Part of the fun of going to Disneyland has (for me) always been the idea of spontaneity. Wanna hit up, say, Roger Rabbit, then bounce over to Thunder Mountain, hop to Star Tours, then double back over to grab a Dole Whip? Cool, let’s do it.
The RotR reservation system, among other things, and the perpetual headache/disappointment surrounding that system, was a big sign of things to come, and this is just one more big leap away from the freedom of enjoying the park(s) how you want to. The last thing I wanna be doing is watching Disney drain my phone battery because I constantly have to have an app open to set up a schedule for what rides I wanna do, where I want to eat, where I just want to get a damn water bottle or something, and when I want to do it because, if I don’t, then I’m sore outta luck.
Maybe it’s being dramatic, but god… It’s something that should be so simple, yet it’s like they have to make it needlessly more and more complicated for everyone. I feel like we’re a stone’s throw away from Disney announcing they’re closing every standby line for the rides and just creating queues for the shops for us to wait in instead until we’re blessed with our call time for a ride. I can’t help but wonder what Walt himself would think of someone like Chapek or how the simplicity of something so breezy as “a day at Disneyland” is being warped into something so convoluted…
/rant