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Wednesday, October 16, 2024
Lightning Lane Premier Pass Coming to Walt Disney World
Ride Closures & Delayed Openings Report
Disney dropped a few bits of news recently concerning their upcoming renovations and new attractions. While these things are exciting, there is often the downside, which includes attractions currently going down for maintenance or going away entirely. Since these items are all at least tangentially related and I didn't think any one individually deserved its own post, we'll look at them all here.
Thursday, September 26, 2024
Magic Kingdom Wait Times - The Tron Effect?
A few weeks ago, we posted about Tron: Lightcycle Run dropping its virtual queue (VQ) at the Magic Kingdom and going to a normal standby system. Now that we have a couple of weeks worth of data, I wanted to see how this major change has affected wait times at the park as a whole, as well as whether Tron has become the new "big bad" at Magic Kingdom, with the highest wait time throughout any given day.
My supposition in that earlier post was that Tron would indeed become the attraction with the highest wait time in the park, supplanting Seven Dwarfs Mine Train, and would probably remain this way for years, until at least the new Cars rides if not Villains Land opened. I also posited that the average wait time at the park as a whole would increase, as heretofore there was no posted wait time for Tron, meaning that even if a lot of people rode it in any given day, it wouldn't get included in the crowd level posts because there was no way to simply wait for it. Throwing a major ride to the top of the wait times board would likely raise the average wait time since then (or so I figured).
Saturday, September 7, 2024
Tron Lightcycle Run Dropping Virtual Queue
Wednesday, September 4, 2024
Disney Villains Stage Show Coming to Hollywood Studios
Concept art courtesy of Disney Parks Blog |
In a somewhat surprising announcement, Disney posted about a new villains-themed stage show coming to Hollywood Studios in summer 2025. This post will talk about what little we know about the show, what it's replacing and how this fits into all of the recent D23 announcements for the future of the parks.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Cars Attractions to Replace Rivers of America
Artwork courtesy of Disney Parks Blog |
This past weekend, Disney unveiled a bunch of blockbuster announcements at the annual D23 event in Anaheim. It was easy to come out of that event with an air of positivity, as these projects will generally push the parks forward. My next post was actually intended to be a follow up on the Villains Land announcement, a victory lap of sorts for a project that was almost universally lauded.
One of the things about events like D23, however, is that they give you all of the good news but rarely any of the bad. In the case of Villains Land, we already know that it is going to be "beyond Big Thunder" at Magic Kingdom, in an area that wasn't utilized as park space. Some of the other new attractions didn't mention where specifically they were going. There's still a possibility that the Monsters Inc. Land at Hollywood Studios, for example, will lead to a closer of the beloved Muppetvision 3D.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
D23 Announcements - Blue Sky Becomes Reality
All artwork courtesy of Disney Parks Blog |
The annual D23 convention is taking place in Anaheim this weekend. Disney always has a ton of stuff to announce, and plenty of celebrities to trot out to help with these announcements. There were already a ton of things announced for the entertainment division the other day, but for the purposes of this blog, the real focus is on the Parks and Experiences division, which had its major showcase last night
Even more specifically, this blog focuses on Walt Disney World. There were a bunch of exciting announcements for Disneyland (with their 70th anniversary coming up next year) as well as the international parks and the cruise line. But we're only going to look at the things that impact Disney World, and there were a bunch of bombshells this year.
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Disney recently rolled out a new service called Genie, for both Walt Disney World and Disneyland. There are a lot of parts to Genie, s...
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The long awaited Epcot completion is finally at an end! Mostly - CommuniCore Hall is still (inexplicably) not open, but mostly everything el...
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We’re going to be looking at park strategies for all four of the parks at Walt Disney World. My previous strategy guides assumed t...