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To be honest, its not the best. I go to theme parks all across the country and I've been to most of them, even obscure ones. I usually get whatever skip the line pass they're selling, Universal is probably the most disappointing. Its pretty expensive and you really don't skip much of the line...

OK, I could stipulate that there are certainly grey areas. If you're waiting in long lines the whole time without Express or Fast Pass and trying to get on everything, they could be multi-week resorts. Frankly, if I find a good day, Universal is a one day resort for both dry parks (and I'm...

Then what are you doing at a theme park? This might be news to you, but there are tons of places you can go if you want to eat, drink, and look at stuff. Only a few places really have rides, especially the type that Universal or Disney might build. I'd also be willing to put shows and fireworks...

The good news is that you don't really need a lot of money to make a great park. You can spend $100M on a flop or you can spend $25M on an awesome ride. Its about execution and actually committing to rides and not just nonsense to get to buy a theme park ticket for the sole purpose of buying...

The only thing that makes Disney a four day destination is how far apart the parks are. DAK, DHS, and Epcot are all half day parks. If you're willing to park hop and don't care about the water parks, Disney is a 2.5 day experience. Universal without the waterparks is a 2.0 day experience. Not a...

I think that your sentiments are pretty spot on. I might take it to an extreme when I say, "I'm going to a theme park, so I'm going to judge the experience by the rides, and everything else is icing on the cake," but I think that there is some logic to this. I have no problem with Disney...

Maybe in 3rd world countries and the heavily Catholic ones. Generally not in the civilized western secular ones. The United States is basically a country that has one foot in as a progressive, civilized western nation, and one foot in as a religious oligarch stuck in the 18th century. Some of...

You're calling the Express at USF/IOA the MaxPass? So you call it something that's not even in the same chain... and not even used in the park in the same state...? MaxPass is Disneyland bro.

Yeah, July and August was paradise. DHS was still hit pretty hard, but the other three parks were great. I was lapping FoP and being sent through the shortcut for re-rides like a brutal hurricane had just passed through. I think it was just the result of Disney being very tight with AP...

I mean... are there people who actually do want terrible jokes or puns? It seems like the only people who like them are the ones telling them.

It might just be that you're older now and have been around the block. When you were a kid, or even a little older but experiencing Disney for the first time, it was all new to you and you were transported into a different world. Now the curtain's been pulled back some and your standards are...

Yeah, I think that the queue is amazing. But I think that the ride itself is trash. I try not to give too many points for a great queue unless the ride itself lives up to the queue. I pay to go to theme parks to ride rides, not wait in line. Nor do I pay to go to parks to push flashing buttons...

Cast Members have mentioned that a lot of what drives those waits is how hard the Fast Pass hits. While I assume that it should be pretty predictable as to which rides people will reliably cash their FP+ in vs. which rides won't even give out their allotment, maybe when they calculate the wait...

I think that virtual queuing systems like Fast Pass at DLR, Universal's Virtual Line, Tapu Tapu, and Fast Pass Plus at WDW are all a "grow the pie" system that does make the median experience better... if implemented appropriately. Clearly, FP+ at WDW is riddled with errors and loopholes, and...

I doubt it was anywhere close to 15% at first. Maybe it was approaching 15% for the holidays.

Remember, when DeSantos released those guidelines many months ago where they talked about "Theme park capacity" that really had no effect on how Disney was operating, and a ton of people got into bad thinking habits from this. There was no percentage placed on ride capacity/rider throughput...

TBH, you probably don't know how to use FP+, at least not the way that an AP holder who knows what their doing does. If you're using it appropriately, getting on the top rides, and spending almost your entire visit on FP+ and never touching stand-by, you should know that you don't even start...

I go to a ton of amusement/theme parks, been to most in North America. Never once have I said, "Boy I really wish that I was waiting in a standby line about now."

None of the above. You're missing Fun Spot for some reason.

I think that we're just all completely stunned at how long these lines are when we're staring at empty parking lots, empty hotels, and no Fast Pass allocations. Pre-Covid hotels as empty as those, parking lots as empty as those, and FP+ turned off would mean staying in your seat not having to...