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Galactic Starcruiser is something I have no interest in experiencing--I don't enjoy interactive theater and I am not a huge Star Wars fan. But I followed this story because of my interest in the themed entertainment business. And I think there are a few things about this product that are quite...

You were lucky it only took 10 minutes to get out. I think the last capsule my be more like 30 minutes after the first one, and that is assuming only one bay goes down at a time. I love Mission: Space, and I have been evacuated from it before. But other than the air-conditioning, there is not...

I am really starting to worry. Their finances surely were assuming some cash flow by this point. Does anyone know the specifics of the FRA's certification process and whether this is likely a training or infrastructure problem?

I didn't like the houses, but they definitely succeed at their goal. And I agree that the changes to Barnstormer were probably a net negative. But the Dueling Dumbos with air conditioned waiting is unambiguously a major improvement, as is the train station. Overall, I think the Toontown...

We can talk about the quality of the specific changes to DHS, but even if DHS's expansions have the same capacity than what they replaced, it is impossible to deny that the new capacity is far better utilized than it was before. Great Movie Ride is a great example here. I know a lot of people...

I terms of park egress, the nighttime parade was much easier on the infrastructure than fireworks. When a fireworks show ends, it ends for everybody all at once. When they would run the parade once a night, they would have it go towards the castle so the parade would end over the course of 20...

I agree completely. The Universal Monsters may be a specific IP that isn't necessarily popular, but they are based on several public domain IPs that have a very large cultural weight. Very few bad rides with popular IPs are successful (Fast and Furious), while plenty of good rides with unpopular...

Once every amusement park has one or two, park operators found that there was not a lot of demand for more. Additionally, lots of guests dislike walking around in wet clothes. The rise of cell phones probably reduced demand as well. I other words, the boom in water rides ended when the market...

Without being an expert in Marvel at all, I think you are likely to be correct about Wakanda--the scale, materials, and scenery are likely to be achievable in a theme park setting (if my memory from the movies is correct). I would hesitate to agree about Latveria being a desirable locale to...

I like Tron better. Both are flawed experiences, but Gringots has lots of 'stop for characters to talk at you with cheap 3D tricks', and it has so much story, without the story being anything that works on a theme park ride context. Tron is really successful at existing in the Tron aesthetic...

I think the scale of New York is extremely challenging to accomplish in a theme park. You would need multiple Tower of Terror-scaled buildings to make it work. The New York section of USF is close to working, but notice how any tall iconic building is done with flats while the buildings are all...

Disney's America was going to be built *near* civil war battlefields. The project site is now conventional suburban tract development. The neighbors didn't want the traffic. Any opposition to Disney's America other than that was pretextual. Regarding the weather in Oklahoma, it is not that...

Certainly a disappointment. But hopefully it will start service on the 7th. I was planning a trip in mid-September, so fingers crossed!

Thanks for catching that. It looks like they may not yet own land in Tampa. Instead they have an memorandum of understanding for multiple properties in Tampa for a station. That allows Brightline to do the environmental assessments without committing them to a specific site.

Summary: Brightline began passenger service between Miami and Ft Lauderdale a few years ago. They added West Palm Beach a few months later. The stretch between West Palm Beach and the Orlando Airport will be open by September 1 of this year. Brightline initially announced an extension between...

I am not exactly sure how the Brightline / FEC / Fortress / Softbank relationships work out. But we can be absolutely certain that the capital costs will be paid by every portion of those companies who extract value from the existence of that infrastructure. If those 4.3 million trips have a...

There is also freight on these lines.

The Orlando Business Journal had an update on Brightline today: Brightline ramps up passenger train testing after Orlando rail construction completed Brightline has more testing planned as it prepares to launch its new passenger train service from Miami to Orlando. The Miami-based intercity...

The container port at Canaveral is fairly new. Their first container crane went into service in 2019. The port authority had initially looked at reinstating the old rail line through the space center. Brightline is red, the 528 alignment is purple, and the mostly existing freight line...

The infrastructure required to get a train out there would be considerable. Once a train was there, it would only be convenient for two or three cruise terminals without a shuttle bus. So that is definitely points against. On the other hand, Port Canaveral is the busiest cruise port in the...