News Round Up 2017

[rteetz]

News

Dining packages for Pixar Live at DHS

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/hollywood-studios/music-of-pixar-live-dining-package/

 

[Madonna3]

Sorry for taking the thread a bit off topic, but figure this is easiest way:

Link to "un"official party thread: https://www.disboards.com/threads/d...-ups-events-and-make-a-friend-thread.3593096/

Link to "un"official party Facebook group (people organizing meals together, carpooling after party, etc.): https://www.facebook.com/groups/441752162840820/

Thanks. Back to your regularly scheduled programming.

 

[Irish_Mike]

News

Dining packages for Pixar Live at DHS

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/hollywood-studios/music-of-pixar-live-dining-package/

This seems overpriced for a temporary summer show, especially when you consider that add Fantasmic to the package for only $5 more.

 

[jknezek]

This came across my Bloomberg and is kind of fascinating for a Disney-phile. I knew J.R.R. Tolkien didn't care for Walt Disney, but the quotes in here are pretty cutting and funny. Especially the Anglo superiority over American culture.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tolkien-cs-lewis-disney-snow-white-narnia-hobbit-dwarves

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

Note: they used some of the voices of liberty in that choir at the end.

I definitely recognized a lot of the Voices of Liberty singers. It looks like they also used singers from several music groups around WDW property. I recognized people from a couple (America Music Machine, Dapper Dans, etc.)

News

Dining packages for Pixar Live at DHS

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/hollywood-studios/music-of-pixar-live-dining-package/

It looks like pricing is very similar to Fantasmic if I remember correctly.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

This came across my Bloomberg and is kind of fascinating for a Disney-phile. I knew J.R.R. Tolkien didn't care for Walt Disney, but the quotes in here are pretty cutting and funny. Especially the Anglo superiority over American culture.

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tolkien-cs-lewis-disney-snow-white-narnia-hobbit-dwarves

Of course I am looking at it with Disney-colored glasses, but also comes off a bit jealous that Disney figured out how to make money and fame off it

I mean, Snow White had a group of small individuals who had some humorous tenancies but in the end pull it together to save the day ....

... and The Hobbit had a group of small individuals who had some humorous tenancies but in the end pull it together to save the day

Totally different, right?

 

[jknezek]

Of course I am looking at it with Disney-colored glasses, but also comes off a bit jealous that Disney figured out how to make money and fame off it

I mean, Snow White had a group of small individuals who had some humorous tenancies but in the end pull it together to save the day ....

... and The Hobbit had a group of small individuals who had some humorous tenancies but in the end pull it together to save the day

Totally different, right?

I think it's more what you see in the quotes. Tolkein and C.S. Lewis were writing sophisticated novels, a historical "classy" form of entertainment. They were highly educated and respected among the cognoscenti of the day. Both were professors as well. Walt Disney was using a "low brow" form of entertainment, he wasn't highly educated by their point of view, and was essentially entertaining for the great unwashed masses. The dwarves, and especially elves, and other literary creations in Tolkein and Lewis are noble beings, not slapstick characters as the 7 Dwarves and other Disney characters primarily were. I think the comment about using Jazz music, a purely American and, at the time, very frowned upon musical genre, instead of classic compositions also rankled people like Tolkein and Lewis. They were simply coming at this from very different backgrounds and using different means. Tolkein and Lewis, and in fact P.L. Travers and others of a literary persuasion were not going to be enamored with Walt's vulgar methods and background. Classism was, and remains though to an infinitely lesser degree than pre-WWII, a huge issue in British society. Walt was coming from the bottom, Tolkein and Lewis were looking down from the top.

 

[eXo]

Crap, YOU guys are going to be at Disney when I'm there? Ugh. Bad enough I have to deal with Pandora crowds... now DIS'ers as well. Ugh! /s

 

[wnwardii]

Crap, YOU guys are going to be at Disney when I'm there? Ugh. Bad enough I have to deal with Pandora crowds... now DIS'ers as well. Ugh!

As similar to talking about Grad night at DCA on the DL show this past Sunday night - all of us DIS'ers will walk through the parks arm-in-arm singing at the top of our lungs and block all of the pathways.

 

[Rivergirl2005]

News

Dining packages for Pixar Live at DHS

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/dining/hollywood-studios/music-of-pixar-live-dining-package/

Oh man this worries me a little. We have fantasmic dinning at 5...and want to see the 6:45 show...so hopefully this does not make the arena too busy!

 

[eXo]

Make sure you all wear red shirts, so you can tell who is in the group

 

[eXo]

As similar to talking about Grad night at DCA on the DL show this past Sunday night - all of us DIS'ers will walk through the parks arm-in-arm singing at the top of our lungs and block all of the pathways.

Wait, so DIS'ers are Brazillian?

 

[Delano Fiedler]

Wait, so DIS'ers are Brazillian?

Not cool.

Also, those tunnels are a still a mystery to me.

 

[Madonna3]

WDW News Today Twitter Account shows Temp Market set up in Martinique in preparation for shut down of food court. They used a converted guest room!! Looks kinda crappy.

 

[Madonna3]

Nothing official planned, but in the "un"official thread a few things have been planned - the 31st many of us will be at Animal Kingdom and a few meet ups have been planned and then on the 1st a bunch of us are having lunch at Homecomin' and/or meeting up around the monorail loop for drinks before heading over to the party

I wanna do the meet up on the 31st and the preparty at Sam's on the 1st.

 

[dlavender]

WDW News Today Twitter Account shows Temp Market set up in Martinique in preparation for shut down of food court. They used a converted guest room!! Looks kinda crappy.

I don't know why I'm laughing so hard at that picture. I'm imagining waiting in line to buy a muffin and hearing the toilet flush.

 

[Madonna3]

I don't know why I'm laughing so hard at that picture. I'm imagining waiting in line to buy a muffin and hearing the toilet flush.

omg right?! That's what I was thinking. Or what if you're in the room next door having relationals and hear people slam the fridge door?

 

[rteetz]

WDW News Today Twitter Account shows Temp Market set up in Martinique in preparation for shut down of food court. They used a converted guest room!! Looks kinda crappy.

That's just one of the temporary locations.

 

[Madonna3]

That's just one of the temporary locations.

Yeah, but there's going to be more like them. Every village is getting 1-2 of these in GUEST ROOMS.

 

[rteetz]

Yeah, but there's going to be more like them. Every village is getting 1-2 of these in GUEST ROOMS.

It's going to be an interesting year at CBR...