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No, I'm not a Registered Financial Advisor. With that being said, yeah, I own a few shares.

When we went the first time, I was working mega hours right up until the day we left. My wife did all the research, and knew just about everything that would be expected with a zip through the Unofficial Guide. I was not on top of things much, but I knew that there were 4 parks and I kind of...

That time at Mission Space can be used for many purposes. When they start talking about the duties of the Engineer, I pipe in with, "And you have to be good with a mop and bucket." When all the numbers start scrolling, I say, "Make sure you memorize those." And of course a comment or two...

From here on out, I'm calling it the Stairs Ride too. It is indeed magical at night.

What's a tinder date? Calling it the "Stairs ride" probably makes it clearer and more palatable for little kids, especially those who never saw Swiss Family Robinson. I think that's cute. Reminds me of the Steve Wright bit about his Styrofoam home. Kids would come over and life it off the...

Assuming it worked for the last ten years, that yeti would have been an amazing draw and merch seller for the park. It raised the bar for future attractions dramatically. Dips, inversions and plummets would not have been enough for any future coaster. EE, for one briefing shining moment, took...

I thought Bay Lake Tower also had two bathrooms. The Poly studios has two toilets and I believe two showers. Maybe I'm wrong.

I'm not saying it's worthless, but I am saying that the fundamental theming and epic nature of the attraction has been missing for 10 years. It was my favorite attraction of any park anywhere when it was in A mode. It is far down on my list now, well below Soarin', Test Track, the new Star...

Again, couldn't disagree more. For those of us who saw it 10 years ago and remember it clearly, that yeti was the absolute climax of the ride, and the fabric that held together the attraction. I don't think those of us who saw the working yeti would at all be inclined to liken it to one of...

I couldn't disagree more. Did you ever ride it in A mode? And if so, do you recall how it all came together at the yeti moment? Pirates was an attraction well before the movies, with the original design of the thing having little overall to do with Johnny Depp. It was later retooled with...

What a way to see Asia. What a way to circle the globe upon retirement. What a way to make big money for Disney shareholders. Sounds like a perfect trifecta. Buy Disney stock. Long-term, things are looking very bright.

Sure, blame Trump for this, just like everything else.

Perhaps, but feel free to conjure up better comparisons. Lord of the Rings without -----? Pirates without ------? Star Wars without -----? NASA without, what, Gemini 6? Even the track of EE was designed from beginning to end with that yeti moment in mind. Start with the yeti moment, and...

Lord of the Rings without Gandalf is still a pretty good story. And Pirates without Captain Jack could still be kind of a decent movie. And I suppose a less complex and interesting villain than Darth Vader could have sufficed. But once a story-telling company like Disney settles for "okay"...

The ride is indeed unique for various reasons, but the yeti is the one thing that makes it different from all other coasters that came before it. Other coasters go backwards, change directions, look impressive from the outside, and break from dark to light. EE was the only coaster that had a...

I say it will be a shutdown of at least a week. You say it won't. Care to make it . . . interesting?

Exactly, so if you include the raising of the $4,700 into the total operation, you have something that is probably not "easy". First, diagnose the problem. Then, raise a bunch of money. Then, take 15 minutes to install this new component. Designing and building a new yeti is apparently very...

To me, "expensive" and "easy" do not belong in the same sentence. Something that is expensive is not easy.

But that's the point of much of the discussion. Many on this thread are asserting that a fix would be relatively easy and would only take the ride offline for a few days. I find that perplexing because if it truly was easy, a good company would have done it already. The only logical...

True, but he never allowed an embarrassment to be exposed to the public for a long time. Things happened that he didn't like, but he generally had the power to force a change when bad publicity and/or embarrassment took hold. That's what's so utterly odd about the yeti. It was a huge chunk of...