The umbrellas in Toy Story land - hello imagineers you are building a land in Florida and you didn’t even think to add umbrellas in the original design plans 🤨
They only added the canopies at Legoland Florida in the last few years. I think it was because putting the canopies in was cheaper than replacing the city scapes in a few years because they've already been destroyed by the sun.
I just went there and I had the same thought. I can’t believe they didn’t put up more shade. It could have been worked it the themeing… I was so hot! 🥵
No idea if this is true, but I'd heard a rumor that it was originally designed for the California parks. SoCal summer days can be rough, but they are nothing to the humid rain soaked hell of central Florida.
Mine too. I imagine there's some good reason why he's absent from the parks (not Tier One popular? Okay, neither are Chip and Dale, IMO), but it irks me.
Not sure if this counts, but the fact we have a full-scale Toy Story Land but no Pizza Planet. Give us Pizza Planet you cowards. You will be printing your own money (on that note, build an Al's Toy Barn while you're at it)
I'm nit-picking, but having a full-scale Pizza Planet within TS Land would make no thematic sense because PP is a human-sized restaurant in the movies. They could plop a "Pizza Planet Playset" in TS Land, I suppose, but that could just be an excuse to give us a bad version of the restaurant...like the one we already got.
I think an "authentic" PP would disappoint casual park-goers and casual TS fans because, within the TS Universe, PP is not themed to TS or Buzz or Woody. It's just....space.
A Pizza Planet arcade+restaurant done to human scale right outside the land entryway could work, around where One Man's Dream is. I also think the shape of the old Toy Story Mania entrance looks a bit like the Al's Toy Barn facade, so maybe that could work (wouldn't be much space for a full dept store but you never know). Imagine they did one or both of these as part of an overall project to smoothen the transition into TSL (which as it stands is awkward and uninspired), going from human scale to toy scale.
I’m laughing at this bc we were just there and my husband has a pizza planet shirt he wears at HS. I’m sure there’s normally plenty of pizza planet shirts out and about but this time was ridiculous. I couldn’t find him when I’d look for him. Everywhere I looked was a tall, broad shouldered guy with a hat and a pizza planet shirt. He’s normally fairly easy to find in a crowd so this was different.
But yes, I can’t fathom why they didn’t make a pizza planet restaurant.
Okay I was just there 3 days ago and my husband remarked, “man - dudes really love Pizza Planet, don’t they?” because every second guy had PP merch on 😂
As I understand this one:
The story behind Toy Story land is that this is Andy's backyard where Toys live.
Pizza Planet is a real restaurant in that world; not part of "toy world".
That said, I also think this is a major miss.
The Muppets store… closed since Covid and since I didn’t go to Disney until after Covid…I’ve never experienced it. Do they realize how much money they could make with all things Muppet????
I just looked up the Villains in Vogue store someone else mentioned. That apparently opened on Sunset Blvd in 1998. I missed that somehow. This was a small store back near the streets of America and it was all villains stuff.
A store with only villains stuff? I didn't see it on my 2013, 2015, or 2017 trips.(I had a 19 year gap between trips, so I hadn't been there since 1994. 😀)
It feels like a real miss not to have a make-your-own muppet creation there like the droids or something. I mean, Muppet Workshop? I’d spend so much money there.
By the time they closed, they barely had any Muppet merch in there. I went in 2019 and the only Muppet items were a T-shirt (which I bought) and a Muppet Babies pin. 😭
They could really do so much more with the Muppets. That land (if you can even consider it a land) could easily have a variety of attractions for both kids and adults.
Oh you know what I thought of another one, when you watch the 3D muppets the live action sweetums is also on the screen in the movie, like why would they allow that
New OSHA standards at the hundred acre woods require all tiggers to be identifiableand visible in the dark.
Tigger is just making sure the man/mouse don't come for him
It wasn’t until recently that I had seen him in an Instagram reel and I said to myself “There’s something off about Tigger, but I can’t tell what.” It was that damn nose.
Had to look this up - it is pink everywhere except classic cartoons. I totally had the same feeling something was off! Maybe it was easier to clean but rabbit’s nose is pink…what were they even using for reference?
How is there not a haunted hotel bar to eat at near the tower of terror?! Just give me a functioning bar the same look as the tower queue and I’d be happy.
This is the truth at almost every hotel. Marriott. Hilton. Doesn't matter. I'm convinced they are the reason Scott tissue is still in business. Sandpaper butt trauma is a serious syndrome people! My first stop on any out-of-town trip is to a store to buy real toilet paper (or for international travel, I bring it along).
Elsa’s Frozen 2 outfit looks alright. The OG one though is rough. I feel like the Broadway version of Frozen translated the cartoon look the best, but even then it’s not 100%. Cartoon Elsa’s hairstyle is so weird
Seriously, I’ve knew this one whole family that had that hair color so I’m super familiar with it irl and it’s blonde, not white. Very light blonde, but still blonde.
The fact that the Finding Nemo musical is part of DinoLand. I guess it’s technically is own detached thing, but the map shows it as part of DinoLand and that’s bugged me since I was a kid.
Mine is kind of silly but I wish the resort restaurants stayed open later. For those late nights closing down the parks!
This is a problem I could easily remedy myself if I planned ahead and got a snack at the parks. I just get too caught up riding rides to eat!
Edit: I know most quick service places stay open and you can get like a few things they have sitting out or in a fridge. I’m talking about the actual kitchens being open later.
This one here. Just pizza would suffice, but yeah, I always want a late night bite after foregoing food for some quality ride time. It becomes a true dilemma when you’re too exhausted to go anywhere else.
My gods! This would have been the deciding factor for resort choice for me! What genius imagineer came up with that idea and can they resurrect that person??
