News Round Up 2018

[jlundeen]

It's a bit funny you mention that. I would really love for my mom to go with us on our next WDW trip which would be years from now as by that time we'll likely have a child (that's the plan at least). She hasn't been since she took me when I was a few years old so by the time she gets there next it will be over 30 years difference in time (I'm already 30 now). The one and only request she had was "I want to go on it's a small world"

Normally that's a ride I say once a trip and that's it but because the waits were so incredibly low in September due to Irma we ended up riding it a few times. My husband when I told him what my mom said was like "good you guys can go on it and leave me out of it"

I do go on it every few trips... I do like the colors... but the ride itself (and I won't even mention the music) with the slow load and torturous unload, oy.... I have to be ready for it.

 

[rteetz]

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Snapchat Brings Augmented Reality Experiences To Disney and Universal

 

[momandmousefan]

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Snapchat Brings Augmented Reality Experiences To Disney and Universal

They sure needed to do something. Instagram has been eating their market share up rapidly.

 

[wareagle57]

It's a bit funny you mention that. I would really love for my mom to go with us on our next WDW trip which would be years from now as by that time we'll likely have a child (that's the plan at least). She hasn't been since she took me when I was a few years old so by the time she gets there next it will be over 30 years difference in time (I'm already 30 now). The one and only request she had was "I want to go on it's a small world"

Normally that's a ride I say once a trip and that's it but because the waits were so incredibly low in September due to Irma we ended up riding it a few times. My husband when I told him what my mom said was like "good you guys can go on it and leave me out of it"

I took a friend once, and as we were waiting to get off the boat at the end of iasw he said "let's go on a good ride next."

 

[Disneymom1126]

And don't forget Small World...

My daughter's first ride on Small World, she was 4...when we finished the ride she told me - I think that one is going to give me nightmares

 

[tarak]

My dad's favorite ride ever was It's a Small World. We grew up in California going to DL and we had to ride it first and last. I still have a lot of sentimental attachment to that ride, as does my son. Although he goes a bit overboard. At this point, as long as I go once a trip, I'm okay. My son wants to go everytime we hit MK.

News

Snapchat Brings Augmented Reality Experiences To Disney and Universal

If they'd had this at WDW two weeks ago I really wouldn't have gotten my oldest daughter off her phone.

 

[Moliphino]

I love it's a small world, but I think the version in Paris is my favorite. Everything seems closer to the boats in that one.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I love it's a small world, but I think the version in Paris is my favorite. Everything seems closer to the boats in that one.

I'll have to youtube that then to see a comparison.

 

[Mika02]

Despite what most considering a boring show - Carousel of Progress is ingrained in my young sons memory as a highlight of our last trip. The fact that animatronic robots came to life right in front of him engaged him more than a movie screen ever would.

My kids especially my 16 year old love Carousel of progress. We go on it a few times when we are in MK.

 

[Tigger's ally]

My kids especially my 16 year old love Carousel of progress. We go on it a few times when we are in MK.

COP is ingrained in every person who had a grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, mom or dad as the story is about life passed down through the ages. We see our elders in those scenes and then in life see the story told over again in new ages.

It's a small world is a kids ride with a recurring song that gets on those same grandma's, grandpa's, aunts and uncles nerves before the halfway point of the ride. Their only hope is to grin and bear it for the younguns! Nothing like teaching good old stick-to-itness to all those little ones in the boat. I envy my 80 year old dad's ability to get in a quick siesta here(of course turning hearing aids off helps) ...and long one day to be able to do so myself with my great grandtinker along for the ride.

Perhaps by then there will be two updates to COP final scene!

 

[skier_pete]

My wife's favorite ride is IaSW. She loves the Mary Blair style. DD loved it when she was little, and we all still like a ride on it now. Never get tired of the details.

When we took my mom in 2011 after many, many years - she pointed out that she had first rode it at the world's fair in 1964. Can anyone hear beat that one?

