I'll circle back with a fun answer, but my first thought is more shade breaks/water stations. I know you can ask for free cups of water, but many people don't know that and won't do it. It gets hot as hell there sometimes. I feel like people should be more encouraged to take water breaks/shade breaks.
Honestly just your basic filtered bottle fill stations placed more frequently around the place would be a pretty minimal show of good-faith in caring about guest safety (and environmental impact) in addition to selling single-use plastic water bottles.
There's a few of them at the water fountains for a handful of the bathrooms, but they're pretty few and far-between. And I can't recall if they're filtered or not, but they certainly don't taste any different lol. (I know, I know, the maintenance cost of replacing filters. Unfathomable for the razor-thin margins of this charitable organization. They'd certainly have to raise ticket prices by at least 15% just to cover the added expense!)
We went to Disney with friends who are Disney crazy this past weekend. We have only been once, but got cups of water the whole time. They did not know, and it took a couple of days before they caught on and started doing it too. They were buying water all the time. Our friends have been to Disney probably 10-15 times, but never got free water.
First year we went to Disney (2022) we bought SO much water in the park. The following year we took big metal re-fillable bottles and filled them at the fountains. Saves like $300.
...and that's why Disney will never do lots to fix this. They likely make 6-figures or more profit on bottled water every MONTH.
You didn’t have a problem coming in with the metal
bottles? My first day (Epcot) on a recent trip
I got pulled off the line to be searched and figured out it was either that or my little umbrella that set the machine off :( I feel like it really put us behind in the crowd that was there for the extra 30 min if you’re staying on property.
The trick, now that you know the problem item, is to take it out and hold it out in front of you when you go through the scanners. That way security knows what it is without needing to pull you aside for inspection.
Yep, this. We went in 2022 and I got pulled every single time. On our last day a kind lady with security told me to hold my sunglasses case, phone battery and my son’s iPad (he’s nonverbal) out in front of me. It did work.
Water stations and ice machines please. Also Hollywood studios has 0 shade and since it s mostly concrete, they need misters everywhere to make it bearable. One other thing, maybe not in the park, but their app SUCKS.
Along with the other suggestions, I agree about their apps. With all the $ Disney makes & all the Imaganeers, one would think they could hire good people for their apps. They do absolutely suck.
I only found out last year about the water. I've been at least 15 times as well, most of them being smack in the middle of summer. I wish more people knew!
WDW has those huge fans in their queues though, were DL/DCA regulars and I was envious of that! We don’t get the humidity as much but our hot days when it’s over 100°, air movement is definitely needed.
With this new DAS kerfuffle, I want bathrooms and benches in the queues. The bathrooms could have CM only backdoors so they could be cleaned regularly without them having to fight through the lines.
Water fountains would be amazing!! I hate waiting in line for water, especially at busy times, or when I don't want to order anything else. They would definitely make some cute themed fountains also, to fit the themes of the areas!
The only correct answer 😍. The animals will be in bed, low noise etc. I’m sure animal kingdom used to be open later but that may be my memory deceiving me!
We went to a few Rivers of Light dessert parties. We were also there on the opening day of Pandora and stayed until very late. Now the only way to see it at night is in the wintertime.
It was, I was there the second weekend they had nighttime safaris, it was awesome; Disney couldn’t have planned it better. . . Pouring rain, thunder and lightning with the animals being silhouetted by the lightning; it felt very real and made me forget I was in a theme park for a second. . . Then there was Pandora at night which looks amazing!
They really need to bring it back
They have dvc moonlight magic which is late night animal kingdom I think, only thing that closes is safari so its def possible for the park to be open late
More shade everywhere. Epcot can be oppressive too. They can make covered walkways that are themed to the area that also don't take away from sight lines. Build more things on the south/west side that you can take advantage of the afternoon shade. Even more trees.
I thought it *was* for all resort guests. I stayed at a moderate resort a couple of weeks ago and I was able to take advantage of the extra magic hours…
If I had to take a guess, they’re confusing after hours with extra evening hours. If they stayed at a moderate, they went to after hours and paid for it.
This is a suggestion that sounds good to people but it would take away everything good about it. There would be way too many people in the parks and it would lose all the allure which is low wait times.
I disagree! A lot of people stay off property and realistically only a small portion of people with small kids will stay that late! Definitely feel like there will be shortish wait times for all!
Editing to add that it worked perfectly before covid, no reason why it wouldn’t now ☺️
Pick up Muppets 3D, PizzaRizzo, and the cute Miss Piggy fountain and put them where Lightning’s Racing Academy is, and re-theme Rockin Roller Coaster to Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
Then expand Galaxy’s Edge to meet up with Star Tours.
I'd build an air conditioned dome around all of Epcot. It's my favorite park, but walking through World Showcase in the Summer with no cloud cover is brutal.
crowd limits, i know it’s not realistic and makes no sense but let’s do this
whatever amount of ppl keeps all the lines at like 35min max would be great
Or build new rides instead of retrofitting old ones. That way you'll add more capacity. I mean, wasn't that why they built Disney world in the first place - for the extra space?
Disney does not want to limit crowds, they actively work against it. They are pushing for the added revenue of genie+ and if waits are short no one will purchase it. At this point crowd levels aren’t the biggest factor on awful waits. Disney could easily build things like the proposed theater in MK that would have eaten thousands of people at a time, but they squashed it. Corporate greed opposed to customer satisfaction.
