Miles from Main Street - Your Far from Disney Podcast

Changing Walt Disney World: Potential Alterations and Additions

October 03, 2023 Bryan Lewis & Mykhailo Nahirniak
Miles from Main Street - Your Far from Disney Podcast
Changing Walt Disney World: Potential Alterations and Additions
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Ready to let your imaginations run wild as we dream up potential additions and changes to your favorite Disney parks? Brace yourselves as we kick off with the Magic Kingdom, contemplating how early access to the entire park for hotel guests could transform the experience. We explore how this could better control crowd dispersion, making the most of your early bird status. 

The magic doesn't stop there! Join us as we traverse through potential alterations in Epcot, Future World, and Hollywood Studios. Envision a Spain or Argentina pavilion in the World Showcase or the return of the Festival to the entire park for an enhanced guest experience. We'll also be speculating improvements to the Animal Kingdom, from the quirky Dinoland to the insightful Rafiki's Planet Watch. And wait till we propose a thrilling nighttime spectacle at the lagoon near Expedition Everest. 

We finish up our journey looking at the one thing we would change about the Walt Disney World Resort as a whole. Don't miss your chance to be a part of this armchair imagineering journey!

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Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So today, on Miles for Main Street, we are talking things that we would add to the parks. We like to sit down and be armchair imagineers that's what Bryan likes to call it and today we're going to talk about things that we would like to add to all four parks.

Bryan Lewis:

I am thinking of it more of like it's one thing you would change, which is okay, but I like your idea of add as well, so I think it's going to be a good one. Before we do all that, get out and share this with a friend. Let somebody know that you're enjoying the show. Mykhailo, what is one thing that you would change in the Magic Kingdom? Or add?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

That's tough because the Magic Kingdom is so like quintessentially perfect kind of. I mean, it's not like a perfect park, but like it's so like everything that it has going on is like it just feels like complete, I don't know to me where. Like you've got the Magic Kingdom, you've got all of these like old school rides If you. It feels timeless, I guess, is like what I'm what I'm trying to say. So it's hard to be like, oh, what's something new we can throw in there, or like what's something we can change, because right now it seems pretty good. But one thing and this isn't like construction wise, one thing that I would change is the way that they do like the pre-entrance for hotel guests. That is something I would. I would like the entire park to be open to hotel guests 30 minutes before, rather than just like tomorrow, land and fantasy land. I would. I would much rather like be able to go out throughout the entire park for that first 30 minutes, rather than just be like because it always feels like everybody just kind of funnels into those two areas and like lines are still long, like like the line for Peter Pan fills up super quick, so it's like you basically just spend those 30 minutes standing in line with other guests for, like, if you want to do Peter Pan, that's like, that's what you do.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Is you ride Peter Pan. You get out. Maybe there's like an extra five minutes. We've done this before We'll, we'll get out of Peter Pan. There's like like maybe like five minutes to spare, so we'll get on to Small World and then we'll go ride Haunted Mansion after Small World. But if the whole park was open to everybody during that time, I feel like things would be able to be thinned out, because it's like right away, like we would probably run to Haunted Mansion, so that's already two people deciding to do something else other than what's open to hotel guests at that time. I've always thought that that was weird, that it was like you get to. You get to come into the parks half an hour before everybody else, but it's really only like a couple lands that are open to you.

Bryan Lewis:

I can. I can get behind that. I know that that's kind of the popular area of fantasy land. So they're trying to give you a jump on everyone else so that you can get into a line. Maybe, you know, and I think with only a half an hour that's kind of what you have to plan on is just getting into one line and getting that done, and you're getting that jump on everyone else and starting your day with something out of the way. Right, I am not a proponent of riding Seven Dwarfs Mine Train for a 90 minute wait. So I think that if you can get in line and do it in 20 minutes, that I'm all for that.

Bryan Lewis:

I really think that that time needs to be used. You know like you need to be in line to get into the park really early. You know, get over there that hour earlier, whatever, so that you can be at the front of the line instead of being behind half of the line. But I understand your frustration. Like you are in the same area as everyone else and if everyone was spread out across the entire park it would really be a truly good situation for everyone and we would see that we saw that over at Disneyland right, like being on property and having that half an hour of early entry was very beneficial.

