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« on: March 25, 2018, 10:36:42 AM »
Was at the city last Thursday (22nd) and it was insane with the amount of people. As we were leaving, I asked the lady at the candy shop what the number was and she said it was over 20k. She went on to say "the bad part was they were only expecting about 11k!" The PTB really needs to address this partial opening stuff as the crowd has nothing to do but wait in line. I had 6 other people with me wanting to ride TT, but when they heard the wait time was between 2 1/2 and 3 hours...we walked on by. Even the teenagers agreed that it was crazy to wait in line for 3 hours to ride a 1 minute ride! We hit FM early and walked right on and I'm glad we did because a little later, the line extended past the train station. Never got to ride the Train because that line extended to the Christmas store. Homestead pickers were inside the cabin and it was PACKED for the 1:30 show. In fact, I ended up standing the entire time buy worth it. Those guys are always fun to be with. I was disappointed to learn that I have now lost my go-to place to relax...on the back deck of the culinary school overlooking echo holler. I was also disappointed with the new layout around the TT-TNT-FM exit area. It gets really congested there and from what I witnessed it seems that people just are standing there looking around with that "I'm lost" look on their face. I have to admit, when we got off of FM and walked out the door I had the same look on my face! LOL Food lines began to form around 11:30 am and lasted until around 3pm or so. SDC really seemed to be understaffed in the food areas. I had a hot dog at Franks and that poor lady was by herself working her can off. We joked that with the amount of gloves she had to go through, they could have hired another person just to take the money so she could keep her gloves on! We finally had enough of the crowd and left the city around 4:30 or so. At that time, it appeared that all the parking lots were pretty full.