This is Long, but you might want to read it. We just got back from a last minute quick trip to the World. Pandoraland and Flights of Passage were tops on our list, so this past Friday morning, we headed to AK and entered the park around 7:15 am. The Park wasn't scheduled to open until 8, though like everyone else, we headed straight towards Pandorland. It wasn't long after we got to the Tree and made the left turn that we ran into the masses of people who arrived before us. After waiting for 30 minutes or so, the line began to move. It stopped a few times, but we finally got into the Flights of Passage ride queue, and the wait time at that point said 120 minutes.
I thought that sounded long, but what the heck, this ride was the ONLY reason we went to AK to begin with. We progressed through the queue relatively quickly until we got to the Lab room where the line completely stopped. It took at least an hour to get through the room. We checked our phone and the wait time had been changed to 4 hours and 40 minutes. We spent another hour in the last room, and we had just arrived at the point where the FP and Stand-by lines merge. We were the next group to go into the final portion of the line when the Fire Alarms went off and the lights came on. We were told to leave immediately. A cast member escorted us through a back stage area and back to the park. Are you FREAKING KIDDING ME. We waited over 2-1/2 hours, got no sorry for the inconvenience, no fast pass, no nothing. I was told by an AK cast member (who is a personal friend) later, that if we had just gotten past the FP/SB merge point, we would have probably received FP's. We arrived at the park at 7:15 and we were escorted out of the attraction at 10:15.
I was told by that same cast member, that the attraction has 3 theaters like Soarin. One of the theaters from the very beginning hasn't worked properly, because it over heats and keeps setting off alarms. I was told that it is a multi-million dollar problem, that they're going to have to close the entire attraction down for several months to fix. They're having problems with a 2nd theater, but it still continues to work most of the time. The 3rd Theater is working fine. The attraction stayed down until 3 PM, as we were leaving the park and heading to EPCOT. On Saturday we went to the MK, which was our final day. I'm completely disgusted with Pandora, AK and Disney.
I thought that sounded long, but what the heck, this ride was the ONLY reason we went to AK to begin with. We progressed through the queue relatively quickly until we got to the Lab room where the line completely stopped. It took at least an hour to get through the room. We checked our phone and the wait time had been changed to 4 hours and 40 minutes. We spent another hour in the last room, and we had just arrived at the point where the FP and Stand-by lines merge. We were the next group to go into the final portion of the line when the Fire Alarms went off and the lights came on. We were told to leave immediately. A cast member escorted us through a back stage area and back to the park. Are you FREAKING KIDDING ME. We waited over 2-1/2 hours, got no sorry for the inconvenience, no fast pass, no nothing. I was told by an AK cast member (who is a personal friend) later, that if we had just gotten past the FP/SB merge point, we would have probably received FP's. We arrived at the park at 7:15 and we were escorted out of the attraction at 10:15.
I was told by that same cast member, that the attraction has 3 theaters like Soarin. One of the theaters from the very beginning hasn't worked properly, because it over heats and keeps setting off alarms. I was told that it is a multi-million dollar problem, that they're going to have to close the entire attraction down for several months to fix. They're having problems with a 2nd theater, but it still continues to work most of the time. The 3rd Theater is working fine. The attraction stayed down until 3 PM, as we were leaving the park and heading to EPCOT. On Saturday we went to the MK, which was our final day. I'm completely disgusted with Pandora, AK and Disney.
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