I feel like I'm one of the worst people to talk about Xmas events, but I'll post my thoughts on the event in no particular order or reason.
The lights are mostly well done. The technological superiority of them all being new and so you get some cool effects with them. These computerized synced lights were the highlight of the trip.
Why does the antique car thing have incredibly basic light displays though? The wait for that was 40 minutes and you would think that the light displays on an attraction would be at least as good as the ones on the path. They didn't even animate.
The costumed characters were cool and I'm glad they exist. For the carriages and the trolley with singers that they totally didn't steal from Disney, I think the park should figure out something else for them. They we're surrounded by people yelling at people who were in the path. I get why they're there and they are needed, but it just seems weird to me they're not using the empty part of the park for the horses when they need to put so much effort into having them.
I dug the fact that most of the midway games were games that had garanteed winners.
I'm not sure what was up with shopping. Only the front plaza had merch shops open. All the other shops had been replaced with attractions. Additionally, I was bummed that they got rid of every single bit of non Xmas merch from the shelves. I was hoping to pick up a few TT things I missed, but nothing was there. I can see why they did it, but at BGW I can still go in and find ride merch.
KD needs to work on crowd control...still. Everywhere had lines way beyond the extended queues they set up. Moving anywhere was an exercise in keeping calm.
I fed a camel.
Overall, I think the event is going to be successful. It's not perfect by a long shot though.
The lights are mostly well done. The technological superiority of them all being new and so you get some cool effects with them. These computerized synced lights were the highlight of the trip.
Why does the antique car thing have incredibly basic light displays though? The wait for that was 40 minutes and you would think that the light displays on an attraction would be at least as good as the ones on the path. They didn't even animate.
The costumed characters were cool and I'm glad they exist. For the carriages and the trolley with singers that they totally didn't steal from Disney, I think the park should figure out something else for them. They we're surrounded by people yelling at people who were in the path. I get why they're there and they are needed, but it just seems weird to me they're not using the empty part of the park for the horses when they need to put so much effort into having them.
I dug the fact that most of the midway games were games that had garanteed winners.
I'm not sure what was up with shopping. Only the front plaza had merch shops open. All the other shops had been replaced with attractions. Additionally, I was bummed that they got rid of every single bit of non Xmas merch from the shelves. I was hoping to pick up a few TT things I missed, but nothing was there. I can see why they did it, but at BGW I can still go in and find ride merch.
KD needs to work on crowd control...still. Everywhere had lines way beyond the extended queues they set up. Moving anywhere was an exercise in keeping calm.
I fed a camel.
Overall, I think the event is going to be successful. It's not perfect by a long shot though.
