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    Flamingo Crossing Hotels

    Local beer maker Persimmon Hollow Brewing Company is opening their third location in Flamingo Crossings.
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    Flamingo Crossing Hotels

    Via toll and off property. Disney would rather keep people under the umbrella and away from 192.
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    FastPass+ Most Certainly Not Coming Back As It Was

    FLIK cards were removed from attractions pre-COVID and wait times are monitored via a combination of long range MagicBand readers as well as cameras. The only reason wait times may be projected higher since reopening is due to the social distancing greatly affecting those existing systems that...
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    FastPass+ Most Certainly Not Coming Back As It Was

    One thing that tends to pop up a lot in these discussions is that the original FastPass and by extension FastPass+ were complete failures for Disney. I have to disagree. While the majority of people may not have been spending their time in-between return windows by eating three character meals...
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    FastPass+ Most Certainly Not Coming Back As It Was

    They were testing this way, way, way back in 2012 during early FastPass+ implementation at Magic Kingdom. Specific, curated “wine flights” depending on your party’s interest. One for non-thrill seekers and two others for mild and then wild ones if I recall correctly. If Disney is going this...
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    Rumor Stitch's Great Escape Replacement— Don’t Hold Your Breath

    When they initially installed the hanging lights in the queue’s first cave section there was absolutely zero tension holding them still. Given that they also mounted them far too low, if they didn’t change it prior to opening, it would have easily been the best interactive element in the queue...
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    News Disney College Program begins again

    Nature is healing itself. Crap, we need cheap, overly enthusiastic kids to work in the heat and direct sunlight labor as fast as possible so we can justify the cost of the mostly empty company housing complex we just built.
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    Rumor Stitch's Great Escape Replacement— Don’t Hold Your Breath

    Costly, but they could squeeze a Alice in Wonderland sized dark ride utilizing the space above and below the current ground level of SGE. A Laugh Floor replacement could also easily extend into the backstage outdoor foods building and parking lot behind it if they needed space.
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    Understanding Why Disney's Magical Express Is Ending

    It didn’t fail and they were slowly expanding service options before COVID. Once the pandemic forced the closure of WDW/DCL, they laid off anyone who was in a non-critical and non-unionized role. Minnie Vans were not essential to the day to day operations of both the parks and ships once they...
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    Understanding Why Disney's Magical Express Is Ending

    Another thing to consider is that maybe Mears didn’t want to extend their partnership with Disney. Perhaps they feel it’s more profitable for guests to use their lower occupancy vehicle services. Or that Disney and Mears couldn’t come up with an acceptable financial agreement.
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    Understanding Why Disney's Magical Express Is Ending

    Resort guests get free parking at the Theme Parks. I’m sure some like the flexibility of hopping in their car whenever they want to leave versus waiting for a bus/boat that could be potentially crowded with sweaty people and screaming children. Going from one resort to another can also be...
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    Understanding Why Disney's Magical Express Is Ending

    Also factor in that the removal of DME might spur more car rentals resulting in less of a need for those guests to use free internal transportation. Disney has always struggled with bus driver turnover. Less labor and operating cost. Once COVID related things subside and the Minnie Vans are...
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    Creations Shop opening this summer

    I think Epcot would be better off with an Evolutions Shop versus a Creations Shop.
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    If you’re in a wheelchair or ecv don’t take the path from YC/BC to DHS

    Concrete should have been redone in sections to allow for egress as there are no safe alternate paths for wheelchairs. End of discussion. It’s impractical to put up signage as you’d have to put up a ton of them in every conceivable language at not only the nearby Studios main entrance, but also...
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    News People mover now reopened!

    Extended downtime has nothing to do with TRON construction impacts or show conditions as a result of it.
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    Facial Recognition Testing

    Sorry to spoil it for all of you who are concerned about the implications of this, but Disney has been doing facial recognition at WDW park entrances for many years. This is just an additional, guest facing eye level camera that will replace the biometric scanner interaction with ticket media.
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    Rumor Version of MaxPass coming to WDW in May?

    Vacation Club is likely for those who take the multiple hour tour/timeshare ownership pitch as they often provide FastPasses for doing it.
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    News Tomorrowland love

    Both retrofitting into the existing vehicle or creating a new fleet specific for the Speedway. As well as the many back of house additions/modifications they would have needed to make to accommodate charging as well as maintenance.
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    News Tomorrowland love

    They tested one of Hong Kong’s vehicles here when their version was still in operation. Couldn’t justify the cost.
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