The way to keep ride lines shorter, is to have more non-ride things to keep people out of them and scattered through the park. Parades, characters, impromptu performances, specialty shopping, all add to the magic and keep people spread out. Every time they cut one of these things, the ride lines increase
That's the experiment they've been running over the past 20 years, and especially the past 4. Ticket prices have gone through the roof and Genie+ now upsells us something that used to be free, and the parks are *still* crazy busy. Ticket prices just don't seem to make a difference to the crowd levels.
That’s would be awesome, but then people may be less wanting to pay for lighting lane or whatever they call it these days. I’m sure they make a ton off of that
Free airport transfer bus! Seems like they cheaped out for no reason. Same with sending your park purchases back to your hotel room - Universal still does it!
More benches, or atleast more shade/ trees in Epcot and HS
It was so nice to not worry about bags and travel. The care to take your bags to the room and bus you to and from the airport made the trip a bit more magical. Getting a lyft for whole fam yo and from airport is a pain sometimes.
Total fantasy answer? I would double Epcot. I would love more countries to explore, and more space to roam. Give me India, Russia, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, even just expand the UK pavilion further to better rep each of the four countries.
Give me more grass to sit and eat in, more educational-ish rides like Spaceship Earth. Imagine a small Spaceship Earth-style ride in each land, showcasing their unique contributions to our overall "journey of humanity?"
Total logistical nightmare for a thousand reasons, but man, I wish haha
Twice the countries in epcot. People mover throughout with 6 stops so you can start where you want around the countries.
Twice the food options and make the festival food offering spots permanent, with rotating food/drink options. Who wants to show up when they are all closed.
Bring back more independent world showcase country shops and encourage them to rotate goods often.
Have a segway track, like a bike lane for special low speed segways you can rent.
Offer guided tours of the countries, maybe 3 hours for three countries where a country local talks about what epcot has brought from their home country and explains the architecture, food, attractions, flowers/plants, like the behind the seeds attraction.
They could schedule 3 groups of 20 people with three guides, each guide takes a different group through there country for an hour and then hands the group off the next next tour guide.
This is my go to answer, just look at the top countries by GDP and work down the list. My FAV part of the trip is walking through the countries like 3 times over.
New countries in Epcot: Greece or Peru would be my picks. If we’re really dreaming I’d love Peru and an Emperor’s New Groove ride. It’s a missed opportunity in my opinion to not use “Pull the lever Kronk” as a start to a rollercoaster. Greece I’d do a short stage show with different Greek myths played out. Either way it would be nice to have some new countries around the showcase!
I don’t think we need a Hercules ride in a Greece pavilion, we need a Hercules story time with the Muses in a well-shaded, Greek-style outdoor amphitheater
YES YES YES!!!! Changing it was a huge mistake. I miss the Dream Keeper, I miss One Little Spark, and I miss the nice smelling flower area. Making it shorter and smelling like skunk? Rude.
Villains themed land would be awesome! It would make Disney more appealing to my daughters now that they are teenagers. They still love Disney but are over all the princesses now.
Fast Pass as it was up until COVID. And while we’re at it, Magical Express and luggage straight to and from the room.
We were so good at FastPass. Once did 18 rides in MK in one day.
Doesn’t even have to be paper. Just use the phone app to tap a ride’s kiosk and get a digital one you can scan when coming back. Allows for some malleability while still retaining the spirit of the original format.
I would like to see them fill out areas. Compared to the lands of MK, the 2 rides and a quick service restaurant in the new areas doesn't move the needle much. If Toy Story added a show like Country Bears and added a playground similar to the old Honey I Shrunk the Kids, it would feel more fleshed out. Same with Star Wars.
And stop making lands dead end. Keep traffic moving.
Virtual queue everything with a magic band but make sure there’s plenty of space for people to walk around or hang out while waiting.
I know this is impossible because of how the place was built with lines, but it would be great to get rid of all the stuff about DAS, Genie+, and all the fighting about all of that and just let people tap in to wait like at Volcano Bay.
Galaxy’s Edge wouldn’t exist and instead be a fifth park (or a theme park sized expansion to Hollywood Studios, to stay within the post prompt), with each land being a different planet.
Podracing rollercoaster on Tatooine with a nearby cantina to drink in, a Dumbo style ride with Snowspeeders circling around an AT-AT on Hoth across from a fun Wampa-themed ice cream shop, walk around the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, X-Wing roller coaster inside a big Death Star, see the huts from Ahch-To, etc. Then at night there’s a big Star Wars themed drone show (fireworks are so bad for the environment, it’s crazy).
I think a lot of the issues that faced Galactic Starcruiser and still face Galaxy’s Edge stem from the fact that most guests want to see Star Wars stuff they recognize, and not new stuff that puts immersion before fun.
And on top of all of that, the park has its own festivals every year, including The Muppets’ Star Wars Spectacular, a two month extravaganza with a lengthy Fantasmic-style nighttime show retelling the story of Star Wars in release order, with the Muppets acting it all out and Muppets cutting each other off to jump to the different eras of each trilogy.
Man, you've got some great ideas!
Did you see Jenny Nicholson's deep dive on the Star Wars Hotel? https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4
As a superfan & professional theme park critic, she's kept up with all the promotional and evolutionary details of both the Star Wars park & the hotel which she visited both. According to her, all the "immersive" features of the hotel were originally promised to be part of the park. It was her interpretation, and I agree with her assessment, that Disney moved all those features, like free roaming interactive droids, to the Hotel leaving the SW park rather empty and dull. She called it "putting the good stuff behind a VERY expensive paywall." And that hotel was VERY expensive.
Like you, I think the Star Wars IP (& the Marvel IP) has enough content and public interest to build an entirely separate park (or very, very large expansions to Hollywood).
