fatmanatee
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- Jul 25, 2017
Basically my thought is that it’s better to have the craziness at the back of the park time than the front, might create better crowd flow, there’s less worry about the balloon ladies. Both times I had Mickey photo ops they were on the back half of park time (2022 MW half post-castle off to the side, 2023 Springtime Surprise right before hitting Hollywood Blvd on the way out). Both very manageable lines and a significant distance into the course. Obv there are certain things WDW does to make it easier, specifically with regard to start strategy, and apparently with regard to photographers processing people quickly, but those are other items on the list of improvements they’ll hopefully take on at DL if possible.Yeah I couldn’t get park res for today and part of me is sad and part of me is happy avoiding the crowds.
Thinking about this again I honestly don’t think there is anywhere they could put Dumbo that wouldn’t have been a problem like ultimately I guess we could argue that you can put in somewhere else maybe the line will be shorter backstage, but I was at the after hours he was at, and that had him in the line for him was huge like I remembered that specifically, because I was having an issue with the line because of its set up because it was like it was during the race people still lined up for it, but it was supposed to be a selfie.
Add in the fact that this is a Dumbo double there. This is literally the race named after him and you have a situation like dopey during the marathon where anytime you get him on the course the line is going to get along even if you are in the front of the back it just, unfortunately its the nature of the character. Where they are still hard to find that it becomes naturally a long line and unfortunate, but it is what it is I don’t think moving his character stop would’ve made it any better. I think it would just put the long line somewhere else and I think because again I think we’re having this discussion about sweeping, and with them being worried if they had too many people would get swept. I don’t think that it would’ve mattered much if we had different location.
I mean maybe it would have made a difference. But there’s a chance they would have cut the line sooner than they did before. Who knows
Dumbo was like 1.25 miles in right? That’s crazy for what’s basically the race weekend mascot.