"Summer Nightastic!" General Discussion

[club33az]

The dragon's non-return and the SoCal AP's being unblocked have nothing to do with each other. The parks are going to be crowded regardless simply because hundreds of thousands of AP's have just been unblocked for the rest of the summer. I can see them not wanting to announce the return of the dragon to avoid an overcrowding issue, but there's no reason why they wouldn't premiere it if it was ready.

What I meant is that why would the AP's want to deal with the crowds if there's nothing new to see? If the dragon was working, that'd be new to see. No?

[KevRus]

^I hope your reasoning is correct because I will be visiting the park tomorrow. And then I'll be working a closing shift there, too.

Best of both worlds!

[SNJ]

What I meant is that why would the AP's want to deal with the crowds if there's nothing new to see? If the dragon was working, that'd be new to see. No?

I'm sure most of the people who are getting unblocked either:

A. Don't know it's not working
or
B. Won't notice it's not there/working.

They're just stoppin' by to say "Hi."

[club33az]

True, but if any of the guests going to Disneyland are in the know, it's the AP'ers. MUCH more so than the family going once every 10 years or so.

[refurbmike]

What I meant is that why would the AP's want to deal with the crowds if there's nothing new to see? If the dragon was working, that'd be new to see. No?

Maybe there's other things to do in Disneyland other than see a new dragon?

[club33az]

Maybe. Maybe not. It's all guess work anyway.

[Tiggerlives]

Just saw Fantasmic when I was down there last week. Wow. The end is just absolutely horrible. I'm sure people notice when Maleficent turns into a dragon on the water screen but then when the water screen goes down, she appears as a 40-foot-tall Maleficent to 'battle' Mickey. The 'battle' consists of Mickey pointing a sword at her and...she starts to scream.

Now, without any dragon I have no idea what I would have done differently. But the end is a huge disappointment, even if you've never seen it with the dragon- you'd still know something was just not right.

[1FoolishMortal]

What I meant is that why would the AP's want to deal with the crowds if there's nothing new to see? If the dragon was working, that'd be new to see. No?

Oh, I wasn't replying to your post originally. It was just a general observation in response to other arguments I've observed around the Disney net.


I will respond to your previous post about AP's being "in the know," though. I think that's a common misconception about the AP populace in general. You'd think that AP's wouldn't have been surprised back in June during the debut performance of Fantasmic! when the dragon didn't appear, but the crowd still let out a huge collective "awwww." AP's may go to the parks often, but they still don't necessarily know everything there is to know, and the majority of them don't keep up with the online goings-on either.

[club33az]

You're very correct. Not all AP's are aware of the goings on at Disneyland like, say, someone who frequents these and other boards.

BUT (and I'm painting with a broad brush here) as a whole, they do tend to know more than your average guest. That's all I'm saying.

[ChrisF]

I was at the park last night, and it was PACKED! There was apparently something there that everyone wanted to see. The parking structure even closed for over an hour yesterday when it filled up!

Also, kinda random, the TLT Dance Club is fun, haha.