Bryan Lewis:

We didn't. We couldn't experience, but I saw people doing that and you would hear about it. Like you can get in a couple of rides in that time and make it to another one. Be right before they open the park to everyone else. So you know, having it open to every or having everything open at Magic Kingdom would be really beneficial to people. I'm guessing it's hard to get everything up and running in that amount of time and have it ready to go so that it is open for a few people. I don't know for sure what that operationally looks like, but it's an interesting thought and it would be really nice if they could do that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It's kind of weird too. I always kind of assumed that they don't do that because they want to be able to final people in early to the castle area, because, like, isn't that what they do? People can come in to the parks early, but you can't go off and do anything and like nothing's really open. You can get into the park and you can hang out in the hub area for a while while hotel guests are going. So I've always kind of assumed that they do that because a lot of their attention is being paid towards that area during that time, rather than like because if they open up the entire park then, like, literally pretty much everybody's in the park that's going to be there for that morning. It's just a large amount of them are in the hub area.

Bryan Lewis:

I think part of having to have the main street and hub area open is due to the small amount of room they have at the gate and they don't have the room to hold everybody until the park opens. So, yeah, you can get your Starbucks on your way in if you need to and do that before official park opening. So it's not a complete bust. But you're right, there are people that are needed to control crowd at that point.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Well, I talked about mine, Bryan. What would you change at Magic Kingdom?

Bryan Lewis:

You know, it's always bothered me how much dead space there is at the back of Tomorrowland and I would fill that with something I don't know what, because there's not a lot of room there, but I feel like you could do something between Astro Orbiter and the stage, like you could put something there. Maybe it's a better meet and greet, maybe it's I don't know another shop. I don't know what it is, but I've always been bothered by how much valuable real estate is back there and no one is ever in it. Tomorrowland has a number of issues. I think they need to start there. You know, adding Tron, I don't think that has done anything for Tomorrowland because they filled in space that wasn't really being used. So it's still Tomorrowland and they could definitely put something in that back space that would draw people back there.

Bryan Lewis:

Next time we'll see you all in More terrible stage with stitch. Showing up every once in a while is not a draw. You know, maybe some kids like to go back there and dance once in a while, but it's not a draw. I think putting you know like the amount of space they have, maybe a meet and greet is the best thing to put back there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Well, you gotta think about the fact that just because they have that space doesn't mean that like that's all the space that they have. I'm pretty sure in that area there's more space, depending on kind of where, like if we want to get into rerouting the train again, like they could have more space. But I mean that would be another undertaking of kind of like rerouting the train, doing all of that stuff. Or they could pull a what was it? Was it I think it was pirates that goes under the train tracks in Disneyland. So it's like they could do something like that. That kind of takes you underneath and then up into a show building or something like that.

Bryan Lewis:

Well, the problem right there, though, is that you've got the road, you've got World Drive right there. So you can't go too much further back to build anything. But you know, like Mirabel has her new meet and greet area that is very popular and obviously she doesn't fit into Tomorrowland, but there's gotta be some characters that we could put back there in a meet and greet like that. Like there's enough space to build a Mirabel-style meet and greet space that could draw people back there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I don't know. I'm trying to think of what best to put back there and I think I mean I'm gonna be. This is just for me. If there was a meet and greet back there, I still probably wouldn't go back there. But if it was like a shop or a ride or something like that, I feel like then that would give me like a lot more reason to go back there. But I totally understand what you're saying and I think it's funny. I think we see that more because of the People Mover. Like you go through the People Mover and I have this thought a lot where I'm just kind of like what's this area, like what's back here, and like you go through that whole area and you're like, wow, there's nobody back here, and so we're able to get like a bird's eye view of like what's going on in Tomorrowland because of the People Mover.

