HopperFan
"It's a bug-eat-bug world out there, princess."
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- Sep 6, 2003
It isn't just you! I'll never really understand the unrelenting attitude that some have on this issue when the math proves that they aren't being impacted by what you propose. Their wait time doesn't change if your 4 year old and a second adult join the 14 year old and the first adult at the last minute. Getting a photo taken with a character isn't supposed to be an endurance test or a self-sacrificing test of deprivation.
Math may be in this families' favor but in most cases math likely plays out that the guests who actually waited in the line are being impacted.
In my first example of Mom waiting while 3 girls were out having a good time... When they returned they all had autograph books and when seeing them in another line they each got an autograph, took an individual photo, plus group photo, plus photo with parents. When the characters are out for set amounts of time, then take breaks .... it absolutely impacts not only waits but the poor kid who gets stopped to wait even longer and in some cases (Aladdin/Jasmine) long waits. So the family that all got in line and waited draws the short stick. While the family that was out having fun, then got their character meet ... is now out having fun again ... while poor family that got in line is still waiting. Not cool.
Sadly I think the larger groups are much more common than the child needs a potty run or needs to wait outside the line.
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