Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Not much discussion but it is Friday the 13th. Anybody going to HS for the fright? Hoping it is better than the recent Monster All-nighter party !
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub Reports of insane crowding for this event are popping up online. WDWMagic : F cancelled Cast cant get to theme parks... people struck in cars for hour going nowhere! We want our villains!!!!
Originally Posted By Mickeymouseclub If the wait for a villain meet is 3 hours long How bad is the lines for the busses going to be tonight at park closing? Apparently people are standing in lines they have no idea where they lead to... So much for MyMagic theory.... Apparently it is really long for the IGER Villain line....oh if only...
Originally Posted By TDLFAN Sh...sh..sh.. sh...sh...sh.. sh...sh...sh... <--my best Jason impression.
Originally Posted By Brad I always wondered how in the second Friday 13th film, at the start of it, we see the lone survivor girl in her home in another part of the country. Jason appears and kills her. That means he either hitched a lift, caught a plane or walked all the way to her house(and found out where she lived in a pre-internet and Google age). There would be a great comic in the image of a bag-headed(he didn't get the famous hockey mask until III)Jason sitting next to some terrified old lady on a plane with his machete in his hand!
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I also heard from friends about the traffic was terrible and the surrounding roads were at a standstill and the park was packed with very long lines
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: All the negative reports for this event are true. My sisters and I managed to attend this event and we could only thank Hades we rely on broomsticks for transportation instead of those fiendish, metal contraptions the rest of you call cars! ORWEN: We got there around 1 pm in the afternoon but the crowds didn't really start showing up until 3 or 4. By then it was getting crazy. ORDDU: Since the park is smaller than Magic Kingdom or Epcot, the crowds were more noticeable, naturally. We met up with friends around 6 who said they were about the last people to be let into the parking lot because they noticed others were being turned away at this time. ORWEN: We agreed that the best part of the night for us was Villainy in the Sky Fireworks--which was truly amazing. ORDDU: The lines guests started making for Disney Villain meet and greets began forming in the afternoon around 5 pm even though the villains didn't come out until 8 pm. The lines were discouragingly long. This should be a clear message to Disney management that villains are far more popular than they realize. ORWEN: We suspect that if Disney ever decides to continue Villain Events like this again they will create a hard ticket event like they do with Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween because the guests really turned out for this thing!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: Another really bad mix-up from last night's event was that the special Disney Villain pin that was supposed to have been sold at DHS ended up being sold at Epcot instead. This angered a lot of guests who expected to be able to buy them at the park that was actually celebrating Friday the 13th. AS it was the pins went to Epcot instead and were sold out there. ORWEN: I'm sure the guests at Epcot were happy about this mistake. But can you imagine how upset guests at DHS were after going there and waiting for that pin to be sold there--only to be told it wasn't availble to them after all???
Originally Posted By sjhym333 I was just talking to a friend who said at one point it took aver 90 mins to park your car in the lot before they closed it down all together. He said it seemed that Disney was unprepared for the crowds.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Well, heck! Whadaya expect? It was Friday the 13th, fer Pete's Dragon's sake! Folks is s'posed ta have bad luck on that day!!!
Originally Posted By CarolinaDisneyDad Hard to believe they don'tunderstand the villains popularity. It is something different that you can't see any ole time. So of course everybody is going to come out in droves. Most people are only there for a week so anything that will only be occurring once during that week they aren't going to miss. The problem is when they go and then have a miserable time because of the crowds, because most guests won't anticipate that kind of crowd draw and they will be sorely disappointed at what they didn't get to do.
Originally Posted By TDLFAN All those problems only show how starved for new and varied entertainment the guests at WDW really are. I assume most were crazy fanatics, CMs in the know, and local APers. "Gimme something new please please I beg of you!!!" HA!! It's like walking around the MK park today. Yes it's decorated for Halloween and such, but after 5+ years of seeing the same decor installed in the same fashion, it becomes BLAND. But who cares.. all of that is only for the infrequent visitor. Thank God OLC still delivered a brand new Halloween event at TDL for 2013 and guess where I will be next week paying full price admission??? Not Orlando.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros While it sounds like the event itself was miserable, I'm pleasantly surprised to hear that Orlando is starting to really have a strong local fanbase. While the "please please something new" approach can be trying at times (I've seen this on a large scale at DLR), it also encourages Disney to put out better stuff. Hopefully they'll be able to learn some from the experience and begin to turn things around
Originally Posted By Brad I remember standing on Main Street in HKDL two years ago(God - time flies!), watching the Halloween parade with wonderful costumes and floats and him telling me about the cheesy decorations at the MK in Florida. And this was AFTER was walked through and experienced the custom built Halloween mazes built for the park and slotted in behind Adventureland! God forbid Orlando build even a temporary Halloween walk through!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN ...and it was a pleasure to hold your hand Brad and reassure you everything would be OK and you would not be scared.. MUHAHAHAHAHA Hope you got my pics from my yesterday's visit to TDL's Halloween 2013. All new stuff in Tokyo, unlike what WDW does.
