We would sit up close just to feel the mist fall on us, the smell and the mist made you feel more apart of it.
Like I stated earlier, the water curtain was functioning in December, has anyone experienced the show recently and if so can you tell us if the water is still falling?
As for the quality of the show compared to Nemo and the Lion king, I feel this show started the bases of how those shows are performed. Especially Nemo. If you sit in the middle or further back my eyes seem to focus just on the characters and not the performers controlling them. Besides, just like the Nemo and Lion King shows and for that matter, the rest of WDW, you need to use your imagination. Seriously, are lions really that much larger than people or are clown fish bigger than real life sharks. I think if every attraction was like FoP, where everything is given to you, we has a society would lose our imaginations and just think how figment would feel about that. It may lead to his demise. I don't want to be responsible for that, do you?
As a side note, it seems many rides are getting awesome queues and just ok to below average rides. Maybe it is because we end up spending more time in the queue and less time on the rides.
Lately it seems Disney is developing rides that only last a few minuets rather than eight to fifteen minutes. This is sad because it ends up being more like a Cedar Point or Kings Island. I hope they begin to reverse this trend. I know FoP and NRJ are a little more than a few minutes but it doesn't seem like rides last as long as the majority of rides lasted back in the mid nineties at WDW. I will need to do some research to verify that though.