Bryan Lewis:

I also feel like, just even when I walk back there though, it's just dead space, Like there's nothing back there other than that stage, and half the time there's nothing on the stage. So it drives me crazy that they have all that space back there not being used. You know what, if they've done a the dad from Carousel of Progress meet and greet at times, put him out there. Bring some Star Wars characters in there. That would be interesting. You know, they don't have to be just at Galaxy's Edge, they could be in Tomorrowland. Bring Darth Vader in there. Have some cool looking Star Wars meet and greet back there.

Bryan Lewis:

I think that would draw people back there. Then it would be fun to see something like that. You know you've got a launch bay in Disneyland's Tomorrowland, so it wouldn't be far-fetched to put that back there. I would just like to see a little bit more done to draw people into something. You know, if someone's busy back there, it means they're not waiting in line for Peter Pan or any of the other rides that I want to get on. So you know, I feel like a meet and greet would be a quick and cheap way to fill that space. But enough on that. Why don't we talk Epcot?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Epcot. What would I change? Probably nothing. Moving on, here we go, wow.

Bryan Lewis:

There's nothing you want to change about it.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Other than the fact that everything is under construction and everything is currently changing. I don't know what I would want to change, because everything is currently changing and, like World Showcase, I wouldn't change a thing. World Showcase don't go changing. I don't want to miss a thing. That's a miss a thing. I don't want to change anything. Bye. Yeah, it's.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

We're kind of in this weird limbo of like knowing what the front of the park is actually going to be like, and I Just love the back of the park so much that, like I, I wouldn't Want to change anything other than Actually putting in Some of the rides that they've proposed in the past into world, like the Rhine River cruise and stuff like that. That would be, that would be wonderful, but that that's not a huge deal, but I don't know. I it's, I guess it's. It's.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It's difficult on this one because they are kind of changing so much In the front of the park so you don't really know exactly how all of that's gonna play out. I thought when they were doing all of this that it was gonna be kind of more of a bit like literally the whole, like future world area was gonna get a complete overhaul, and that's kind of not really what's happening. They're just like Changing a couple areas, like it doesn't seem like the land is gonna change at all, which like thank God, because I'm just waiting for the day that they're like, uh, we don't need living with the land, we're just gonna take that out and be like, oh god, no, so yeah, I um well.

Bryan Lewis:

So I agree with you on the putting in some of the stuff in that they have announced, like Mary Poppins, I think would have been cool to have in the UK, but for me I would add Spain, or I think they've been talking Argentina, you know, to add to the the world showcase. I think that's something that they could add. I you know they've talked about it for years, doing something back there and there is space back there to do it, but they just haven't been able to get that to be funded, I guess. Um, so I think that's something I would like to see.

Bryan Lewis:

And, to your point, with future world, and that they were gonna be changing so much up front, you know they gutted the middle of that land, that that part of the park, and they had a lot of plans that they ended up Not doing because they didn't have the money for it. And I think that, um, like party pavilion, I like to call it, like they were gonna put that multi-story building in the middle that you would be able to watch fireworks from. I think that would have been a really neat addition, but unfortunately it didn't keep its money funded, so they they had to move on to something else. So I'm kind of interested to see what that looks like when the construction walls do come down finally. But you know I I get what you're saying. There's so much that they're adding already and so much that we're looking forward to that. It's hard to think about what else to do.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It's also kind of hard to like understand. So even back when this this park opened it, it's weird because like it has an identity crisis, but then at the same time, it really doesn't have an identity crisis because the Imagineers thought through so much of this park but at the same time it's like Countries, like old, old world countries and like new technology. That's kind of like what's happening. That's like always been like the idea of this park and it's it's tough because I feel like that I like they've been kind of getting away from that idea but keeping Kind of like this same vibe and the same feel of stuff. So it's like what they're coming out with in the front of the park.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I've always thought that the Moana area Seemed kind of weird to put that in there, but at the same time it sounds awesome. So like Okay, but yeah, I've always thought of that area as just like Like future world, like like all of like. Like back in the day when you used to be able to walk through like all of the day, all of the different exhibits of stuff, mm-hmm, like that's kind of what I've always thought of that area. So I guess it's kind of weird that now it's kind of shifting more into something else. Um, and I do feel like the one thing that I I do enjoy that this has turned into a rant of of how they're changing EPCOT, but I do think it's going to be cool that that the front of the park is going to have more festival stuff.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Because, they're going to have, like that festival stage and everything. So I think that that's going to help Kind of bring the festival into the entire park, because it's always kind of felt like two different parks really right, yeah, you've got the world showcase and you've got future world, um, but yeah, I I don't know it's.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

It's a tough one to decide exactly what, um, what to change, because there's so much change happening and there's kind of always change Happen to get EPCOT, um. So I think I'm going to go with uh, bring back figment popcorn bucket.

