Rode this tonight and it was wild: Nearly a dozen people on the boat all had their phones out for the entire duration of the ride, filming it, all experiencing the ride through their screens. Like, no one even looking up and seeing the animatronics, etc., with their own eyes, and a number of them young kids. What they choose to do obviously doesn’t affect me, and it’s not like it’s out of the ordinary anymore, but it was weirdly still disheartening to see…
(That said, it was awesome to see Blue and the Indo working smoothly again! Even having been on this a billion times, when the Indo is working, its cool factor still really hits.)