News Round Up 2017

[MissGina5]

MK is the first to get any decor.

The rest of the parks and resorts are on their own schedules. Everything will be up around Thanksgiving.

How utterly inconvenient. We wanted best of both worlds and do ALL the holiday things

 

[rteetz]

News

Nine New Disney Legends to be honored during the D23 EXPO 2017 in Anaheim on July 14

Oprah Winfrey, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Stan Lee, Julie Taymor, and Other Incredible Talents to be Honored at a Special 30th Anniversary Awards Ceremony Hosted by Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

well to be fair, Universal's HHN goes on for like 90 days or something. Great event tho.

HHN=90 days??....nah it's 51 days this year for a total of 34 nights worth of the event (9/15/17-11/4/17). 2017 MNSSHP is 69 days this year (8/25/17-11/1/17) for a total of 32 party nights; 2016 MNSSHP was 60 days with a total of 29 party nights.

Both companies are looking and having been expanding their timeline for their events that seems to be a trend for sure.

*Haven't looked into MVMCP length though just comparing the Halloween events in my post*

 

[rteetz]

News

I have started a thread but the great Don Rickles has passed at age 90.

 

[skier_pete]

Question: When do Christmas activities (non party) start? Such as Epcot or general MK decoration??

MK is the first to get any decor. The rest of the parks and resorts are on their own schedules. Everything will be up around Thanksgiving.

How utterly inconvenient. We wanted best of both worlds and do ALL the holiday things

@rteetz isn't completely right. We went in 2013 November 9th to 18th. At the start of this trip, a lot of the resort decorations, as well as much of the park decorations were up. Most places have their decorations up by November 10th. The castle lighting ceremony was already going on. Of course, DHS and DAK have gotten rid of almost all of their (limited) Christmas highlights (Osborne Lights, Jingle Jungle parade) but they would run them before Thanksgiving also. The one park that "holds off" is Epcot - they usually don't decorate and have everything up until right before Thanksgiving, and Candlelight Processional doesn't start until Thanksgiving.

 

[rteetz]

@rteetz isn't completely right. We went in 2013 November 9th to 18th. At the start of this trip, a lot of the resort decorations, as well as much of the park decorations were up. Most places have their decorations up by November 10th. The castle lighting ceremony was already going on. Of course, DHS and DAK have gotten rid of almost all of their (limited) Christmas highlights (Osborne Lights, Jingle Jungle parade) but they would run them before Thanksgiving also. The one park that "holds off" is Epcot - they usually don't decorate and have everything up until right before Thanksgiving, and Candlelight Processional doesn't start until Thanksgiving.

It all depends on the resort really. Everything should be up by Thanksgiving though.

 

[skier_pete]

HHN=90 days??....nah it's 51 days this year for a total of 34 nights worth of the event (9/15/17-11/4/17). 2017 MNSSHP is 69 days this year (8/25/17-11/1/17) for a total of 32 party nights; 2016 MNSSHP was 60 days with a total of 29 party nights.

Both companies are looking and having been expanding their timeline for their events that seems to be a trend for sure.

*Haven't looked into MVMCP length though just comparing the Halloween events in my post*

Agree they've extended both parties singificantly over the last few years. MVMCP can't really extend because they can't start until after the Halloween Party. This year they start on the 8th, which I think is slightly earlier than they used to, but only by a few days. These are such massive moneymakers I am sure they are constantly looking to maximize the parties without pissing off people that want to stay in the park past 7 PM without them.

 

[skier_pete]

It all depends on the resort really. Everything should be up by Thanksgiving though.

Right but many will be up at least a week before Thanksgiving. I know the Gingerbread house at GF was up during our trip.

 

[MissGina5]

Right but many will be up at least a week before Thanksgiving. I know the Gingerbread house at GF was up during our trip.

Thank you that's helpful. It still sucks though I really wanna do the Epcot Christmas stuff (especially see the Italy pavillion) but my sister wants to do MNSSHP so we will see what my best friend and tie breaker says haha

 

[rteetz]

News

DCA and DHS will have Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Men Tell No Tales previews

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...ates-of-the-caribbean-dead-men-tell-no-tales/

 

[justreading]

We were there the first week of MVMCP last year and they were taping for Christmas. It was awful. 4 party nights and every other night was packed with crowds for the taping. Never got to see them light the castle with the icicle lights or the projection show because they were taping in front of the castle and canceled them.