 

[TheMaxRebo]

So just checked wait times out of curiosity and you have

Toy Story Land:
- SDD: 75 mins
- AS2: 45 mins
- TSM: 60min

really not bad for a new land, a holiday week


Meanwhile, in Pandora:
- FoP: 115 min
- NRJ: 70min

still, not bad at all for July 4th but FoP definitely retaining the wait times - surprised NRJ is as long as it is


For comparison, so other wait times:

- Frozen Ever After: 45min
- Test Track: 60mins
- Soarin: 40mins
- Space Mtn: 105mins
- Buzz: 70mins
- BTMRR: 80 mins
- Splash Mtn: 95 mins
- RnRC: 90mins
- ToT: 95mins (interesting these two have a longer wait than SDD)

 

[rteetz]

Someone posted this on twitter that I thought was interesting and made sense.

https://twitter.com/_kimhanley/status/1014192362585718790?s=21

“Observation:


#ToyStoryLand⁠ ⁠ is something everybody wants to do on their DHS day but isn’t enough to make you want to make a special DHS day.


Pandora was “we need to go to DAK and do Pandora”


TSL is “when we go to DHS we need to do TSL”


that probably sounds like hairsplitting”

So basically TSL isn’t a draw to go to DHS like Pandora is. It’s rather something to do while you were already planning going there.

 

[Mome Rath]

I usually skip DHS, this trip I'll go simply to see TSL and ride SDD. I think the draw will be higher if people are traveling with kids. I think the new tech with FoP and it's breathtaking quality (and hence the buzz about it) is what drives people to Pandora... I would also add that now Satu'li is my favorite place to eat in all of WDW. I used to skip AK as well, and now it is a must do for the whole of Pandora, not just one ride, whereas with HS I mainly will go to see TSL once and ride SDD once and then I may not go back til something else new opens.

ETA; I'll go to Pandora multiple times in each trip vs. (I'm guessing) once to TSL, and perhaps not go back at all even on future trips.

 

[jade1]

So basically TSL isn’t a draw to go to DHS like Pandora is. It’s rather something to do while you were already planning going there.

I'm going to DHS in 3 weeks, only to see/experience TSL.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Someone posted this on twitter that I thought was interesting and made sense.

https://twitter.com/_kimhanley/status/1014192362585718790?s=21

“Observation:


#ToyStoryLand⁠ ⁠ is something everybody wants to do on their DHS day but isn’t enough to make you want to make a special DHS day.


Pandora was “we need to go to DAK and do Pandora”


TSL is “when we go to DHS we need to do TSL”


that probably sounds like hairsplitting”

So basically TSL isn’t a draw to go to DHS like Pandora is. It’s rather something to do while you were already planning going there.

I think that is fair ... though, I would also add that people have been skipping DHS or only doing half days there and I think for many at least TSL is now enough to do a day at DHS if you were planning to skip and/or spend more of your day there

again, might be splitting hairs, but I think Pandora (to at least see it once) was enough to get people to AK on it's own. I don't think TSL is, but TSL combined with TOT and RNRCC, etc. is enough when the later wasn't

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

I think it can depend on what kind of WDW traveler you are too.

No matter what an AP is going to make it financially and planning wise easier to just hop on over to DHS for TSL. Having park hoppers makes it easier too.

 

[jade1]

I think it can depend on what kind of WDW traveler you are too.

No matter what an AP is going to make it financially and planning wise easier to just hop on over to DHS for TSL. Having park hoppers makes it easier too.

Yep, I have gone to MK just for a 7DMT FP many times. Prob will for SDD as well.

In general I do agree TSL isn't Pandora (without even seeing TSL in person yet), if that's the point were after.

However, I do think a lot of "first time" visitors (esp with younger kids) will lump TSM into the new TSL. That could move the needle on what some/many families will use to compare to Pandora, when given the choice.

I absolutely believe there will be kids that choose to go back to TSL for TSM/AS/SDD over Pandora for FoP/Navi.

 

[Firebird060]

Got to love the APs, Sometimes I just enter a Park for a character meet and greet. Like good old Scrooge McDuck and dont even ride a ride. Its nice to be able to just go to WDW and just go where the magic takes you. Also it helps feed my wifes shopping addictions with the discounts.

 

[Tigger's ally]

Someone posted this on twitter that I thought was interesting and made sense.

https://twitter.com/_kimhanley/status/1014192362585718790?s=21

“Observation:


#ToyStoryLand⁠ ⁠ is something everybody wants to do on their DHS day but isn’t enough to make you want to make a special DHS day.


Pandora was “we need to go to DAK and do Pandora”


TSL is “when we go to DHS we need to do TSL”


that probably sounds like hairsplitting”

So basically TSL isn’t a draw to go to DHS like Pandora is. It’s rather something to do while you were already planning going there.

I think this is fair, except if you have kids between 4-8 years old....