Originally Posted By di-tard4life who thinks that world of color might be better then fantasmic and steal all that thunder? or who thinks that fantasmic will still come out on top ? persnally..i cant wait to see if world of color even draws a crowd..
Originally Posted By DlandDug I believe that World of Color will be quite popular and draw very big crowds. It shouldn't have any real effect on Fantasmic!, which is a tried and true show with a huge following.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt As much as I want to believe that this show will be the end all end all, I'm going to keep my hopes in check until I see the final product, or at least until some reviews come in. All too often new Disney projects get too much hype before they debut and I end up being dissapointed.
Originally Posted By trekkeruss I know I'm in a very small minority, but I'm tired of Fantasmic! and I don't even remember the last time I saw it in its entirety.
Originally Posted By Roger55 WOC hasn't even debuted yet. Way too early to speculate or compare it againts Fantasmic! I remember the high hopes I had for Luminaria, just to find my self running away from all the smoke! LoL
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "I know I'm in a very small minority, but I'm tired of Fantasmic! and I don't even remember the last time I saw it in its entirety." My biggest complaints about the show is that it's way too much trouble to get a decent viewing spot, and the seating (hard pavement for hours) is really uncomfortable. Not to mention the almost unbearable crowds and bottlenecks that form when the show concludes. I usually skip it for those reasons. Hopefully WOC will have a better viewing set-up and crowd control than Fantasmic does.
Originally Posted By BriGuy85 >>My biggest complaints about the show is that it's way too much trouble to get a decent viewing spot, and the seating (hard pavement for hours) is really uncomfortable<< I never really understood why people do this. I always show up 15 mins before showtime and get a perfect spot. Of course I stand, but I think thats the best way to view it. I think waiting there hours before is such a waste of time.
Originally Posted By Hans Reinhardt "I always show up 15 mins before showtime and get a perfect spot." Maybe I need to visit DL with you. Each time I've done that I end up standing somewhere where the view is either obstructed, or off to one side.
Originally Posted By BrnardM Hans, I feel you about the crowd issue. Every time I can't help but think that there has to be a better way to keep traffic moving through that area. At least someone might have come up with a better way in the last 15+ years. Hopefully, they have learned something and will apply it to World of Color. Then again, with half of Paradise Pier closed people may not want to go that way anyhow, problem solved.
Originally Posted By ni_teach Hans Reinhardt said: "My biggest complaints about the show is that it's way too much trouble to get a decent viewing spot" What I do and suggest is to plan on seeing the second show. When the first show get out, go to the train and ride around to NOS station. All the crowds are moving toward main street, just let them go and make your way down to a great location.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I would expect the crowd mess to be a little bit easier to deal with in DCA. I don't know if they will have the big circular traffic paths like they do in DL (counter clockwise around the hub, and the crazy paths snaking through the crowds along the river), but I assume that the proximity of the often ridiculed performance corridor will really help this show out in that regard. When everybody wants to leave at the end of the show, they can just stand up, turn around and walk down the widest path in either park toward the exit. Compare that with the bottleneck next to the treehouse after Fantasmic!, and I think that alone will be reason enough to give it a leg up on the competition.
Originally Posted By ArchtMig I don't think access, viewing locations, or bottlenecked exiting after the show is done have nearly as much to do with whether a show like this is popular or not. Fantasmic is great, and the hassles don't seem to prevent it from being crowded for every performance. While Hans' "wait and see" advice about not judging the show until ya see it is prudent, I'll go out on a limb here and say that I fully expect that WOC will be awesome. On par with Fantasmic, better in some ways, perhaps, not so much in other ways, but it's like comparing apples to oranges. It'll just be different, and that's what we want. Fantasmic is great and worth all the hassles. WOC will be, too, but in this case, the access, viewing, and exiting will probably go a lot smoother since every single thing is being custom planned for dealing with this show. Yes, I hate the performance corridor's wide, barren, waste of space feel. But this is probably the single most significant reason where that will come in handy. Frankly, I'd rather see them build stuff into the edges of the performance corridor and choke down on it some, and make the space that much more compelling during the other 23 hours of the day when it is not being used as an exit corridor. And that may happen in time. But for now, the bad vibe I get from one of DCA's psychologically depressing original features (that awful performance corridor) will most likely pale in comparison to the joy I receive from WOC.
Originally Posted By believe It's kind of like Vegas - which Cirque DuSoleil show is better... O, Zumanity, Beatles Love, Mystere, etc, etc...
Originally Posted By di-tard4life >>""My biggest complaints about the show is that it's way too much trouble to get a decent viewing spot, and the seating (hard pavement for hours) is really uncomfortable""<< yeah totally i agree with that!! u can't find a decent spot for fantasmic and then when u do..some golly green giant comes and stand right in fron of you..now im a very short person 5foot tall to be exact and yeah the seating situation at fantasmic bugs me, so i just stopped watching it..now i hope disney has figured out a way to even the pain of finding spot to watch WOC next spring!
Originally Posted By di-tard4life i agree that WOC will probally be more.. exciting..HOPEFULLY the traffic will be less painfull. just that the traffic from fantasmic ..the space there is too little for all that crowd!! lol..but i guess we all will see if WOC tanks! hey but on the bright side if it tanks then there be less people wanting to wacht it and then hey maybe good spot will opne up!
Originally Posted By oneyepete I am hoping that they run it simultaniously with Fantasmic. That way I won't have to run from one place to the other to see them both in the same night.
Originally Posted By believe ^^ What you are thinking won't work. They could be running 2 or 3 shows for WOC and you know they already run 2 or 3 shows for F! This is going to be interesting how that's going to work with guests park hopping between shows! It's gonna get crowded!
Originally Posted By cheesybaby "They could be running 2 or 3 shows for WOC.." The word now is that they can only run WOC when the Pier attractions are all closed, meaning only one show per night, at park closing.
