The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

[TP2000]

I believe it’s July 2nd for new Soarin. I forget have you been on ROTR and MMRR?

July 2nd, check! Thanks.

I won't be in San Diego until after the 4th anyway, as I've already bought a new Uncle Sam hat and beard getup to wear as the judge of my neighborhood's Decorated Bike & ATV Parade 250! event on Saturday the 4th. I also got a fancier clipboard.

I haven't been on Runaway Railway yet. Looks great though! Always a big fan of family dark rides!

I've been on Rise Before Dawn several times, all in January/February 2020. I was the one who invented the brilliant strategy of Ubering to the International House of Pancakes an hour before the park opened for Silver Dollar pancakes, then when everyone rushed on to Main Street itself cradling their iPhones like newborns, I went straight up the stairs at the Main Street station to get just a little bit closer to Telstar when Boarding Times went live at park opening. I'd refresh the app at the last moment, then hold my Iphone aloft pointed at the sky with gentle thoughts in my heart. And it always worked! That extra 30 feet of elevation closer to Telstar (and God himself) made all the difference.

I may be hot, er... cute, no that was decades ago... um, handsomely distinguished looking for my age, but I'm not dumb.

 

[mickEblu]

Really Target? Your store is the size of a theme park and you cant dedicate one small stand for brand new movies? Silly. Went to Target this morning before work to pick up Zootopia 2 for the kids and they only sell blu rays online now. Kids have been asking me to buy it for weeks but I would not be suckered into paying the same price for digital only. Anyway, Walmart is getting my business now.

Nevermind. Walmart is hell. Wow

 

[mickEblu]

July 2nd, check! Thanks.

I won't be in San Diego until after the 4th anyway, as I've already bought a new Uncle Sam hat and beard getup to wear as the judge of my neighborhood's Decorated Bike & ATV Parade 250! event on Saturday the 4th. I also got a fancier clipboard.

I haven't been on Runaway Railway yet.

I've been on Rise Before Dawn several times, all in January/February 2020. I was the one who invented the brilliant strategy of Ubering to the International House of Pancakes an hour before the park opened for Silver Dollar pancakes, then when everyone rushed on to Main Street itself cradling their iPhones tuned to the App like newborns, I went straight up the stairs at the Main Street station to get just a little bit closer to Telstar when Boarding Times went live at park opening. And it always worked! That extra 30 feet of elevation closer to Telstar made all the difference.

I may be handsomely distinguished looking for my age, but I'm not dumb.

Lol. Ok it’s coming back to me now

I wouldn’t make a trip just for MMRR but I suppose seeing something new could be the cherry on top of a trip if it’s been a while. I’d wait for July though and then you get the new Soarin and Smugglers Run to go with it.

 

[TP2000]

I wouldn’t make a trip just for MMRR but I suppose seeing something new could be the cherry on top of a trip if it’s been a while.

Yes, it just wasn't a big draw for me. If my sister and the family had wanted to go last summer, I would have done so happily, yet they had no idea Runaway Railway even existed and they just didn't want to go to Disneyland (crowds, lines, hassle, App-based monotony, etc.). And I couldn't get myself wanting to go enough on my own just for that one ride. I loved going to the park on my own, but that was when I was a 20 minute Uber ride away.

The 90 minute drive changes the calculus on those types of solo day trips.

I’d wait for July though and then you get the new Soarin and Smugglers Run to go with it.

I'll give it a go, under the guise of celebrating the 250th. Runaway Railway does look very cute, I must admit. And I'd love to see that gloriously imagineered Walt's Dreaming Tree, Presented by AstroTurf Division of Monsanto in person!

The Marvel stuff does absolutely nothing for me. The pew-pew Spiderman knock off of Midway Mania ride, the mannequin they throw through the air, etc., Just not my scene at all, unfortunately. I love that others love it, though. More power to 'em!

 

[mickEblu]

Yes, it just wasn't a big draw for me. If my sister and the family had wanted to go last summer, I would have done so happily, yet they had no idea Runaway Railway even existed and they just didn't want to go to Disneyland (crowds, lines, hassle, App-based monotony, etc.). And I couldn't get myself wanting to go enough on my own just for that one ride. I loved going to the park on my own, but that was when I was a 20 minute Uber ride away.

The 90 minute drive changes the calculus on those types of solo day trips.

I hear ya! We also often had a 90 minute drive bout ours is worse - fewer miles / more traffic. Not to mention much uglier coming from the San Fernando Valley. If we were local, I probably wouldn't have let our passes expire. As I've said, a day at Disneyland is not always a walk in the park and when you combine that + the commute it just gets to be too much.

