News Round Up

[circus4u]

Another Hub photographic update..
http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/06/magic-kingdom-hub-update-new-towers-get.html

 

[Alice Royal]

We have a name and concept art for the Frozen ride: 'Frozen Ever After'.

http://attractionsmagazine.com/frozen-ride-epcot-name-first-concept-art/

 

[Alice Royal]

Spirit says two new DCL ships are on the way 2021 and 2023

Enlighten me, how reliable is Spirit?

 

[Reddog1134]

Enlighten me, how reliable is Spirit?

Pretty reliable. Since things change all the time, you can't guarantee they will ever happen. However, it seems that if Spirit is talking about something, it's because Disney is talking about it.

 

[circus4u]

Tony's Town Square Restaurant extending operating hours with continuous service
http://www.wdwmagic.com/dining/tony...g-operating-hours-with-continuous-service.htm

 

[mcd2745]

Tony's Town Square Restaurant extending operating hours with continuous service
http://www.wdwmagic.com/dining/tony...g-operating-hours-with-continuous-service.htm

They need to return to serving breakfast. That was a real good breakfast in a great setting "back in the day".

 

[rteetz]

Donald Duck is 81 years old today

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/06/top-five-donald-duck-at-disney-parks/

 

[rteetz]

Enlighten me, how reliable is Spirit?

He got frozen right about a year before it was announced. He also is the starter of the Shanghai info. He's one of the most reliable I have found. He will tell you straight out that he doesn't lie it's just things in the company do change a lot.

 

[rteetz]

Pedestrian bridge update at DTD

http://savepleasureisland.blogspot.com

 

[crazy4wdw]

Updated Info on the Frozen attraction in World Showcase: http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/06/first-look-frozen-ever-after-at-epcot/

 

[rteetz]

Frozen meet and greet to take place in Royal Sommerhus

http://m.wdwmagic.com/attractions/n...et-to-take-place-in-the-'royal-sommerhus'.htm

 

[Josh Hendy]

We have a name and concept art for the Frozen ride: 'Frozen Ever After'.

Kind of an ominous name, if you're not the biggest Frozen fan. The concept art looks nice though.

The first comment added to the article says a lot:

Epcot is probably my least favourite Disney park but this is certainly a factor that is going to make me want to visit there!

 

[Reddog1134]

Frozen meet and greet to take place in Royal Sommerhus

http://m.wdwmagic.com/attractions/n...et-to-take-place-in-the-'royal-sommerhus'.htm

You mean it's going to be Norwegian themed and feature Norwegian culture? Or should I just skip over that and start complaining that they're putting a fictional land in WS?

 

[rteetz]

You mean it's going to be Norwegian themed and feature Norwegian culture? Or should I just skip over that and start complaining that they're putting a fictional land in WS?

Well the ride looks like it's going to have zero Norwegian culture in it so.

 

[rteetz]

According to some at wdwmagic there are some Epcot plans on the table but we are still a decade away from them at least.

 

[rteetz]

Details on the new DTD restaurant the Edison. Looks like some club life will come back with this addition.

http://thrillgeek.com/new-details-released-about-the-edison-coming-to-disney-springs-in-2016/

 

[turkey1031]

Details on the new DTD restaurant the Edison. Looks like some club life will come back with this addition.

http://thrillgeek.com/new-details-released-about-the-edison-coming-to-disney-springs-in-2016/

Wow that looks very cool.

 

[rteetz]

I'd like to throw this out there after spirit on wdwmagic did. Ben Fritz the author of the WSJ article has been in contact with several posters on wdwmagic regarding the Shanghai debacle and getting that story out there. After gathering info from the sources at wdwmagic he went to disney for their take on the Shanghai issue. Disney said oh hey look well let you leak this frozen ever after story before we put it on our blog, well even let you go scene by scene. So disney basically is trying to cover up anything about the shadiness of Shanghai.

 

[Josh Hendy]

So disney basically is trying to cover up anything about the shadiness of Shanghai.

Yeah I wonder ... if it is political/cultural posturing by the communist party majority owners trying to throw their weight around, or if the problems are that the construction site is not up to standards.

I did see some pretty spectacularly bad construction work in China that would never pass inspection in the west. Especially in the area of reinforced-concrete structures. I've seen stubs of re-bar sticking out in the middle of steps in hotel stairwells. And once I saw a huge building under construction with a very tall archway in the front as a kind of ornamental touch to set off the bottom 2 floors or so. Anyways, the concrete in the arch wasn't set properly so there were gigantic, gaping holes in the line of the arch ... like they didn't stir or agitate the concrete after pouring (or whatever they do) to get the air bubbles out. They had continued building the rest of the 20 floors or whatever, and it was obvious that the archway was going to be covered up with cladding of some kind and nobody would know any better. Probably the arch was ornamental and not structural, but it made me wonder what shortcuts might have been taken on the actual structural members.

I gather that theme parks aren't built like highrise towers, but there are a lot of complex shapes and tricky details like cantilevers, complex steel work, ultra-precise dimensions, and the visible concrete such as on pathways and retaining walls has to look absolutely perfect with no flaws, bubbles or large cracks.

So were the Chinese officials just trying to lay a bit of attitude on Iger (actually a lot of attitude) or were they not keen for him to see SDL until after the aluminum cladding, patches and paint have been applied?

 

[luisov]

As far as I understand, quite a few American engineers take part of the project. It's still Chinese labor though. It could very well be related to poor construction standards.