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In theme parks and leisure, “walk time” is the title for the ultimate paid minutes of your shift, whenever you collect your stuff and begin heading dwelling. At Theme Park Insider, “Walk Time” is our weekend look again on the previous seven days in theme park information.
Last month, officers on the Anaheim Transportation Network [ART], which runs the buses that take guests from space accommodations and the Toy Story parking zone to Disneyland and again, introduced that they’d cease working the bus service by March 31. That raised questions on whether or not Disneyland company who use the Toy Story Lot must stroll to the parks beginning in April. Well, they’ll (and I at all times do), however Disneyland officers told local reporters this week that transportation will proceed to be obtainable to and from Toy Story after ART shuts down.
Disney has not stated but precisely what that will probably be, or who will run it. But the best answer could be for Disney to lease ART’s Disney-branded buses and rent drivers to drive them, simply as they’ve been doing.
Also at Disneyland, Star Wars Rise of the Resistance reopened this week, after a three-week refurbishment. Across the nation on the Walt Disney World Resort, Frozen Ever After additionally reopened this week, at EPCOT.
Catching up on Six Flags information, I’ve written in regards to the firm’s growth of season cross advantages that permit Gold stage passholders to go to parks of their designated area in addition to their dwelling park. Six Flags is also altering the Perks & Play profit program for its passholders and members. The firm will not type cross advantages into tiers that may be unlocked solely after visiting a delegated variety of instances. Under this 12 months’s guidelines, the Perks & Play advantages will probably be obtainable to all passholders and members. However, Six Flags stated that sure “surprise” advantages could also be provided to passholders every so often, based mostly on their visitation throughout the 12 months.
This week additionally introduced new about a few potential future developments at Universal. First, Universal filed a patent software for a system that makes use of IR vascular scans and projection mapping to create an phantasm of varied stuff flowing via the veins of your physique. Second, a neighborhood authorities company that oversee the land round Universal Orlando chosen Elon Musk’s The Boring Company as essentially the most certified candidate to create an off-road transportation system for linking the MetropolisWalk hub with the Universal Epic Universe. You can learn extra particulars about The Boring Company’s proposal in this report from the Orlando Business Journal.
I additionally wish to provide congratulations to our good friend Dave Cobb, who introduced this week that he has began a brand new position as VP Creative at Paramount Global Experiences. You would possibly know Dave because the Creative Director for Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi on Yas Island and Men in Black: Alien Attack at Universal Studios Florida. This is a return to the mountain for Dave, who labored as a Senior Creative Director for Paramount again when it owned theme parks within the early 2000s. Best needs to Dave, and we won’t wait to see what his staff at Paramount comes up with subsequent.
Finally, we’re nonetheless speaking about Josh D’Amaro’s appointment to change into the following CEO of The Walt Disney Company. And we’re speculating about who his substitute at Disney Experiences is perhaps. Check out D’Amaro & Walden Have Every Reason to be Optimistic on our Discussion Forum.
Happy Valentine’s Day, everybody!
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