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The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

Rich T

Rich T

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mickEblu said:
I get that. My issue is that if you were to ask me if I’d want an original Adventurer, original Space adventure or original Haunted Hotel attraction (without the Twilight zone theming) over Indy, Star Tours/ ROTR and TOT I’d pass on all of them. As a father, if you asked me if I wanted an original Snow Queen ride or a Frozen ride come to DL I’d go with the latter as it’s fun to live through your kids eyes and see them get excited about characters and movies they love come to life. There are probably few scenarios where I’d pick the non IP version of a concept over the IP version in 2025. Perhaps it’s an impossible exercise and we’ll always choose the version of an attraction we know and love vs the unknown but for example how can you not go with Indy and Star Wars for those themes?

With that said, I’d love to see fewer single IP lands and for parks to go back to more broadly themed lands.

I think the most important thing is not if it’s IP or original but how the attraction is executed. For an IP attraction, is it a boring, passive, linear book report or are they just giving us some of the broad strokes and having us live out the adventures from the film in an attraction that still feels like an original experience?
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I agree with just about all of this (but for me Better Star Wars Land>Discovery Bay>Galaxy’s Edge. Potentially.)

And I wouldn’t mind a version of ToT with the characters from Mystic Manor.

Also, I’d rather have had a Marc Davis Western River Expedition retheme of Splash Mountain (if that had been an option) than TBA. But, then again, a really exciting version of TBA with Dr. Facilier’s spirit seeking revenge could have been amazing.

As you said, it really is all in the execution.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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Rich T said:
I agree with just about all of this (but for me Better Star Wars Land>Discovery Bay>Galaxy’s Edge. Potentially.)

And I wouldn’t mind a version of ToT with the characters from Mystic Manor.

Also, I’d rather have had a Marc Davis Western River Expedition retheme of Splash Mountain (if that had been an option) than TBA. But, then again, a really exciting version of TBA with Dr. Facilier’s spirit seeking revenge could have been amazing.

As you said, it really is all in the execution.
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Geyser Mountain would have been incredible.
 
Phroobar

Phroobar

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mickEblu

mickEblu

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Today was the day I was trying get my group to switch our DL Reservation to from last week for the better weather. So glad that didn’t work out. Much busier today than last Friday. One interesting observation I made looking at wait times is that the non LL attractions appear to have shorter waits today and I guess that makes sense. The quicker the more in demand attractions run out of LL’s means you re going to have more people (including people who purchased LL’s) waiting standby for those LL attractions and just use the LL’s for the less in demand LL attractions. Meaning most LL holders have will have little to no time for non LL attractions.

So somewhat counterintuitively, a very crowded day may be better for someone who didn’t purchase Multi Lane than a moderately crowded day. Particularly if that person is a key holder and is fine not riding headliners. Then again the waits being marginally better may not be worth the extra bodies making it more difficult to navigate the park or order food etc.
 
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Parteecia

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Are there sites/bots/anything that will let me know if reservations become available for a certain date? I want to go on the 5th but so far I'm just refreshing haphazardly.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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The wife and I are going to Disneyland alone next week for the first time in 11 years / since we had kids. I just might feel naked without a stroller. If I don't take my wife out on a date soon she might divorce me. Surprisingly this was her idea as I suggested massages, a nice lunch and an adult movie* for a change of pace but this makes more sense since our passes will be expiring next month. And it's Christmas time. And we have the day off. And we have a standing DL Reservation. On a Friday. And the weather is going to be nice. And we have a babysitter. Thinking about doing either Din Tai Fung or the fancy Mexican restaurant for lunch. Of the 8 rides I have on the list, 4 of them are in Pixar Pier. It really is the Date Night Land.



*Not that kind of adult movie.
 
Mr. Sullivan

Mr. Sullivan

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I’m officially coming back to Disneyland for my birthday in January!

Jan 2-10 (my birthday is the 9th) at the Disneyland Hotel with 3 day park hoppers with Lightning Lane.

As a birthday bonus, Disney is running a room discount on all three resorts so we will get to stay there the entire trip (we will do more than just Disneyland of course but getting to be on property the whole time will make it extra magical) for cheaper than it would have been to do the original split stay we planned that would’ve been just two nights at DLH.

I’m looking forward to seeing the Christmas stuff (albeit for one day) and getting to spend my 25th birthday in the parks.
 
mickEblu

mickEblu

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Distorian said:
If this was Peter Pan's Flight or Haunted Mansion or almost any other ride I would think this is lame, but the fact it's Radiator Springs Racers makes him cool.
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hahah and why is that? The IP or the degree of difficulty and extra commitment it requires to ride RSR vs the other attractions you mentioned?
 

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