Recent content by DisneySongbird

I'm someone who has a problem with vloggers, not necessarily because of the dozen or so that show up on page 1 when you search "Disney World" on youtube but because of the whole horde of 20 viewer timmies buried somewhere after page 16 who are not and never will be relevant yet insist on being...

Reservations are baked into this one from the word go, though, so Disney has actually officially solved its AP crowding problem forever. If too many APs are showing up, just ratchet the reservation supply down. If "legacy passholders" are mad that they paid $1400 to be told they can't go unless...

Oh, I definitely agree, but I think the fact that the monorail trains are all more than a decade past when they shouldve been retired and are (more) headlines waiting to happen at this point while Disney experiments with gondolas as the next big transportation wave of the future of the past...

I would definitely love to see the escape room concept come to Disney hotels; to me it'd just be one more thing you have the option to partake in on a hotel day, like trivia/games at the pool or movie night. Having said that, if they make the experience private by default (e.g. not grouping...

I mean, bluntly speaking, nothing is a threat to them. Disneyworld has yet to find the ceiling where enough people are priced out that the "give less and charge more" strategy even has a noticeable impact on overcrowding. They're actively trying to drive people away and it's not working. Both...

Well, I do want to just say this first: I'm also fairly confident that I know what I'm talking about, and that's not because of who I may or may not have worked for. I'm confident because I know that the math and the public records and the best practices adopted here and abroad and the lessons...

No they don't, no they don't, yes they can, and no it's not. In order: We don't even have to go abroad to address most of these points because 2019 Amtrak, itself hardly a shining example of competent railroad operation in the 21st century, gets its intercity Acela Express and Northeast...

Here's the official CFX website's record of the July 20th hearing with an 86(!) page PDF of the meeting agenda and attachments. https://www.cfxway.com/agency-information/administration/meetings/special-board-meeting/ Some fascinating stuff in there, including a lot of hard numbers - I might...

It actually hasn't given them any ammunition at all. They'd still be fighting to get the project scrapped even if Brightline hadn't proposed or planned a Disney Springs Station, because you can spit from the right of way and hit somebody in Disney Springs. And that's bad for Universal because it...

I don't think it's unreasonable at all, actually. Not every ride can be a mega showstopper - you need some lower quality rides to boost numbers and soak up capacity. Disney on some level realizes this - Toy Story Land wouldn't have gotten Alien Swirling Saucers (opened 2018!) otherwise. There...

In this thread we will talk about the future of Dinoland, Animal Kingdom's very neglected corner dedicated to the past. I posted briefly on this subject in the Dinosaur merch thread... ...and while I think that's certainly more than enough, that's also kind of a low bar to set versus what...

Who's to say? Universal themselves. Offering 17 acres of land is sort of the equivalent of demanding Disney extend the monorail to Disney Springs and offering to pay for one of the monorail support pillars to make that happen. Just the one. Universal and I-Drive have not publicly committed to...

Walt Disney World actually runs a reasonable bus network already, and intra-WDW traffic is much lower than I-Drive traffic - I can generally trust a Disney bus to actually get me between two points on-property without too much unnecessary drama. By contrast, what passes for bus service in...

The 528 alignment has the same track mileage as 417 but with much less curving (which probably isn't relevant now but becomes relevant in 30 years when Brightline decides to buy faster trains and electrify). Actually servicing the additional station adds acceleration time of about 90 seconds (45...

I could have sworn that the Walt Disney World Railroad at one point had four stations total with a stop in Tomorrowland, but I cannot find any evidence that this station ever actually existed or that there were ever more than three. I'm misremembering this, right? Misattributing the...