September 14, 2020

Crowd Levels: What do you notice with lower crowds? Are crowds (and wait times) increasing? New hours and holiday elements at Walt Disney World. All this and more!

53 minutes

Episode 024 ... Week in review of September 12th 2020 covering the following discussion topics ...

1) News of the week:
- November brings New park hours at Walt Disney World (Source: Disney Tourist Blog)
- Walt Disney World Resort Holidays start Nov 6th (Source: Disney Parks Blog)
- Hershey Park announces Halloween and Christmas plans (Source: Hershey Park on Twitter)
- Universal may have some HHN houses after all, and it looks like the talk of demise of Voyage of the Little Mermaid was premature
- Disney CFO highlights construction priorities (Source: Blog Mickey)
Topic Starts @2:16 ...

2) Five Things I Noticed in the Empty Disney Parks
- Article by Spencer Wright discusses things that he has noticed in the parks with the lower crowds that he never did before (source: WDW Info)
Topic Starts @21:54 ...

3) Crowds are increasing and Disney is courting more ... do they need to add more to make it worthwhile to come if no longer "empty parks"?
- Labor Day weekend brought the crowds, and other days have been much more crowded than when Universal and Disney first reopened - and Disney is ramping up their advertising to attract even more crowds
- What would be our "wish list" of added benefits to off set these increased crowds?
Source: discussion on DISboards
Topic Starts @33:30 ...

4) What to do with a problem called "Rise of the Resistance
reliability"?
- Rise of the Resistance is an amazing attraction, but it continues to be plagued by technical issued causing frustration in the parks
- What can be done? or Should anything done?
Topic Starts @44:59 ...

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Topic Starts @50:47 ...

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