This could very well be Disney's finest theme park attraction, especially in terms of aesthetics. While most amusement parks would send you up a hill and drop you back down within a minute, Disney serves you one of the most entertaining (and simultaneously thrilling, if not scary) rides in the world. Everything about the ride screams detail- the animatronics, the vivid colors, the familiar music from a movie the whole country wants to see but can't. It's one of Disney's longer rides (in terms of duration, if not track length) and yet it still doesn't grow tiresome.
Like Jack, I'm not much of a fan of long drops. I can take high speeds, jerky tracks, and hairpin turns, but take my stomach out and I'm not liking it. I was terrified throughout the two and half hour wait in line for my first riding... I was relatively young. I HATED the drop, but the rest of the ride was so great that I always agreed to get back on, though not without some reservation. So scary was the drop, in fact, that I was never able to ride it more than once in the same trip until I was there last month. I rode it a total of four or five times- including three in a row at night when it was 40 degrees fahrenheit outside... we didn't even have to get out of our cars! We got soaked and froze (Turdbizzler took off his shirt to avoid this and our group picture was consequently censored
) I got over much of my fear, though, and actually started to enjoy the drop towards the end of the trip... maybe I'm working my way up to Tower of Terror? Not likely.
Of course at Disney World (again, I've never experienced DL's) some of the effects I remember from years past don't always work. Brer Bear rarely swings over you just before the drop anymore, and a lot of the water spraying doesn't work quite as well as it once did... but I won't complain about not getting quite so splashed. They did refurb the exterior of the ride to dazzling brilliance, though, and even onlookers from the outside can be splashed from the log cars just as they see them plummet into the briar patch (which I ALWAYS think we are going to crash into... I love Disney's optical illusions).
Outside of Splash there's a lot to explore as well. The area is very well-themed, from the gift shop to the
Song of the South "playground"/photo-op to the character meet & greet to the expansive restroom/back porch area. The themed que is a lot of fun, too. Of course the loading area always reminds me of Corey and Shawn's 'shower' on BMW.
Everybody Has A Laughin' Place...
-Aaron
