News Round Up 2018

[Redcon1]

News

Disneyland's Redd Rockett's Pizza Port will become Pizza Planet from Toy Story.

Shame Redd Rockett's has gone downhill. It was our go-to quick service at DL when it first opened through our last visit in 2011. My wife and I enjoyed sharing a Caesar salad and a very good Chicken Fusilli dish. Also, it was one of the few places at the time in DL where you could refill your soft drinks for free.

Changing it to Pizza Planet does not give me much hope there'll be any drastic improvement.

 

[jade1]

Too funny. In my mind - that's a fake thing - how do I know which car really would win? I totally discount it

Well yea its fake overall, but your design score is the same after the ride as each car designed. So you know who will win before the ride.

Challenge is to design the highest score.

 

[skier_pete]

The itineraries are really great, and I appreciate that they make every effort to be an organic, immersive experience and that your Disney guides are supported by knowledgable local guides. And the fact that you have one Disney employee assigned to just your family for the sole purpose of photo documentation of the whole vacation is a pretty easy way to justify the cost for one of these once-in-a-lifetime type trips.

Honestly, we did the ABD Backstage magic, and knowing all those things, I STILL can't justify the double to triple price that Disney charges for ABD versus traveling on my own. Especially since quite honestly I love the adventure of traveling on my own.

 

[BigRed98]

Shame Redd Rockett's has gone downhill. It was our go-to quick service at DL when it first opened through our last visit in 2011. My wife and I enjoyed sharing a Caesar salad and a very good Chicken Fusilli dish. Also, it was one of the few places at the time in DL where you could refill your soft drinks for free.

Changing it to Pizza Planet does not give me much hope there'll be any drastic improvement.

It’s just an overlay similar to Pinocchio’s changing to red rose tavern. The food is probably going to be similar but the decor will change to a pizza planet theme.

 

[skier_pete]

Well yea its fake overall, but your design score is the same after the ride as each car designed. So you know who will win before the ride.

What actual testing were you doing in Test Track 1.0 - none! Now at least you are having the fun of designing the car. Before it was just "we're putting you through the paces". Mostly I prefer 2.0 to 1.0, I only miss the little fake-out in the pre-show video where they preview them putting you through a test crash and anyone that hasn't ridden before laughs nervously.

 

[jade1]

What actual testing were you doing in Test Track 1.0 - none! Now at least you are having the fun of designing the car. Before it was just "we're putting you through the paces". Mostly I prefer 2.0 to 1.0, I only miss the little fake-out in the pre-show video where they preview them putting you through a test crash and anyone that hasn't ridden before laughs nervously.

Yep we enjoy trying to create the highest score during the design.

Trick is to not look at your other party design scores so its a surprise during the ride and at the end.

 

[jlundeen]

For us, a multi age group of crazy ladies, we couldn't care less about real design, we just went with what looked cool... but then we saw the jet packs and plasma engines... we were miserable at fuel efficiency and cornering, but our sparkly purple car did win the speed category... ha ha ha

 

[rteetz]

You gotta keep getting in good with Pete on those DIS podcasts and get him to invite you along on one as part of his "crew".

That would be great. Their trips always seem amazing.

 

[TheFloatingBear]

News

Gaston’s Tavern now serving sandwiches.

Happy to see the warm cinnamon roll still there - that thing can feed a family of four! The sandwiches look pretty good...

 

[rteetz]

Happy to see the warm cinnamon roll still there - that thing can feed a family of four! The sandwiches look pretty good...

Um... I ate one myself...

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

Happy to see the warm cinnamon roll still there - that thing can feed a family of four! The sandwiches look pretty good...

Um... I ate one myself...

I treat myself to one of those as a meal on running trips!

 

[TheFloatingBear]

Um... I ate one myself...

Nice job! I said it can, not that one shouldn't proudly enjoy one in it's entirety! I'm going to give it a shot in April...although the sandwiches are throwing me off because they really do look good...

 

[TheFloatingBear]

I treat myself to one of those as a meal on running trips!

Definitely earned warm and gooey goodness on a running trip!

 

[jlundeen]

Definitely earned warm and gooey goodness on a running trip!

From what I remember, the sandwiches are not as big as they look in the photo.... If I remember correctly, they were more like the small Subway size...

 

[TheFloatingBear]

From what I remember, the sandwiches are not as big as they look in the photo.... If I remember correctly, they were more like the small Subway size...

Even better - then I'll have room for the cinnamon roll!

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

News

Gaston’s Tavern now serving sandwiches.

EasyWDW did a review of them a little while ago: https://www.easywdw.com/easy/blog/magic-kingdom-menu-updates-and-reviews/

 

[SouthFayetteFan]

Um... I ate one myself...

you're a growing boy! LOL!!

 

[rteetz]

you're a growing boy! LOL!!

I need to go on a diet after this trip.

 

[rteetz]

I’m leaving at the right time. It’s crazy busy at MK today.

 

[skier_pete]

I’m leaving at the right time. It’s crazy busy at MK today.

Tomorrow starts Easter break - prepare for 10 out of 10!