ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
There IS such a thing as Show Quality at WDW these days?, I thought the SHOW key had been replaced with PROFITABILITY
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New Main Street U.S.A bypass to be built to address entry and exit congestion at the Magic Kingdom
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There IS such a thing as Show Quality at WDW these days?, I thought the SHOW key had been replaced with PROFITABILITY
jt04
Well-Known Member
See the new DAK and then the new DHS. It is an ongoing effort to fix the mistakes made in the past an we are still seeing the process unfold. Enjoy the journey.
Disneyhead'71
Well-Known Member
Lol. All of Disney's mistakes only exist in the past. All the decisions they make in the "now" are flippin' fantastic!
Next Big Thing
Well-Known Member
While I agree that they aren't near perfect right now, most of their problems we are seeing come from mistakes made in the past plus years of stagnation. Not perfect at all right now as DHS is probably the worst Disney park on the planet, but they are finally taking action.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Are they - what i'm seeing is targeted highly visible fix ups
Can they lay on a bus instead of making us walk?
Sage of Time
Well-Known Member
I thought, according to you, that Disney never made mistakes? Amazing.
jt04
Well-Known Member
Not many since TWDC was placed under new management. But the full realization won't become obvious to most here for awhile yet. Memes die slowly around here. Like the one that the mouse overpaid for Pixar for example.
jt04
Well-Known Member
Still waiting for you to link to my quote saying this.
Sage of Time
Well-Known Member
I've been reading your posts (sadly) since 2008 or so. It's a summation of your attitude and refusal to look at operational facts of the resort.
danlb_2000
Premium Member
He doesn't need facts, he just has to repeat over and over that Disney will start building some new stuff, because we all know this will eventually happen, and then he can proclaim that he predicted this all along.
Cesar R M
Well-Known Member
still a long road of walking, they just removed stuff.. they havent added anything.
SpaceMountain75
Well-Known Member
Zip-a-dee-doo-dah
Zip-a-dee-ay
Trees are being planted and they're here to stay...
Photo: @Schmoofy on Twitter
Zip-a-dee-ay
Trees are being planted and they're here to stay...
Photo: @Schmoofy on Twitter
Otamin
Well-Known Member
Even if it's a small addition, the trees add a much needed depth back into the park.
Hopefully Main Street, U.S.A. will start to feel a bit more like a town again.
Sage of Time
Well-Known Member
Ooooooooooooooooooooh. I like this. Reminds me of Disneyland.
alissafalco
Well-Known Member
Does anyone who walked through have any pics from when they did?
lnsemsf
Well-Known Member
They're not particularly good, but it's better than nothing. I only had my phone on me and was trying to get to my fastpass so was hurrying through.
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Tom
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I'm not one to go to Disney's defense, especially when they don't deserve it, but the entire debate over this bypass makes me shake my head.
The park's ever-increasing attendance levels have presented a crowd management problem that they could only have dreamed of in 1971. So today, MSUSA is too narrow to accommodate the mass exodus from the park at the close of business. Not anyone's fault, and there's no feasible way to correct it permanently, because it would be downright ridiculous to tear everything down and widen the on-stage street.
So, for many years, they've done the next best thing, which is to allow crowds to exit via a secondary corridor. For a while, it was fine and dandy to just put up some curtains or roll in a few planters, since it wasn't a routine course of action.
But again, crowds have dictated that it become more of a SOP. And I, for one, give them credit for doing ANYTHING to the area. I don't expect a second Main Street back there. It's backstage. It's a service area. Cast still use the area for staging and prep and hauling trash. Then, when crowds dictate, they allow guests to pass through the area as a courtesy.
And it's called a bypass for a reason. It's not the primary route. It serves one purpose - to get people out of the park as quickly and safely as possible. If you take that route, you do not pass Go and you do not collect $200. You get out. Period. No loitering. No photo ops. No shopping. No eating. You walk south and exit the park.
So why spend millions of dollars to make it look like the permanent areas of the park, when it's only used at night, and is not meant to be stared at or admired?
It sounds like I'm in the minority, but I just don't understand the heartburn over how "awful" it looks. It's a far cry better than seeing dumpsters and piles of vendor carts recharging.
If they were to do something like this in an on-stage area, yeah, it would be worthy of extreme criticism. But everything is relative.
The park's ever-increasing attendance levels have presented a crowd management problem that they could only have dreamed of in 1971. So today, MSUSA is too narrow to accommodate the mass exodus from the park at the close of business. Not anyone's fault, and there's no feasible way to correct it permanently, because it would be downright ridiculous to tear everything down and widen the on-stage street.
So, for many years, they've done the next best thing, which is to allow crowds to exit via a secondary corridor. For a while, it was fine and dandy to just put up some curtains or roll in a few planters, since it wasn't a routine course of action.
But again, crowds have dictated that it become more of a SOP. And I, for one, give them credit for doing ANYTHING to the area. I don't expect a second Main Street back there. It's backstage. It's a service area. Cast still use the area for staging and prep and hauling trash. Then, when crowds dictate, they allow guests to pass through the area as a courtesy.
And it's called a bypass for a reason. It's not the primary route. It serves one purpose - to get people out of the park as quickly and safely as possible. If you take that route, you do not pass Go and you do not collect $200. You get out. Period. No loitering. No photo ops. No shopping. No eating. You walk south and exit the park.
So why spend millions of dollars to make it look like the permanent areas of the park, when it's only used at night, and is not meant to be stared at or admired?
It sounds like I'm in the minority, but I just don't understand the heartburn over how "awful" it looks. It's a far cry better than seeing dumpsters and piles of vendor carts recharging.
If they were to do something like this in an on-stage area, yeah, it would be worthy of extreme criticism. But everything is relative.