i've had good luck queuing for each of the Crystal Tower raids recently; I've been running them for a friend who wants to gear up his first class by running 2.x content instead of buying the ilvl 115 generics.

On most of our runs we've had other new players and people have commented that they're seeing a lot of newer faces still running CT. Maybe it's just my datacenter (Aether, i think) but these dungeons are still fun and they're really good practice for newer players. Maybe it's been overstated how obsessed this community is with running only the bleeding-edge content cause there seem to be plenty of people in CT just looking for something fun to pass the time..