Disneyland Reopening Speculation Superthread

[disneychrista]

Hey, look!

It's almost as though they have eyes & ears on us

 

[theluckyrabbit]

... I know Orange County’s #’s are out of control. I’m just going bonkers ...

See the quote below for some encouraging news from today. Hang in there.

Well, OC broke the 100 barrier today!

98.6/100,000

5.9% positive

Day 1/3

 

[Aurora0427]

I don’t mean liberate Disneyland, but I do ... I’m one of those who has been trying to be “good” during Covid. Worked outside the home the whole time, but other than that, essential travel only. I’m going mad!!!!
DLR trip planned for mid October (cause I’m going mad.) I know Orange County’s #’s are out of control. I’m just going bonkers. Only have 4 days to work with including travel, so DLR is the better option. Left WDW 10 days before they closed. Now I am obsessed with DLR because it’s still closed ... and I am mad. As in The Hatter. Ok, rant over ...

Orange County’s numbers haven’t been “out of control” for awhile now. Define out of control. Texas having a 24% positivity rate at one point was out of control. OC has been trending super close to the 100 per 100,000 mark for over a week now. Today they were under. Keep it up OC!

 

[DeterminedOne]

Orange County’s numbers haven’t been “out of control” for awhile now. Define out of control. Texas having a 24% positivity rate at one point was out of control. OC has been trending super close to the 100 per 100,000 mark for over a week now. Today they were under. Keep it up OC!

I define out of control as too high to reopen the parks ...

 

[Aurora0427]

I define out of control as too high to reopen the parks ...

Welp. I guess it all really does depend on your definition of out of control. I definitely don’t consider theme parks not being able to open out of control, especially in California given the incredibly strict standards regarding reopening compared with other states, and the actual data. But we can agree to disagree!

 

[disneychrista]

I define out of control as too high to reopen the parks ...

I’ll agree that California as a whole got out of control. But OC went from being really bad to pretty darn good considering. The spread has now moved north where thing are now out of control. My county went from daily average of about 5 in June to about 15 right now.

Theme parks not opening are a symptom of CALIFORNIA as a whole not OC specifically.

 

[DLgal]

So, I hate to be a Debbie Downer this early in the morning, but I have some bad news. I was talking to my husband this morning about reopening things. He works at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot (Boot Camp) in San Diego as the Operations Officer, specifically dealing with Covid related issues right now, drafting plans and policies related to that. He told me that they received official communications from the Office of the Governor of CA for planning purposes to advise their ITT/Marine Corps Community Services (this is basically the travel, recreation and entertainment department, or to the layperson, the base travel agent/ticket seller).

Even though he doesn't work for that department, he is in charge of developing protocols for base recreation and community outreach plans.

The official guidance said that theme.parks in CA will not be expected to reopen until the window January-April 2021. They did mention that is *current* guidance and that new guidance would be issued "soon" that could potentially "affect the timeline" but that they should use Jan-April for planning purposes.

 

[Halloweenqueen]

Wow, disappointed but not surprised. There goes my last chance for a 2020 trip in December. I wish they would just announce it at this point.

 

[ycsteves]

So, I hate to be a Debbie Downer this early in the morning, but I have some bad news. I was talking to my husband this morning about reopening things. He works at the Marine Corps Boot Camp in San Diego as the Operations Officer, specifically dealing with Covid related issues right now, drafting plans and policies related to that. He told me that they received official communications from the office of the Governor of CA for planning purposes to advise their ITT/Marine Corps Community Services (this is basically the travel, recreation and entertainment department, or to the layperson, the base travel agent/ticket seller).

Even though he doesn't work for that department, he is in charge of developing protocols for base recreation and community outreach plans.

The official guidance said that theme.parks in CA will not be expected to reopen until the window January-April 2021. They did mention that is *current* guidance and that new guidance would be issued "soon" that could potentially "affect the timeline" but that they should use Jan-April for planning purposes.

I’m just glad we have some kind of window! Only 5 more months, and they will go by in a flash. And even better, it could open sooner with new guidance! This is all kind of good news because it’s better than not knowing anything at all!!! Thank you for this!

 

[midnight star]

So, I hate to be a Debbie Downer this early in the morning, but I have some bad news. I was talking to my husband this morning about reopening things. He works at the Marine Corps Boot Camp in San Diego as the Operations Officer, specifically dealing with Covid related issues right now, drafting plans and policies related to that. He told me that they received official communications from the office of the Governor of CA for planning purposes to advise their ITT/Marine Corps Community Services (this is basically the travel, recreation and entertainment department, or to the layperson, the base travel agent/ticket seller).

Even though he doesn't work for that department, he is in charge of developing protocols for base recreation and community outreach plans.

The official guidance said that theme.parks in CA will not be expected to reopen until the window January-April 2021. They did mention that is *current* guidance and that new guidance would be issued "soon" that could potentially "affect the timeline" but that they should use Jan-April for planning purposes.

If that does happen, I wonder what will happen to local economies who rely on theme parks for revenue...

