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News Star Wars: Galaxy's Edge - Historical Construction/Impressions
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SSG
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If there is to be a no stroller policy in SWL, I'm very interested in how Disney implements this. Will lucky CMs be posted at the entry points to enforce this? I think they would have to be. Will folks kick up a fuss over not being able to push a double wide holding a 7 year-old around the new land? Almost certainly.
Heh. Sorry for your lack of care, but, it does bring up an interesting point: Will they be banned in TSL, too? If they are, we just found out a use for Pixar Way...
mickEblu
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Wow. I guess they re trying to take immersion to new heights. If what I heard is true and they are paying Visa million(s) of dollars just to not have to display a logo then I find the stroller policy to be believable. I applaud their commitment but it's a little ridiculous. I mean, do we have to check in our Mickey hats and balloons at the door too or do those exist in the Star Wars universe? If I can suspend disbelief and ride a flying pirate ship on Peter Pans Flight, I can tune out a visa logo. I would of rather had them put that $ into that third attraction that got scrapped. With all of that said, if the end game is not having to navigate around a sea of strollers, I'm all for it.
Curious Constance
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Since they may not allow strollers, maybe everyone with a baby will be allotted one Wookie to carry your said babies around the land for you.
TP2000
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Huh?
Walt was constantly building and demolishing and digging big holes all over his park when he ran it. There's not a year from 1955 to 1966 when Walt was alive and running the park that it didn't have construction cranes and building projects going on in plain view.
Here's 1956, when it was time to expand the Indian Village and the workers drove their trucks "onstage" to deliver supplies, as park visitors steam past on the Mark Twain. The white truck appears to be a '55 or '56 Ford, for those keeping score at home.
Or 1958 when a giant Swiss mountain was rising up in the middle of the park.
Or 1962 when both ends of Adventureland featured cranes lifting steel beams into place instead of the flaming tiki torches we have today.
Pirates and New Orleans Square was just left as a giant hole in the ground from 1962 to 1965 when Walt changed gears and worked on the World's Fair pavilions instead of the pirate ride he started in 1961.
And when Walt passed away in late 1966, he left when all of Tomorrowland was just a giant jumble of steel and destruction.
The only difference is that here in the 21st century the Disneyland executives spend more money and try harder to keep new construction hidden behind tarps and trees and walls. Walt was kind of cheap when it came to hiding construction from paying visitors.
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If Walt knew what he used to do, he'd be spinning in his grave!
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To be honest I doubt that Walt fretted as much about these kinds of operational details as today's online fans do. By the time DL was running efficiently in the early 60s he had already mentally moved on to WDW and building an experimental city of the future.
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GrizzlyAdams
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EPCOTCenterLover
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DL used to be closed on Mondays and Tuesdays, making construction and movement of materials easier to accomplish. Maintenance of existing attractions as well! 
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Phroobar
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The land always felt like an 80's mall food court to me. I think people consider the Land one big attraction like the Living Seas and always leave the stroller outside. I think the CMs make them do it anyway. When it comes to SWL, there is no place to put strollers outside of the land.
We also need to look at it from the perspective of the person that has to drive that stroller around. They are a pain to get on/off the tram. You have to make sure to anything of value is taken with you after parking it. It's hard to move the stroller through the crowd. But on the other hand, its better than carrying a kid that can't walk that far or needs a nap and your deep in Toon Town. A stroller valet service would be nice where the strollers are parked off stage and a CM has to go get the stroller. Anything that makes the person with the stroller happier makes everyone around them happier is a good thing. Banning strollers completely is a selfish thing brought up by undateable single thirty year olds with Peter Pan syndrome.
We also need to look at it from the perspective of the person that has to drive that stroller around. They are a pain to get on/off the tram. You have to make sure to anything of value is taken with you after parking it. It's hard to move the stroller through the crowd. But on the other hand, its better than carrying a kid that can't walk that far or needs a nap and your deep in Toon Town. A stroller valet service would be nice where the strollers are parked off stage and a CM has to go get the stroller. Anything that makes the person with the stroller happier makes everyone around them happier is a good thing. Banning strollers completely is a selfish thing brought up by undateable single thirty year olds with Peter Pan syndrome.
dweezil78
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I think this is more due to the fact that you enter from the second floor and have to take either stairs or an escalator down to the main level where just about everything is. Getting than many strollers down stairs (via a single elevator or whatever is there) would be an absolute nightmare and liability for guests trying to push them down the stairs.
Professortango1
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Maybe they should just have strollers available for rent in the Motorboat Cruise and make the rent hourly. $100 deposit, free for the first half hour, $10 for the first hour. Each additional hour is $25. This reduces the amount of strollers, but makes them available at the rear of the park for guests looking to cart their kids out once they tucker out. Guests can pick one up in Fantasyland, drop it off on Main Street, and get their kid someplace where they can nap or rest.
I see too many parents pushing around doublewides loaded with shopping bags and such in the empty seats and the kids passed out in the others. Let the poor child go rest. And you don't need a shopping cart, just a small stroller for the child itself.