Techie7
10-12-2002, 09:39 AM
It truly was “Bizarre-O Day” at Disneyland last night. Traffic in the area was bad enough with the Angels game getting ready to start so I ended up taking surface streets to get near the resort from the 57. At 5:00 the bridge into the parking structure was still open and they were running 8 gates in the parking structure. Each gate had at least 4-7 cars.
Proceeding up the parking ramp they were parking in a weird pattern that I had not seen them use before. Fill half of the row with cars. Then double-park half of that. They then would open a new row and park the first half of that. At random they would open up the lanes that were only half filled and fill them in. Maybe there is a reason for this???
Trams were coming up one after another and every one was leaving full to the front gate. Both load/unload sides were being run in DTD and they could not load and unload the trams fast enough. Disneyland had lines past the monorail and DCA past the letters as NA noted. At least 6 planes were circling in the area with banners promoting all kinds of things.
Crowds inside Disneyland resembled a Saturday afternoon with 6 or 7 people deep to see POTS. After grabbing fastpasses for POTC we walked under the bridge to hear the roar of a military jet fly-by. (presumably for the Angles game). For a second people looked slightly panicked as the jets buzzed the park. The Pooh attraction was covered in green mesh so that you could not see in again but the sign had been uncovered causing even more questions from guests.
Heading over to DCA we found that the lines for FFF attractions was healthy with wait times ranging from 20 to 45min for attractions. At one point all of the atmosphere lighting on the clovers turned off. No fade no audio warning they just all shut off leaving people thinking that the park had closed and the rest of us in line standing and walking in the dark. Our best guess was that this had something to do with the Electrical Parade.
Back to Disneyland to see HMH and it was again strange to hear the old music in the ER. So nice to hear it though as it is a much better start to the attraction. The group in the elevator was small (20 or so people) with at least half never seeing the makeover before as they all commented on the Stained Glass being new to the HM. As the doors opened the guests in the elevator applauded the music and presumably the change. All 7 monkies were functioning as well We got out about 10:05 to find Fantasmic running and since it was posted that the park was closing at 10:00 we decided to watch the rest of it rather then running off to another attraction. At the end of Fantasmic we wandered over to Fantasyland to find the shops and attractions still open. A CM informed us that they had found out earlier in the day that hours had been extended an extra hour. One last trip on the Jungle Cruise (with a good skipper) and it was a great end to a VERY strange day at Disneyland.
Kudos to Disney for keeping the park open later when they have that many guests. Extra special thanks to all of the unsuspecting CMs who ended up working later then they had expected.
Proceeding up the parking ramp they were parking in a weird pattern that I had not seen them use before. Fill half of the row with cars. Then double-park half of that. They then would open a new row and park the first half of that. At random they would open up the lanes that were only half filled and fill them in. Maybe there is a reason for this???
Trams were coming up one after another and every one was leaving full to the front gate. Both load/unload sides were being run in DTD and they could not load and unload the trams fast enough. Disneyland had lines past the monorail and DCA past the letters as NA noted. At least 6 planes were circling in the area with banners promoting all kinds of things.
Crowds inside Disneyland resembled a Saturday afternoon with 6 or 7 people deep to see POTS. After grabbing fastpasses for POTC we walked under the bridge to hear the roar of a military jet fly-by. (presumably for the Angles game). For a second people looked slightly panicked as the jets buzzed the park. The Pooh attraction was covered in green mesh so that you could not see in again but the sign had been uncovered causing even more questions from guests.
Heading over to DCA we found that the lines for FFF attractions was healthy with wait times ranging from 20 to 45min for attractions. At one point all of the atmosphere lighting on the clovers turned off. No fade no audio warning they just all shut off leaving people thinking that the park had closed and the rest of us in line standing and walking in the dark. Our best guess was that this had something to do with the Electrical Parade.
Back to Disneyland to see HMH and it was again strange to hear the old music in the ER. So nice to hear it though as it is a much better start to the attraction. The group in the elevator was small (20 or so people) with at least half never seeing the makeover before as they all commented on the Stained Glass being new to the HM. As the doors opened the guests in the elevator applauded the music and presumably the change. All 7 monkies were functioning as well We got out about 10:05 to find Fantasmic running and since it was posted that the park was closing at 10:00 we decided to watch the rest of it rather then running off to another attraction. At the end of Fantasmic we wandered over to Fantasyland to find the shops and attractions still open. A CM informed us that they had found out earlier in the day that hours had been extended an extra hour. One last trip on the Jungle Cruise (with a good skipper) and it was a great end to a VERY strange day at Disneyland.
Kudos to Disney for keeping the park open later when they have that many guests. Extra special thanks to all of the unsuspecting CMs who ended up working later then they had expected.