We're AP and DVC so I feel like Disney gets a lot of our money already without having to spend hundreds more on a mediocre Christmas party. I was so disappointed in our MK time that week. Glad your timing has worked out for you!

I agree. I did not expect Christmas Parade taping to begin during the first full week of November last year! Sure hope that doesn't happen again this year.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

News

Nine New Disney Legends to be honored during the D23 EXPO 2017 in Anaheim on July 14

Oprah Winfrey, Carrie Fisher, Mark Hamill, Stan Lee, Julie Taymor, and Other Incredible Talents to be Honored at a Special 30th Anniversary Awards Ceremony Hosted by Disney Chairman and CEO Bob Iger

Clearly I am drawing a blank but what major connection/contribution to Disney does Oprah have?

 

[Bay Max]

I noticed that also, but then got distracted by the pitchers of Old Fashioned and the Bourbon selection.

Will you marry me?

 

[danikoski]

How utterly inconvenient. We wanted best of both worlds and do ALL the holiday things

When we were there in 2013, a lot of the park decorations went up the week of Veterans Day. Like Food and Wine in Epcot ended on Sunday and Christmas decorations were up by Wednesday. I know because I have pics of all the trees at the different parks.

Resort decorations don't go up until around Thanksgiving.

 

[MissGina5]

Clearly I am drawing a blank but what major connection/contribution to Disney does Oprah have?

She is about to be in Wrinkle in Time, Eudora in Princess and the Frog, and ABC had something to do with her show once upon a time at one point so... I suppose that's enough for someone who is already OPRAH

 

[rteetz]

Clearly I am drawing a blank but what major connection/contribution to Disney does Oprah have?

Oprah's show aired mainly on ABC network stations.

She voiced a character in Princess and the Frog, and she has a role in Disney's upcoming film, A Wrinkle in Time.

That's all I got...

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Oprah's show aired mainly on ABC network stations.

She voiced a character in Princess and the Frog, and she has a role in Disney's upcoming film, A Wrinkle in Time.

That's all I got...

She is about to be in Wrinkle in Time, Eudora in Princess and the Frog, and ABC had something to do with her show once upon a time at one point so... I suppose that's enough for someone who is already OPRAH

Don't get me wrong, Oprah is pretty impressive but I don't really associate "Disney" with her

 

[Irish_Mike]

Don't get me wrong, Oprah is pretty impressive but I don't really associate "Disney" with her

This is the description given to Oprah for the award:

OPRAH WINFREY is a renowned award-winning producer, actress, talk show host, and philanthropist. For 25 years she was the host of the award-winning talk show The Oprah Winfrey Show, which ran for 25 seasons on hundreds of stations domestically and in more than 100 countries around the world. Oprah is also an Academy Award®-nominated actress for her role in Steven Spielberg’s 1985 hit The Color Purple. In 1998, she starred in Beloved for Disney’s Touchstone Pictures, a film that she also produced. Oprah also produced and starred in ABC’s 1989 limited series The Women of Brewster Place, and would go on to produce many films for ABC, including Tuesdays with Morrie, Before Women Had Wings, and Their Eyes Were Watching God under the “Oprah Winfrey Presents” banner. She performed as Eudora in Disney’s The Princess and the Frog in 2009 and will co-star as Mrs. Which in Disney’s 2018 film A Wrinkle in Time.

Still a bit of a thin connection.

 

[Redcon1]

As it is with Carrie Fish, Mark Hamill and Stan Lee.

Just because Disney bought their properties shouldn't make them a legend. If that's the case, I bought an awful lot of movie tickets for their films. Could I be a Disney Legend too?

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

Clearly I am drawing a blank but what major connection/contribution to Disney does Oprah have?

I think Disney plays fast and loose with these legends. As much as I love them, Stan Lee and Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher aren't really Disney. Disney owns them now, yes, but when they were at their creative best and developing their stars they weren't Disney. Just like at the last D23 Susan Lucci the soap star was inducted. It's all really about media attention and publicity and such, though occasionally there are what I would consider to be true Disney stars thrown in there.