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Without the government's "help" we should actually hit the bottom and bounce back up. Historically that is what has happened. It makes sense, too. You reach a point where you think, "Hey, this (whatever) is so cheap I'd be a fool not to take a chance on it!" Unfortunately, people get scared...

I never understood the: "We can take vegetables and make them taste like an all-beef burger!" No one ever says, "I can make this meat taste like broccoli!" Vegetables can be made good and tasty (appealing) all on their own. You don't have to make them into something different and then tell...

I'm with you on that. I think that we're due for a "restructuring of government" after this because, currently: 1) everything is a lie (news just reports propaganda) 2) spending is WAY out of control, and has been for some time. I'm hoping for a re-alignment back to the truth (fundamentals...

I doubt that's true. Yes, like you, I'd like people to see the big picture and the long-term goals. Here's the thing: How many times have we heard "we're entering a new era"... "this is the new economy..." During dot-com it was, "We'll set up a corporation based on VC and give everything...

They embrace their annual passholders with discounts to hotels instead of pushing them aside. Every other park treats annual passholders as something akin to "superfans" or, at least, "loyal", but Disney sees them as filler. When times are great, as they are now, they don't need the filler and...

The other thing to remember with this is that Disney used to be a technology-driven/inspired company. Look at what they were doing with animatronics/computers/Monorail/Peoplemover/etc. during the 1960s-1970s. Eisner took that and changed it into: People want to ride the movies! ...now we have...

You're probably like me where you've studied a map, maybe even grabbed a snapshot, and plotted various routes for it. I'm no city planner. Every time I do it I end up with: "OK.. Parks are all hooked up... Of course.. That really only helps the park-hoppers..." for me, it always ends up, when...

From what I remember reading, getting the Epcot line built was a bit of a fight. Another problem with the monorail and its expansion, which won't happen: You get to the point where guests are trying to manage the transportation. Right now, with their buses, a guest can leave their resort and...

We can argue all day long about the cost of monorail expansion at WDW. The simple fact is: buses are cheaper / make more sense. I think that the cost of keeping the trains running will be what breaks the camels back over the deterioration of the beams. You'll likely have the beams standing...

One thing I think would be neat, and it wouldn't be a huge change, is to have the Epcot and express lines cross just East of the TTC. The idea being that you'd still have all of the same stations but the Epcot station would be straight to the MK (this would need to cross over a beam) and the...

Notice that they only started doing "something" to the trains once doors started to pop open and pieces were falling off.

This was brought up before and I think it's a bit obvious: You have them hit their MagicBand (also no longer free) as they enter the queuing area. You're not paying when you actually step on the Monorail - you paid all the way down at the beginning of the ramp. The same with the ferries...

Exactly. If you're paying for your room all Bob sees is: Why is parking free? Someone could tell him, "Well, we raised the rate of the room. It's included in the room." Bob would come back with, "That's great. We're getting more for rooms. Why is parking free? Add a parking fee. NOW we're...

Remember: It's all part of Disney "being green".

I disagree. That definitely was the goal, started by Eisner. I don't believe that is the goal, now. The assumption is: The guest will come to Disney, anyway, and pay for whatever they ask, anyway, and pay more. Originally, what you're talking about was the Magical Express. Get them to...

Buying monorails cost more money they refurbs. Even running tired, old monorails around the track isn't going to change ticket sales. They're "on the right path". Back when I used to go (2015 I think was my last visit - used to have an annual pass before that and went several times a year) I...

For all of this it's: can we hit capacity? For argument's sake, let's say capacity is 25,000 people in the MK. (I don't know what the real number is). This number, however, represents, "Oh, we're about to go through the limited entries through the gates procedures like we do on Christmas, New...

I think people are looking at the wrong number: $200K/year. That can be quite well off in some areas of the country and "struggling to get by" in others. What you need to look at is the market value of a day (or night.. or morning) in one of the parks. What is the max that the population is...

You have to word it right: "This allows the customer to "be green" AND save on parking fees while making their way to the most Magical Place on Earth!" The customer is saving by not having to pay the parking fee when they don't drive a car. Walt Disney World is constantly striving to ensure...

Oh, no no no... They'll increase the price of tickets.. and people will line up and pay. This is all on top of the tickets. How can they go before Wall Street and say, "We didn't increase ticket prices?" What? Are they financial failures? No. They'll increase, maybe even more frequently than...