Disneyhead'71
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With both train operating at full capacity for 15 hours a day for 38 days at 7 min intervals would equal 1.64 million people.
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Cesar R M
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are you guys counting the days where it "soft opened" ? Ie, diagon was not yet open but HE was running nearly at capacity.
PhotoDave219
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No clue. I didn't write it.
PhotoDave219
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I don't think anyone ever doubted that the ride handles 2-3000 people an hour per day.
What I take issue with as a journalist is you comparing that to attendance figures at a theme park. You took a statistic and intentionally put it in an misleading context. That kind of hyperbole does nothing other than detract from your other quality work.
PhotoDave219
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On the other hand? You're the only journalist in Orlando was willing to hold universals feet to the fire about not getting their crap together with Gringotts.
Spirited Thursday Musings:
For every individual, here or anywhere, that chooses to defend Disney's current model and practices and remind us all that the company is a business, realize this: in today's environment that y'all insist upon defending Walt Disney himself wouldn't be allowed to work for the company. He'd be thrown out on his .
Get that through your thick heads when you justify the Walmarting, the quarter to quarter mentality, the making Wall Street happy as Main Street USA continues its theme of Disney outlet mall gone bad, the rotting of wholesale areas, the neglect of others, the seven years of Disco Yeti etc. Get that YOU and your defending of this crap is why we all suffer with it.
Walt Disney wouldn't be allowed to be the visionary he was today and all of the toads who sit back and justify it are certainly part of the problem. More so than the Lifestylers and BRAND advocates and the DPB team.
Anyone who believes a Star Wars announcement is coming in the next 6-9 months needs to put the blue milk down and wake up to some serious reality.
Oh, very interesting responses on SW at DLR. One (more?) of you may have just nailed it. Here's a few hints: 1.) it isn't going to DCA; 2.) The subs look like they are totally safe in the current plan.
At the risk of having the Parkscope bois soil themselves again over a very incorrect anti-UNI bias they perceive from this Spirit, while having a million riders on the Hogwart's Express is impressive, I'm really not sure what it means in any big picture way beyond it is new and has been popular. I don't recall Disney (or anyone else) putting out a press release when they reached a certain number beyond park attendance. I can't wait to hear how this statement will be misinterpreted, but ridership on one ride being touted is sorta like the old days when McD's would place the number of hamburgers sold on its giant Golden Arches.
Congrats to UNI! But I care about the product, not how many people have experienced it.
All of these 'bold' studio moves by Marvel and Warner Bros over release dates for superhero films again shows how Hollywood is full of bandwagon jumpers. Does anyone seriously believe there is a never-ending appetite for these films? I don't ... and at $200 million a piece to start, plus another $175-250 million in marketing, when the market gets tired (and it will) having another five of these films in active production won't be a good thing.
Speaking of which, there was one part of Guardians of the Galaxy that I didn't like. The giant, overwrought finale of a battle in the sky over a densely populated cityscape. This is so beyond cliche and having it in every single Marvel film as well as Man of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness is just way too much of a not very good in the first place thing.
So ... no one has sent me a note with a Lifestyler's review of the Four Seasons yet. What's wrong? Has no one stayed there yet?
There's a rumour going around that this site is about to have a columnist? Any truth to that @wdwmagic?
Was that the Frozen soundtrack for sale at the register of my Starbucks? Sadly, yes.
My pal @WDWFigment has asked what park would people most like to have locally if they could with his faves being TDS and DLP. I'm really not sure how to answer that as I have lived with DL/DCA/HKDL as local parks and loved dropping into all of them (yes, even DCA 1.0). I still think using theme parks as malls or deriding management's current mentality while sitting at a QSR and playing with your iPhone isn't exactly getting it anyway.
I know I have teased this, but I would still expect a MAJOR announcement on projects in Asia in the near future. If I knew exactly when, then I would say it, but I don't.
From what I have been told, the park that has suffered the most this summer in O-Town (other than SW, which is hurting) has been EPCOT as folks have chosen TPFKaTD-MGMS for their nighttime hopping for Frozen fireworks and Fantasmic. My very limited experience last month backs that up.
Finally, after being told repeatedly that DL's new night parade would ''differ substantially'' from HKDL's upcoming Paint the Night Parade, it would appear that they will be very, very, very similar.
For every individual, here or anywhere, that chooses to defend Disney's current model and practices and remind us all that the company is a business, realize this: in today's environment that y'all insist upon defending Walt Disney himself wouldn't be allowed to work for the company. He'd be thrown out on his .
Get that through your thick heads when you justify the Walmarting, the quarter to quarter mentality, the making Wall Street happy as Main Street USA continues its theme of Disney outlet mall gone bad, the rotting of wholesale areas, the neglect of others, the seven years of Disco Yeti etc. Get that YOU and your defending of this crap is why we all suffer with it.
Walt Disney wouldn't be allowed to be the visionary he was today and all of the toads who sit back and justify it are certainly part of the problem. More so than the Lifestylers and BRAND advocates and the DPB team.
Anyone who believes a Star Wars announcement is coming in the next 6-9 months needs to put the blue milk down and wake up to some serious reality.
Oh, very interesting responses on SW at DLR. One (more?) of you may have just nailed it. Here's a few hints: 1.) it isn't going to DCA; 2.) The subs look like they are totally safe in the current plan.
At the risk of having the Parkscope bois soil themselves again over a very incorrect anti-UNI bias they perceive from this Spirit, while having a million riders on the Hogwart's Express is impressive, I'm really not sure what it means in any big picture way beyond it is new and has been popular. I don't recall Disney (or anyone else) putting out a press release when they reached a certain number beyond park attendance. I can't wait to hear how this statement will be misinterpreted, but ridership on one ride being touted is sorta like the old days when McD's would place the number of hamburgers sold on its giant Golden Arches.
