Yesterday Disney reported that they will be doing a fireworks test this upcoming Monday November 16 in Magic Kingdom park. While this is very exciting news to hear, we’re not exactly sure what it means other than just a test.
Once Disney World opened back up this summer, fireworks were one of the many alterations the park needed to take in order to maintain safe social distancing and other measures to stop the spread of Covid-19. Fireworks always gathered crowds thus making it very hard to social distance from one another. However, we were in the parks last week when new castle projections were displayed and saw what might be a preview of things to come when fireworks do return.
At no time when we were in the parks observing the castle did we ever feel that people were too close to us or that we were crowded in any way. While the park capacity was limited to 25% last week, that most certainly had an impact on crowd spacing. With the announcement made on increasing the parks capacity by another 35%, will this have much of an impact on crowd sizes?
We don’t know exactly when that increase in capacity will take place, but we still don’t believe that it’ll have as much of an impact due to the amount of empty places we observed first hand during one of the most busy weekends we’ve seen in the parks so far this year.
We hope that these tests are for maybe a new show or testing areas where park goers can view the fireworks spread out safely. In any case if you’re in the Magic Kingdom area on Monday night, you will get to see some fireworks for the first time since March!
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