LoveRafiki
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Nov 15, 2001
We were at AK on this past Sunday (11/18), it was about 9:30 and we didn't have Fast Pass for Mt Everest until 11a. We decided to go check out Pandora. The posted stand-by wait time was 80 minutes. It was now about 9:40a and we figured - okay, 80 minute wait gets us to about 11:15, plenty of time to get back over to Everest. 70 minutes in the line and they announce that the line is taking longer than normal... well, at this point we were 70 minutes into it... not getting out.
The cast members were letting 60-80 FP holders through for every 4-8 stand-by people. It was crazy.
Anyway, it took us over 120 minutes to get onto the ride.
I had reserved FP for later in the day for Flight of Passage knowing that would be my first choice and probably harder to get... I didn't read everything about either ride because I wanted an element of surprise.
Now mind you, I did not have high expectations for this ride.... But Wow. I know we were all grumpy from waiting WAY longer than we ever wait for anything and it probably colored our experience.
My daughters (14, 17) both thought it was a total waste of time.
There was no "story" line. No intro. It says on the AK map that you go looking for a shaman, but there is nothing on the ride that indicates this. The line queue itself was incredibly dull as well. Could have had screens with story line (think Kilimanjaro Safari) and background indicating why you will go through the rivers looking for the shaman - or giving intros to the creatures you will see.... they could have done with a life size animatronic animal. Ellen's Energy adventure had better animals than this new ride. Okay, yes the colors were pretty and the little jellyfish-like things are cool. The actual Na'vi shaman was neat, but overall nothing spectacular from our perspective.
I will NOT wait for this ride longer than 10-15 minutes ever.
I've seen 4 and 5 stars for it on Yelp/Trip-Advisor and do NOT get it. We will try it again at some point when the hype dies down...
The cast members were letting 60-80 FP holders through for every 4-8 stand-by people. It was crazy.
Anyway, it took us over 120 minutes to get onto the ride.
I had reserved FP for later in the day for Flight of Passage knowing that would be my first choice and probably harder to get... I didn't read everything about either ride because I wanted an element of surprise.
Now mind you, I did not have high expectations for this ride.... But Wow. I know we were all grumpy from waiting WAY longer than we ever wait for anything and it probably colored our experience.
My daughters (14, 17) both thought it was a total waste of time.
There was no "story" line. No intro. It says on the AK map that you go looking for a shaman, but there is nothing on the ride that indicates this. The line queue itself was incredibly dull as well. Could have had screens with story line (think Kilimanjaro Safari) and background indicating why you will go through the rivers looking for the shaman - or giving intros to the creatures you will see.... they could have done with a life size animatronic animal. Ellen's Energy adventure had better animals than this new ride. Okay, yes the colors were pretty and the little jellyfish-like things are cool. The actual Na'vi shaman was neat, but overall nothing spectacular from our perspective.
I will NOT wait for this ride longer than 10-15 minutes ever.
I've seen 4 and 5 stars for it on Yelp/Trip-Advisor and do NOT get it. We will try it again at some point when the hype dies down...
