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The Miscellaneous Thought Thread
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Disney Irish
Premium Member
Ketchup blockade was everywhere, blocking Mustard.
Hatbox Ghostbuster
Well-Known Member
Good, mustard is substandard. Unless its Honey Mustard.
Really though, I'm not sure what your photo was referencing.
We had fastpasses and needed to reach BTMR quickly, but were met with blockades (red) everywhere, and had to take this enormous path (yellow) to finally get there. Is that normal?
Hatbox Ghostbuster
Well-Known Member
That's never happened for me. Like, physical blockades or just CM's getting an arm workout?
Disney Irish
Premium Member
1st F! showing or 2nd?
Disney Irish
Premium Member
They have crowd control enforcement until after the 2nd showing.
Hatbox Ghostbuster
Well-Known Member
OK yeah, I try and avoid that area during Fantasmic, so I have no clue...
The weirdest crowd flow situation I experienced was last December after the Christmas story reading. We were standing by the firehouse when it ended and naturally wanted to get back up Main Street. But no. We had to go out of the park entirely, back through the turnstiles and then could only enter the park under the right tunnel by Mr. Lincoln. Disney fears chaos when people allowed to disperse...but I actually think their systems cause more havoc then help.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
I think that is a unique situation since the stage is right there and only so much space for crowd movement. So they want the crowd flow to go in a certain direction. Its to keep people moving. Hard to do with 10k+ people in a single location unless you force them to all go in the same direction. Otherwise you have people trying to swim upstream as it were, causing bottlenecks.
George Lucas on a Bench
Well-Known Member
It's a case where you should expect disastrous crowd flow, get there early and don't expect to go anywhere for a while.
Hatbox Ghostbuster
Well-Known Member
I understand that, but they could have just had us wrap around the front of the park around the Train Station...rather than exit the park, queue up again and basically do a re-scan to get back in.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
I can only guess its to prevent extra crowding in front of the floral Mickey. That area isn't the largest, so hard to keep crowd flow with both Candlelight crowds and new guests trying to enter.
Hatbox Ghostbuster
Well-Known Member
IF that was their rationale, its a pretty bad one. How many guests do they figure are just entering the parks at that time of night to make the Candlelight crowd insufferable? Especially if the Candlelight folks are moving in a constant stream?
At any rate, I still love watching guests openly defy the CM's directions, no matter how much they're getting yelled at. But we all know that old adage..."the customer is always right!"
Disney Irish
Premium Member
Yeah I don't know I can only guess. There is obviously a reason. Just got to go with the flow as they say. Or be a rebel and swim up stream...
That is even worse then our experience.
I wanted to let operations know because it didn't make any sense for those who needed to get to Frontierland. But we choose not to.
Disney Irish
Premium Member
What piece of technology promised from movies (not just Disney) have you wished were actually made?
