Sneak Peek at Dumbo's Interactive Queue - VIDEO
The Walt Disney World Resort just shared with us an interesting behind-the-scenes video that shows us around the new interactive queue that guests will soon be able to see when it will officially debut in July:
So, what is your opinion? If you have young kids, do you think this will be a nice diversion for them? As always, feel free to share your opinions with us.
A nice distraction until they can get on the ride. It will be interesting to see if they can get the kids to leave this and go on the ride.
ReplyDeleteI agree with Karen - I think this will be great for kids to pass the time, but will they want to leave for the ride? We are headed there first week of July so I hope to see first-hand how it works!
ReplyDeleteThis is a Next Gen queue? What a huge disappointment, now there are two kids play areas in Circusland and you have to take a Cheesecake Factory pager? How can anyone say this is anything but a McDonalds Playplace?
ReplyDeleteOh yea!!! Now to get on the ride you have to be engrossed in hyper-kid land!!! I agree with Brian-it's a McDonalds playland!!! Disney needs to learn not all it's guests are family units!!!!
ReplyDeleteBrian and Dawn, your negativity is intolerable and wrog!
ReplyDeleteHmm...I understand wanting to provide guests/children waiting in a long line with something to do. I know I've seen my fair share of grumpy kids waiting in lines at Disney. But I wonder if this is entirely the right way to go about developing an "interactive" queue. When I heard about this, I was expecting something similar to the Haunted Mansion queue where there are now engaging elements that still retain some semblance of a line. I feel like this may prove problematic in the long run simply because it seems like there is potentail for it to get kind of chaotic with tons of children running around. Like once your beeper goes off, how do you quickly wrangle your kids in from the playground? I appreciate the effort to make waiting in lines more bearable (even for us adults!) but I'm not sure if this was the answer.
ReplyDeleteThis is a huge improvement versus what Dumbo used to have (a boring, non-themed line filled with crying children). The interactive elements are for children, not adults, so while some people may say this is like a McDonald's playland (if it does, your McDonald's is a lot nicer than mine), the last time I checked, kids LOVE McDonald's playlands. This will be successful. I just wonder how many pagers they have?
ReplyDeleteIt is very interesting to hear such different opinions. We will have to see this interactive queue in person before giving any actual judgment, but it looks like Disney built it keeping in mind that the majority of guests that ride Dumbo are very young kids. I do agree, though, that calling this an "interactive" queue may not be entirely correct. It is more like a "hands-on" play area.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous and others, lets take a look at this from another perspective, if Universal promoted a Next Gen Queue in one of their new attractions and when unveiled it was a indoor kiddy play space with Cheesecake Factory Pagers to let you know when your ride is ready, would you be saying what a high quality addition to the park it is or would you be saying how cheap and misleading Universal was in its execution and promotion?
ReplyDeleteHey Brian, there is one thing about Disney, it's never cheap! This queue is for the little ones. Remember Toon Town? It was hard to get the little ones to leave, and really, it wasn't that exciting for us grown ups. Anything that provides entertainment for the little ones and air conditioning will help us older ones deal with the whinning and fussing of bored overheated children in line. Disney always thinks things out. That's why is it so successful, and will always outshine Universal (for the young ones at least).
ReplyDeleteKaren, you're not seriously telling me a net run, a mini slide made to look like a cannon, a static fiberglass Dumbo rotating over head are cheap. Even the show producer uses the parents sitting down to enjoy air conditioning as selling points. Isn't this just like Walt Disney having to sit and watch his daughters ride the carousel while he watched? And the red blinking pagers seen at restaurants around the world with a sticker on the top are not top notch. If this was not cheap as you stated, then someone at Imagineering should loose their job. As a side not, Universal is not always outshined by Disney, when Universal opened Harry Potter it was the first time in WDW history an outside theme park effected their attendance, hence the rapid green lighting of the New Fantasyland and Avitarland.
ReplyDeleteYou make some valid points, Brian. I guess we will have to see how good or bad it is. Maybe we need to talk to the Imagineers. You won't get an argument from me about Harry Potter park, but I was talking about the little ones. I still feel that Disney outshines for the little ones as compared to Universal, and this is including Dr. Seuss land.
ReplyDeleteKaren, indeed. I'm simply underwhelmed by what was billed as a Next Generation queue. Dumbo had so much potential as a relatively unused property, to take full advantage of doing something groundbreaking.
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