News Round Up 2018

[The Pho]

I haven’t been in the standby queue for at least a year but it worked then.

It seems to be day to day on if they were working or not.

I must be getting in line at the wrong times then. I haven't seen the touch part of the touch screen working in probably 3 years. Either no gems on the screen or touching the gems did nothing.

 

[BigRed98]

The touch screen interactive queue elements from Mine Train have been removed.

Maybe Disney is planning to release a Mine Train game on the Play Disney parks app

 

[crazy4wdw]

Disney’s Mulan Remake To Feature Music; Mushu To Appear

 

[MissGina5]

Disney’s Mulan Remake To Feature Music; Mushu To Appear

oh thank goooood

 

[rteetz]

 

[writerguyfl]

Wow... renovation is always a mess, but yikes... Hope they get it done sooner rather than later.....

I was there about 3 weeks ago. Left the park a few minute after 11pm when the park closed. Heavy equipment including jack hammers were active at that late hour under the nearly bright-as-daylight flood lights. Assuming that was happening everyday, I don't think anyone can complain that Disney isn't trying to complete the parking lot as quickly as possible.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I was there about 3 weeks ago. Left the park a few minute after 11pm when the park closed. Heavy equipment including jack hammers were active at that late hour under the nearly bright-as-daylight flood lights. Assuming that was happening everyday, I don't think anyone can complain that Disney isn't trying to complete the parking lot as quickly as possible.

yeah, noticed they were working on the DHS gondola station when we were leaving the park after fireworks as well .. and they at least had work lights on at the Guardians building when we were leaving EPCOT after Illuminations - definitely feels like they are trying to work as fast as they can

 

[jknezek]

yeah, noticed they were working on the DHS gondola station when we were leaving the park after fireworks as well .. and they at least had work lights on at the Guardians building when we were leaving EPCOT after Illuminations - definitely feels like they are trying to work as fast as they can

And doesn't that seem something like a rarity for WDW? Usually these projects are done at a lesser pace to save money and spread out capital expenses over multiple quarters.

 

[rteetz]

Photo Update

Disneyland Resort Update – It’s Halloween Time

 

[rteetz]

And doesn't that seem something like a rarity for WDW? Usually these projects are done at a lesser pace to save money and spread out capital expenses over multiple quarters.

Disney is paying huge money for the Skyliner system. Its part of the prep for Star Wars so they want it done before that. The rest can give or take but they want other projects done too to take the load off of DHS.

 

[rteetz]

News

PHOTOS: New Stitch Disney Parks Loungefly Purses and Wallet Unleashed

 

[jknezek]

Disney is paying huge money for the Skyliner system. Its part of the prep for Star Wars so they want it done before that. The rest can give or take but they want other projects done too to take the load off of DHS.

Yeah I get that. And I'm thinking they really want the cables done during the "off season for gondola building" late this year and into next year. Otherwise they might be hard pressed to make that goal of taking the pressure off the transport system when SW:GE opens.. But you have to admit, it's still odd to see them working feverishly on something!

 

[TheMaxRebo]

And doesn't that seem something like a rarity for WDW? Usually these projects are done at a lesser pace to save money and spread out capital expenses over multiple quarters.

Disney is paying huge money for the Skyliner system. Its part of the prep for Star Wars so they want it done before that. The rest can give or take but they want other projects done too to take the load off of DHS.

at least in the past, definitely - but they have given themselves now deadlines for Galaxy's Edge to open (and they want the gondolas and Mickey and Minnie's Runnaway Railroad done by then as well) - and then for the other things (Guardians, Tron, etc.) they want done for the 50th, so I think a bit more urgency than there was for, say, the Disney Springs parking garage

Side note, I wonder if we will look back on the challenges/failures with Rivers of Light and how bad that made Disney look as a good thing in the long run as it made them realize they can't have a repeat situation like that

 

[jlundeen]

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Side note, I wonder if we will look back on the challenges/failures with Rivers of Light and how bad that made Disney look as a good thing in the long run as it made them realize they can't have a repeat situation like that

Ugh, that scab had recently finally healed over, and now you've scratched it open again....

 

[Phicinfan]

Black Hole is and was terrible, or at least terrribly boring. Bedknobs and Broomsticks is more of a YMMV film I think depending on whether you grew up with it, kind of like Pete's Dragon.

When are they going to do the Kurt Russel / Dexter Riley trilogy?

Shame, for Shame - Black Hole was a super movie, well for the day I loved it.
We raised our kids on a ton of old Disney movies - appledumpling game, Herbie, Pete's Dragon, Bed knob and broomsticks...you name it we had it. While I agree most kids prefered the animated, some of the older black and white movies really are special. My oldest to this day still loves to watch Davey Crocket.

 

[wareagle57]

I'm all for that but I think you'd also have to have them where the line stays long enough for people to use them.

We ran into it every now and then where people would hold up the line to play those last year in 7DMT or we would get past them and then be waiting in the line. And while I know it's not a norm at all we ran into this problem also in Peter Pan with the hand activated interactiveness. People kept holding up the line to play with it and it was a bit annoying with that and some people would ask if they could just go past them while they played with it.

I have only ever been in the Space Mountain queue when it was long enough to play the games 1 or 2 times. But how it worked there seemed to be perfect. There is enough of a wait in the final queue area past the FP merge point, that the line would continually stop for the duration of the games, and then they'd let enough people in to fill in the space, and you'd be at the next game in time for it to start. Having interactive stuff once you are down to a 15 minute wait or less definitely doesn't make sense, and defeats the purpose.

 

[rteetz]

Photo Update

Coronado Springs Update

https://wdwnt.com/2018/09/photos-co...nchitos-hello-mercado-new-tower-progress-etc/

 

[rteetz]

News

Interactive gem sorting element removed from Seven Dwarf Mine Train queue

http://blogmickey.com/2018/09/photo...s-mine-train-queue-for-play-disney-parks-app/

 

[rteetz]

News

Wdwmagic is reporting low attendance numbers for Fall specifically September. Disney has begun measures to cutback on staffing and other things around the parks as cost savings. This isn’t much different from slow periods in years past.

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

News

Wdwmagic is reporting low attendance numbers for Fall specifically September. Disney has begun measures to cutback on staffing and other things around the parks as cost savings. This isn’t much different from slow periods in years past.

Seems pretty typical for the industry wrt staffing. Any conjecture regarding the “other things”?