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In the case of something like Stitch's Great Escape or Fast & Furious: Supercharged, yeah get rid of them. But you need attractions like TSI, Country Bears, all of the Fantasyland dark rides in Disneyland, all the small experiences at Efteling or Europa park to build out your capacity. No...

I went on Friday the fifth for a preview of their new coaster and the park was an almost unwalkable mess of people. I looked at Universal and Disney wait times and their parks were relatively quiet. SeaWorld is definitely pulling in locals and I saw massive tour groups of probably 150+ kids. I...

Less popular attractions are extremely important to any park experience though. It's like when people parroted that the Country Bears theater was never full and needed an update, but its ease of access was a big part of its appeal. Not everything should be a shiny new e-ticket because looking at...

I recall summer 2022 being pretty crowded as well, which is why the lack of summer crowds last year was pretty notable. It's noticeably even fewer people this summer too. It could certainly be any of the factors you mentioned, but what's also interesting is the return of the dining plan and the...

I believe that this was standard pre-COVID, but their operation changed once the park re-opened since you couldn't swim with a mask. I went a month ago and it appears that the most you can do is touch a dolphin and take photos with it.

You're only standing shin-deep in water at Discovery Cove for the dolphin encounter.

Probably upwards of $1 billion, but the final result will feel more like $5

Hopefully no "magic of storytelling" nonsense?

To further elaborate on crowds, I went to Animal Kingdom last Friday and while it was the start of the holiday weekend, was still pretty quiet. I previously went to Magic Kingdom two days before specifically to eat at Liberty Tree Tavern and the park was a ghost town. Many restaurants had...

I think a large part of its appeal was the novelty of its trackless system and many of its effects were generally a proof-of-concept for what has now become standard design in a lot of Disney rides. Now that we've gotten trackless rides and they're just kind of "meh" and now that projection...

I've heard that the licensing for the songs were a significant chunk of the cost. Do you have insight into whether that's true?

What was the goal? To make the ride look more efficient statistically?

I think that Genie+ drops just make the waits unpredictable. I went into Dinosaur yesterday and it was posted at a 35, but only waited around 10. It would have been 5 if a wave of LL hadn't showed up all at once. Not that I'm complaining about a short wait, but I see how Genie+ creates a lot of...

That's a really good point, I'm probably going to steal that.

A ride that people seem to forget was a masterpiece of Imagineering was the original Test Track. I think that its replacement has obscured people's memory, but that original iteration was so ridiculously clever. People liked to complain about the queue, but in retrospect it was educational...

What was the purpose of that? I haven't been to the park, but I'm surprised that it was the ride chosen to test VQ with.

Isn't LA always heavily concerned with water shortages though? I'm sure a water park is logistically feasible, but I think might not play well from a PR perspective.

I really enjoyed what they put out here. For once, it wasn't all self-congratulatory corporate buzzword throw up and there was actual substance. The more I see of TBA, the more I wonder if Disney is actually turning around.

Nothing about this is cheap. It's a World's Fair style complex of gardens with two really expensive attractions. It's going to have Bellagio style fountains and architecturally interesting restaurants and shops. Nothing about it is "cheaper" than an alternative. What could have made it more...

You're seeing all that complex fountain work, massive scale, two expensive, unique attractions and think it's "cheap"? Meanwhile, Disney actually went for the cheapest option of copy and pasting a Silicon Valley corporate park into Epcot after spending 5 years and millions to play with dirt...