Congrats to UNI! But I care about the product, not how many people have experienced it.
All of these 'bold' studio moves by Marvel and Warner Bros over release dates for superhero films again shows how Hollywood is full of bandwagon jumpers. Does anyone seriously believe there is a never-ending appetite for these films? I don't ... and at $200 million a piece to start, plus another $175-250 million in marketing, when the market gets tired (and it will) having another five of these films in active production won't be a good thing.
Speaking of which, there was one part of Guardians of the Galaxy that I didn't like. The giant, overwrought finale of a battle in the sky over a densely populated cityscape. This is so beyond cliche and having it in every single Marvel film as well as Man of Steel and Star Trek Into Darkness is just way too much of a not very good in the first place thing.
So ... no one has sent me a note with a Lifestyler's review of the Four Seasons yet. What's wrong? Has no one stayed there yet?
There's a rumour going around that this site is about to have a columnist? Any truth to that @wdwmagic?
Was that the Frozen soundtrack for sale at the register of my Starbucks? Sadly, yes.
My pal @WDWFigment has asked what park would people most like to have locally if they could with his faves being TDS and DLP. I'm really not sure how to answer that as I have lived with DL/DCA/HKDL as local parks and loved dropping into all of them (yes, even DCA 1.0). I still think using theme parks as malls or deriding management's current mentality while sitting at a QSR and playing with your iPhone isn't exactly getting it anyway.
I know I have teased this, but I would still expect a MAJOR announcement on projects in Asia in the near future. If I knew exactly when, then I would say it, but I don't.
From what I have been told, the park that has suffered the most this summer in O-Town (other than SW, which is hurting) has been EPCOT as folks have chosen TPFKaTD-MGMS for their nighttime hopping for Frozen fireworks and Fantasmic. My very limited experience last month backs that up.
Finally, after being told repeatedly that DL's new night parade would ''differ substantially'' from HKDL's upcoming Paint the Night Parade, it would appear that they will be very, very, very similar.
and I will say he didn't exactly praise Gringotts when he first rode it..he was honest about liking other things more
PhotoDave219
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But still… Nobody in this town is willing to call Universal out for not being able to get it together with that attraction
Nubs70
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Walt would be out today. Would Edison have invented the lightbulb if he was working today?
Nland316
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Omg all this teasing is making us insane! Toontown? Frontierland? Main Street? Lol. Spill the beans!
I hope the Paint the Night parade info is false! It'd be tragic.
FigmentJedi
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Edison never invented the lightbulb, just made it commercially viable. Not to mention all the inventions he took credit for. He'd fit in just fine in the modern day.
Disneyhead'71
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@Spirit re: Universal's press release today.
Yeah, Disney doesn't do this particular type of PR Press Release, but they have they own fair share of these types of releases. The point is to just keep the hype train rolling. They know that it will make the local news and blow up on the forums. They did the same thing when they sold the one millionth Butterbeer.
Plus it gives the Unitards a reason to shake thier *** singing Nana Nana Boo Boo!
Yeah, Disney doesn't do this particular type of PR Press Release, but they have they own fair share of these types of releases. The point is to just keep the hype train rolling. They know that it will make the local news and blow up on the forums. They did the same thing when they sold the one millionth Butterbeer.
Plus it gives the Unitards a reason to shake thier *** singing Nana Nana Boo Boo!
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So, here are all of the guesses that I could find in here, although I may have missed some of them...
So, based on those, there are two ("one or more") guesses for Frontierland/Big Thunder Ranch/the plot that was earmarked for Oz/Lone Ranger, as well as Tomorrowland/Main Street USA (Primeval World, Innoventions, Redd Rockets, Buzz Lightyear, Main Street USA - Space Mountain was also mentioned somewhere), or Tomorrowland/Fantasyland (Matterhorn and Pixie Hollow).
So, here are all of the guesses that I could find in here, although I may have missed some of them...
- Toontown
- Big Thunder Ranch Area
- Frontierland
- Main Street USA
- Pixie Hollow/Buzz Lightyear
- Bugsland/Timon Parking Lot
- Primeval World/Innoventions/Red Rockets
- Matterhorn
So, based on those, there are two ("one or more") guesses for Frontierland/Big Thunder Ranch/the plot that was earmarked for Oz/Lone Ranger, as well as Tomorrowland/Main Street USA (Primeval World, Innoventions, Redd Rockets, Buzz Lightyear, Main Street USA - Space Mountain was also mentioned somewhere), or Tomorrowland/Fantasyland (Matterhorn and Pixie Hollow).
I respect your criticism, and appreciate having readers keep me honest, but we'll have to agree to disagree as to whether I was being "intentionally misleading." The bottom line is that today's statistic supports the likelihood that one or both Uni parks will surpass a WDW park in attendance, which is a big deal for this market. I apologize if you didn't appreciate my way of expressing it, but I hope those 14 words didn't ruin the entire 750+ word piece for you.
Jose
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Autopia.
PhotoDave219
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Then I'd put that in your lede. You and I both know that's a bigger story than Universal pimping it's ridership, Frozen, or anything Seaworld is doing. Attendance at Universal passing a Disney park is huge and needs to be played that way.
As for the other stuff, I'll drop it. We're going to have to agree to disagree.
RSoxNo1
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Some of those aren't close. Buzz at 800 per hour for example.
PhotoDave219
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Thought so.