Bryan Lewis:

And maybe they will.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

They probably will, somebody. It's here's another. Here's another rant, not really a rant, but somebody was talking about hey, I got this free figment popcorn bucket. Like should I, should I keep it or should I sell it? Uh, and my first reaction was like oh my god, sell it. Like you'll probably get a lot of money. But then I went on ebay to like look at how much they're going for, and they're only going for like 55 bucks. Now, like back in the day I think they were going for like 200 bucks, which was like insane. But now I think disney's just come out with them so many times that like they're not as as rare as they used to be anymore.

Bryan Lewis:

Right, yeah, which is kind of the point that they try to hit is to Limit how much people are making off of their stuff. But let's move on to Hollywood studios. Um, speaking of change, this just went through a big change, um, with star wars coming in and toy story land, but I feel like there's room for improvement. Um, so any ideas there?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, this has been something that I thought of a lot and it's tough because I've I've looked at the, the geography and I understand why they haven't done this, but I want them to like fully, like, like actually make the Incredibles area like that, the Incredibles promenade or basically whatever that is like, actually go go into Galaxy's Edge. Like I've always I've never understood why that's a dead end and I feel like, since it's a dead end, people don't go in there. Like you can very, like, very often go back in there and there's absolutely nobody back there and it's a cool area, like it's, it's fun, like I like the Incredibles and I like Pixar and like it has this cool vibe back there, but it's a dead end and so, like you can't just kind of like flow through it and be like, oh, this is cool, oh, my god, look at that. Like on your way to somewhere else, which is like that's kind of what happens with the geography of all these other parks is you never really like hit a dead end. You're just kind of like flowing into like another area as as you're going along. So I feel like that's that's how that has always been my thing like, oh god, they need, they need to change this Because I feel like that's just why that that area back there gets neglected so often.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

But looking at the actual geography of the park, I kind of understand because I think like that area would shoot you out into like Not not only just Galaxy's Edge, but I think it's like a bunch of like I think that's where they've got like ships and stuff like right behind there. Okay, so, so wouldn't be something easy to just like open up and be like hey, here's another entrance to galaxies edge which I, if I Remember correctly, I think Disney land has more entrances to galaxies edge than Disney world does. I Thought I remember there being three entrances to Galaxy's edge in land and the race to in world.

Bryan Lewis:

Yeah so.

Bryan Lewis:

And that might be a geography thing too, based on what's already at Hollywood Studios, that they aren't able to build that third entrance. But you know it would. It's interesting, you know, even, if they could reroute from there. You know, and I don't know the geography, I haven't looked at it like you have, but if there's a way to reroute around those ships or whatever, that would be kind of cool. Because it is like you get back there into star, into the Star Wars area, and it's either in or out on One end or the other. You can't Duck out early if you want, and that's kind of a long walk if you're in a hurry or or whatever. So I Like it. It's good point. Now for me.

Bryan Lewis:

This park has a lot of Heavy hitters. Right like this is marquee ride park and and other than swirling saucers and the Lightning McQueen show. I mean you've got a couple of shows right, but there aren't filler rides. It's either you're waiting in a line or you're riding a ride. You're not really enjoying what's going on around you or finding other things to do and at the the threat of losing listeners. I Think it's time for Indiana Jones to go.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yes, yes, yes, Bryan, thank you.

