The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

Rich T

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Had I known ahead of time that Disney Infinity, in all its three years of existence, would not develop ANY adventures based on Disney studios animation (sticking entirely instead to Pixar and live-action special effects films), I would not have gotten started with it at all.
 

mickEblu

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Disneyland was extremely pleasant last night. Sure, it still had some of the usual bottle necks (Tomorrowland entry, IASW mall for the holiday show) but overall it was very nice. Only about 10 people waiting ahead of me to get on a train at the Main Street Station Around 5pm. I never noticed how nice they decorate the Train station for Christmas btw.
 

Curious Constance

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Had I known ahead of time that Disney Infinity, in all its three years of existence, would not develop ANY adventures based on Disney studios animation (sticking entirely instead to Pixar and live-action special effects films), I would not have gotten started with it at all.
Those games were pretty lame if you ask me. I never played them, but watched my son, and they seemed really boring and dumb. Could have been so much more.
 

Rich T

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Those games were pretty lame if you ask me. I never played them, but watched my son, and they seemed really boring and dumb. Could have been so much more.
The Lone Ranger set, against all odds, was the best experience. Infinity's biggest hurdle was that its best feature (the create-your-own-games Toybox) required hours and hours of learning how the programming system worked in order to actually create something playable. It was a brilliant experiment, but it definitely had issues.
 

Curious Constance

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The Lone Ranger set, against all odds, was the best experience. Infinity's biggest hurdle as that its main mode (the create-your-own-games Toybox) required hours and hours of learning how the programming system worked in order to actually create something playable. It was a brilliant experiment, but it definitely had issues.
He never had the Lone Ranger set.
And the Toybox seemed cool, but my son never really did much with it. He tried repeatedly, and never got it to be anything much.
 

Rich T

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He never had the Lone Ranger set.
And the Toybox seemed cool, but my son never really did much with it. He tried repeatedly, and never got it to be anything much.
I'm sure 99% of the Infinity users had the same experience. Seriously, even the game itself could not teach the ins and outs of how the virtual logic circuits worked; The game's creators had a series of Youtube tutorials (dozens & dozens of them!) that were required viewing for anyone wanting to figure it all out. I tried. And tried. And gave up.
 

Curious Constance

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I'm sure 99% of the Infinity users had the same experience. Seriously, even the game itself could not teach the ins and outs of how the virtual logic circuits worked; The game's creators had a series of Youtube tutorials (dozens & dozens of them!) that were required viewing for anyone wanting to figure it all out. I tried. And tried. And gave up.

For a game that seemed geared to kids, and young kids at that, WHY???????
 

Travel Junkie

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Didn't want to put this in the GE thread and have it veer off track again. Article talking over the potential over saturation of the Star Wars brand. To use a baseball analogy Disney seems to find a relief pitcher they like and run them out every day until their arm falls off. Then they go out and buy a new one. For another example see Frozen.

http://variety.com/2017/biz/news/disney-star-wars-release-schedule-1202640013/
 

D.Silentu

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Disneyland was extremely pleasant last night. Sure, it still had some of the usual bottle necks (Tomorrowland entry, IASW mall for the holiday show) but overall it was very nice. Only about 10 people waiting ahead of me to get on a train at the Main Street Station Around 5pm. I never noticed how nice they decorate the Train station for Christmas btw.

I visited yesterday for the first time in a while and had a wonderful day. In planning I did calculate when most AP's were blocked and I think that enhanced my trip. Hopefully such planning will pay off on future visits. It was a day full of firsts: Guardians, the new Fantasmic, and the rerouted train as well. Lots to muse on, but one of the best trips I've had to the parks!
 

mickEblu

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I visited yesterday for the first time in a while and had a wonderful day. In planning I did calculate when most AP's were blocked and I think that enhanced my trip. Hopefully such planning will pay off on future visits. It was a day full of firsts: Guardians, the new Fantasmic, and the rerouted train as well. Lots to muse on, but one of the best trips I've had to the parks!

I also planned around the AP schedule but wasn’t getting my hopes up being that it was the weekend before Christmas and schools are out. It really hammers home the point that the AP blackout schedules are way more of a crowd indicator than holidays/ day of the week or anything else.
 

D.Silentu

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I did have an odd experience though, and perhaps someone here can shed some light on things. Sunday evening I had a Fastpass for Small World Holiday, yet when I arrived it was clear that even the Fastpass line would be a long wait. With Fantasmic starting soon, and me having not seen the new version, I decided it wouldn't be worth the chance of missing it. On the way to the river I stopped to grab a new Fastpass for Small World, however the machine wouldn't let me. I'm wondering if the new system won't let you hold several Fastpasses for one ride, or if it was some malfunction.
 

Antaundra

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I did have an odd experience though, and perhaps someone here can shed some light on things. Sunday evening I had a Fastpass for Small World Holiday, yet when I arrived it was clear that even the Fastpass line would be a long wait. With Fantasmic starting soon, and me having not seen the new version, I decided it wouldn't be worth the chance of missing it. On the way to the river I stopped to grab a new Fastpass for Small World, however the machine wouldn't let me. I'm wondering if the new system won't let you hold several Fastpasses for one ride, or if it was some malfunction.
You can't pull a second fast pass for the same attraction until you've used the fast pass you already have or until 10 minutes past the window in which your fast pass was valid.
 

Curious Constance

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My random thought today is do these people not have computers, smartphones, or the internet? Is there any logical reason to choose to wait until you're at the park to buy tickets? Even if you decided spur of the moment to come to Disneyland, you could order the tickets on your phone in two seconds.

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mickEblu

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My random thought today is do these people not have computers, smartphones, or the internet? Is there any logical reason to choose to wait until you're at the park to buy tickets? Even if you decided spur of the moment to come to Disneyland, you could order the tickets on your phone in two seconds.

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Lol. I had actually planned to go yesterday. Opened my Disneyland app and saw that Big Thunder had a 60 minute wait at 11am and said “nope.” Even with lower tier APs blocked out, I guess folks wanted to get one last taste of Christmas for the year.
 

Curious Constance

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Lol. I had actually planned to go yesterday. Opened my Disneyland app and saw that Big Thunder had a 60 minute wait at 11am and said “nope.” Even with lower tier APs blocked out, I guess folks wanted to get one last taste of Christmas for the year.
Big Thunder is a good indicator of crowd levels. For some reason, even when it's busy that one usually has a wait time that isn't too bad. So if it's a long wait, at that time of the morning, stay far away.
 

mickEblu

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Big Thunder is a good indicator of crowd levels. For some reason, even when it's busy that one usually has a wait time that isn't too bad. So if it's a long wait, at that time of the morning, stay far away.

But then of course the conspiracy theorist in me comes out and thinks “couldnt Disney manipulate crowds and attendance with these posted wait times?”
 

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