On the importance of attraction names

[Alex]

I still get email from people asking me if I know that the Country Bears are gone. Up until it reopened I had people asking me if I knew that Space Mountain was closed.

When the subs open in the summer there are going to be a fair number of people who visit the park and are unaware that they were ever gone.

It is good to be reminded occasionally that for most people the fact that I could probably name the proper name for every attraction, store, and dining location at the Disneyland Resort is just as pointless and geeky as being able to name the on base percentage for every player on the 1983 Seattle Mariners.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

It is good to be reminded occasionally that for most people the fact that I could probably name the proper name for every attraction, store, and dining location at the Disneyland Resort is just as pointless and geeky as being able to name the on base percentage for every player on the 1983 Seattle Mariners.

Hmm, I wouldn't go as far as saying it's just as pointless. My above example alone is enough to show that being able to accurately identify an attraction has some practical usefulness (and would have saved my poor coworker quite the fright).

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Hmm, I wouldn't go as far as saying it's just as pointless. My above example alone is enough to show that being able to accurately identify an attraction has some practical usefulness (and would have saved my poor coworker quite the fright).

No, maybe not quite so pointless. Though to most people they'd be pretty darn close.

Though your coworker who rode ToT can hardly blame the other coworker. Unless she was scared by something other than the drop (in which case she probably would be scared by Haunted Mansion anyway), the ride pretty much shows you exactly what you'll be experiencing before you get on it.

Kind of like riding Dumbo and then afterwards saying you didn't realize it would go in circles.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

No, maybe not quite so pointless. Though to most people they'd be pretty darn close.

Though your coworker who rode ToT can hardly blame the other coworker. Unless she was scared by something other than the drop (in which case she probably would be scared by Haunted Mansion anyway), the ride pretty much shows you exactly what you'll be experiencing before you get on it.

Kind of like riding Dumbo and then afterwards saying you didn't realize it would go in circles.

I've walked all the way down that street and into the lobby when the line is short never having witnessed the doors opening. The cycle time on that ride can get really long, especially if a shaft is not operating.

But in conversation it seemed what scared him most was not the dropping but the uncertainty of when it would end. I think he could have handled one or two drops, it was the up and down with no clue to how long it would go on that got him.

[BarTopDancer]

I just couldn't help myself

Fun with context

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

that ride can get really long, especially if a shaft is not operating.

it was the up and down with no clue to how long it would go on that got him.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

I still get email from people asking me if I know that the Country Bears are gone. Up until it reopened I had people asking me if I knew that Space Mountain was closed.

When the subs open in the summer there are going to be a fair number of people who visit the park and are unaware that they were ever gone.

I'm seconding this post. Seems every time I talk to a total muggle they ask me about the skyway or something that's been gone at least 10 years. It's always "is that really gone? I heard it was gone. I didn't believe it. I thought it was just down for the day when I was last there." These are the people that go to Disneyland, get in the first line they see, and are pleasantly surprised when they end up on a ride.

For many people that don't have kids, Disneyland is about distant childhood memories, so the conversation ends up like that old Chris Farley bit: "Oh, you like Disneyland? Hey, do you remember that theater with the movie all around you? Do you go on that? That was awesome."

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

"Oh, you like Disneyland? Hey, do you remember that theater with the movie all around you? Do you go on that? That was awesome."

I miss that. It's amazing how many details I remember from when I was younger, given that we only went once a year.