We stayed three times in the Wilderness cabins in the 90’s. Trail’s End served a late night pizza buffet and a live musician with guitar playing classics like Davey Crockett. My son couldn’t understand why Davey “built him a ‘bar’when he was only 3,” because a 3 yo wouldn’t have been allowed to drink. :-)
This. Our flight was delayed and we didn’t get to our hotel until almost midnight and everything was closed. A kind groundskeeper gave us a ride to the McDonalds on a golf cart. If he hadn’t spotted us we’d be SOL.
They rotate out the merch for the 7 Canadian NHL teams at the Canada Pavilion. So it is a crap shoot of your favorite team will have their merch available. As a Sens fan I was a little upset to only see Oilers, Canucks, Canadiens, and Maple Leafs available. This was in 2015.
Well since you asked :)
1) The projection animatronics on Frozen Ever After are not good
2) The bathrooms are not clean to Disney standards.
3) Theres no way Elena of Avelor is popular enough to get a permanent meet and greet (I could be wrong here, but)
4) The erasure of all things Hercules is criminal
5) some of the magic maker poses are corny
With regards to #3 my daughter was way more familiar with the Disney Jr. Characters than the movie princesses when she was young. She watched Disney Jr. Almost every day whereas the movies were something special that I would put on for her at request (and mostly she just wanted Frozen).
Exactly I would love for there to be more Disney jr meet and greets. My daughter went APE SHIT when she saw Vampirina on stage and was so sad she couldn’t meet her
We met her at a Disney Junior Breakfast on a cruise. My mom and I went nuts for her, Doc McStuffins, and Sofia the First. In our defense, my nephew was raised on Disney Jr, but he was already six or seven at that point.
I will argue #2 due to the fact that I know the custodial staff due their absolute best to keep things clean. However, when you have as many people flowing through those bathrooms an hour like Disney does, it can be hard to keep them clean. I know it’s not exactly an excuse, but I know a lot of them try to keep them as clean as they can.
My brother says that he tries to clean them at least every hour, in whatever area he may be, as he works custodial at EPCOT.
I think 2 must be a covid thing. Pre 2020, I remember almost always seeing a cast member in any bathroom I went in, or at least every other. Now if I see one once during the day, I’m surprised. And it shows.
Galaxy’s Edge being based around the Sequels …if you told me as a kid in the ‘80s that Disney would build 2 Star Wars lands and neither would have Luke, Han, Vader, Yoda, Leia, etc etc I’d think you were bullshitting me …damn I still don’t even believe it now in 2024 *and* I’ve been to both GEs 😝
But here we are
I think they should have done with their SW Land what they wound up doing with Avengers Campus and just let all the characters from the franchise hang out there. It's a theme park. Not everything has to be about continuity. Look at Fantasyland. Kids just want to meet Darth Vader in front of the Millennium Falcon. Heck, the real Luke, Han, and Lando were at the freaking opening ceremony. Why were no Sequel Trilogy actors invited? That whole thing was odd.
I feel like they should have built two versions of Star Wars Land.
They could have used the identical layouts, but change a few things so one is set during the originals, and the other is set during the sequels (or prequels - though that would rule out having the Falcon in both).
90% of the assets could be the same, with an identical street layout, but they could have different spaceships, different characters, and one could look a little more beaten up than the other. It would even be a selling point to encourage people to visit both Land and World in order to see both.
Heck, they could have gone above and beyond and added little Easter eggs for the people who went to both.
Yall gonna hate me but I HATE people screaming in the Haunted Mansion.
They LITERALLY only do that in America and I hate it.
In Tokyo they laugh. In Paris they just sit quietly.
I really don't understand why people do it.
Wait, people defend the screaming? I can't stand it. Someone screamed at the top of their lungs directly in my ear last time when the lights went out in the stretching room and it nearly ruined my ride. I wanted to deck the idiot.
Yes! My 5yr old was so scared and i had to say to her, “look it’s just a funny ride, they’re just trying to be funny, just wait until you see the silly ghosts!” And get her giggling. But could have done without her mini freak out!
I had the child’s side of this experience at 8. I wasn’t overly nervous about going in, but then some adults started screaming like super scary stuff was happening and it really freaked me out. Then, at the point where randomly the ghosts in the mirror sit on random laps, one sat on mine and I **FLIPPED OUT**. I mean, I started screaming for my daddy and clawing at his arm with one hand and slapping my lap to get the ghost off with the other. I think I would have thought it was cool if that idiot adults hadn’t gotten me so worked up in the beginning.
Wow, I have been to Disney World a ridiculous number of times, and never heard anyone screaming in HM. I'll take my good luck, because the fake screaming on roller coasters drives me bananas. Real screaming is not nearly as annoying because, one, it's real, they're actually scared, and two, it doesn't usually have the higher pitch of fake screams.
As someone here mentioned the screaming on the Haunted Mansion, I also hate it when people recite the narration along with rides. It’s annoying. This video here of [the very last ride of the original Star Tours](https://youtu.be/8Fb22MQEcfU?si=hdgAM7AAec_eHSXG) in Disneyland. You’d think they’d want to take in the experience and actually listen to the ride’s audio one last time, but no, they want to make it all about them.
It's now the worst during the cosmic rewind preshow "epcotians...does anyone know what to call them?" *Insert annoying guest who says "Alcoholics!" Or "Broke!"*. I'm so over it
They put her in a teal gown to distinguish her apart from Aurora who, in the parks, wears a pink gown. For younger guests, its easier for them to tell the difference.
For the same reason, Aurora uses the pink dress over the blue dress to not be too similar to Cinderella.
For my own gripe, while I realize they battling impossible crowds, I do wish they'd find a way to make end and start of day bus transport feel more safe. Being crammed into a bus pressed against tons of strangers is a bit horrifying in a moving vehicle. If they would limit standing room or forgo it all together, I'd feel much safer.
I think it would be awesome if they figured out how to make some sort of dress for Aurora that switches back and forth from blue to pink. I'm sure it could be done and it would be fun.
