News Round Up 2016

[TheMaxRebo]

Take a loot at this collection of small on-ride videos of Voyage to the Crystal Grotto. This is not the full ride. It's kind of a modern version of Storybook Land Canal Boats at DL and DLP, but it looks like the ending part is really cool.

That's actually pretty neat - I appreciate rides like that. Hopefully it has a quicker load time/high capacity than the canal boats at Disneyland though, that line feels like it takes forever

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Photo

A look at the frozen float in the Shanghai parade.

https://twitter.com/daykota/status/730077620952440833

Maybe just spoiled with things like Paint the Night and Festival of Fantasy, but so far the parade is one thing that looks a little underwhelming at the park

 

[rteetz]

Maybe just spoiled with things like Paint the Night and Festival of Fantasy, but so far the parade is one thing that looks a little underwhelming at the park

Yeah I agree. I do like the train theme but I think it could've been better.

 

[luisov]

Maybe just spoiled with things like Paint the Night and Festival of Fantasy, but so far the parade is one thing that looks a little underwhelming at the park

I think that's one of those things that were affected by the budget cuts. Same goes for the Pooh ride. They needed a parade and an additional family friendly dark ride, but they had spent most of their budget somewhere else. The answer: a smaller, more modest parade and a cardboard decorated dark ride with static animatronics.

It's a pretty decent parade, but not as impressive as what we are used to see at the other parks.

 

[Maineiak]

News

ESPN continues to hurt Disney stock

http://money.cnn.com/2016/05/09/investing/disney-earnings-espn-star-wars/index.html?iid=hp-grid-dom

However, while they do report earnings after market close today, the stock is currently up 1%+ on news that ESPN reached a settlement with Verizon.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/es...distribution-dispute-2016-05-10?siteid=yhoof2

 

[rteetz]

I think that's one of those things that were affected by the budget cuts. Same goes for the Pooh ride. They needed a parade and an additional family friendly dark ride, but they had spent most of their budget somewhere else. The answer: a smaller, more modest parade and a cardboard decorated dark ride with static animatronics.

It's a pretty decent parade, but not as impressive as what we are used to see at the other parks.

Yeah they were supposed to get Everest as an opening day attraction and that was cut too.

 

[rteetz]

News

Here is that Disney an Verizon settlement

http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2016/05/10/espn-verizon-reach-settlement-skinny-bundle/

 

[rteetz]

News

Trailer or Queen of Katwe

http://www.laughingplace.com/w/news/2016/05/10/trailer-queen-katwe-released/

 

[rteetz]

News/Video

Here is a video of Shanghai it is 90 minutes long but a full ride though of several attraction are throughout including pirates at the 21 minute mark.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU2NDM3MTA5Mg==.html

 

[jade1]

Lack of clarity screen shot sorry, are they planning this red sky behind EE? That's not wrapped around to the safari sunrise is it?

Just looking at the Sentinals AK at night video.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/trav...isney-animal-kingdom-night-preview-story.html

 

[Budshark]

The red light is likely DHS Star Wars fireworks... there were a bunch of pictures from the preview night showing red and green glowing behind the mountain. If you angled right it was a pretty dramatic effect.

 

[rteetz]

The red light is likely DHS Star Wars fireworks... there were a bunch of pictures from the preview night showing red and green glowing behind the mountain. If you angled right it was a pretty dramatic effect.

Yep, they have been worried about DHS pyro and AK.

 

[rteetz]

News/Video

Here is a video of Shanghai it is 90 minutes long but a full ride though of several attraction are throughout including pirates at the 21 minute mark.

http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTU2NDM3MTA5Mg==.html

Full ride through of Soarin at 10 min mark. The score and new film are very good.

Alice Maze at 32:30 mark

Hunny Pot spin at 37 min mark

Garden boat ride at 39 min mark

Peter Pan at 73:45

Seven Dwarfs Mine Train 76 min mark

 

[rteetz]

News

Shanghai Mine Train does not have the cottage scene at the end that WDW has.

 

[jade1]

The red light is likely DHS Star Wars fireworks... there were a bunch of pictures from the preview night showing red and green glowing behind the mountain. If you angled right it was a pretty dramatic effect.

Ahh I see. Well I guess it's not when looking at ROL anyway so that's good.

Looks like just walking around AK at night will be amazing in itself.

 

[Disneymom1126]

Tron looks amazing...both the ride itself and the exterior view at night! In fact the night shots throughout the park make it look like a really cool park at night. Tomorrowland especially...actually looks futuristic lol

 

[rteetz]

News

Disney Q2 closed today and had some big news. Another thread was created on the subject.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

News

Shanghai Mine Train does not have the cottage scene at the end that WDW has.

guess that make sense since the animatronics used in the WDW were from the original ride (not that they could recreate them for Shanghai)

 

[rteetz]

News

We have a full POV ride through of Pirates in Shanghai people!

 

[TheMaxRebo]

News

We have a full POV ride through of Pirates in Shanghai people!

My goodness that looks amazing (wonder if the translation is out there for the storyline)