I agree. This one looks good. The older Spider-Man's were not interesting to me.
Very true. I've never really found it necessary in dumbo though.
Typically allows the little kids to play around a bit while they wait for the actual ride. Tough for them to sit still a long while, so it's a good fit for parents with younger kids. You don't strike me as the target audience for that, but maybe you travel with younger siblings/cousins or something.
Ha! We've taken our littles a few times - we have jumping contests while we wait to expel some of the energy and keep them in line. It works great until they jump into someone.
That was a huge worry my wife and I on our first visit. Our son was 4 at the time. Thankfully we didn't go at the busiest time, so the lines weren't huge to begin with. Thankfully, I think Disney gets it, and the queues are interactive enough, and the dumbo setup is also nice. Keeps the tikes attention for the most part.
I feel the same way about the play area and sand pit in dinoland at AK. My son loves it, but we can waste a lot of time in there if we aren't paying attention. I like to go in before we have a fast pass appointment, or ADR so that we have some sort of artificial limit of time. It's a neat playground, but we can play on slides and dig in dirt at home for free.
