Recent content by akileese

2016 here and yeah, same. I just can't see the value with the price hikes, closures, construction. I think if they allowed me to get a lower tier pass since I don't travel during blackout date periods anyways, I would've been more likely to renew instead of letting it lapse. I'm just thankful I...

I genuinely don't care for it. The 3D never made me nauseous, but this version does. I'm sure eventually it will be fine for me, but I'm not sure. On top of that, because you no longer have the glasses, you can see the plates you sit on way too well. It just very much exposes how much your...

Please do not give anyone on the ET ideas for re-brandings. The last thing we need is them closing the Treehouses for 4 years to add minimal Ewok Village theming.

It's risk vs reward. A new resort is incredibly expensive in this day and age. I don't think we even have close to what the final cost is for Epic Universe, but it's a lot. They have a resorts all over the world already. If they opened another European resort for example, you're risking...

Sure but if you keep adding more DVC eventually that's gonna swing to the point where there's too many and not enough people to book them. On the flip side of this, I was shocked at how many first time tourists I saw Friday through Sunday of last week. I'd never seen so many people walking out...

Fair point. I suppose when it comes to security, every experience is anecdotal. The belts I wear have plastic buckles so I've never been stopped. Disney usually gets me for bags. I find that when I have a 'bag in a bag' situation (like shopping bag), they seems to trigger it.

It is weird though. Do we really believe they're saving that spot for Avenger's Campus East? That would require moving mountains (agreement with Universal). It seems so bizarre to earmark that spot for something when there's no guarantee it will ever happen.

They already have this at Disney Springs and it's called using a resort bus. Snark aside, I wish they'd use the same scanners that Universal Orlando uses. I never need to get wanded over or stopped there. I've popped at WDW with literally nothing in my pockets and no bag (phone/wallet/airpods...

Yeah. I'm in the camp of they're doing it section by section, and then turning them back on after a successful test while they work through everything. Thursday the panels on the side of the Communicore Hall were all working in some capacity. I'm not sure what the A or B mode of those is, but...

we ended up getting called at about 4:30pm for group 102. Very happy to see it back up and running. Guessing it was a faulty sensor that needed to be replaced by the way they were holding the trains at the start/stop block zone.

7am dropped gone in under one second. I have a feeling they allowed you to join but didn't actually assign groups. They need to close it. Like now. It's been borderline inoperable literally all week. There's clearly something very wrong and they're not getting the time they need to address it.

It's up this morning. Left side only and feels like either one or two trains. Held for a significant amount of time on that initial climb, reverse launch, and the screen before unload, so it's definitely still having issues.

Opening that 1pm is appalling. It was very apparent something was very wrong. I was in 22 and got called at 430pm and before I even checked in they said it was a two hour wait. I walked off after that but I have to imagine it was a 1 train/1 side situation. No way you could hit those waits...

If I’m looking at that correctly, it effectively went down at 6pm and never came back up? I’m asking since it still hasn’t opened yet this morning.

Feels like this is probably the most likely outcome. I will say I don't think there's a single attraction that would be made worse by adding muppets (maybe Country Bears, maybe.), but I love them so I'm always going to root for more muppets.