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most people around here drive to Disney but both times with kids we flew and really glad we did. 10 hours with young kids would not be fun.
 
HockeyPat said:
Back a few years, before the quarantine; I took the ghost of my ex-wife's grandfather to Disneyplanet. We got to ride the secret Pirate's Big Thunder Splash Haunted Mansion of the Caribbean that hardly anyone aside for JeffBear knows about. Of course it broke down, and we got to walk backstage and meet the real Mickey Mouse. Not someone in a suit, but the REAL Mickey Mouse. We also got to see Mr. Disney's head in a jar and hold one of Scrooge McDuck's gold coins. (he made sure he got it back). The nazi rally at the end was weird, but all in all an entertaining day.
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Oooo. Real Mickey sightings are really rare. That sucker is 91 years old
 
andyt said:
We took my wife’s then 80 year old aunt to Disneyworld in 2006. Pirates of the Caribbean had just reopened with Jack Sparrow added, my kids had gone to the midnight show before we left, so we headed there first. We got to within 2 boats of the exit and the ride broke down. We had to walk back stage and came out the back and had to climb a steep hill to get back to the plaza. Someone was handing out tickets that functioned as a Fast Pass to every rider as they came out the door. I was walking with my wife’s a unit, we were well behind everyone. The Disney employee who had been passing out the tickets was walking with us. He asked her how she was and she said, “this is my first time here and the first ride I went on broke down”. He shoved all the remaining tickets at us and I quickly grabbed them and stuffed them in my backpack. We didn’t wait on a line that had Fast Passes the rest of the week. The next day, we were in Epcot. We took her over to see Test Track so she could decide if she wanted to ride it. She said, “You already broke me, so why not”.
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FWIW, I'm one of the weirdos who actually enjoys getting stuck and then evacuated from rides. The most extreme one for me was when I first started my current job and we got evacuated off of the Rip Ride Rockit Roller Coaster at Universal ... the one with the viral video from when Fallon took Kevin Hart on the thing and got a bug in his mouth at full speed. My car was stuck at the top of the biggest drop and I got to clamber down the steel steps set into the support structure. It was awesome. I've been perp-walked out of both Pirates of the Caribbean rides in the US, and both Space Mountains when they broke down. Walking through the Haunted Mansion with the lights on was super weird too. They always apologize profusely and throw around gift cards and fast passes like confetti, but I love it.
 
jeffbear said:
FWIW, I'm one of the weirdos who actually enjoys getting stuck and then evacuated from rides. The most extreme one for me was when I first started my current job and we got evacuated off of the Rip Ride Rockit Roller Coaster at Universal ... the one with the viral video from when Fallon took Kevin Hart on the thing and got a bug in his mouth at full speed. My car was stuck at the top of the biggest drop and I got to clamber down the steel steps set into the support structure. It was awesome. I've been perp-walked out of both Pirates of the Caribbean rides in the US, and both Space Mountains when they broke down. Walking through the Haunted Mansion with the lights on was super weird too. They always apologize profusely and throw around gift cards and fast passes like confetti, but I love it.
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I‘ve been inside Space Mountain with the lights on before. It kind of takes the gloss off the ride when you recognize it’s not much different than the State Fair Monster Mouse coaster.
 
andyt said:
I‘ve been inside Space Mountain with the lights on before. It kind of takes the gloss off the ride when you recognize it’s not much different than the State Fair Monster Mouse coaster.
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I mean, it IS a State Fair Monster Mouse coaster ... two of them actually. I like riding it with the lights on, but the blackout version they do during the Halloween parties and Villains After Hours events is the best. You don't realize how much ambient light seeps into that space until you ride it in complete darkness. It's a hoot.
 
cmon3 said:
Never been there and never plan to go and happy about both. So no.
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Same here. Although, now that our granddaughter is old enough we will probably take her there. Once. And also do the Space Coast thing.

I like to relax on vacation. Disney doesn't sound too relaxing. But then again, I'm old.
 
