I wish there was no show or fireworks

[Alestro Bakai]

I know, it's been said before, but I'm still frustrated from last night.

I'm sick and tired of being herded around like a bunch of cattle at the onbreak of dusk in DLR. The park becomes so congested that I just want to run off to the parking lot and leave.

Ideally, I would love to see certain, predetermined dates, that omit the show and the fireworks. Make it a day for the rest of us, who have seen the show and fireworks and would like to enjoy the park without feeling like I'm in an emergency evacuation situation.

[wolfy]

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I usually always leave before the herding begins....but then again, I'm a local.

You just can't have specific dates for the shows blocked, there are tourists who may be here for just one day....or a short period of time and they are some of the best highlights of the Park.

Cancelled due to wind conditions is one thing that can't be controlled, and unfortunatly the crowds are still there to manuever through. I always feel bad for the tourists who are here and don't get to see the show(s).

[cstephens]

Ideally, I would love to see certain, predetermined dates, that omit the show and the fireworks. Make it a day for the rest of us, who have seen the show and fireworks and would like to enjoy the park without feeling like I'm in an emergency evacuation situation.

You mean like during weekdays right now when there are no fireworks and no Fantasmic?


And really, for anyone who's a regular to the park, it's easy to avoid the crowd and congestion problems that might be associated with people leaving after seeing Fantasmic and Remember.

[wolfy]

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You mean like during weekdays right now when there are no fireworks and no Fantasmic?


And really, for anyone who's a regular to the park, it's easy to avoid the crowd and congestion problems that might be associated with people leaving after seeing Fantasmic and Remember.

Oops, forgot about the "off" season, still thinking Summer. So go during the week, that should solve the problem!

[EagleWings]

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Easy solution, don't go to Disneyland. You know it's gonna be like that no matter what. I always manage to have fun with it.

[Baloo]

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i don't understand why anyone would get so fustrated. Obviously if you are someone that goes ften or has an annual pass it might be easy for you to say that they should eliminate the events that most people go to watch but its not about only you. I am sure that the person that only has time to go once a year or once in a lifetime would apreciate it if they had those shows.

simple thing is to plan your way around the park during these times. It is simple to do. Basically stay away from mainstreet during the fireworks or just use the long stretch of stores on mainstreet buildings to walk thru it and use the train to get from the east side of the park to the west side of the park.


Even if you were in tomorrowland and wanted to get to frontierland there are way around the crowds or like someone said just leave before its time for crowd control

[Wesley815]

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Easy solution, don't go to Disneyland. You know it's gonna be like that no matter what. I always manage to have fun with it.

Exactly... I can't believe that someone would get so mad over something so simple as popular shows at night.

I *never* have had a problems even when the shows are going on. It's easy to avoid the packed areas, and if you just wait about 20 min until after the show ends, Main Street clears out pretty quickly, which is the POINT "herding" as you say (refering to the orignal poster).

You kinda answered you're own question. The *reason* Disney runs those shows is because of how popular they are. There's a much smaller number of AP'ers who live at the park day after day and have nothing else to do with their life, than there is of guests who LIKE the shows and don't need to live at Disneyland. Some people actually have a family, jobs and a life outside of the park. I know that might be hard for you to believe though.

The park becomes so congested that I just want to run off to the parking lot and leave.

C-ya later then!

That's one less person in line for attractions during the shows that I'm riding to avoid the crowds (whch you seem to have a giant problem with).

[TheDude]

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Ideally, I would love to see certain, predetermined dates, that omit the show and the fireworks.

They have lots of these days and they are all predeterminded.

The calendar at disneyland.com is your friend. Just go on a non-saturday and you will be fine.

[EagleWings]

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I make fun out of getting through the crowds. My friends and I call it surviving the hub and we just get laughs out of it. If you're gonna be that disappointed and upset at Disneyland you shouldn't go, crabby people bring others down there.

[DLDCALVR]

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They opened up the area backstage behind the penny arcade last night

[MaleficentFan]

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^ There were THAT many people on Main Street last night? I wouldn't know, I was in Adventureland during the fireworks.

[Alestro Bakai]

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Well, sorry I provoked so many people. I was simply getting into the "I-hate-it-when-people-hit-me-with-their-strollers-rant" spirit of things, I've seen here so many times before. I thought it's food for thought to think about if it would make sense to have showless weekends. Last night, being stuck in the masses, I heard more than one group of people saying the exact same thing. The tourists are a good argument, that's why I thought if those dates would be known in advance, they could plan accordingly.

That being said, I'm getting ready to hit DLR in about 1 hour... - on a saturday..., yeah!

Know that little walkway they leave between POTC, the lake and Cafe New Orleans? You know, the one that's barely wide enough to let 2 adults through? I'm planning to feign a heart attack there this evening. They'll be airlifting people from NOS to evacuate this evening.

Muhahahaha... (insane laughter)

:captain: :lmao:


Just kidding. My twisted sense of humor.

[SCUBAbe]

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it does get pretty bad, but the worst thing is everyone pushing forward. If we could move faster we would...stop pushing me. Then there's the people who are either panicing or have low tolerance and they use the most colorful language the whole time. I just go witht he flow and I ave been known to ask peole to stop pushing me. I just don't like it. The last time I watched the fireworks I just stayed on the bench until the crowds cleared. I could not beleive how much trash they left all over the hub, but the cm's had it cleaned up in about 10 minutes.

[Disney Wrassler]

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I like the fireworks because they always cut down on the ride lines.

My question is, does the Disneyland Railroad close down for the firework shows? I mean if toon Town closes down, then I would think the train would close down too.

[2DieFR]

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^ No, the DLRR keeps running. I know because last time I saw the show a train went through IASW just as the Main Street segment began!

Magical coincidence.

[DisneyGeek75]

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It appears that they still have not corrected the crowd control issues that came up when they went to "off season" CM staffing? Here is a link where I posted about it.

http://micechat.com/forums/showthrea...Control+Issues

[hollywood1939]

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^ There were THAT many people on Main Street last night? I wouldn't know, I was in Adventureland during the fireworks.

I was leaving, or at least trying to leave, Adventureland during the fireworks. There were A LOT of people in that area last night during the fireworks.

[MasterGracey]

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Then there's the people who are either panicing or have low tolerance and they use the most colorful language the whole time.

Yeah, tell me about it. I was walking around the hub one night as Remember was beginning and the crowd kept stopping as shells went off. Well one lady who was SITTING DOWN in the crowd area by Frontierland told a woman who had stopped in front of her due to the crowd stopping "Hey, you need to keep moving, we've been waiting here forever, stop watching and MOVE!" and the woman she was yelling as told her very forcibly "Hey - I'm trying!" and then the lady on the floor said "Don't talk to me like that, you stupid b*tch!" and the other lady finally started moving again as the crowd was going. I leaned down to the lady on the floor, and yelled over the fireworks "Hey- you're at DISNEYLAND"

I could have said some more, but the crowd was moving, and I think she got the point because at first she scowled at me, but then it quickly turned into bewilderment as she realized a 19-year-old kid just told her to behave herself.

What's worse is that she had children with her, and there were so many more people all around her.

I just don't understand people. This lady shouldn't have been sitting anyway. NOBODY else around her was sitting - didn't she get the hint that it was standing-room only and she wasn't going to see anything by sitting??

Oh well.