Monday, January 30, 2023

Disney World 2022 Planning- Part 13


Happy 12th Bloggiversary to me! 
To celebrate, a cut and paste post that required only formatting editing. Woo!

February 26, 2022
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The family did their wait time reviews.
The ranking system used was
 
5-Rope drop , wait as long as needed
4- Will wait an hour or a bit more      
3- Will wait 30-45 minutes     
2- Will wait 15-20 minutes     
1- Will walk on if no line- 10 min       
0- Could not be dragged onto this
 
There were of course, instructional notes I should have printed on the page:
Note 1- the first column answer means rope drop run to it and/ or wait as long as needed.
Note 2-use “will walk on if no line” column for “I don’t give a rat’s patoot about this but will go on if others do.”
Note 3- by all that is holy, please put the x’s in the freakin boxes!!! Making that level of minor decision will not injure you. I’m looking at you Grandma. 👀
 
Naturally, the whole thing was an excuse for me to make jokes.

Where

Disney Thing

Description

Magic Kingdom

Birthday Mickey

Mickey in an ugly suit (I almost said "birthday suit" that’s a whole other type of park)

Magic Kingdom

Jungle Cruise

Fun, pun and animatronic filled boat ride, long lines- boat throughput

Magic Kingdom

Peter Pan

LOONG Interactive line and a classic, if short trip to Neverland

Magic Kingdom

Winnie the Pooh

Mid generation Dark ride, line can build up a bit.

Magic Kingdom

Seven Dwarves Mine Train

Medium speed coaster with pretty middle, "top tier" in park-big waits

Magic Kingdom

Meet Cinderella and Elena of Avalor

One of several Cinderella meets. Only Elena meet, sometimes Elena replaced

Magic Kingdom

Meet Rapunzel and Tiana

Only Tiana and Rapunzel meet sometimes Rapunzel replaced.

Magic Kingdom

Mad Tea Party

Fits a boat load of guests and less exciting than other rides, short lines

Magic Kingdom

Prince Charming's Carrousel

See Mad Tea Party, but with less vomiting.

Magic Kingdom

Tales With Belle

I think this is closed, how sad.

Magic Kingdom

Pirates of the Caribbean

Yo ho yo ho a pirates life for me…oh sorry.

Magic Kingdom

Ariel's Grotto

I think this is also closed how very sad.

Magic Kingdom

Ariel's ride

Newer dark ride has decent throughput, lines manageable

Magic Kingdom

Fillmore's Magic

HUGE THEATER, no lines ever, Why am I asking.

Magic Kingdom

The Barnstormer

Small coaster, good for burning off excess kid energy at end of night

Magic Kingdom

Splash Mountain

20 minutes of animatronic singing and a drop o soggy death.  Line is completely random

Magic Kingdom

Buzz Lightyear Spin

Maintains a steady, but not crazy line. Ptchoo ptchoo!

Magic Kingdom

Dumbo

It's Dumbo you fool.  Lines mitigated by double ride

Magic Kingdom

Carousel of Progress

It's a great big beautiful tomorrow!!!  Never a line

Magic Kingdom

Hall of Presidents

Big theater, no one cares. Scheduled shows but no lines. Time for a nap.

Magic Kingdom

People Mover

Fun but not too fast trip through Tomorrowland, lines usually short unless it breaks

Magic Kingdom

Tom Sawyer's Island

No lines, good place to hide from crowds a bit

Magic Kingdom

Tomorrowland Speedway

Long lines, smelly small cars. Check the last box & get on with your life.

Magic Kingdom

Riverboat

I don't know if these are running, have to wait for next one but no line.

Magic Kingdom

Monster's Inc Laugh Floor

Wonderfully stupid jokes, big room keeps the line down.

Magic Kingdom

Flying carpets

Like Dumbo but more boring, and somehow much hotter

Magic Kingdom

Astro Orbiter

Like Dumbo but scary high with AWFUL throughput

Magic Kingdom

Haunted Mansion

Of course we're going on this. Have to pick the right time (actually multiple times) of day for line control

Magic Kingdom

Small World

See haunted mansion- applied to Pirates too, sorry got excited back there

Magic Kingdom

Buzz Lightyear himself

Socially distanced on stage

Magic Kingdom

Stitch

I think he loiters around Tomorrowland

Magic Kingdom

Captain Jack Sparrow

I think he loiters around Adventureland

Magic Kingdom

Chip and Dale

I think they loiter around Frontierland (ask Rosa, she has a psychic link)

Magic Kingdom

Anastasia and Drizella

I think they loiter around Fantasyland

Magic Kingdom

Tiki Room

Big room and no one cares about it but us. Short waits

Magic Kingdom

Country Bear Jamboree

See Tiki Room

Magic Kingdom

Swiss Family Treehouse

Seriously? There's never a line, have fun Kim.

Magic Kingdom

Space Mountain

May have a shot early and late, line really builds up because it’s a coaster and its old. (like me…not the coaster part)

Magic Kingdom

Big Thunder Mountain

Line sometimes has lulls, fits more than space mountain and less people care, even though I think its better, so there.

Magic Kingdom

Festival of Fantasy parade

Of course we're going to see the parade, and the character cavalcades we happen to catch, and the Castle show, why are you wasting my time?

EPCOT

Soarin Around the World

Line actually manageable sometimes, they expanded seating.

EPCOT

Listen to the Land

Land Boat ride…where we sing. Lines depend on Soarin spillover

EPCOT

Journey to Imagination

FIGMENT!  Lines usually short, People are dumb in Future World, or whatever its called now.

EPCOT

Gran Fiesta Tour-

Three Caballeros!  Lines usually short,People are dumb in World Showcase.

