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The other thing to remember is that reopening the restaurant, hospitality, and entertainment industry nationwide is going to be an absolutely massive logistical endeavour that could easily cause massive shortages in the labor, food, and supply chain. Disney World at least will probably have to be reopened in stages, which means reduced capacity and services during the runup period and Disney probably wants to give themselves an opening for blackout dates so that the resort isn't overwhelmed. Universal is more likely to reopen all of their parks and retail at the same time, but the hotels will probably reopen in stages there as well. Elsewhere, I can definitely see Cedar Fair and other seasonal parks simply choosing not to open for the season because they haven't hired and trained their seasonal staff and if this rolls into July they may well not want to try to run up for one month before schools starts. I can almost guarantee that seasonal waterparks won't open this summer at all, especially if there's concern about keeping them sanitary.
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couldcareless posted:The best thing you can do during all of this is ignore everything the president says and focus on your governor and health officials. The best thing you can do during all of this is get your essentials and go watch porn at home while collecting unemployment.
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I think the problem is that Disney knows there’s no end in sight so they’re conserving their cash on hand.
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Primeval is probably going because they couldn’t find a way to modify the restraints comfortably after a kid fell out of a similar model in the UK a while back.
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chitoryu12 posted:I went to Epcot today. I'm going to post the controversial opinion that the parks are actually safer than your average trip to the grocery store at this point. Capacity limits mean there's very few people in the first place (I can't remember the last time I saw so few guests), there's aggressive sanitizing and use of plexiglass around cast members, and the guests at large are....actually doing good? I saw one person break the mask rules about having to be stationary when eating or drinking, and cast members were grabbing people to get them to mask up if they tried to walk off without one. Everyone was following distancing markers for queues and even children were keeping their masks on (probably because any brat who would throw a tantrum and fling their mask off wouldn't get to the park in the first place). Grandparents were making sure the children were masked before walking away from the table. They're even turning away guests in the parking lot if they don't have acceptable masks (they don't accept things like bandannas or shemaghs) and directing them to a vending machine with acceptable masks for $2. This actually doesn't surprise me, all the nutters rushed in the first week so now it's the normal people that understand getting kicked out for noncompliance means you're probably not getting back in anytime this week.
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Jul 26, 2020 23:28
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Craptacular! posted:Why the gently caress was this Resident Evil poo poo happening at Disney Wait, are you telling me Disney DOESN'T practice human sacrifice as a routine business strategy?
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Hands down it’s gonna be the best attraction at IOA. (see username lol)
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Sep 3, 2020 23:10
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Good. Universal's known that poo poo was dangerous from day 1 because they tried to cram it into the space available instead of finding a more appropriate attraction.
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Sep 14, 2020 18:54
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Empress Brosephine posted:Here in the north east you just go to a drive up and don't need a reservation is it different elsewhere lol yes
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Sep 21, 2020 22:45
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Desantis is worried about the lack of sales tax revenue affecting his ability to give lucrative government contracts to people that supported his campaign.
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Tim Whatley posted:https://twitter.com/UniversalORL/status/1310683903888326661 This new attraction definitely won't have persistent technical problems, tons of downtime, and huge capacity issues because there's no way they'd buy another ride from Intami- nevermind.
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Sep 28, 2020 22:54
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Dugong posted:I’m sure it’ll have initial downtime issues but there’s far fewer systems on this coaster and it isn’t going to have 9 trains running at the same time or however many Hagrid’s manages. Lol
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Sep 29, 2020 12:49
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Boxman posted:If I could fix one relatively meaningless thing about Six Flags, it would be to fix their completely nonsensical naming scheme. They have six different roller coasters with the name "Goliath," and they aren't even sort of related. 3 different B&M hypercoasters, a Batman clone, a wooden coaster, and a giant inverted boomerang. This is not limited to coasters or unthemed rides. There are also 2 different Harley Quinn Spinsanities. One of them is a Tourbillon, which is called Cyborg in another one of their parks. Also there are two just plain Spinsanities that are themselves different flats. It's mind boggling, although it does provide a decent excuse to learn the trade names of all these things.  Technically, Goliath at SFMM was designed and build by Giovanola, not B&M who had left the company ten years earlier. Interestingly, Giovanola did a lot of the fabrication for B&M's early designs before they opened their own Euro production facility and basically hired Clermont Steel Fabricators full time to do their NA and some of their Asia production. It's actually really interesting how small the attraction construction industry is: as another example, one company, Mosely Erection, has put up every major ride at Carowinds since Drop Tower in the mid nineties and has also put up a lot of the big rides at SFOG, Dollywood, KD, and BGW.
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Sep 30, 2020 05:39
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BlueBayou posted:The ride itself does not look like it would appeal to a US audience, its more of a show. Each room takes a few minutes and they don't all have a lot going on. By that standard, 80% of the attractions at Disney parks are just shows. The soundtrack is a huge part of the attraction, so it definitely loses a lot if you don't speak Japanese.
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Oct 9, 2020 21:58
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TV Zombie posted:Also, $15,000 spent for that Matterhorn is a crazy amount to spend. Building materials are insanely expensive right now. Incidentally, I suspect that's what put Epic Universe on hold more than the bottom falling out of the tourism industry.
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Nov 16, 2020 07:51
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The thing that's really annoying about this is that Disney is fighting tooth and nail to make sure Universal/I-Drive/OCCC stay off the network.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Really come a long way since this ad, huh? It's not even that. Disney wants to let someone else figure out the ROW and build out the infrastructure, then pick it up for a song when the company ends up in bankruptcy ten years from now because they can't make their debt service payments. Then they can rebrand it as RideDisney and have a direct high speed link from the airport to the resort. Sharing tracks with Sunrail for an east-west connector throws a huge wrench in the plans, because Sunrail is a public venture that Disney can't control.
