The Season Pass

So - is your local theme park open (and if so, do you feel good enough about both their operations and your fellow guests to visit it)? If not, how are you getting your theme park fix?

I've been watching the parks start to announce re-openings, and as eager as I am for that to happen I've been a little worried about how some of them are going about it - especially many smaller ones. I was thinking about writing a post, then Park Journey said it for me. (Note that this is not a political post, and any political comments will be deleted.)

Thanks to Westcoaster for the heads-up. Looking forward to seeing how all of this works when they roll it out.

Another interesting post-COVID take on theme park experiences from Eddie Soto.

Another interesting take on post-COVID theme parks, esp. when read back-to-back with the previous one, by none other than Eddie Soto.

Cory Doctorow is a well-known Disneyphile - thought his thoughts in this thread on reopening the Shanghai park, specifically, and how it differs from the rest, were interesting. https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1259871035886759938

I'd never realized the Hong Kong take on Big Thunder Mountain was *so* different from the original I'm used to at Disneyland - both launched and backward sections? Who other than Disney creates such different "regional" versions of the same ride?

Been seeing a lot of beautiful drone footage of empty places, including theme parks. This one of Efteling might be hard to top - what's the best one you've seen?

I think Doug just dropped a little hint about coming attractions...

Cross-posting from Twitter.

"The theme parks felt they could make more money from current, popular properties instead of the classics and they were right. It makes complete sense from a business point of view. But I do feel, as an audience member, we’re missing that possibility of discovering something brand new." How do you guys feel on this?

Everyone wish Doug Barnes a happy birthday today!

Anyone want to expand this around the world?

(Video) When there's no traffic to report on, I guess you send your helicopter to get shots of all the empty theme parks. https://twitter.com/KCBSKCALDesk/status/1240513087582564353