News Round Up 2018

[HuskieJohn]

Have you seen the trailers for that movie? Scary for children! Not particularly interesting for adults either IMO.

I think they need to spend more time in story development, less on special effects.

Same issue they had with the Tomorrowland movie.

Also this is a perceived holiday movie (do not know if it actually is or not) that should have been opened no earlier than Thanksgiving weekend and no later than the weekend before Christmas.

 

[rteetz]

Highly recommend the new Up Close with Rhinos tour!

 

[SG131]

Not many people want to watch a Christmas movie the weekend after October. A release closer to Thanksgiving would have made more sense, but I know they don't want to compete with WIR2.

I don't think the problem is making original movies (which this doesn't even qualify as IMO). Disney just seems to be really bad at making good ones. I go see just about anything they put out, but I almost never have any interest in their live action originals. Tomorrowland is the only one I can think of that I've seen in theaters in recent years.

Well Hallmark has had a chunk of people watching Christmas movies already (though not many who are willing to drag their whole family out and publicly admit it)!

Have you seen the trailers for that movie? Scary for children! Not particularly interesting for adults either IMO.

I think they need to spend more time in story development, less on special effects.

I saw the trailers and was so confused and that's with knowing the original nutcracker story and having seen the ballet. The trailers seemed like they had a lot going on but nothing to tie it together, definitely wasn't something I'm jumping out of my chair to see. Now Bohemian Rhapsody that I will see soon.

 

[monique5]

NEWS

Dooney & Bourke Disney Parks Holiday Collection now available at Shop Disney .... must say that the pattern is pretty cute

https://www.shopdisney.com/brands/d...JTJubzDFOL-8bzGr3qLYUfUty3dwsV-izCIQ3RfH95k4A

Interesting! Last year, on app on Black Friday and limited selection on website. So released earlier this year. I think the year before, only could be purchased at WDW with maybe a limited selection on the app.

 

[Tigger's ally]

Highly recommend the new Up Close with Rhinos tour!

Are you going to do a review in your trip report? Cause I have a son named Ryno (Ryne actually but goes by Ryno, Yes Teets big Cub fan here) and we started at an early age having stuffed Rhino's and stuff. Would love to get him on this tour next spring.

 

[OKW Lover]

They had the train station, and Main Street decorated, Jingle Cruise running, and the tree up. Not sure there is anything else to do.

Sadly that's pretty much all they do for decorating at the MK these days. I remember how elaborate the decorating was many years ago.

 

[rteetz]

Are you going to do a review in your trip report? Cause I have a son named Ryno (Ryne actually but goes by Ryno, Yes Teets big Cub fan here) and we started at an early age having stuffed Rhino's and stuff. Would love to get him on this tour next spring.

Lol I plan on it.

 

[sachilles]

Highly recommend the new Up Close with Rhinos tour!

Good to hear, we are considering that for our late February trip.
Suitable for a patient/calm 10 year old you think?

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Well Hallmark has had a chunk of people watching Christmas movies already (though not many who are willing to drag their whole family out and publicly admit it)!

Hallmark is an entirely different planet. They are known and want to continue to be known as THE place to watch Holiday TV movies (and the TV aspect is important). I have some movies recorded but I'm not in the mood for Christmas yet. I'm still watching fall/halloween movies. Still have one more Fall Harvest movie from Hallmark to watch.

I do think Disney could have waited just another 2 weeks and maybe it would have fared a tad bit better in terms of box office numbers (who knows though). Thanksgiving this year is the earliest it can be being that it's on the 22nd. Even waiting to release it til November 16th would have given it an opening weekend coupled with a few days later with movie goers who like to go on holidays (though admittedly I don't go to the movies on Thanksgiving we do however go on Christmas depending on the movie offerings).

 

[rteetz]

Good to hear, we are considering that for our late February trip.
Suitable for a patient/calm 10 year old you think?

Definitely

 

[ejgonz2]

Not many people want to watch a Christmas movie the weekend after October. A release closer to Thanksgiving would have made more sense, but I know they don't want to compete with WIR2.

I don't think the problem is making original movies (which this doesn't even qualify as IMO). Disney just seems to be really bad at making good ones. I go see just about anything they put out, but I almost never have any interest in their live action originals. Tomorrowland is the only one I can think of that I've seen in theaters in recent years.

Agree, I think this speaks to a larger issue of too many Disney owned movies coming out, a wrinkle in time coming out just after Black Panther and solo, for all its other issues, coming out just after infinity war was also an issue

 

[amalone1013]

Maybe I missed the post, but did anyone notice that there is a Nutcracker/4 Realms Dooney Pattern? I figured the Holiday talk was just the Holiday Icons pattern.

 

[ilovetotravel1977]

Now Bohemian Rhapsody that I will see soon.

FWIW, I saw it on the weekend and it was good. Not great, but good. Amazing music, as expected, but the story lacked. Rami Malek was amazing though.

 

[mikepizzo]

I didn't bother actually reading and jumped on MDE to change my selection. Silly me, thinking Disney would make these available for free.

I did the exact same thing!

You’re expecting too much

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Purple not originally a free color? They announced it as a new color that you can customize at D-Tech, then it eventually worked its way as a free color...no?

 

[PolyRob]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't Purple not originally a free color? They announced it as a new color that you can customize at D-Tech, then it eventually worked its way as a free color...no?

You are correct. Purple was available fall 2015 at the kiosks and for retail sale around December that same year. It became an online option for free to order in Feb/March 2016.

 

[mikepizzo]

You are correct. Purple was available fall 2015 at the kiosks and for retail sale around December that same year. It became an online option for free to order in Feb/March 2016.

So I guess we can't rule out the possibility that perhaps in the future these colors will also be available free to order. Still waiting for that black magic band to make the jump too.

 

[scrappinginontario]

Black was first made available to purchase in December 2017. Millennial pink in January 2018 yet neither has transitioned to the resort stay options. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the only new colour they've ever introduced into the 'free' option is purple in the 5+ years that MBs have been around. As much as I'd like to see them enhance their free offerings I'm not holding my breath.

Once again, it's a matter of why offer something for free when people are quite willing to pay for it? Sadly this is the way Disney seems to be going these days.

 

[dina444444]

News

Disney After Hours Events Expand to Disney’s Hollywood Studios & Disney’s Animal Kingdom

 

[Tigger's ally]

Black was first made available to purchase in December 2017. Millennial pink in January 2018 yet neither has transitioned to the resort stay options. Please correct me if I'm wrong but I believe the only new colour they've ever introduced into the 'free' option is purple in the 5+ years that MBs have been around. As much as I'd like to see them enhance their free offerings I'm not holding my breath.

Once again, it's a matter of why offer something for free when people are quite willing to pay for it? Sadly this is the way Disney seems to be going these days.

Yeah, but surely with the mass quantities of bands, some of them don't sell. You would think they might move the low sellers over.

 

[jknezek]

Yeah, but surely with the mass quantities of bands, some of them don't sell. You would think they might move the low sellers over.

Why? Low sellers still make more money than free...