News Round Up 2018

[TheMaxRebo]

NEWS

Disney and Jam City announce multi-year mobile games partnership .... To help continue the growth of Disney Emoji Blitz, team members from Disney’s Glendale Games Studio will move over to Jam City.

https://wdwnt.com/2018/11/disney-and-jam-city-announce-multi-year-mobile-games-partnership/

 

[wnwardii]

News

Walt Disney World Annual Passholders get access to pop up shop for Mickeys Birthday

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...ember-16/?CMP=SOC-DPFY19Q1wo1108181114180021C

Since I will be at MK on Friday, I may have to get there before my breakfast ADR at the Plaza Restaurant.

 

[rteetz]

Since I will be at MK on Friday, I may have to get there before my breakfast ADR at the Plaza Restaurant.

Jealous!

 

[rteetz]

News

Tickets Now Available for ‘Ralph Breaks VR’ Hyper-Reality Experience at Disney Springs, Downtown Disney District

 

[jknezek]

I guess we can put this here now: https://deadline.com/2018/11/james-cameron-avatar-sequels-alita-titanic-1202502044/

Avatar sequels 2 and 3 have completed main photography. I wasn't sure Cameron would ever get these projects moving, and it's been so long I'm not sure he should have tried, but I'm interested to see how it turns out. Notice I didn't say excited. I'm not sure I can work myself up to excited, but I'm definitely interested.

To be fair though, I'm also interested in Alita....

 

[JK World]

Nooooooooooooooo!!! We're going in September specifically to avoid the opening of SWGE! If the anticipated date changes I can see me changing the date of our trip also. I don't want to be anywhere in the state of FL when SWGE opens!

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Same here! I was hoping people were right about it not opening until mid-late December and trying to get an early December trip in. If the opening date is announced to be earlier, I'll either push our trip earlier or cancel and try again in 2021 or beyond.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

I guess we can put this here now: https://deadline.com/2018/11/james-cameron-avatar-sequels-alita-titanic-1202502044/

Avatar sequels 2 and 3 have completed main photography. I wasn't sure Cameron would ever get these projects moving, and it's been so long I'm not sure he should have tried, but I'm interested to see how it turns out. Notice I didn't say excited. I'm not sure I can work myself up to excited, but I'm definitely interested.

To be fair though, I'm also interested in Alita....

I'm interested in at least the first one - a lot of talk about the advancements he made in filming underwater scenes so I want to see how that looks.

 

[rteetz]

News

Typhoon Lagoon Will Be Closed November 16 Due to Projected Cold Weather

 

[rteetz]

Looks like casting has begun for the new Cirque show at Disney Springs to open March 2020.

http://en.ext.casting.cirquedusoleil.com/ts2mmx__JobDetails?jobId=a0xA000000JFKZjIAP&utm_medium=owned-social-media&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=facebook - Casting||recruitment-casting|cds-internal||||cst&utm_campaign=castingcall-MCrayon-EN|notshowrelated|n.a.|n.a.|2018||

 

[FredQc]

Looks like casting has begun for the new Cirque show at Disney Springs to open March 2020.

http://en.ext.casting.cirquedusoleil.com/ts2mmx__JobDetails?jobId=a0xA000000JFKZjIAP&utm_medium=owned-social-media&utm_source=facebook&utm_content=facebook - Casting||recruitment-casting|cds-internal||||cst&utm_campaign=castingcall-MCrayon-EN|notshowrelated|n.a.|n.a.|2018||

The following requirement is particularly interesting to emphasize:
Requirements:

• [...]
• Available for the production’s schedule:
  • Training and rehearsals in Montreal: September 9 to November 29, 2019
  • Rehearsals in Orlando: December 16, 2019 to March 19, 2020
  • Stage performance in Orlando: March 20, 2020 to September 19, 2021 (minimum 1 year contract).

 

[Sweettears]

wow, really? Not until Fall - which means as late as next December? That is surprising with how fast they seem to be moving

Our as early as August when MNSSHP begins

 

[scrappinginontario]

Our as early as August when MNSSHP begins

I would think if it was going to be open in the summer they would have said that. The may start their Halloween parties mud-August but that is still fully summer on the calendar.

 

[rteetz]

News

New Dumbo trailer just dropped

https://twitter.com/disneystudios/status/1062884471135854593?s=21

I’ll admit I’m very excited to see this one now.

 

[BigRed98]

News

New Dumbo trailer just dropped

https://twitter.com/disneystudios/status/1062884471135854593?s=21

I’ll admit I’m very excited to see this one now.

I was not a fan of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland but after watching this trailer, I'm just as excited. I know many don't like Burton's dark style but I think it's going to work well with Dumbo.

 

[Sweettears]

I would think if it was going to be open in the summer they would have said that. The may start their Halloween parties mud-August but that is still fully summer on the calendar.

You missed the sarcasm.

 

[rteetz]

I was not a fan of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland but after watching this trailer, I'm just as excited. I know many don't like Burton's dark style but I think it's going to work well with Dumbo.

Agreed, this isn’t the same style as Alice which I also wasn’t big on. The casting looks good so far too.

 

[Sweettears]

I was not a fan of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland but after watching this trailer, I'm just as excited. I know many don't like Burton's dark style but I think it's going to work well with Dumbo.

I agree. This actually looks like one of the live action updates may make a better movie. Also it’s just a sampling but I like what I heard of the new version of Baby Mine

 

[ksromack]

Skyliner will open Fall 2019

Woot.....making the December 2019 CBR trip all the more exciting

I wonder how far out Resort pricing goes. Be interesting to watch the skyliner resort pricing for next fall-unless its already out/avail I guess.

I suppose it could stay at current rates, then see if people get "hooked" on it.

I still wondered why they would offer the free dining bounce back in Dec 2019. At first I thought maybe it was because they had fallen behind on the construction of Galaxy's Edge but now I wonder!

Nooooooooooooooo!!! We're going in September specifically to avoid the opening of SWGE! If the anticipated date changes I can see me changing the date of our trip also. I don't want to be anywhere in the state of FL when SWGE opens!

But for my December 2019 trip that would mean that a couple months of craziness would be out of the way!

News

New Dumbo trailer just dropped

https://twitter.com/disneystudios/status/1062884471135854593?s=21

I’ll admit I’m very excited to see this one now.

Sigh. Baby Mine always gets me......

 

[scrappinginontario]

You missed the sarcasm.

Yup! The sarcasm was totally lost in me as I’ve lost count of the number of people on different threads claiming that Disney could not actually mean ‘fall’ when they say ‘fall’. Stopped looking for sarcasm after reading post after post of why Disney couldn’t possibly be saying what they said this morning.

 

[Roxyfire]

I still wondered why they would offer the free dining bounce back in Dec 2019. At first I thought maybe it was because they had fallen behind on the construction of Galaxy's Edge but now I wonder!

They do offer it on that timeframe each year it seems and it's always puzzled me. There's obviously a reason for it, and arguably free dining isn't the deal it once was. How many are booking a higher priced view at a moderate and upgrading to the regular plan or booking a deluxe with a higher priced view just to get that plan? Perhaps they know that's a good way to use a loss leader to guarantee rooms are filled earlier. I wish just for a moment I could dig into those numbers and see what it truly is, but I know that'll never happen.