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  1. WonkaKid

    Crowd Calendars Obsolete?

    Friends were here on Friday and it was jammed. It’s also busier than usual right now. A CM friend just explained that today is the last day to use heavily-discounted children’s tickets (like around $50). I suspect that explains recent larger (and rather unexpected) crowds. Hopefully crowds are...
  2. WonkaKid

    Adults and “skipping” at rope drop.

    Mystery solved! ;-).
  3. WonkaKid

    Adults and “skipping” at rope drop.

    No idea. I don't eat meat, sugar or deep-fried foods so I rarely eat at the park.
  4. WonkaKid

    Adults and “skipping” at rope drop.

    Crowds were heavy at the park yesterday for two primary reasons. 1: the long weekend and 2: there was some cheer competition in town and many (if not all) of the participants came to the park. We’d see groups as small as two girls to as many as eight or nine. By about 7:25, the line at the park...
  5. WonkaKid

    Anyone in the parks this week? Looking for a certain loungefly backpack for my daughter. Can we still find it if it’s sold out online?

    @Safari23 --I was at the park yesterday and saw three new Stitch bags, at least one of which was a Loungefly. $78-$88.
  6. WonkaKid

    Belts: a security tip + park report

    Not necessarily. I simply pack mine in my lunch bag at home and then put it on once I board the tram. No line slow down at all.
  7. WonkaKid

    Belts: a security tip + park report

    I've spoken with CMs at the rope who've told me that they see people fall about once a week at RD, always because they run.
  8. WonkaKid

    Belts: a security tip + park report

    I don’t always wear a belt, but when I do I make sure not to wear it through the Disney security checkpoint because it will trigger an entire body search. Since I bring my own lunch, I simply put it in my lunch bag. Yesterday, however, after my day at DL I exited security to see the dragon that...
  9. WonkaKid

    Best rope-drop spot + Rain and park crowds + maps

    Thank you! Honestly, though: the rain here in LA is little more than a drizzle. Certainly there’s no flooding that I’ve seen. Perhaps it’s worse elsewhere. I got a state of emergency notification this morning… and still don’t know why.
  10. WonkaKid

    Best rope-drop spot + Rain and park crowds + maps

    Despite yesterday’s threat of coming rain and Armageddon, there were more people at the park than I expected. Crowds were definitely light. Just not as light as I would have thought, given the foreboding forecast. In the days prior to reservation requirements, rain was the one thing I found that...
  11. WonkaKid

    HM closure fallout (+ Fantasyland clocks trivia question)

    One thing I forgot to mention: as I boarded the tram at the end of the day, I found a hair bow on the ground. Then I noticed that it was more than simply a bow. It had a light brown piece of plastic attached. When I examined it more closely I found that it was a child’s hearing aid. I was about...
  12. WonkaKid

    HM closure fallout (+ Fantasyland clocks trivia question)

    Crowds at RD were reasonable/average yesterday. Occasionally there are rope-drop Sundays without any (or at least not a lot) of runners. Yesterday was one of those days, thankfully. We moved quickly to PP and no one that I saw ran. However, we did hear someone running up behind us. By that point...
  13. WonkaKid

    Space Mountain single-rider queue reversion + park maps update

    Lately I've been with friends who prefer rope-dropping from the middle. I'm not sure that it makes a lot of difference -- I don't think any one side has an advantage -- so I'm happy to do what they prefer. I don't think I'd ever go to the left side, though. That seems longer. Perhaps one day...
  14. WonkaKid

    Space Mountain single-rider queue reversion + park maps update

    Yes. I think that's where it's always been. It's the place where you line up once inside that's changed... back to the way they used to do it. Maybe when it gets busy they go back to the way they had been doing it.
  15. WonkaKid

    Space Mountain single-rider queue reversion + park maps update

    More pics. Note that in the last pic no park maps were on offer at the park gates. It was snapped as I left the park at around 1:30.
  16. WonkaKid

    Space Mountain single-rider queue reversion + park maps update

    I’m tired (as always on a Sunday evening) so I’ll try to keep this brief (as always on a Sunday evening ;-)). Crowds were the lightest I’ve seen in a long time at the park gates when I arrived this morning at 7:15. I’m sure that’s almost entirely due to the rescheduling of the early entry...
  17. WonkaKid

    Musical chairs

    Yes - they definitely still do it. Haven’t seen it in the past few weeks but I know I have recently. It’s always fun to watch.
  18. WonkaKid

    The end of printed park maps? + report and pics

    Agreed. I think they're a great souvenir. Hopefully the cynics at Disney (who know the price of everything and the value of nothing) haven't come to the same conclusion and decided to do away with free maps... only to offer them for sale at $5.99.
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