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Will do.
You'd have to do it for me because it's been so long since I used one.

They start Sunday.

The signs are out there for the next park.
Acquisition of Marvel Comics
The Tron movie
The Avengers movie
Renaming the MK parking lot to Heros and Villians
And the lack of thrill rides
I believe that the 5th park will be a thrill ride park based on the Marvel Comics super heros and villans.
It will be heavily themed to support the dozens of Marvel super hero movies coming out, Avengers being the first one.

Is this you Gail?

No quizzes, I'm off today.
Can you tell? I'm never on here during the daytime.

Walked under it today, but I wasn't visiting.

I'm looking at that design and asking, where have I seen that before?
Duh, just every time I walk from the parking lots at TTC to the bus area.

I'm falling way behind on some of the doings at WDW, these are my goals for this week.
Magic Kingdom
Pick up a Dole Whip T shirt for one of my favorite Fiends.
Check out the Fantasyland expansion from the park side. I've only seen it from the backstage side.
See what's new at BTM.
How's the Liberty Square River Boat looking after the recent refurbishment.
Hollywood Studios
I've never done the Star Wars Weekend, guess I should.
Pick up a R2D2 popcorn cup.
TSM, never done it. Only if the line is less than 45 minutes.
Art of Animation Resort
They had the CM tour day last week before it opened.
Duh, it was held during the day, so all the CMs, me, that work days couldn't go.
Epcot
The "Sounds Like Summer" concert series is starting this wekend.
It's an Eagles tribute band this weekend. Althought they're very good, I've seen them a couple of times, so I might skip it, we'll see.

For me, it's good and good news.

If it were me, I'd double the prices for those little rug rats. They're nothing but trouble.
The crying for absolutely no good reason, the whining for expensive toys, the strollers that they force the parents to push them around in, the runny noses, the nose picking, it never ends.
So raise the prices, ban the strollers, so that us grown ups can enjoy the parks in peace.

You'll have to keep wondering Aaron.
When it comes to costs, expenses, attendance numbers, price increases, etc, Disney's SOP is to explain as little as possible.
If someone asks a CM why the ticket prices went up, here is the approved and recommended response.
"As part of the normal course of doing business, the Disney company regularly evaluates and adjusts it's pricing."

Drivers don't have set routes. It's a different one just about every time. No going back and forth to the same place.
Every driver has to be able to do all of the 500, or so, approved routes exactly as designed. And no, there is no GPS giving turn by turn directions.
They have to be able to drive out of every hub and go everywhere on property.
And that's why there are so many mistakes being made by new drivers.
It takes at least six months to learn and remember all the routes.
No need to redispatch because that's exactly how it's done during peak times of the day.
The next route a bus does is sent to the black box on the bus about 3 minutes, or less, before they arrive. Drivers don't know what they're picking up for until then.
That next route is either selected by a person observing the situation live or remotely, or by the computer during non peak times in order to achieve the 20 minute average wait time.

Wow, I have high hopes for you, Snarky lives on.

Oh great, another groupie for you know who.

When you're right,..........you're right.

The bus you finally got on, 5078, is one of the very newest buses. In service for only a couple of weeks.
I'm guessing the reason the driver didn't open the door right away was because when they saw the crowd waiting to board, they couldn't see if there was a wheel chair or scooter buried in there somewhere, so the driver may have walked to the back door to get a better look.
And if there was, you'd be waiting even longer.

Oh, oh, the balloons were back again between the water bridge and TTC last week.
They were white. Does the color matter?

No, that's not one of the answers.
I don't think I'd be using that one if it were, but it's accurate.

I'm shocked, no I'm not.
It was released as an advisory earlier today and as usual, CMs were given reactive answers to FAQs regarding the price hikes.

That's more than I can say.
Too many WDW bus drivers have no business driving a WDW bus.
I have to disagree with the words "a lot". There is always room for improvement, but considering what they have to do everyday, and taking into account the entire property, they do it pretty well.
One thing to be aware of is that there are five bus hubs that operate independently.
AK buses are AK buses, MK buses are MK buses, etc, so seeing a few buses for one destination, one after the other, has nothing to do with not seeing any buses for another destination.
They could switch one of those AK buses to an Epcot bus, but that fouls up the organized order of things. There is a set plan in motion.
While some things do fall through the cracks, it's a tiny percentage of the hundreds of trips that are run every hour.
You'd have to see the overall logistic picture from the inside to appreciate the massive task that they have perform every day. There are some amazing things going on behind the scenes every AM and PM.
WDW Transportation is mass transit and does not cater to the single rider, but actually they do operate on a "on demand" system. It's very complex and would take too long to explain it
Using it brings in and takes out all guests in 2 hours or less.
Disney is by no means the leader in any technology, that's a myth, but they do a ground breaking job every day moving as many people as they do.
It can be improved, but by and large it works well, but as you pointed out, there are annoying incidents that take place everyday
All things considered, the WDW bus system is considered one of the best anywhere and it will get better. It already has since I started. Many more buses, many more drivers, and better control systems.
So to sum up, what you experienced does and will continue to happen to some people, but not to the vast majority.

Every single announcement on the buses is done by the same guy that also does the announcements on that poor excuse for a transportation mode, the monorails. That's the only voice I've ever heard.
So what do I hear when I head to the Art of Animation resort for the first time, another voice, and not a very good one at that.
It doesn't even sound like a professional announcer.
This can't be. That's not the voice of WDW. It sounds like they found any Joe Schmo and said, read this into the mic.
I'm not happy about this.
If the original guy can't do it, then find someone that can impersonate him or at least comes close to sounding like him.
I'm hoping that it's a temporary thing and that this wrong will be righted.

As all the companies are so secretive about attendance numbers, I have to wonder how accurate are they?

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Today was the grand opening.
I only went to DAAR once from DHS, but no one got on at the park or at the resort.
It was like a ghost town at the resort and I didn't see anyone waiting at the DHS bus stop.

That's great Dave and Carol.
We're planning on going again later this year, if it's available to CMs that is.