Fantasy Faire Experience

[Gn2Dlnd]

There's a lot of backstage area behind Zocalo going all the way back to Village Haus. Maybe they're relocating the custodial offices and taking up some of this space. As for Fantasyland encroaching onto Main Street? I don't think I like it. Right up there with the Astro Orbitor being where it oughtn't. I haven't ever been happy with this area, though, since they removed the food service and remodeled. It really used to be one of the busiest restaurants/ice cream fountains in the Park. The stage was always busy with either visiting school bands or Disneyland musicians, and at night, of course, swing dancing. Usually with bands whose names you'd recognize if you went and looked at your grandparent's (or my) record collection. I like the romance of looking back out at Main Street from Plaza Gardens, at once a part of Main Street, but separated by a reflective body of water.

[~MS~]

According to the Disney blog report on the situation the plan will be that the swing dancers will continue to have access in the evenings. FF currently closes around 5 or 6 every day so I would anticipate that being the case with the new location. I'm one of those that feels that 'someone' is NOT thinking the traffic issue thru here...the ONLY family bathroom in the park is right there and might well be gone with the refurb...access to the bathrooms in the tunnel to Rancho will be unbelievably clogged and let's not forget that those particular bathrooms are some of the smaller ones IN the park in general.

[lashbear]

Originally Posted by ~MS~

.the ONLY family bathroom in the park is right there and might well be gone with the refurb...

You mean the Secret Toilet that you showed me?

...and are the swing dancers going to have to dance around a tower?

I wonder if there's a plan / concept drawing?

[~MS~]

That would be the one Lash...I saw some artwork over on the Disney blog...

[lindyhop]

Ah, yes, this has been in the rumor mill for months. Cast members have been fueling the fire by telling dancers on Saturday nights all sorts of scary stories. Disney seems to be willing to support the continuation of dancing on Saturday nights and that's the most important thing for me. The posts on the Facebook group since the plans were officially announced have been about as indignant and hysterical as what I'd imagine I'd find on that unnamed website.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by ~MS~

I'm one of those that feels that 'someone' is NOT thinking the traffic issue thru here...

I visited DL on a weekday recently and noticed the new snack bar is open next to the Twain dock, across from the Big Thunder entrance. Then I noticed that that it was complete gridlock there. People were stopping to decide what to snack on, people were stopping to decide whether to ride Big Thunder, people were stopping to decide whether to get a Big Thunder fastpass, people were getting off the Twain and getting off Big Thunder and standing in line for snacks....it was about as bad as Adventureland by Indy, just on a smaller scale. The snack bar juts out too far into the walkway, and they've moved the pretzel cart that used to be at the entrance of Frontierland down to the area by the Twain dock with all the other ODV that's already there. So completely stupid. I mean, it was a weekday! I could not believe what a huge mistake they had made.

So, yeah, that doesn't bode well for crowd control.