Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[CarolynFH]

honestly even worse as how you got to this spot (trying to avoid spoilers) is very critical to the story and the immersion ... hard to describe if you haven't done the attraction yet

putting scene in spoilers tag for those that want to know

Spoiler

They walk you backstage through a door and you go right into the hanger in the start destroyer ... so you skip all the pre shows and the part where you are leaving the planet and then are taken captive, etc.

And I was sad because my family missed a scene at the end on their first trip through on Monday - and happy that they saw the whole thing the second time around, on Thursday. I guess I didn't know how lucky we were!

 

[rpb718]

honestly even worse as how you got to this spot (trying to avoid spoilers) is very critical to the story and the immersion ... hard to describe if you haven't done the attraction yet

putting scene in spoilers tag for those that want to know

Spoiler

They walk you backstage through a door and you go right into the hanger in the start destroyer ... so you skip all the pre shows and the part where you are leaving the planet and then are taken captive, etc.

The lack of critical story continuity sucks. I can see why they are still running it - better to annoy several than to tee off everyone that got a BG. I'll still bet guest services heard about it plenty from the cognoscenti.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

The lack of critical story continuity sucks. I can see why they are still running it - better to annoy several than to tee off everyone that got a BG. I'll still bet guest services heard about it plenty from the cognoscenti.

and I think my New Year's resolution will be to use the word "cognoscenti" more often

 

[Jrb1979]

Even without the halt I didn’t necessarily think it would be done for October 2021. The whole planned out thing that they are halting from Jan-Oct. just seems one dumb and two pointless.

Its purely financial reasons for the delay in working on it. They also don't plan on a big spectacle for the 50th due to the pandemic. It will basically be a repeat of the 40th with banners, cupcakes, merchandise and some type of further castle makeover. At least Ratatouille will be open.

 

[rteetz]

Its purely financial reasons for the delay in working on it. They also don't plan on a big spectacle for the 50th due to the pandemic. It will basically be a repeat of the 40th with banners, cupcakes, merchandise and some type of further castle makeover. At least Ratatouille will be open.

Didn’t know we had an insider on our hands here. We don’t know yet what the 50th will look like. Disney barely knows because of the pandemic everything is in flux.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Its purely financial reasons for the delay in working on it. They also don't plan on a big spectacle for the 50th due to the pandemic. It will basically be a repeat of the 40th with banners, cupcakes, merchandise and some type of further castle makeover. At least Ratatouille will be open.

well, as long as there are cupcakes ....

 

[Jrb1979]

Didn’t know we had an insider on our hands here. We don’t know yet what the 50th will look like. Disney barely knows because of the pandemic everything is in flux.

No we don't know 100% what it will look like. Many insiders have said a lot is being cut due to the pandemic.

 

[hereforthechurros]

They plexiglassed Frozen?!! Ugg

I see it happened early Nov. I do not recall it on my mid-Nov trip so I guess they were still testing then. Seems like such an awful ride to that to

They’d plexiglass you and everyone you know if they had the chance!

But seriously it is bad on frozen :-/

 

[rteetz]

No we don't know 100% what it will look like. Many insiders have said a lot is being cut due to the pandemic.

But plans aren’t finalized either yet.

 

[osufeth24]

Not sure if old news, but saw its being reported now the epcot monorail will not be running when PH returns

 

[rteetz]

NBA G League to Begin Season in “Disney Bubble” at Walt Disney World

 

[rpb718]

Not sure if old news, but saw its being reported now the epcot monorail will not be running when PH returns

I'm unaware if there's any work needed on the MK<->EP line, but think this was expected anyway. Even if they planned to start they'd only be running it from 2PM onward. I think they want to get a sense of how many folks actually hop from MK to EPCOT via the busses first - but resort stays haven't been selling like hotcakes for post-holiday stays and January and February looks to be a mostly low time (with the possible exclusion of weekends and/or holidays). I'll bet when they do start the MK<->EP monorail it will be weekends only.

 

[Tiki Birdland]

... resort stays haven't been selling like hotcakes for post-holiday stays and January and February looks to be a mostly low time (with the possible exclusion of weekends and/or holidays).

We've been watching videos and reading the boards here. Between TWDC dumping MBs and luggage tags, plexiglass, long lines and social distancing issues, I don't really see the value in a trip in 2021 either. Sure wish we hadn't postponed our 2019 trip (kids' summer activities wouldn't line up). We cancelled two trips, 1 to DL and 1 to WDW in 2020. I think we'll sit out 2021 and watch if any of the items above get fixed.

We're going on vacation this summer. Just haven't decided where yet.

 

[rteetz]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1344427581517537282

 

[rteetz]

We've been watching videos and reading the boards here. Between TWDC dumping MBs and luggage tags, plexiglass, long lines and social distancing issues, I don't really see the value in a trip in 2021 either. Sure wish we hadn't postponed our 2019 trip (kids' summer activities wouldn't line up). We cancelled two trips, 1 to DL and 1 to WDW in 2020. I think we'll sit out 2021 and watch if any of the items above get fixed.

We're going on vacation this summer. Just haven't decided where yet.

They aren't dumping magicbands, you just no longer get them free with a resort stay. Luggage tags you just won't get in the mail but you'll still get them with a package. Long lines are there regardless.

 

[jade1]

They’d plexiglass you and everyone you know if they had the chance!

But seriously it is bad on frozen :-/

You can enjoy it from home without plexiglass, other than your monitor glass that is.

 

[DGsAtBLT]

I just saw the FEA plexiglass on instagram. Wow that is obnoxious with the drips on water rides.

 

[birostick]

RotR had an elevator down for about 2 weeks along with the limited capacity. Once they fixed it and put plexiglass it's been doing great (knock on wood)

holy crap, this makes a ton of sense now. I was wondering why they were only running 1 vehicle in each room when i was there a few weeks ago. I also didn't see empty vehicles when we started to move out of that room.

 

[StarGirl11]

Universal Parks tagged as at capacity 30mins before their official opening time

https://twitter.com/x/status/1344262897342537728

This raises a question for me since I know that the UO Twitter said they reached capacity at 8:10. Which I get overall is just semantics but that’s a huge difference for someone trying to get in.

I don’t know why Disney has to require stupid reservations!!!! Universal isn’t, why can’t they be more like them???

Honestly wish they had done something similar to Cedar Point. CP had reservations but then stopped them when crowds were not in high enough demand for it. Then brought it back for Halloween because they’ve hit capacity before on a normal year during that time. People threw a fit in some of the FB groups I was in. But it ended up paying off when CP had to stop handing out reservations one weekend due to capacity restrictions.

Even temporarily bringing it in for this week would have been better. Would people have whined? Yes. But hey at least you would know that day your going to get in instead of this weird question game there insisting on playing.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

This raises a question for me since I know that the UO Twitter said they reached capacity at 8:10. Which I get overall is just semantics but that’s a huge difference for someone trying to get in.

I think it might have been up.om the arrival signs early and then officially, at the gates, a bit later stated it was at capacity

So maybe the road sign was taking into account those in line ahead of the sign? Like if you are just to this sign at this point it will be at capacity but the time you get to the gate?