News Round Up 2018

[FinnsMom7]

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/passholder-program/specials/

I got to that page but when you select it, nothing happens. At least for me.

 

[shoreward]

I got to that page but when you select it, nothing happens. At least for me.

I don't think there is anything else, yet.

It's just a "teaser."

 

[Cindyd04]

I got to that page but when you select it, nothing happens. At least for me.

Same, I'm trying to get help on the phone now. I did get one of the toy story dates for Sept, but I'd rather cancel that and get an Aug date if possible

 

[Cindyd04]

Ok just got off the phone, the e-mail sent was a teaser, nothing is open yet...

 

[PolyRob]

I got the email too - there aren't details beyond this. Looks like it will be done like the Toy Story AP days. You will get an email if you are invited, and you will have to register from there.

It's listed on Passholder page.

I can't get it to load either and I have an Aug trip so I'm hoping I can get a date during my trip if one exists

I was hoping to see dates. I missed the TSL previews and was bummed (even though I had no concrete plans of being there in September). Hopefully I can act fast on one of these! I will be glued to my e-mail

 

[FinnsMom7]

Ok just got off the phone, the e-mail sent was a teaser, nothing is open yet...

UGH why do they have to toy with us?!?!

 

[TheMaxRebo]

UGH why do they have to toy with us?!?!

in honor of Toy Story Land opening ... just keeping with the theme/immersion

 

[ddluvsdisney]

Is the star wars dessert party usually having trouble filling spots?We were just offered free entry into the star wars dessert party because so few spots were taken. For free. Cant do it because the 7 yo wants to do RNRC. Seemed odd to me to have it offered for free, and I'm sure I will never get that pixie dust again.

Wow you were in the right place at the right time!! Wish that happened to us!
Too bad you couldn’t do it.

 

[Cindyd04]

I was hoping to see dates. I missed the TSL previews and was bummed (even though I had no concrete plans of being there in September). Hopefully I can act fast on one of these! I will be glued to my e-mail

I just cancelled mine for 8am Sept 14th, try to grab the spots!

 

[eXo]

Wasn't the rumor that Nintendo Land would be split into different pieces in different parks in Orlando? That would cause a backlash, especially if you're there specifically for Nintendo stuff.

That rumor did exist, but briefly. It is now confirmed to *not* being going into the children's area at universal studios. A totally different IP is being looked at to replace the Fievel\Curious George\barney section now.

There was a time that a lawsuit was preventing them from building a themepark on the new land. I suspect these were backup plans to keep Nintendo happy while they worked through that. You can't strike a huge deal with Nintendo to bring it to your themeparks and then say, "well, we want to build it in our third gate, but we have a year of legal work to see if we can make that happen. Just be patient." Nintendo would have wanted some idea of what, where, and when things would be built. Placing various properties in IOA and USO would have solved that on paper.

Why would they when they have a such a hot property to "force" you to go 3 different parks? They already require you to get their version of a park hopper as the ONLY way to ride a Potter-based attraction, why is having more Potter in a 3rd park that shocking?

Yea, the hogswart express/park hopper combo has been *extremely* lucrative for them. Also, they would never want to put all their harry potter stuff in one park. A lot of people simply wouldn't go to it. I mean, I'm not a huge harry potter fan (as far as the movies go), but I do find Diagon Alley and Hogsmeade to be a *lot* of fun to explore. I never would have even tried them if I had to go to a Harry Potter exclusive park to see them.

Thanks for the post - I can't say there is anything that is unbelievable in this statement. (Well, that they would build a land based on Trolls - but that's just YOUR speculation.) And you very well could be right about the "no lines" concept. I think it would be very hard to incorporate that to 100% of a theme park, but it could work. I COULD for instance see something like SW:GE have some sort of "reserved only" system for their two rides where you can either get a FP+ ahead of time, OR you can get a reservation for one of the rides the day of. Keep say 50% of the slots for FP and 50% of the slots for day of and don't have a queue. If you limit it to only a couple of rides, it could work pretty well. ALL rides could be problematic with the average Joe that isn't any good at planning anything and just randomly stumbles onto the next ride they will ride. (This is a pretty big percentage of people.

The troll's speculation is fueled by a few things. One, it was almost what they themed the entire kids section at USO to after they decided to move Nintendo to the new park. Designs were made, a sequel movie is in the works, and it is considered by management over there to be duel gender. It could very well all be scrapped. On the other hand... they love to reuse their ideas over there. Second, the guy I was talking to made it clear he was *very*confused by the IP they had chosen. To me, that eliminates the obvious ones like Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, How to Train your Dragon... Now,, him being "puzzled" by it could be subjective. But the guy was an imagineer of over 20 years before spending the past 5 or so doing contract work. He was involved in the primary ride at Galaxy's Edge as well as several Universal Projects in recent years. So I would think he is aware enough of the current culture of things to have a pretty good understanding of what will and what won't gel with people these days.

