Orange County Commissioners vote & rumor leaks...

[ColoradoDreamin]

That's not true at all...exercise is the biggest reason. This is an area I do know well. A runner can eat just about anything they want and not gain a pount...including your Big Mac. Kids today don't even have to participate in gym class due to lawsuits. In Kenya, many schools (I can't say all, but I know a large majority from reports I have) not only have to run/walk to school, the first thing many do is run a mile to start school. Something like that would not be allowed here. I think Wall-E is a great example of what is happening in America (not to that extent). People are doing less and less. Ask anybody that loses their remote, or their cell phone.

 

[Eoghann]

There is rumored that universal may be looking at Skytran. If it proves out and they get right of ways It could prove interesting.
http://money.cnn.com/2015/10/23/smallbusiness/skytran-air-taxis/index.html

Cost to build 6-8 million dollars a mile
Speed up 150 MPH
Point to Point travel. The pod goes onto a station spur out of the way of traffic flow.

It's a long shot granted. This could be a game changer.

Universal have been more amibitous than Disney of late but I still don't see this happening. It would be so much cheaper, easier and quicker just to run some buses.

 

[Eoghann]

That's not true at all...exercise is the biggest reason. This is an area I do know well. A runner can eat just about anything they want and not gain a pount...including your Big Mac. Kids today don't even have to participate in gym class due to lawsuits. In Kenya, many schools (I can't say all, but I know a large majority from reports I have) not only have to run/walk to school, the first thing many do is run a mile to start school. Something like that would not be allowed here. I think Wall-E is a great example of what is happening in America (not to that extent). People are doing less and less. Ask anybody that loses their remote, or their cell phone.

Sorry but that's just factually inaccurate. Again do the math. Burning just 500 calories requires:

• Approximately 240 pushups
• Approximately 300 squats
• Walk 5 miles
• Bike 20 miles
• Swim for 40 minutes

You cannot compare a professional or competing amateur athlete with a regular person. They spend hours daily in intensive exercise. Not just running around playing soccer for an hour or so in the afternoon. That has never been a normal level of activity for people in our entire history.

 

[ColoradoDreamin]

No, it depends on your metabolism rate. That is for the avg person that does nothing. As you exercise that metabolism rate changes, and thus your numbers are way off. You can make numbers say anything you want, and that's what you just did.

 

[ColoradoDreamin]

I eat 5000 calories a day, eat mcdonalds on occasion but I am not overweight. I am not even a marathon runner...I run pretty typical. I guess I must just be a freak then...like so many others. Same is true of the thousands I coached too I guess, and the hundreds involved in the running clubs I am in. Really, those numbers are so misleading.

 

[ColoradoDreamin]

But really enough of that talk...we should move on. Not good for thread

 

[Eoghann]

No, it depends on your metabolism rate. That is for the avg person that does nothing. As you exercise that metabolism rate changes, and thus your numbers are way off. You can make numbers say anything you want, and that's what you just did.

Oh god.

That's just not true. We're talking basic biology here. Increasing your muscle mass will have a small impact on your metabolic rate, but it's essentially negligible. If you put on an extra 10lbs of muscle you'd burn an extra 60 calories a day over the equivalent amount of fat. High intensity exercise will achieve a brief after affect where your resting metabolism is higher than your basal metabolic rate, but that isn't sustained 24 hours a day. There is no magic way to increase your metabolism.

Meanwhile portion sizes are larger and there is far more sugar in our diet than their used to be so we are consuming far more calories. Those are actual causes of diabetes and weight increase.

Are we less active? Yes, statistics say we are as a society. Are the things you gave as proof actually proof of this? No.

 

[ColoradoDreamin]

Sorry, we definitely disagree on that one. (not just about increasing muscle mass either)No doubt you can increase your metabolism. Lots of research on this now. But we might as well agree to disagree or take it offline, cause it shouldn't go here.

 

[minnie-apple-mouse]

So if your surmise is correct...and they'll reduce $140 day tickets down to $120 and $120 down to $110...do you think that will stem the tide to a recession?

I'd bet no...because like it or not (management hates it)...the place is fueled by the masses...not the economically elite. That's doesn't mean everyone...but it means slot more with budget awareness than not.

Even Mickey can't stop that.

I'd have to see them maintain/boost attendance during economic constriction before I'd believe it.

Agreed.

The masses would be drastically affected (much further than a WDW vacation), and $20 one way or the other on ticket prices would indeed be irrelevant.

 

[minnie-apple-mouse]

As for the rumor-Hoping its Middle Earth, and those Jetson cars back and forth would be cool.

