Nubs70
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As the band's are of uniform geometry, the Mickey reader could be slightly recessed in negative geometry by which the MagicBand will line up each and every time.
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FloridaRes
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They are SUPPOSED to vacuum regularly.
GiveMeTheMusic
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It'll probably barely break even after box office wraps up, but it may take DVD/streaming sales to get it across the line.
dammit!!, you guys beat me both on the jokes related to M&G and bathrooms
There will probably be a Tier 1 Fast Pass Bathroom Meet and Greet where you get to write your name in the snow. Finally, something for the boys!
PhotoDave219
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Color our world blackened!
You have a gif from the Great Cornolio?
Dave has successfully championed the effort to make people use spoiler tags properly. I dont know if they are doing it out of kindness or they fear the wrath of Dave and a "shine box" comment, but either way, Ive seen a lot more spoiler tags used in the last month. Bravo, sir.
AEfx
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Color me surprised - the money pit infrastructure "enhancement" from hell is a mess? Never! LOL.
Obviously they can't even get this working properly yet, so it's hard to move on to expanding it's usage - but do you know anything about what else this all is intended to be besides Bracelet fun? Back a year or two ago when a lot of us were predicting this, there was a certain segment of folks saying, "Oh, you don't understand, it's meant to be so much more!" Those folks are strangely silent these days.
While I don't doubt some of the blue-sky stuff we heard about (character knowing your name before you speak, etc. - which personally, I always found creepy LOL), is possible, at some point (for those that pay), but this is really all there is to this, right? Folks made it sound like it was just the start of some ethereal, magical adventure possibilities - yet even working at it's fullest, aside from all this scheduling junk, maybe it's just my limited brain but I can't see much more to be done with it beyond kitchy stuff like the name thing - which Universal started doing 20+ years ago with ET in a much cheaper if not sexy way.
The question is, though: undoubtedly it can be convenient if you go at certain times of the year (I avoid those times, LOL - so I've never had to get to a park an hour early to grab FP's), what would have overall made your experience better - FP+, or 4-5 brand new D/E-ticket rides that knocked your socks off?
I don't think a lot of us question the utility of things like FP+, but it's the value compared to what they could have spent the money on instead. They practically could have built another entire gate for 1.5B.
I actually am with "Wallstreet" - overall, Iger has done some amazing things for the Walt Disney Company, many of which would have seemed like fantasy a decade ago, and that will ensure success for the company for decades after he is gone. He's the guy that brought Pixar, Marvel, and Lucasfilm under the Disney Umbrella. Leaving fanboi "Marvel/Star Wars doesn't belong at Disney!" nonsense aside - what he did was make Disney the undisputed home of the greatest character/franchise library of them all. The major franchises they don't have is shorter at this point - Potter, LOTR, Star Trek, and the DC properties - other than that, they are going to be benefitting from these acquisitions for generations to come.
I think the issue has been that Iger just isn't the parks guy that Eisner was. He did what generally smart CEO's do, which is listen to the best advice of your trusted advisers when you don't know any better, but in this case, he simply had the wrong people in those positions who already wanted Next Gen to start rolling. I don't mean to give him a pass on the parks stuff - but if memory serves, we wouldn't have even gotten New Fantasyland the way we did if he hadn't insisted on changes - it would have been far less if the original plan had gone through. I just think he was very, very good for some parts of the company - but unfortunately, parks weren't part of it.
Can that ever really happen though? The general audience for WDW has never even been able to grasp the very simple original FP process, even with cartoon characters showing "1,2,3!" how to do it in every guidemap printed. If folks couldn't figure out that system, I don't think there is any hope that the majority will ever figure this out.
That's also the one sticking point of Next Gen that I also don't see a lot of folks mention these days - it's not for everyone. I'd love to know what percentage of guests actually have access to it, how many of those actually used it at all, and how many of those actually used it's "full" benefits. Particularly over time, I don't see those numbers getting incredibly high.
That's just it, though - endless pits of IT infrastructure rarely every turn out well. One of two things generally happen - the entire thing gets 86'd, and heads roll, or they try to just get what they started working and abandon any higher hopes for the system, and heads roll. Since they clearly aren't going to do the former, there is a decent chance of the latter - kind of like giving up and throwing a strobe light on an animatronic because what it's built on is just too fragile to be able to do anything else unless you just rip it out and completely rebuild.
On one hand I'm sure it was a nightmare getting things hooked up with the legacy systems already in place, which were infamously antiquated in many cases - but on the other hand, a lot of the problems I see reported aren't congruent with that being the underlying issue. There are also some really favorable things going for a project like this - that essentially, except for the web interface, all the interactivity takes place in a single physical location they have control over; WDW itself is about as closed an ecosystem as one can possibly have today. It's almost academically perfect for a project like this.
Once you've spent 1.5B on something, it's hard to turn around - but there is also a point where it's just absurd and they might as well just patch it up the best as they can, abandon any blue sky future for it, and move on.
bhg469
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Oh its fear! He can get scary..
PhotoDave219
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I saw it used successfully on other forums.
All of us are hardcore Disney fans but not all of us want to see the spoilers. Not everyone wants to see advance ride videos or even see photos of new things.
Some of us want to see things with wide-eyed, childlike wonder as we see it for the first time.
AEfx
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Bah, scratch him behind the ears and he purrs like a kitten.
At least that's what one friend of a Princess told me.
(Wait, does Drizilla count as a Princess??)
The more I read comments like this from you, the more I realize I have been pretty bad about spoiling things for myself. I miss that wide-eyed feeling of amazement from my childhood. Im trying to not spoil everything about Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade but it just looks so damn cool I cant help it. As brief as you kept your review of it and tried to not let too much out, it only fueled my curiosity 100 fold. It was a gift AND a curse to read your review but oh what fun it was. "Always leave 'em wanting more"!
PhotoDave219
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Yeah, thats why I'm hardcore about the Star Wars spoilers. I want to know as little as possible knowing in.
jt04
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74 has said he welcomes opposing opinions in his thread but anyone who has a different point of view attracts your snide remarks and constant negativity.
There is something wrong with you being in the mix in this way. Like shenanigans.
jt04
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AEfx
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Yeah, I remember he tried to scare me off these boards.
I won't hold that failure against him, bacterial removal is notoriously difficult.
jt04
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Wow.
PhotoDave219
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Yeah, I remember he tried to scare me off these boards.
Did I? I forget. 10 years is a long time. Sorry about that if i did.
bhg469
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I've been here a long time too.. jumping back a few years is sometimes very eye opening.
Cesar R M
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I honestly think That guy is pretty nutz.. he keeps over-thinking and over-rationalize (and humanize) a barely sentient robot that never was supposed to get sentient in the fist place!
He seriously is trying way too hard to compare wall-e to a full grown nerd manchildren (or brony).
I honestly think Wall-e is the equivalent of a 6 to 9 year old kid, facinated with life.. as secluded as he was with only the company of a cockroach! He had to learn everything by himself.
I also compare Eve to a 12-16 girl that was raised in a very strict environment (aka heavy sense of duty and protocol)
so his creepy comparisons is.. wow..
the last part of his review is insane..
jt04
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Maybe it wasn't you if you do not remember it. Perhaps it was someone else. Grizz something perhaps. I do not pay much attention to who is who unless they are constantly reponding negatively. I have know idea who anyone is on these boards beyond their avatar unless they post publicly elsewhere like EE or Merf. And even then I only know a name.
Sorry about that if you were not the person.