News Round Up 2018

[skier_pete]

Aren't the Benji movies tough enough? To be fair I don't know how they end, I cried too hard to finish them. A teacher made me watch Old Yeller. That was torture. I ugly cried all day.

Old Yeller is brutal...not saying I want to watch it, just saying surprising it isn't there. Most of the Benji movies are pretty mellow...but I seem to remember Benji The Hunted was kind of rough.

 

[rteetz]

Rumor has it some Epcot news could be coming.

 

[firefly_ris]

Rumor has it some Epcot news could be coming.

This?

https://wdwnt.com/2018/05/breaking-...-future-world-hotel-at-the-entrance-of-epcot/

 

[rteetz]

This?

https://wdwnt.com/2018/05/breaking-...-future-world-hotel-at-the-entrance-of-epcot/

Yep

 

[rteetz]

News

Epcot Hotel work to begin soon

https://wdwnt.com/2018/05/breaking-...-future-world-hotel-at-the-entrance-of-epcot/

 

[TheMaxRebo]

News

Epcot Hotel work to begin soon

https://wdwnt.com/2018/05/breaking-...-future-world-hotel-at-the-entrance-of-epcot/

So seems like not 100% based on the way it is worded but seems like more likely it would be Option B (behind the Seas) vs Option A (smack dap in front of Space Ship Earth) for the location?

 

[jknezek]

good start, but needs the rest of the track. Looks similar to the Monorail sets

Huh. Might need that for my monorail layout. Maybe that can be my DHS park symbol since there really isn't one.

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

News

Epcot Hotel work to begin soon

https://wdwnt.com/2018/05/breaking-...-future-world-hotel-at-the-entrance-of-epcot/

Lets announce something and still not know where it is going to be. Why do websites have to do that?

 

[rteetz]

So seems like not 100% based on the way it is worded but seems like more likely it would be Option B (behind the Seas) vs Option A (smack dap in front of Space Ship Earth) for the location?

Actually I think it more likely in the front than by the Seas.

 

[rteetz]

Lets announce something and still not know where it is going to be. Why do websites have to do that?

Its WDWNT...

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Lets announce something and still not know where it is going to be. Why do websites have to do that?

well, this isn't as bad as some as at least this references all the new permits filed, so there is *some* news ... but obviously they word the headlines to make it seem like a bigger deal than probably is

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Actually I think it more likely in the front than by the Seas.

ok, interesting. Was basiging it off the last line of "much of the area behind the Seas between the monorail station and the Land pavilion will be used for the hotel and supporting infrastructure." - which sort of puts it between options A and B

I'll take a "wait and see" but not a fan of breaking up the view of Space Ship Earth as you walk from the parking lot (but obviously would be awesome for those staying in the hotel)

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Personal opinion--I would not be for a hotel at the front of the entrance to Epcot or any park for that matter.

 

[OKW Lover]

Personal opinion--I would not be for a hotel at the front of the entrance to Epcot or any park for that matter.

Any particular reason?

 

[rteetz]

Personal opinion--I would not be for a hotel at the front of the entrance to Epcot or any park for that matter.

Tokyo and Paris both do this.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Tokyo and Paris both do this.

Yeah...just not a fan. Also different markets do different things.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Any particular reason?

The feel of a hotel right at the entrance just doesn't appeal to me. Sight lines, overall feel (partially being reminded about the outside world when you've got a hotel right at the entrance), etc.

On the side? Yeah that wouldn't be quite as bad (so in this case the proposed site B though it would still present some distractions to the outside world just not quite as bad as the front of the park).

If the CR was in front of MK I'd feel the same. As is the CR still gets relatively great access to MK without being right in front of MK. Imagining arriving at the gates to MK on the monorail and seeing a hotel building just sounds not appealing.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

The feel of a hotel right at the entrance just doesn't appeal to me. Sight lines, overall feel (partially being reminded about the outside world when you've got a hotel right at the entrance), etc.

On the side? Yeah that wouldn't be quite as bad (so in this case the proposed site B though it would still present some distractions to the outside world just not quite as bad as the front of the park).

If the CR was in front of MK I'd feel the same. As is the CR still gets relatively great access to MK without being right in front of MK. Imagining arriving at the gates to MK on the monorail and seeing a hotel building just sounds not appealing.

probably time to take this to the dedicated thread before Rteetz slaps our wrists ....

... but I agree with you - I am cool with like a Grand Californian set up, but seeing this as the entrance to a park, doesn't excite me:

 

[Tigger's ally]

News

Epcot Hotel work to begin soon

https://wdwnt.com/2018/05/breaking-...-future-world-hotel-at-the-entrance-of-epcot/

I guess I tilt towards the hotel now being over by the seas. Could they even get the front of the park/hotel done in time for the 50th with everything else they are building now?

 

[rteetz]

I guess I tilt towards the hotel now being over by the seas. Could they even get the front of the park/hotel done in time for the 50th with everything else they are building now?

There will be Epcot things not done by the 50th.