Bryan Lewis:

It's such a big area that's being used by this show, they could probably put a couple of filler rides in there. You know, small, dark rides that take up people's time and Give you something to do while you're waiting for your next Lightning lane. You know like I think this is a prime space that needs to be developed differently. Don't get me wrong the Indiana Jones show is a lot of fun, but I think it's reached its moment, and you know they're not even bringing in the crowd anymore. They're not taking volunteers, right. So it's just one of those times that I Feel like one of the popular things that is there has reached its limit, needs to go and could be used To help crowds, because it's such a difficult park to be in. It's time to to say goodbye to Indie there, and especially if they're gonna be bringing Indie in over at Animal Kingdom, you know we don't need the show.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I completely agree. This is this has been something I've thought for a long time, because I think I've seen that Indiana Jones show once and it was when I was very little, and now we just never walk over there. Like, I think we walked over there once and that was when I think they had that Indiana Jones Museum area and I think it had gone away at that point, so we just walked back there to see if they had anything left, but it's like we just never. We never go back there, we never do that show. And you're right, there's so much space back there that they could be using for plenty of other things. But yeah, again, another kind of Brian, you should be like a park manager, because you keep thinking about like crowd management and like the problem areas where people don't go and like getting people excited to go to those areas. So I like that thought process.

Bryan Lewis:

Thanks, I try. Well, it's just. You know, when it comes to updating areas, changing a ride for the sake of changing a ride doesn't make sense to me. It's like what can we do that's gonna help the park? And for me, Indiana Jones isn't drawing the people that it needs to be drawing anymore and it needs to be used differently.

Bryan Lewis:

And I was watching a stream the other day and they were moving those giant boulder sets out of the way and I'm looking at like where they're putting them while they're doing the show and it's just like there's so much land back there that they could reuse. So, yeah, I would like to see something. You know, even if it's an alien, swirling saucer is type of ride like that doesn't require a large footprint, right, you could put something back there. What if they did a Cars Land? I bet they could fit Cars Land in there.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Actually, though, actually, though, that would be awesome.

Bryan Lewis:

Wouldn't it.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

That would be perfect.

Bryan Lewis:

You know they wouldn't be able to get racers back there, but they could do a lot of other. You know they could do the Luigi ride and the Tow Maters spin, so I think that's something that we could definitely put back there. So I think we've hit the nail on the head there. For Hollywood Studios, what do you think about Animal Kingdom? They've offered up what they wanna do with Dinoland. What would you do?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So you already took my thunder. I was just gonna say, Topper, plug your ears and just say Dinoland, a hundred percent. And they're already kinda doing that. They've offered up what they're doing and I feel like, honestly, like the last thing about that, like the only thing that I really had a huge issue with, was Dinoland.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Another thing that I mean I've done before and I actually really enjoyed, but I just feel like people just don't go back. There is Rafiki's Planet Watch. So that's another thing that I mean it just doesn't have the draw that it should, or it just doesn't draw a lot of people. So that's one thing I would change. I guess that's really Dinoland and Rafiki's Planet Watch are the two things that I have. The biggest issue with Dinoland is changing. We know that. So, and I just don't know what we would do with Rafiki's Planet Watch, and I don't think it. Well, the thing about it, too, is that you really can't change all that much, because that's back like they're doing all their tests and everything on the animals. That's like what Animal Kingdom is is like it's also like a working clinic or whatever. So like you can't really change all that much other than like thieving.

Bryan Lewis:

I would agree with that. There's not a lot they can do back there, but I feel like, I mean, having the animation experience is kind of helpful, but, as we've talked about in the past, like I'm not gonna take a train ride to do the animation experience unless I really have the time to do it, I think there's something charming about it back there. I feel like they could add something to it, though.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I agree, I haven't actually haven't been back there in a while, cause it's like I mean honestly, like you said, the hardest part about going there is the time suck.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

That like you can't just, oh, I'm done with this, like I've spent as much time as I wanna spend here, let me leave.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Kind of the same thing you were talking about with Galaxy's Edge, where it's like if you're in it, you're in it, and like you're doing Galaxy's Edge, like if you're in the middle of Galaxy's Edge, like you have to like it takes you a while to like walk out. You can't just be like, okay, like, I'm done with this, like let me quickly leave. So that's the tough part that I have with it is that it's really just it's tough to get back there, like, and then once you're back there, it's kind of like this is cool, okay, I'm done with this, and so it's like also tough, like because it's literally a train. So, yeah, I Guess it would be like how could we route people in there without needing to take a train? And I think they have the train because they they don't want, they don't want the animals so close to the park, like the actual park proper. So they actually like take you out to somewhere else kind of. I'm guessing that's kind of why they have like the train and everything.

