New Game! "Fast Pass, Standby or Skip?"

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Fast Pass: 3 hour After Hours for friends and family
Standby: All expenses paid four-day Disney Vacation for 20
Skip: Cruise the Disney Adventure - the older I get the less appealing international travel starts to sound.

Haunted Mansion (2003 movie)
Haunted Mansion (2023 movie)
Muppet Haunted Mansion (2021)

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Fastpass: Muppet Haunted Mansion
Standby: Haunted Mansion (2023)
Skip: Haunted Mansion (2003)


Favorite Disney actor from 1960s -

Kurt Russell
Dean Jones
Hayley Mills

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Based solely on their work in the 60’s:
Fast Pass: Dean Jones - seems like he was in just about everything back then!
Standby: Hayley Mills
Skip: Kurt Russell - he did, however, become an actor whose presence in a movie would make me want to go see it by the 80’s.

Best ride at night:
Slinky Dog Dash
Big Thunder Mountain
Test Track

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Fastpass: Big Thunder Mountain
Standby: Test Track
Skip: Slinky Dog Dash


Best restaurant/bar with entertainment in your opinion -
Yeehaa Bob at River Roost, Port Orleans Riverside
Irish dancers and/or band at Raglan Road, Disney Springs
Piano player at Rose & Crown, EPCOT World Showcase

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Fast Pass: Yee-Ha Bob / River Roost
Standby: Piano player / Rose and Crown
Skip: Irish Dancers and music / Raglan Road - this would have been higher prior to our last time there. Love the entertainment, but the food was really a letdown.

You have to do all of your dining in one resort:

Polynesian
Grand Floridian
Contemporary

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Fastpass: Contemporary (Ca Grille & that view!)
Standby: Grand Floridian
Skip: Polynesian

Best (food & view) resort restaurant to view fireworks -
California Grill (Contemporary)
Narcoosee's (Grand Floridian)
Ohana (Poly)

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Fast Pass: Ohana - think view from Contemporary is probably better, but I really like the whole Poly vibe.
Standby: California Grill
Skip: Narcoosee’a

Fun Stuff most MK guests don’t know about:

Flag Retreat
Kiss Goodnight
Blue Fairy’s Wishbook in Pinocchio Village Haus (we just discovered this on our last trip!)

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Fastpass: Blue Fairy's Wishbook
Standby: Flag Retreat
Skip: Kiss Goodnight


Animals you always want to see at WDW -
Tigers (Maharajah Jungle Trek)
Gorillas (Gorilla Falls Exploration Trail)
Animal Carvings (Discovery Island Trails, base of Tree of Life)

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Fast Pass: The carvings on the Tree of Life. As awesome as tigers and gorillas are, what was done with the Tree is amazing!
Standby: Gorillas - usually a bit more active than the tigers when we’ve been there.
Skip: Tigers - but it would be awful to actually skip walking through to look at them!

What aspect of the Rock-N-Roller Coaster featuring the muppets holds the most interest to you:

The new soundtrack featuring Electric Mayhem and guests
The audio animatronics of the Mayhem and Scooter
The celebrity cameos that might pop up in the queue

[kraysister]

Fastpass: the potential cameos
Standby: audio animatronics of the mayhem & scooter
Skip: new soundtrack


Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party runs from 8/7 to 10/31 -

Shorten the timeline but have the same # of parties
Shorten the time line but add only a couple of more parties
It sells out every year, so it makes sense to increase the # of days it runs

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Fast Pass: Makes sense to have more parties since they all sell out
Standby: Shorten the timeline but only add a few party days
Skip: Shorten the timeline with the same number of parties

MNSSHP has completely lost its charm for us. The parade, fireworks and different characters are great, but they’ve ruined it for us by doubling (at least) the number of tickets sold for each party. The crowd levels for them used to be more like what you see in the “After Hours� events now.

Since I brought up the After Hours, let’s go park by park:
Magic Kingdom
Epcot
Hollywood Studios