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The Miscellaneous Thought Thread
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Model3 McQueen
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"A non descript boat ride themed to fantasy stories or whatever."
"It features happy magic slaves and was built in 1945."
waltography
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Initial reports from MC over an incident at Golden Horseshoe this evening around a "belligerent guest," anyone have any more information on it? Was initially reported as an armed incident but seems to have been a false alarm.
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Resolved: Incident at Disneyland Golden Horseshoe
UPDATE: Situation resolved. We previously wrote that there had been some sort of incident at the Golden Horseshoe in which cast believed a guest brought a weapon (not believed to be a gun) into the
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I certainly would prefer no lightning Lane to what I’m seeing now. Those wait times look insane. With that said, I’ve only gone to the parks once since they rolled it out and we happened to be with some family with DAS so it didn’t really effect us.
As far as not having free fast pass anymore, I think it’s a downgrade for annual pass holders. Particularly ones who visited like me for 7-8 hour trips. It was nice being able to stroll in at noon and know that you wouldn’t have to wait for Splash, Space or TOT for example and then just wing the rest of the smaller rides or rides with manageable wait times like Big Thunder. We got to experience Disneyland from June to December this year with no fastpass and the trade-off wasn’t that great. The park still felt crowded (wasn’t No fast pass supposed to get people out of walkways and in queues?) and the big E tickets still had 45 to hour long waits. The only real difference is the lines moved faster. I’m not sure sure that’s enough of a trade off for getting two to three fast passes to skip the longest lines. For someone with young kids, skipping long lines was/ is a huge perk and help.
For infrequent visitors/ day guests, having no fastpass system is beneficial. Especially if you re spending the entire day at parks. Wait times are a little shorter and lines move faster and you re on an even playing field not competing with APs who know how to game the system.
In the End, it doesn’t even matter because I’m comparing two things that don’t exist anymore. We have Lightning Lane now and this the new system appears to be worse for everyone except those buying it.
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Watched Encanto on Christmas with the fam. I had no idea it was coming out on Disney + so soon so I’m glad I didn’t take my son to the theatre to see it. I liked it. Not sure the moral of the story really landed but it was fun, colorful and had some catchy songs. A little too soon after Coco IMO to be released. Granted different cultures and stories but for the strong Abuela Matriarchal trope. With that said I was actually more drawn to the world and characters in Encanto but Coco had way better execution.
I’d rank the pandemic Disney / Pixar movies as follows. Please note music/ songs weigh on my choices heavily when it comes to Disney movies and repeatability. The middle 3 can probably shift around a little bit depending on my mood.
1. Encanto
2. Onward
3. Soul
4. Luca
5. Raya and the last Dragon
I’d rank the pandemic Disney / Pixar movies as follows. Please note music/ songs weigh on my choices heavily when it comes to Disney movies and repeatability. The middle 3 can probably shift around a little bit depending on my mood.
1. Encanto
2. Onward
3. Soul
4. Luca
5. Raya and the last Dragon
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THE 1HAPPY HAUNT
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100% agree with everything you just said.
DrAlice
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Have there been any changes to the DAS service in all of the recent wave of changes?
Not that I know of but I think it depends on what type of DAS you have? With that said, I’m hardly the authority on DAS (this is distant family that we meet up with a couple times a year) but I just know in our specific case, the perks we had before are the same we have now.
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DrAlice
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We've never had to use it because FastPass served that purpose well enough. However, we may have to use it for Rise, RR, and/or WebSlingers in any future trips. I'm sure I'm not alone in this thinking. I'm wondering if enough of us are out there thinking like this to impact the DAS system. Just thinking out loud here... Anyway, it will be some time before we return to the parks, so I guess we'll just watch and see.
Mac Tonight
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Still need to watch 3/5 of those on the list, but I think I'd also rank Raya at the bottom. That movie just felt off somehow? It really didn't grab me like I hoped it might.
Yeah wasn’t a huge fan. It wasn’t terrible but like you said it was off. Then just the tired old “Last Dragon” trope. Which two did you watch?
Mac Tonight
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That and Soul. It didn't crack my Top 10 Pixar favorites, but any time I get to hear Richard Ayoade's voice (Counselor Jerry) is a big plus.
Is that one with the South African voice? He was my favorite as well as his musical theme.
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Mac Tonight
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PiratesMansion
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My personal pandemic Disney/Pixar movie rankings:
1. Encanto
2. Soul
Nothing specific to say for those top two other than to say that I very much enjoyed both of them. I don't know that I would put either of them at the absolute top of what Disney or Pixar have ever produced, but I thought they were well done films overall.
~Enormous gap here between the first two and the bottom three~
3. Onward (mediocre story/visuals/execution)
4. Raya (beautiful animation undercut by awful script, generic premise)
5. Luca (beautiful but derivative of Little Mermaid in many ways; irritating performances from some of the child actors; the most overtly kiddie feeling Disney or Pixar effort in years).
1. Encanto
2. Soul
Nothing specific to say for those top two other than to say that I very much enjoyed both of them. I don't know that I would put either of them at the absolute top of what Disney or Pixar have ever produced, but I thought they were well done films overall.
~Enormous gap here between the first two and the bottom three~
3. Onward (mediocre story/visuals/execution)
4. Raya (beautiful animation undercut by awful script, generic premise)
5. Luca (beautiful but derivative of Little Mermaid in many ways; irritating performances from some of the child actors; the most overtly kiddie feeling Disney or Pixar effort in years).
PiratesMansion
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I'm stunned by this. Shockingly candid.
I actually looked back to see if I had received any surveys from them about my visit; unfortunately, I either did not receive one or deleted it.
I can't say I disagree with anything you marked.
Maybe someday they'll let someone who cares about the parks run them for a day or two. That would be something. Rather than an ever-growing barrage of signals, increasingly blatant, that the leadership has no idea why people care about the parks.
MoonRakerSCM
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The shows are atrocious. Not just bad, but literally nothing to do with the 50th anniversary. Cut and paste shows that could be at any Disney licensed location at any time.
Also we were shocked when we went that food items and merchandise that were released/announced the week before, were already gone. I figured some of the food items would be around longer than a couple weeks, but nope.
Also we were shocked when we went that food items and merchandise that were released/announced the week before, were already gone. I figured some of the food items would be around longer than a couple weeks, but nope.
Mac Tonight
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I’d consider the 50th to be pretty underwhelming too. Some vague gold statues and a “celebration churro” does not a milestone commemorate.
And the nighttime shows??? Pass. Disney knows they could have done better. But at least they can blame the pandemic, right?
And the nighttime shows??? Pass. Disney knows they could have done better. But at least they can blame the pandemic, right?
SuddenStorm
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Watching Jungle Cruise right now, and the headhunters are literally in the first 15 minutes of the film.
And I thought Disney was all about synergy.
And I thought Disney was all about synergy.