News Round Up 2016

[circus4u]

All in all, I think it is tastefully done. It doesn't affect the sight line and it reminds me of the rocky shores of New England.

Guess we have to call it the Grand New Englander now, rather than the Grand Floridian.

 

[monique5]

News

Grand Floridian shoreline now has rocks instead of sand.

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/07/photos-rocky-shorline-replaces-sand-at-disneys-grand-floridian-resort/

The rocks look good.

 

[lockedoutlogic]

I think E-Ride Nights were $10.99 or something like that. I loved them.

They started at $12 and I think we're then $14?

Better than the crap they are selling like used cars these days. Simple, effective, inclusive, and profitable enough that they went on as "acceptable" for awhile.

Big shot Bobby can't tolerate that kind of "non-premium" nonsense now though...

 

[linzbear]

So the rocks alone obviously didn't stop you going in the water. Hence the fence.

It was a private beach front property where swimming was allowed because my grandfather owned that chunk of breach, and we couldn't wade or walk on the shoreline because it hurt to do so. So yeah, we still went in because that was our beach and our only option.

Big difference when there are posted No Swimming signs, it's not your property, and there's a pool 50ft away. No point in dealing with the pain when you can go to the pool. Anyone who would want to is probably capable of jumping that fence, anyway.

 

[beer dave]

Guess we have to call it the Grand New Englander now, rather than the Grand Floridian.

True-- but all they need to do now is plant mangroves all along the edge and it's back to florida--

 

[Alice Royal]

All in all, I think it is tastefully done. It doesn't affect the sight line and it reminds me of the rocky shores of New England.

Guess we have to call it the Grand New Englander now, rather than the Grand Floridian.

I was gonna say...I'm from NE and none of us would be deterred by rocks. We need the fence

[QUOTE="saskdw, post: 56123591, member: 349310] Can't see many people wanting to draw that kind of attention to themselves.

Unless of course they just caught the most rare Pokemon character of all! Just kidding, just kidding [/QUOTE]

Yeah, the funny part is that Wi-Fi is your best bet for an accurate GPS location in that game...so if you give up on the slow Disney Wi-Fi and use data, you may very well be shown as standing in the middle of a lake.

 

[rteetz]

Photo update

Disneyland photo update

http://micechat.com/130902-micechat-disneyland-photo-update-draft-july-18th/

 

[Fantasia79]

Other sides of the Grand Floridian had rocks instead of sand (out by VGF especially). I don't think it changes anything.

 

[eXo]

They better be ready to order quite a few of these. The $35 should more than cover the cost if someone doesn't return theirs, but that looks more like a souvenir to some than it does a rental.

I'm sure they'd be more than happy to sell these for $35 a pop. A similar sized battery from amazon is $10 retail, which means the actual cost is likely around half of that. That's a pretty huge margin of profit on an item.

 

[skier_pete]

Are the rocks and fence permanent?

The amount of rock they put in place - I would say it's GOT to be the permanent plan.

I like what they did here - I was really worried they were simply going to rip out the beaches. It still looks nice, seems sort of "natural". (Not like nature, but more like it belongs there.) It's really a shame that it took a death to do this though.

Anybody know if they've done this same sort of thing at CBR? I know the Poly and CBV put up fences, but didn't here anything about CBR.

 

[rteetz]

News

Disney Parks Blog release on the Polite Pig coming to Disney Springs

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...ant-to-open-at-disney-springs-in-spring-2017/

 

[rteetz]

Photo update

Another look at the new rocky shoreline

http://www.wdwmagic.com/resorts/dis...ruction-at-disneys-grand-floridian-resort.htm

 

[rteetz]

News

Three more cancelled Disney infinity figures

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/07/three-more-cancelled-12-inch-disney-infinity-figures-shown/

 

[mcd2745]

They started at $12 and I think we're then $14?

