News Round Up 2019

[BigRed98]

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Expedition Everest Unexpectedly Closed for Today at Animal Kingdom

 

[MommyinHonduras]

Not to bother anyone, but is there a thread on this site discussing places to live around Disneyworld? Looking to relocate from NY in few years and work for the Mouse. Please include link if so.

There is not, but there is a Facebook group based around the Moving to the Magic Podcast that the DIS Unplugged does. I recommend watching one of those podcasts to get info about where to find the group.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/Movingtothemagic/

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

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Expedition Everest Unexpectedly Closed for Today at Animal Kingdom

Are they finally fixing the Yeti!?!?!

 

[firefly_ris]

Are they finally fixing the Yeti!?!?!

Yep... they waited all this time so they could do it in the middle of spring break; that'll teach people to complain about it!

 

[rteetz]

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Casey Jr. Popcorn Bucket and Dumbo Sipper Cup Available at Disney Springs!

I need this

 

[rteetz]

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More track installed at Guardians

http://blogmickey.com/2019/03/photo...rdians-of-the-galaxy-roller-coaster-in-epcot/

 

[rteetz]

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Disney to use archived audio from Don Rickles for Toy Story 4

https://wdwnt.com/2019/03/archival-...rickles-will-be-used-to-voice-mr-potato-head/

 

[rteetz]

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Adults only hideaway returns to Typhoon Lagoon

https://wdwnt.com/2019/03/adults-on...disneys-typhoon-lagoon-water-park-this-april/

 

[writerguyfl]

Not to bother anyone, but is there a thread on this site discussing places to live around Disneyworld? Looking to relocate from NY in few years and work for the Mouse. Please include link if so.

It's not the most obvious place, but we do see threads on that topic occasionally in the Orlando Hotels and Attractions forum. Here's are a few older threads that might give you some ideas. (Two of those are really old, but a lot of the information is still relevant. For example, the stuff about costs like insurance, air-conditioning, and climate don't really change.)

• https://www.disboards.com/threads/considering-a-move-to-orlando-area.3438574/
• https://www.disboards.com/threads/who-lives-in-orlando.1844120/
• https://www.disboards.com/threads/relocation-to-florida.1877571/

 

[The Pho]

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Disney to use archived audio from Don Rickles for Toy Story 4

https://wdwnt.com/2019/03/archival-...rickles-will-be-used-to-voice-mr-potato-head/

That is seriously wonderful news. I was very concerned about Potato Head’s portrayal or lack of.

 

[rteetz]

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New Avengers themed magicbands

http://blogmickey.com/2019/03/shop-...anos-captain-america-captain-marvel-iron-man/

 

[rteetz]

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Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy now open

http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions...emy-now-open-at-disneys-hollywood-studios.htm

 

[rteetz]

 

[crazy4wdw]

Appears that Dumbo has "flopped" at the box office, weekend estimates are $45 to $50 million.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4498&p=.htm

 

[BigRed98]

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Lightning McQueen’s Racing Academy now open

http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions...emy-now-open-at-disneys-hollywood-studios.htm

This looks like a great addition to DHS! Show looks fun and the Lightning McQueen AA is pretty awesome! The only thing I would have preferred is actual seats instead of bench seating.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Appears that Dumbo has "flopped" at the box office, weekend estimates are $45 to $50 million.

https://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4498&p=.htm

I know critics seemed to pan it but I everyone I know who saw it (all big Disney fans) loved t and raves about it

 

[Farro]

I know critics seemed to pan it but I everyone I know who saw it (all big Disney fans) loved t and raves about it

Disclaimer - have not seen movie.

Critics tend to pile on Tim Burton (and Disney if they can) movies, sometimes justly, sometimes unjustly.

At this point I just don't put much stock in critics anymore, even for restaurant reviews. Everyone has some sort of agenda these days, for whatever reason and I feel like a lot of reviews are now biased.

Hey, they didn't like Maleficent and I didn't watch. Finally did and I really liked it!

 

[Fantasia79]

Saw Captain Marvel, it was exceptional. It’s gunna hit $1B World Wide next week.

 

[jlundeen]

I tend to agree with the Maltin perspective - if you can't make it better, why make it at all... the original (in this case Dumbo, which is my all time FAV disney movie) has a very large (enormous) fan base - they are going to be very critical.

I felt that many of the remakes I've seen are only OK - Mary Poppins being the most recent. Perhaps that's because I loved the original so much, but even Beauty & The Beast for me was good, but not great.

There really shouldn't be a comparison, but there is. Some of these just can't stand on their own and people go because of the name. Maybe if there hadn't been an original they would do better, but they will always be compared.

EDITED: BTW, I really liked Maleficent too - AND Tomorrowland... so that shows how weird I am....LOL

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Disclaimer - have not seen movie.

Critics tend to pile on Tim Burton (and Disney if they can) movies, sometimes justly, sometimes unjustly.

At this point I just don't put much stock in critics anymore, even for restaurant reviews. Everyone has some sort of agenda these days, for whatever reason and I feel like a lot of reviews are now biased.

Hey, they didn't like Maleficent and I didn't watch. Finally did and I really liked it!

Many of the reviews I read also seemed to be reviewing it at least partially in the context of the slew of remakes Disney has coming out this year, vs on it’s own in a vacuum