Interesting day today. Crowds fairly low — plenty of waits posted around 30 mins all day, actual wait times often 10 even for Mario Kart at one point. Ministry mostly around 40-50 but it feels to me like operations have improved massively here.
Quite a bad day for show quality and upkeep, though. Creature, first wolfman, hunchback, all static but visible. Ygor disappeared too later in the afternoon, second preshow down all day. On Ministry, the erumpent was also on view but static, which honestly just makes that part of the ride awkward. Looks like there’s a lot more tolerance for leaving show elements on view when broken than there was last year, which is a shame, because I overheard plenty of people comment on how weird things looked when getting off both rides. Rode Stardust four times and only managed to get working audio once.
Another new one for me was Untrainable with recorded audio instead of live singers — leaves the stage oddly empty in some parts of the show. Is this just last-resort cover for illness etc or have they removed those roles entirely? And the one screen which I’d assumed had a temporary glitch before still has a massive misalignment half way down it — surely that’s fixable.
Growing pains are interesting. Still lots of positive sentiment around during the day, and lots to applaud — reopening Stardust after a long closure even though there was only 5 mins of opening time left is really positive. But I hope the willingness to keep things at their best will be sustained more consistently over the long term, and that they’ll have the people / resources to do that.