DL Space Mountain to Open by 7/17/05

[Sarangel]

From Miceage.com:

Disneyland head honcho Matt Ouimet wants Space Mountain finished and opened to visitors for the big media show on July 17th, 2005. So that is now the drop dead date that Imagineering (WDI) is now working with, and Ouimet has turned on the money spigot to "make it so."

This decision to pour several million more into the budget for the overtime and increased labor to accomplish this earlier opening is in direct response to the uneasiness with which Matt and senior execs now are with the Entertainment-heavy offerings planned for the 50th.

People plan vacations to Disneyland because there are new rides, not because there's a new parade and a reworked fireworks show. Ouimet knows this, but past management never understood that.

Take it for what it's worth, but it would be nice to see it up & running for the "Big Day."

Sarangel