News Round Up 2018

[rteetz]

Photo Update

Hollywood Studios Update: Temporary Closure of Toy Story Mania and More (PART 1)

 

[unbanshee]

This is DTD not DS.

This same look will come to DS. You can already see some of the brick work through open doors

 

[rteetz]

This same look will come to DS. You can already see some of the brick work through open doors

I do like the brick rather than all white walls or something.

 

[rteetz]

News

Halloween on the High Seas Cruises Haunting Disney Ships this Fall

 

[rteetz]

News

Turning a Moment into a Movement: Disney VoluntEARS Make a Difference During the Global Week of Service

 

[tarheelblue8853]

Boo. It looks like that replaced the freshly made chipwich - with real chocolate chip cookies. Only way I'd ever eat vanilla ice cream! I'd always go out of my way to get that!

Oh well - I need to find another snack - probably that Mickey Head Cinnamon bun - that is super delicious!

That cookie ice cream sandwich was my go to snack at Magic Kingdom! I got into a bad habit of getting one every night before the fireworks. Looks like I gotta find something new now.

 

[Ambehnke]

The sleepy hollow cookie ice cream sandwich was the best but I would think you could still get one at the plaza.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

That cookie ice cream sandwich was my go to snack at Magic Kingdom! I got into a bad habit of getting one every night before the fireworks. Looks like I gotta find something new now.

We love be Sleepy Hollow but they do have a habbit or taking things off the menu that we like (used to love getting the coffe floats there)

 

[rteetz]

Looks like WDW booking is down right now...

 

[Keels]

Looks like WDW booking is down right now...

I can book via the Travel Agent site, but direct booking for WDW has been down for about 30 minutes.

 

[TexasBee]

Direct booking appears to still be down.

 

[MickeyMinnieMom]

Fox, Disney Announce New Deal

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-disney-announce-new-deal-1529496937

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-di...Icq/Fnvt4tctA==&reflink=article_copyURL_share

 

[Moliphino]

The sleepy hollow cookie ice cream sandwich was the best but I would think you could still get one at the plaza.

I always went for the one in AK because they used Haagen Dazs insteady of Edy's (used to be at the cart before the bridge to Africa, now at Dino Bites).

 

[themommy]

yeah, we had a bunch of snow days but instead of extending the year they just took away Spring (Easter) Break

sorry, probably enough chatter/complaining about my kid's school schedule

back to the news!

Sorry, couldn’t help but reply. For snow makeup days here, they tried taking away part of spring break instead of adding on to the end of school ONCE. They won’t be doing that again. People were so ticked off that hardly anyone sent their kids.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Sorry, couldn’t help but reply. For snow makeup days here, they tried taking away part of spring break instead of adding on to the end of school ONCE. They won’t be doing that again. People were so ticked off that hardly anyone sent their kids.

funny thing was, this year they changed our spring break as in the past it was always the week before Easter but this year they made it the week after. But we had made plans before the calendar came out assuming it would be the week before like always, so my kids wound up missing that week ... but then being back for the "make up" days for the spring break that turned out not to happen ... I wonder if others in our town did similar so more people than typical were actually around

People weren't happy about losing the dates but I think they largely preferred that vs extending the school year

 

[mollmoll4]

Looks like Fox accepted Disney's new deal:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-disney-announce-new-deal-1529496937

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Fox, Disney Announce New Deal

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-disney-announce-new-deal-1529496937

https://www.wsj.com/articles/fox-disney-announce-new-deal-1529496937?emailToken=7ff1f0c197eb86718a2de2ed637c9f3dQz4O+L6HRySW4jstSBv+0dvsMFQBjIT1pLs0jeT4ps5Y5eznkV3YxfiIZmXMj6cGKmqtWaMPaIcq/Fnvt4tctA==&reflink=article_copyURL_share

Story from Bloomberg as well:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...tened-bid-from-disney-dealing-blow-to-comcast


Ups it to $71m - about $10/share more than original bid and apparently has more flexibility than Comcast's offer (The new offer gives Fox shareholders the option to take their payment in the form of cash or stock, up to a 50-50 level). With the debt position Comcast would have already been with their prior offer I just can't see them beating this one

Disney also plans to take on about $13.8 billion of Fox’s net debt. That would lift the total transaction value above about $85 billion.



Just insane amounts of money

 

[dina444444]

News

‘Incredibles 2’ Flies To Best Tuesday In June With Near $27M

 

[dina444444]

Article about Hulu

Fate of Hulu Hangs in the Balance of Comcast-Disney War for Fox

 

[dlavender]

When your work and WDW passions meet!

Not really news, but kind of since the Japan Pavilion is getting some construction tarps!