pashacar

Shifting the topic a little, what happened to the park's iwerks theater in the past few years to make it a capacity nightmare? They used to efficiently run the preshow (with a video that was actually relevant to the ride film) and get people in there every 7 minutes or so, assigning rows and all. Ever since Spongebob, they're either repeating some annoying and horrible generic simulator preshow endlessly or playing something that isn't even relevant to what you're about to see in the main theater. Worst of all, they now go around (slowly, no less) and check each seatbelt individually, something that drastically slows down loading time and was never necessary until just a few years ago. Did something happen to cause that change, or is the park just getting lazy as they let the dispatch cycles of this ride increase to 15 minutes, or even beyond that? A line from the start of the hangar building used to be well under an hour, but these days it's almost unbearable to wait for the ride.

And the only one in North America that runs clockwise, no less.

^ That TLC package sounds great. Removing flat rides aside, I don't know how they they can keep a straight face about being a family park when the Carousel is in the condition that it's in.

How were Sunday's crowds? They look much more manageable from the new pictures, including an empty TDK queue (were lines really that short, or was it closed or something?). I'm thinking of going next Sunday or Monday but if Sunday crowds are considerably lighter than Saturday ones, I'll opt to go then rather than miss out on all of the Fright Fest activities that aren't operating on Columbus Day.