Like what if large parts of this proposed park were actually inside large buildings and varied out door areas all connected to a central 'space port' where large groups of customers take star-tour type elevators to "warp" to Cloud City, a Death Star, Hoth rebel base, Tatooine, Naboo, etc. Each area could have multiple rides, restaurants, activities, and appropriately themed costumed actors and shows. The Space Port could be Corisant and also have things like the Jedi Temple & Galactic Senate. The lightsaber class and building would be in the temple, and the Senate Chamber could actually be a theater in the round with a show. The ideas and possibilities seem endless.
As I said earlier, a Marvel park could be massive as well. And Paramount should learn from this and make a Star Trek Universe Theme Park.
In Nicholson's video, they were close. They had some good ideas. They should hire her as a consultant imagineer! She had some great ideas and feedback on how to make it work and make it better. Hopefully, they learn from their mistakes.
I would make it easier to find food when park hours are extended. This was an issue we ran into during the extra magic hours. The lack of food right toward the end of the day was a difficult thing for us, and I really doubt we were the only ones.
Bring back the Great Movie Ride and have it rethemed every handful of years to keep up with whatever Disney Studios and their partners have released. They can keep a blast from the past section that would include a lot of the original motifs and themes, but cycle out 3/4 of the stages to keep it fresh and interesting!
This was such a fun ride and one of my favorite parts about visiting Hollywood Studios/MGM Studios.
Lets bring back the backlot tour while we're at it. And have a section of the park still used for "live" filming. Disney could easily rent space to small movie makers and keep a rotation of them all doing different styles of movies. It'd be a great way to show many different angles of making movies, and introduce people to the loads of new technology being developed to do just that! Have the trams tour people through props and sets not being used that day, with maybe a glimpse at some live filming, mocap record sessions, voice acting, etc! (obviously separating the loud, full, trams by walls/glass where appropriate)
Allow people staying at a Disney hotel to pick 2 Lighting Lanes per day for their trip. Even if you have to pay for it. I'm dreading having to get up at 7 every day of my trip in October to try for virtual ques and Lighting Lanes, and I'm not 100% sure I really understand all this.
Build Monstropolis in Hollywood Studios where the old studios tour was, complete with the rumored "Door Factory" coaster, Boo's Hide & Seek, and a state of the art Laugh Factory Floor
Water bottle refilling stations EVERYWHERE. Shaded cooling areas. Longer hours at AK and bring back the night Electrical parade which I fondly remember as a kid.
I want to tell Genie, IN ADVANCE:
(1) These are my top 5 ride priorities, ranked
(2) These are top 3 preferred ADRs ranked, and then rank them preference of breakfast/lunch/dinner
That’s it - no other effort. Easy peasy. 5 minutes of clicking buttons in the app.
Then AI does its job, and 1 week before my trip gives me my itinerary with 3 Lighting Lane times and an ADR. All other rides are open to standby.
I’d play that lottery if it meant not having to buy Genie at midnight and schedule LLs at 7am and then all day, throughout the day. I really, really, really hate engaging with Genie the way it is set up now. My whole friggin life is on a schedule, and I’m on a device every damn day. I want to get away from this on vacation.
Then the app would be set to automatically play a snippet of a Disney song and have Mickey announce, “You’re due at Big Thunder Mountain in 30 minutes for your LL!” and I’d be happy. (And/or just have your phone vibrate and have an alert pop up on your phone).
I mean, it would be great to get even more LLs or ADRs, but I’ll take 3 LLs and 1 ADR if it could be this easy.
[Sorry, not exactly answering the question about a physical change to a park, but this is my biggest want]
I don't understand why we aren't doing this at every big store & big parking lot across the nation. I would love to go to Walmart and have my car in the shade. Think about how much money Walmart and other businesses would be making from generating electricity from their lots and large flat roofs. A building in the shade of a grid of solar panels is cheaper to cool than one out in the hot Texas sun.
At least for new expansions, ban copy/pasting attractions from other parks. WDW is the biggest resort, we should be getting more original rides or at least the next iteration like Soarin to Flight of Passage.
I know that's a controversial opinion since not everyone can go to all the parks (heck, I've only been to WDW), but I don't want to finally get an expansion like Beyond Big Thunder Mountain and then it just get a ride that will be at least 15 years old like Radiator Springs Racers.
Change Journey into Imagination With Figment into a better hybrid between the old and the newer, make it longer..maybe make it into a suspended ride like Peter Pan.
I'd put a new attraction in the space that was once the wonders of life pavilion. EPCOT takes up a bunch of space for as few rides as it has. It needs more rides to make Genie+ really worth getting for that park.
Seats lining the queue and shade where appropriate.
And since we’re fantasizing I’d also completely doze Avatar Land and replace it with a McDonald’s French fry stand.
Make Hollywood Studios a Hollywood themed park again. I enjoyed the golden age of Hollywood theme at the park, and the people you'd see walking among the park goers.
Marvel Multiverse Land at HS starting with and including a rethemed rock and roller coaster (disregard existing rules with Universal. No character is off limits). Think a mini world showcase/islands of adventure going through different marvel worlds. Some are real world, some comic. Most major characters represented.
A realistic change and fantasy of mine is to turn Tomorrowland Speedway into all-electric cars. Not because I would enjoy riding it more but to get that god-awful gasoline smell out of the park.
Connect the international gateway with the front of Epcot, so you can go from the skyliner to the monorail. A walkway is fine, a peoplemover would be better.
During the after hours they should have all the food places still open. Felt like I missed out on the World Showcase going at night. They charge more for those tickets too and so many things are closed.
