I love the magic shot with the Banshee very cool.
Thanks! I understand the have a few magic shots (and one that is video) but I was glad we got at least that one!
Ha! Your poor son will be searching high and low for one when you go again. My youngest, would NEVER let me live that down, if i did that. Seriously she would be getting married and saying remember when you tricked me that one time! Too Funny.
Oh, I mess with my kids all the time - they definitely have learned sarcasm. My oldest loves it too and tries to do sarcasm as well and then will say "isn't this fun how we are all being sarcastic!" I also tell her that it is my job to embarrass her
I have never tried that before! I gotta keep that in mind for the next trip.
It was nice you were able to meet up with some fellow DISers and enjoy EE and Pandora together. It's nice when you can experience a park with fellow fans you've felt like you've known for a few years.
One of my classmates in college had a brother whose job at Universal was to make sure the stores inside the WWoHP looked "dirty" enough. He was responsible for the fake cobwebs in corners and dust on high shelves.
It's hilarious to think of Team Members and Imaginears having to think about how to make sure stuff ISN'T clean or doesn't look brand new.
Wow, that speaks volumes for the attraction. I have seen nothing but positive reviews for the attraction, but yours is the first TR update I've read covering the ride. An hour is a significant amount of time in a Disney veteran's book. Like the tidbit on EE, I'll have to keep this mind for my upcoming trip. I am sure I won't sang a FP for Flights of Passage (only being able to book 30 days out) and I was hesitant to try standby, but now maybe I will.
I actually read about the "lifting your feet" bit here on the DIS - it increases the feeling of weightlessness
Definitely great how many people I was able to meet up with - and Amber and Marie were definitely a priority so I was glad it worked out and we got a few hours together
I full agree - and how much skill it takes to make something new look old. We were just wondering what you put on your resume or what your job title is if you have a very specific skill/role - just with how big a project Pandora was, did they need to hire dozens of "rusters" who specialize in making things loos rusty?
Maybe because it is still new and because the queue is so cool and so much to see but I think an hour or so I would do. Maybe years down the road I will only want to do it via FP but for now I left the park feeling that way ... now for the river ride, that is a different story (but that comes later)
Not sure if you have been keeping up with the main Pandora thread but there is a lot of tracking for wait times for the rides in Pandora. It seems like wait times peak early in the morning as everyone heads there. So the best tips are:
- Be at the part ~1 hour before opening (they have been opening the gate a bit early, so maybe even like 1:15 early) and be in the first group of people heading there. By about 30 mins past park opening the wait times reach their peak
- Later in the afternoon, I guess people take their break from AK and the wait times go down a bit
- Then they build back up at the start of the evening when the bioluminescence comes on
- Then goes back down a bit during EMH