True story. At a Great Clips I learned that it's possible to kill someone by pouring hot bacon grease in their ear while they are sleeping, supposedly from personal experience of the "stylist" who had a pair of scissors close to my head.
Death by Bacon?
If Disney hasn't stopped the characters in Times Square they aren't going to do squat about this.
Just as long as they stay FAR away from Dennys. Too many childhood memories are tied to the Moons over My Hammy for them to ruin it with shoving characters in my face...
Or Hollywood Boulevard for that matter. That was an experience.
Don't get IHOP Explorer all worked up about it.
Maybe because the Disney characters in TS look so horribly fake you'd have to be legally blind to really think they are legit Disney characters.
Gotcha. I dunno. When I was just there it seemed like a lot of people to only be 1 per car. On our final night we ditched the parks early because it was pretty crazy crowded in DL and the lines at the turnstiles to hop to DCA were obscenely long as well. We opted to throw in the towel and go to bed early. I was pretty bummed considering it was our last night and that's not at all how I envisioned leaving the wonderful west. If there's no real "off" season anymore (even during the week) it shows attendance is driving towards a need for more capacity in the existing parks or another park. There was even an article (perhaps OC Register?) that had someone from Disney saying the curbing of the SoCal APs was out of concern for the guest experience. Also mentioned other APs could be affected as well. I don't think they're just worried about enough parking.
Additionally, MM in DL was pretty useless even during the week. Wait times were the same or longer than during the day. APs don't get MM unless they're staying on-property. This seriously points to a bigger attendance impact than just local APers. Wouldn't you think?
Don't mean to mess up your statistics, but, I had been an executive with my own business, I am not 100% technology savvy, I do not own a smart phone and I am 66 years old. I like it. The reason why I like it is that I see it differently then so many on this board (and others). I don't see it as a total waste of money because it has features that are different then what I am used to. I don't see it as a total waste because there are no giant $$$ signs currently in neon saying how much income it generated. I don't see it as a total waste because a large, large part of it was strictly a much needed upgrade to an old and less then useful IT system.
You mean the people that go there without a preconceived notion about how things should be based on what we, as self-appointed experts on everything, judge to be good or bad? Those fools that go to WDW because they enjoy it and do not spend massive amounts of thoughts about what is making money and what isn't, when it isn't their problem. The same ones that have not erroneously made the call that if they hadn't spend the money on that, there would be so many new attractions that we couldn't even count them all. Is it that group?
That is true, to some extent, but what the hell does it matter. It is here and it is to far into established to ever be replaced for at least a decade. Might as well get used to it. MM+ or some close variation of it, is what we have and what we are going to have to work with for quite a while.
This is going to hurt to say... so I'll just say it. I have not always been sympathetic to Peter's Wild Ride through Theme park operations, but in this case he has done nothing except report what he heard. I know that in the past he has said many things that have totally P.O. many that were logically trying to convince him otherwise, but I am afraid that the current attack, as far as I can see, is really not justified and is more of a reflex kick then a thought out one. Given he does go overboard many times, this I don't see as one of them
