disneygeek90
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You know it's slow when the wait increments are 2.
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News Disney's Animal Kingdom July 2020 reopening reports
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People paid ~$100 for two hours of Animal Kingdom to be like this with the After Hours events. They can now get 10 hours of it for the same price (or no extra cost for APers).
disneygeek90
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I wonder how many rides of FoP I could get in. Honestly once they open up the AP days I may swap one of my HS or MK days in favor of AK.
Definitely would be a B mode. And, I take anything I hear from a front line CM with a huge grain of salt, but wanted to share the info that was shared with us.
Interesting, I thought I had read that the monkeys and fire guy were not Equity... granted reading something on these boards is not always entirely accurate.
IF it does open in the next couple weeks we will try to get over and see what exactly they are offering. Obviously not a simple undertaking to remove the main narrators of the show, and surely they can't have the kids get up and dance/parade with the animals. And if the monkeys and fire guy are also out...hmm.
TrainsOfDisney
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Animal Kingdom has a really good acrobat group that performs in Africa. They are 3rd party and not equity... I’m wondering if they will use them for the tumble monkeys.
The big question I have is can they have a non-equity stage manager call the show?
Interesting, I thought I had read that the monkeys and fire guy were not Equity... granted reading something on these boards is not always entirely accurate.
Up until recently I just assumed that they weren’t equity. I was also surprised the dancers in beauty and the beast are equity... it’s weird how it works in the Florida parks.
Someone else posted hearing what sounded like FotLK in operation a day or two ago.
Sweet Thing
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I believe third party entertainment has not been asked to return. Also, from my memory the stage managers at the theme parks are not Equity. They are (or at least were a decade ago) simply entertainment managers who get trained on a particular show.
I rode it 2 times, river journey, safari, and did dinosaur 4 times without getting up. I got here at 10 and sat down for lunch at 2.
TrainsOfDisney
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If there are equity performers there has to be an equity stage manager.
For a non-equity show you are correct.
Sweet Thing
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While this is true outside of the theme parks, it is not at WDW.
TrainsOfDisney
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That’s surprising... but I’m surprised about other areas that equity has given Disney including not acknowledging individual performers with a call board etc.
Are you equity?
Sweet Thing
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Nope. I worked for the company for several years in entertainment back in the 2000s.
Interesting to see NRJ having "longer" wait times than FOP. Same thing yesterday according to your charts. Has FOP been down a lot or am I not distinguishing the blue line? Thx!
disneygeek90
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Every time I check the app throughout the day it's at 5 minutes. I'm kind of shocked that it's virtually going the entire day as a walk on.
Indeed! Wish I could be able to ride it over and over again!
I think the deal there is that Navi River didn't have great capacity to begin with, and has especially bad socially-distanced capacity (I think I saw basically each party has their own boat?). FoP actually has pretty decent throughput - it always ran a long standby line largely because of Fastpass... so it's probably doing 50% of it's total capacity where Navi is a lot less.