Looks like about 2 miles and would be considered a ride in itself kinda.

 

[rteetz]

Once those options are available it becomes easier to subscribe this way than messing with cable or satellite and has the advantage of you picking the exact bundle you want instead of me for example stuck wasting money on ESPN and other sports channels I would never watch.

One of the biggest reasons we have directv and time warner cable is sports. We have a media room in our basement with three tvs for sports watching pleasures.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Sorry, we definitely disagree on that one. (not just about increasing muscle mass either)No doubt you can increase your metabolism. Lots of research on this now. But we might as well agree to disagree or take it offline, cause it shouldn't go here.

I agree here...

Since they've basically mapped the human body down to the quark level now - even though they'll
Never get the brain because is the most mysterious thing we have ever seen on this planet - there is much knowledge as to how activity affects the body.

It's not a matter of being "born lazy"...the positive effects of activity are of great benefit to almost everyone...regardless of predisposed ideas about what is "right" and "not right" for different people...

Now back to the Doritos...

 

[Planogirl]

I agree here...

Since they've basically mapped the human body down to the quark level now - even though they'll
Never get the brain because is the most mysterious thing we have ever seen on this planet - there is much knowledge as to how activity affects the body.

It's not a matter of being "born lazy"...the positive effects of activity are of great benefit to almost everyone...regardless of predisposed ideas about what is "right" and "not right" for different people...

Now back to the Doritos...

Not to mention that there is proof that certain foods can affect people more than others regardless of calorie count. And one of those foods seems to often be Doritos.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

Not to mention that there is proof that certain foods can affect people more than others regardless of calorie count. And one of those foods seems to often be Doritos.

That's because they are a thin layer of crack cocaine dipped in synthetic neon orange "nacho cheese"

"Love chips"...I say

 

[Jesskamb]

How close are those to the actual parks though? We've never stayed at Universal jsit make our way there either from a friends house or an on property Dosney stay. I always thought it was akin to Epcot area resorts where the boats aren't 100% needed but are nice. Are they 100% needed or just a convenance? Same for Cabana Bay? Is the bus 100% needed or just a convenance? Very different opperating stuctures if they aren't needed but offered versus absolutely needed.

They do have a walkway that goes right to CityWalk from Cabana Bay, we did it one morning and it was a really nice walk but pretty long. At the end of the day there's a 1% chance I'd bother with that, haha, so the bus was VERY necessary. Can't speak for the other ones, though the Cabana Bay walkway goes right past the Portofino (I think? It's one of the resorts...) one so it's obviously got a path right to CityWalk too on top of it's boats.

 

[Planogirl]

They do have a walkway that goes right to CityWalk from Cabana Bay, we did it one morning and it was a really nice walk but pretty long. At the end of the day there's a 1% chance I'd bother with that, haha, so the bus was VERY necessary. Can't speak for the other ones, though the Cabana Bay walkway goes right past the Portofino (I think? It's one of the resorts...) one so it's obviously got a path right to CityWalk too on top of it's boats.

It goes by the Royal Pacific I think? I hope so because we will be staying at Cabana Bay and I hope to spend some time at the Royal Pacific.

I'm told that the buses are quick and efficient. I do kind of wish that they would have somehow extended the waterway but there's that space issue again.

 

[Jesskamb]

It goes by the Royal Pacific I think? I hope so because we will be staying at Cabana Bay and I hope to spend some time at the Royal Pacific.

I'm told that the buses are quick and efficient. I do kind of wish that they would have somehow extended the waterway but there's that space issue again.

Ah, ok! I knew it was some fancy lookin' resort. The buses were very quick! Not like AMAZING quality, basically just big city buses, but they definitely got the job done. They're Cabana specific and ran super, super efficiently while we were there. One time on a Saturday night there was a bit of a line and they actually had standby buses that were more like private, fancy shuttles and we caught one. It was great. They definitely monitored the situation and had the lines moving very quickly from the park end. I don't think we waited longer than 5 minutes any morning either and we were there right around spring break time.

 

[Planogirl]

Ah, ok! I knew it was some fancy lookin' resort. The buses were very quick! Not like AMAZING quality, basically just big city buses, but they definitely got the job done. They're Cabana specific and ran super, super efficiently while we were there. One time on a Saturday night there was a bit of a line and they actually had standby buses that were more like private, fancy shuttles and we caught one. It was great. They definitely monitored the situation and had the lines moving very quickly from the park end. I don't think we waited longer than 5 minutes any morning either and we were there right around spring break time.

Thanks for the bus report. Universal is so far really good at moving people around and this is nice to hear.