News Round Up 2017

[Madonna3]

News

Limited release Wishes and Happily Ever After shirts

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/05/limit...-magic-kingdom-t-shirts-now-available-online/

Aww the shirts for the Happily Ever After suck. The Wishes ones are so much better.

 

[Madonna3]

News

Enter for a Chance to Win an Opportunity to Experience ‘Happily Ever After’ on Opening Night at Walt Disney World Resort

Entered me and the hubby. I think it's awesome the entries are only open until 3pm. I wonder when they'll send the emails.

 

[Fantasia79]

News

Special ticketed event at the Grand Floridian for Fourth of July.

http://www.wdwmagic.com/resorts/dis...n-event-at-disneys-grand-floridian-resort.htm

Little vague on the description

 

[Pascal3]

News

Liberty Square Riverboat closed for Refurbishment August 1-10, 2017.

I never get to ride the riverboat because it is always closed when we are there, we literally arrive August 1st and leave the 11th but have no time in the parks on the last day. I am so sad!

 

[Fantasia79]

Watched Wedding Show with the wife too. Better than an informercial. They did a nice job producing it (minus hosts). Very cool they used a military family for the DL wedding.

 

[Tinkerbell8956]

My fiancé and I were in Magic Kingdom last year and were waiting in line to get our pictures taken with Alice and the Mad Hatter. We were the last ones in line and were chatting with the CM who had been there for over 20 years and used to do weddings in the past. He told us that a wedding like that starts around $25,000, with the most anyone had spent while he was there was close to a million.

If that is the case, the price has gone down. It used to be a $50,000 minimum that you had to spend on your wedding with Disney in order to have a castle wedding. This was in 2006 when I had a Disney Wedding.

 

[rteetz]

Photo Update

Universal Studios Update: Work Continues in San Francisco

 

[rteetz]

News

Mothers day promotions at Disney Springs

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/05/special-mothers-day-promotions-disney-springs/

 

[rteetz]

News

New Disneyland GOTG Mission Breakout ad

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/05/video...ds-promote-guardians-galaxy-mission-breakout/

 

[rteetz]

News

CBR's temporary dining tent is now open as well as the food trucks.

 

[SJMajor67]

If that is the case, the price has gone down. It used to be a $50,000 minimum that you had to spend on your wedding with Disney in order to have a castle wedding. This was in 2006 when I had a Disney Wedding.

Well in that case, it's probably more than that now, especially knowing how Disney is with their prices. It was over a year ago when we had the conversation, but I believe it had 25,000 in it so maybe it was $125,000. Whichever number it is, it's a lot of money and too much for me.

 

[ej119]

Photo update

Water returns to the rivers of America. DL Update.

http://micechat.com/159985-disneyland-photo-update-river-runs/

Do you think the new Fantasmic will be ready by the Expo? I've heard/read some rumors that we might more realistically be looking at an August or September premiere date.

 

[rteetz]

Do you think the new Fantasmic will be ready by the Expo? I've heard/read some rumors that we might more realistically be looking at an August or September premiere date.

Who knows right now. Last I heard they were still having trouble with the projection mapping.

 

[Madonna3]

Entered me and the hubby. I think it's awesome the entries are only open until 3pm. I wonder when they'll send the emails.

Well we didn't get an email so I guess we weren't the lucky ones!

 

[luisov]

Do you think the new Fantasmic will be ready by the Expo? I've heard/read some rumors that we might more realistically be looking at an August or September premiere date.

Some people say that MSEP was extended through August just in case Fantasmic is not ready on time. I'm sure they'll try to get it done by Summer, but the fact that they are not promoting the big return of the show sounds to me like it won't be ready in time for the Summer crowds. As Ryan said, they are having technical issues with projection mapping on moving objects.

 

[zaccaglin]

News

WDI is hiring a master planner for transportation

http://www.wdwmagic.com/transportat...ter-planner-principal-for-transportation-.htm

I only need 7 years of experience in the field and then I could apply!

Sadly I am "not eligible".... damn contracts.

 

[mikepizzo]

That show about the Disney Weddings was on Freeform last night. A nice, mildly sneaky way to sell their wedding business.
A few things though - they showed the one wedding at Disneyland in front of the castle - this wedding would be so insanely expensive it's not even funny. And the couple from the Bachelor who acted as the hosts of the show... that should just never happen again. While both were robotic and awkward, the girl was almost painful to watch.

If that is the case, the price has gone down. It used to be a $50,000 minimum that you had to spend on your wedding with Disney in order to have a castle wedding. This was in 2006 when I had a Disney Wedding.

Well in that case, it's probably more than that now, especially knowing how Disney is with their prices. It was over a year ago when we had the conversation, but I believe it had 25,000 in it so maybe it was $125,000. Whichever number it is, it's a lot of money and too much for me.

A someone who is getting married at Walt Disney World this June, and has actually gone through the beginning steps of "auditioning" for the new wedding show they are working on, I have a couple things to say about that special.

It was 100% absolutely unrealistic. The wedding that happened on Castaway Cay, that's not an actual wedding location. You cannot get married there. They set it up there so that the Disney Cruise Ship (was it the Dream?) would be in the background for all the shots.

The Disneyland wedding was, obviously, extremely unrealistic. I don't know Disneyland prices, but to get married in front of Cinderella's Castle is $25,000 for just the location. If you tack on Food & Beverage and Entertainment minimums, it's going to be at least $75,000.

My fiancee and I applied for the new show they are going to be filming this summer (because, why not...not like they were going to pick us...right?). So we had our Skype interview and we were talking to the casting guy and I asked what's the incentive. I was hoping to get a "free" wedding out of it. He said that Disney would allow us to upgrade certain things. No word on what we could upgrade or how much of it. I told him that made sense, Disney isn't going to show off a budget wedding.

He really made it seem like there wasn't too much of an incentive, other than having our wedding on TV which, to me, isn't a selling point. We applied just to get the experience of what the process would be like, not to get 15 minutes of fame. I can just imagine all the people being judgmental on the weddings that were already shown.

I'd be happy to answer any more questions regarding the wedding process, or the interview process if anyone else is interested. Would probably be better to private message me so we don't bog up the thread.

 

[rteetz]

News

American Idol is making its return on ABC

https://twitter.com/gma/status/861915961468649472

 

[1Mouse2RulethemAll]

News

American Idol is making its return on ABC

https://twitter.com/gma/status/861915961468649472

Wild guess here, but how much you want to bet this will be airing on Sunday night, with a Monday results night to compete with Football?

 

[Delano Fiedler]

Photo Update

Universal Studios Update: Work Continues in San Francisco

They are building the Fast and Furious ride so fast I now believe an early 2018 release is a lock. Cant wait to get more info about the ride itself