Recent content by osian

Indeed. I'm talking about guest transport. One network for guests, another for services. And never the twain shall meet.

Buses make most sense because WDW (and all cities...) were already built for road traffic. Imagine a WDW that was built with just one massive visitor car parking lot (to "interface" with the outside world) but there was no road network within that is accessible to guests. The whole resort could...

And just to clarify, remember that the FoP theaters are two "gliders" wide, so you could be sitting at the edge of one yet still be in a near-perfect middle position, or in the middle of one yet be towards the edge of the screen!

You can see the "ideal" subject matter for this in Flight of Passage. There is absolutely nothing straight in that CGI scenery. However, after many rides in the outermost seats (single riders always get the worst seats) I can say that the distortion is still very much apparent. Even with the...

It's not possible. There are no examples anywhere on earth where what you suggest has been done. [Disclaimer: you *could* do it with CGI and VR, giving each rider a headset of their own and rendering the image from individual points of view - but this completely changes the attraction doesn't...

a. The Soarin projection system already does this sort of warping to fit onto a curved surface. b. It only resolves distortion when viewing from one specific point, usually the very centre but the offset can be adjusted so that the sweet spot is somewhere else. A cylindrical shape, which is...

The problem with this is that you can't take luggage on a Disney bus.

Isn't it short for Rock and Roller Coaster? I.e. Rock 'n Roll = Rock and Roll. That's what I've always thought of it as.

Why does a ride need to have "characters" from a movie, or indeed characters at all? If rides didn't have characters there would be no need to second-guess what some guests might be confused by and then the ride could appeal to everyone. Would your daughter react against Small World because the...

Selling umbrellas for the thunderstorm viewing area?

Which is why I said "It was the theme park manifestation of where Walt was heading". The city concept would never have worked, for the reasons you stated, however as the "visitor center" for EPCOT (hence the name) that showcases technology, and the international shopping/dining district of the...

There is literally nothing more Disney than EPCOT Center. It was the theme park manifestation of where Walt was heading before he died and an expansion of the ideas and interests that he'd always had about future living, transportation, and technology that had aready been a big part of...

I'd like to just echo that I too find it really difficult. Finding flight availability on airline web sites is equally awkward. I think the internaional/UK site and offers work differently from the US site (I'm not sure I've seen offers for DVC, annual passholders, Disney+ etc) but even just...

Can't be solved! (and no, I'm not getting into that explanation again as to why a straight object projected onto a curved surface will always look curved unless you're at one specific spot).

I don't think anyone knows! Bay 4 (rows 7 & 8) is closed off. It was like that when I was there in December, and I'd heard that it had been like that for a long time. I don't see anyone mentioning that it's opened again. Also see this thread...