I'll give it a go, under the guise of celebrating the 250th. Runaway Railway does look very cute, I must admit. And I'd love to see that gloriously imagineered Walt's Dreaming Tree, Presented by AstroTurf Division of Monsanto in person!

The Marvel stuff does absolutely nothing for me. The pew-pew Spiderman knock off of Midway Mania ride, the mannequin they throw through the air, etc., Just not my scene at all, unfortunately. I love that others love it, though. More power to 'em!

It's hard to hate MMRR at Disneyland. The queue is great. The placement is perfect. You added a big ride to DL's lineup without losing anything but the ride experience is just kind of meh and it fell short of my expectations.

 

[TP2000]

You added a big ride to DL's lineup without losing anything but the ride experience is just kind of meh and it fell short of my expectations.

Well, not everything can be the Golden Zephyr Pirates of the Caribbean.

Now imagine that the 5 minute long Runaway Railway D Ticket replaced the signature 25 minute long Animatronic-Spectacular E Ticket the entire park was based on, sitting in the park's icon centerpiece. Imagine how painfully idiotic that would be to swap out The Great Movie Ride for Runaway Railway, and in a relatively young park that's missing at least a dozen other E and D Tickets, plus a half dozen C Tickets, and that has dozens of acres of expansion pads ready to go.

I swear, as quickly as I can join in on making fun of TDA, the executives who have been in charge of WDW for the past 30 years are some of the dumbest people on the planet. They're like that charmless McDonald's CEO who calls his hamburgers "product", and then has an army of equally charmless corporate Yes Men on his team who tell him that "product" video is great and should be released immediately on Twitter. Clueless idiots, all of them.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Hearing that Animazement trio again is something special



Kinda stings when you think about the extinction of entertainment at Disneyland.

 

[PiratesMansion]

Hearing that Animazement trio again is something special



Kinda stings when you think about the extinction of entertainment at Disneyland.

Meh, there should absolutely be more/better entertainment, but this wasn't particularly impressive IMO.

 

[Disney Analyst]

Meh, there should absolutely be more/better entertainment, but this wasn't particularly impressive IMO.

Do you have NO nostalgia for Animazement?!

Take a knife to my heart why don’t you.

 

[Parteecia]

Yes, it just wasn't a big draw for me. If my sister and the family had wanted to go last summer, I would have done so happily, yet they had no idea Runaway Railway even existed and they just didn't want to go to Disneyland (crowds, lines, hassle, App-based monotony, etc.). And I couldn't get myself wanting to go enough on my own just for that one ride. I loved going to the park on my own, but that was when I was a 20 minute Uber ride away.

The 90 minute drive changes the calculus on those types of solo day trips.



I'll give it a go, under the guise of celebrating the 250th. Runaway Railway does look very cute, I must admit. And I'd love to see that gloriously imagineered Walt's Dreaming Tree, Presented by AstroTurf Division of Monsanto in person!

The Marvel stuff does absolutely nothing for me. The pew-pew Spiderman knock off of Midway Mania ride, the mannequin they throw through the air, etc., Just not my scene at all, unfortunately. I love that others love it, though. More power to 'em!

Don't forget Pillow Guy Walt on Main Street.

 

[MK-fan]

While they’re at it, how about a Maliboomer seat photo op as well as a photo with the actual Gummi Bear cardboard cutouts from Motor Boat Cruise to Gummi Glen.

Damn why did I encourage them

 

[mickEblu]

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lol wow are those the actual cut outs from the early 90s. I have no recollection of the Motor Boat cruise but I distinctly remember seeing the Gummi Bears cut outs in that area during one of our trips in the early 90s.

 

[TP2000]

lol wow are those the actual cut outs from the early 90s. I have no recollection of the Motor Boat cruise but I distinctly remember seeing the Gummi Bears cut outs in that area during one of our trips in the early 90s.

I have no memory or knowledge of this Gummi Bear overlay thing. My career had taken me way out East at that time.

But I liked the Motor Boat Cruise in my youth and into adulthood! It was one of those silly things that we always went on because there was never a line, and you just could wander onto the dock and plop into a boat and off you went. It also was an easy thing to spend your extra C Tickets on. The CM's had these adorable little sailor uniforms, with striped tar flaps and little hats. (Why does my brain work for stupid stuff like that?!?)

It was pleasant, leafy, and always nice to putt-putt-putt around in for 10 minutes on a warm summer day. Don't forget to wave at the Autopia drivers!

Disneyland, and all Disney parks, need stuff like that! There's barely any of it left, and the WDW parks have none.