All the ughs in the world about all of this.
It finally gives that Disney touch of theming to a 6 Flags/Knott's Berry Farm-type ride. Just like they did with the Orange Stinger (Silly Symphony Swings) and Mulholland Madness (Goofy's Sky School).
All of which I despise. I do not understand why they had to change those things. Now, I won’t ride either of the already-te-themed things (sky school is horribly scary to me and there’s a firm NOPE on swings I’d death), but they were awesome looking before having Disney thrown up all over them.
(My son likes the two rides, and he’s fine riding SS alone since I won’t go and Dh doesn’t fit, and they ride the swings while I make sure DH’s will is in order, but he would have ridden them without the Disney stuff...he was just waiting to be tall enough)
And this new part is just depressing to me.
I have never felt that those things had some sort of “lesser” theme park quality, and I wish they hadn’t dine what they did. But I grew up at what was then Marriott’s Great America, which I felt was a pretty darned terrific park, so I don’t have the same biases that others do. And I definitely don’t need Disney plastered over everything. Sometimes subtlety is nice.
DCA already took most of what I loved from the first moment I stepped foot in the gates (in 2007) and destroyed it, and now they’ve pretty much finished it off.
BOYS: Tallest 5% of boys will reach 48" at 5.5yo
Yep. My son was about 75% until the last couple years (he’s pretty much above the height percentile line now) and was over 48” at 6.5 when we first went to Wdw and Uni. Since Uni allows 48” (and meet the height req) to ride aolo, this was excellent for his incessant coaster rerides.
To look at it a different way--imagine if they rethemed Indiana Jones to, say, Doc McStuffins.
Great way to describe it.