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Orlando Market Share for Dry Parks

Walt Disney World over the last 20 years Universal Orlando Last 20 years. (same scale as WDW chart for relative change) Combined totals of Dry parks at WDW and Universal Orlando. It is interesting to see the year over year declining trend of Universal parks leading into the launch of Epic...

This feels like an interesting way to essentially push the merge point between standby and LL further along to the end of the preshows instead of the first holding room. That should inevitably result in a slight reduction in wait time for LL guests. The stampede and pushing and shoving to the...

I think I said it earlier in this thread, but the concept of Universal launching a cruise line doesn't make any sense to me at all. To start, they have absolutely no experience operating the hotel side of the ship. Lowes has always operated all of Universal's hotels. Do they really want to get...

This whole concept doesn't make any sense at all. Comcast or Universal have absolutely no experience operating hotels much less running a cruise line. All of their hotels are operated by Lowes resorts. Given that Comcast is already struggling with close to $100B in debt. It does not make any...

I believe I saw the example of the Epcot ground lighting issues referenced in this topic. That is a poster child example of something like this and what most miss is the ridiculous, but nonetheless real reasons why some of this stuff takes so long to get fixed. Please note, I have no specific...

I know I'm dropping a bomb with this, and I'll speak only for my impressions as someone who's been around here for a few decades. There is a very vocal group on this board with a lot of time on their hands who feel the need to find something negative to say about absolutely everything Disney...

This is how the entire industry operates today. There is a core of people in the team with design, project management, and other skills, and then you staff up with specific expertise needed for a project. Or you can complete the core design and then put the actual construction of the project out...

The camera used to record/stream will dramatically change how something like this looks in a YouTube stream. I’ve already seen snippets in other places that look much more colorful than others. It did feel like they still have some work to do on pacing, which is normal for something like this...

Yeah, 'cause there would be no internet rage over that. This pattern has occurred across the property for ages when people choose the venue because they want to see/experience it, and then try to do it as cheaply as possible. Think Be Our Guest, Space 220, etc.. People choose the location and...

That’s kind of insane pricing, especially for Level 2 charging. That has to be a Placeholder until they turn them on, otherwise they will not get much use. It would cost almost $240 to charge my car from dead at that rate.

Yup. The road that enters the site from the northeast and heads south along the west side of the water treatment plant down through the center of the site was originally called Ordinance Rd. Most everything was discovered and cleared out during the site prep phase, but I do recall a couple of...

Ministry didn't even open until 3PM yesterday and I've heard reports that is not uncommon recently. If that pattern is true, it's only available ~6 hours per day and combined with the reduced capacity, not very many are able to ride on any given day. I finally rode it for the first time...

I saw a different version of the 'B' mode for the preshow this afternoon. Victoria was still not working so they just had her static with the script going off. The Monster was working fully normally, but no movement from Victoria at all.

I’ve only used single rider on Monsters Unchained. It bypasses all of the significant queue elements.