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I wonder if it would be worth it to do a ‘test’ of the parks. AK would be ideal, as they could mark off the walking paths, only have pick-up food available (ice cream, pretzels, hot dogs) to avoid sit down restaurants, etc. It could be a genuine test with just AKL open for booking and only hotel...

No one knows. I’d expect Shanghai/Hong King to reopen before any other parks. Paris/Anaheim Disneyland next, as they went into lockdown a lot sooner than Florida did. WDW and Tokyo are up in the air, mostly due to Japan reacting really weirdly to the whole thing. I’m still not sure if they’re...

This presumably doesn’t effect security teams, animal teams, and LWTL scientists, right? My understanding was they were all still working.

I can see ways of forcing social distancing (maybe forced guided tours only?) but wouldn’t they also have to disinfect every ride vehicle every time too? Ideally there’d be an easy test that everyone would take before going in, but that seems really unlikely.

It’s weird to me they let go so much maintenance staff. A. They’re paying most of them anyways for awhile. B. You’d think paying them would cost less than fixing the potential damage of leaving things idle later on. Is it conceivable they’d open Animal Kingdom first instead of MK? The Animal...

... it really bugs me they didn’t do any variety with the bases. They’re all just less-interesting Yavin IV.

My understanding always was that WW2 was the reason they nearly went under (+ the strike). They made it through on propaganda, but they lost a ton of $$$ due to not being able to release their films across Europe and Asia due to the war. They had to do propaganda because their main source of...

Is it likely Shanghai and Hong Kong reopen before summer?

I think I recall Marni, or another insider, saying the Red and Green areas are intended expansion pads. Purple would be difficult to reach if they wanted to do it. There was talk of doing something north of Tom Sawyer Island, but it seemed to involve basically destroying the island, so I'm not...

I swear every day I've been at MK in the past Pirates and/or Mansion and/or Space Mountain go down, but I feel I rarely find out it's something as serious as some of the stuff we've seen the past week or so. Point taken, though.

Ok, that open door thing is insane. Was that really from today? Did they seriously forget to close the giant door in the attic OR did it just open automatically? Does this many things normally go wrong we just don't notice it?

This actually seems pretty cool, I wonder how popular it will be? Unlike Path of the Jedi, it seems like it's got a decent amount of new content (it also seems more fun than POTJ). Were I to be going to the parks anytime soon I might find myself dropping in a few times to relax with some AC and...

This is the only thing keeping me optimistic for the future. I fear for the parks. I hope Lucasfilm and Marvel are allowed to keep doing their thing, but I worry. WDAS and Pixar too.

I think that's neat, to be honest. Do a large number of people really stay only two nights there?

That logo is weird. It's like they thought we'd see the emblem and suddenly not be mad anymore. Why even bother? If they actually wanted to curb our fears, they'd show concept art of one of the globe things with earth projected on it instead of a Disney character.

I can see scenarios (family reunions, weddings, etc) where this would be genuinely helpful. I just wish Disney realised it feels scummy to charge for these services but not include prints.

I imagine they could have pulled it off but it would have been really hard with the neon they went with. We just have to think of it in the meta sense that we’re seeing a show about seeing a show.

This seems... objectively good? I still think it’s bizarre a company as flush with cash as Disney needs to allocate resources like this, though. Like, did Mike and Frozone require that much staff a day?

They did refresh the entire paint scheme (twice, the first one got wrecked) and the signage fairly recently. There's also been plenty of murmurs about the last scene redux happening at some point, the money just keeps winding up somewhere else (I got the impression this is sort of the same vein...

They can upgrade the screens to animatronics, alter the plot to be more interesting, and maybe even use some of the Runaway Railway tech to make the tunnels seem bigger than they are. It just feels like a waste to me, the way it is now. I understand it was a budget addition but it wouldn’t be...