The Waiting Game: A Brief History of Queueing and The Many Lives of Lines at Disney Parks

Exceeding the cost of building a theme park from scratch (allegedly somewhere between $1 billion and $2 billion), Disney World unveiled plans in 2010 for a resort-wide, forward-thinking technological makeover. Here at Park Lore, we dedicated an entire Member-exclusive Special Feature to the rise & fall of MyMagic+, a somewhat ambiguous suite of technological systems,…

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