News Round Up 2019

[Ambehnke]

NEWS

Big Thunder to have rehab starting in May 2020

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208114010249408516

My heart sunk! I was worried it would be another thing down during our January trip!

 

[scrappinginontario]

I guess still no DL effects since it is so short

What are DL effects?

 

[rteetz]

What are DL effects?

The explosion effects in the final lift hill. Paris also has them.

 

[PolyRob]

What are DL effects?

Disneyland's Big Thunder got a bunch of extra effects during a refurb that really blows WDW's away! I have a DL trip coming up and have been watching vlogs and it looks really fun!

 

[Helvetica]

NEWS

Big Thunder to have rehab starting in May 2020

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208114010249408516

That's a bit of a bummer. It's going to be closed all but my departure day for my May 2020 trip. Not a huge deal, I'll be back in September.

I guess I'll have to decide if I want to do Disney After Hours at MK or AK in May or not at all.

 

[Farro]

NEWS

Big Thunder to have rehab starting in May 2020

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208114010249408516

So it starts for my May trip...actually I don't really care about this one as long as Splash is open. Splash was closed during October for my last trip and I was really bummed about it!

Thunder Mountain - I've been on so many times, I can miss it this trip. We arrive 5/6, if refurb starts late maybe we'll go there on arrival day and ride it!

So far for May -

MK - Thunder Mountain
Epcot - Spaceship Earth (not confirmed, but strong rumor)
AK - ???
DHS - ???

Am I missing anything?

 

[5kidsmommy]

Disneyland's Big Thunder got a bunch of extra effects during a refurb that really blows WDW's away! I have a DL trip coming up and have been watching vlogs and it looks really fun!

I grew up going to DL and Big Thunder was always my favorite ride. Now we go to WDW because it's closer for us, I love the ride at WDW but it will never compare to DL's version. Man, I really need to book a DL trip.

 

[TheMaxRebo]

So it starts for my May trip...actually I don't really care about this one as long as Splash is open. Splash was closed during October for my last trip and I was really bummed about it!

Thunder Mountain - I've been on so many times, I can miss it this trip. We arrive 5/6, if refurb starts late maybe we'll go there on arrival day and ride it!

So far for May -

MK - Thunder Mountain
Epcot - Spaceship Earth (not confirmed, but strong rumor)
AK - ???
DHS - ???

Am I missing anything?

Looks like Swiss Family Treehouse as well in MK:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1208153296751538176

 

[Rivergirl2005]

Hey everyone! So excited to be back and planning our next trip...we are looking at summer 2020 but before we decide I wanted to check and see if there were any discussions on when the new Ratatouille ride will open. We usually like to go in June and I see it's supposed to open summer 2020. Has there been any thoughts on what month? We missed toy story land by 1 week last time, just curious to see everyones thoughts. Thanks for the help and really excited to be back

 

[rteetz]

Hey everyone! So excited to be back and planning our next trip...we are looking at summer 2020 but before we decide I wanted to check and see if there were any discussions on when the new Ratatouille ride will open. We usually like to go in June and I see it's supposed to open summer 2020. Has there been any thoughts on what month? We missed toy story land by 1 week last time, just curious to see everyones thoughts. Thanks for the help and really excited to be back ☺

Expectation is May.

 

[Rivergirl2005]

Expectation is May.

Thank you so much! I'm having fun rereading some of the news...it's good to be back

 

[RivShore]

Not sure if this has been posted yet. Maybe another transportation option coming to WDW...

https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando...es-big-next-step-to.html?ana=yahoo&yptr=yahoo

 

[dclpluto]

I figure someone here will know. Is there anything to see once the credit starts on the Star Wars movie? Don’t want to look it up as I might see spoilers. Thanks

 

[Brocktoon]

I figure someone here will know. Is there anything to see once the credit starts on the Star Wars movie? Don’t want to look it up as I might see spoilers. Thanks

Nope ... no post credits scene to hang around for

 

[CarolynFH]

I figure someone here will know. Is there anything to see once the credit starts on the Star Wars movie? Don’t want to look it up as I might see spoilers. Thanks

Nope ... no post credits scene to hang around for

Oh good, I'm glad dclpluto asked and Brocktoon answered! We usually wait for the credits to finish, but I had to GO too quickly yesterday evening!

 

[crazy4wdw]

Netflix lost over one million subscribers to Disney Plus, analyst says

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...over-1-m-subscribers-analyst-says/2708831001/

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Netflix lost over one million subscribers to Disney Plus, analyst says

https://www.usatoday.com/story/mone...over-1-m-subscribers-analyst-says/2708831001/

So I dug deeper.

The company surveyed all of 2,500 people. Sounds like they've extrapolated that out in an estimate of subscriber loss by the end of 2019.

The article points out that it's suggested that over a 1/3 of their total estimated loss of subscribership would have happened regardless of Disney+ coming around.

If we're to believe the analytics of the company they estimate over 80% of people have both services.

Now the uniqueness here IMO with Disney+ is that a chunk of us that have it...are not paying for it for.an.entire.year. So will the users that have it for free end up continuing to subscribe IMO is a bigger question. Along with what will the streaming world look like here in a year after even more networks and companies spin off to do their own streaming services.

 

[rteetz]

News

https://blogmickey.com/2019/12/rise...wars-launch-bay-at-disneys-hollywood-studios/

 

[TomServo27]

Disneyland's Big Thunder got a bunch of extra effects during a refurb that really blows WDW's away! I have a DL trip coming up and have been watching vlogs and it looks really fun!

It’s better but I wouldn’t say it blows WDWs version away. Now Space Mountain that’s a different story it does blow WDWs version away.

 

[jlundeen]

News somewhat

Cool feel good article

https://www.orlandosentinel.com/bus...0191217-4qtaf2xnwratdg5zljv6do4gwa-story.html

I'm about 10 pages behind, but this story stopped my mad skimming of threads and brought a little tear to my eyes. Helps restore a bit a faith in human-kind!