Made it home last night from the DL leg of the trip. My family and I stayed an extra couple of days after the races to fully enjoy the parks. Not sure if this is normal for DL but so many rides were going down. We got several multi-experience passes, so many that we didn't use them all. The biggest bummer was RSR was down when we tried to rope drop it Tuesday and stayed down for most of the day. The next day we were going to buy LL for it but it was listed as "closed". So whatever happened the day before must have been bad enough they didn't even try to open it the next day. We never got to ride it and that was the one ride my 7yo wanted to do. Mom fail!
I am grateful to have done this Dopey to Dumbo experience, but I don't think I'd do it again. I am utterly exhausted from the lack of sleep. I developed a nasty cough in CA that I believe was from the dry, cold air. As soon as I stopped running the cough started to taper. Surprisingly my legs feel like they could get out and run another race.
I agree with everything everyone has already said about the races. There are definitely things that need to be worked out. And there are also things we love from WDW races that are just not possible at DL. I was just a little disappointed because I feel like DL does so many things better than WDW on a regular park day. I assumed the races would do the same. I thought we would be seeing some rare characters but most of them were repeats from WDW or characters you can see during the day. The only character photo I have from the entire weekend is Pete. All the other lines were too long or closed. Kids race was also a mess! I ended up holding my kids back until the very end so they were basically the final two in the entire chute and jogged it by themselves (and the parents who got dropped by their kids
). They were able to stop and get a pic with Chip and Dale and we have a handful of really nice finishers pics. The only good finisher pics I have of the weekend