News Round Up 2016

[ColoradoDreamin]

And yet budgets keep getting cut....

I could be wrong, but I think the sudden insider info saying phase 3 is not dead might have a connection here.

 

[ELSA711]

Is this new Jungle Book show at AK in addition to Rivers of Light? This is exciting, my fav park getting so many new items.

And both are expected to have a dining package?

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

And yet budgets keep getting cut....

Don't get me started with incoherent ranting.

Is this new Jungle Book show at AK in addition to Rivers of Light? This is exciting, my fav park getting so many new items.

And both are expected to have a dining package?

The jungle book show is a placeholder until rol can get up and going. Therefore jungle book will be running for an indeterminate length.

Jungle book's dining packages have already shown up on the hub and it is rumored to have fast pass as well, according to an answer on a Disney parks blog post.

 

[rteetz]

I could be wrong, but I think the sudden insider info saying phase 3 is not dead might have a connection here.

I don't think it has to do with their projections on how well the movie studios do. In the past the movie studios and the parks budgets have never seen changes due to one side doing bad or good. I could be wrong here too though.

 

[ELSA711]

Don't get me started with incoherent ranting.



The jungle book show is a placeholder until rol can get up and going. Therefore jungle book will be running for an indeterminate length.

Jungle book's dining packages have already shown up on the hub and it is rumored to have fast pass as well, according to an answer on a Disney parks blog post.

Oh okay, thanks! So most likely it won't be running in November, unless ROL is stalled even more.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Oh okay, thanks! So most likely it won't be running in November, unless ROL is stalled even more.

I wouldn't count on it, but no one could say that for sure.

You should be OK though, if rol is running by then you'll be getting an ever better show

 

[rteetz]

Oh okay, thanks! So most likely it won't be running in November, unless ROL is stalled even more.

They want RoL for July but seem to have plans in case RoL doesn't debut until September. I would hope RoL would be open in November if not that won't be good.

 

[zaccaglin]

News

New Shanghai commercial

http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2016/05/new-shanghai-disneyland-commercial.html?m=1

That wasn't very impressive IMHO, I really hope this park does well in the end..

That would be cool although if they are keeping dinosaur and boneyard I would go Australia and just add an educational transition about the digs down under.

Dinosaur was rumored to, be rethemed, just the dig site staying. Was told all this was to be in touch with the guests who travel from the southern American.

 

[zaccaglin]

News

Dining package apparently will be happening for the jungle book show coming to AK at night. These packages show there will be 3 shows a night and happen at tusker house and flame tree BBQ. This is info from the HUB. No show times are found though.

Saw that on the hub as well. Flame tree is interesting to me, tucker is a TS, Bbut flame tree a QSR?? Weird.

 

[SalutemyShorts]

That (spoiler) was a part of the actors contract to do the film. It wasn't actually suppose to happen that way, but that was the only way said actor would do the movie (as well as another key piece to the contract).

By the way - it isn't such a good thing to give away movies like that. At least put it as a spoiler alert.

My bad, edited the post. Wasn't sure on the statute of limitations for spoilers.

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

My bad, edited the post. Wasn't sure on the statute of limitations for spoilers.

Well my friend once yelled at me for spoiling a Harry Potter character death 6 years after it happened... So who knows.

 

[soniam]

Not this year, but I completely forgot finding Dory. Let me correct my previous guarantee of Disney hitting 3 billion. And correct that to 3.5 billion +

I am actually looking forward to Finding Dory. I wasn't at first, but now I am getting a little more excited. Really looking forward to Captain America tomorrow night

 

[jknc]

Clearly the expansion at AK will be centered around the epic blockbuster The Good Dinosaur

 

[MlWinans]

Clearly the expansion at AK will be centered around the epic blockbuster The Good Dinosaur

Or the 90s classic Brother Bear

 

[skier_pete]

Clearly the expansion at AK will be centered around the epic blockbuster The Good Dinosaur

We finally watched that last night. Swing and a miss by Pixar, that's for sure. I think I might even put it below Cars 2, which is saying something. It had good intentions, but it was just...boring. And the thing that bothered me right from the trailer - super realistic background with super-cartoony characters - just kept pulling me out of the movie.

 

[ELSA711]

Or the 90s classic Brother Bear

I adored Brother Bear! I put that way above The Good Dinosaur and actually many other loved Disney movies

 

[Redcon1]

A quick detour into Universal world. They had previously announced a chocolate restaurant called Toothsome Chocolate Factory. I disliked this name. Primarily, I dislike the word "Toothsome". So when I heard news they were changing the name of the place, i was excited to see what it had become.

Imagine my surprise when I found out they are calling it "Toothsome Chocolate Emporium & Savory Feast Kitchen".

It's like they are trying to make the name as horrid as possible. Savory Feast Kitchen? Are they playing madlibs here?

So you can visit Universal and hit the TCE&SVF before attending the MVMCPVMMTPWSEYCTMSSE at Disney.

 

[Redcon1]

Those are different to me. There is not to my knowledge a single Bad Santa reference invested into the Disney theme park much less an entire land.
Secondly, the spoiler is an action by the villain. The good guys all pretty much still wore their white hats.

With Han Solo as the lead and focus on a spin-off you are guaranteed to have a traditionally likable character left in a selfish and egotistical state by the end of the movie. He is not a hero yet. If that is your lead character, it could just make the audience hurt and disappointed he is not the truly heroic character that the audience knows and loves from the previous installments. One way they could soften the darkness is by introducing a lot of humor (i.e. Guardians of the Galaxy), however it still does not sound like a kids film.

He could still be a good guy, but with dark edges..an anti-hero. I'm thinking like Clint Eastwood as the Man with No Name. Basically out for himself, a rogue, but will do right when it comes down to choosing between good and evil.
Also can have shadings of a film-nourish character.

 

[Redcon1]

Han wasn't a bad guy. He was a smuggler - which makes him a "low-life" but not necessarily a bad guy. He's someone who breaks the law, which according to the law makes him a bad guy, but when the law is the Empire - hard to argue that he is genuinely a bad guy.

There's a long history of cinematic rogues that aren't bad guys. (Go back to Rick - Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca - who would do things that break the law. )



No - February 2017.

You just made me think of Mal and his gang on Firefly. Perfect description.

 

[RooRach0906]

They want RoL for July but seem to have plans in case RoL doesn't debut until September. I would hope RoL would be open in November if not that won't be good.

Do we know any projected time in September? I am just really looking forward to this and hoping it will be up and running for my trip.