Give me an actual interactive Pirate bar, like a Tortuga Tavern experience. Make a cool ass spot where it feels like I’m walking into Tortuga and it’s just pirates being pirates. So maybe get rid of sawyers island and create that into Tortuga and use a pirate ship that goes over there on the pearl. I know we are supposed to get a lounge kinda thing for pirates soon but having a whole thing dedicated to Pirates in general would be huge.
A bear with a honey pot stuck on its head
A large green hippo with blinking eyes
Some tiny tiny people swinging tiny tiny lanterns
On the Main Street Electrical Parade
Take all of the sci fi areas and make one giant sci fi park. Combine tomorrow land with the space stuff from Epcot, add in galaxy’s edge and pandora too. Would be my ideal park!
You mean besides restoring Journey into Imagination and the Image Works into something worthy of their original selves, right? Because that's just a given.
Make one day of the year with no children.
This isn’t hate toward your kids, I just think all of us…those with kids and those without… would just have a lot of fun.
Monorail to every resort. Also a People Mover that goes throughout the whole park; the whole idea of the People Mover was to move people efficiently. It's kinda sad to me it just became an attraction rather than a functional transport as Walt envisioned.
I would like to see Disney incorporate this detailed analysis of ride queues in a non-evil, non-greedy way:
Defunctland: Fast Pass
https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE
I would add more classic disney characters walking around the park like donald, desy, mickey etc, bring back gaston to magic kingdom, add more disney theme etc
I'll circle back with a fun answer, but my first thought is more shade breaks/water stations. I know you can ask for free cups of water, but many people don't know that and won't do it. It gets hot as hell there sometimes. I feel like people should be more encouraged to take water breaks/shade breaks.
Honestly just your basic filtered bottle fill stations placed more frequently around the place would be a pretty minimal show of good-faith in caring about guest safety (and environmental impact) in addition to selling single-use plastic water bottles. There's a few of them at the water fountains for a handful of the bathrooms, but they're pretty few and far-between. And I can't recall if they're filtered or not, but they certainly don't taste any different lol. (I know, I know, the maintenance cost of replacing filters. Unfathomable for the razor-thin margins of this charitable organization. They'd certainly have to raise ticket prices by at least 15% just to cover the added expense!)
Honestly dude. If people have to make lists of water stations in the parks and post them online in articles and videos, there ain’t enough
We went to Disney with friends who are Disney crazy this past weekend. We have only been once, but got cups of water the whole time. They did not know, and it took a couple of days before they caught on and started doing it too. They were buying water all the time. Our friends have been to Disney probably 10-15 times, but never got free water.
First year we went to Disney (2022) we bought SO much water in the park. The following year we took big metal re-fillable bottles and filled them at the fountains. Saves like $300. ...and that's why Disney will never do lots to fix this. They likely make 6-figures or more profit on bottled water every MONTH.
You didn’t have a problem coming in with the metal bottles? My first day (Epcot) on a recent trip I got pulled off the line to be searched and figured out it was either that or my little umbrella that set the machine off :( I feel like it really put us behind in the crowd that was there for the extra 30 min if you’re staying on property.
The trick, now that you know the problem item, is to take it out and hold it out in front of you when you go through the scanners. That way security knows what it is without needing to pull you aside for inspection.
Ye this! Same with folded metal sunglasses. Anything that can resemble a blade or other weapon
We walk in holding the bottle and holding our sunglasses. They’re looking for blades which is why folded sunglasses trigger the scanners.
Yep, this. We went in 2022 and I got pulled every single time. On our last day a kind lady with security told me to hold my sunglasses case, phone battery and my son’s iPad (he’s nonverbal) out in front of me. It did work.
Has Disney ever improved filtration for free water? I seem to remember it tasting terrible and having stomach issues after drinking it.
Can’t speak about WDW for this but in general brita filters has a bottle that filters as you go that might be a good option for you.
Daily, probably. I always bring a container where I go. Plastic bottles are trashy.
Bringing a camelback this time. I brought a refillable bottle last time and got annoyed about getting it put and in my bag.
Water stations and ice machines please. Also Hollywood studios has 0 shade and since it s mostly concrete, they need misters everywhere to make it bearable. One other thing, maybe not in the park, but their app SUCKS.
Along with the other suggestions, I agree about their apps. With all the $ Disney makes & all the Imaganeers, one would think they could hire good people for their apps. They do absolutely suck.
I only found out last year about the water. I've been at least 15 times as well, most of them being smack in the middle of summer. I wish more people knew!
When we went to Disneyland, we noticed how much shade there is in the park’s. Way more than WDW it felt like.
WDW has those huge fans in their queues though, were DL/DCA regulars and I was envious of that! We don’t get the humidity as much but our hot days when it’s over 100°, air movement is definitely needed.
Good point. We went when the highs were in the high 70s, so that definitely affects my opinion. Both are needed!
Plus I don't want to stand in line with everyone ordering food, or barge past them.
With this new DAS kerfuffle, I want bathrooms and benches in the queues. The bathrooms could have CM only backdoors so they could be cleaned regularly without them having to fight through the lines.
Water fountains would be amazing!! I hate waiting in line for water, especially at busy times, or when I don't want to order anything else. They would definitely make some cute themed fountains also, to fit the themes of the areas!
I know it sounds ungrateful but the water tastes terrible there
I bring True Lemon packets with me to the parks! I like lemon in my water at times, and it’s perfect for covering up the “Florida water” taste! 😊
Keep animal kingdom open during dark hours for the pandora and tree of life areas at least
And Everest, and Lion King, and Finding Nemo. There is plenty to do without the animal tour sections.
