Never noticed it on my other visits. It was interesting at first but after the third time I was like, “Bruh, let me enjoy my meal in peace. I don’t like the feeling of imminent danger while eating.”Haha.
I guess it can't be helped since there will always be a constant stream of new guests pouring in, so that all guests can get to see it at least once. Some additional sequences might help in the future though. Speaking of Toadstool Cafe, I think they improved the seasoning on the fries. They didn't taste super salty, but seasoned so well I ate every single fry. I also had the Luigi burger. It was great aside from the large bell pepper that kind of made it a bit structurally unsound, and since it wasn't to my liking either I just removed it. It's really strange how they don't allow you to modify the orders though, like no bell pepper. Hope it's temporary.
Also, despite getting a 10:30 AM reservation, the garlic knots were the same as on the first AP preview and sadly not like the ones I had on the day of TRs that I went to. I wonder what could be cause for the change since there weren't a lot of people inside the cafe and the line wasn't that big when I got in.
All that aside, incoming splurge of details, but I think yesterday's makeup preview day was the smoothest day I ever had in SNW with everything else I've mentioned. There were so little crowds that the initial time slot thing like with the other previews was dropped and they stopped checking band colors as early as noon. I even asked a TM before leaving the land and I was told I could come back as long as I had the wristband. All attending APs pretty much had the whole land to themselves and as I said before, really savory day to do as much as possible.
The only thing that regularly had a line every now and then other than games and cafe were the binoculars, and I think it's because it turns out that what you can find on the binoculars is RNG whenever a new session on them starts. As a result, a lot of people were going to them for achievement hunting.
I did hear that people managed to find the Pikmin near
a box that's above 1-Up Factory that has a mushroom going back and forth between it (despite how it says Mount beanpole on the app), but I unfortunately kept seeing a Bob-Omb instead. Must be pretty rare RNG since I did see Rosalina show up a lot for people.
You have to tap on that little circle sensor looking thing at the base of the binoculars I believe, the first time I ever did the binoculars I didn't and did not get any stamps. In general I wasn't getting any of the special events like Rosalia or Bowser's ship on the tall one.
I think they absolutely should cover the hole with one of those M symbols that indicate a tap point, and probably have a simple sign posted of how/when to do it in order to get stamps.
Lastly, I don't know if this was mentioned already, but I think I've discovered a tip for the key coins: you don't have to go straight to Bowser Jr. once you have three, I think you can get as many as you'd like and the app will still keep track of it. I noticed it when I did the Goomba Crank several times to get stamps, and after doing the BJ fight, I noticed my key coins didn't go back to a blank.
Just did a quick search and there's an unofficial playlist on Spotify. Haven't listened to it yet so don't know how accurate it is.
These unfortunately don't sound anything like what I've heard in the land. Shame though, since I really like the arrangements of the Yoshi's Story music in the MK queue and
the SMW credits theme as you're in the exit pipe.