Club Cooloholic
Well-Known Member
If one reads what is being written, the only people I have seen insulting or trying to shame people, seem to be those who feel entitled to DAS and yet maybe fear losing it, and it has led them to write things...like you have been writing to me and others. We have presented facts, you have presented your narrow interpretation, based mainly on your feelings, your personal specific interpretation and seem to want to argue semantics.Again, I am calling out you and others trying to muddle your perception with operational specifics. If you’re going to keep throwing operational impacts at people expressing concern or disappointment about the situation then that should be a sincere understanding of those impacts and not just your feelings. Lots of people refer to all colas (and some even all sodas) as “Coke” but if you’re adjusting a soda fountain to have the proper syrup to water ratio then it actually is important to know whether or not you are dealing with Coke or Pepsi or even a root beer. “We just just call it all Coke” isn’t actually useful information.
A virtual queue is a system that allows people to wait elsewhere. FastPass, FastPass+, Genie+ and Virtual Queues (Boarding Groups) are all virtual queue systems. At Universal the TapuTapu system at Volcano Bay is a virtual queue. The big problem with these systems (as best demonstrated by Volcano Bay when it opened) is the problem of people no longer physically occupying queues. People are effectively in multiple places at once created increased crowding. This is all compounded when you introduce simultaneous virtual queuing (multiple selections), something that Disney just so happens is reintroducing in the near future. There are though tools available to help shape and control demand.
Skip the line systems let the guest skip the wait. Disney’s VIP tours offer line skipping. GAC at the end offered line skipping. Universal’s ExpressPass offers this. These services command top dollar not only because they eliminate waiting, but because they have an even bigger operational impact and supply must be limited. There are very few limits on the capacity they can consume. This is why Universal excludes new marquee attractions from ExpressPass.
That people return using certain lines is completely irrelevant. Many parks offer both virtual queues and skip the line systems that share attraction access. That Disney has also used the language of line skipping to create a sense of value is also irrelevant. It’s marketing, not operations.
DAS is not a line skipping system. How it impacts the parks is not the same and does not scale the same as a line skipping system. Letting people leave a queue and return is also a virtual queue implementation.
If you don’t care about that then be honest and say you don’t actually care about the operational impacts and stop trying to use your feelings to shame and denigrate others.