DLR Boat Service?

[Banjalot]

Well, I've been thinking, WDW has a boat/ferry service to take guests to some of the upper-class hotels.

Given that WDW has them, why haven't they been provided for DLR? I mean, WDW has lots of them, and they're always packed, so surely they'd be a good idea to take guests between the Resort hotels and the parks?

[Spokker]

Haha, I get it. Good show.

[dlfreak]

Well the reason for that is obvious... the tourist to AP ratio simply wouldn't make something like this feasible. Only APs who understand the system would use it!

[KNRG]

Or similarly - one could very reasonably ask why they didn't build a stop for the monorail at the second gate... but let's take jabs and have the admin gloss over it like it's not blatant trolling.

Perhaps if they chose to build a body of water instead of Club Libby Lu and Anne Geddes *yuck* they could offer boat service to their hotels and a buffer from the real world that has boxed the resort in on every side.

[dlfreak]

No need to get up in arms man, it's just a playful thread poking fun of the WDW vs. DLR threads that pop up here all the time. No need to take it personally.

[club33az]

Or similarly - one could very reasonably ask why they didn't build a stop for the monorail at the second gate... but let's take jabs and have the admin gloss over it like it's not blatant trolling.

Perhaps if they chose to build a body of water instead of Club Libby Lu and Anne Geddes *yuck* they could offer boat service to their hotels and a buffer from the real world that has boxed the resort in on every side.

Yikes.

[KNRG]

No need to get up in arms man, it's just a playful thread poking fun of the WDW vs. DLR threads that pop up here all the time. No need to take it personally.

Well, people have gotten quite nastey toward me for wanting DLR to be decent and to be honest i'm getting to same flack from people on the WDW end of things too elsewhere.

You know what? I want both resorts to not suck.

You know what sucks? Disney "Parks and Resorts" sucks lately. They both do some things right, but apparently get in these pissing matches over who is better and ignore when the other is doing something right. Both seem hellbent and not moving forward and staying locked behind red tape.

Back when Eddie Sotto was giving me advice (yes, that did happen) he told me "Hey, you might not want to work for WDI because of all the red tape and politics" and its turning out to be true. No one can just do the bloody right thing. No one can move forward. There's no progress, there's no just getting it done, just sniping and nastey, and yuck.

Bleh. I'm little sensative about it right now.

[KNRG]

To put it in context - have you SEEN what they did to Spaceship Earth?

If you want to know, go look at Innoventions at DL - that exhibit by Siemens IS the last 5 minutes of the ride. *fumes*

[dlfreak]

Well, people have gotten quite nastey toward me for wanting DLR to be decent and to be honest i'm getting to same flack from people on the WDW end of things too elsewhere.

You know what? I want both resorts to not suck.

You know what sucks? Disney "Parks and Resorts" sucks lately. They both do some things right, but apparently get in these pissing matches over who is better and ignore when the other is doing something right. Both seem hellbent and not moving forward and staying locked behind red tape.

Back when Eddie Sotto was giving me advice (yes, that did happen) he told me "Hey, you might not want to work for WDI because of all the red tape and politics" and its turning out to be true. No one can just do the bloody right thing. No one can move forward. There's no progress, there's no just getting it done, just sniping and nastey, and yuck.

Bleh. I'm little sensative about it right now.

That's the thing, everybody wants all the resorts not only to "not suck" but to be incredible places of enjoyment and entertainment. The methods of achieving this are many and the opinions on the methods of achieving it can and will vary greatly. A lot of it has to do with people people putting stock into what they know from their own experience and then forming their beliefs and ideas around that.

There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, that's what makes message boards linking the world so awesome... because all of those opinions can be heard and discussed. That's why it's so great having opinions and thoughts from members outside of the DLR context because it presents new ideas and new ways of looking at the places we love and hold so dearly.

Now, I take it you're not a fan of the Siemens stuff in SSE?

[KNRG]

They ripped out every single piece of scenery after the 180-top, put in an interesting lighting effect, the you watching an in-vehicle screen to create your own e-surance commercial with Jib-Jab face-pasted-on graphics of the future you chose while travel through a pitch black tunnel backwards.

What was a tunnel with a beautiful lighting design and scenery of the future is now a black void that is illuminated by the glow of a Jib-Jab cartoon stylized to a eSurance commercial with my face badly cropped into it with 2002 technology.