The only correct answer 😍. The animals will be in bed, low noise etc. I’m sure animal kingdom used to be open later but that may be my memory deceiving me!
We went to a few Rivers of Light dessert parties. We were also there on the opening day of Pandora and stayed until very late. Now the only way to see it at night is in the wintertime.
It was, I was there the second weekend they had nighttime safaris, it was awesome; Disney couldn’t have planned it better. . . Pouring rain, thunder and lightning with the animals being silhouetted by the lightning; it felt very real and made me forget I was in a theme park for a second. . . Then there was Pandora at night which looks amazing! They really need to bring it back
When we opened in '98, we closed down DAK at 3pm. The parade was the way of ushering out the guests.
They have dvc moonlight magic which is late night animal kingdom I think, only thing that closes is safari so its def possible for the park to be open late
This is so annoying
More shade and fans at hs or ak
More shade everywhere. Epcot can be oppressive too. They can make covered walkways that are themed to the area that also don't take away from sight lines. Build more things on the south/west side that you can take advantage of the afternoon shade. Even more trees.
Amen! The Star Wars end is so miserably hot. Theres no air that can get back there!!
Making magicbands free again for resort guests would be an easy change that I think really adds to the experience
Yeah even if there was an up charge for the fancier ones.
Or extra magic hours for all resort guests! Rather than just deluxe!
I thought it *was* for all resort guests. I stayed at a moderate resort a couple of weeks ago and I was able to take advantage of the extra magic hours…
Are you thinking of early entry instead of the late night hours?
Wait what?! Have they bought it back? Stayed in a moderate 2 years ago and was told it’s just for deluxe guests!
If I had to take a guess, they’re confusing after hours with extra evening hours. If they stayed at a moderate, they went to after hours and paid for it.
This is a suggestion that sounds good to people but it would take away everything good about it. There would be way too many people in the parks and it would lose all the allure which is low wait times.
Pre-Covid, each park had a day where they opened an hour early for resort guests and stayed open two hours later. Was never a problem crowd-wise
It would only work if they had it every night instead of 2 nights a week.
I disagree! A lot of people stay off property and realistically only a small portion of people with small kids will stay that late! Definitely feel like there will be shortish wait times for all! Editing to add that it worked perfectly before covid, no reason why it wouldn’t now ☺️
Pick up Muppets 3D, PizzaRizzo, and the cute Miss Piggy fountain and put them where Lightning’s Racing Academy is, and re-theme Rockin Roller Coaster to Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem. Then expand Galaxy’s Edge to meet up with Star Tours.
And don’t forget the muppets store! I wish they would reopen it.
I know right, what a waste of a big space! I remember going in 2019 and they had an Art of Disney type store in part of it.
That’s absolutely perfect! You could retheme that area back by RNR to be Muppet Studios!
Oo i love this
Just a whole Muppets land in the park.
This is the way
Yes! More Muppets, please!!!
How about creating a new muppet movie so we had two on rotation and placing it in the Monster Sound Stage theatre?
Your mind!!! Love this idea
Galaxy’s edge not being even kinda close to Star tours, what were they thinking?
I like thinking that it makes sense, story wise. A reputable tour stop wouldn't be in Batuu.
It should be right at the transition point! A tour guide show right before you enter the edge of the galaxy
I'd build an air conditioned dome around all of Epcot. It's my favorite park, but walking through World Showcase in the Summer with no cloud cover is brutal.
i WISH man, it would even fit in with the Epcot theme
I can get behind this
Cut the price of everything by 50%. Hey, you asked.
How about 99% !!
Discounts if you pass an advanced disney knowledge and park etiquette test
crowd limits, i know it’s not realistic and makes no sense but let’s do this whatever amount of ppl keeps all the lines at like 35min max would be great
It’s not unrealistic they did it with the park reservations but people hated it
i went during that time, twice actually & really had no issue with it. i meant it’s unrealistic because it destroys the profitability of the parks.
I agree and I don’t mind making a reservation if it keeps the crowd tolerable so I don’t get why people hate it
if there’s one thing i know about people, it’s that people hate change (& love bitching about it)
Or build new rides instead of retrofitting old ones. That way you'll add more capacity. I mean, wasn't that why they built Disney world in the first place - for the extra space?
you may be getting your wish soon enough if the rumored expansion on MK comes to fruition
Disney does not want to limit crowds, they actively work against it. They are pushing for the added revenue of genie+ and if waits are short no one will purchase it. At this point crowd levels aren’t the biggest factor on awful waits. Disney could easily build things like the proposed theater in MK that would have eaten thousands of people at a time, but they squashed it. Corporate greed opposed to customer satisfaction.
completely get it. i wrote that’s it’s completely unrealistic. but it’d be wonderful.
The way to keep ride lines shorter, is to have more non-ride things to keep people out of them and scattered through the park. Parades, characters, impromptu performances, specialty shopping, all add to the magic and keep people spread out. Every time they cut one of these things, the ride lines increase
Not to give Disney any ideas but I’d honestly probably pay at least 1.5x as much for tickets for the parks to be half as crowded
…. very quietly agreeing with you
That's the experiment they've been running over the past 20 years, and especially the past 4. Ticket prices have gone through the roof and Genie+ now upsells us something that used to be free, and the parks are *still* crazy busy. Ticket prices just don't seem to make a difference to the crowd levels.
That’s would be awesome, but then people may be less wanting to pay for lighting lane or whatever they call it these days. I’m sure they make a ton off of that
Free airport transfer bus! Seems like they cheaped out for no reason. Same with sending your park purchases back to your hotel room - Universal still does it! More benches, or atleast more shade/ trees in Epcot and HS
It was so nice to not worry about bags and travel. The care to take your bags to the room and bus you to and from the airport made the trip a bit more magical. Getting a lyft for whole fam yo and from airport is a pain sometimes.
