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How does it hurt the interest of the parks? Doesn't it ultimatley draw the attention to new, upcoming rides and attractions?
It ruins the surprise. If they wanted people to see it they wouldn’t put up facades to block the construction.
I can see why they don't want to be known. The parks would probably have a field day with their lawyers. Not to mention the FAA, since it looks like they are most likely violating line of site drone rules, unless they are doing it in a helicopter or plane.
To me it looks like they work for the parks. Both controlling and a good Twitter advertisement.
Like the article says, we don't know much about them except that they likely do use one of those tourist helicop-tours that are all over Orlando. I personally don't think they're employed by the parks or anything, I think they're just a super fan like I am that has carved out their own niche in the fandom. I know that if I lived in Orlando, I'd likely do something similar.
In case anyone is interested, Bio has been covering the construction of the first ground up new theme park in Orlando in 20+ years: Epic Universe. It's been so much fun watching the park turn from an empty field to where it is now [1] and we know as much as we do thanks to Bio and others like them
[1] https://twitter.com/bioreconstruct/status/166406870175727206...
Oh no, don't spoil it. Too much attention is just gonna turn loose a bunch of sleuths who will reverse-engineer the time the photos were taken, cross it against ADS-B tracks, and put an end to the fun.
It isn't difficult to discover this, so Universal Studios probably would have done something about it by now (I guess?).
EDIT: The helicopter seems to be owned by a company that does tours of all the theme parks there: https://www.orlandohelitours.com/
I can see why they don't want to be known. The parks would probably have a field day with their lawyers. Not to mention the FAA, since it looks like they are most likely violating line of site drone rules, unless they are doing it in a helicopter or plane.
As noted elsewhere it wouldn’t be hard to figure this one out.
As far as I can tell this guy is a pretty benign actor.
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How does it hurt the interest of the parks? Doesn't it ultimatley draw the attention to new, upcoming rides and attractions?
It ruins the surprise. If they wanted people to see it they wouldn’t put up facades to block the construction.
Woah, surprised seeing bio on the front page of HN. I'm a massive theme park fan (which you can probably see from my comment history here) and I follow Orlando theme parks particularly closely. Bio is a huge asset to the community and their tweets are super widely spread on all of the forums that I visit. Like the article says, we don't know much about them except that they likely do use one of those tourist helicop-…
I can see why they don't want to be known. The parks would probably have a field day with their lawyers. Not to mention the FAA, since it looks like they are most likely violating line of site drone rules, unless they are doing it in a helicopter or plane.
> I asked them if they are a helicopter or plane pilot, and they replied simply: "A very good customer."
Woah, surprised seeing bio on the front page of HN. I'm a massive theme park fan (which you can probably see from my comment history here) and I follow Orlando theme parks particularly closely. Bio is a huge asset to the community and their tweets are super widely spread on all of the forums that I visit. Like the article says, we don't know much about them except that they likely do use one of those tourist helicop-…
I didn’t realize that theme park fandom was a thing. I suppose it may be hard to articulate, but I’m curious if you can share what you find fascinating about them?
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I didn’t realize that theme park fandom was a thing. I suppose it may be hard to articulate, but I’m curious if you can share what you find fascinating about them?
If the internet has thought me one thing it is that there is a fandom for everything