Should some attractions have a MAXIMUM age

[dejr_8]

Should some attractions have a maximum age so that children get a chance to ride a ride that otherwise has an extremely long wait?

My picks would be Dumbo, Indy Cars, Peter Pan, Snow White and the Main Street Barber Shop (yes the Barber Shop).

On our last visit I could not believe the number of adults that were getting their hair cut at the Main Street Barber Shop.

 

[BethR]

Don't you know that we are ALL kids again when we are at Disney World?

 

[Aimeedyan]

Nope, everyone is a child at Disney World. Who cares if adults want to get their hair cut there? I'm all for it!

 

[lovethattink]

---What about all those guests who visit Disney for the 1st time as adults??
---I become a kid again, not a pirate as soon as I step on Main St.

 

[Kitster]

If Disney ever tries to limit the MAXIMUM age a person can be to go on rides, I hope they also start to limit the MINIMUM age a person can be to go to Pleasure Island.

If I'm too old to ride the Indy cars, a (insert any age below 18 here) year old is too young to go to a nightclub.

 

[BethR]

Originally posted by Kitster
If Disney ever tries to limit the MAXIMUM age a person can be to go on rides, I hope they also start to limit the MINIMUM age a person can be to go to Pleasure Island.

Here! Here!

 

[chesirekate]

Sorry, I have to disagree with you too. I understand that it would make waits shorter on certain rides, but there are plenty of adults who like the slower rides and might not even bother coming if they couldn't ride Peter Pan, etc. It would be a money loser for Disney.

 

[kidzmom3]

I would not support that idea, and I think it would ruin the Disney Magic , renewing your childhood as you ride the monorail/ferry and enter the MK for the first time. (and I mean the first time, every time you go)

 

[judi]

A lot of CM's get their hair cut at the Main Street barber shop. My husband gets his cut each trip that we take to WDW. I happen to like the "slower" rides and don't do coasters. If there was an age limit there would be no real reason for me to go any longer. Our 5th trip this year is coming up next weekend. I can't wait to be a kid again.

 

[DisneyMim]

Absolutely not!! Walt Disney himself said he started Disneyland because he wanted a place where parents and children could have fun together. He wanted everyone who entered his park to enjoy themselves. I suppose you think that adults shouldn't have their pictures with the characters either. What a place it would become. Sorry, but I too think that EVERYONE is a kid when they are at Disney.

 

[Cinderella89]

Originally posted by DisneyMim
Absolutely not!! Walt Disney himself said he started Disneyland because he wanted a place where parents and children could have fun together. He wanted everyone who entered his park to enjoy themselves. I suppose you think that adults shouldn't have their pictures with the characters either. What a place it would become. Sorry, but I too think that EVERYONE is a kid when they are at Disney.

HAZAR! I'm 15....I'm too old(in my opinion) to ride some of the rides. In fact a majority of my favorite rides are kiddie rides. Wanna know why? They hold memories of childhood for me! (I'm going threw a mid-teen crisis. Aka I just wanna be a kid again) Same goes for my parents! Thats why we go to Disney so much!

 

[BonnieA]

DisneyWorld is for children and by that I mean the child in all of us. It's make believe and fantasy and a break from the real world that most of us adults desparately need. I'm sorry that the young children have to wait in lines but an adult may want/like/need that ride just as much as a child.

 

[ErinInCT]

I don't think there should be any age limits for the rides, but I will say I was bummed that I was unable to get dd1's 1st haircut at Harmony because it was always crowded with adults & I just couldn't wait for an hour with a 4yo & 1yo!! I wish they would have a barber set aside to just do kids. I didn't know anybody even knew about the barber shop, but I guess the secret is out. I better stop talking about it because I am getting sad all over again that I will never get the chance to get dd's 1st haircut at Disney.
Ok, nuff said, my own fault for not being the 1st person there in the am!!
Can't wait to go back again & hit all the kiddie rides (I swear I like them better then the kids! My 4yo wants to do thrill rides & find kiddie rides "boring".)

 

[CarolA]

No. I can be as young as I want at Disney.

 

[safetymom]

There should not be a maximum age limit on the rides you suggest. Also my teenagers got their hair cut at the barbershop and loved it.

If you are getting your childs hair cut for the first time who is going to remember that? You or your child?

Just like everything else at Disney if you have the time to wait they will let you have the experience.

I rode Indy for the first time last night and had a blast. I am thrilled there wasn't an age limit. Several weeks ago I did Snow White and Peter Pan. I am not a thril ride kind of person.

Hopefully WDW will stay the way it is now.

 

[mmeb144]

Okay, here's the place to confess, this 40 year old woman loves Dumbo! I hate the long line, but I love soaring above the heads of the people in Fantasyland. I feel like I'm 10 years old again. No maximum age for me!

Marie

 

[bethbuchall]

Nope, no maximum ages! The whole family wants to experience those things together, and I would want to do some of those rides even if my children weren't with me.

We did get to the barber shop first thing in the morning on my son's 5th birthday so that he could have a blue 'do with pixie dust. It was a trade-off in not getting to some of the rides early that morning, but life is all about trade-offs.

Beth

 

[TDC Nala]

Should some attractions have a maximum age so that children get a chance to ride a ride that otherwise has an extremely long wait?

Heck no.

I'm 40 years old, I don't have kids, and if I want to ride Dumbo or Peter Pan or Snow White or get my hair cut or book a table at the princess breakfast (and I've done all this except for the haircut), then that is what I'm going to do.

 

[SondraD11]

I'm a 55 year old woman and I clicked on this thread thinking that the poster was going to suggest some of the rides were too intense for us "oldsters" so they should have a maximum age limit....say maximum age for Mission Space would be 21. I was pretty shocked that anyone would suggest that Dumbo, Peter Pan, and other rides should be limited to those with a children's admission pass. I introduced my daughter-in-law to Disney in February and one of my best memories of the trip is looking back from my elephant to see my son and daughter-in-law in their elephants with huge smiles as she rode her first Disney ride. Priceless. Thank goodness Disney is for kids of all ages!

Sondra

 

[POOH&PIGLET]

Originally posted by dejr_8
Should some attractions have a maximum age so that children get a chance to ride a ride that otherwise has an extremely long wait?

My picks would be Dumbo, Indy Cars, Peter Pan, Snow White and the Main Street Barber Shop (yes the Barber Shop).

On our last visit I could not believe the number of adults that were getting their hair cut at the Main Street Barber Shop.

I love to go on all of the rides at WDW. My kids (age 5, 2, & 4 months) will not be able to go on rides w/o me or my DW. So I disagree with a maximum age limit.

I also couldn't believe the number of adults getting haircuts. I don't seek the attraction of an adult getting their haircut at MK. However, I don't think there should be a maximum age for the barbershop either.