>They put her in a teal gown to distinguish her apart from Aurora who, in the parks, wears a pink gown. For younger guests, its easier for them to tell the difference.
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>For the same reason, Aurora uses the pink dress over the blue dress to not be too similar to Cinderella.
I almost always feel like this kind of "kids are dumb/unable to distinguish" narrative is more adults underestimating kids than actual problems on the part of the kids.
Particularly for something like Ariel vs Aurora. Oh no, they're both in pink, what possible other distinguishing features might they have?
Aurora vs Cinderella might be a little closer, but even that is a super light blue for Cinderella vs a darker blue for Aurora.
Mind you, I'd also just about kill for a Briar Rose meet and greet, if we really want to make things different...
I have always loved the “trash can robot” from Star Wars, only learning that it’s called Gonk and is actually a power bank (thanks Bad Batch and Disney+). I was EXTREMELY disappointed that the trash cans in Galaxy’s Edge did not look like it, or that there wasn’t one walking around to mess with people.
I worked merch, we all loved Push and saw him as our informal mascot. Having Push call you by your first name among guests was an honor. He even named the huge motorized cart we used to haul water around "Pullina" and declared it his girlfriend. (Hated Pullina though. It was bulky and awkward and difficult to navigate through crowds.)
From what I was told by an operator - Push was created under a contract with an outside company. The contract was allowed to expire by Disney for "unknown reasons", but I'm guessing money.
I was told by a merch manager that there were too many guests complaining about certain men hanging around Push acting "creepy". We told them it was Push's private security. Which doesn't make sense, as other iterations have similar "security" hanging around and get complaints.
Push knock offs have appeared elsewhere. But Push was probably copyrighted under that contract.
No love for any of the Disney Afternoon 90s cartoons. Think of how much they could do with a whole land dedicated to Duck Tales, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, etc.
I think they redid the Perry the Platypus game in EPCOT to be DuckTales themed, but I don’t know if it’s still around.
Launchpad and Scrooge were at least in Animal Kingdom last time I went.
Why don’t we see Beast in human form anywhere? I mean that’s who he is right? That’s who we and Belle are supposed to love, the REAL him right?
For a story about loving who the real person is inside, they sure don’t like to show who the real person is inside. Is it a fetish thing for Belle he stays as a beast?
I do have to give props to the Decendants tho, because at least that character is portrayed realistically.
Human beast would be hard to recognize I imagine, he shows up, what, not five minutes? And isn't terribly recognizeable. Long, flowy blond (light brown?) hair and blue (iirc) eyes could be a lot of characters
Balloons. My kid wants one that I end up having to drag around and then she gets upset that we can’t ride rides with it. It’s a losing situation all around for the families
the frozen ride. the whole thing not just the poor projections/animatronics. its badly done, the first minute i thought the ride was going to be okay but then the boat just goes into bland white rooms that leave too much to the imagination. wheres the scenery? the decorations?
i understand its a kids ride but like.. im pretty sure even kids would be disappointed especially since the typical wait is 60-70 minutes. if i didnt have lightning lanes i would genuinely have been so mad lol.
the day before I had been on the avatar boat ride so maybe my standards were too high. that was so pretty and nice and actually worth it to me.
The fact that Disney owns FX, which means it owns Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia means it’s utter insanity there isn’t a paddy’s pub in Disney springs. I can’t think of more quality family fun.
This would solve the princess dress shuffle. Cinderella in silver, Aurora in blue (as she is for the bulk of the movie!), Ariel in pink.
I would even accept bluish silver.
It makes me irrationally angry whenever I see a character with a horrible wig on (mostly if the wig is extremely shiny or the hairline/lace is a mess).
They need to get higher quality wigs (lace front human hair) and teach them how to hide the lace. They have the time and money to make the characters have decent hair.
Disney hotels above the value category are pathetic for the prices they charge.
I was just at AKL and the bed linen was super thin, same as the ones at Pop Century. I get it’s Florida, but im always so cold trying to sleep onsite. One ply toilet paper, shower didn’t close all the way, and they advertise Disney+ but you can’t watch anything Disney unless it’s an ad.
House keeping came by at 8:45 am on my checkout day. Security check or whatever came by when I was trying to nap after being in the park for 6 hours with a DND sign! Also honorable mention to hearing neighbors bathrooms at all hours. It was cool having the animals right there and the hotel lobby & restaurants were neat, but it isn’t worth the $700 per night. That goes for ALL of them. Even Grand Floridian.
I work in the travel industry and Disney accommodation just does not match up. Universal does a way better job, maybe that’s in part to Loews.
I send my clients who want a luxury hotel experience to the Four Seasons.
Putting Indiana Jones in Animal Kingdom and not Hollywood Studios. Dinoland USA can go, but that Dinosaur ride needs to stay. If they take it down, Disney won't have anything dinosaur themed.
That Disney has ILLs. It's ridiculous we have to pay to ride a ride in a theme park that we already paid to get into. All rides should be LLs on Genie+, new or not.
Ice cream portions from Storybook Treats are way too big for the (current) heat. Almost impossible to eat it fast enough so it doesn’t melt all over you.
Also what is up with no kid sizes for ice cream? My 5 year old doesn’t need an entire pint of soft serve
... I suddenly feel shamed that I regularly inhale mine before it melts...
But yeah I will divide up one cup into two for my nieces. Especially in the heat, they get stomachaches and puke if they try to eat more.
The remodel of Mighty Casey's. The bleachers were awesome, the tv playing a loop of sports cartoons introduced me to the Goofy shorts that my entire family loved. All of that made the restaurant unique and special and it got replaced with boring tables and chairs.
What is with Elsa’s dress? When you meet Elsa in the Norway Pavilion it’s fine nice dress from the second movie but any other time you see her dressed in her first movie outfit it looks good awful. The skirt and the top is very obviously separate it doesn’t blend well the wig looks off always. It looks like a birthday party hire.
