We now return you to your Disney discussion.
Posted on 03/30/2017 6:52:33 AM PDT by C19fan
There are only so many hours in a day at Walt Disney World, so how do you decide what to ride first? Simple: you take our advice for it. This meticulous ranking of every stellar must-see 3D attraction, perfectly themed roller coaster, and out-of-this-world flyer will help you plan the perfect trip for speed demons and boat ride obsessives alike. (We left stage shows and other smaller attractions out, so consider these the best-of-the-best where rides are concerned.)
Dangle your toes over international monuments, shoot to the galaxy in a rocket, and believe it or not, catch a stand-up comedy show led by animated monsters with this worst to best ranking of everything at Disney’s Magic Kingdom, Animal Kingdom, Hollywood Studios and Epcot.
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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror. Willing to wait on line for 30 minutes but not worth it for alonger wait.
Space Mountain: Lame roller coaster. Has not been on that ride for 30 years.
Splash Mountain. Just another log flume ride. Never been on it.
Peter Pan’s Flight: Most times avoided it as way too long lines.
Mad Tea Party: A dime a dozen spinning around in a compartment ride.
Underrated
Star Tours: Top 2 best rides at Hollywood Studios. This is from a fan of the franchise.
Walt Disney’s Enchanted Tiki Room: Ranked 36 out of 50!!! This is one of the attractions that separated Disney from other amusement parks.
Mission: SPACE. This is for me #1 at Epcot. I never experienced so many G's in my life as on that ride.
Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin: For me an awesome shoot em up ride.
It’s A Small World: Once again an iconic ride that separates Disney from other amusement parks. One cannot get that song out of your head after being on that ride.
The top two winners were: 1) Eastern Airlines If Man Had Wings, and 2) WEDWAY People Mover.
-PJ
There are two types of people..... Those who love its a small world and those who hate it.
Saving
Spaceship Earth - witnessed a woman die there. The EMTs tried to act like she was ok for the benefit of the tourists. Not exactly the happiest place on earth.
Buzz Lightyear - like it but there’s a line.
Dinosaur - ride too jerky so not fun.
It’s a Small World - PLEASE do away with this!
Peter Pan - like it and the lines are fine imo.
Haunted Mansion - like the ride part but long lines.
Tower of Terror - boring and ridiculously long lines for not much excitement.
Space Mountain - favorite! Late at night there are no lines so you can ride, run around and immediately ride again and again and again.
Toad’s Wild Ride - loved it but heard they closed it. Too bad.
When I was very young (grade school, junior high) I loved going on carnival rides. By the time I was old enough to run my own life, they lost their appeal.
At this point in my life, I fail to understand what the attraction is, especially for adults. You are strapping yourself in and allowing yourself to be moved around at the mercy of someone else for no discernible purpose. I would much rather ride a bike, swim, run, walk, or just about anything else. If you like g forces, drive a car fast, skydive, fly a plane. If I want to be terrorized, I just look at pictures of Hitlery, 0vomit, or Pelosi.
Letting someone else control your body seems like such a non-conservative thing to do.
Easy. Don’t go. Why support the enemy?
My six year old son and I went to Disney and we were nearly first through the gate. The very first ride he wanted to go on was the Buzz Lightyear Space Rangers ride. NO ONE ELSE chose that to ride first as the line is always very short through the day.
Waiting for us as we got on the ride was a Disney employee that gave us two “Fast Pass” passes. That gave us the chance to do Fast Pass on every single ride that offered it, all day long. Never knew why we got chosen for that.
Amazing opportunity.
First of all, I prefer Disneyland to Walt Disney World. The ones I remember after ten years are the Teacups (hey - I was with a six year old), It’s a Small World which was dressed up for Christmas. I guess I expected to hate it but I did not.... and Pirates of the Caribbean. I don’t like getting wet and I don’t like roller coasters so that limited my enjoyment of some of them. I think we did Pirates three or four times. I would have gone back to The Nightmare before Christmas but it scared the granddaughter too much. And I loved Sea World but now that they have nixed Shamu maybe not so much.
Because I could not see anything, I found Space Mountain to be horrible. It was like being thrown around in the dark.
Small World was nice because it was cool.
Haunted Mansion was just interesting.
Disney is Hell for people on the Autism Spectrum, which I am. One of the worst experiences of my life. Long lines, crowds pressing on you, heat and stress.
I thought the two types were those who hate it but recognize that having that song stuck in your head is part of the Disney experience and those who just hate it.
I was fond of If Man Had Wings and the special effects they had then (70s). It really felt like you were there in a couple of places. I had not felt that on any other ride until Epcot’s Soarin’ came along.
We now return you to your Disney discussion.
I love the ride. Hate the music because it echoes in your head for days after lol
“Because I could not see anything, I found Space Mountain to be horrible. It was like being thrown around in the dark.”
I’ve always described that ride as 60 miles an hour in a dark closet.
In the old days if you stayed at the hotel and got Early Entry you could knock out most of the good rides before the park opened. Now there’s too many hotels and even some outside hotels participating so it’s more like the park just opened up an hour early.
Based on Don Garlits' moon-shot wheel-stand I see. Full on wheelie, and then wind up facing back where you started!
Oh, yeah...all without the annoying crash or blow-up. They do a great job of staging it with the light tree, shaking as though you are sitting in neutral waiting for green and the time board. One of our times was 122mph. And smooth as silk.
The newer version of the ride is Kingda-Ka at 6Flags in NJ. Taller and faster BUT the dynamics of those changes made for a very rough ride. Still rode that multiple times anyway.
Yeah, If Man Had Wings had those two rooms, the one with the domed ceiling where they projected ice sailing and you felt like you were zooming along with the fan blowing in your face, and the mirror room where they showed the Sahara desert.
Walt Disney World also had the CircleVision 360 theater. That was also a cool "you are there" experience, but you had to stand up during the movie. This one pre-dated Soarin', but it was similar with a plane flying and banking, and the horse-drawn carriage ride through a New England creek bridge.
-PJ
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When I was young there was a Circlevision 360 attraction at DisneyLAND, and it cut an employee in half.
Was there recently with family, and was grossed out by all the low-class human refuse that surrounded me. Seemed like all of SoCal was composed of fat, menacing, tattooed Mexicans with no civility.
Heck, I get plenty of that in Houston already.
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