Or tell us grilled cheese is really called pudding.
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I totally LOL’d.
Kids are all asking why now.
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Now that’s the second time in this thread I have been reminded of ExtraTERRORestrial Alien Encounter. Bring it back!
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Sounds fun! Where do they have the Star Wars VR?
It’s gone now. The Void broke their contract (owed someone else too much money who took over their property rights from what I could tell online with google) and Disney said you can no longer use our stuff and you have to move out of DD and DS.
I experienced Alien Encounter just once I believe. It was without a doubt the most terrifying attraction I have ever done - scarier than any roller coaster or haunted house or whatever. I don’t think it would be as scary on repeat, but that first time was pure terror. Little kids and adults alike would come out crying.
I also recall that they used the same fake shipping company (XS) as part of the Space Mountain queue, IIRC. It united the land around a central theme nicely. And made Space Mountain a little scarier. (Maybe I’m making this all up, who knows?)
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However, if they come back post-pandemic the Jumanji one was also great and that’s not Disney. I didn’t like the Marvel one so much so no loss there to me. But losing Star Wars and Wreck-It-Ralph is very sad.
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We live an hour away from the parks and have friends near us that have an Orlando condo just for park weekends. Seems like an extravagance to me when you’re an hour away 
I know I’ll still stay on property from time to time, just cuz
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Yes, we experienced it once also before it was modified. It was scary. It was cool it was so scary, cuz Disney. We used the Stitch version to trick unsuspecting family members into experiencing chili burps before breakfast.
I’m so glad we still have a leaded version of Mission Space. Surprised but glad.
Disney is missing a bet by not doing more immersive scary stuff. Plaster warnings all over the queue. Set high height limits. But pull out the stops and do what they do well.
Leave the coasters to the other guys.
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I was just up by there for something or another, and imho I can’t imagine them ever using that line again. The trees have completely swallowed up the rails/posts and I’m actually nervous about the structural integrity of the concrete now.
It breaks my heart, but I just don’t see it happening.
I was summoned to the thread somewhat late in the game, so I haven’t read it all.
My problem with Disney World — brace yourself, this isn’t comedic or intended to be — is that I’m vaguely ashamed of my love of it in much the same way I’m vaguely ashamed of being gay.
I mean, I tell people I go there and, in doing so, I’ve discovered a surprising number of my students are regular visitors. But I still feel a slight twinge of shame that it’s my preferred vacation destination.
I guess if you’ve never been to Disney World, you don’t get it. May you don’t get it even if you have been.
You guys get it.
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I’m perfectly ok with the parks staying niche.
More Mickey Ice Cream bars for us. Just saying.
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For sure. If we had any sense we’d organise a concerted anti-WDW campaign. Let’s get a boycott going. “Disney World sucks! Don’t go there!”
After all, they’ve shown they can operate at 30% capacity. Let’s keep it that way.
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wellllll - if you call it operating without night time entertainment, parades, character meals, and most shows.
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Oh. Yeah. Good point. Damn.
I’m good without most of that anyway. I’d be ok.
I’m also that awkward person who thinks there isn’t enough Purell in the world to clean off what I had just caught hugging the same Chip and Dale a gazillion other people have touched (including ones who don’t wash after using the loo). Or if that woman who just used her hand to wipe her nose secretly has the flu but refused to reschedule her trip, other’s vacations be damned, she’s going to sit here and sneeze/cough all over this parade section of roped in, no way to escape, herd of people.
I was a germaphobe before this thing became a thing. 30%, spaced out stuff suits me juuuuuuust fine.
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I’m jumping in to this late and will have to catch up later when it’s not 11 PM, but #1 thing for me is when someone who hasn’t been before talks about how expensive it is like that is the ONLY thing to talk about. Like it can’t possibly be worth that amount of money. And nevermind when I try telling them about all the ways to do Disney much cheaper than my family chooses to do it.
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I could care less the things that ppl say about Disney that are incorrect. I like @sanstitre_has_left_the_building try to hide how much I go or that I’m a BIG fan b/c it feels like an addiction. I can never get the name of that railroad ride correct in Frontierland, I prefer Downtown Disney over the monstrosity it’s become and I just found a map from a memorable trip that show both DTD and MGM studios. The family and I talk about those old names all the time. One thing that I’ve experienced recently was someone talking smack about the theft of time and money and How could anyone want to do that to themselves!? There are ppl that actually think it’s a scam and that’s disheartening.
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Same! I do not look forward to giving up my personal ride vehicles and actually have to sit next to people again.
This was going to be mine. The worst is getting the, “Oh, you’re one of those crazy Disney people” response. I have learned to choose my audience wisely.
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I would lick the turnstiles.
Zero concerns about germs myself.
I love the enthusiasm of jam-packed concerts and a ship’s deck on party night.
Heaven-help-me bring back crowds.
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