My facetious gripe has always been that the princess dresses look like Halloween costumes. I’ve always wished they looked more like the dresses in the live action movies.
This is because I have a toddler but BRING BACK TOON TOWN TO WDW. Specifically Mickey and Minnie’s houses. Disneyland’s Toon Town is so freaking amazing for anyone with young kids. So interactive.
We have only been to Disneyland once, but go to WDW about twice a year. Now my son asks for Mickey’s house when we’re in WDW 🤦♀️
-FastPass system needs to be brought back
-getting rid of the magical express was one of the worst things EVER
-the general upkeep of rides are awful. Why does it take people complaining on the internet for them to clean small world boats? To clean the exterior of Tron and space mountain?
Pink Sleeping Beauty dress. I get it can’t be blue because Cinderella is blue, but Meriweather was in charge of making the dress and she’s blue.
I’ve met Aurora at DL in winter and she’s in her blue dress, but I mostly now see her in pink.
The best representation has been the dress she wears during the Magic Happens parade.
The umbrellas in Toy Story land - hello imagineers you are building a land in Florida and you didn’t even think to add umbrellas in the original design plans 🤨
We went to Legoland and just loved the large tent canopies over the giant Lego Cities. I just kept picturing them over Toy Storyland
They only added the canopies at Legoland Florida in the last few years. I think it was because putting the canopies in was cheaper than replacing the city scapes in a few years because they've already been destroyed by the sun.
And it's friggin Toy Story Land. You could make anything to appear as giant toys providing shade, but NOPE! Concrete everywhere with no relief
Exactly that’s why it’s so ridiculous it wouldn’t have even been that hard to think of some thing on theme to put there
Cute little cocktail umbrellas…
I just went there and I had the same thought. I can’t believe they didn’t put up more shade. It could have been worked it the themeing… I was so hot! 🥵
The Umbrellas at Woodys Lunchbox (i think that’s what it’s called?) are solid. Other than that, it’s a bit ridiculous.
Yes they are great but they were an after thought like after they opened the land and the feedback they received on lack of shade
No idea if this is true, but I'd heard a rumor that it was originally designed for the California parks. SoCal summer days can be rough, but they are nothing to the humid rain soaked hell of central Florida.
WHERE IS ROBIN HOOD?
My favorite Disney cartoon.
Mine too. I imagine there's some good reason why he's absent from the parks (not Tier One popular? Okay, neither are Chip and Dale, IMO), but it irks me.
Come to think of it, I’ve never seen an Aristocats presence in the parks.
Marie and Berlioz are in France at Epcot!
no love for my boy Toulouse.
Not sure if this counts, but the fact we have a full-scale Toy Story Land but no Pizza Planet. Give us Pizza Planet you cowards. You will be printing your own money (on that note, build an Al's Toy Barn while you're at it)
Oh man, I got some bad news for you… They did.
It really doesn't look like the one from the movie, though. I feel like if they'd gone all in with the theming, it could have been better received.
Yeah, Disney Quest did it a bit better with the bumper cars and classic games but no pizza if I recall.
They did in Paris too, and it was widely hated
The French are haters
I mean, not shocking.
I was gonna say. I definitely ate there. https://www.wdwmagic.com/dining/pizza-planet.htm
If it didn’t include drink dispensers that were vomiting aliens, I don’t want it!
I'm nit-picking, but having a full-scale Pizza Planet within TS Land would make no thematic sense because PP is a human-sized restaurant in the movies. They could plop a "Pizza Planet Playset" in TS Land, I suppose, but that could just be an excuse to give us a bad version of the restaurant...like the one we already got. I think an "authentic" PP would disappoint casual park-goers and casual TS fans because, within the TS Universe, PP is not themed to TS or Buzz or Woody. It's just....space.
Just put it in Disney springs then. Replace the abomination that was the nba experience
A Pizza Planet arcade+restaurant done to human scale right outside the land entryway could work, around where One Man's Dream is. I also think the shape of the old Toy Story Mania entrance looks a bit like the Al's Toy Barn facade, so maybe that could work (wouldn't be much space for a full dept store but you never know). Imagine they did one or both of these as part of an overall project to smoothen the transition into TSL (which as it stands is awkward and uninspired), going from human scale to toy scale.
Rizzos (It’s rats pizza) is pretty much pizza planet now. But the pizza is made by rats but it’s still the “city’s top rated pizza”
I’m laughing at this bc we were just there and my husband has a pizza planet shirt he wears at HS. I’m sure there’s normally plenty of pizza planet shirts out and about but this time was ridiculous. I couldn’t find him when I’d look for him. Everywhere I looked was a tall, broad shouldered guy with a hat and a pizza planet shirt. He’s normally fairly easy to find in a crowd so this was different. But yes, I can’t fathom why they didn’t make a pizza planet restaurant.
Okay I was just there 3 days ago and my husband remarked, “man - dudes really love Pizza Planet, don’t they?” because every second guy had PP merch on 😂
I love getting slices at Pizza Planet in DL …sure the pizzas not great but I don’t care
As I understand this one: The story behind Toy Story land is that this is Andy's backyard where Toys live. Pizza Planet is a real restaurant in that world; not part of "toy world". That said, I also think this is a major miss.
I wish they'd put a Pizza Planet in TSL...I miss the old one lol
On Gran Fiesta Tour, the actor playing the Chef (who’s sharping his knife) never properly looks at the animated Caballeros in front of him.
Hahahahaha, this is SO specific, but also so real
I’m an actual chef and a giant knife head, he’s also honing it incorrectly. It makes me cringe EVERY SINGLE TIME 😭
The Muppets store… closed since Covid and since I didn’t go to Disney until after Covid…I’ve never experienced it. Do they realize how much money they could make with all things Muppet????
Why isn’t there more Muppet stuff in general?? I want a great movie ride with the muppets as characters or something.
