The Spirited 11th Hour ...

Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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asianway said:
Looks like DeWayne Bevil continues cashing that paycheck by writing hard hitting stories about the Baymax meet & greet complete with a creepy awkward photo of other people. The guy couldn't bother to actually wait in line I guess.
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Never heard of him.. What is his story? and why the obsession with Baymax?
 
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Absimilliard

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WDW1974 said:
I loved it. Charming and true to the film. Great family ride. If they opened in the swamps they would be marketing as the greatest thing ever. I would have liked a few more physical sets and/or AAs ... but it absolutely is quality and works. And people absolutely love it. I think Angie and I rode it about six times. And the new restaurant is excellent as well.
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After riding both Mystic Manor and Ratatouille in a 3 months span, I feel both served the same purpose while taking whole different directions art wise. Quality wise, I am probably the only person in the world to not have be blown away by Mystic Manor and I would put Ratatouille on the same level. The only flaw I have with Ratatouille is the botched up screen/set integration throughout the ride. It is basic stuff that Universal, Sally Corporation (for Six Flags) and Falcon's Creative Group (for Busch Gardens Williamsburg) have much more successful in that aspect. Beside that, the feeling internally is that WDI overcharged for the ride: 150 million euro for the whole mini land.

Listening to the guests around the park and based on my Disney newbie friend I took along this trip, the ride is a runaway success! I am almost ready to say that it saved the Walt Disney Studios park in the sense that it is now driving a lot of attendance there. With the signature restaurant and shop, it made guest visits to the park much longer and closer to a real full day experience.

Maintenance wise, it is now a lot more reliable, but the lenghty "breakdowns" are not all Disney or the ride's fault. The local safety commission does not allow Disneyland Paris to reset any ride vehicle or train with guests on them anymore and it has slowed breakdown resets to an halt. Best example: the common Space Mountain breakdown in 2000-2001 took 15-20 minutes to reset as only the trains in the catapult (the Cannon) had to be evacuated and then, the ride only took a few minutes to reset. Now? It is 15-20 minimum as every train have to be emptied before any train start moving throughout the process. In the case of Ratatouille, it is the same thing: few minutes to reset a stalled Rat.... but you need to evacuate so many rats you're looking at 45-60 minutes minimum to reopen the ride.

One last thing, the "Security with Assault Rifles" are not security guards. They are french soldiers patrolling airports, train stations and other public areas as part of the "Vigipirate" plan that has been going on for years in France.
 
Goofyernmost

Goofyernmost

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Cesar R M said:
you mean the one "working justice system" that sent said person to jail for a bit? :hilarious:
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Actually, yes. That is what I mean. The man was arrested, duly punished and it is in the past. We not only do not have the right to imply that it is of significance now, but to also unjustifyingly reopen the case for some sort of personal satisfaction is even worse. The point of the revelation was to say that this man is not to be trusted with this apparently earth shakingly important occupation that he now has been successfully dealing with. Now can we just let this go?
 
michmousefan

michmousefan

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WDW1974 said:
Not dumb at all. A necessary part of having a structure like that. I do not get how people don't understand this. It is a basic thing.
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Indeed a basic thing; seems like the sharp pencil boys are forgetting the important things, like welcoming your guests -- and realizing that, as they will be on their feet for most of the day, let them ease off for a few moments before charging post-rope to Space Mountain (or SWL in a couple years). It's even more important at the end of the day, when the walking dead are heading to their cars and would greatly appreciate *any* fewer steps along the way. But the current signals by management seem to say "well, we've gotten every cent we can wrangle out of you, no sense on us wasting valuable energy on a costly moving sidewalk; it's all downside for us from that point."

That might be overly cynical but if WDW was built today there'd be no monorail or ferryboat to the MK... just a big patch of concrete where the Seven Seas Lagoon is.
 
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COProgressFan

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michmousefan said:
That might be overly cynical but if WDW was built today there'd be no monorail or ferryboat to the MK... just a big patch of concrete where the Seven Seas Lagoon is.
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The sad reality is that with today's management, Walt Disney World, as we know it anyway, wouldn't exist in the first place.

But as to your point -- if it existed at all, there would simply be a MK park with a parking lot right out front, where the lagoon is today. There would be no justification for putting the lagoon there in the first place, let alone a very costly transportation system to move guests to the entrance.
 
ford91exploder

ford91exploder

Resident Curmudgeon
Andrew C said:
Looks like he is on the backlot at DHS to me...in front of Walt's plane
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Hopefully he buys it and sends it around to airshows, What's interesting is it had a current certificate back in 2014 (last time I checked) which means it COULD fly if it passed it's annual. That being said it would probably need extensive maintenance before being truly airworthy again.
 
Cesar R M

Cesar R M

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Mike S

Mike S

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Kind of wish I was there to meet the guy.
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And like someone on Twitter asked I wonder what he thinks of the changes coming to DHS. It's pretty much his park, right?
 

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