Recent content by brettf22

Will this have staying power, or have an extremely limited lifespan, just to be another addition to the latest Defunctland video? Let’s hope the former.

As with every increase in Disney’s planning process complexity, I wonder what third party applications will spring up to assuage perceived concerns about dynamic pricing? I’m sure Mr. @lentesta and his gang are already planning an addendum to the Crowd Calendar to predict the optimum time to...

Re: YouTubeTV, you have to chuckle at the “we’re not going to discuss ongoing negotiations” one minute, then ending the call with a discussion of the ongoing negotiations (albeit a one-sided “discussion”).

Yup. The “fewer people paying more” strategy continues to work.

Duh to me. You’re absolutely right. So then the phone is less than reliable for on ride pics.

I’ve really enjoyed the (albeit limited) interactions afforded by the MB+ bands. Would be unfortunate to see those stop. And getting my Apple Watch to remotely/automatically link with on ride photos has been hit or miss. I tend to wear both watch and band.

It’s always fun to look back on previous years’ price increase threads. Here’s one from 19 years ago. We could just change the $ amounts, and most of the comments would sound eerily familiar. https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/ticket-prices-to-increase-again.126498/

Thanks for the research. I don’t know enough about soil cement permeability nor Florida water management regulations to understand why they are able to leave that in situ. But obviously it’s not an issue. Bonus that they don’t have to jackhammer it all out!

The entire bottom of RoA is concrete, correct? Due to water management issues, I assume this means not just dumping dirt on top of the concrete, but rather removing the concrete first. If so, that’s a whole lot of loud demo work.

In all the years of Virtual Queues, I’ve never *not* secured a boarding group … until today. Struck out at 7 and 1. Gone in milliseconds. They must be releasing very few BGs. Luckily, they seemed to get through all the BGs, and opened up the queue to all APs around 5:30pm today. The regular...

All reports seem to indicate shuttling between Main Street and Fantasyland stations, which seems … odd. I wonder why they wouldn’t include Frontierland.

I agree. However, I would say this is a failure of Disney to update and provide adequate capacity, not a failure of concept. And, truthfully, I’d still take that concept and its outdated tech over the current replacement, which, IMO, lacks creativity, vision, and sense of awe.

Genie did appear in the AP lounge last year

I believe that was an option for the latest Epcot renovation that was *not* chosen … keeping/rehabbing the the Communicore/Innoventions East and west buildings, updating the fountain, adding more trees, etc.