Magical Express

So basically, unless you’re staying at a deluxe, there’s no point in staying on property now. Right?

Such a stupid move. It’s strange, watching all of Disney’s cuts in these times and seeing Universal be able to consistently maintain nearly everything and even add things like an entire roller coaster. It’s almost like someone at Uni infiltrated Disney and made business moves designed specifically to funnel more people towards Uni.

Sad and strange situation.
I can’t remember a time without MDE. I also can’t remember much of my 2 times riding it since I was so young, so I can’t say I’m emotionally attached, but I am hurting for those of you that use it because I know many of you do. It hurts, man.
Going to be an adjustment too. Like I said, I can’t remember a time where it wasn’t here. Going to have to adjust to not seeing the sign at the Resorts or seeing the big buses on the freeway. Going to miss their freeway presence a lot.

SEJ101, as someone who has followed WDW for nearly 50 years I can remember with and without ME. For myself I have tried to use ME to my advantage every time I could and will miss it. I am sure part of their thinking is airline travel is projected to be down for another few years due to the pandemic and the return on the investment is not worth it. That said as I mentioned before I am surprised they did not continue it on as a paid option in some form, especially since the Minnie Van service has been terminated till the train is completed.

I will hold my judgement on the train, fair enough like Walt I love trains, to Disney Springs at this time since we don’t have all the details on how you catch it from the airport, how often it will run and what happens at the DS station, hopefully it will be back to a “you don’t touch your luggage from the time you check it till it arrives in your room” you just scoot over and catch the train, which would make more sense than this mass of humanity gathering their luggage and hauling over and onto the train. Once at DS my guess would there would be a bus terminal akin to the DS internal transportation or ME bus terminal but using the ME type busses to take you to your resort, I would hope that they would not be mixing the arriving/departing guest and internal guests. Plus, looking at Google Earth where the heck are they going to put the DS terminal? There is no room in/around DS, so more that likely it will be “near” DS not “at” DS, think “near” Disney property. Now from a safety/maintenance standpoint that would make more sense as you won’t have busses running on as many surface streets and highways and as far. Who knows, it may somehow be even less hassle!

I often wished that Disney would have ran a monorail from MCO to Disney. I guess this will be close!

We have to remember, it’s not the mistakes you make, it is how you recover from them!

Assuming that the park is clean and safe to visit on October of 2021, and folks are vaccinated/keeping social distance, the Magical Express will reach its capacity the week of the 50th anniversary of Walt Disney World.

If it’s gonna come to an end in 2022, the guests want to get their money’s worth!

WARRSM, Mears is who runs the busses and owns them I think. And I can’t remember how they worked before ME either.

Ubers with a trailer!

SEJ101 as one who works in engineering and is into trains, they are not related, it is hard to get a train to “go” just anywhere, the tracks have massive turning radius, 575 feet, if the train is to be able to do any speed. My guess would be that area southeast of World Center Drive and I-4. It will be interesting as the area between the airport and Disney is fairly congested with housing and businesses, less they can somehow down the middle of 417 toll road.

Funny thing is I was on a ME bus the blew the motor at the Poly, if it was not for them taking the checked luggage separate we have have been up a creek, it took them about 45 minutes to get the replacement there.

PaydirtBurt wrote:

Or did Joe Rohde suck all the innovation out when he retired?

wow they’re hurting if he was all the creativity they had! And it’s looking that way!

Sometimes a MBA is not what it needed, commonsense is what is needed!

And those hauling 2 or 3 strollers! Would not want to be in that situation.

Starbee raises a good point with the cars. Already paying to park at the resort, dining much cheaper off site, souvenirs much cheaper off site. Also as others have said lodging off site is much cheaper for much better hotels. A premium was paid for on site because of the extra benefits. I see this really hurting them in ways they can’t even imagine right now.