Toy Story Land: 5 Ups And 4 Downs

2. There's Not Much Shade

We were there opening day 30th June, where the temperature traditionally hits the mid-90s. With crazy humidity, 5 hour queues and big crowds; the land started to become a little unbearable. We stayed there as long as we could, before we had to make an exit to find somewhere to cool off.

The lack of stores and indoor seating isn't the only reason the park is so hot, there is a distinct lack of any shade. Even in the seating area for Woody's Lunch Box, umbrellas weren't at every table. I imagine we weren't the only ones who became so hot they were forced to escape. Even though the queues have now died down, I can imagine that many still don't spend too long in the land during the hottest hours.

It could be argued that trees would ruin the scale of the land but, again there are ways to artificially create shade that would stay on theme. Why couldn't Andy have stuck little paper drinks umbrellas over the benches he created from popsicle sticks? Or even planted some extra tall weed-like plants that curved over the pavements? Either Disney completely overlooked it or again this was an conscious emission.

As I said before, I do think that Disney may have made a intentional decision not to encourage guests to linger in Toy Story Land. It is incredibly close to Stars Wars: Galaxy's Edge that will be opening next year. I imagine that Toy Story is going to get really crowded, once that Star Wars is open. It wouldn't surprise me if Disney had decided not to add shops, indoor seating and shade to prevent guests from lingering causing backlogs exiting Galaxy's Edge into Toy Story Land.