News Round Up

[beer dave]

Dave, you think I can fit two cases of craft brews in a backpack to take on the Dream next week?

I might have to wear big pants too

Do they allow soda (pop) ? I can fill 2 litre soda bottles with the house brews and they look just like pop--- except for the carbonator caps....

 

[mcd2745]

Do they allow soda (pop) ? I can fill 2 litre soda bottles with the house brews and they look just like pop--- except for the carbonator caps....

You can carry on beer, water, soda, hard liquor...whatever you want. Only caveat is that you can't check it with the porters to be delivered to your room. You must carry it onto the ship, and then lug it around until the rooms areready around 1:30pm. A couple of months ago, I brought on a case of water and a 12-pk of beer in a rolling duffel. The other rule is that you're only supposed to consume drinks you bring onboard inside your stateroom. Hence why you'll see tons of people walking around with those Tervis tumblers, travel mugs, etc. concealing their spirits.

 

[rteetz]

If only disney would do what the oriental land company is doing and invest 4 billion dollars in a park.

http://asia.nikkei.com/Life-Arts/Life/Frozen-attraction-to-open-at-Tokyo-Disney-Resort

 

[rteetz]

Disney announced opening date for parking garage Nov. 20th.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/os-disney-parking-garage-opening-20141029-story.html

 

[Suger Mag]

You can carry on beer, water, soda, hard liquor...whatever you want. Only caveat is that you can't check it with the porters to be delivered to your room. You must carry it onto the ship, and then lug it around until the rooms areready around 1:30pm. A couple of months ago, I brought on a case of water and a 12-pk of beer in a rolling duffel. The other rule is that you're only supposed to consume drinks you bring onboard inside your stateroom. Hence why you'll see tons of people walking around with those Tervis tumblers, travel mugs, etc. concealing their spirits.

Love my Tervis mug.. with rum, peach schnapps, cranberry, and OJ in it

Dave, you think I can fit two cases of craft brews in a backpack to take on the Dream next week?

I might have to wear big pants too

Of course you can... and you should. We carried on a case of local microbrew beer from Mass (participated in a beer exchange) as well as several bottles of the hard stuff... rather than backpack use a rolling carry on. As long as it fits through the scanner you can bring whatever booze you choose.

 

[rteetz]

Tokyo is getting New Fantasyland that is about to blow ours out of the water it's all part of a 4.5 billion dollar investment into the parks oh how I wish disney would do something like this.

A new Alice wonderland is expected, possible mine train clone but probably better than ours, small world is moving, dumbo is moving, and lots more.

http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/blog/pr141030/?adpcnt=7uK_2Ulc

Also part of this expansive investment a new 500 million dollar frozen area in DisneySea called the port of arrendale.

The fantasyland expansion will double the size of the existing one

 

[rteetz]

Now Big Hero 6 Magicbands are available at DHS
http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2014/10/big-hero-6-magicbands-available-at.html

 

[rteetz]

The landing amphitheater opens tomorrow

http://savepleasureisland.blogspot.com/2014/10/pi-update-new-amphitheater-opens-friday.html

 

[LeeAndRobin]

http://www.tokyodisneyresort.jp/blog/pr141030/?adpcnt=7uK_2Ulc

I don't see any way to translate that page to English. Is there a version for those of us not fluent in Japanese?

Cheers,
--Lee

 

[faneuil]

I don't see any way to translate that page to English. Is there a version for those of us not fluent in Japanese?

Cheers,
--Lee

It's not terrific, but if you go to translate.google.com and type in the address, it translates it. There are "lost in translation" moments.

Also, chrome has a little button at the top - by the address bar. You can click there, and it will translate the page.

 

[DanBoris]

Truly sad to see the post about Tokyo getting 4.5 billion in investment followed by this one.

Now Big Hero 6 Magicbands are available at DHS
http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2014/10/big-hero-6-magicbands-available-at.html

 

[rteetz]

I don't see any way to translate that page to English. Is there a version for those of us not fluent in Japanese? Cheers, --Lee

Go to wdwnt.com they have a full run down of everything that's happening

 

[rteetz]

Truly sad to see the post about Tokyo getting 4.5 billion in investment followed by this one.

I agree 4.5 billion between two already great parks and DHS is lucky to be getting the 1 billion it will be getting for a bunch of c tickets and maybe an e ticket.

 

[luisov]

Well, the Oriental Land Company has a budget to split between two parks. Disney has to spread their theme park budget over... what? 9 theme parks and another one in development?

Not an excuse for the clear lack of investment in their parks in recent years. Just thought it was important to point out.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Well, the Oriental Land Company has a budget to split between two parks. Disney has to spread their theme park budget over... what? 9 theme parks and another one in development?

Not an excuse for the clear lack of investment in their parks in recent years. Just thought it was important to point out.

I get what you're saying but the flip side of that would be the OLC only has two parks from which to draw income, Disney has many more.

 

[rteetz]

Well, the Oriental Land Company has a budget to split between two parks. Disney has to spread their theme park budget over... what? 9 theme parks and another one in development? Not an excuse for the clear lack of investment in their parks in recent years. Just thought it was important to point out.

Disney has six parks that they own completely the rest they are only partial owners, I also hunk it's safe to say that disney has a lot more money than OLC.

 

[rteetz]

I get what you're saying but the flip side of that would be the OLC only has two parks from which to draw income, Disney has many more.

Plus disney makes good money off of Tokyo without having to put money in from licensing of the characters and other things.

 

[rteetz]

Sound lion store coming to DTD

http://www.wdwinfo.com/news/General_Disney_News/Sound_Lion_retail_store_coming_to_Disney_Springs.htm

 

[luisov]

I get what you're saying but the flip side of that would be the OLC only has two parks from which to draw income, Disney has many more.

You're absolutely correct. There's no point in trying to defend the company from something they clearly are responsible of. Part of my argument is that perhaps the investment is there, it's just that we cannot see it all in front of our eyes.

Between Next Gen, Carsland, New Fantasyland, Shanghai, Ratatouille, DLP overhaul, Mystic Manor, DL's Fantasyland refurbs, Avatarland and DHS presumably going through a big renovation process, the investment is there. It's just that such changes are not that visible for us because the budget is a lot more spread than at TDL.

Not to underestimate OLC though. It's undeniable that they do a fantastic work managing their parks.

 

[mvk]

You're absolutely correct. There's no point in trying to defend the company from something they clearly are responsible of. Part of my argument is that perhaps the investment is there, it's just that we cannot see it all in front of our eyes.

Between Next Gen, Carsland, New Fantasyland, Shanghai, Ratatouille, DLP overhaul, Mystic Manor, DL's Fantasyland refurbs, Avatarland and DHS presumably going through a big renovation process, the investment is there. It's just that such changes are not that visible for us because the budget is a lot more spread than at TDL.

Not to underestimate OLC though. It's undeniable that they do a fantastic work managing their parks.

Also, and not trying to diminish what OLC is doing but that $4.5B is over 10 years. Between new fantasyland, Avatar, DHS, and other projects, WDW will get about that much (probably much more if you include NextGen, Hub, Disney Springs, etc) over a 10 year period.