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Fluffy Bunnies posted:so all the buildings inside the park are just happily rotting away, poo poo's rusting, and it's gonna be a nightmare to bring both parks back up to normal maintenance? No? Most amusement/theme parks don't run year round anyway and that's never an issue. I'm sure they're still doing regular inspections and maintenance as well as running up certain rides every so often to make sure stuff keeps working the way it's supposed to. It's not like the landscaping and maintenance staff can't perform their jobs while practicing social distancing. Sure, when the state finally gives them permission to reopen there will probably be a week's worth of paint to touch up, lightbulbs to replace, and locks to change because nobody knows where the key to some closet disappeared to, but all that can happen while crews sweep floors, prep food, and stock shelves. This is completely normal for any park that operates seasonally. There's no way Disney (or any other major California park operator, for that matter) is going to abandon hundreds of millions of dollars in attractions. We're not talking about Nara Dreamland here. Coasterphreak fucked around with this message at 08:48 on Dec 2, 2020 |
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Empress Brosephine posted:There's even parks in florida that close for the "winter" yep, because nobody travels between holiday season and tax season
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Empress Brosephine posted:I don't even know how that would work considering the walk to the actual restaurant (like something that isn't immediately accessable from the MK underground) and then the at least twenty minute drive to the resorts. I don't think it'd be that difficult, honestly. Most major food outlets are going to have some kind of backstage access for CMs and food deliveries, all you really gotta do is set up routing. Hell, they already have a system for delivering your purchases to your hotel room, I don't see why they couldn't deliver dinner too. I think the two biggest issues would be a) the full service/sit down places that generally require reservations are only going to have enough food prepped to serve that shift's covers, and b) while park to hotel probably wouldn't be bad, hotel to hotel could be a nightmare. It's a pretty interesting logistical problem.
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Dugong posted:I don’t see how that delivery service works unless they implement a radius from restaurants for delivery. Also don’t hotel rooms massively outnumber restaurants hence why you have to book places months in advance normally? You have to book months in advance because there's only so many seats in a restaurant, made even more limited by social distancing. My guess is Disney is looking to regain some revenue lost from COVID protocols because their food outlets are running waaaaaaay under design volume. Plus, if it's profitable and scales well, it's not like they can't build some ghost kitchens on property. Hell, it's not even a new concept.
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of course your travel planner told you it was okay to go, karen
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tl;dr Intamin will build whatever kind of crazy ride creative dreams up, just don't expect it to work properly for the first season. Gringotts went down a dozen times a day for the first season too. Do not be surprised when this is also the case for Velocicoaster, although it's a much more proven ride system so the technical difficulties should be ironed out in weeks instead of months.
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Zero One posted:Yeah, ask me about working on record breaking Intamin in the 2000s. They're all POS. So either CP or SFGAv. Also, its not that B&M is unwilling to build interesting stuff, it's that they charge through the nose because they insist on doing it, y'know, properly, which comes with a price tag that most parks balk at.
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Boxman posted:I want my remains spread around Magic Kingdom sorry, you'll have to settle for being a permanent part of a building foundation in EU, how does nintendoland sound?
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Bottom Liner posted:I think there's probably a California law saying they can't just hold APs indefinitely if the parks aren't open and fully expect them to return with an increased price when things open. APs will most likely not return to DLR unless they start having issues hitting capacity with day ticket holders, which is unlikely for a very long while even after they can return to 100% capacity.
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Boxman posted:This is the most enthusiastic Disney fans have been for something starting with "Disney discontinues" since...what, the Maliboomer? yeah, because DLR has gone from "a magical experience" to "the place where all the rich locals with kids (or cameras) go to hang out for an annual fee" might as well be a golf club, and good luck getting a tee time
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and the bunk beds are for the two buddies that chipped in on the room
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dunno if there'll be a doorknob to put a sock on, but that probably won't be an issue for most guests
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Empress Brosephine posted:Hall of presidents with muppets is the rumor Find me someone in the hall of presidents that isn't a muppet, I dare you.
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I don't think BGT has a specific fansite, it's generally lumped in with Orlando area parks. Maybe Orlando Theme Park News? Or reddit/rollercoasters.
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I think the problem is that any speculative sci fi future is going to look like something out of a William Gibson novel.
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It's most likely a case of "they're going into the shop for a quick overhaul, they'll be back in a week or two you nerds"
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SteelMentor posted:Obviously it's a blue sky but goddamn that looks fun as hell and wouldn't be the hardest ride in the world to set up and maintain. The Simpsons is just BTTF with a new film and a handful of upgrades, Transformers is just a Spiderman clone with robots and 4K projectors.
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Yeah, all the White House really has to do is order the FAA to ground all passenger flights and order the National Guard to shut down I-95 to passenger vehicles. There'll be a mask mandate within 48 hours.
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The Tim Tracker. I am joking please don't give him clicks
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couldcareless posted:In the most baffling of news updates, Universal removes mobile ordering from most of their restaurants which seems like a weird step backwards Not enough people to run the restaurants.
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Hazo posted:APs looked like they were for sale this morning but it was another false alarm. Disney isn't going back to APs until they're 100% sure they won't have to reduce capacity or shutter the parks outright again.
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BlueBayou posted:Anything past 2 hours and Im probably doing an overnight anyway, so 3+ hours is fine. I just moved to DC and am champing at the bit to hit parks. One of the great things about the eastern seaboard is that a round trip ticket to anything more than four hours away is almost always less than the cost of gas to drive. e: also, I-95 sucks, don't do it. Just trust me. Coasterphreak fucked around with this message at 08:10 on Jun 29, 2021 |
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If you like carousels, I have two words for you: Balboa Park.
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