The Theme Park Thread • Page 176

Thanks for the tips, everyone! We’ll be staying at the All Star Movie Resort and hitting up all four parks. I’m super excited. I’ve only been once and I was only able to hit up Magic Kingdom and EPCOT. My fiancé has never been at all, period. I’m particularly excited for Hollywood Studios and I’m also excited for my fiancé to experience Magic Kingdom so we can compare/contrast the rides there that they also have at Disneyland (I have my opinions on all of them, so I’m interested to see what she thinks).

We’re also going at the beginning of January so I’m also stoked to see everything decorated for Christmas!

Also, any tips to get great coffee would also be greatly appreciated. I’ll get Starbucks if I have to, but I love that goodgood Joffrey’s

 

I went to homecoming at the end of June for my anniversary and I know what you mean but we just went back to the hotel shortly after and digested in the 69° room

 

NICE

 

Damn this is a family thread once

 

there are Joffrey's locations throughout each park and Disney Springs so you will be fine in that regard. I'm a black iced coffee drinker so starbucks is fine for me

 

Excellent! I take it black too, I just kinda prefer Joffrey’s to SBUX, tbh

 

Also I’m mad at myself that I haven’t been active in this thread. As someone who lives right next door to Disneyland and is a Magic Key holder, this seems like a no-brainer. Haha

 

Went to Canada's Wonderland over the weekend...what a gem of a park! The flat ride collection has to easily be the best in North America. Operations were quick and efficient on everything.

However, the crowd that place draws is atrocious. Is it common for people up there to regularly have one person wait in line and then 3 or 4 more people joing them about 30mins into the wait? This happened 4 times throughout the day, the last time it happened I was like "what are you doing?" and they all looked at me like I was the idiot. Is this a cultural thing when it comes to queues?

 

freaking canadians

 

Not a cultural thing, people are just dicks

 

Not mentioned yet but Satu'li Canteen in Pandora at Animal Kingdom was a great quick service restaurant, and the drink stand right outside of it had a wonderful slushy drink that I can't remember the name of.

Also, the Ronto Wrap at Galaxy's Edge is another good quick service item and pretty reasonably priced.

Echoing Skipper Canteen as being great. Magic Kingdom has pretty mediocre food but that spot is really good

 

damn TMI once

 

Yeah Ronto Wraps slap. Didn’t know they had them at WDW too!

 

We live on Joffreys Shakin Jamaicans. Make sure you save that 20% off coupon they mail you with the luggage tags. You can use it throughout your trip!

If it’s in your budget I’d look into how much it would be to upgrade to Pop Century. It’s super worth it. There is a Joffreys at the Carribean Skyliner Station that has no line. Just one perk. Haha.

 

Think me and the wife are going to once again get WDW Annual Passes. We live about 1hr away so it’s not terrible. Being able to go whenever we want really is nice. We go 2-3 times a year as it is, and the price of since day tickets… yikes!

 

Finally getting to ride Mako and Velocicoaster at the end of the month.

 

Mako is such a legit coaster. So fun.

 

Allllll of this.

 

Disney executives are blaming low WDW attendance on the 50th anniversary being over, I kid you fucking not.

 

Lol. If my kids were like 6-8 years older I’d probably never visit Disney again and get season passes to Universal

 

Disney needs more rides that aren’t tied to an IP.

 

Its too expensive to go to Disney

knotts berry for the win

 

As much as I love Disney and as often as I go, Disneyland itself could really use some updating. Galaxy’s Edge and Toontown was a good start, but some new rides and renovations are greatly needed. You can only introduce so much new food and merch in order to prevent the staleness

 

At least finally do something with Tomorrowland.

 

Or good rides tied to an IP. Like Moana had potential and we get what everyone thought was going to be a really nice way to cut through the middle of the park. Instead you need to wait in line to walk under some jumping fountains.

The Minions ride isn’t getting great reviews but you bet my kids would like shooting a toy laser gun at some screens more than walking through a fancy garden in a 100 degree heat