WonkaKid
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Apr 2, 2009
Quick report. Crowds were average or perhaps a bit below. Have we reached the beginning of the end of spring break folk?
The friends who usually join me weren’t there yesterday so it was a slightly different start for me. I decided to rope-drop M&MRR, since I’ve only done it once before. Some may recall that I’ve RD’ed IJ for the past few weeks. PP isn’t worth starting with any longer unless it’s closed at the park open or some other form of force majeure graces us.
I was the first from the rope-drop to make it to M&MRR. I was about the tenth in line overall and it was a walk-on, essentially. I decided to continue with my strategy of doing things differently so I then rode Gadget’s Go Coaster. I think I’ve only done that once before and it was more than ten years ago. It was more fun than I recall, even though it’s over in about three breaths ;-). Then I jumped in line for RR. That was also virtually a walk-on.
Following Toon Town, I headed to Buzz. Had a very rough start with the attraction. Either I got a cruiser with a bad gun -- inaccurate, didn’t work well or the scoring was faulty – or high-value targets didn’t work. In the worst cases, both occurred. On my second to last ride, the gun would seize up about once every ten seconds and I barely broke 1M. I explained the problem to a CM and she let me ride again. For my final circuit, conditions were perfect: the gun performed well and nearly all of the targets were working. So finally I was able to get a respectable score of just more than 2M. Aside: my newly-minted adversary NAP wasn’t there so it was easy to rule the leader board. When I left the park at around 2:00, I was still in the #1 slot.
One more interesting thing: I rode HM at around 10:30 and that was only about a five-minute wait. I presumed that it must have just reopened after being down for a bit.
Standard DL postcards are still MIA. I’m talking about the basic ones that show the castle or something similar. You can still buy the pricey artistic ones… in a set of five at Emporium for $14. No thanks. I’ll hold out for the ones that come in at around $2.
Not much else to share, other than I replenished my map supply, if anyone would like a set. I sent out three to various board members this morning.
Pics:
The friends who usually join me weren’t there yesterday so it was a slightly different start for me. I decided to rope-drop M&MRR, since I’ve only done it once before. Some may recall that I’ve RD’ed IJ for the past few weeks. PP isn’t worth starting with any longer unless it’s closed at the park open or some other form of force majeure graces us.
I was the first from the rope-drop to make it to M&MRR. I was about the tenth in line overall and it was a walk-on, essentially. I decided to continue with my strategy of doing things differently so I then rode Gadget’s Go Coaster. I think I’ve only done that once before and it was more than ten years ago. It was more fun than I recall, even though it’s over in about three breaths ;-). Then I jumped in line for RR. That was also virtually a walk-on.
Following Toon Town, I headed to Buzz. Had a very rough start with the attraction. Either I got a cruiser with a bad gun -- inaccurate, didn’t work well or the scoring was faulty – or high-value targets didn’t work. In the worst cases, both occurred. On my second to last ride, the gun would seize up about once every ten seconds and I barely broke 1M. I explained the problem to a CM and she let me ride again. For my final circuit, conditions were perfect: the gun performed well and nearly all of the targets were working. So finally I was able to get a respectable score of just more than 2M. Aside: my newly-minted adversary NAP wasn’t there so it was easy to rule the leader board. When I left the park at around 2:00, I was still in the #1 slot.
One more interesting thing: I rode HM at around 10:30 and that was only about a five-minute wait. I presumed that it must have just reopened after being down for a bit.
Standard DL postcards are still MIA. I’m talking about the basic ones that show the castle or something similar. You can still buy the pricey artistic ones… in a set of five at Emporium for $14. No thanks. I’ll hold out for the ones that come in at around $2.
Not much else to share, other than I replenished my map supply, if anyone would like a set. I sent out three to various board members this morning.
Pics:
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