EPCOT

Spaceship Earth

The Big Ball was saved, woo!

EPCOT

Mission Space

The not "you may die on this" line never is long

EPCOT

Living Seas

FISH yay!  Rarely a wait

EPCOT

Turtle Talk

Meeting show with Crush also rarely much wait.

EPCOT

Frozen Ride

Backward in a boat with Let it Go added, still has a hefty line

EPCOT

American Adventure

HUGE THEATER, no lines ever, premier EPCOT Death March nap spot.

EPCOT

Test Track

Car simulation thing. Breaks a lot and has long line, Single rider an option

EPCOT

Alice in the UK

Hey! She's back! Who knew?

EPCOT

Belle in France

Hey! She's back! Who knew?

EPCOT

Jasmine in Morocco

Hey! She's back! Who knew?

EPCOT

Snow White in Germany

Hey! She's back! Who knew?

EPCOT

Anna and Elsa in Norway

Hey! They're back! Who knew?

EPCOT

Donald in Mexico

This one I knew.

EPCOT

China Movie

See Canada Movie

EPCOT

Canada Movie

See China Movie

EPCOT

Beauty and Beast Sing along

In big France Theater hosted by Lefou. Danger of accidentally seeing boring France movie which it alternates with.

EPCOT

Remy's Ratatouille Adventure

Long lines, new ride. High tech trackless dark ride. If we come in after breakfast right next to it, may help, as will rope dropping to it 1st day

EPCOT

Character Spot

In Imagination, Joy &Vanellope, separate lines. Not the character spot, is it?

MGM

Toy Story Mania

Three tracks now, still has bigish lines. Drop at end of day sometimes

MGM

Muppet Vision 3D

MUPPETS!  Lines usually short, because its huge and people are dumb in MGM too

MGM

Rock n Roller Coaster

Remarkably smooth looping corkscrews.  Nowhere near as good as I remembered the first time. Long lines because it breaks a lot.

MGM

Disney Jr Play and Dance

For the love of God, please don't make me sit through this.

MGM

Star Tours

I think they added more footage of the new films since we went…or maybe not. I’m very helpful.

MGM

Indiana Jones

Stadium huge enough that you can pick a time and show up.

MGM

Beauty and Beast live on stage

See Indiana Jones…but less Nazis

MGM

Frozen sing along

See Indiana Jones…but less Nazis, and more snow.

MGM

Fantastmic!

It may come back, it may not. None of us care, why is this line here?

MGM

Lightning McQueen Racing thing

Full size animatronic and big screens. Short lines, fun when not on fire.

MGM

Millennium Falcon

Fly the Falcon! Long lines but much of it, IN THE FALCON!

MGM

Rise of Resistance

Insane Star Wars Thing! We'll have to pay to ride. Otherwise we will grow old and die on line

MGM

Star Wars Characters

They wander around StarWarsLand instead of having spots. I may be openly weeping when we get there, so point them out to me please.

MGM

Mickey Runaway Railway Adventure

New Trackless dark ride, big lines. Supposedly fantastic but I'm still bitter about Great Movie Ride, so there.

MGM

Meet OLAF

He doesn't like Warm Hugs anymore.  Awww.

MGM

Sorcerer Mickey & Starlet Minnie

Best outfits for the Mice, line wildly unpredictable

MGM

Terror o' Tower

Lines vary depending on how many of the ride elevators they can get working. This should probably worry me.

MGM

Doc McStuffins, Fancy Nancy, Vampirina

I thought no one in our family cared about these anymore, boy was I wrong! Pluto is with them for reasons I cannot fathom.

MGM

Alien Saucer thing

Teacups driven by aliens- does anyone read these, or am I wasting effort?

MGM

Slinky Dog Coaster

“Family coaster” like barnstormer or Sesame Place Grover one, but much slower, still hideous lines

Animal Kingdom

Festival of the Lion King

Big stadium. They don't list wait times, we've only seen it fill up a couple times

Animal Kingdom

Mickey and Minnie at Outpost

I think this is gone. That room was tiny.

Animal Kingdom

Kilimanjaro Safari

This line still builds up. Animals yay! I'd like to see this in the dark someday, but may have to visit in the winter for that

Animal Kingdom

Primeval Whirl

This is now a pile of rubble. How sad.

Animal Kingdom

Expedition Everest

Yeti mountain backwards coaster. Line varies all over the place.

Animal Kingdom

Kevin

That giant bird from UP. Don't worry about waiting, I’m sure he'll pop up and scare me.

Animal Kingdom

Winged Encounters

"Boids…lousy stinking boids."

Animal Kingdom

Tough to be a Bug

Terrifying 3D film with effects, huge theater no line.

Animal Kingdom

Avatar Flight of Passage

Still enormous lines. Even first thing. Was cool but not everyone liked it. Your worth mileage may vary (hence the rating scale)

Animal Kingdom

Avatar Na'vi River Journey

Animatronic pretty but short Avatar slow river ride, lines not as crazy as its neighbor but still gets spill over.

Animal Kingdom

Triceratops Spin

Like Dumbo with better throughput (bigger vehicles) but more boring

Animal Kingdom

Walk through safari

No lines, shut up, we're going.

Animal Kingdom

Kali River Rapids

Wet and kind of boring. Lines have been short lately, but it's winter.

Animal Kingdom

Flotillas

Characters come by on boats! There's no line, I just thought that was cool!

Animal Kingdom

Dinosaur

Bumpy jeep with poppy uppy dinosaurs- woot!

ALL

Nighttime Projection Shows

There's one in every park (all but AK have fireworks) do we care?


Amazingly everyone did keep their marks in the boxes. Granted there were many comments in the margins, and random “if-then” conditions…which I will ignore because I have no idea how to incorporate them.


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