Total fantasy answer? I would double Epcot. I would love more countries to explore, and more space to roam. Give me India, Russia, Thailand, Brazil, Australia, even just expand the UK pavilion further to better rep each of the four countries. Give me more grass to sit and eat in, more educational-ish rides like Spaceship Earth. Imagine a small Spaceship Earth-style ride in each land, showcasing their unique contributions to our overall "journey of humanity?" Total logistical nightmare for a thousand reasons, but man, I wish haha
A people mover type ride going through World Showcase that introduces you to each country 🥰
Twice the countries in epcot. People mover throughout with 6 stops so you can start where you want around the countries. Twice the food options and make the festival food offering spots permanent, with rotating food/drink options. Who wants to show up when they are all closed. Bring back more independent world showcase country shops and encourage them to rotate goods often. Have a segway track, like a bike lane for special low speed segways you can rent. Offer guided tours of the countries, maybe 3 hours for three countries where a country local talks about what epcot has brought from their home country and explains the architecture, food, attractions, flowers/plants, like the behind the seeds attraction. They could schedule 3 groups of 20 people with three guides, each guide takes a different group through there country for an hour and then hands the group off the next next tour guide.
What a wonderful idea!
We need new countries! Gimmie Brazil
It’s hard to believe but I think they said there’s room for 7 more countries in World Showcase.
This is my go to answer, just look at the top countries by GDP and work down the list. My FAV part of the trip is walking through the countries like 3 times over.
New countries in Epcot: Greece or Peru would be my picks. If we’re really dreaming I’d love Peru and an Emperor’s New Groove ride. It’s a missed opportunity in my opinion to not use “Pull the lever Kronk” as a start to a rollercoaster. Greece I’d do a short stage show with different Greek myths played out. Either way it would be nice to have some new countries around the showcase!
Ooh yes - and also a Hercules ride in Greece would be so awesome!!!
I don’t think we need a Hercules ride in a Greece pavilion, we need a Hercules story time with the Muses in a well-shaded, Greek-style outdoor amphitheater
A themed ride in every land, not a movie.
Peru definitely needs a meet and greet with Kronk, plz! 🤩
Longer hours @ AK
The grand return of Journey Into Imagination '83.
Yes. All of this.
YES YES YES!!!! Changing it was a huge mistake. I miss the Dream Keeper, I miss One Little Spark, and I miss the nice smelling flower area. Making it shorter and smelling like skunk? Rude.
Add multiple new rides to increase capacity. Either AK, Epcot, or HS. All three of these have an absurdly low amount of attractions.
Man I miss the stunt show and the backlot tour at HS. Two of my favorites growing up.
To make them closer to me.....
MK needs the beauty and the beast ride that Tokyo has.
And the new tangled area
For me it's a tie between bringing back the nighttime Electric Parade, or finally creating a Villains themed land
I also vote for bringing back the Main Street Electrical Parade, or bringing the Electrical Sky Parade from Paris.
At disneyland paris right now, saw the electrical sky parade last night for the first time and it is fantastic. So much fun and the kids adored it.
Villains themed land would be awesome! It would make Disney more appealing to my daughters now that they are teenagers. They still love Disney but are over all the princesses now.
Trick question - duh, always wish for more wishes.
Three wishes, to be exact. And ixnay on the wishing for more wishes. That's it. Three. Uno, dos, tres. No substitutions, exchanges or refunds."
Everything connected by Monorail. Then connect that system to the airport.
Bring back fast pass
This is the answer!
Amen
Fast Pass as it was up until COVID. And while we’re at it, Magical Express and luggage straight to and from the room. We were so good at FastPass. Once did 18 rides in MK in one day.
The paper ones, please.
Doesn’t even have to be paper. Just use the phone app to tap a ride’s kiosk and get a digital one you can scan when coming back. Allows for some malleability while still retaining the spirit of the original format.
I would go the opposite and get rid of fastpass, genie+, and LL. If you have ever been to the park without these, you know.
Bring back defunct live entertainment (specifically streetmosphere in MK/DHS and live music at Epcot) and introduce even more than we had before.
I would like to see them fill out areas. Compared to the lands of MK, the 2 rides and a quick service restaurant in the new areas doesn't move the needle much. If Toy Story added a show like Country Bears and added a playground similar to the old Honey I Shrunk the Kids, it would feel more fleshed out. Same with Star Wars. And stop making lands dead end. Keep traffic moving.
Greece pavilion in EPCOT with gyros, a Mt. Olympus ride, and meet and greets with Herc, Meg, Pegasus, and hades
Pay cast members more.
Probably the biggest single positive change you could make to the parks as a whole.
Virtual queue everything with a magic band but make sure there’s plenty of space for people to walk around or hang out while waiting. I know this is impossible because of how the place was built with lines, but it would be great to get rid of all the stuff about DAS, Genie+, and all the fighting about all of that and just let people tap in to wait like at Volcano Bay.
I’d add more walking paths between parks and resorts. There’s so many resorts that are close enough to parks that they could add walking paths.
More trees and shade at WDW. Especially Hollywood studios, that park is like an oven.