 

[cruisehopeful]

The official guidance said that theme.parks in CA will not be expected to reopen until the window January-April 2021. They did mention that is *current* guidance and that new guidance would be issued "soon" that could potentially "affect the timeline" but that they should use Jan-April for planning purposes.

I do have to say as someone living in southern California, it does make the most logical sense considering what all has been closed all this time and the sheer number of people just living in the area.

 

[gottalovepluto]

If that does happen, I wonder what will happen to local economies who rely on theme parks for revenue...

Dead, many businesses will be gone forever. I expect a number of the small DLR hotels will not open their doors again.

If this guidance is still accurate (if they got it today it should be but the new guidance, whatever the heck that means, comes next week) it is incredibly stupid of Disneyland to have been putting any money into COVID improvements in their DLR parks. For instance the plastic shields around entrance turnstiles will be subject to months of weather so they will need to be maintained/replaced by the time they get to open- or won’t even be needed. Waste of money either way.

Iger is in the governor’s business reopening consulting group. Newsom name dropped him last week in a press conference. He should know what CA is going to do, to keep spending this money on DLR when it might not open until Q2 2021 is quite irresponsible...

 

[Aurora0427]

So, I hate to be a Debbie Downer this early in the morning, but I have some bad news. I was talking to my husband this morning about reopening things. He works at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot (Boot Camp) in San Diego as the Operations Officer, specifically dealing with Covid related issues right now, drafting plans and policies related to that. He told me that they received official communications from the Office of the Governor of CA for planning purposes to advise their ITT/Marine Corps Community Services (this is basically the travel, recreation and entertainment department, or to the layperson, the base travel agent/ticket seller).

Even though he doesn't work for that department, he is in charge of developing protocols for base recreation and community outreach plans.

The official guidance said that theme.parks in CA will not be expected to reopen until the window January-April 2021. They did mention that is *current* guidance and that new guidance would be issued "soon" that could potentially "affect the timeline" but that they should use Jan-April for planning purposes.

This completely sucks if this holds. We are moving back to Texas in March and I really wanted one last trip, even heavily modified, before we left Southern California.

Many of those small local hotels like Tropicana, Park Vue Inn, Candy Cane Inn etc. won’t survive a shutdown that long. I think this is complete overkill. Florida has successfully opened theme parks without massive outbreaks. So have the parks overseas. I don’t know. I’m not an advocate for opening too early, but this just seems like way too much. All of those poor businesses and the local economy. So many lives ruined and jobs lost.

 

[Aurora0427]

Iger is in the governor’s business reopening consulting group. Newsom name dropped him last week in a press conference. He should know what CA is going to do, to keep spending this money on DLR when it might not open until Q2 2021 is quite irresponsible...

This is what I don’t understand. Iger has to know what’s actually going on.

 

[gottalovepluto]

So, I hate to be a Debbie Downer this early in the morning, but I have some bad news. I was talking to my husband this morning about reopening things. He works at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot (Boot Camp) in San Diego as the Operations Officer, specifically dealing with Covid related issues right now, drafting plans and policies related to that. He told me that they received official communications from the Office of the Governor of CA for planning purposes to advise their ITT/Marine Corps Community Services (this is basically the travel, recreation and entertainment department, or to the layperson, the base travel agent/ticket seller).

Even though he doesn't work for that department, he is in charge of developing protocols for base recreation and community outreach plans.

The official guidance said that theme.parks in CA will not be expected to reopen until the window January-April 2021. They did mention that is *current* guidance and that new guidance would be issued "soon" that could potentially "affect the timeline" but that they should use Jan-April for planning purposes.

As bummering as that, albeit potentially, is thanks for sharing

 

[WonkaKid]

Folks, I’m confused. I’ve heard that there’s hope for a Sept opening and then — and this is the part that I don’t follow — 2021 seems to pop up out of nowhere. What am I missing?

 

[gottalovepluto]

This is what I don’t understand. Iger has to know what’s actually going on.

Like there could be some “what we discuss is secret and you can’t make business decisions based off of it” clause to being part of the group?

 

[Aurora0427]

Like there could be some “what we discuss is secret and you can’t make business decisions based off of it” clause to being part of the group?

Maybe. Maybe he can’t share anything they discuss among the task force with Disney. So he can’t tell them “stop preparing for an opening that’s not happening for literally months.”

 

[gottalovepluto]

Folks, I’m confused. I’ve heard that there’s hope for a Sept opening and then — and this is the part that I don’t follow — 2021 seems to pop up out of nowhere. What am I missing?

In summary: we know nothing



Rumor mill has been overtime this week. We’ve heard Sept and Nov (neither time was a source cited) and now 2021 for CA theme parks in general with a source with the caveat new guidance coming soon could render that info null and void.

 

[Snap Crackle Pop]

Folks, I’m confused. I’ve heard that there’s hope for a Sept opening and then — and this is the part that I don’t follow — 2021 seems to pop up out of nowhere. What am I missing?

You’re missing that no one knows what is going on and that a September opening is super unrealistic.