Expectations management (Part V)

Amusement parks, crowd control and load-balancing

8 min readAug 8, 2021

A giant nighttime crowd at the foot of Disneyland’s Main St, USA, looking toward the castle. Image: Mike Saechang https://www.flickr.com/photos/saechang/29066900230/ CC BY-ND: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/ — *Image:* *Mike Saechang*/*CC BY-ND 2.0*

This is Part V in this series. In Part I, I opened the with news that Disneyland Paris is getting rid of its Fastpasses in favor of a per-ride, per-person premium to skip the line, and explored the history of Disney themeparks and what they meant to Walt Disney. In Part II, I explored Disneyland’s changing business-model and…

Expectations management (Part V)

Amusement parks, crowd control and load-balancing

Written by Cory Doctorow