Welcome back to another edition of the Disney Dish Podcast with Jim Hill.

It's me, Lynn Testa, and today we are continuing our last chronological Disneyland story,

which started off explaining how George Lucas and Stephen Spielberg ended up in the Disney Parks.

But before we do that, James, speaking of being in the parks, I have been in the Magic

Kingdom for the last few days, and it's been very interesting there to see how Disney's handling spring break crowds.

Okay, do tell.

I remember back in January we saw an influx of tourists to Walt Disney World far beyond what we had expected to see for that time of the year.

That's caught us by surprise. Our crowd calendar numbers were off. You could see online, people were very, very surprised at not only the number of people

that were in the parks but the wait times at the attractions. Well one of the ideas

that we got in our heads was that maybe this wasn't entirely due to a larger than normal number of people visiting the parks.

Maybe Disney was trying to cut down on ride capacity, right, to save some money.

Okay. And the way that you determine that is, the way that we determine that anyway, is that we put people

at the exits of key rides and we counted how many people came out.

So for example, if we estimate that Pirates of the Caribbean can handle 2,800 people an hour,

what we do is we put somebody at the exit to Pirates of the Caribbean and we count how many people come out over a given hour.

And if it's reasonably close to 2,800, give or take a little bit because of wheelchairs and

and other things.

Then we say that the ride is running at full capacity.

But if the ride is running at 1,400 people an hour, we know something is is off right? We started this back on

February 15th and back on February 15th we did notice that there were a number of

attractions that were not running at anywhere close to full capacity and I'm talking about things like Space Mountain,

Seven Doors Mind Train, other attractions like that.

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