Mouse Trap
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The pre-ride experience of ROTR is a combination of storytelling, movement and effects. Can't compare it to a video.
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The pre-ride experience of ROTR is a combination of storytelling, movement and effects. Can't compare it to a video.
Mouse Trap
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Disney should just implement a blind auction bidding system for ROTR. Highest bidders get first boarding group, lowest bidders get last boarding groups!
Mouse Trap
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In my book that's absolutely fantastic. I shutter at any line over 30 minutes. Sounds like ROTR is a hit!
Disneyhead'71
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That's what I get for trying to read and watch football at the same time.
Tom Morrow
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Yes, please! I've already had way more spoiled than I wanted to through YouTube thumbnails, social media posts, and trying to figure out if and when I'll be able to ride. Please save discussion of the ride experience itself for the dedicated thread!
1800 per hour is actually about average for thrill rides in Orlando. They usually fall somewhere between 1600-2400. The issue here is not running at full capacity and having long break downs. This is Hagrid's situation from last summer all over again. The rides weren't ready and they didn't even have any sort of soft opening period to have an idea of how this situation will go.
Okay, everyone, you can now stop it with all this crazy nonsense trying to get into the park at 6:30 AM!
It's now 5:30 AM.
VaderTron
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Told you to expect the 8am boarding group opening time to be a lie.
They’re way ahead of you come next year when the paid FP options become available when the new Genie app is released.
Umm rise hasn’t been worse than Hagrids and Hagrids still isn’t all that reliable. It was extremely unreliable when it opened to the point Univeral could never implement their virtual queue.
There were a lot of days in June, July, and August that Hagrids was only open half the day. It would routinely open after 12pm for the first couple months before they switched to park opening and closing early.
I was there the week od July 4th and it opened at 4:30 and closed at 8:30 on a day where I and many thousands of others waited 7+ hrs because they kept saying it was going to open and then said another hour and another hour. Well before they stared giving out ruby express passes. The second week of July the ride had a major break down and was down for over 24 hrs while they allegedly waited for parts from Europe. Then later in summer early fall the ride was down a lot because of the bee issues. Even now the ride regularly closes down well before park close.
Hagrids has been open 5 months and they still haven’t managed to get it to 100% capacity. Last I heard they are running 10 of 14 trains. They are still having a lot of scheduled down times and routinely close before park close. They aren’t having as many unannounced downtime aside from delayed openings. Universal manages their queue by way over inflating wait times. So they lie just like Disney.
Hagrids, just like RotR, isn’t available for early parking opening either.
RoTR is no where near the operational failure that was Hagrids at launch. I’ll compare the experiences two and a half weeks out of opening for both. I was there at Hagrids 2.5 weeks out and I’ll be there for RoTR two and a half weeks out.
Would gladly take Test Track 1.0 back over the annoyance of building cars that takes too much time. With 1.0 the 2 minute pre-show was a nuisance but was quick and easy. Plus I thought the narrative pieces of the ride as a whole made more sense. Friends still quote that version ("and that's what we call an evasive maneuver.")
RobWDW1971
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I don’t have a dog in this fight, but WDW absolutely cares more about filling their thousands of hotel rooms at above market rates than grumpy AP’s.
EMH isn't a published benefit of an AP, so having an AP has nothing to do with what happened today. AP's were just like every other day guests today if they didn't have a resort room. I'm an AP, and I wouldn't expect a bit of benefit from EMH unless I had a resort reservation as well.
As a resort guest I expect to be treated better then non resort guests, I paid a lot more money to Disney then they did and if Disney wants me to continue doing so they need to give me a reason to. That’s how capitalism works people.
PS-the rooms are not that nice to command the prices they do on their own.
PS-the rooms are not that nice to command the prices they do on their own.
AshaNeOmah
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Ugh, you're insufferable.
"Buses should run when they're announced to run. Parks should open when they're announced to open. Anything else is dishonest when complete trips are planned around one attraction." I'm just going to keep posting that every time you call out 'the 8 hour guy' or the 'whining, lazy, entitled resort guest'. Let's see how many times we can get it posted. We'll make a game out of it, since neither of us obviously has anything better to do.
I've been an AP holder for probably 10 of the last 15 years, by the way. I'm largely in favor of accommodating those over day guests too.
AshaNeOmah
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"Buses should run when they're announced to run. Parks should open when they're announced to open. Anything else is dishonest when complete trips are planned around one attraction."
What's the shortest forum ban? I've never been banned from here in 11+ years of use. I might be willing to risk it for this.
All an AP pass entitles you is as many park days as you want over the course of a 1 year period. Nothing more and nothing less. You paid $1250 or whatever to go three or more times a year. Your $1250 doesn’t trump my $650 10 day park hopper + $5000 onsite room.
This is why this line of arguments is stupid. Everyone clearly thinks they are the entitled person when Disney clearly spells it out in all their disclaimers that really no one is entitled to anything and experiences can and will vary. While everything is subject to change.
AshaNeOmah
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"Buses should run when they're announced to run. Parks should open when they're announced to open. Anything else is dishonest when complete trips are planned around one attraction."
Not currently. Most recent expired May 2018. First trip since and decided a 10 day was better for this trip. If we decide to return this summer, I'll probably be buying one. Kinda still undecided if the increased price is worthwhile with a family of four now.
Yes. 10 nights.
Now call me out for 'caring more about resort guests than AP holders" and 'being selfish', even though I never said a thing about AP holders in all my posts combined. It's a strawman that's absolutely ridiculous, much like insisting I wanted people to stroll in at park opening and get directly RotR. Never said that either.
As an out of state AP holder I disagree, I’ve paid far less a day for admission to the park, Disney is only obligated to provide me admission for a year. A hotel costs a lot more money, and nets Disney a far larger profit then an AP ticket. I feel the same about any season pass at any chain. I appreciate when they give me more benefits but don’t expect it.