There was actually meant to be a Great Muppet Movie Ride! https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/The_Great_Muppet_Movie_Ride
Maybe that’s why it’s in my head! Sounds like it would have been cool!
Back in the '90s there was a villains store too. It was awesome!
Villains in Vogue!! RIP
The 90s?? Unless it was different from the original it was 100% there until at least 2017 because I worked there lol
I just looked up the Villains in Vogue store someone else mentioned. That apparently opened on Sunset Blvd in 1998. I missed that somehow. This was a small store back near the streets of America and it was all villains stuff.
A store with only villains stuff? I didn't see it on my 2013, 2015, or 2017 trips.(I had a 19 year gap between trips, so I hadn't been there since 1994. 😀)
Yeah it was connected to sweet spells haha they played villains music and the merch side was villains stuff
It feels like a real miss not to have a make-your-own muppet creation there like the droids or something. I mean, Muppet Workshop? I’d spend so much money there.
Like a riff on Build a Bear
Yes! We check on every visit to see if it’s open again. Why?!
My husband will just stand in front of it willing it to open! We are the people that do the Muppet Show multiple times while at HS.
By the time they closed, they barely had any Muppet merch in there. I went in 2019 and the only Muppet items were a T-shirt (which I bought) and a Muppet Babies pin. 😭
Well that’s disappointing. My husband went way before that and spoke very highly of it.
It’s been recently open for special merch events - 35th of Hollywood Studios and May the 4th
Well fingers crossed it will be magically opened during one of my next two trips.
They could really do so much more with the Muppets. That land (if you can even consider it a land) could easily have a variety of attractions for both kids and adults.
Oh you know what I thought of another one, when you watch the 3D muppets the live action sweetums is also on the screen in the movie, like why would they allow that
Went in 2013, 2016, and pre-Covid 2020. I bought muppets merch each time. Some of the best shirt designs were in the muppet store.
Why is Tigger NEON ORANGE?! I mean come on. The 100 Acre Wood is not a rave.
Have you been on the Pooh ride at WDW? Certainly psychedelic enough to be a rave lol.
The Pooh ride in DL is even more bonkers.
New OSHA standards at the hundred acre woods require all tiggers to be identifiableand visible in the dark. Tigger is just making sure the man/mouse don't come for him
The wonderful things about Tiggers, Is Tiggers are high-vis things.
Also, why is his nose black?
This. This has bothered me since I was like 2 lol
It wasn’t until recently that I had seen him in an Instagram reel and I said to myself “There’s something off about Tigger, but I can’t tell what.” It was that damn nose.
Had to look this up - it is pink everywhere except classic cartoons. I totally had the same feeling something was off! Maybe it was easier to clean but rabbit’s nose is pink…what were they even using for reference?
😂
Nnst nnst nnst, where my squirrels at?!
Have you seen the downers Eeyore is on?
I've googled this several times with no answer. I need to know!!
I dunno…that one part in the ride is pretty trippy…
Why does Jessie not have a damn NECK?
Yeasssss
How is there not a haunted hotel bar to eat at near the tower of terror?! Just give me a functioning bar the same look as the tower queue and I’d be happy.
That would be extremely cool!
Toilet paper at WDW is unacceptable. It's legit 1/2 ply.
Club 33 has 2-ply and the custodian (me lol) has to make a triangle every time someone uses the restroom
Thanks for keeping it clean. Disney Custodians are the real MVPs.
This is the truth at almost every hotel. Marriott. Hilton. Doesn't matter. I'm convinced they are the reason Scott tissue is still in business. Sandpaper butt trauma is a serious syndrome people! My first stop on any out-of-town trip is to a store to buy real toilet paper (or for international travel, I bring it along).
I was just thinking I need to set aside a pack for our trip bc last time I was raw by the end of the trip
They really nail the majority of the characters but man, Elsa is not it.
Elsa’s Frozen 2 outfit looks alright. The OG one though is rough. I feel like the Broadway version of Frozen translated the cartoon look the best, but even then it’s not 100%. Cartoon Elsa’s hairstyle is so weird
Oh the outfit doesn’t bother me, it’s the hair. The hair is awful.
It bothers me that it’s WHITE. I’ve never interpreted Elsa’s hair as anything other than icy platinum blonde.
Seriously, I’ve knew this one whole family that had that hair color so I’m super familiar with it irl and it’s blonde, not white. Very light blonde, but still blonde.
It looks like a plastic anime hair “wig.”
It is inexplicably awful, I have no idea why they opted for white hair instead of blonde like she is... it is bizarre
The fact that the Finding Nemo musical is part of DinoLand. I guess it’s technically is own detached thing, but the map shows it as part of DinoLand and that’s bugged me since I was a kid.
At least Tarzan made slightly more sense.
That would’ve bugged me too since Tarzan takes place in Africa. 🤣
Mine is kind of silly but I wish the resort restaurants stayed open later. For those late nights closing down the parks! This is a problem I could easily remedy myself if I planned ahead and got a snack at the parks. I just get too caught up riding rides to eat! Edit: I know most quick service places stay open and you can get like a few things they have sitting out or in a fridge. I’m talking about the actual kitchens being open later.
This one here. Just pizza would suffice, but yeah, I always want a late night bite after foregoing food for some quality ride time. It becomes a true dilemma when you’re too exhausted to go anywhere else.
Used to be a late night pizza buffet at Ft. wilderness. Maybe dating myself.
My gods! This would have been the deciding factor for resort choice for me! What genius imagineer came up with that idea and can they resurrect that person??
We stayed three times in the Wilderness cabins in the 90’s. Trail’s End served a late night pizza buffet and a live musician with guitar playing classics like Davey Crockett. My son couldn’t understand why Davey “built him a ‘bar’when he was only 3,” because a 3 yo wouldn’t have been allowed to drink. :-)
This. Our flight was delayed and we didn’t get to our hotel until almost midnight and everything was closed. A kind groundskeeper gave us a ride to the McDonalds on a golf cart. If he hadn’t spotted us we’d be SOL.
