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Of course, I have a response. It's just not one that agrees with you. You are free to dismiss it as you wish. Just as we are all free to judge or dismiss your viewpoints as we see fit.

I think most of your points here are based on assumptions and conjecture and have no resemblance to the reality of what emergency response is really like, and what the key priorities would be in this kind of situation.

This is the key point, IMO. Contrary to some sentiment I've seen online, I think this incident shows that Disney is actually quite well-prepared and safe in events like this. A huge four-story prop went up in flames in a matter of seconds, but trained personnel were immediately on the scene to...

There are inherent risks with being in a crowded area that are impossible to fully mitigate. The vast majority of the risk comes from scenarios where crowds can become suddenly unruly or panicked. In those types of situations the best evacuation plan conceivable becomes completely worthless in...

An uncontrolled fire of that size will have almost definitely caused significant damage to everything around it. Especially if high-pressure fire hoses were eventually brought in to get it under control. I'm going to go ahead and predict no more Fantasmic until 2024 or 25. This is Disneyland...

I'm sure the IT guys knew exactly when it would be up again.

I mean, a 30 minute outage is sort of nothing. Seems like their backups and redundancy plans are fine if that's the worst glitch they have.

Several sports teams in SoCal are using the same system as WDW for their security perimeters, as well. Knowing Disneyland, it's probably either a cost issue, or a law enforcement cooperation issue that's kept them from transitioning. They may not want to budget in the infrastructure and...

No doubt the finance guys have been busy figuring this into the next ticket price increase.

Yes, that's my point. Very few people in your position (living a four-hour flight away) have the time, means, or desire to take multiple multi-day visits to Disneyland in a year. You are in a very small (and likely shrinking) subset of MK holders if you fit that description.

How many trips a year do you take to DLR? For the math to work you probably have to be in the relatively small minority of guests who come from far out-of-state multiple times a year.

If you live within reasonable driving distance of Anaheim, then yes, the MKs can still provide a generally better value than day tickets. Although that gap has slowly been narrowing.

I wonder if it ends up looking more like this... the bridge is redesigned to terminate further north, with security and and a path into the main esplanade mushed up against the berm. That would still leave a lot of real estate for DCA expansion where the current transport hub is:

It may still be worth it to you, but there's really no arguing that you're paying more and getting less as time goes on.

The discussion about passes and pricing always revolves around the one, basic economic fact - there are still more people who want to go to Disneyland than there is space and time for Disneyland to comfortably accommodate them. In one respect, that means prices are absolutely too low. Disney...

That's such an awful mistake my first instinct is to assume it must be intentional. Like, was spelling it with an 'S' some common practice in commonwealth countries in the 1920s or 30s?

I'm gonna reach here and say, no. Princess movies are not growing in popularity with young boys.

I relate a lot to your thoughts here. I'm going to miss Splash. If I had it my way, I'd keep it and put PatF in a brand new attraction. That said, I understand times change. I'm willing to give Disney the benefit of the doubt and hope that they can make the retheme a worthy successor to the...

Opposed.

I think it's pretty clear DCA is eternally destined to be an IP dump, and it will work in its own way. I've argued that, located anywhere else on the planet, it would be considered an outstanding park in its own right. But, because it was built next door to Walt's singularly brilliant...