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Basically reservations and blackout days. All guests are required to make a reservation in advance. Have several different price points with the difference being what days are blacked out and how far in advance you can make a reservation and how many reservations you can make at a time. Higher tier pass holders get a number of extra visits which by pass blackout days. Disneyland sent out surveys to former pass holders which outlined possible tiers and pricing. At the high end around $1500 for 6 reservations few blackout dates, 90 days in advance reservations, and 6 by pass blackout tickets. At the low end only 1 or 2 reservations at a time, 30 days in advance, lots of blackout days, including the entire summer, and few if any bypass blackout day tickets. All of the passes appeared to still technically be unlimited, as long as you can manage to make reservations but same day reservations are unlikely. Disneyland is pretty unique they had a pass holder base which was estimated to be 5 times larger then the total resort capacity. Combined with the tourists and it was either hitting capacity or close to capacity frequently. There are only a handful of other parks on the planet which had similar issues before the pandemic. The only other one off the top of head is Tokyo Disneyland. Capacity issues in Florida were basically only ride openings and Christmas to New Years. Unless seasonal parks start seeing capacity issues outside of special events like Haunt, it’s unlikely to be replicated widely. Although something might need to be done about attendance during Haunt. I could see requiring reservations or just going to a separate ticket.

Honestly a lot of fans have wanted to see Phantom Theater make a return ever since Paramount replaced it back in 2003. We've seen Cedar Fair return a ton of old favorites to parks across the chain and KI has been no exception. Could KI return this beloved attraction? I'd imagine it wouldn't return in its original form but just seeing the IP return would be enough for me. I'd even take a haunt attraction themed to the story or even walk around characters during the fall season.

Hey everyone! Longtime lurker, recent new member here with some questions about Phantom Theater, one of my most favorite rides in the world. I have some connections with Phantom Theater that I can't discuss yet, but I will definitely be posting here when I can. I've dedicated a lot of time to researching and scouring the net for photos and videos, and I've reached out to several media companies that either did videos or articles on the ride back in the day in hopes of obtaining copies of the uncut footage and high quality photos. With all that said, I had some questions that hopefully someone on here can answer. How many of the figures still exist? I know they appeared wrapped in sheets the last time they were out and haven't appeared publicly since. Does anyone have photos of the ride when it was operating? Particularly of the characters. I've seen most of what's publicly available online. I'm especially interested in clear shots of the characters and any behind the scenes photos. Can anyone explain the Peppers Ghost scene? Which characters were in it and what were they doing? I never actually got to ride Phantom Theater and that scene doesn't show up very well in videos. From what I can see, I've gathered that Houdelini is in the top left, Hilda is on the building, Garbonzo in his cannon, and Lionel is toward the bottom. I'm assuming Maestro is down there too? And of course the audience members. I think that's all my questions for now, but I'm sure I'll have more eventually haha.

S&S, now S&S Sansei, bought Arrow out of bankruptcy. They still manufacture Arrow replacement parts. Source: https://www.facebook.com/SandSSansei/photos/a.655603447945747/684447701727988/

Not relevant to your claim that parks will buy rides from essentially everyone but B&M somehow as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic? Then what is relevant? Bashing B&M with no basis in reality? The post you replied to used specific evidence that refutes that.

That's 10 years of not buying a single product from the company. Doesn't that say anything to you? Since 2007: Shoot the Rapids had a boat flip in 2013 and permanently closed in 2015 ($10,000,000 investment that only lasted 5 years) I-305 had to be redesigned in response to extreme geforces Maverick had to have its heartline removed before it opened Intamin has cost the chain an insane amount of money for rides that have been plagued with downtime.

That's just marketing - finding some unique and interesting way to describe the ride to make people want to ride it. Even if a ride isn't the most extreme thing ever built, they still need to tell you how much fun it is. "Introducing GateKeeper, a brief, tame, leisurely ride around the front of the park. Oh and it flips you over a few times, I guess." Who would want to ride that?

The thing I don't understand is why the people who don't care for B&M are so hell bent on it that they want to see them out of business. And its not a select few of them either. Almost every person I've come across that prefers Intamin to B&M are on that kind of extreme.

If it is like past passholder days, it will be busy.

?. I don't know of any hype for Emperor. I know there's hype for jersey devil, pantheon, velocicoaster, iron gwazi, icebreaker, stunt pilot, etc.

I think the premise of the question is flawed, as there is still a chance that the park could re-install the attraction as it was in a modern take. The layout would have to be restored, and major restoration of the original cars and figures would have to occur, but the park and chain has been on a nostalgia kick for some time now. I don't think it's too far to say that BBoBH is aging, rapidly. It is a new take on a system built in 2003, and we are now in 2021. The history is there, the enthusiasm of the attraction, is there, it is a cheap investment and would have a large ROI with families who missed the attraction. The whole building in my opinion just needs a deep cleaning and needs to be refreshed with a classic attraction.

The Orange County Register has published an interesting report which delves into why Disney has moved to end its season pass programs. The likely culprit seems to be a concern millions of season pass holders will swamp Parks reservations soaking up all available visitations due to covid required crowd reduction efforts It helps to think about Park capacity much as an airline or hotel conceptualizes seat and room inventory. Once the airplane leaves the runway with an empty seat that revenue can never be recaptured. The seat was as perishable as a Boysenberry left to rot on the vine. Ditto a hotel room. If it fails to sell tonight that room night of revenue can never be sold and captured. The sun set and rose on the opportunity to sell the inventory. The room revenue potential is forever lost. Perished in the daylight. Now think about Park visits in the same vein. No longer able to just squeeze one more visitor in the gates due to covid capacity limits, your product has become much more like an airline seat or hotel room. Both industries the management of occupancy or seating capacity is referred to as yield management. The goal is to achieve some level of revenue on every seat or room every day. Some seats will be sold at a discount, if necessary. Same for the hotel room. At the end of the day the airline or hotel achieves increased revenues. Doesn’t that sound an awful like an amusement park with covid crowd restrictions? Yield management to the rescue. Suddenly, the Park must make each seat count. Maximum revenue must be obtained from each admission. See the problem with unlimited season pass admissions? On many days they are capable of soaking up every available space but at highly discounted prices. Best for Park industry to start selling the limited capacity at premium rates—just like cruise lines do. With suddenly limited capacity at Parks the value and revenue stream from each ticket becomes much more critical to company health and profitability. Indeed, it becomes paramount. The best, highest spending, guest must be placed in the Park first and foremost. Then unsold space can be discounted and put on clearance to harvest additional revenues. Just like an airline seat. These are the concepts the Orange County Register newspaper report hints at but fails to spell out in simple terms. Fram a revenue perspective Amusement Parks are now much more like hotels than a festival ground, which can almost always accommodate just-one-more guest. https://www.ocregister.com/2021/02/04/disneyland-seizes-opportunity-to-reboot-annual-pass-program

Key words is "last decade". Let's see how many they build in the next 10 years....