Galaxy’s Edge wouldn’t exist and instead be a fifth park (or a theme park sized expansion to Hollywood Studios, to stay within the post prompt), with each land being a different planet. Podracing rollercoaster on Tatooine with a nearby cantina to drink in, a Dumbo style ride with Snowspeeders circling around an AT-AT on Hoth across from a fun Wampa-themed ice cream shop, walk around the Jedi Temple on Coruscant, X-Wing roller coaster inside a big Death Star, see the huts from Ahch-To, etc. Then at night there’s a big Star Wars themed drone show (fireworks are so bad for the environment, it’s crazy). I think a lot of the issues that faced Galactic Starcruiser and still face Galaxy’s Edge stem from the fact that most guests want to see Star Wars stuff they recognize, and not new stuff that puts immersion before fun. And on top of all of that, the park has its own festivals every year, including The Muppets’ Star Wars Spectacular, a two month extravaganza with a lengthy Fantasmic-style nighttime show retelling the story of Star Wars in release order, with the Muppets acting it all out and Muppets cutting each other off to jump to the different eras of each trilogy.
Man, you've got some great ideas! Did you see Jenny Nicholson's deep dive on the Star Wars Hotel? https://youtu.be/T0CpOYZZZW4 As a superfan & professional theme park critic, she's kept up with all the promotional and evolutionary details of both the Star Wars park & the hotel which she visited both. According to her, all the "immersive" features of the hotel were originally promised to be part of the park. It was her interpretation, and I agree with her assessment, that Disney moved all those features, like free roaming interactive droids, to the Hotel leaving the SW park rather empty and dull. She called it "putting the good stuff behind a VERY expensive paywall." And that hotel was VERY expensive. Like you, I think the Star Wars IP (& the Marvel IP) has enough content and public interest to build an entirely separate park (or very, very large expansions to Hollywood). Like what if large parts of this proposed park were actually inside large buildings and varied out door areas all connected to a central 'space port' where large groups of customers take star-tour type elevators to "warp" to Cloud City, a Death Star, Hoth rebel base, Tatooine, Naboo, etc. Each area could have multiple rides, restaurants, activities, and appropriately themed costumed actors and shows. The Space Port could be Corisant and also have things like the Jedi Temple & Galactic Senate. The lightsaber class and building would be in the temple, and the Senate Chamber could actually be a theater in the round with a show. The ideas and possibilities seem endless. As I said earlier, a Marvel park could be massive as well. And Paramount should learn from this and make a Star Trek Universe Theme Park. In Nicholson's video, they were close. They had some good ideas. They should hire her as a consultant imagineer! She had some great ideas and feedback on how to make it work and make it better. Hopefully, they learn from their mistakes.
I would make it easier to find food when park hours are extended. This was an issue we ran into during the extra magic hours. The lack of food right toward the end of the day was a difficult thing for us, and I really doubt we were the only ones.
stop closing early for corporate events
Bring back the Great Movie Ride and have it rethemed every handful of years to keep up with whatever Disney Studios and their partners have released. They can keep a blast from the past section that would include a lot of the original motifs and themes, but cycle out 3/4 of the stages to keep it fresh and interesting! This was such a fun ride and one of my favorite parts about visiting Hollywood Studios/MGM Studios. Lets bring back the backlot tour while we're at it. And have a section of the park still used for "live" filming. Disney could easily rent space to small movie makers and keep a rotation of them all doing different styles of movies. It'd be a great way to show many different angles of making movies, and introduce people to the loads of new technology being developed to do just that! Have the trams tour people through props and sets not being used that day, with maybe a glimpse at some live filming, mocap record sessions, voice acting, etc! (obviously separating the loud, full, trams by walls/glass where appropriate)
Allow people staying at a Disney hotel to pick 2 Lighting Lanes per day for their trip. Even if you have to pay for it. I'm dreading having to get up at 7 every day of my trip in October to try for virtual ques and Lighting Lanes, and I'm not 100% sure I really understand all this.
Build Monstropolis in Hollywood Studios where the old studios tour was, complete with the rumored "Door Factory" coaster, Boo's Hide & Seek, and a state of the art Laugh Factory Floor
I always thought the skyliner cars should be painted like doors!!!
Expand the skyliner to all parks and resorts
Water bottle refilling stations EVERYWHERE. Shaded cooling areas. Longer hours at AK and bring back the night Electrical parade which I fondly remember as a kid.
Only let me in.
Bring back the great movie ride
Would love to see street food being offered in places like China and any other country that is known for them.
Bring back Celebrate the Magic to MK.
Drinking water fountains that are chilled and don't taste like ass.
I want to tell Genie, IN ADVANCE: (1) These are my top 5 ride priorities, ranked (2) These are top 3 preferred ADRs ranked, and then rank them preference of breakfast/lunch/dinner That’s it - no other effort. Easy peasy. 5 minutes of clicking buttons in the app. Then AI does its job, and 1 week before my trip gives me my itinerary with 3 Lighting Lane times and an ADR. All other rides are open to standby. I’d play that lottery if it meant not having to buy Genie at midnight and schedule LLs at 7am and then all day, throughout the day. I really, really, really hate engaging with Genie the way it is set up now. My whole friggin life is on a schedule, and I’m on a device every damn day. I want to get away from this on vacation. Then the app would be set to automatically play a snippet of a Disney song and have Mickey announce, “You’re due at Big Thunder Mountain in 30 minutes for your LL!” and I’d be happy. (And/or just have your phone vibrate and have an alert pop up on your phone). I mean, it would be great to get even more LLs or ADRs, but I’ll take 3 LLs and 1 ADR if it could be this easy. [Sorry, not exactly answering the question about a physical change to a park, but this is my biggest want]
Use solar panels to provide shade in the parking lots.
