reddening's thread of DISNEY PARKS gossip

Frozen meet and greets I think the most popular fast pass.

Hollywood Studios is kind of aimless and reduntant, but it's a nice day anyway.

some person or animal took a crap in the street, and then someone or something smeared at for about 10 feet. They had to block the area.

I'm staying in Wilderness Lodge in December: four nights and four days, including tea party, early morning magic hour, princesses, and pixie dust.

I'll let my niece lend you some of her costumes.

oh i see we've covered this above

I really want to stay at Ft. Wilderness Lodge for at least part of our next trip. I've been treating the lodging as an incidental (and inexpensive as possible) afterthought but everything feels kinda anticlimactic once the day is over.

I really enjoy these 15 minute live distillations of Disney movies. Beauty and the Beast was sweet, my younger one loved Mermaid.

On the downside they were going to charge us to cancel Brown Derby, so light apps and drinks it is.

Have you seen/are you planning on seeing Fantasmic? I just saw it for the first time this year and I think kids would love it. Or be terrified by it. Or both.

But GO EARLY. And hang on to your kids for dear life. The pre-show waiting area is the most densely-packed crowd I experienced anywhere in the parks.

Toy story game ride was great! Fantasmic tonight.

there is a nativity scene up!

Don't know where the hidden Mickeys would be in there.

Now, in the Good Friday scene, I'd have an idea...

Actual overheard one sided phone conversation behind us at Indiana Jones:

I think I walked 15,0000 steps, so like 7 miles. Yeah, it's pretty good exercise. Huh? I'm voting for jeb bush. Jeb bush for president. Make it three Bushes. Uh huh. How are the http://images.chron.com/blogs/askacat/hatcat.JPG doin'?

definitely ken marino

Early start for breakfast, then Animal Kingdom, the best designed park.

Third language of Fantasmic announcement last night was Portuguese. I wonder if they can tell that is the third most popular language that particular day?

Everest currently broken!

That's a bummer. My favorite ride in all of the parks, hands down. It was down for a while when we were there, too, so maybe things will turn around.

they have been pretty good getting them up and running again.

Still down. I smartly sat out Kali rapids, and am only dry one.

good move. Make sure to hit the dinosaur dark ride, probably my fav extant dark ride from the last time i was there…which was ages ago

"Back in my day, we rode dinosaurs in the dark at amusement parks. That was ages ago."

Yeah, Dinosaur is rad. That pseudo-coaster technology they use is amazing and should be more widespread (I think the Indiana Jones ride at Disneyland is similar?).

My older one chickened out at Everest, but the 7 year old was totally game.

They both hated Dinosaur.

Philistines!

The Primeval Whirl is fun, too, if not exactly the type of ride you go to WDW for.

Has anyone on here used the My Disney Experience app? this was super handy when we were in WDW in the spring. It allows you to track attraction wait times and manage your fast passes all from your phone.

We tried but the app was way too huge for my old-ass phone.

We are using the hell out of the app plusWDW Lines.

My wife is such a pro at planning.

Just learned they are building an Avatar Land here, how dumb.

Josh are you guys gonna swing by Universal Orlando for Harry Potter land?

Harry Potter ride at Islands of Adventure is sick, spider man ride is pretty amazing too

We didn't hit Universal this year because it was my girlfriend's first WDW trip since she was a kid but next time for sure. That Harry Potter ride is supposed to be the best thing in the Orlando area so I'm pretty psyched.

Don't want to pay full park price for just Harry Potter.

Other rides too intense for my kids, generally.

have they started construction on avatar land yet? i keep hoping that they'll wake up one day and be like "oh wait! this franchise is flash-in-the-pan nonsense!" and shutter the whole thing.

Fun thread. WiFi no trouble, Josh? I may live blog in December.

xpost Right? It seems so short-sighted. I could see making a ride, but a whole subsection of the park is just nuts.

Mr. Toad taps his webbed foot at your talk of flash-in-the-pan nonsense.

WiFi has been solid.

Boma at animal lodge remains a fave. Now fitting in some Epcot.

Food and Wine Fest in progress. makes me appreciate living in a city that has good food and beer all the time.

when I was here two years ago we walked past Sugar Ray performing. Tonight, I just walked past boys II men! At the Eat to the Beat stage.

ha -- I was at the MK on Grad Nite when Cathy Dennis performed.

People going nuts for Motown Philly.

food and wine fest is sweet, nothing beats drinking around the world

Disney full of drunk idiots a bad scene.

Epcot is great when it's not Food & Wine Festival. I've seen fiftysomethings yak in the bushes in front of Germany.