News Round Up 2017

[rteetz]

Buzz is monitoring the arrival on the bridge.

 

[rteetz]

News

New Teal colored parking lot tram

http://blogmickey.com/2017/08/photos-look-teal-parking-lot-trams/

 

[TheMaxRebo]

It also seems strange that they have an entire car that seats no one, if the capacity of one car does remain at 6. However, the ride is going to be very short. Less than 90 seconds of actual ride time from what I can tell. If the cars are actually this small, combined with multiple launch zones, you could see 4 cars in holding/launch zones, 2 cars actually on the tracks between zones, 2 cars at the unload, and 2 cars at the loading zone all at once. Combined with the very short duration of the ride, it might not be so bad.

These cars are super cute. Do we know if this is the whole train?

I would hope you are right, I could see this loading slower than Barnstormer. I have not had good experiences with Barnstormer....so we never ride it anymore. Slinky looks really cute but I worry it will take way too long to load/unload for such a short ride.

Not sure.

I looked quick at the CGI of the ride that Disney had put out and hard to tell for sure but looks like 4 middle parts:

 

[skier_pete]

Buzz is monitoring the arrival on the bridge.

That's kind of awesome. I wonder if they are shooting a promo video.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

That's kind of awesome. I wonder if they are shooting a promo video.

Looks like the guy with the orange vest on the right side of the picture might be holding a camera of some sort

 

[circus4u]

I looked quick at the CGI of the ride that Disney had put out and hard to tell for sure but looks like 4 middle parts:
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That would make sense, get 3 cars on a truck. Two trucks equals what is shown in the clip.

 

[Delano Fiedler]

Buzz is monitoring the arrival on the bridge.

Great catch

 

[circus4u]

News

New Teal colored parking lot tram

http://blogmickey.com/2017/08/photos-look-teal-parking-lot-trams/

Now, they need to repaint the "trailers" to match the tram. Purple and yellow stripes don't go with teal -- need consistency here!

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

News

‘Lion King’ Creators Celebrate Film’s Re-Release By Surprising Guests At ‘Festival of the Lion King’

I'm a couple days too late!

Perfect. People still refer to HS as MGM anyway.

I still have a Disney Pin that says MGM Studios on it. I'm never getting rid of that one.

Buzz is monitoring the arrival on the bridge.

That is great! They should have had Woody pull Slinky in with his lasso though.

Just saw posted on Facebook - pictures of what appears to be a Slinky Dog Coaster car arriving at WDW ... guess that is what the announcement on the 30th will be

I really think they will tie it in with an opening date for TSL.

 

[rteetz]

News

Disney pulls Hocus Pocus from merch preview

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...y-halloween-party-2017-at-magic-kingdom-park/

 

[thepops]

Well, we live in the area so wouldn't need a hotel, but anything with more than two bed would be rather expensive I would imagine

Find 3 more families like yours and get group sales

 

[ej119]

News

Disney pulls Hocus Pocus from merch preview

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...y-halloween-party-2017-at-magic-kingdom-park/

Well there we have it -- I guess copyright issues were the probable cause. How did they let this happen?

 

[AzzySpazbourne]

News/Rumor

Disney considering major Disney Movie Rewards program overhaul as evidenced by targeted surveys. Considerations include: more opportunities to earn points (other than just watching movies in a theater or buying movies), heavier emphasis on social media interaction, creation of an app, more exclusive club membership content and perks.

I'm unable to share specific details due to the agreement at the front of the survey to not share specific survey questions. But, it seems to be a well thought out and comprehensive overhaul.

 

[osully]

Ooh, I really like the Disney Movie Rewards program! I have earned about $50 worth of gift cards and a bunch of DVDs, tsum tsums etc. on there.

 

[skier_pete]

Ooh, I really like the Disney Movie Rewards program! I have earned about $50 worth of gift cards and a bunch of DVDs, tsum tsums etc. on there.

I had the opposite effect. I put literally a hundred DVDs into the system, had a few thousand points, and went on like 6 months later to discover they had "expired" so I got absolutely nothing from them. Didn't realize the points expired so maybe my fault but I wasted hours of time so no thanks to that again.

 

[koala1966]

I had the opposite effect. I put literally a hundred DVDs into the system, had a few thousand points, and went on like 6 months later to discover they had "expired" so I got absolutely nothing from them. Didn't realize the points expired so maybe my fault but I wasted hours of time so no thanks to that again.

I love Disney Movie Rewards, but I got caught by that expiration clause once and lost thousands of points so I understand the frustration. I hate expiring points, but most programs do that so I don't hold it against Disney. Hope whatever overhaul they do is favorable and doesn't force me into social media posts just for the sake of earning points, that's worse than expiring points.

 

[a4matte]

Well there we have it -- I guess copyright issues were the probable cause. How did they let this happen?

I looked into the Ghastlies a little more and have found blog posts about them from 2011.
There's no denying that the Hocus Pocus merch was based on that look.

Someone (or multiple people) will be out of a job over this.
So much lost profit and an embarrassment for the company.

Edit:

Someone on another board I visit brought up a similar case from a few years ago. This one involved Alice in Wonderland and a college student's work that was posted online. Disney pulled all of the merch shortly after it went on sale.

 

[TexasKiwiPrincess]

I looked into the Ghastlies a little more and have found blog posts about them from 2011.
There's no denying that the Hocus Pocus merch was based on that look.

Someone (or multiple people) will be out of a job over this.
So much lost profit and an embarrassment for the company.

Edit:

Someone on another board I visit brought up a similar case from a few years ago. This one involved Alice in Wonderland and a college student's work that was posted online. Disney pulled all of the merch shortly after it went on sale.

I agree- there is no denying the link between Ghastlies and the 2017 Halloween merch. Heads will roll.
If they dealt with this before, with Alice items, wouldn't they take steps to make sure it didn't happen again? I feel like even a Google image search would have picked up on the Ghastlies and avoided all this. If I paid for a party ticket, I would be ticked at the lack of party merchandise.

 

[MommaBerd]

Not *really* news, but a DIS family is trying to pull off six parks in one day today! If you want to follow them (they are already in park #3!) and "cheer" them on, they are on both twitter and Facebook as ultimateparkhop.

 

[rteetz]

News

Changes to Epcot musical lineup

http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions...nges-coming-to-epcots-musical-act-line-up.htm