Cruise and Theme Park Operational Updates due to Coronavirus

[mattpeto]

SWaGS

Do we all think that GE will get it's own show eventually anyway?

 

[Farro]

Do we all think that GE will get it's own show eventually anyway?

Wouldn't that break the theme? Like, how would they work a show into the back-story...

I hope it doesn't, the land has enough of a draw just on it's own.

 

[rteetz]

Do we all think that GE will get it's own show eventually anyway?

No

 

[mattpeto]

No

Might not be a daily thing, but remembered reading that Life Day and a couple of other dates were going to have parties at GE, etc.

 

[rteetz]

Might not be a daily thing, but remembered reading that Life Day and a couple of other dates were going to have parties at GE, etc.

That was said in a SWGE book. As we know things are constantly changing. Entertainment aspects are fairly certain but not a nighttime show.

 

[yulilin3]

Might not be a daily thing, but remembered reading that Life Day and a couple of other dates were going to have parties at GE, etc.

Life day and harvest day have been celebrated by the citizens of batuu but no fireworks or fancy offerings. I doubt we'll see any "spectacular" in the land
Just to add SWaGS ands launch bay were meant to be temporary while GE was being built.
But we all know how temporary things work at Disney (sorcerer hat)

 

[TheMaxRebo]

That was said in a SWGE book. As we know things are constantly changing. Entertainment aspects are fairly certain but not a nighttime show.

Would be neat if they had some ritual or something they did every day - something along the lines of how turning on the lights each night in Cars Land is an "event"

No major show but some more forms of entertainment would be cool

 

[dtrain]

So either there were a bunch of cancelations in the theme park ticket & resort guest buckets, and Disney just got around to updating the calendar, or Disney has once again moved and/or added availability to the buckets for Christmas week. Really hoping for the former rather than the latter.

It's definitely added availability, they are not slowing down because of COVID numbers. WDW and UO both hit capacity today.

 

[skeeter31]

It's definitely added availability, they are not slowing down because of COVID numbers. WDW and UO both hit capacity today.

No, they’re not increasing the availability above 35%. That hasn’t been reported anywhere. And they’ve routinely hit capacity on weekends. But it almost seems like they hold back park cancellations and then re-release them in a bunch instead of having them trickle out.

 

[yulilin3]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1337795994155708417

 

[teach22180]

I read somewhere else that they are no longer seating people with a row between them on the coasters. I came here to find out if that was true and seeing no mention of it. Did I miss that discussion?

 

[TheMaxRebo]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1337795994155708417

I posted in News thread but to add here as well - all Disney parks at capacity as well


https://blogmickey.com/2020/12/disney-world-theme-parks-closed-for-capacity-dec-12/

 

[Lewisc]

Remember the rumor, we are losing two nighttime spectaculars?

RIP already to RoL.

This doesn't bode well for HEA or EF. EF doesn't really count. It really can't be HEA though.

Gut says the rumor was wrong...

Why doesn't EF count? It could have come back until the new show is ready. I think that's the second show

 

[yulilin3]

I posted in News thread but to add here as well - all Disney parks at capacity as well


https://blogmickey.com/2020/12/disney-world-theme-parks-closed-for-capacity-dec-12/

Work will be fun today
Try explaining to oblivious people that shamu stadium is at capacity when they see empty rows

 

[Pyotr]

Wouldn't that break the theme? Like, how would they work a show into the back-story...

I hope it doesn't, the land has enough of a draw just on it's own.

Two words, Yub Nub...

 

[hereforthechurros]

No, they’re not increasing the availability above 35%. That hasn’t been reported anywhere. And they’ve routinely hit capacity on weekends. But it almost seems like they hold back park cancellations and then re-release them in a bunch instead of having them trickle out.

We only learned about capacity numbers when Chapek confirmed it. They could absolutely quietly raise capacity and not mention it again until Chapek is asked about it publicly. Or not mention it at all. Not saying this is this case now but we can’t pretend we know for sure.

 

[osufeth24]

I read somewhere else that they are no longer seating people with a row between them on the coasters. I came here to find out if that was true and seeing no mention of it. Did I miss that discussion?

I could be wrong, but my understanding was Disney was still running a half capacity on their rides that they can't use plexiglass.

Universal though is full on

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Why doesn't EF count? It could have come back until the new show is ready. I think that's the second show

I got the impression this was implying that there would be two fewer shows at Disney parks going forward. So I would think of it as like "Epcot fireworks" so one replacing the other doesn't really qualify

But perhaps this person was just trying to get reactions and was sneakily counting EF, but that wasn't how I took it

 

[chicagoshannon]

I read somewhere else that they are no longer seating people with a row between them on the coasters. I came here to find out if that was true and seeing no mention of it. Did I miss that discussion?

This is true on most rides. Thunder Mountain they were still doing 1 party per car (3 rows in each car), at least at park opening. On 7 dwarves, they seemed to be trying to leave 1 row between party. For example, we should have been in rows 9 and 10 but they only wanted to seat a party of 2 in the car to leave row 9 empty. Other times I saw no empty spaces on the ride when we walke by. Every other coaster they seemed to be seating every row.

They are still keeping boat rides pretty empty. They really need to start increasing the capacity of these boat rides (IASW and Pirates for example). I think people would much rather sit with only 1 row in between them, for under 5 minutes, and the next party than wait in line with them for an extra 30 minutes.

 

[Sarahslay]

It's definitely added availability, they are not slowing down because of COVID numbers. WDW and UO both hit capacity today.

There are TONS of rooms available now though, I mean, take your pick! I have kept an eye out of what is available where we are staying, and even over the next few days there are fewer room categories open than there are for the whole of Christmas week (all room categories with availability Christmas week, which is unheard of). It's even looking better than Thanksgiving week bookings as well, I was there that week and the parks weren't at capacity beside HS every day and MK on Thanksgiving day. Also, this weekend shows as full for all buckets, I think silver passholders are trying to get their last time in before they're blacked out (I have multiple florida friends doing just that today), plus it's cheaper than Christmas week and is usually lower crowds so people go "I'll go then".....although based on my last 2 week of December trip the lower crowd thing is no more. I highly doubt they were like "screw 35%, lets ramp things up!" when the buckets weren't even full for most parks most days anyway, they usually reserve adding availability when things are really full and people start complaining, the most telling thing is HS being open for all but one day in one bucket. I have a friend that works doing analytics type stuff (numbers) at WDW and she keeps telling me "it's not updated in real time, that's why on one day it can all change, or looks like there is or isn't availability on the calendar but you go to book a park and it's a different story". She's out of town right now so I'm not going to call her and ask what's up, I just thought it was interesting.

I'm not just being hopeful here atm, I've just been studying it all with room availability and past trends, I honestly don't think Christmas week is going to slammed in the slightest bit (but I just jinxed myself by saying that lol) unless something big happens in the next week.