Much agreed, plus, when you have to wait several hours for a ride, it matters little what the queue is like; immersion wanes quickly when there are masses of tourists all around you.
Wizarding World - Diagon Alley Discussion - Part 2
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Much agreed, plus, when you have to wait several hours for a ride, it matters little what the queue is like; immersion wanes quickly when there are masses of tourists all around you.
Lol, maybe we should have a new and seperate thread just to talk about the extended queue
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Look, waiting in a long line full of switchbacks in the sun sucks. Waiting in the greenhouse portion of the FJ line sucks too. But Harry Potter fans are more likely to be disappointed (if they are disappointed at all) by being unable to get on the Knight Bus, or the fact that Flourish and Blotts isn't a real store, or that Ollivander's has some bizarre interior line before you actually get into Ollivander's, or that Madam Puddifoot's isn't a real place, or that you can exchange real money for wizard money but then can't do anything with the wizard money. Lines at a theme park suck, but they're not surprising or disappointing.
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I literally hate you guys right now with this queue crap.
Somehow, I don't think a topic-dedicated forum is the best place to start the "who cares less" olympics. Not when we spend every day of the year discussing (or, okay, reading discussions) our favorite place this side of Narnia. You don't have to like or love or hate the queue, but it's a discussion to be had and apathy is not a good look on anyone.
My two cents: as long as I get to ride Escape from Gringotts, I'll deal with a few switchbacks. That doesn't mean that others aren't entitled to hold Universal to Universal's standards.
My two cents: as long as I get to ride Escape from Gringotts, I'll deal with a few switchbacks. That doesn't mean that others aren't entitled to hold Universal to Universal's standards.
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The thing is they are not talking about the actual queue, which is highly themed, it is the extended queue where you wait to enter the actual queue.
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Wardrobe has been approved for awhile now, or it wouldn't be currently in use. Plus I don't believe gringotts is ready for ppl to ride. Plus I know she has money, but why would she waste her time and be on site when things are not ready to be properly shown to her?
I'm sure reps from WB are there keeping close eye on things for her.
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Walls behind the trees to block the view of backstage and parking lot areas, large umbrellas or canvas to block sun and unthemed show building, small brickwork look to show building near the bottom to blend everything in better.
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Is that true? Last I heard the rumor was you could exchange but not use it anywhere. Aren't there complicated (and possibly legal) issues about currency exchange and distribution?
The backlot is going to be blocked. And there were people who complained about going from castle interior to the Green House line in FJ, so why would a huge unthemed canvas do any better? And brickwork on Gringotts? Not really blending.
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What I've seen and heard is that the backstage areas won't fully be blocked, hopefully I am wrong. The canvas is an idea that I just pulled out semi-hung over and tired. The idea simply is to provide cover for guests waiting and appear to still keep you in the set 'location' of the area and attractions.
You're putting up a straw man argument here, the only issues I have are with queue sections that take you out of the location, period. It's not about millions of dollars of rock work or anything else.
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Here is a zoom of a picture from pixelsattheparks.com
By the way, if you want to zoom in on photos from pixelsattheparks - this was the link for the picture above, you can just change the number of the .jpg at the end of the url.
http://www.pixelsattheparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DiagonAlley-036.jpg
By the way, if you want to zoom in on photos from pixelsattheparks - this was the link for the picture above, you can just change the number of the .jpg at the end of the url.
http://www.pixelsattheparks.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/DiagonAlley-036.jpg
guys seriously i just caught up on 10 pages of extended queue?!?!?! do we not remember transformers? opened not to long ago???? remember last thing they did? build an overhang over the EXTENDED queue!!! Enough said of this topic!
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