twinklebug
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- Mar 25, 2005
We agree...we were amazed by the crowds we ran into during this trip. On one day in Magic Kingdom, there was a 30+ minute wait for Haunted Mansion in the Fast Pass line which wound all the way back out into Liberty Square! I don't ever remember early December being so crowded. Standby lines were over an hour for many attractions.
Haunted Mansion was plagued with troubles this trip. Seems age has caught up with it. My daughter and her bf were stuck on the ride for over 40 minutes one day, and the following it was shut down completely with no idea if/when it would be back up.
But yes, the crowd levels overall were out of control this year. I felt like Disney was not prepared for for it with enough hands on deck or buses/boats running and the result was a mob of angry people lashing out at each other. Even the day we took the boat from MK to WL, we sat in line for over an hour as all the other boats came and went multiple times. The WL line snaked back past security and someone toward the back passed out from standing in the sun too long.