HeyKurtz said:
Yes...I finally got the first of the two refunds I requested, exactly 30 days after I made the request.
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Worth noting here that Raleigh's own Etix distributed refunds for cancelled shows within 2 weeks and fulfilled requests for refunds on re-scheduled shows in roughly the same timeframe. I wish more venues used them for ticket distribution. No fuss, no muss, straightforward fee structure ... no drama.
 
jeffbear said:
Worth noting here that Raleigh's own Etix distributed refunds for cancelled shows within 2 weeks and fulfilled requests for refunds on re-scheduled shows in roughly the same timeframe. I wish more venues used them for ticket distribution. No fuss, no muss, straightforward fee structure ... no drama.
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I didn’t realize they were Raleigh-based. Brewgaloo and the NC Museum of Art use them and I think Red Hat does too, but it’s been forever since I bought a ticket there. Last year at Brewgaloo, we needed to buy more drink tickets. I fired up the website, bought them, got the email confirmation almost instantaneously and went straight to will call, bypassing the line. Tickets for Brewgaloo this year carried an almost 12% fee. By comparison, my Hamilton and Wicked tickets, purchased on Ticketmaster through my DPAC membership had a 10% service charge but their normal fees are much higher than that.
 
I guess ticketbastard has long term contracts with most places?

Amazing how it takes them 30 days to click a button, I'm sure the code is already written. As I said, one SQL statement
 
andyt said:
I didn’t realize they were Raleigh-based. Brewgaloo and the NC Museum of Art use them and I think Red Hat does too, but it’s been forever since I bought a ticket there. Last year at Brewgaloo, we needed to buy more drink tickets. I fired up the website, bought them, got the email confirmation almost instantaneously and went straight to will call, bypassing the line. Tickets for Brewgaloo this year carried an almost 12% fee. By comparison, my Hamilton and Wicked tickets, purchased on Ticketmaster through my DPAC membership had a 10% service charge but their normal fees are much higher than that.
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Yeah ... Etix is a global business now but still based here in Raleigh. It's not that they don't have fees, but at least they have one clearly set fee that doesn't shift around based on the venue, and they actually look after the interests of the ticket buyer as well as those of the venue. It ain't perfect, but it is better. They are contracted to a number of large regional venues and manage ticket distribution for The Orange Peel in Asheville, the NC Art Museum, Hopscotch festival and the State Fair here in NC.
 
andyt said:
I didn’t realize they were Raleigh-based. Brewgaloo and the NC Museum of Art use them and I think Red Hat does too, but it’s been forever since I bought a ticket there. Last year at Brewgaloo, we needed to buy more drink tickets. I fired up the website, bought them, got the email confirmation almost instantaneously and went straight to will call, bypassing the line. Tickets for Brewgaloo this year carried an almost 12% fee. By comparison, my Hamilton and Wicked tickets, purchased on Ticketmaster through my DPAC membership had a 10% service charge but their normal fees are much higher than that.
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They are actually in the same building In Morrisville as my company.

Their service is better than Ticketmaster’s—which is true for 99.9999% of the businesses on the planet—but is far from flawless, usually because of limitations of their technology. The NC Museum of Art actually dropped them as their ticketing company a few months ago.
 
Paulie Walnuts said:
Which business has worse service than ticketbastard? The mafia? You complain to them and you sleep with the fishes.
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Not really a business, but with the Franklin County Environmental Health Department is likely worse. I'm not sure if they just don't care, or they don't give a [Polar's Word], or if it's some combination of the two. I have decades of aggravation dealing with their, err...wisdom & assistance. It BLOWS.

Plus, I don't care if the director of said department is on here to read this, tighten up, dammit. Seriously.

Jim
 
Saw 50 people standing close together eating food from a food truck. Including children. That kind of thing is happening all over now. Like the 2000 people going to a local car race in Alamance county. And Cooper made the track shutdown. (y)
 
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Paulie Walnuts said:
UNC requiring everyone on campus in fall wear a mask. I would think all the other UNC system schools will follow that.
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My daughter works at UNCW. They were told that mask wearing is mandatory and faculty and staff will be issued 3 masks.
 
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