Disney Calling...

[capegirl]

Exactly. Something else is up.

I agree. This calls for further speculation.

 

[mom2rtk]

I agree. This calls for further speculation.

Absolutely!

 

[ArielSRL]

For the LIFE of me, I cannot figure out why they lifted the blackout dates on FL resident passes over the Easter break. All of a sudden people with tickets they bought knowing full well they would be blacked out for these dates are now able to go into the system and gobble up fastpasses. Meanwhile Disney is paying people to call other customers who bought tickets they knew would be good over Easter to try to get them to change their long ago planned fastpasses.

Can ANYONE help me explain this?

Someone said they did not lift blackout dates for FL resident passes...its the 3 and 4 day select tickets. Ones that need to be bought, not ones that residents already have. There was a thread about it.

 

[mom2rtk]

Someone said they did not lift blackout dates for FL resident passes...its the 3 and 4 day select tickets. Ones that need to be bought, not ones that residents already have. There was a thread about it.

I just saw that. But honestly, it's still quite unprecedented for Disney to remove ANY blackout dates over Easter like that. I still stand by my speculation.

 

[ArielSRL]

I just saw that. But honestly, it's still quite unprecedented for Disney to remove ANY blackout dates over Easter like that. I still stand by my speculation.

To me...it just looks like a money grab....but again, just speculation.

 

[prestoncaldwell]

This makes a lot of sense. When I hear high crowd levels, I get a mental image of throngs of people on Main Street bumping into each other and that is enough to send me in another direction. I almost can't get past that image to even think about trying to get on rides or to find a table to eat. For those who plan to go during this time, god bless ya.

I wish there was another option for us...

Educating out children is overrated, anyway LOL

 

[prestoncaldwell]

I was wondering too if this was some kind of strange test. Doing the math, MK had a capacity of about 92,000 before the new Fantasyland, and isn't it over 100,000 (seems like 112,000 is in the back of my mind somewhere) since the new Fantasyland opened? It would seem like the number of phone calls which would have to be made to actually make a difference in the feel of the crowd level would be huge if it really has anything to do with staffing inside the park- for the staffing to make that number of phone calls (assuming each one takes 3 minutes, that would be 20 an hour per person), might as well staff the park. Could be it is not a test and that they are trying to keep it to a capacity crowd to avoid having to turn people away with FP+, or as they seem to be calling people with later FP+, maybe they are just calling people that have FP+ booked that they think are likely to show up at a time that they will be turned away from MK based on capacity and they really are trying to do something nice for the customer- I would like to think that it is case, but with all the recent changes at WDW and DL that take things away from the customer unfortunately, I am finding that a little harder to believe at this point in time. Now, 5 years ago maybe I would have been more inclined to believe that one.

The only thing that makes sense to me is that they ARE trying to look after those late FP+ holders to try to head off the inevitable beef they face if the park goes to a Phase 4 close. Still, though, why would they have lifted blackouts for any special tickets at all if they foresee a hard close or anything close too it. In the balance, absolutely nothing makes flawless sense about these calls.

 

[DebbieB]

I haven't read all the pages so this may have been suggested before. Is it possible they have too many FP+ out there because of a programming error?

 

[prestoncaldwell]

I haven't read all the pages so this may have been suggested before. Is it possible they have too many FP+ out there because of a programming error?

In cases where the guests have evening FP, the CM is not asking them to give up their FP. She is asking them to agree to come to the park no earlier than 5PM.

 

[ArwenMarie]

I haven't read all the pages so this may have been suggested before. Is it possible they have too many FP+ out there because of a programming error?

Absolutely a possibility. They have overbooked other things before.

 

[DVCcurious]

I haven't read all the pages so this may have been suggested before. Is it possible they have too many FP+ out there because of a programming error?

not possible. MDE is a flawless platform that never has any problems.

But even if there was a mistake and to many fp+ were distributed I think Disney wouldn't say anything. The lines won't be moving anyway, so who would notice there are 30% more people in the fp+ queue than usual?

I think the obvious answer is that they're trying to convince people Epcot and Hollywood Studios don't suck and are worth your valuable, limited vacation time.

 

[mom2rtk]

I think the obvious answer is that they're trying to convince people Epcot and Hollywood Studios don't suck and are worth your valuable, limited vacation time.

When the park closes to capacity they have to stop selling tickets. I'm sure that pains them greatly. For every person they get to swap to another park, that's just a bit sooner they can start taking money again.

 

[ArwenMarie]

Forget all of these expansions, they should just build a second MK. Just replicate it, poof, there you go.

 

[ChloesDaddy]

Forget all of these expansions, they should just build a second MK. Just replicate it, poof, there you go.

But make it a mirror image along the Main Street axis to make it different.

 

[AnthonyB]

In cases where the guests have evening FP, the CM is not asking them to give up their FP. She is asking them to agree to come to the park no earlier than 5PM.

This is incorrect. It was suggested to me to change our FP+ to another park due to capacity crowds even though we have evening FP+. After I made it clear I didn't want to change, then I was told to arrive at rope drop or in the evening to avoid being shut out.

 

[bryanb]

Forget all of these expansions, they should just build a second MK. Just replicate it, poof, there you go.

Haha, it's a great idea. I think there's a similar park that's just like it somewhere... just not close by.