If you look at the possible dreamworks ips you have:
Shrek
How to Train your Dragon
Kung Fu Panda
Madagascar
Boss Baby
Trolls
And then if you dig even further back:
Megamind
Croods
Rise of the Guardians
Monsters vs Aliens
But none of those even have sequels on the books.... so why build a whole new land based on what is essentially a dead property?

The top three seem like the go to choices. So they are likely out. Boss Baby has a netflix show.... but I honestly don't believe they are stupid enough to theme a whole park section after that. So if you don't dig back into older IP's that don't have any sequel's in development.... that just leaves Trolls. A property that already had planning for it prior to this. So, whether anyone else agrees with my analysis of it, that is how I came to that conclusion.

 

[dlavender]

Now that my daughter is water park/swimming pool obsessed, I’m going to have to visit water parks more often. Therer’s a good point here, are they waiting to clear some capital? Or are they in the verge of something huge (FoP, SW:GE). It wasn’t that long ago there was a Viking on here saying Disney hasn’t done anything new and is losing.

The viking was pointing out that WDW had let things stagnate too long. That they were losing in the direct aftermath of HP at Uni.

But they are quickly correcting.

 

[Firebird060]

Ehh Since Pandora opened up 2 years ago Disney has already recovered from HP at Uni, the next 3 major expansions is Just Disney reasserting there Dominance over the market. Uni is now back on there heels that they have to add possibly a new park to compete. Disney tried to scale back spending while they built Shanghai and it allowed Uni to make there mark. Now that Shanghai is up and running and has been that is why we are seeing more spending domestically

 

[han22735]

Walt Disney World will soon begin hosting all-new V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights, an after-hours event at Epcot and the Magic Kingdom.

V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights will be available to Gold, Platinum, Platinum Plus and Premier Passholders, taking place on:

• August 5 2018 at Magic Kingdom from 10:00pm to 12:00am
• September 6 2018 at Epcot from 9:00pm to 11:00pm
• October 25 2018 at Epcot from 9:00pm to 11:00pm

Advance Registration will be required - keep a look out for registration emails in the next few weeks, and passholders will be able to register for one event only.

Outside of the V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights, Disney will also soon offer more passholder exclusive offerings at the parks, which will be available to other levels of pass.

https://www.wdwmagic.com/other/annu...oler-nights-for-select-annual-passholders.htm

 

[Fantasia79]

I arrive on October 26....thanks Disney.

 

[dlavender]

Walt Disney World will soon begin hosting all-new V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights, an after-hours event at Epcot and the Magic Kingdom.

V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights will be available to Gold, Platinum, Platinum Plus and Premier Passholders, taking place on:

• August 5 2018 at Magic Kingdom from 10:00pm to 12:00am
• September 6 2018 at Epcot from 9:00pm to 11:00pm
• October 25 2018 at Epcot from 9:00pm to 11:00pm

Advance Registration will be required - keep a look out for registration emails in the next few weeks, and passholders will be able to register for one event only.

Outside of the V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights, Disney will also soon offer more passholder exclusive offerings at the parks, which will be available to other levels of pass.

https://www.wdwmagic.com/other/annu...oler-nights-for-select-annual-passholders.htm

They better hurry with that registration for August 5th.....

I like that they are adding these, but a little bummed that the one we'd be interested in is on a Sunday night...

But its something!

 

[Firebird060]

Lol the October 25th one is great for Me, except Sadly I will be at MNSSHP that night lol I love AP things but since I already bought the 25th I will have to miss out

 

[skier_pete]

https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/passholder-program/specials/

Geez - can I pay someone to text me immediately if this info comes out? I missed the Toy Story AP ones because I dared to not be on-line for 15 minutes. Would love the chance to participate in this come August or October - but have to actually HEAR about it in time.

 

[Cindyd04]

Walt Disney World will soon begin hosting all-new V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights, an after-hours event at Epcot and the Magic Kingdom.

V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights will be available to Gold, Platinum, Platinum Plus and Premier Passholders, taking place on:

• August 5 2018 at Magic Kingdom from 10:00pm to 12:00am
• September 6 2018 at Epcot from 9:00pm to 11:00pm
• October 25 2018 at Epcot from 9:00pm to 11:00pm

Advance Registration will be required - keep a look out for registration emails in the next few weeks, and passholders will be able to register for one event only.

Outside of the V.I.PASSHOLDER Nights, Disney will also soon offer more passholder exclusive offerings at the parks, which will be available to other levels of pass.

https://www.wdwmagic.com/other/annu...oler-nights-for-select-annual-passholders.htm

Ohh I hope it's like DVC moonlight and that you can bring a non-passholder guest!

 

[shoreward]

https://attractionsmagazine.com/walt-disney-world-v-i-passholder-nights/

 

[Lsdolphin]

Just got an email for Annual Passholders listing a bunch of summer "perks" which I can hardly read since so much of the printing is superimposed on top of the pictures.
One item says "summer add-on " Available for $89...... does anyone know just what this is????