Thanks for the elaborate reply. Good to see you stayed at the SL. It's my second favorite resort at DLP, I think I like it even more than the WL. Glad to hear they have improved their maintenance on the e-tickets, and I hope they will continue doing that. At DLP they can sometimes leave a broken animatronic in a ride (like Pirates) for a couple of weeks before fixing it. And the last couple of years I have ridden RNRC more without music on it, than with music. I think maintenance should be their main priority for the short term. DLP can be a gem and one of the most beautiful Disney parks if maintained properly.
SL is the only resort at DLP I will stay at right now. They have major issues at most of them and their cheapest options (like the recently rehabbed Santa Fe) are way too down market for my Faux Top One Percent tastes.
I have heard, but not seen, examples of Disney putting inop AAs behind tarps and curtains to prevent them from being seen. But I actually saw AAs that I haven't seen in years that were working like the dueling pirates and the swinging Tarzan Pirate on PotC.
Only did RnRC once and the music was fine and the effects were all working, but it was very rough -- O-Town like and I just don't enjoy coasters when they injure me.
Good to see you also enjoyed the new christmas tree and it's lighting show. I also enjoyed Dreams of Christmas, although the opinions on that show vary.
I loved Dreams of Christmas. For all the ripping that DLP receives, most of it well deserved, it still presented the type of new Christmas night time spectacular that would have WDW social media whores wetting themselves. Now, is it largely a rip of the Holiday WoC show? I haven't seen that, but I am sure it was. But who cares? Disney regularly shares content amongst parks.
I think the show had a bit too much Frozen and Toy Story for my tastes, but still thought it was wonderful.
And also saw the regular Dreams show when it returned and really think 2.0 is even better with the new Brave and Lion King segments replacing Mary Poppins and Jungle Book. What a GREAT show. Better than anything WDW shows. And better yet that it doesn't focus so much on the same old IP, great to see Peter Pan as the focus and segments from Hunchback and Princess and Frog too.
I did hear from someone who works there who said that locals/APers preferred the original, but that isn't surprising.
Also look forward to Rat. At least it's a unique ride and not a clone. I hope it proves to be very succesfull for the DLP resort, so they have some more room for more investments. I also hope the Star Tours update will happen soon. It needs it.
It isn't going to break new ground. Hunny Hunt did that back in the 20th century. But it should be worlds better than the little kiddie coaster that every fanboi is getting worked up over.
Even though Star Tours has yet to be announced it will be happening sooner rather than later. It was fun to ride the old one, though. It wasn't fun to wait in a hot queue (see my future post on operational issues) for almost half an hour for what should have been a walk-on because they decided to staff enough people to run only two of six sims, however.
