Lifting the blackout dates is nothing new,I remember them doing it several years when it was the seasonal pass.The only difference is back when they did it they didnt offer the gold pass that has no summer block out dates,those are the few people that may have some kind of issue with it,but its only 10 days if you really have a big problem with it then there's bigger issues there,and they're not on Disneys end.I have the silver pass so I am benefitting from those 10 days,but as anyone who's been out there lately 95 degrees and heat indexes of 110 and daily rain I'm not exactly counting the days down until Aug 1st to get into the parks,that's exactly why I bought the silver,I don't feel the need to have heat stroke.Even though I'm local and do most or all of the concerts at Food and Wine I wasn't very excited that they're starting at the end of August,its just too hot.There's basically three things that are going to probably bring me out there for the first 10 days of August,to ride Universe of Energy,GMR and maybe show up one night after dark to ride FoP.I had already made FPs for GMR after the original block out dates,I knew it would be crazy those 3 days so Disney is actually reducing the craziness by giving us those 10 days,it just made sense.