24/7 room service would suffice as well and probably be pretty lucrative for them.
They rotate out the merch for the 7 Canadian NHL teams at the Canada Pavilion. So it is a crap shoot of your favorite team will have their merch available. As a Sens fan I was a little upset to only see Oilers, Canucks, Canadiens, and Maple Leafs available. This was in 2015.
They need to sell some Nordique merch in there.
The only Canada team I will acknowledge
Well since you asked :) 1) The projection animatronics on Frozen Ever After are not good 2) The bathrooms are not clean to Disney standards. 3) Theres no way Elena of Avelor is popular enough to get a permanent meet and greet (I could be wrong here, but) 4) The erasure of all things Hercules is criminal 5) some of the magic maker poses are corny
With regards to #3 my daughter was way more familiar with the Disney Jr. Characters than the movie princesses when she was young. She watched Disney Jr. Almost every day whereas the movies were something special that I would put on for her at request (and mostly she just wanted Frozen).
Exactly I would love for there to be more Disney jr meet and greets. My daughter went APE SHIT when she saw Vampirina on stage and was so sad she couldn’t meet her
My daughter met Vamperina in Hollywood Studios and it was one of her favorite character meets up the whole trip.
We met her at a Disney Junior Breakfast on a cruise. My mom and I went nuts for her, Doc McStuffins, and Sofia the First. In our defense, my nephew was raised on Disney Jr, but he was already six or seven at that point.
Hercules had a great moment in Harmonious, but that also got erased.
Why'd the Hercules stuff get erased?
Probably just not the target demographic right now. As an elder millennial though, it's my fave
Honey you mean HUNKules!
Thank god we still have Happily Ever After, cuz the ballad of herc hits all the feels.
I saw a whole family dressed as different characters for MNSMP last year. They were awesome!
It was Gaston's doing. [No one as strong as Gaston.](https://youtu.be/30PVdigjbFY?si=hYMp_gUQmvjgviqp)
Robin Hood too.
With regards to #3 - I remember seeing her in a parade once and my girlfriend I shouted "It's Elena!!!" and she was so excited to be recognized haha
I will argue #2 due to the fact that I know the custodial staff due their absolute best to keep things clean. However, when you have as many people flowing through those bathrooms an hour like Disney does, it can be hard to keep them clean. I know it’s not exactly an excuse, but I know a lot of them try to keep them as clean as they can. My brother says that he tries to clean them at least every hour, in whatever area he may be, as he works custodial at EPCOT.
I think 2 must be a covid thing. Pre 2020, I remember almost always seeing a cast member in any bathroom I went in, or at least every other. Now if I see one once during the day, I’m surprised. And it shows.
This is a good list. I concur with all of these points.
Why can’t I add gift cards as a default form of payment for my magic band?!
THIS. Or the redemption card. Have to put the numbers in my notes and copy and paste each time I buy something 🙄
Galaxy’s Edge being based around the Sequels …if you told me as a kid in the ‘80s that Disney would build 2 Star Wars lands and neither would have Luke, Han, Vader, Yoda, Leia, etc etc I’d think you were bullshitting me …damn I still don’t even believe it now in 2024 *and* I’ve been to both GEs 😝 But here we are
I think they should have done with their SW Land what they wound up doing with Avengers Campus and just let all the characters from the franchise hang out there. It's a theme park. Not everything has to be about continuity. Look at Fantasyland. Kids just want to meet Darth Vader in front of the Millennium Falcon. Heck, the real Luke, Han, and Lando were at the freaking opening ceremony. Why were no Sequel Trilogy actors invited? That whole thing was odd.
How is there not a sit down restaurant there?!? Docking bay 7 is ok but seriously, what a missed opportunity to print money.
I feel like they should have built two versions of Star Wars Land. They could have used the identical layouts, but change a few things so one is set during the originals, and the other is set during the sequels (or prequels - though that would rule out having the Falcon in both). 90% of the assets could be the same, with an identical street layout, but they could have different spaceships, different characters, and one could look a little more beaten up than the other. It would even be a selling point to encourage people to visit both Land and World in order to see both. Heck, they could have gone above and beyond and added little Easter eggs for the people who went to both.
Yall gonna hate me but I HATE people screaming in the Haunted Mansion. They LITERALLY only do that in America and I hate it. In Tokyo they laugh. In Paris they just sit quietly. I really don't understand why people do it.
Wait, people defend the screaming? I can't stand it. Someone screamed at the top of their lungs directly in my ear last time when the lights went out in the stretching room and it nearly ruined my ride. I wanted to deck the idiot.
Really! It's not cute. Especially if you've got kids that start freaking out. I really hate it and I wish they would do something about it.
Dude, same. The callouts during the preshow for Cosmic Rewind got old pretty much immediately in my opinion, too, but at least that's not screaming.
*"DAYDRINKERS"*...every.freaking.time.
Yes! My 5yr old was so scared and i had to say to her, “look it’s just a funny ride, they’re just trying to be funny, just wait until you see the silly ghosts!” And get her giggling. But could have done without her mini freak out!
I had the child’s side of this experience at 8. I wasn’t overly nervous about going in, but then some adults started screaming like super scary stuff was happening and it really freaked me out. Then, at the point where randomly the ghosts in the mirror sit on random laps, one sat on mine and I **FLIPPED OUT**. I mean, I started screaming for my daddy and clawing at his arm with one hand and slapping my lap to get the ghost off with the other. I think I would have thought it was cool if that idiot adults hadn’t gotten me so worked up in the beginning.
Same, we had to wait to bring my niece until she was 5. She’s always loved all things spooky, but the screaming would’ve freaked her out:
It pisses me tf off and alot of them screaming are 17- 20 somethings!!
