News Round Up 2017

[Dentam]

I'm sure that is the case since the Poly is the newest studios until the new DVC area opens at WL. I really want to try Beach Club for the pool. I have never been to that pool, and everyone says it's the best pool on Disney property. I just want to experience it once lol!

The pool is awesome, we used it on Wednesday when it was in the high 80's. It's also so nice to be able to walk right into the International Gateway entrance of Epcot.

 

[MommaBerd]

That's exactly what I meant. I saw in Vegas the Beatles Cirque show and it was incredible how they used the music. Disney has so much musical
and visual IP that would be amazing inspiration for a Cirque show. Imagine what they'd do with a song like "A Whole New World" or "Be Our Guest."

I was going to say the exact same thing!

 

[crazy4wdw]

Photo Update

Guardians of the Galaxy Mission Breakout

https://twitter.com/jonatha08077969/status/838207607777079297

Sorry but that just doesn't look good to me.

I agree, this has got to be one of craziest ideas that Disney has come up with over the years . . . . .just to get a Marvel themed attraction into Disneyland at a relatively low price. I'm glad they're leaving Tower of Terror at WDW alone, at least for now.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I agree, this has got to be one of craziest ideas that Disney has come up with over the years . . . . .just to get a Marvel themed attraction into Disneyland at a relatively low price. I'm glad they're leaving Tower of Terror at WDW alone, at least for now.

I am trying to remember that this will be a part of a whole Marvel area eventually and I think it will fit in more then - but for now it does look a bit of an eye sore

 

[rteetz]

I am trying to remember that this will be a part of a whole Marvel area eventually and I think it will fit in more then - but for now it does look a bit of an eye sore

It wouldn't be so bad if this wasn't so tall. The fact this can be seen from inside Disneyland I think is what makes it worse.

 

[rteetz]

My Dad bought into the Polynesian last year, and we stayed there over Christmas-New Years this past year. We stayed in a studio. The studios were great! It was seriously one of my favorite vacations ever to WDW. The Poly has probably become my favorite resort as of right now, but there are several resorts I still want to try (AK Lodge, Beach Club, and Wilderness Lodge to name a few). I really like the atmosphere of the resort when it turns nighttime.

The Poly was the first resort we ever stayed at in WDW, so it is fitting that my parents bought there. We love the location and the atmosphere of the resort, and the studios are so spacious. We rented points for our studio at the BC Villas for this trip, and the studio we are in now, though it's been recently refurbished, isn't nearly as nice as the ones at the Poly in our opinion.

I'm sure that is the case since the Poly is the newest studios until the new DVC area opens at WL. I really want to try Beach Club for the pool. I have never been to that pool, and everyone says it's the best pool on Disney property. I just want to experience it once lol!

I've never stayed at the Poly but have always wanted to. The Beach Club is my favorite resort, the pool is the best of any Disney hotel I've stayed in or really most hotels I've stayed in anywhere. We didn't stay in the DVC studios but had a regular room with CL access facing the Lagoon and we could see DHS fireworks at night.

 

[rteetz]

News

A little more on the new wait time tracking with Magicbands. There is a sensor near the FP scanners/entrance, and then another by the loading area. This leads to some inaccuracies if the line goes outside the regular queue. This change has already happened.

 

[Maineiak]

News

A little more on the new wait time tracking with Magicbands. There is a sensor near the FP scanners/entrance, and then another by the loading area. This leads to some inaccuracies if the line goes outside the regular queue. This change has already happened.

How so? If it goes outside the regular queue, that has no bearing. The entrance scan and load scan are the same. It shouldn't care where you go in between.

 

[rteetz]

How so? If it goes outside the regular queue, that has no bearing. The entrance scan and load scan are the same. It shouldn't care where you go in between.

In that the wait time would be longer than the posted wait time. For example many times Mine Train is well outside the entrance to the queue. If the sensor only is at the entrance its going to be a longer wait time than posted. Obviously the CMs could make the posted wait time longer if the queue is outside the entrance. No posted wait time usually is 100% accurate anyways.

 

[Maineiak]

In that the wait time would be longer than the posted wait time. For example many times Mine Train is well outside the entrance to the queue. If the sensor only is at the entrance its going to be a longer wait time than posted. Obviously the CMs could make the posted wait time longer if the queue is outside the entrance. No posted wait time usually is 100% accurate anyways.

But don't at least some of the rides say the wait time is from the point of the sign? I know I've seen this before....

And it's irrelevant, as you wouldn't be handed a red card until you got to the queue entrance anyway, so it wouldn't be any less accurate than that, right?

 

[rteetz]

But don't at least some of the rides say the wait time is from the point of the sign? I know I've seen this before....

And it's irrelevant, as you wouldn't be handed a red card until you got to the queue entrance anyway, so it wouldn't be any less accurate than that, right?

Could be but I don't believe every ride says that.

I have never been in a queue outside the entrance so I can't say for sure but could a CM give you a red card at the end of the line even if its not near the entrance? I know many times they have a CM with a "line starts here" type sign.

 

[Maineiak]

Could be but I don't believe every ride says that.

I have never been in a queue outside the entrance so I can't say for sure but could a CM give you a red card at the end of the line even if its not near the entrance? I know many times they have a CM with a "line starts here" type sign.

They scan them before they hand it to you, so if you're outside the queue, there's no scanner. Walking it to you post-scan outside of the queue would be inaccurate.

 

[rteetz]

News

Float designs for new Tokyo Parade

http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2017/03/jody-daily-and-kevin-kidney-concept.html?m=1

 

[Ai12gani]

News

Float designs for new Tokyo Parade

http://disneyandmore.blogspot.com/2017/03/jody-daily-and-kevin-kidney-concept.html?m=1

These are acctualy the designs for the current daytime parade, Happiness is Here. It debuted in 2013, for their 30th anniversary. Still cool to see though.

 

[rteetz]

These are acctualy the designs for the current daytime parade, Happiness is Here. It debuted in 2013, for their 30th anniversary. Still cool to see though.

Then I misread the Facebook headline my bad.

 

[beer dave]

News

The red cards known as FLIK will not be used to track wait times anymore. Disney will now be using the RFID tracking in magicbands.

I carried one friday night (or saturday morning) at about 1 am on mine train...... Maybe the last one......

 

[rteetz]

I carried one friday night (or saturday morning) at about 1 am on mine train...... Maybe the last one......

They started going away about two weeks ago at TSMM. I don't know if they are all gone yet but most are.

 

[beer dave]

We had the opportunity to speak a bit with Joe Rodhe this morning at AKV.... Seems Pandora will be opening on schedule...... according to Joe...

 

[rteetz]

We had the opportunity to speak a bit with Joe Rodhe this morning at AKV.... Seems Pandora will be opening on schedule...... according to Joe...

I don't see why it wouldn't. I've always wanted to meet him. Joe seems like a nice guy.

 

[beer dave]

I don't see why it wouldn't. I've always wanted to meet him. Joe seems like a nice guy.

He is-- afik-- we spent an evening with him years ago at the adventurers club when everest was being built. Met him at the bar, had the bartender sink his bar stool-- ended up making the rounds through the rooms with him-- he was like a kid on christmas. We brought it up today, he didn't remember of course, but he went into a discussion about the tunnels underneath the area..... always making sure to not give anything away, it seemed.....