Standby in particular will often spill into the pen outside. All 3 lines have space inside (standby in particular) but the exterior overflow will be well used I expect.
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EPCOT Remy's Ratatouille Adventure coming to Epcot
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gerarar
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CastAStone
5th gate? Just build a new resort Bob.
They told us Galaxy's Edge would open Late Fall and it opened in August and that MMRR would open in 2019 and it opened last week. So until I hear an actual date I'm just assuming they have no idea.
ZachPL
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Yeah I mean officially they have only said summer 2020, so it makes sense to continue even if that has changed.
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I, for one, am not understanding this recent move to having more outdoor queue space in Florida. Alien Saucers. Slinky Dog. TSM. Buzz. MMRR. Rat. Many things in SW:GE. Not that many rides didn’t do this already, but... now that I think more about it, maybe it’s not so recent after all.
lazyboy97o
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It’s a lot cheaper. At least it is covered queue space and in a front of house area.
hpyhnt 1000
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As @lazyboy97o said, it's cheaper to just put some switchbacks outside. And to be fair, outdoor queues have been quite common across the parks, going right back to the early days of Disneyland. At least this Ratatouille one is properly covered from the start, unlike SDD where they stupidly didn't include proper shade structures for much of the queue in the original build and had to retrofit them in.
Sometimes I wonder how much of this comes from WDI being based in Glendale. It's one thing to stand outside in SoCal during the summer; it's quite another to do it in Central Florida (CenFla?), and I can't help but think some Imagineers forget or ignore that fact. I know there are some field offices at WDW, but I don't know how much say those offices have in attraction design.
lazyboy97o
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Which is worse? Not knowing the heat or intentionally removing the shade to pay for something else knowing that Operations will add it after the fact?
yensidtlaw1969
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If my math is correct, this means it was announced yesterday.A date should be announced very very very very very very soon.
(But I never was great at math.)
Tell that to Space 220 lol
Rich Brownn
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Disney has often overlooked that. When the Magic Kingdom opened, they ended up having to add covers for the queues in Mansion, Hall of Presidents.... and a roof for the Mad Tea Party (oh the joys of bailing out teacups...) I think California forgets about humidity and rain sometimes...
DVCakaCarlF
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It is not uncommon for operations to pay for follow up items such as awnings, enhancements, fixtures, etc. The hotel, multi family, and retail business does this all the time. Some do it every two years to keep things current...that being said, this is Disney. They have more than enough to pay for everything on opening day.
There shouldn’t be “let’s see how things go, and then spend some more money.” The place literally prints money.
There shouldn’t be “let’s see how things go, and then spend some more money.” The place literally prints money.
peter11435
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WDI has a budget (often higher than it should be) they must work with for any project. They will often overlook certain items in the initial build because they know those items will quickly be deemed necessary and funded separately later.
Like the theamed canopy structure built over the barnstormer queue. It’s not that WDI didn’t know it was hot in Florida and that a shade structure was necessary. They just choose to save their money at the time knowing full well it would be funded later and they could design and install it as a separate project. It happens all the time.
Bender123
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Epcot was the start of the indoor queue...Its sort of the only one that always did (save SE)...
Im trying to recall opening day/early days attractions that had an indoor queue for MK and can only think of Country Bears, If You Had Wings, Fantasyland Theater, Pirates and Space Mountain...
Epcot was all indoor except SE.
Studios had GMR and Muppets inside, but everything else outside.
For some reason I read through my list and realize that Epcot seems to be the one that generated the indoor queue fallacy for WDW...Unique again, but the pavilion designs were meant to be inclusive of all aspects of the theme, so an outdoor queue would not make sense for any of those.
IveBeenJack
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Don’t go to Busch Gardens Tampa then
MikeTaylorSound
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Rat building is on the new park map for F&G.
SSE is closing May 26.
I'm hoping for soft opening days the week before...
SSE is closing May 26.
I'm hoping for soft opening days the week before...
Movielover
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Bender123
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Space Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Country Bear Jamboree, Hall of Presidents, If You Had Wings, and Mission to Mars would all like to have a word with you...
Did you read my post? I literally name those...