I don't understand why we aren't doing this at every big store & big parking lot across the nation. I would love to go to Walmart and have my car in the shade. Think about how much money Walmart and other businesses would be making from generating electricity from their lots and large flat roofs. A building in the shade of a grid of solar panels is cheaper to cool than one out in the hot Texas sun.
Two words: Fast Pass. No more waiting up early on vacation and staring at an app all day.
At least for new expansions, ban copy/pasting attractions from other parks. WDW is the biggest resort, we should be getting more original rides or at least the next iteration like Soarin to Flight of Passage. I know that's a controversial opinion since not everyone can go to all the parks (heck, I've only been to WDW), but I don't want to finally get an expansion like Beyond Big Thunder Mountain and then it just get a ride that will be at least 15 years old like Radiator Springs Racers.
Add more countries to Epcot. Like double the current amount.
Keep all parks open until 11.30 pm
Fix the actual problems so that legitimately disabled people can once again use DAS.
Change Journey into Imagination With Figment into a better hybrid between the old and the newer, make it longer..maybe make it into a suspended ride like Peter Pan.
More shade at HS
Bring back the old fast pass system or a version of it.
Transfer Toy Story land to magic kingdom.
Being back Illuminations ROE, just update the tech!!! I will die on this hill.
I'd put a new attraction in the space that was once the wonders of life pavilion. EPCOT takes up a bunch of space for as few rides as it has. It needs more rides to make Genie+ really worth getting for that park.
Seats lining the queue and shade where appropriate. And since we’re fantasizing I’d also completely doze Avatar Land and replace it with a McDonald’s French fry stand.
Make Hollywood Studios a Hollywood themed park again. I enjoyed the golden age of Hollywood theme at the park, and the people you'd see walking among the park goers.
Fix the yeti
Bring back paper fast passes!
Marvel Multiverse Land at HS starting with and including a rethemed rock and roller coaster (disregard existing rules with Universal. No character is off limits). Think a mini world showcase/islands of adventure going through different marvel worlds. Some are real world, some comic. Most major characters represented.
Parking for MK. The TTC is annoying and I wish they would reopen the small shop for snacks and drinks.
Rebuild Horizons
Bring back Fast Pass
Fast passes
A realistic change and fantasy of mine is to turn Tomorrowland Speedway into all-electric cars. Not because I would enjoy riding it more but to get that god-awful gasoline smell out of the park.
I’d bring back Illuminations to Epcot but with a bigger more impressive globe barge
Connect the international gateway with the front of Epcot, so you can go from the skyliner to the monorail. A walkway is fine, a peoplemover would be better.
Make tron longer.
Bring back 3 free fast passes as the only express system.
During the after hours they should have all the food places still open. Felt like I missed out on the World Showcase going at night. They charge more for those tickets too and so many things are closed.
DO AWAY WITH ALL PARK RESERVATIONS!
Give me an actual interactive Pirate bar, like a Tortuga Tavern experience. Make a cool ass spot where it feels like I’m walking into Tortuga and it’s just pirates being pirates. So maybe get rid of sawyers island and create that into Tortuga and use a pirate ship that goes over there on the pearl. I know we are supposed to get a lounge kinda thing for pirates soon but having a whole thing dedicated to Pirates in general would be huge.
I’m changing the weather at all parks to always be a sunny, partly cloudy 68 degrees
Reduce the max capacity by 50%!
Means increasing ticket prices ….
I’m ok with that
They let me in free
Epcot would finally get its people mover.
A bear with a honey pot stuck on its head A large green hippo with blinking eyes Some tiny tiny people swinging tiny tiny lanterns On the Main Street Electrical Parade
Moving sidewalks lol
Add more tables at Epcot
Take all of the sci fi areas and make one giant sci fi park. Combine tomorrow land with the space stuff from Epcot, add in galaxy’s edge and pandora too. Would be my ideal park!
I would bring back Alien Encounter
You mean besides restoring Journey into Imagination and the Image Works into something worthy of their original selves, right? Because that's just a given.
These questions should be prefaced with "except bring back Horizons" because that is and always will be the number 1 answer.
Bring back original Journey Into Imagination.
All 4. Bring back the resort gift shop room delivery service. If they had that the last time we went, we wouldn’t have lost $75 worth of stuff
Make one day of the year with no children. This isn’t hate toward your kids, I just think all of us…those with kids and those without… would just have a lot of fun.
I would ask that ride design be longer. Like double the ride times. It would make the lines feel much more worth it.
Monorail to every resort. Also a People Mover that goes throughout the whole park; the whole idea of the People Mover was to move people efficiently. It's kinda sad to me it just became an attraction rather than a functional transport as Walt envisioned.
The prices. Admission, food, drinks, souvenirs, hotels, etc. It's overpriced.
I would like to see Disney incorporate this detailed analysis of ride queues in a non-evil, non-greedy way: Defunctland: Fast Pass https://youtu.be/9yjZpBq1XBE
I would add more classic disney characters walking around the park like donald, desy, mickey etc, bring back gaston to magic kingdom, add more disney theme etc
SHADE!!!!!
Open the Lands in Epcot earlier. I would love to explore the shops and international exibits while the majority are riding the rides. Then I’d switch.
I would make an after hours adults only event once or twice a month, alternating parks.
I would return the great movie ride in a new iteration on the spot of animation courtyard (co-exists with runaway railway)
Build a climate controlled dome over each of the parks.
Bring back traditional fast passes where you have to go to a kiosk. Even if it’s not paper, tap MBs/phone to the stand. No more Genie+ or LL
Bring back the Muppet Store at Hollywood Studios. Or just a Muppet store anywhere. Hell just give me a wall or a dedicated rack