Better than the crap they are selling like used cars these days. Simple, effective, inclusive, and profitable enough that they went on as "acceptable" for awhile.

Big shot Bobby can't tolerate that kind of "non-premium" nonsense now though...

Possibly the all-time greatest value in the history of WDW (it is in my mind). I can't imagine ever having an experience at WDW that tops the E-ride nights we did in 1997 & 2000. It's what made the recent after-hours events seem so bad to me. If I had never experienced the original E-ride nights - at that price - maybe the price tag of the recent ones wouldn't have seemed as outrageous. But the idea of paying $150 for essentially the same thing I paid $12 for is a tough hurdle to get over.

 

[skier_pete]

But the idea of paying $150 for essentially the same thing I paid $12 for is a tough hurdle to get over.

This is part of why I can't bring myself to go to the hard ticket events. In 2010 we bought tickets for the MNSSHP for $49 (AP discount), and didn't enjoy it. This year we are meeting a bunch of friends in October, some of which are going to the party. But seeing it now cost me $88 (with DVC discount) for the same event I went to six years ago, practically unchanged, I simply couldn't pay it - 80% increase in 6 years? What a joke. Meanwhile my 7-day base ticket went from $247 to $325 - a much more acceptable 32% increase.

(Another way to look at it, 5 hours of entertainment went up $39, while 7-days of entertainment went up $78.)

 

[wdwrule]

GF shoreline looks great! My guess is they'll put up some nice vegetation along the rocks as well....for aesthetics and visual barrier concept. Similar to what CSR has had.

 

[eXo]

News

Three more cancelled Disney infinity figures

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/07/three-more-cancelled-12-inch-disney-infinity-figures-shown/

Now I'm kinda glad the whole thing got canned. This kind of double dipping is ridiculous. At worst, they are duplicates of already released characters. At best, any costume changes or the like could have easily been 'power discs', rather than full blown figures.

It looks like Infinity was about to go into full shenanigans mode before it got canceled.

 

[HuskieJohn]

No back compatability. The characters from Disney 1.0 and 2.0 could be played on the 3.0 version, but the 3.0 characters could not play on the 2.0 version. It's was the main obnoxious thing about the game - that each version you had to buy a new $70 "base" version. I think because of that, and the fact that the version with the most variety was the FIRST version, it sort of made sales drop off every year, and Disney can't tolerate something that doesn't make a billion dollars.

I liked the game a lot, but the problem is even though we bought all 3 versions, I just never had the free time to get involved with the open source "toy box" and really learn how to build. There was lots of fun stuff in there - and it really is a shame that Disney stopped putting out new sets. There was no reason they couldn't have kept generating new play sets and make them downloadable.

To add on to that...

The 1.0 and 2.0 Play Set Piece (Themed Game) does not work with the 3.0 disc....Nor do the Power Discs.

 

[adam.adbe]

Now I'm kinda glad the whole thing got canned. This kind of double dipping is ridiculous. At worst, they are duplicates of already released characters. At best, any costume changes or the like could have easily been 'power discs', rather than full blown figures.

It looks like Infinity was about to go into full shenanigans mode before it got canceled.

If they were going to go that path, I would have preferred if they'd released all variations at the same time. I disliked the addition of light-fx characters months after the original in an attempt to get people to buy the same toy twice. If they'd just gone with character tiers: regular play pieces for kids and gamers only, light-up edition as a fun special edition higher priced variant of same, and 12" for collectors, but all released at the same time, so you can choose what you want, I'd have found it less of a distasteful cash grab.

The irony is of course that it seems to be the cost of over inventory that tanked Infinity. I wonder how much this was merchandising having to much say in the running of the game division.

 

[adam.adbe]

To add on to that...

The 1.0 and 2.0 Play Set Piece (Themed Game) does not work with the 3.0 disc....Nor do the Power Discs.

The power discs are a fair point, but expecting Avalanche to port old games over to what would most likely be a substantially different game engine is asking a lot.