened. However, we went twice and my mom got picked to do the mind reading gag with buddy on both occasions! Weird! We were sitting in different places each time. Plus my dad got picked to be “that guy” and we noticed that he was sitting in probably the same spot that the “that guy” from the other show we’d seen was sitting. Do they do the same show every time? I mean I know its not EXACTLY the same, but the mind reading, the telling the monsters inc story, and actually even the audience’s jokes were pretty much all the same. Are there any other show formats?
We did BB for the first time since we went soon after it opened and I was immediately reminded of why we never went back. That is a serious hike up that hill to get to the slides! Does anyone else feel this way? By the time I got up there I was dreading the ride because I didn’t want to have to climb back up! Now that may change once the parks fill up and the lines stretch down the hill allowing you to only move every 30 seconds but still, that’s just not pleasant. Ill take TL lack of slides and relaxed atmosphere over that any day!
I do have to say, TSM is a lot of fun! We did it twice, one with fastpass and the other in the single rider line (I just do not wait in lines over 30 minutes, and 170 minutes is absolutely absurd to me) so I unfortunately missed the Mr. Potatohead part of the queue. I will say that the ride is (obviously) more of a game than an actual ride. Which is cool and all, but while some people were saying it makes Buzz lightyear’s ride seem lame, I feel that they cant compare because buzz is still a ride.
Ok so we did Fantasmic for the first time since... i dont know its been so long, but i completely forgot why we havent been back and thats because i think it is incredibly underwhelming. the whole thing is practically a clip show projected on water. there are really only a couple scenes of actual characters and most of it is an oddly placed sequence from Pocohontas. really? pocohontas? when Mickey dreams, i find it odd thats what he dreams about. it just doesnt seem to fit to me. and then the "fight" with the dragon is basically mickey half-heartedly trying to hide while the dragon just sits there barely moving. maybe i just came on a bad night. anyway, totally not worth the wait, IMHO.
The Nemo musical was cool and confusing at the same time. I wasn’t really enjoying the songs, and probably would have preferred if they just preformed the movie without them. Also I understand the format of the show, but I found it annoying how the “voices” of the puppets would act as the character from time to time. So are we watching the puppet or the voice? Also, that’s not how I would imagine Crush’s singing voice to sound…
Monsters Inc was hilarious! First time doing it since its opened. However, we went twice and my mom got picked to do the mind reading gag with buddy on both occasions! Weird! We were sitting in different places each time. Plus my dad got picked to be “that guy” and we noticed that he was sitting in probably the same spot that the “that guy” from the other show we’d seen was sitting. Do they do the same show every time? I mean I know its not EXACTLY the same, but the mind reading, the telling the monsters inc story, and actually even the audience’s jokes were pretty much all the same. Are there any other show formats?
We did BB for the first time since we went soon after it opened and I was immediately reminded of why we never went back. That is a serious hike up that hill to get to the slides! Does anyone else feel this way? By the time I got up there I was dreading the ride because I didn’t want to have to climb back up! Now that may change once the parks fill up and the lines stretch down the hill allowing you to only move every 30 seconds but still, that’s just not pleasant. Ill take TL lack of slides and relaxed atmosphere over that any day!
. I have heard it is amazing. Oh well, I will still see it and see what I think. 
