Model3 McQueen
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I go to DLR every year and never miss Toad. Don't care what the wait time is.![]()
Mr. Toad is my inspiration for my crazy road habits
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I go to DLR every year and never miss Toad. Don't care what the wait time is.![]()
I watched the 2018 Disney vacation planning video last night and had to laugh when they talked about spontaneity and relaxing right before talking about booking FastPass+ 60 days in advance.Also, as other have said, making a vacation 'work' to plan isn't sitting very well either.
So many people enjoy the planning aspect, though. It extends the trip well before the actual date and builds up excitement for families. Pretty genius strategy by Disney.
And, the beautiful thing is, we can still take impromptu trips and enjoy ourselves without the planning before.
I found some of favorite restaurants on property last trip by not having ADRs and checking the app for open reservations. It was wonderful. Even got lunch at BOG and dinner at Boathouse.You should see the gals at my job, full on "spreadsheet" diva's. Seriously I doubt if Patton did as much planning for the D-day invasion that these ladies do.
It's interesting though to me so many people stress over the planning. once I get my fp's that's pretty much it. now I don't really have any "must" do restaurants and I've gone many times without ADR's and had great meals. In fact I find that some of my best meals have come from simply calling Disney dining and seeing what's available the day of. some how the myth developed that if you don't make adr's 120 days in advance you're left eating quick service. absolutely false.
Disney permanently ****ed me off when they got rid of the Osborne Lights. All that space for expansion and they put Star Wars Land there. Beyond dumb.
~NM
So many people enjoy the planning aspect, though. It extends the trip well before the actual date and builds up excitement for families. Pretty genius strategy by Disney.
And, the beautiful thing is, we can still take impromptu trips and enjoy ourselves without the planning before.
I’m right there with you!I'm one of those people. I actually do miss the old days where you did not have to plan anything - when there were no Fast Passes, when you could call a restaurant the day before and still make a reservation or even just being able to walk up and get a table. BUT- I love planning, too! So I actually love making all my plans in Google doc spreadsheets with all my reservations, FP+s, daily park plans, how many times I'm planning on riding each attraction, booking FP+s 60 days out, trying to secure all my reservations at the 180-day window and using sites that allow you to write up daily plans.
I'll be the first one to admit, I am a bit nuts.
- Removing classics, especially anything Walt himself had a part in.
- Charging fees to stay on-property
- Reverting back to the ticket book style of things (pay per ride)
- Closing up Aloha Isle or taking Dole whips off the menu
- Charging for character meets, like someone before me said
- Charging to visit individual resorts
- Any fees that will retract from the general experience
- Unrelated IPs in AK (I don’t hate Pandora, and I think something like Zootopia could work if it’s done right, but something like Frozen in AK? Heck no)
If they close Pirates or HM I am done
Frozen would work better in DAK than Zootopia would... at least it has real and mythical animals... Zootopia has people living in an ultra urban setting. Both are horrid for the park to me, but given the choice only between the two or DAK is destroyed, then I would I would actually chose Frozen. f Zootopia went to DAK I would be so upset lol. Like I said Zootopia is the bottom of the barrel as far as DAK IPs go, I mean really a vast portion of Disney classics contain animalian characters... tjat doesn't mean we should put Splash Mountain or Pooh at DAK. I take that back, both would work better than Zootopia. Lol
I think the consensus here is leave my nostalgia alone!
The one thing I'll add, don't change the castle to a big pink bounce house.
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