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Imagine that there are 100 boarding groups and 100 people trying to get a group at the distribution time. Now imagine that 95% of the people trying are successful right when it drops, but 5% of people have trouble with their internet and have to restart their app. In this case 95 people get a...

I think both queues are shorter, but I don't think that is it, as Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway has a queue that is even shorter still. The permanent queue (including outdoor sections) for Flight of Passage and Rise of the Resistance are probably around 120 minutes when Fastpass is in...

I wish I knew. By any metric I can think of other than "what is the ride that would have the longest line in this park", Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind would have switched to standby last September or January. But even that metric doesn't explain things well. Surely Slinky Dog Dash and...

I would be curious to know if fewer staff are needed to operate a virtual queue than would be needed to manage a 180 minute queue... Typically at Guardians of the Galaxy Cosmic Rewind, there are at least four CMs and a manager at the entry tap points. Did Flight of Passage or Mickey ever have...

If they can use these signs to get rid of the crappy construction-style variable message signs, that would be a big improvement!

I believe that rider swap is available, as long as the user has a boarding group. But I've never used it myself. I do know that they do not enforce the end time of the boarding group window. In my ten or so rides on this since it opened, I've only been on it twice before my window closed...

The bill was signed into law yesterday. The Reedy Creek Improvement District has officially changed its name. There are new board members. And a few powers that the district doesn't use are no longer available for the district to use. I think that in the long run, there won't be much of a...

I couldn't agree more. I feel like the current situation was the result of the introduction of Preferred Parking (to validate entry to the preferred lot) and an early period experimentinvolving variable message signs. I wish they would instead have overhead variable message lane assignment...

I think the South International Drive station is likely to be a similar level of convenience to Disney theme parks as the Disney Springs station was going to be. If Brightline owns the land around the new station, I could see this location being a much better deal for them. Seems like Disney is...

My guess is that it will have a virtual queue until Tron opens. In my mind, if they wanted to wait for the crowds to die down, they would have dropped it in September. As a person with no special insight, I think the most likely scenario is that it stays on virtual queue until Tron opens (40%...

It seems as though Disney defied a lot of our expectations by maintaining boarding groups much longer than Ratatouille or Rise of the Resistance. Does anyone think there is any chance that boarding groups will continue at Cosmic Rewind after Tron opens at Magic Kingdom?

I feel like the 7:00 am drop used to be fairly consistent around 7 seconds, but after the slow period in September, it has settled back into something less than 5 seconds. Did anything change? Or am I just misremembering what it was like over the summer?

Has the walkway to Wilderness Lodge been reopened as well? About a month ago, it was still closed because of the Reflections construction walls.

RCID is a type of local government, and those charge for parking all the time. City of Orlando owns thousands of paid parking stalls in multiple structures, and the practice is very common. Was there something specific about the deal between Disney and RCID that specifically forbid paid...

If that really is how it works, it would imply that the per capita revenue for the 16th and 17th guest times the probability of their arrival is less than the cost of the additional labor. If the 16th and 17th guest is predominantly annual passholders, I... think I can believe it? That is a...

I am not sure I understand how park passes can be used to have consistent staffing. That doesn't make sense to me? How would that work? If park passes sold out three weeks in advance all the time, I would agree that they are a useful tool to manage staffing. But they don't. Instead, park...

I have thought about the possibility. However, the fact that rides are experiencing more downtime is making me feel like safety critical maintenance is being emphasized. In the late '90s, capacity concerns along with maintenance budget cuts lead to the dangerous situations. I don't see Disney...

The currently proposed Brightline route is dependent on the Orange County Penny Sales Tax for Transportation passing in November. So the odds of this route ever being built are pretty low. I would love to be wrong, but I think it is very unlikely that Brightline will ever extend on new right...

Certainly a fair criticism of my argument. However, I would respond that most of Hollywood's best loved morality plays invite the audience to enjoy the villain's villainy for a bit before they get their comeuppance. But reasonable people can certainly disagree on that point. A related...

The biggest issue with adding the film characters into the ride is that it recast the pirates as heroes. The original version of the ride had the pirates as villains, and the ride functioned essentially as a morality play. Once you add sympathetic characters from the film to the ride, the...