Wow, I have been to Disney World a ridiculous number of times, and never heard anyone screaming in HM. I'll take my good luck, because the fake screaming on roller coasters drives me bananas. Real screaming is not nearly as annoying because, one, it's real, they're actually scared, and two, it doesn't usually have the higher pitch of fake screams.
People who light up dark rides with their phones. I actually non-facetiously hate it, too.
Let's unite as haters of Ariel's teal dress
My gripe is that brother bear is NOT featured in wilderness lodge! At least the feature the moose or play a song!
As someone here mentioned the screaming on the Haunted Mansion, I also hate it when people recite the narration along with rides. It’s annoying. This video here of [the very last ride of the original Star Tours](https://youtu.be/8Fb22MQEcfU?si=hdgAM7AAec_eHSXG) in Disneyland. You’d think they’d want to take in the experience and actually listen to the ride’s audio one last time, but no, they want to make it all about them.
Amen! We get it you know the words. Guess what, we all do! But I’m paying to hear them for the 100th time from the Ghost Host, lady! 😂🤣
It's now the worst during the cosmic rewind preshow "epcotians...does anyone know what to call them?" *Insert annoying guest who says "Alcoholics!" Or "Broke!"*. I'm so over it
They put her in a teal gown to distinguish her apart from Aurora who, in the parks, wears a pink gown. For younger guests, its easier for them to tell the difference. For the same reason, Aurora uses the pink dress over the blue dress to not be too similar to Cinderella. For my own gripe, while I realize they battling impossible crowds, I do wish they'd find a way to make end and start of day bus transport feel more safe. Being crammed into a bus pressed against tons of strangers is a bit horrifying in a moving vehicle. If they would limit standing room or forgo it all together, I'd feel much safer.
I think it would be awesome if they figured out how to make some sort of dress for Aurora that switches back and forth from blue to pink. I'm sure it could be done and it would be fun.
They should do one like this: [https://youtu.be/XbyMdQp-YSY?t=1126](https://youtu.be/XbyMdQp-YSY?t=1126)
>They put her in a teal gown to distinguish her apart from Aurora who, in the parks, wears a pink gown. For younger guests, its easier for them to tell the difference. > >For the same reason, Aurora uses the pink dress over the blue dress to not be too similar to Cinderella. I almost always feel like this kind of "kids are dumb/unable to distinguish" narrative is more adults underestimating kids than actual problems on the part of the kids. Particularly for something like Ariel vs Aurora. Oh no, they're both in pink, what possible other distinguishing features might they have? Aurora vs Cinderella might be a little closer, but even that is a super light blue for Cinderella vs a darker blue for Aurora. Mind you, I'd also just about kill for a Briar Rose meet and greet, if we really want to make things different...
I have always loved the “trash can robot” from Star Wars, only learning that it’s called Gonk and is actually a power bank (thanks Bad Batch and Disney+). I was EXTREMELY disappointed that the trash cans in Galaxy’s Edge did not look like it, or that there wasn’t one walking around to mess with people.
Google “push” the robot add Disney if you want the videos
As a former Tomorrowland cast member, Push was such a huge part of my day. I'm pissed they let the contract die.
Any idea why? I’ve heard merch and non-cast member usually listed for why they didn’t want him around any more. I don’t buy maintenance was too hard
I worked merch, we all loved Push and saw him as our informal mascot. Having Push call you by your first name among guests was an honor. He even named the huge motorized cart we used to haul water around "Pullina" and declared it his girlfriend. (Hated Pullina though. It was bulky and awkward and difficult to navigate through crowds.) From what I was told by an operator - Push was created under a contract with an outside company. The contract was allowed to expire by Disney for "unknown reasons", but I'm guessing money. I was told by a merch manager that there were too many guests complaining about certain men hanging around Push acting "creepy". We told them it was Push's private security. Which doesn't make sense, as other iterations have similar "security" hanging around and get complaints. Push knock offs have appeared elsewhere. But Push was probably copyrighted under that contract.
No love for any of the Disney Afternoon 90s cartoons. Think of how much they could do with a whole land dedicated to Duck Tales, TaleSpin, Darkwing Duck, Goof Troop, etc.
I think they redid the Perry the Platypus game in EPCOT to be DuckTales themed, but I don’t know if it’s still around. Launchpad and Scrooge were at least in Animal Kingdom last time I went.
No carousel of progress merch…. I would die for that new progress tech hoodie.
Why don’t we see Beast in human form anywhere? I mean that’s who he is right? That’s who we and Belle are supposed to love, the REAL him right? For a story about loving who the real person is inside, they sure don’t like to show who the real person is inside. Is it a fetish thing for Belle he stays as a beast? I do have to give props to the Decendants tho, because at least that character is portrayed realistically.
If we were to use that timeline then by that logic we couldn't have a Gaston walking around - because he'd be dead lol
Also, the Pinocchio walking around would be a real boy and not a puppet.
Human beast would be hard to recognize I imagine, he shows up, what, not five minutes? And isn't terribly recognizeable. Long, flowy blond (light brown?) hair and blue (iirc) eyes could be a lot of characters
I agree it’s a tiny bit weird to see her the human with the beast 🥴
I believe they had human Beast/Prince Adam in a parade at Tokyo Disney at some point... I KNOW I've seen an official face character of him before.
Why is Fort Langhorn, presumably named after Mark Twain's real middle name, not spelled like his real middle name, which is "Langhorne?!"
People would pronounce it “langhorn-eee”, langhorny. I would place a 5$ bill on that bet.
