An unpopular opinion
Being a local, I don’t want to say I get “bored” of the parks…because that’s just not accurate. However, there are times when I get too used to the way the parks are. After months of going nearly every day, I catch myself pushing past the hundreds of families setting up for a picture in front of Cinderella’s Castle, skipping the early morning Spaceship Earth line or running through Dinoland USA to be the first one on Expedition Everest (EE > FoP). It’s particularly bad when you see a 30-minute wait for ANYTHING…so you skip it. With on-site guests getting a jump Fastpasses and Extra Magic hours, it’s hard for an AP who’s seen it all to get his (or her) fair share of the world.
Fortunately, Disney started putting out more and more special events as I was growing up. The dead period in September was the perfect time for Night of Joy. Instead of dreading the crowds that came with the holidays’, I started to look forward to them because they brought Mickey’s Not so Scary and MVMCP.
