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SG131 said:
A couple of days ago I got a touring plan alert that MK closing hrs were pushed to 11pm for my early December trip. And considering how booked up the hotels have been even 6 months ago when I added 2 days to the front end of my trip actually has me rather nervous for crowds in the beginning of December....
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It was wishful thinking on my part :).

I gather December is more crowded than November .. (at least before Thanksgiving)

But, odd they would increase hours at one park and essentially cut hours (by cutting attractions at the other :).

If we see attractions closing earlier than normal at MK .. then that is getting pretty awful.
 
I don't see a huge difference in the AK attractions. Some are closing 15 mins earlier than before which isn't huge. I think others may just not be busy after dark so there's no sense staffing them if nobody is there. Just my thoughts....

I can't see them closing MK attractions early in Nov and Dec as they're open so few nights as it is. We have 8 day park tickets during our Dec stay and 5 of those nights are MVMCP nights. I'm sure they won't close any attractions early on the 3 nights they are open for non-party guests.
 
scrappinginontario said:
I agree with you! The anticipated crowd levels for our early Dec trip dropped a couple of months ago then most days took quite a jump back up lately. That combined with the fact that it's next to impossible to get a reservation at a Disney resort in Dec has me preparing for large crowds. We'll go with a plan and have a blast!!
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I’m going solo so I’m hopeful that I’ll still be able to get a decent done, but I’m mentally preparing for a large crowd around me and messages on the dis board saying what’s going on with the crowds at XX park today!
 


scrappinginontario said:
I don't see a huge difference in the AK attractions. Some are closing 15 mins earlier than before which isn't huge. I think others may just not be busy after dark so there's no sense staffing them if nobody is there. Just my thoughts....

I can't see them closing MK attractions early in Nov and Dec as they're open so few nights as it is. We have 8 day park tickets during our Dec stay and 5 of those nights are MVMCP nights. I'm sure they won't close any attractions early on the 3 nights they are open for non-party guests.
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I agree with the concept, the one issue is that they are only changing it now after people already had FPs booked. So on that other thread seeing a lot of people saying that they had a FP for a ride at one time and Disney just went ahead and moved it to another time, even if that time did not work for the person (in one case it was right in the middle of an already booked ADR). - so I can see people being upset with the "changing policy" pretty late in the game

If all of the changes were made at least prior to the 60 day FP window I think that would have been better
 
scrappinginontario said:
I think others may just not be busy after dark so there's no sense staffing them if nobody is there. Just my thoughts....
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The issue really isn't the adjustment in hours. It's that it is done late like this.

Do it far enough in advance and for the most part people just accept that's the hours it is open-whatever reason it's for becomes less of an issue.

Allow those people to book FPs and then say "nvm we're not going to have the attraction open at that time" is a different story and now your reason for doing so becomes more suspect, brought more into the limelight, etc and the guest did their part and planned when they wanted to go on said attraction, they did their part and possibly made ADRs and then it gets a wrench thrown in it.

Whether it's a huge deal in the end IDK but I understand the concern.
 


scrappinginontario said:
I agree with you! The anticipated crowd levels for our early Dec trip dropped a couple of months ago then most days took quite a jump back up lately. That combined with the fact that it's next to impossible to get a reservation at a Disney resort in Dec has me preparing for large crowds. We'll go with a plan and have a blast!!
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I'm trying to get a one night reservation because we found it's much cheaper to fly Friday night than Saturday morning and there is absolutely nothing available at values. The cheapest is a preferred room at Coronado which would make the flight savings a wash.
 
skier_pete said:
As if WDWNT and all their "fake news" isn't bad enough I hate there snide comments "Oh, look how bad the Eiffel tower looks now!" The Eiffel tower always looked fake from outside the IG. It doesn't look more fake now. Idiots.
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Well I mean it doesn’t look any better with a big tower next to it. Sight lines at Epcot just keep getting worse IMO.
 
rteetz said:
Well I mean it doesn’t look any better with a big tower next to it. Sight lines at Epcot just keep getting worse IMO.
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Right, but this is from outside the park. Again, you could easily tell the tower was fake if you looked over there. Now, there were more trees there earlier, so maybe it wasn't as noticeable. But why don't we wait until the construction is done. I still think they are going to have to shift the tower anyways with the Rat Ride, else it will look really stupid from the Rat queue area.
 
skier_pete said:
As if WDWNT and all their "fake news" isn't bad enough I hate there snide comments "Oh, look how bad the Eiffel tower looks now!" The Eiffel tower always looked fake from outside the IG. It doesn't look more fake now. Idiots.
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rteetz said:
Well I mean it doesn’t look any better with a big tower next to it. Sight lines at Epcot just keep getting worse IMO.
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I suspect it will be like a lot of things that if you are looking for angles where it looks bad, you will be able to find them ... but if you are just strolling by and not really thinking about it, I don't think it will be too bad (especially from inside EPCOT)
 
skier_pete said:
As if WDWNT and all their "fake news" isn't bad enough I hate there snide comments "Oh, look how bad the Eiffel tower looks now!" The Eiffel tower always looked fake from outside the IG. It doesn't look more fake now. Idiots.
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Yep I'm with you, esp outside the park. IMO the sight line changes/additions at EPCOT are miniscule compared to what they are adding for us, and esp compared to S&D.

And since the skyliner towers were in Walt's vision of EPCOT-I say its about time.
 
ilovetotravel1977 said:
I just found some info on the Millennium Falcon ride here: https://www.slashfilm.com/millennium-falcon-ride/

It talks about the 6-person cockpit and the how tourists won't be happy sharing with others, what if they can't fly the falcon properly thus ruining their experience, etc.
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All they have to do is have the regular line feeding families or groups of up to 6 into each individual vehicle and fill any remaining seats (like if the group is 4) with single rider line. Have the single rider line know they will get the less desirable seats....
 
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