MOXOMUMD
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How cool would that be to go right from the Wilderness Lodge fireplace to Diagon Alley!
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Magic Kingdom Bus Loop expansion
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Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
Odds are the imagineers have already come up with many solutions, multiple times. The problem is Disney won't fund those projects. Slapping up more and more bus loops and bendy buses is about all Disney is willing to fund.
Disney has been kicking the can down the road for a long time already. They have the can kicking mastered.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
ToTBellHop
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Disney usually likes to discourage us from going to Universal. I betcha 1 in 10 would end up on Knockturn Alley.How cool would that be to go right from the Wilderness Lodge fireplace to Diagon Alley!
R W B
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On one of my recent trips my girlfriend and I were waiting for a bus at MK and I was looking around and the idea of putting an exclusive resort in that plot of land came to mind, I figured make it only 50 suites or so and charge one hell of a fee since you would literally be a few steps away from the gates at MK.
How close did this resort come to be?
Close enough to be included in a printed press release from the late 80s. Although they had it as 200 suites.
ToTBellHop
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Which stop will have the bus to Albuquerque? And will there be a Starbucks on the way to that stop?
ABQ
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As a resident of said city....I would love to see such a bus stop and gladly take a coffee too.
BoarderPhreak
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ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Repeat after me 'Buses are Cheap"
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
As is Disney.
Cesar R M
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until they oversaturate the roads.
ToTBellHop
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Oddly, they are cheap and yet they grossly overspend on what they do built. If you run your house like that, you're called cheap and stupid. And you are broke while your house is broken.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Much of the 'overspending' is I believe Hollywood accounting where costs are moved from division to division and profits are laundered.
I keep getting the feeling that Disney is the next ENRON because Disney has had no significant organic growth and the increases in profit have been driven almost entirely by price increases and cost cutting.
And look at all the effort Disney is putting into social media to keep the rubes convinced that everything is great and Disney has never been better,
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Trouble is they ALREADY are, Go to any large resort and the highways are jammed with Disney buses, I can't wait for the first accident with the bendy buses where some idiot motorist thinks they are TWO buses and tries to drive between them to 'save' 30 seconds at a light.
ABQ
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That's the worst part of this problem they created all themselves by relying so heavily upon buses. It would have been OK had they created more dedicated busways for them to travel on. You have a few roadways that work this way, such as the oddly under used road past Fort Wilderness or the sneaky underpass below the waterbridge between Epcot and the Beach Club, but other than that, they clog all the same roads everyone else uses making them highly inefficient.
Gabe1
Ivory Tower Squabble EST 2011. WINDMILL SURVIVOR
When my DD and I travel to Chicago we won't stand or sit in that center, bendy section. That is going to be an interesting given how Disney smashes guests into every crevice of their buses at the beginning and end of the day.
I'm more worried about a guest getting run over as part two of the bus turns a corner.
I'm more worried about a guest getting run over as part two of the bus turns a corner.