Disstevefan1
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MK The Hall of Presidents closing for refurbishment on January 20, 2025
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JohnD
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I'm seeing some bloggers' reactions to this news as a bad move by Disney. Why drag us along like this? they are asking. It makes zero sense to open the lobby and not the attraction, they are saying.
I guess I can't blame them. When fans are getting screwed over multiple times and will again in one month, how can you not have another negative reaction rather than think they're thinking of guests in this instance because of the heat.
I guess I can't blame them. When fans are getting screwed over multiple times and will again in one month, how can you not have another negative reaction rather than think they're thinking of guests in this instance because of the heat.
JD80
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A lot of vloggers forgot how to think of the average guest a long time ago. Once they do that they aren't worth watching.
JohnD
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Some are really doom and gloom. But, if we're honest, Disney has given them a reason to be even if they take it to the extreme. I fault Disney for this. They havw pulled the rug out so often, that for bloggers, any Disney decision must be wrong.
JD80
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Never blame anyone else for vloggers striving for more and more clickbait nonsense.
Andrew C
You know what's funny?
The latest YouTube algorithms contribute to this.
JohnD
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I've been referring to bloggers, not vloggers but I suppose algorithms are similar on X as YT.
JD80
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Most bloggers aren't worth reading with few exceptions like WDWMagic and BlogMickey for news and just park updates/changes they've found. I'm a numbers nerd so Touring Plans has some interesting articles.
Everything else is noise. I watch a handful of people on Youtube that I personally find entertaining and I usually don't stray from those unless people I know link me something.
TheMaxRebo
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All of it is similar - people engage with things more if it upsets/angers them. So the algorithms push stuff like that, and the content creators know that and play into it to get their stuff seen. Some are worse than others of course.
Pix E. Dust
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I agree. The average guests are not obsessed with every little deal and looking at things with a critical eye. They are just having a good time
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2x I saw while enjoying Epcot I saw a noticeable beefed up security presence.
Immediately after 9/11/01 , more were stationed in the Morocco pavilion and 1999,2000 more security in the small viewing area with guest seating at World Showplace pavillion. - when the Israeli teenagers were performing several shows daily of contemporary dance and singing their national songs at the Israel pavillion.
I thought vapors weren't allowed in the parks any more...How many bloggers have to get the vapors before I, too, get the vapors?
SoFloMagic
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Yeah, but if you do that you run out of ideas pretty quick. Gotta do deep dives to keep having new content.
Then you get guests who've seen these deep dives and a few steps later you've enraged a Facebook army when disney closes a 30 year old movie because theyre building the roller coaster everyone has been dreaming of for 10 years.
Disgruntled Walt
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If the lobby is open and they've got Cast Members wearing the costumes again, it can't possibly be long now. I wonder if @wdwmagic has heard anything about this. It seems like a stretch that they'd open the lobby, staff it with cast in wardrobe, only for it to be closed for another three or four months.
Mr. Sullivan
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What the hell has happened that has gotten everybody in deep conspiracy theory mode about this when we have heard not even one single peep from anywhere that it's closing
HMF
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Watch the news.
Mr. Sullivan
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Right, i'm not unaware of what the reasons for closing it would be (and frankly I don't know at this point that I would disagree with the decision to do just that). But that's not really enough to just assume that this is never coming out of refurb. In this day and age, with how many people have inside connections, we'd have heard something about it by now. That's what I mean. There's no evidence to suggest it other than an acknowledgement of a poor political climate.
doctornick
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I feel like maybe they would potentially want to reopen HoP by July 7 to take some attention away from the RoA/TSI closure. I think they realize that all of those attractions have some appeal for park “traditionalists” and could maybe mute some outcry by giving people something “positive” to focus on.
FutureCEO
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Original attraction = yes
flagship attraction = no
No one comes to the Magic Kingdom solely to see the Hall of Presidents.