Sure, but you can't hear the music. I once stayed in a hotel on International Dr. I had a room on the 8th floor with outside balconies where I watched the Epcot night show and the Magic Kingdom night show as the overlapped each other. It was pretty but without the sound it was a whole lot less exciting. You can hear the "booms" from quite a distance but the music and whatever narration there is lost.
If I want to hear the music, I just listen to it on YouTube. Not a huge issue for me. The shaking of everything in my house on the other hand is an issue! I can't see Epcot's fireworks but can hear them on occasion, while I can near always hear the Electrical Water Pagent.
I didn't mean to imply that everyone should want to hear or even see any of the fireworks and the parades are goof for me for a one time viewing. After that I go on rides when everyone is watching a parade, the projections or the fireworks. Once I've seen them I'm done with them. To many other things to do.
Nope.
it doesn't matter, it is what it is, and the real losers are the WDW vacationers going forward.What an inaccurate take. Read the 1200 some pages of this post. Disney lost control, period. While new board members are less confrontational, they have no input on who goes on the board. The Federal lawsuit is dead, the "pause" is only for Disney to try and save a little face. I totally enjoy going to Disney and have enjoyed years of entertainment- even own DVC. It did not take a political expert to realize that the Govenor's office, Legislature, and Court judges were all aligned against Disney. Disney was going to lose this fight and they cut their losses. In the end, they have been hurt much less than some predicted, but they still lost this fight.
Just because Disney no longer controls the district directly, it doesn’t mean they don’t maintain de facto control. All property owners in the district have separate restrictive covenants with Disney that make sure Disney has control over development of their properties.
Disney got a very solid development agreement with the district that was more favorable to them than the one they signed when RCID was in charge.
been down this road already... the DA is only one part of the story... same reason the prior arrangement didn't make Disney impervious to the state's meddling before.
Disney was absolutely on board to go with the state’s plan for CFTOD until they went after the development agreement.
You do understand that, for business reasons, Disney couldn’t wait for their appeal to play out in federal court, yes?
on board? You confuse lack of direct public action with 'buy in'. They couldn't stop what DeSantis was doing with his minions and they knew it.. so they instead smiled and instead built a legal structure to hold their ground.
Oh yeah, let's see Iger say "we are perfectly happy with the state" in front of his employees. This is all revisionist BS. Disney retreated to protect their business, and publicly is sitting on their hands when it comes to their formal ideals as they try to avoid rocking the boat.
Disney sued to protect their business interests. Disney’s constitutional rights were nothing more than a means to an end.
I expected them to capitulate like they did because they’re cowards.
Without a development agreement in place (there was no injunction in place requiring the district to follow the RCID DA), there was a great number of ways the district could have interfered with Disney’s ongoing development plans. For instance, a sudden change to the land development regulations that prevented the construction of a new project.