The Miscellaneous Thought Thread

[coffeefan]

I typically don't like park hopping either. I either go to DL or to DCA. Depends what the group consensus is. But I am a local so I usually get there around noon and stay til closing.

 

[Disney Irish]

I typically don't like park hopping either. I either go to DL or to DCA. Depends what the group consensus is. But I am a local so I usually get there around noon and stay til closing.

I suspect this is more common than people realize.

 

[PiratesMansion]

Not that I disagree in regards to MK but I think for me on my first visit to WDW I’d spend more time there simply for the morbid curiosity of comparing and the volume of attractions. But on subsequent visits I could see how I’d spend less time there.

And that fits with what people do IMO. Out west, Disneyland is so unmistakably the core of the experience that people used to DLR assume it must be the same out east. And it is to a point, in large part because MK has more to do than the other parks, but Magic Kingdom both gets swallowed up in comparison to Disneyland and to the sheer quantity of the rest of the resort. It's not emblematic of WDW's nature in a positive way that's better reflected in places like Epcot.

I suspect this is more common than people realize.

Probably true. Many people probably don't feel like they need access to two parks in one day. It's not helping that Disneyland tickets no longer have a set park hopping rate and it now goes up for longer ticket durations.

 

[mickEblu]

Yes it’s typical, because unlike others I’m not a park hopper, never have been and never will be, I like my feet and don’t feel it’s worth all the extra steps rushing going between both parks in a single day. And second I’m not running from ride to ride trying to get to everything quickly, I take my time and enjoy everything at a slower pace. And I’ll usually use my DCA day to plan a dinner off property.

So call me a freak, I don’t care, but I like the way I do it, and so has all the people I’ve brought with me over the years. They feel it’s a better experience than trying to rush everywhere like everyone else. Got to learn to slow down and smell the roses my friend.

I was just playing around. We’re park hopping a lot less these days too. Although if we’re not hopping that means we’re usually spending the day at Disneyland. If we do hop then it’s usually just one time in the late afternoon. My son loves GRR so that’s usually the main reason we’ll do a late afternoon park hop this time of year. Disneyland is just much more accommodating to our barely hit 40” party or just people who are waiting standby in general.

Soarin, Webslingers and TSMM aren’t worth the waits IMO. Not putting my daughter on Mission Breakout yet even though she can go. RSR’s wait times are always insane. And my son refuses to ride Incredicoaster because of the loop even though he loved Ghost Rider. Go figure. Tried telling him Ghost Rider is much scarier and the loop is the most boring part but nope.

 

[Disney Irish]

I was just playing around. We’re park hopping a lot less these days too. Although if we’re not hopping that means we’re usually spending the day at Disneyland. If we do hop then it’s usually just one time in the late afternoon. My son loves GRR so that’s usually the main reason we’ll do a late afternoon park hop this time of year. Disneyland is just much more accommodating to our barely hit 40” party or just people who are waiting standby in general.

Soarin, Webslingers and TSMM aren’t worth the waits IMO. Not putting my daughter on Mission Breakout yet even though she can go. RSR’s wait times are always insane. And my son refuses to ride Incredicoaster because of the loop even though he loved Ghost Rider. Go figure. Tried telling him Ghost Rider is much scarier and the loop is the most boring part but nope.

Joking or not, the point is still the same. In my friend group who go to DLR, only one out of the couple dozen insists to still park hop. Everyone else spends one to two days at DL and one day at DCA. And more people I've talked to over the last couple trips are doing that. So I think you'll find that more people park hop less these days than in years past.

The days of people thinking DCA is a no value "less than half day only show up for one or two rides" park is ending. DCA is becoming a full day park, and certainly will when these 4 new rides open, as your poll is showing.

 

[Phroobar]

I was just playing around. We’re park hopping a lot less these days too. Although if we’re not hopping that means we’re usually spending the day at Disneyland. If we do hop then it’s usually just one time in the late afternoon. My son loves GRR so that’s usually the main reason we’ll do a late afternoon park hop this time of year. Disneyland is just much more accommodating to our barely hit 40” party or just people who are waiting standby in general.

Soarin, Webslingers and TSMM aren’t worth the waits IMO. Not putting my daughter on Mission Breakout yet even though she can go. RSR’s wait times are always insane. And my son refuses to ride Incredicoaster because of the loop even though he loved Ghost Rider. Go figure. Tried telling him Ghost Rider is much scarier and the loop is the most boring part but nope.

I agree. Ghostrider is far scarier than Incredicoaster. The way that thing shakes, I'm surprised I don't throw up at the end.

 

[mickEblu]

Joking or not, the point is still the same. In my friend group who go to DLR, only one out of the couple dozen insists to still park hop. Everyone else spends one to two days at DL and one day at DCA. And more people I've talked to over the last couple trips are doing that. So I think you'll find that more people park hop less these days than in years past.

The days of people thinking DCA is a no value "less than half day only show up for one or two rides" park is ending. DCA is becoming a full day park, and certainly will when these 4 new rides open, as your poll is showing.

You have 24 + friends?

I didn’t say people don’t think DCA has value. I said that I think the typical MK doesn’t spend a whole day at DCA without hopping to Disneyland. I stand by that. I’d wager that you and your friends are in the minority.

 

[Disney Irish]

You have 24 + friends?

That go to DLR regularly, yes.

That doesn’t encompass my whole friend list obviously. Which I assume is your joke here.

I didn’t say people don’t think DCA has value. I said that I think the typical MK doesn’t spend a whole day at DCA without hopping to Disneyland. I stand by that. I’d wager that you and your friends are in the minority.

I’m obviously combining your two conversations about DCA which includes your poll, because there is clearly a theme here. You still see DCA as having a “less than” full day park value. Which lines up with your comments on how you don’t really park hop anymore and stay in DL and how you only go to DCA for a couple rides for your kids.

As for MKs, there is probably more than you realize that don’t park hop and do actually spend a full day at DCA. As other posters here have commented they do the same, so clearly I’m not the only one even just here on this site. So I can’t say whether we’re in the “minority”, but I can say there is probably more than you realize that do the same as us.

 

[Phroobar]

You have 24 + friends?

I didn’t say people don’t think DCA has value. I said that I think the typical MK doesn’t spend a whole day at DCA without hopping to Disneyland. I stand by that. I’d wager that you and your friends are in the minority.

When we had passes, we would start with Star Tours and Space Mountain then head to pirates/HM. By noon go to DCA to eat. We would jump back and forth all day after.

Now that we don't have a pass, we would hit Disneyland only.