Queue Theory – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Boredom and its discontents (Part II)

Amusement parks, crowd control and load-balancing

Queue for Walt Disney World’s ‘it’s a small world.’ Image by Michael Gray: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kathika/2601484170. CC BY-SA: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ — *Michael Gray*, *CC BY-SA 2.0*

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.

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