Bryan Lewis:

Well, I and I was thinking about that too like I think the train is there because there's, because you know, when you're on the train you see some backstage areas and I, so I think what you're going past Some of the buildings that are needed to house the animals for the safari. So you know, like there's a reason why you're only able to look on one side of the train, right. So what you're going around may be even more backstage type stuff that they need to have there for the animals. So you know that I I'm not sure that there's actually room around the train area that you'd be able to do anything, but you know, I just feel like I've always felt like there needs to be more of a draw to refiki's Planet Watch. So Now for me.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Oh, I was gonna say is this, is this yours too?

Bryan Lewis:

but no, no, I, I. So I think that we're in agreeance on the Planet Watch. We've always talked about that on the show. But for me, going over to the lake Near expedition Everest and you know that show area where they did kite tails, which is a nice show I Want world of color. I'm putting my stake in the ground. You know I've. I've gone on wondering if they can put the fountains in there. I know they've done the waterfans for rivers of light. So I, I know it's possible, like they can do it. Give me world of color, give me something that is Worthy of a nighttime spectacular in that park. You've got a full day park. You've got something that people are going to come to. Let's do it. Enough messing around, we don't. You know like. I completely understand. No, fireworks, right, but let's get rivers of light. There's no rivers of light. Yeah, we've tried that. It didn't work. World of color, man, we need world of color. Let's do it. I'm done messing around people.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So I Would. I mean, I think it would be it could be easily done to, kind of because world of color I Feel like world of color would would go well in Hollywood studios, but like they'd really. I mean, I Don't think you could just take world of color and put it into animal kingdom. I think it would have to be more like like what the the tree of life show is, where it's like more. I mean, like they could totally do it more like animal-centric but just using the world of color technology that they have.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

The only other thing that I think of is that I think that Lagoon that they built Was man-made, so it was it's easier to get all of their junk in that. Well, not that the lagoon in animal kingdom isn't man-made, but I just don't know how, how they did that with In animal kingdom, like how they built that, that lake area. It just seems like it would be a little more difficult to like get out of all the tech in there from when. How they did it at California adventure, because I think that, like lagoon in California ventures just like super, it's like not very, not very deep. So I feel like that's why they were able to do what they did with it. Then again, I I'm not a hard percentage around that, but I think that's that's why they've been hesitant to do anything out there.

Bryan Lewis:

I'm cool. I completely agree with that and I've said that in the past. But they did waterfans for rivers of light, so it's possible they can do it. Let's let's stop messing around. Give me world of color.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I'm ready.

Bryan Lewis:

I'm done like this is this is go time, people. I.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Don't know, I like kites tails. Just bring back kites tails. Can't we just

Bryan Lewis:

Hey Kite tails during the day. You know, the only thing that can think of that's maybe stopping them is that boats go through there a lot. So it makes me wonder if if that's why but again, they did the waterfans they can make this work. It's Disney like. This, isn't some Second-rate shop, this is Disney. They know how to make things work. I and they've done it with the waterfans. As I keep saying over and over again, sorry about that, but yeah, let's, let's get world of color.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, and they. They have the waterfans in there already, so All right, last one, mekailo, let's think a whole Disney World resort.

Bryan Lewis:

What are you changing?

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

the resort as a whole? Yes, I would change Hotel prices.

