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[LSLS]

Another issue is that you could make the park appear a lot more crowded than it is. That's going to be a turnoff for paying guests as well.

 

[mkt]

If Celestial Park is open to the public, they can also reallocate some of the front staff to the portals.

Stop it with this common sense based solution.

 

[flynnibus]

The process doesn’t change if they’re doing it for a few hours or all day.

"process" change? - no
Execution change? - Yes. You literally need bodies and equipment at different spots, all with concurrency (so you need more of it), and in this proposal you need them all day, spread all around the park. This isn't the same as doing it in one area, that is one-way traffic only, that guests only need to traverse once a day.

Are they going to force the portals to be one-way traffic all the time? Are they going to funnel people into dual lanes like the entrance?

The traffic flows are different. The physical layouts are different. This is not something they just get for free because they did it at the entrance - they can't be using the same equipment and the same staff everywhere at the same time - they have to scale out. That's what I was referring to before, where you said its already done. The product is - but the product is a point item - They don't spontaneously appear or maintain themselves.

The whole point of the investment was to make things more like the front gates instead of the ad hoc solutions they have to use at the North Campus parks. They literally drop in the turnstiles and check admission.

And my point was from the begining... dropping that equipment in is part of the expense.

Teens aren’t bum rushing the front gates.

The front gates are a vastly different setup for one. They are also manned with security roles full time, and even uniformed officers frequently. Are you duplicating that at every portal too?

 

[flynnibus]

There are more cameras in the park than you can imagine.

Someone will catch them.

I'm not suggesting they are going to get away with it - my point is it becomes a problem to manage.. and one team member standing behind a podium isn't going to cut it.

Expanding your security boundary and control points is a non-trivial topic. Multiplying your areas of concern is not free or 'the same' as lazyboy keeps insinuating.

 

[flynnibus]

Another issue is that you could make the park appear a lot more crowded than it is. That's going to be a turnoff for paying guests as well.

I think having to go through queues and checkpoints just to move around is gonna customers off more than percieved body masses.

 

[CoastalElite64]

I think having to go through queues and checkpoints just to move around is gonna customers off more than percieved body masses.

If its in the evening it would be a minor impact.

 

[Squishy]

Len Testa mentioned on the Disney Dish this week that EPIC was doing extra work on the portals to prepare them for facial recognition tech. The idea being that they might open up celestial park without a ticket.

I still think this is a terrible idea especially with the new firework show in the works, the nightly main fountain show viewing is already full sometimes, can't imagine it with general population + a more popular show, speaking of that:

 

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