I know a lot of people have threads about what is the first thing that you are going to do. But I was wondering what do you plan on doing after the park reopens. For example, after I renew my annual pass, I plan on riding every single ride from the biggest to the smallest. I'm not planning on doing this in one visit but over several visits.
I am pretty sure I will just stand on Main Street and cry. Then I will ride whatever I can and eat at Rancho or Jolly Holiday when we get hungry.
Ditto about crying on Main Street! I have been craving my Matterhorn Macaroons for over a year now, so that is definitely on my to-do list. I think that I would take the time to just sit someplace to take everything in, and appreciate the hardships the CM's endured during the closure. I would do my best to go out of my way to make a CM's day (instead of the other way around).
Wait until the entire world has moved past the yellow tier. Then wait until the rush to see RotR has quieted down. (Personally, my idea of an immersive experience is something with a lot more freedom of choice. When I go to WDW, I stay in the All Star Music not just because it's cheap, and not just because it's probably the most adult-oriented of the whole All Star/Pop Century class of hotels, but because unlike the more expensive hotels, it is so Disney-immersive that it's absolutely impossible to forget you're staying at a Disney hotel. Which is to say, my ultimate immersive experiences are Colonial Williamsburg and Plimoth Plantation. And when visiting the former, whenever possible, I book a Colonial House accommodation for my final night.)
I agree with waiting until we have more freedom of choice. But my will may grow weak. (ie If the grandchildren go I will no doubt be unable to resist.)
Uh, no, I meant more freedom of choice than one appears to have in RotR, or than one had in the two attractions at the "Star Trek Hilton." -- instead of having just one path through an engineered attraction, Plimoth gives you two small immersive realms (a colony site with costumed interpreters who don't break character unless necessary for reasons of safety, and a native homesite staffed with Native People, many of whom have actual Wampanoag ancestry, who aren't acting in character, but who are experts in now the Wampanoag People of c. 1620 lived), and CW is one huge immersive realm, big enough to have private inholdings, where even the shopkeepers are interpreters. Come to think of it, Mystic Seaport is another fairly immersive experience, although not to the same degree as Plimoth or CW.
I don't live in CA any more and can't visit often at the best of times anyway... so I think I'll wait until I can experience the parks with minimum restrictions or worries. Maybe that means being recently vaccinated AND a good percentage of the country likewise just to be super-safe, I don't know. But I wouldn't want to go and have to worry about "did that guy just get too close to me?" or "I touched that handrail in the queue without meaning to... do I need to go wash my hands or can I wait till after the ride?"... and etc. When I do get there, I think I may take the RR first. a). Haven't done it first in years, b). I could see nearly the whole park on my first visit since 2017, c). it will be a semi-new experience, as I still haven't been on it with the post-GE route (it was down for re-routing on my 2017 trip).
