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I thought the exact same thing, I can’t wait to see what the next class of smaller ships looks like. We’re hoping the announced ships will regain the intimacy of the previous ships we felt the larger Wish class lacked.

In the early 2000s I worked for an airline reservation company and was shocked they still used a DOS based reservation system called Worldspan, you’d have to type out a c://……. line for everything, it was a massive pain, had a nearly 100 page code manual, was incredibly easy to make mistakes...

The benefit of the train in Paris is it’s a 10 minute ride instead of an hour long drive, even with the transfer it’s a huge time saver, I think the same would be true in Orlando with how bad the traffic often is.

With all the resorts already having buses running to Disney Springs it wouldn’t take much to remove a couple seats and add luggage space to buses specifically running the Disney Springs route, with all the ADA space on the newer buses they probably wouldn’t even have to modify them. We take...

To me this feels like paying 5x more for a first class seat on a short domestic flight, first class is more comfortable and comes with a few extra perks but we could never justify paying that much more for a 1 hour flight, even though we could technically afford it. I think this is for people...

Baby steps… I’ve accepted LL is a money machine that’s never going away and that prices never go down but getting rid of reservations would be free and bring back so much value to APs. The return of Magical Express and the luggage service would add a small cost to Disney but do wonders to bring...

I did, and I probably will again, but I’ve had 3 doctors appointments this week which meant a lot of waiting room time to kill with only my phone to keep me company… also likely why my posts have been on the extra grumpy side, I hate doctors appts, 3 in 5 days should be criminal. Getting old...

For me it’s primarily the nickel and diming while simultaneously cutting free perks in the parks. I also think the movie division has put out mostly bad movies for the last half decade. Prior to the late teens I liked just about everything he had done, I was even thrilled when he came back...

That ship sailed years ago, Vegas only makes up about 20% of all sports betting now, the online apps have legally been chipping away at sports betting for nearly a decade already.

Possibly but since Disney doesn’t release attendance numbers that’s pure conjecture. This was in our paper last week… “the LVCVA’s new data shows that, despite the decline in visitation, gaming revenue has remained steady or increased across the board. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Make cuts...

Doubtful, I’m a capitalist at heart but the investment funds takeover of everything has had a ton of negative consequences.

True, we’re a small group, the vast majority just care if a movie entertains them or not, they don’t care what it cost, what it grossed, what it profited/lost… technically true of 99% of what’s Disney related, Star Wars related, Marvel related… also, it’s only us superfans / nerds that find any...

The sad thing is I think Vegas did an incredible job over the last 20+ years of re-inventing itself to adjust for gamings growth worldwide, the transition to nightlife, dining, shopping, shows, and sports was working amazingly well… until the nickel and diming and drop in customer service...

Does it happen to mention how much each studio spent to get their share? If studio A spent $100m and made $300 and studio B spent $2b and made $1.5b I’d much rather be studio A, despite them having a much smaller share. I have no clue what they each spent/made but without that data it’s kind...

I’m sure in many cases it is budget related but many of the recent budgets have been so ridiculously huge it’s mind boggling. If you have a seemingly unlimited budget and the end product is still crap the budget can’t be the problem. 100% agree Hollywood needs to get back to letting the...

I am and I’m not at the same time, it’s good for more people to get more credit, and also fascinating to see behind the curtain, but also kind of falls into the “don’t meet your heroes” category. I like my unblemished image of many of the early Disney giants, I don’t want reality tarnishing them.

I think it’s the schedule, not the budget. Hollywood has been burning piles of cash recently thanks to several hundred million dollar budgets, it’s amazing how often I watch a show talking about filming starting without a finished script though, or about movies going through 2-3 directors...

I wonder how much of our perception is based on watching Disneyland shows in our youth, Disney did a fantastic job of creating perfect “characters”, including Walt Disney himself, that those perceptions likely influence us to this day. The names I listed I’ve seen dozens of times on various...

We’re the same, our big trips are already booked through Dec 2026, we’re already looking at destinations for 2027, and we’ve already got a wish list for smaller trips to fill in the gaps in 26. That said we consider WDW a fairly simple trip to plan so we often book it only a couple months in...

It’s actually the opposite, only about 12% of the visitors to Vegas are foreign, compared to about 23% of WDWs visitors. Foreign guests very likely contribute higher spending per capita but ultimately we depend on CA, they make up almost 1/3 of our total guests. DL is probably a closer...