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  1. KevinYee

    News Reedy Creek Improvement District and the Central Florida Tourism Oversight District

    When I pulled back on blogging and writing a few years ago, I stopped even commenting on boards. I did lurk, however, but I've been allowing myself to not obsess over every detail. Life simply got busy! That said, certainly I was tracking this story (predicted this RCID outcome, even, to a...
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    News Disney hikes the price of Mickey Bars and Dole Whip along with hundreds of other food and beverage items at Walt Disney World

    Actually, it's a really persistent urban legend that Disney doesn't pay for Coke products. They do. A friend of mine works for Coke and has seen the numbers.
  3. KevinYee

    Social distanced Fantasmic coming by February.

    Not to brazenly steal from the Tiki Room, but why not a version where the show is the constant, and the audience is moving? Could they craft a 7-minute show that allows for backstage social distancing, and then in the viewing area just thread a massive conga line. When the front of the line gets...
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    News Expose reveals WDC control in online fan community

    I have heard separately from here that Gary is actually Spirit's brother (which I didn't know existed). The last name is what I connected with, so that part of my post needs amending.
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    News Expose reveals WDC control in online fan community

    Whoa now. Sunday just got juicy!! Some facts: 1. I was Al's co-founder on MiceAge - I had a front row seat, so I know whereof I speak below. 2. It is true that Al has Parkinson's 3. I haven't written for MiceChat in a long time. Last I looked, they were using the name "MiceAge Update" rather...
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    News Space Mountain exit being worked on

    Oh, I fully expect that's, uh, where we are. I just haven't heard what we'll look at as we *walk* out of the unload zone in the future....
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    News Space Mountain exit being worked on

    I think we need to expect that the moving sidewalk is not returning. Hope you have pictures in the can already!
  8. KevinYee

    Major executive level shakeup coming?

    Those responsible for sacking the people who have just been sacked have been sacked. also wik.
  9. KevinYee

    Rumor Brazil is the frontrunner for a new World Showcase Pavilion

    The Brazil concept/hope/plan is quite real. I posted about it in early March: http://micechat.com/154385-kevin-yee-epcot-2-0/ What actually gets built is, of course, subject to a billion things in the interim. But this is NOT a fake blue-sky concept. It's been floated and seriously considered.
  10. KevinYee

    New "Caring for Giants" $30.00 Experience Debuts at Animal Kingdom on March 12 2017

    Two quick comments relating to things earlier in the thread: 1. The sunset lights at the Savannah are actually one of the things you see from the backstage side while driving out to the elephants. I enjoyed seeing that. 2. These jokes about restrooms and poop were actually related to what we...
  11. KevinYee

    New "Caring for Giants" $30.00 Experience Debuts at Animal Kingdom on March 12 2017

    Forgot to add that my skepticism at first was about the distance. You're closer than that at Busch Gardens, where you also have the luxury of staying as long as you want. But the animals simply behaved differently at DAK; it was more interesting. One hesitates to anthropomorphize, but they...
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    New "Caring for Giants" $30.00 Experience Debuts at Animal Kingdom on March 12 2017

    I found myself skeptical, but during a friends and family preview enjoyed it. Your new platform is behind the baobob where the elephant "bathing" pool is. We could see the trucks, so yes, they could see us. When we went, we had a good view of about five elephants, including the most recent...
  13. KevinYee

    POLL: Disney World Theme Parks Now Require Children to have a Biometric Fingerprint Scan

    This is a salient point that hasn't gotten a full answer that I've seen. Since Disney isn't storing fingerprints so much as a "hash" created by identifying key points on the fingerprint and/or bone and blood vessels (they've admitted to both at various points) and then dividing those lengths...
  14. KevinYee

    Western Way Extension

    Don't think I have tried at that time slot, no. Interesting. It's not very crowded usually. A few years ago, there was enough wildlife here that I literally hit a wild boar with my car, and a few months later, got to watch a bald eagle 8 feet away from me guard its rabbit kill.
  15. KevinYee

    Western Way Extension

    It's not a dead end. As others have said, Hartzog connects to Avalon, and thus to 192 (wayyyyy West of World Drive). It was connected by dirt road until... 2008 maybe? and now it's a paved road, but still very, very undertraveled. It's perhaps the best kept secret back road in still.
  16. KevinYee

    A Spirited Summer Special (AKA Phil Holmes Takes Anaheim!)

    Thanks :) The day job caught up to me. I still post occasionally on the Twitter and Facebook for UltimateOrlando, and more rarely from UltimateOrlando.com itself (a vanity site I've owned since 2004) - but they are seldom of the depth you saw at MiceAge and MousePlanet, and way less frequently...
  17. KevinYee

    A Spirited Summer Special (AKA Phil Holmes Takes Anaheim!)

    The Declining by Degrees concept isn't a single thing, but rather a conflation of multiple things (a slow dying-off of several dozen intricate details in every visual sweep, stuff no one notices consciously, but given enough volume really makes it immersive). In exactly the same way, the CAUSES...
  18. KevinYee

    New smells in POC

    Yup, we noticed it too this weekend. For us, the burning scene was the most noticeable. Not the most pleasant smell, though...
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    Disney employee stole $112K from restaurant register, deputies say

    Somehow, I missed that. In my day, yes, a Lead would have been able to get away with this for years probably. Probably true now, too. You have to trust someone, unless you're the East German government, so Leads have some latitude usually. The only hope would be Big Data. If the amount of...
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