Disney Irish
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Eat more fiber, I also hear Metamucil and Ensure works wonders....
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The Miscellaneous Thought Thread
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Hungry Bear is one of the worst! DM me for the best ones.
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PiratesMansion
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I think Tiki Room is probably fine. It gets enough demand for the space they have to work with and it has the protection of being a Walt original that is embraced by the locals on its side.
Hungry Bear is always super crowded, so it isn't one of my favorites. Honestly, you're always better off pooping at DCA than DL if at all possible (even the bathrooms outside of the parks on the DCA side were bigger and nicer than the similar restrooms on the DL side). That said, nature's gonna call, so if you're stuck at DL I prefer the Star Wars bathrooms-easily the largest at DL-and even the Space Mountain restrooms, which are oddly shaped but have a decent number of stalls on offer.
But more often than not, DL restrooms are in weird places, oddly shaped, and undersized. Typically suboptimal.
SuddenStorm
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It's counter intuitive because they're always busy- but my new preferred spot is the Space Mountain exit bathrooms. They expanded them during a remodel a few years back, so now there are a ton of stalls and I've never had issue finding a clean one. Either that, or the bathrooms by the Autopia/Tomorrowland train station- these are usually empty at night.
Hungry Bear and New Orleans Square bathrooms are too small and crowded.
But my all around favorite restroom will always be the one by the Disneyana- where you have to take that side path that feels like going backstage. Not for functional purposes, but because it's so dang unique and would never be built in a modern theme park. It's the little things that make Disneyland, Disneyland.
Hungry Bear and New Orleans Square bathrooms are too small and crowded.
But my all around favorite restroom will always be the one by the Disneyana- where you have to take that side path that feels like going backstage. Not for functional purposes, but because it's so dang unique and would never be built in a modern theme park. It's the little things that make Disneyland, Disneyland.
Disney Irish
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One next to Disneyana is the best by far....
MoonRakerSCM
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I've mentioned before on here, but during my visit to WDW almost exactly 1 year ago, we took my mom on CBJ and had an absolutely great time. The theatre was fairly full and the whole crowd was woopin' and hollarin' and clapping. You couldn't help but smile and have a good time.
Several years ago (oh god... 19 years now give or take)... I took a private tour with a retired imagineer with a friend and their family. We spent the day on various attractions and hearing stories about scene staging and design for guest enjoyment and how to convey a living, breathing, story to a guest. After an absolutely spectacular time talking about Splash Mountain, our host's eyes turned to Winnie the Pooh. He coyly asked if we could spend some time going on the attraction as he had not been on it, but wanted to see if it was as he had heard from colleagues. We said we'd gladly go on it with him.
He was saddened by the cheap build of the ride and how much space (both physically and 'creatively') it took to convey what it did. The ONE thing he was amazed with, and took photos of, and was downright impressed with... was the painted wood railing in the queue. He was impressed with how much effort they put into the painted wood texturing on the fencing within the queue. He commented to us "I'm amazed they seem to have spent more care and effort on the queue railing than they did the actual attraction".
Has it really been 20 years since Disney “magically” downgraded an amazing, iconic, E-ticket animatronic spectacular into a “meh” C-ticket? Have I held a grudge THAT long?!?
They could turn Pooh into a chain-link-fenced shortcut gate to the parking garage and I’d call it poetic justice.
Several years ago (oh god... 19 years now give or take)... I took a private tour with a retired imagineer with a friend and their family. We spent the day on various attractions and hearing stories about scene staging and design for guest enjoyment and how to convey a living, breathing, story to a guest. After an absolutely spectacular time talking about Splash Mountain, our host's eyes turned to Winnie the Pooh. He coyly asked if we could spend some time going on the attraction as he had not been on it, but wanted to see if it was as he had heard from colleagues. We said we'd gladly go on it with him.
He was saddened by the cheap build of the ride and how much space (both physically and 'creatively') it took to convey what it did. The ONE thing he was amazed with, and took photos of, and was downright impressed with... was the painted wood railing in the queue. He was impressed with how much effort they put into the painted wood texturing on the fencing within the queue. He commented to us "I'm amazed they seem to have spent more care and effort on the queue railing than they did the actual attraction".
