News Round Up 2016

[rteetz]

News

Sugarboo & co. Now open at Disney Springs

http://www.wdwmagic.com/shopping/sugarboo-co/gallery/30jun2016-sugarboo-co-overview.htm

 

[rteetz]

News

Walls down at coca-cola at Disney Springs

http://www.wdwmagic.com/shopping/wo...la-store-as-finishing-touches-are-applied.htm

 

[rteetz]

News

Creative costuming is being demolished

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2016/06/hollywood-studios-creative-costuming_30.html

 

[rteetz]

News

New pin trading scaneger hunt pinquest

http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions...-trading-into-new-pinquest-scavenger-hunt.htm

 

[atricks]

Universal News

New Permit issued for the unannounced 600 room 6th hotel at Universal (Sapphire Falls is the 5th and opens in a few weeks).

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-universal-new-hotel-20160630-story.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/...ls-potential-name-emerge-on-universal.html#i1

Suggests the name may be Aventura Hotel and that it would be a deluxe style.

 

[rteetz]

Universal News

New Permit issued for the unannounced 600 room 6th hotel at Universal (Sapphire Falls is the 5th and opens in a few weeks).

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/tourism/os-universal-new-hotel-20160630-story.html

http://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/...ls-potential-name-emerge-on-universal.html#i1

Suggests the name may be Aventura Hotel and that it would be a deluxe style.

600 rooms would be their smallest hotel.

 

[Fantasia79]

Looks like WDWNT is hopping on the wdwmagic bandwagon. If you read the GOTG in Epcot the was you'll see this won't be tied to energy. They are only using the building but gutting everything else.

This is a real rumor?

 

[rteetz]

This is a real rumor?

Visit the gaurdians of the Galaxy thread on this board and you'll see. Yes it's real.

 

[Iowamomof4]

Visit the gaurdians of the Galaxy thread on this board and you'll see. Yes it's real.

All of it.

 

[rteetz]

Video

Avatar construction update

 

[soniam]

I am starting to think that they should have just put Star Wars in Future World at Epcot and left DHS for other IPs. I just don't get the GOTG thing there, or anywhere really. I get FEA. I don't like it, but I understand it. I also can stomach the 3 Caballeros in Mexico. Nemo was a given, I suppose. Circle of Life sucks, but it's pretty small and innocuous. It's not that I like Ellen's Energy Universe; the original was better. However, GOTG just seems so lazy If it replaces Mission Space, I am going to be livid That ride really does fit where it is, and it's a lot of fun still.

 

[rteetz]

News

Disney buys stake in MLB video

https://www.yahoo.com/news/disney-buy-stake-mlbs-video-unit-3-5-201717866--finance.html?ref=gs

 

[rteetz]

I am starting to think that they should have just put Star Wars in Future World at Epcot and left DHS for other IPs. I just don't get the GOTG thing there, or anywhere really. I get FEA. I don't like it, but I understand it. I also can stomach the 3 Caballeros in Mexico. Nemo was a given, I suppose. Circle of Life sucks, but it's pretty small and innocuous. It's not that I like Ellen's Energy Universe; the original was better. However, GOTG just seems so lazy If it replaces Mission Space, I am going to be livid That ride really does fit where it is, and it's a lot of fun still.

It's not replacing Mission Space that rumor was far out there and false.

 

[soniam]

It's not replacing Mission Space that rumor was far out there and false.

Thank goodness!

 

[ParkHoppers]

News

Disney buys stake in MLB video

https://www.yahoo.com/news/disney-buy-stake-mlbs-video-unit-3-5-201717866--finance.html?ref=gs

Goodbye NBA experience at Disney Springs. Hello MLB experience at Disney Springs. I don't know just babbling.

 

[rteetz]

Goodbye NBA experience at Disney Springs. Hello MLB experience at Disney Springs. I don't know just babbling.

Uh no

 

[ParkHoppers]

Uh no

What exactly is MLB video. What did they pay for.

 

[Roxyfire]

What exactly is MLB video. What did they pay for.

MLB's streaming games. Probably not a bad purchase but I don't know how popular it is. It's probably highly dependent on cord cutters and transplants. I'm not sure if blackout rules still apply or not, but if they do it's a kinda narrow market.

 

[rteetz]

What exactly is MLB video. What did they pay for.

Its a streaming service for MLB games. This is really the future of how sports will be watched since cable is dying.

 

[jamesez]

Its a streaming service for MLB games. This is really the future of how sports will be watched since cable is dying.

MLB Advanced Media also does NHL streaming and HBO NOW (but not HBO GO).