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LOL. When has poor IT stopped Disney from anything? Let me tell you about my time at Disneyland on the day they first rolled out Genie+.

As opposed to now, where many people continually check to see if a better restaurant has a cancellation and therefore availability.

no, no, no - this is a great idea - it's best to keep the vloggers as far away from regular people as possible. The Drop Shop aka the Vlogger Corral. Perfect. It's not in a popular store. It's far from the good restaurants at DS. This is a place that regular people maybe go on the last day...

What's the plaintiff version of "an opportunistic ambulance chaser"? My sense is that there's financial liability for the death on Stardust, but that this other quickie lawsuit, filed today, is someone looking for a fast buck. I know Disney's strategies fairly well (they wouldn't settle this...

We've already talked about this. Big Thunder was open for decades before the tragic fatality. From a brand perspective--and only from a brand perspective--guests already had a set of memories associated with it. Stardust has a branding problem now. It's been officially open since late May...

From where I sit, I think this is one of maybe three or four likely outcomes. This particular track course combined with this particular vehicle and restraint design could be a reasonable cause for the tragedy. But again, there's a lot left we don't yet know.

In ways, I think coaster "operating as intended" is worse because this suggests death may have been the result of design elements. That, I think, is a small nudge toward either meaningful revisions or removing the ride. (ALSO, the brand of Stardust Coaster has been deeply damaged--and that may...

In this, there are things that don't add up. Maybe "operating properly" in a technical term means the bogie and track elements, the launch elements, the brake systems, etc. But something here, in these statements, is not connecting. The witness statements seem believable--and those accounts...

Takeaways: Some of the language is confusing. I think one of the attorneys meant a witness was looking at the seat ahead of him. If the victim was in the front seat, I think there might be decorative elements of the front of the train that, if loose, could've contributed to this. It doesn't...

I think that was one online site. We will see what comes out. But if that was part of the official record and if it was a contributing factor, both Uni and Mack should've been all over that very quickly as it would've changed at least part of the overall narrative. But oddly--if this were...

When two people tragically died on Mission Space, both were quickly ruled as deaths related to pre-existing conditions. One was an undiagnosed heart condition, the other excessively high blood pressure. I believe one was an absolute tragedy, the other a person who based on posted guidance...

that is 100% not true. I keep getting questions from non-theme-park friends about it--like a lot of questions.

Before that accident, people had formed many favorable memories about Big Thunder for decades. That is not to minimize the tragedy there or to justify it. But people didn't look at Big Thunder and first think: someone died there. But right now, hardly anyone has been on Stardust. If the...

As far as I can tell, based on what has been reported, his pre-existing disability appears to have been among those that were cleared by Mack and posted as cleared at Universal. He was a wheel chair transfer with all natural limbs who tall enough and able to transfer into the ride vehicle. I'd...

I'd say this was supposed to be the company's flagship park. But it's been a very rough first few months. It also seems like a lot of public interest and enthusiasm for this park left the room a couple months ago, long before this tragedy. I've been. I enjoyed it. Monsters is fabulous. The...