Bryan Lewis:

Okay, hotel prices. I like that no oh, oh.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

You know, what I would actually change is I find that I want to do this way more often and that would be and I completely understand that this would be like a complete like cluster, but somehow I would like to go from resort to resort without Getting an Uber or going to a park and then Going to a resort as in. When I say resort, I mean like hotel, because I find it I mean, especially when I'm trying to hope Resort hop, I find myself needing to like go back to these hubs all the time, to like get around to where I want to go, mm-hmm. And so I guess I mean An Expanded transportation, like some somehow having an area, I mean like I I Don't know exactly how they do it but somehow having the ability to go from Resort to resort. Maybe it's not even a, a bus, something like that, but I feel, I feel like that happens with me often when I want to go from from hotel to hotel For all of the different like it's not even like I just like want to go there to hang out, like maybe I have a dinner reservation or something like that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

I feel like that that would be something that I would like to change With the transportation. Now that would probably mean that there would be way more you buses or or cars or something like that out. But I think that I mean that would be helpful for me, for, like the way that I do Disney and maybe it's kind of like a shuttle type thing where you could go to the front desk and be like I need to get to this place and they could like call you a shuttle or something like that. I don't know, but I do find myself getting frustrated with needing to kind of go to these hubs to get to different hotels that I want to go to.

Bryan Lewis:

So this kind of hits on what I was going with my big change too. But to your point, I totally understand that frustration. It drives me crazy that I can't just go from one resort to another. But when you start really breaking it down they're starting to get there.

Bryan Lewis:

So let's look at the monorail. You've got the monorail that goes around the lagoon so you can get to three resorts there pretty easily. You've got the wilderness lodge and Fort Wilderness that you can grab boats. So that is kind of one of those spots where it's like I have to find a new mode of transportation to get there. But then you take the Skyliner. We're connecting pop century and art of animation through Caribbean beach and the Riviera. So you've got some of them connected there. Again. You go to Disney Springs. You've got the boat ride that goes from Disney Springs past Old Key West, saratoga, the two, port Orleans. So those are connected right. So you can kind of get there for certain resorts right. But I completely understand that you can't leave an all-star and take a bus over to the Grand Floridian right or over to Porter Leans. I think that would be awesome. I question if the demand is there for that.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Well.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

So I guess here's my more specific change, because I've actually I've tried to figure this out before in my head where I was like, oh, we could take the Skyliner to EPCOT and then from EPCOT we can get on the monorail and go to Magic Kingdom.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

You can't do that because you literally have to go through the park, like you have to have. I mean, I could do that now with an able pass, but as a regular guest you can't do that. So somehow having the ability to be at the front of EPCOT and walk around to the Skyliner, I think that type of access would open things up a whole lot, because then you've got the monorail area and the Skyliner area all connected and the Skyliner takes you to two different parks. So then really it's just kind of like Animal Kingdom. That like is I mean, animal Kingdom is out on its own anyways already, but yeah, that would be connecting a lot of stuff and being able to like I mean, that was my idea at one point was we'll do the Skyliner resorts and then we'll do the monorail resorts. And then all of a sudden I was like, oh crap, but you have to go through EPCOT to do that.

Bryan Lewis:

So yeah, and I was going to say, well, you could Skyliner to Hollywood and get on the bus then, but there you are going to a hub, right? So, yeah, it would be nice to do that. And to your point and back to what I was saying, my change would be to put the Skyliner out to Animal Kingdom and Animal Kingdom Lodge. You know, when they first built the Skyliner and you look at the maps, like it's not that far of a jump to be able to connect it to Animal Kingdom and that area and you'd be able to bring in the All Stars then doing that, and so I would love to see that happen. That's where my change is. Or add let's get the Skyliner out to Animal Kingdom. I think that would quicken a lot of what's going on. It would help the bus situation in Animal Kingdom because that's the only way in or out if you're not driving yourself.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

Yeah, I like that. I think that would be a great idea. But yeah, it's just something that kind of connects everything. I feel like doing that and then, I don't know, just having the ability to get to and, like you said, they're there. There are ways of going to each resort and having it be kind of connected, but there are those times that you need to go to a hub to get to somewhere else.

Bryan Lewis:

Right, yeah, but we want to know from you guys like what's your one change that you would make? Let us know. We'll read it on the show or leave us a voicemail on our website, www. milesformainst. com. We're also on Facebook and Instagram. We're @Miles from Main Street. Join us out there and let us know what y ou're thinking you'd like to see change in the parks.

Mykhailo Nahirniak:

But, like we always say, some love close but others don't. So let's talk about it. We'll see you next time on Miles from Main Street.

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