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There's almost an alternate reality on this board, where WDW is completely malicious and NextGen is a nefarious means of gathering data, and Uni has somehow transcended WDW . . . Potterland is cool, Disney was wrong to lose JK Rowling, but they've got Star Wars and it isn't like a major...

There is still paper FPs. Use it as much, or as little, as you like. If you've been to DLR recently, you know that RSR is a pain to get a FP for, there is often a line stretching around half the park . . . for the fast pass. If you want to wait in line, more power to you, I'm perfectly happy...

It is ahead of the curve, it used to be that grocery stores were more automated than hospitals and some companies, then they caught up. The $1 billion price tag is for all Disney resorts worldwide, so for WDW it is probably $175 million to $200 million, plus, the whole system relieves pressure...

I'd take that rumor with a grain of salt. MagicBands/NextGen is making the company money, and saving money, and guests like the convenience, they're not for everybody, but a lot of people would like the ease of booking FP ahead of time, not having to wait in line for a FastPass, and more easily...

There's some crazy numbers floating around out there with regards to NextGen, the whole project once implemented probably costs around $1 billion . . . but that is for all Disney resorts worlwide, as well as some of the interesting stuf they've been working on for ride queues. Given that...

Yeah, I'm thinking they could in theory use that bit of land for a showbuilding for an E-Ticket, like an Incredibles ride, the proximity to the freeway is a drawback for make it a walk-around guest area, they wouldn't need to bulldoze all of LMA, though that would make this easier. Kinda think...

WDW74 said that a 2015/6 time frame is now what would happen with a major project. This is where I'm coming from (well before the crazy D23/DHS mass fervor), given Iger's departure around this time, actually, 2015-2020 is probably all you can read in the tea leaves for WDW, and there will be a...

The $1 billion dollar price tag for Next Gen is for implementation at all Disney resorts worldwide. NextGen infrastructure saves money in many instances, and isn't $1 billion for WDW, more like $175-$200 million . . . if that, I can see there being an inflated budget and execs claiming they...

So, the earth-shattering information you may, or may not have, isn't appropriate for this forum . . . maybe because info here is 'free'? I guess I can see that if you have a site somewhere on the internet where you write articles and get some income from publishing this info.

DHS, in a lot of ways, will always be a Frankenstein park. Single attractions added on to improve attendance, with little care about building lands. Look at MK's Tom Swayer Island and Disneyland's TSI on Google Maps, MK has *more* room in the area of Frontierland where F! could've gone...

DHS is also partially surrounded by a conservation easement parcel which also lies *below* the 100 year flood plane level . . . the property hasn't experience a 100 year flood since opening day, but Disney is very disinclined to build below the 100 yr flood level, plenty of higher ground to...

A couple years ago a truck hit one of the bollards, I think knocked it out of the ground, so they do serve and important function. Some bean counter probably realized that if a truck did ram a pylon, it would be pretty expensive to replace, maybe that run-away golf cart incident had something...

That's interesting, another reason to watch the HD YouTube Pooh's Hunny Hunt video again! The lighting is really well thought out. I see a lot of diffuse light via floor lights aimed at wall murals in the forrest scene (it flickers on the video, plus you can tell it is florescent tubes based...

It is very true that the would-be residents of Belle Isle would live mostly on their isolated island, maybe taking the monorail to revitalized downtown to catch a show, or only reside there a fraction of the year for tax purposes. I think the possibility is that the project would be massive...

This is a little off topic, but couldn't help notice some recent pictures of the state of some of the animals around DL's river. There's a bird's nest which has a blue wire frame! Maybe Eddie or somebody else knows why they went with blue wire, would figure that you'd want to make the frame...

It probably is DOA, in its current form, but $1 billion cash payment for the island, plus all of the money with construction jobs and supporting Belle Isle would, in essence save/revitalize Detroit. (Though the politicians might frit away this windfall as well). Big corporations are trying to...

Ah, there is automobile traffic as well. The plans calls for a massive hotel, so they've got that covered.

I think that if Walt had gone through with Epcot, as he originally envisioned, it would have been a lot less utopian than some would have liked. Yes, it would have had some great urban planning, but it also would have been dominated by corporations. Would the Reedy Creek legislation have...

There's a sort of a silver lining emerging in the gigantic grey cloud that is Detroit's bankruptcy . . . potential for a massive redevelopment project. One group wants to buy an island/park in the middle of Detroit, about 1,000 acres, in order to build semi-autonomous city-state that would lure...

An attraction's quality is in the eye of the beholder, specifically, the average guest. If an attraction is high quality, usually the average guest wants to ride it, be it a high-quality spinner or a high-quality themed coaster. So, given that you can't say that quality and popularity are...