Augh.. I feel like the Harbinger of Doom recently with my posts.. Tom Sawyer's Island will not be opening up again...

[The Pho]

They should use the opportunity to run a ‘special presentation’ of Fantasy in the Sky. Limit hub capacity. No projection or castle launchers. Encourage viewing from throughout the park.

In a lot of ways it would be nice to step back from the hub-centric nighttime show concept anyway.

That would be nice. In my opinion a less central firework show is precisely what the park needs more than anything.

 

[WEDway Inc & Company LLC]

So, I take it, SM is closed for the time being?

 

[Giss Neric]

Tom Sawyer's Island is like isolated so it's the perfect place for social distancing. I always go there to breathe and relax whenever I'm overwhelmed by the crowds.

 

[AndyS2992]

In a lot of ways it would be nice to step back from the hub-centric nighttime show concept anyway.

It's essentially done that way so everyone is at the front of the park so they can all be kicked out quicker as soon as it ends. It's essentially a crowd control measure.

 

[WDW Pro]

So, I take it, SM is closed for the time being?

Speculation Post

I wouldn't say it's done. I would say that if MK opens with significant social distancing in place, there's a good chance it isn't reopened at first... ooor, they could do virtual queues with the northwest emergency exits used as entrance and exit... oooor, they could really space out the groups going through the queue and remind them to please, please, please not touch anything.

No really good options here, but who knows at this point?

 

[britain]

Speculation Post

I wouldn't say it's done. I would say that if MK opens with significant social distancing in place, there's a good chance it isn't reopened at first... ooor, they could do virtual queues with the northwest emergency exits used as entrance and exit... oooor, they could really space out the groups going through the queue and remind them to please, please, please not touch anything.

No really good options here, but who knows at this point?

One thing is for sure: The next time they build a Disneyland in some other country (5-15 years from now) it’s going to look and operate very differently from its older siblings. From purely a theme park historian point of view, this crisis is the sort of thing that makes old movies look old. “Hey, remember when THAT was how they ran parks? Remember THOSE kinds of attractions?”

 

[Magenta Panther]

Speculation Post

I wouldn't say it's done. I would say that if MK opens with significant social distancing in place, there's a good chance it isn't reopened at first... ooor, they could do virtual queues with the northwest emergency exits used as entrance and exit... oooor, they could really space out the groups going through the queue and remind them to please, please, please not touch anything.

No really good options here, but who knows at this point?

I wonder if the queue at Haunted Mansion will undergo any changes. It includes that mausoleum with the organ on one end of it and relief sculptures on its sides that you're supposed to touch in order to play music and sound effects...I bet it's constantly got at least 999 different germs, courtesy of guests' grubby fingers, all over it.

 

[Parker in NYC]

I should hope it’s at least temporarily closed upon the park’s reopening. Ain’t getting me on over there.

 

[marni1971]

Guys please... If your at WDW or any other heavily visited area of course your at risk at catching anything..

You are. But at the moment the risk has increased exponentially. And it tends to kill a bit more too.

 

[HauntedMansionFLA]

I wonder if the queue at Haunted Mansion will undergo any changes. It includes that mausoleum with the organ on one end of it and relief sculptures on its sides that you're supposed to touch in order to play music and sound effects...I bet it's constantly got at least 999 different germs, courtesy of guests' grubby fingers, all over it.

Now is their chance to switch the queues back to the way they were before FP+.
#dumpFP+

 

[larryz]

Disney World is technically in the Southern United States with plenty of southern accents and southeastern US guests. And, if someone waves at you in Chattanooga, Raleigh, or even Jacksonville, you wave back. That rule doesn't change just because you're on a roller coaster.

I heard CMs used to be trained that if a guest waved at them, they MUST wave back. So I liked to test that theory.

Yes, I was one of "those" people.

But the South doesn't have a lock on waving. Here in the Midwest, it's also considered polite to return a wave.

 

[Club Cooloholic]

Too many concerns with cramming people on the skiffs to take them over there, and once they get there wandering free. The manpower required for cast members to enforce "social distancing" on that island isn't worth the return.

Old school MK is dying. It's a shame, but it is happening.

Tom Sawyer island is such an afterthought with what's there anyway(compared to DL's) it sadly not a huge loss. That said people crammed pretty much is most of WDW.....

 

[Raineman]

Sucks about Tom Sawyer island but shame on Disney for spending years building stupid kids playgrounds in the parks. It’s the total antithesis of what Disney parks are supposed to be.

I really hope that you're joking or being sarcastic. If you're serious-"Total antithesis"? Despite the fact that "stupid kids playgrounds" like TSI, the Sailing Ship Columbia, and the Pirate's Lair opened during the first 3 years that Disneyland was open? But I guess Walt and the Imagineers didn't know what Disney parks are supposed to be.

 

[Captain Neo]

I really hope that you're joking or being sarcastic. If you're serious-"Total antithesis"? Despite the fact that "stupid kids playgrounds" like TSI, the Sailing Ship Columbia, and the Pirate's Lair opened during the first 3 years that Disneyland was open? But I guess Walt and the Imagineers didn't know what Disney parks are supposed to be.

Im not talking about TSI or Columbia im talking about garbage like Pooh's playground and all those play areas they added at Epcot and the Studios parks over the years.

 

[Minthorne]

TSI will become the feral cat kingdom.

 

[Squishy]

TSI will become the feral cat kingdom.

*gator

 

[Coaster Lover]

Only if you perform the initiation rituals...

Kungaloosh!

 

[BaconPancakes]

I have never set foot on it and I’ve been going for the past 32 years. Good riddance...

 

[Dutch Inn '76]

Speculation Post

I wouldn't say it's done. I would say that if MK opens with significant social distancing in place, there's a good chance it isn't reopened at first... ooor, they could do virtual queues with the northwest emergency exits used as entrance and exit... oooor, they could really space out the groups going through the queue and remind them to please, please, please not touch anything.

No really good options here, but who knows at this point?

So why in the world did you say that it "won't be opening again?"

 

[marni1971]

"A bit more" and "exponentially" is not how I'd describe the morality or complication rate with COVID19. Yes it's a virus, yes it's here in US (where WDW is), but it's not a black death level plague, all studies are pointing at a morality rate below 1% (most below 0.5%,)..

The risk has increased exponentially for guests possibly dying at WDW compared to a year ago.

I want the parks open as much as anyone else. But they’ll open when they are ready and not when the public think they should.