Really excited to hear your impressions Arthur, and glad it's living up to the hype. I've got a few friends who either got early access or work at the park, and every impression they've shared so far has been extremely positive.
I'm curious to know if you've seen any little touches that tell you this park was designed for 2025 vs parks that were designed 20-30 years ago. Queue design, layout, traffic flow, parking, travel between parks, etc.
Right now I've got this on my essential vacation list for 2026. Had a few too many trips going on this year to make it happen, but I will absolutely be visiting next year!
In terms of layout, the massive Celestial Park that serves as the hub and the portals that largely hide the lands that lie beyond is quite intriguing. Whether other parks follow this as a trend remains to be seen. As for queues, the massive ones for Battle and Monsters build on the trend to create engaging spaces for guests to appreciate while they wait in loooooooong lines for hugely popular attractions.
1. Not great. Especially in Celestial Park. My hope is that as the trees mature and fill out, there will be more cover.
2. Yes. Especially if they want to linger and take in the copious details. Also, there aren’t a heckuva lotta major attractions, so I do wonder about capacity and long lines/wait times. The queue for Battle especially appears to be designed to accommodate huge numbers of guests.
Really excited to hear your impressions Arthur, and glad it's living up to the hype. I've got a few friends who either got early access or work at the park, and every impression they've shared so far has been extremely positive.
I'm curious to know if you've seen any little touches that tell you this park was designed for 2025 vs parks that were designed 20-30 years ago. Queue design, layout, traffic flow, parking, travel between parks, etc.
Right now I've got this on my essential vacation list for 2026. Had a few too many trips going on this year to make it happen, but I will absolutely be visiting next year!
In terms of layout, the massive Celestial Park that serves as the hub and the portals that largely hide the lands that lie beyond is quite intriguing. Whether other parks follow this as a trend remains to be seen. As for queues, the massive ones for Battle and Monsters build on the trend to create engaging spaces for guests to appreciate while they wait in loooooooong lines for hugely popular attractions.
Arthur, two questions so far:
1. How is the shade throughout the whole park?
2. Do you think it will take most guests two days to see most things in this new park?
1. Not great. Especially in Celestial Park. My hope is that as the trees mature and fill out, there will be more cover.
2. Yes. Especially if they want to linger and take in the copious details. Also, there aren’t a heckuva lotta major attractions, so I do wonder about capacity and long lines/wait times. The queue for Battle especially appears to be designed to accommodate huge numbers of guests.