Stupid Guest Tricks

Hurray, this thing was so annoying when I was in the parks last month. On more than one occasion we found our path blocked by this thing and found ourselves waiting a long time to get through. Sure, we could have taken a different route to get where we were going, but the times it happened there was no good other route, and so it would have taken longer to get there than waiting, and we may have run into it again on the other side. It wouldn't have been a problem had it been a standard parade and just moved on by, but it stopped and sat in some bad places for crowd movement. Completely blocking sections of a major thoroughfare for long periods of time is a bad idea, I hope this is now clear and this mistake will not be repeated.

I doubt that the show stop concept is going to go away anytime soon, actually. They've been doing it as far back as the Lion King Celebration parade, IIRC.

CBeilby wrote:I doubt that the show stop concept is going to go away anytime soon, actually. They've been doing it as far back as the Lion King Celebration parade, IIRC.

That's true. And show stops were also done for Disneyland's Party Gras parade in 1990. A lot of people don't seem to remember that fact.

Show stops are not necessarily a bad thing.

Show stops = increased viewership. Increased viewership = happy execs.

My husband and I moved out of CA about 3 years ago. I'm a former CM turned AP and we would go to DLR at least once a week. When we moved, giving up those trips was the second hardest thing I ever had to do (the first being leaving my family). Earlier this year I got to go back and visit and, of course, I had to go to DL. I sat down to enjoy my corn dog (the world's BEST, BTW), heard the very loud announcement that Celebrate was starting and then sat thru that god awful "parade." Recently we decided to move back to Anaheim and I am SO happy to hear that when we get back, it will be the Christmas parade and Celebrate will be a thing of the past, never to be suffered through again.