Disney News, Discussion & an Element of Fun - 2023 Edition

[princesscinderella]

It’s spring forward too so on Monday everyone is going to need an extra dose of caffeine!

 

[Naomeri]

Wait wait wait... are you telling me it's NOT friday?!

 

[Leigh L]

It’s spring forward too so on Monday everyone is going to need an extra dose of caffeine!

omg, thank you for the reminder! I'd totally forgotten.
DD and DH have an 8 a.m. event on Sunday...dang, I knew it weeks ago but forgot since LOL

 

[The Foolish Mortal]

Tron VQ instructions are announced (no surprises):
https://wdwnt.com/2023/03/details-announce-for-tron-lightcycle-run-virtual-queue-at-magic-kingdom/

 

[kylenne]

Tron VQ instructions are announced (no surprises):
https://wdwnt.com/2023/03/details-announce-for-tron-lightcycle-run-virtual-queue-at-magic-kingdom/

No surprises but very happy to see they confirmed the 6pm drop for deluxe EEH guests. We will definitely be taking advantage of that in May.

 

[disneyfan150]

GotG is going to continue to be VQ in April. Thank goodness DD will be going with me in May. She is great at getting us BGs.

 

[disneyfan150]

I think it was the full moon! My students have been off too. It feels like Friday today.

Same! One more day until our spring break.

Happy Friday Eve Everyone!!

 

[jade1]

Crane working on Harmonious barge.

You need to zoom in. Just trying to make it look better.

 

[Duckbug.Ducktales]

GotG is going to continue to be VQ in April. Thank goodness DD will be going with me in May. She is great at getting us BGs.

Oh, good! I was hoping for VQ still for our May trip as we prefer not waiting in physical lines

 

[kylenne]

Well this is happening.



I went to check allergy menus on the MDE app and got the account deactivated message and just now tried to continue my first watch of Star Wars Rebels on D+ and it kicked me out on my Apple TV. Really feeling for people in the parks right now. And guest services bearing the brunt of Disney’s totally incompetent IT.

 

[Gusey]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634129535850389504

 

[KayMichigan]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634129535850389504

Looks great, but man, that costume must be a chore to wear!

It'd be cool if they could put this in the American parks but I can't imagine trundling around in that thing when it's 100+ degrees out and 98% humidity.

 

[kylenne]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634129535850389504

Omg she’s so cute. And the 4*Town music!! I would love if she met at WDW, it would be nice for the Canada pavilion.

 

[rangerxenos]

GotG is going to continue to be VQ in April. Thank goodness DD will be going with me in May. She is great at getting us BGs.

I was there during a really busy week last month, and had no issues getting an early Boarding Group on each of my EPCOT days. So long as you're staying on property, you should have no issues.

 

[Smugpugmug]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1634129535850389504

I know Florida barely gets the cool meet and greets but I would LOVE it if Disney brought Mei over. They would have to put her indoors as that costume looks really heavy and would be miserable to walk around in.

 

[BorderTenny]

Looks great, but man, that costume must be a chore to wear!

It'd be cool if they could put this in the American parks but I can't imagine trundling around in that thing when it's 100+ degrees out and 98% humidity.

It's almost never actually 100+ degrees in Florida. People need to stop conflating temperature and heat index.

 

[voxparse]

Well this is happening.

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I went to check allergy menus on the MDE app and got the account deactivated message and just now tried to continue my first watch of Star Wars Rebels on D+ and it kicked me out on my Apple TV. Really feeling for people in the parks right now. And guest services bearing the brunt of Disney’s totally incompetent IT.

They are not incompetent. If they were this stuff would literally not work at all. What they do is incredibly complex for a single app/experience. Doing it across multiple apps and physical locations with geo fencing and dealing with all the people that share accounts makes this all mind blowingly difficult. I get the frustration, services should be up and working and when they aren't it sucks, but take a minute to think about the engineers that have likely been up working on an issue like this 24/7 since it broke.

 

[kylenne]

They are not incompetent. If they were this stuff would literally not work at all. What they do is incredibly complex for a single app/experience. Doing it across multiple apps and physical locations with geo fencing and dealing with all the people that share accounts makes this all mind blowingly difficult. I get the frustration, services should be up and working and when they aren't it sucks, but take a minute to think about the engineers that have likely been up working on an issue like this 24/7 since it broke.

I work in IT for a living, for the single largest municipality in the US, dealing with complex webs of systems including legacies. And this is pure incompetence. Whether it’s from the devs, product owners, QA or PMs, someone—likely multiple someones—dropped the ball. I don’t understand how this release got validated. I really don’t. Breaking authentication isn’t exactly a Day 2 issue.

If my organization was as continually feckless as this lot heads would be rolling, but Disney can’t seem to keep anyone decent in the tech side of the org (for a number of reasons), and Iger forcing people back into the office isn’t going to help the situation.

 

[BrianL]

I work in IT for a living, for the single largest municipality in the US, dealing with complex webs of systems including legacies. And this is pure incompetence. Whether it’s from the devs, product owners, QA or PMs, someone—likely multiple someones—dropped the ball. I don’t understand how this release got validated. I really don’t. Breaking authentication isn’t exactly a Day 2 issue.

If my organization was as continually feckless as this lot heads would be rolling, but Disney can’t seem to keep anyone decent in the tech side of the org (for a number of reasons), and Iger forcing people back into the office isn’t going to help the situation.

I agree. While it is likely that the individual devs are not "incompetent", I think that the department as a whole has systemic and cultural issues that lead to rushed projects and missed details, etc. This likely flows from the top down and it will take a massive shift in leadership style to change that.

 

[nkosiek]

At least I am not the only one! I shared my struggles with my principal this morning. What a week!!

I agree. While it is likely that the individual devs are not "incompetent", I think that the department as a whole has systemic and cultural issues that lead to rushed projects and missed details, etc. This likely flows from the top down and it will take a massive shift in leadership style to change that.

It will also take them paying near market rates for their IT employees.