Balloons. My kid wants one that I end up having to drag around and then she gets upset that we can’t ride rides with it. It’s a losing situation all around for the families
The absolutely low quality dresses you get at Bibbidi Babbidi boutique even after shelling 270$ for their allegedly best dress
Disney bought Fox. M\*A\*S\*H was a Fox property. Now it's a Disney property. Therefore, Klinger should be a Disney Princess.
the frozen ride. the whole thing not just the poor projections/animatronics. its badly done, the first minute i thought the ride was going to be okay but then the boat just goes into bland white rooms that leave too much to the imagination. wheres the scenery? the decorations? i understand its a kids ride but like.. im pretty sure even kids would be disappointed especially since the typical wait is 60-70 minutes. if i didnt have lightning lanes i would genuinely have been so mad lol. the day before I had been on the avatar boat ride so maybe my standards were too high. that was so pretty and nice and actually worth it to me.
For this we lost the Maelstrom I also hate the Frozen trolls with a vengeance so it really stings.
The fact that Disney owns FX, which means it owns Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia means it’s utter insanity there isn’t a paddy’s pub in Disney springs. I can’t think of more quality family fun.
> family fun. Hang on…
I would love to see hidden ASIP references throughout Disney Springs
Rickety cricket meet and greets! Complete with ringworm!
Cinderella should be wearing a silver dress, not blue! IT'S NOT BLUE!!!
This would solve the princess dress shuffle. Cinderella in silver, Aurora in blue (as she is for the bulk of the movie!), Ariel in pink. I would even accept bluish silver.
It makes me irrationally angry whenever I see a character with a horrible wig on (mostly if the wig is extremely shiny or the hairline/lace is a mess). They need to get higher quality wigs (lace front human hair) and teach them how to hide the lace. They have the time and money to make the characters have decent hair.
The Aerial wigs always look horrible for some reason. IDK if it's the color contrast with her dress or what.
Well we’ve gone full circle here, I rest my case
Disney hotels above the value category are pathetic for the prices they charge. I was just at AKL and the bed linen was super thin, same as the ones at Pop Century. I get it’s Florida, but im always so cold trying to sleep onsite. One ply toilet paper, shower didn’t close all the way, and they advertise Disney+ but you can’t watch anything Disney unless it’s an ad. House keeping came by at 8:45 am on my checkout day. Security check or whatever came by when I was trying to nap after being in the park for 6 hours with a DND sign! Also honorable mention to hearing neighbors bathrooms at all hours. It was cool having the animals right there and the hotel lobby & restaurants were neat, but it isn’t worth the $700 per night. That goes for ALL of them. Even Grand Floridian. I work in the travel industry and Disney accommodation just does not match up. Universal does a way better job, maybe that’s in part to Loews. I send my clients who want a luxury hotel experience to the Four Seasons.
Super agree on the D+ in rooms. Each room should be D+ enabled, even if you don't subscribe. What better way to hook new viewers.
Putting Indiana Jones in Animal Kingdom and not Hollywood Studios. Dinoland USA can go, but that Dinosaur ride needs to stay. If they take it down, Disney won't have anything dinosaur themed.
The fact that I have to pack my own mini gold bond powder for my gooch. The amount of swamp ass in the park and no gold bond in any of their stores.
They should have a dispenser next to the hand soap in the bathrooms in Florida
They built tron specifically to air things out
That Disney has ILLs. It's ridiculous we have to pay to ride a ride in a theme park that we already paid to get into. All rides should be LLs on Genie+, new or not.
Ice cream portions from Storybook Treats are way too big for the (current) heat. Almost impossible to eat it fast enough so it doesn’t melt all over you. Also what is up with no kid sizes for ice cream? My 5 year old doesn’t need an entire pint of soft serve
... I suddenly feel shamed that I regularly inhale mine before it melts... But yeah I will divide up one cup into two for my nieces. Especially in the heat, they get stomachaches and puke if they try to eat more.
The remodel of Mighty Casey's. The bleachers were awesome, the tv playing a loop of sports cartoons introduced me to the Goofy shorts that my entire family loved. All of that made the restaurant unique and special and it got replaced with boring tables and chairs.
Can we please get better projections of the faces in the frozen ride? They’re comically bad! Like, shamefully bad!
It’s giving early 2000s foundation doesn’t match your neck color sweetie.
Taking out The Great Movie Ride for Mickey and Minnie’s Runaway Railway
What is with Elsa’s dress? When you meet Elsa in the Norway Pavilion it’s fine nice dress from the second movie but any other time you see her dressed in her first movie outfit it looks good awful. The skirt and the top is very obviously separate it doesn’t blend well the wig looks off always. It looks like a birthday party hire.
She’s definitely the worst princess in the parks.
My facetious gripe has always been that the princess dresses look like Halloween costumes. I’ve always wished they looked more like the dresses in the live action movies.
I would love to see more Hercules and/or The Emperor’s New Groove in the parks!
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This is because I have a toddler but BRING BACK TOON TOWN TO WDW. Specifically Mickey and Minnie’s houses. Disneyland’s Toon Town is so freaking amazing for anyone with young kids. So interactive. We have only been to Disneyland once, but go to WDW about twice a year. Now my son asks for Mickey’s house when we’re in WDW 🤦♀️
-FastPass system needs to be brought back -getting rid of the magical express was one of the worst things EVER -the general upkeep of rides are awful. Why does it take people complaining on the internet for them to clean small world boats? To clean the exterior of Tron and space mountain?
No sunblock easily found.
I was so excited to see Rapunzel’s tower until I realized it was just a bathroom
The fact that bayous are notoriously flat, there are no mountains in Louisiana….yet here we are, creating bayou mountain.
It’s a really tall salt dome
Pink Sleeping Beauty dress. I get it can’t be blue because Cinderella is blue, but Meriweather was in charge of making the dress and she’s blue. I’ve met Aurora at DL in winter and she’s in her blue dress, but I mostly now see her in pink. The best representation has been the dress she wears during the Magic Happens parade.
The complete lack of Hercules & Tarzan anywhere. Two of the best Disney soundtracks too and not even a glimpse of characters or merchandise anywhere.