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MoonRakerSCM
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Disney not... thinking.
truecoat
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Phroobar
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That explains why the restrooms near Revolution were closed most of the day last week at Magic Mountain.
chadwpalm
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If what goes in glows under a black light, then does what comes out also glow under a black light?
Confirmed: Disney installs blacklights in bathroom stalls.
TP2000
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What's the deal with summer in SoCal? Is it over already?
I'm packing for a train trip through the Canadian Rockies to Banff. Because even in coastal San Diego, September is always the hottest month of the year in SoCal. If it's going to get to 90 in San Diego, it happens in September. So when the Social Pack Leader, who shall remain nameless, convinced a small gaggle of us to take a train trip through the Candian Rockies to welcome crisp fall weather and escape the heat, that sounded brilliant.
But now looking at the weather forecast for San Diego, after an already unusually cool late summer, it's going to be heading down to 60 in the evenings this weekend. And the high temp is only 70 degrees every day for the next week.
That actually sounds lovely, doesn't it?
So why am I SmartPacking to fit into a Pullman compartment to take me to Banff???
I'm packing for a train trip through the Canadian Rockies to Banff. Because even in coastal San Diego, September is always the hottest month of the year in SoCal. If it's going to get to 90 in San Diego, it happens in September. So when the Social Pack Leader, who shall remain nameless, convinced a small gaggle of us to take a train trip through the Candian Rockies to welcome crisp fall weather and escape the heat, that sounded brilliant.
But now looking at the weather forecast for San Diego, after an already unusually cool late summer, it's going to be heading down to 60 in the evenings this weekend. And the high temp is only 70 degrees every day for the next week.
That actually sounds lovely, doesn't it?
So why am I SmartPacking to fit into a Pullman compartment to take me to Banff???
Rich T
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San Diego’s great, but Banff and the Rockies are wayyyy more beautiful. So there’s that.What's the deal with summer in SoCal? Is it over already?
I'm packing for a train trip through the Canadian Rockies to Banff. Because even in coastal San Diego, September is always the hottest month of the year in SoCal. If it's going to get to 90 in San Diego, it happens in September. So when the Social Pack Leader, who shall remain nameless, convinced a small gaggle of us to take a train trip through the Candian Rockies to welcome crisp fall weather and escape the heat, that sounded brilliant.
But now looking at the weather forecast for San Diego, after an already unusually cool late summer, it's going to be heading down to 60 in the evenings this weekend. And the high temp is only 70 degrees every day for the next week.
That actually sounds lovely, doesn't it?
So why am I SmartPacking to fit into a Pullman compartment to take me to Banff???
SuddenStorm
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Something I observed about many hourly cast members while working there is how many of them treated Disney/Disneyland as their life identity. Like it's a lifestyle. It's okay to be a fan of the place you work- but when it consumes your entire identity that begins to be a problem.
Well said. It’s really interesting because you don’t see any of that stuff at USH, Knotts or nearly anywhere else in Los Angeles. At least not as concentrated.
TP2000
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Greetings from Vancouver BC. This is the first time I've been here without going straight to Whistler in many years. Who built all these giant glass condo towers downtown?
It was only 2 degrees cooler here when we landed than when we took off from Lindbergh Field, which seems statistically impossible for September, but Mother Nature doesn't joke around. Air Canada has two non-stop flights per day now from San Diego to Vancouver; really lovely and friendly service, and the stewardess even said "move aboout the cabin" with a heavy Canadian accent to put an exclamation point on the entire experience. I loved it. I was seated next to a charming Canadian lady who makes her own 100 layer puff pastry dough from scratch (and isn't afraid to tell you about it).
At least the sunny weather forecast for Banff this weekend has lows in the upper 30's this weekend, which should prove we aren't in SoCal. Or as they say in Canadian, low temps around 4. Funny people, but you couldn't ask for nicer neighbors.
