News Round Up 2019

[rteetz]

News

Samsung and Disney Debut Disney-Themed Wallpapers for the Galaxy S10

 

[rteetz]

News

Premiere Date Announced for Final Season of Marvel’s “Jessica Jones” on Netflix

 

[TheMaxRebo]

Video from the Anaheim Police on dealing with the opening of Galaxy's Edge

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156409702676134&id=92994316133

 

[Ambehnke]

Nearly half the posts are from two users though, so does it really count?

Since most of our news/rumors are posted by the same 1 to 3 people I’d say that’s fair.

 

[2xcited2sleep]

Video from the Anaheim Police on dealing with the opening of Galaxy's Edge

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156409702676134&id=92994316133

This is adorable! Hopefully all goes as smoothly as possible. Can’t wait for reports beginning tonight!!!

 

[Firebird060]

Video from the Anaheim Police on dealing with the opening of Galaxy's Edge

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10156409702676134&id=92994316133

I love the production team that the Anaheim Police Department has. Funny video

 

[SJMajor67]

Pages and messages don't matter to me. Views are what I like.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

This is adorable! Hopefully all goes as smoothly as possible. Can’t wait for reports beginning tonight!!!

I love the production team that the Anaheim Police Department has. Funny video

I agree - I think it was fun ... though part of me was thinking when they were going over the "Traffic monitoring center" that they are going to monitor it is be like "yup, lots of traffic everywhere" - not sure what the plan is to ease that when there are cars everywhere

 

[bookbabe626]

I agree - I think it was fun ... though part of me was thinking when they were going over the "Traffic monitoring center" that they are going to monitor it is be like "yup, lots of traffic everywhere" - not sure what the plan is to ease that when there are cars everywhere

Usually, those centres have control over things like timing of traffic lights, so I could see them adjusting lights, lengthening advanced greens maybe? They could also monitor for accidents and get tow trucks on scene to clear them faster, or change lights (and/or alert the traffic cops) to redirect traffic onto other routes. I can definitely see it being useful.

 

[DarthGallifrey]

I always enjoy being amused.

My comment about IP was a general one, not necessarily directed at any one person on this thread. However, having said that I wonder why "Epcot should not be for IPs". Would that apply to other parks? Like Animal Kingdom? Surely IPs are appropriate at DHS?

HWS is the best suited for IPs and MK has pretty much had them from day one. Sleeping Beauty Castle was the focal point at DLR before the movie even released.

AK im on the fence. As long as they work into the vision they don't bother me there. But if its just Lion King dark ride because Lion King, I think that is a poor choice.

EPCOT should continue to be about science, innovation, and culture. I think IPs in EPCOT just water down what it is supposed to be. Maelstrom was great because it was Nordic folklore now it's just Frozen which has next to nothing to actually do with Norway. With what they are proposing and the GotG ride they are building it's hard to tell the difference between Tomorrowland and Future World now which, for me, is disappointing.

 

[Firebird060]

I think the real part of that was them asking people who dont have to be Near Disneyland to stay away. I would like to see a news chopper coverage of the Area on opening day, both so I can see the madness and to be happy to be very much no where near it at that time. As my wife said to me today. "As much as I am excited for this they would have to pay me alot of money to try and be there at opening" I suspect that even with all that Disney has done to try and control this opening, there are going to be tons of people there just hopping that Disney will let them in even if they dont have a reservation to get in which in itself will be madness. I wonder if DL will reach capacity and at what time they do.

 

[SteveDude]

Epcot is a huge park with a ton of offerings, even more so during the many festival seasons. At the moment they only have three IP attractions and one of them is basically just Donald (I also think any of the "core five" deserve a welcome home in any of the parks regardless of it going against any sort of "vision" a park tried to project almost 50 years ago).

Yeah Epcot is adding more IP but who cares, the amount of the non-IP offerings greatly outweigh it. Plus, who's to say the GotG attraction won't be a learning opportunity like the Energy Adventure was? The chances might be slim but we also know basically nothing about the ride other than its a roller coaster.

 

[jade1]

Nearly half the posts are from two users though, so does it really count?

Yea good point. Sometimes I think we think we are a bigger sample than we really are, quite insignificant really. But others loss.

I spread the word when I can, such great info.

 

[DarthGallifrey]

Epcot is a huge park with a ton of offerings, even more so during the many festival seasons. At the moment they only have three IP attractions and one of them is basically just Donald (I also think any of the "core five" deserve a welcome home in any of the parks regardless of it going against any sort of "vision" a park tried to project almost 50 years ago).

Yeah Epcot is adding more IP but who cares, the amount of the non-IP offerings greatly outweigh it. Plus, who's to say the GotG attraction won't be a learning opportunity like the Energy Adventure was? The chances might be slim but we also know basically nothing about the ride other than its a roller coaster.

I agree 100% about the core five and they work them into the festival themes and have characters in different outfits to fit in with where the meet and greets are. Thats fine. But putting an MCU property in Future World makes no sense to me. Why not Tomorrowland? Or HWS? And why does every country need an IP themed ride? Frozen is not educational at all and they reskinned something that was actually a cute look at Nordic folklore. Ratatouille is not an educational ride and a rat running out cooking as nothing to do with French culture other than there is cooking which is really stretching it.

We disagree and that's fine. At the end of the day I am never going to be happy about IPs at EPCOT because I think it spits in the face of what Walt wanted and what EPCOT is supposed to be. It's Disney going for cheap money grabs.

 

[mikeamizzle]

I agree - I think it was fun ... though part of me was thinking when they were going over the "Traffic monitoring center" that they are going to monitor it is be like "yup, lots of traffic everywhere" - not sure what the plan is to ease that when there are cars everywhere

I noticed that too lol... Also noticed that SF banned facial recognition tech. this month, and the California state senate is considering doing the same. Scary.

edit/
If they actually do use it primarily to improve traffic flows by manually operating lights, then kudos..

 

[rteetz]

News

Disney guest reportedly suffer brain injury after bird attack

https://nypost.com/2019/05/29/disney-guest-suffered-traumatic-brain-injury-after-bird-attack-suit/

 

[rteetz]

Here is the link for the DPB post for the live stream tonight

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...land-park-reopens-with-stunning-enhancements/

 

[SG131]

I agree 100% about the core five and they work them into the festival themes and have characters in different outfits to fit in with where the meet and greets are. Thats fine. But putting an MCU property in Future World makes no sense to me. Why not Tomorrowland? Or HWS? And why does every country need an IP themed ride? Frozen is not educational at all and they reskinned something that was actually a cute look at Nordic folklore. Ratatouille is not an educational ride and a rat running out cooking as nothing to do with French culture other than there is cooking which is really stretching it.

We disagree and that's fine. At the end of the day I am never going to be happy about IPs at EPCOT because I think it spits in the face of what Walt wanted and what EPCOT is supposed to be. It's Disney going for cheap money grabs.

Personally, I loved the old Norway ride and was sad to see it go. But that used to be a walk-on and frozen is now a 45+ min wait daily so it seems like the change has been favorable with the masses, regardless of what us die hard fans think.

 

[rteetz]

 

[rteetz]

News

Reportedly the old corn dog nuggets have returned to Casey's! So we can all rejoice lol.