Originally Posted By Disney and beyond Sort of inspired by discussion in other topics, What are your favorite lines? As seemingly the only one who is an expert on Walt Disney World (being a 30-something time goer, which is good considering I live in Illinois.) I can only speak for the WDW side of things -Toy Story Mania. I love every single Toy reference in that line. And I love the Irony of the first thing you see when entering is...Peter Pan. -Muppet*Vision 3D. The fake Movie Posters are still there in WDW, and I actually got to see them for the first time on my last trip. I also love to explore the pre-show area, looking at all the jokes. Star Tours. Just the whole themeing of a Space Flight Terminal is so awesome. The C3PO and R2D2 segement is pure win. What are some of yours?
Originally Posted By jdub I agree that Star Tours is a great one.. ...Also Indiana Jones, where I think they way in is the best part of the entire experience!
Originally Posted By DismayingObservation Indy, no question about it. It's far and away the best in both parks. Star Tours is beyond cool with its use of actual robots from one of the movies, but those converted "America Sings" droids are a bit corny IMO, not to mention hard to understand. MV3D is absolutely hilarious and let's not forget Tower of Terror, Bug's Life and Monsters, Inc. while we're hanging around the south side, yo. Returning to the other side, we have the good: * Big Thunder * Pirates (at least once you're inside) * Space Mountain (again, once you're inside) * Winnie the Pooh, believe it or not. * Jungle Cruise The not so good: *Almost anything in Fantasyland *Subs *Matterhorn *The zig-zag of the Haunted Mansion And the downright ugly: *Monorail *Outside of Space Mountain
Originally Posted By YumaJohn Hands down, Indy. It's too bad they seem to rush you through it these days. I rode it a few months after opening and waited well over an hour and totally enjoyed every minute of it. Not to go off topic but it seems like the Splash Mountain queue REALLY needs some plussing. Just as long inside the structure as Indy but with nothing to look at. I complain because I care
Originally Posted By ni_teach I agree with YumaJohn, hands down Indiana Jones is the winner for the best line.
Originally Posted By Lil Mermaid I dislike how many of the wonderful queues are just bypassed now as a result of the fastpass system. When I was younger I loved the Roger Rabbit Cartoon Spin queue. I think that the Jungle Cruise and Tiki Room both have fantastic queues that are often overlooked. However, I think it is Indiana Jones that takes the prize for best overall queues. Good post!
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Hmmm, difficult call so let's do battle: DL - the fight is between Indy and Star tours (with Roger Rabbit inching away as a contender). Indy feels too long and boring after the initial coolness, so win to Star Tours IMHO. DCA - hmmm, Tower of Terror and Monsters Inc battle it out, but the lobby, library and boiler room, tower wins. Overall winner in California, Star Tours. WDW MK - hmmmm, not many to write home about PotC, Splash maybe, but Buzz does have an awesome AA, winner, Buzz. Epcot - Ok, not many interesting queues, the battle is between Test Track with all the cool vehicle tests and Nemo with the cute underwater effects. Hmmmmm, difficult one. Nemo wins by a nose. DHS - some great lines here - Muppets, Star Tours, the Great Movie Ride, Tower of Terror and RNRC. But with the outside sets as well as the cool indoors ones, the winner is Star Tours. DAK - Dinosaur, ITTBAB and Expedition Everest offer up some of Disney's finest and the best of WDW, but the win must go to EE! Overall winner at WDW - Expedition Everest. DLP Now this resort not only has some of the best versions of E-tickets, but also some of the best queues. Star Tours is almost identical to DL's with the addition of an x wing out front. space Mountain used to be awesome, but they emasculated it with Mission 2. Buzz is cool too. But it is over in adventureland where my favorite queue in the whole disney universe resides - PotC. starting out looking at skull rock and a Pirate ship, wind your way under a sail through the jungle in front of a spanish fort, through the fort including torture implements, onto the beach and into the boat. WDSP - RNRC, Cars, and ToT have the best queues. Winner ToT. Overall DLP winner - PotC Overall western parks winner - PotC DLP (IMHO), silver goes to Expedition Everest, Bronze to Star Tours at any of the parks. Honourable mention to Indy and Roger Rabbit
Originally Posted By DismayingObservation Re. #7: Bingo! Good call on both Roger Rabbit and Tiki Room. Finally made it to Hawaii for the first time last year and LilliBelle and I actually saw the pineapples as they were being grown at the Dole Plantation. First time either of us had seen pineapple actually being grown outside of that film presentation. Didn't get Dole Whips, though. Place was too expensive!
Originally Posted By wonderingalice For me, it's a toss-up between Indy and Roger Rabbit. But a surprise entry on my list came to be one GORGEOUS spring day in March a couple of years ago - "Alice In Wonderland!" The sun was shining warm, a cool California breeze was blowing - I looked up at the bluest sky and the majesty of the Matterhorn and said out loud to Mr. Alice, "Wow, it just doesn't get any better than this!!"
Originally Posted By barboy ///Winnie the Pooh, believe it or not/// Maybe you could help me with that one? Pooh has no queue--- I mean the line has no props, AA's or sets.
Originally Posted By barboy 1) Journey to Cent. of Earth---Dis. Sea 2) IJ Crystal Skull---Dis. Sea 3) ToT Hightower Hotel--- Dis Sea 4) IJ--- Dl CA 5) Roger Rab.--- Tokyo Dl/Dl CA 6) TOT--- Dis. Studios/ DCA 7)Everest---Animal King. 8)Pirates---Magic King 9)Pirates--- Dl Paris 10) Star Tours--- Dl Paris/CA/Tokyo/Dis Studios
Originally Posted By DismayingObservation Re. #11: It doesn't have any AA's, but you get to enter through a simulated covered bridge over a little brook. The landscaping comes right down to the queue itself, shade trees make it nice and pleasant as does the music.
Originally Posted By barboy Aha! I hear ya---- a very natural, peaceful, pretty entry to the attraction. And I guess you'r right..... that really is part of the queue.
Originally Posted By DismayingObservation Thanks. It seems as if a lot of thought went into it since they'd planned to put it on the FASTPASS system, but it didn't take off like they thought it would. So, we get a very pleasant but brief stroll through the Hundred Acre Wood prior to boarding the ride.
Originally Posted By barboy ///10) Star Tours--- Dl Paris/CA/Tokyo/Dis Studios/// I unjustly lumped Dis Studios Star Tours in with the other 3. Clearly the Dis. Studios attraction has some mighty fine and unique props/sets prior to the main queue.
Originally Posted By barboy Rocket Rod queue.....hmmmmm?.....that line was pretty off-the-wall. I seem to remember the queue displaying an old people mover car and a space mnt. rocket all decked out in neon in or near the rotunda room and a computerized diagram of a rocket rod and neon lit hall/stairs---but then again maybe my memory is faulty on this one.
Originally Posted By barboy ///I like Big Thunder's queue./// The one in Anaheim is quite good but the other 3 are just decent and nothing too special.
