News Round Up

[rteetz]

For those heading to WDW beware of tropical storm Erika

http://www.wdwmagic.com/other/sever...eather-to-central-florida-early-next-week.htm

 

[Eoghann]

Yep. It's easier to refurbish rides at DL because when something is closed, the locals just have to come back later and that's it. At WDW guests are not happy when they miss their favorite rides.

Yeah it's a difficult balance to find. And admittedly infrequent visitors probably don't spot the smaller stuff, but both Pirates and before that Splash Mountain have suffered some pretty major issues due to infrequent maintenance and then had to be closed for an extended time.

You have to think that if they would do the maintenance on a more regular schedule then 4-6 month shutdowns might not be needed.

 

[rteetz]

Meet Mary Poppins in the Plaza gardens

http://www.wdwmagic.com/attractions...street-plaza-gardens-at-the-magic-kingdom.htm

 

[Ismo]

For those heading to WDW beware of tropical storm Erika

http://www.wdwmagic.com/other/sever...eather-to-central-florida-early-next-week.htm

Thanks for the update. I'm no weather expert, but if it's in southern Florida on Monday, then it should be past Orlando before Thursday. I guess my main concern would be it affecting flights. Fingers crossed for everyone it dies down.

 

[marie049]

For those heading to WDW beware of tropical storm Erika

My concern is they say there were 2 storms behind Danny...this is the 1st. I will be in disney on September 10th. Erika will be gone by then but what about the next one?

http://www.wdwmagic.com/other/sever...eather-to-central-florida-early-next-week.htm

 

[rteetz]

Too early to say

 

[rteetz]

Get your tickets for your Star Wars merchandise coming out on September 4th.

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/force-friday-merchandise-event-details-released/

I know @lockedoutlogic will be first in line

 

[rteetz]

Quite the trailer for the upcoming Disney Documentary on PBS

 

[skier_pete]

Get your tickets for your Star Wars merchandise coming out on September 4th.

http://disneyparks.disney.go.com/blog/2015/08/force-friday-merchandise-event-details-released/

I know @lockedoutlogic will be first in line

I saw that and was like "OH cool I'll be down there. That would be kind of neat to see. Might even buy something. It's at midnight so wouldn't even disrupt our plans."

Then I saw it was $50 to get in and my next thought was "F--- that!" (pardon my French)

 

[skier_pete]

I figured the Kali effects werent put on out of laziness tbh. But on an unrelated note can I just say how underwhelming that ride is as a raft ride even though I enjoy it immensely

It's even more underwhelming if you ever get out to Grizzly River Rapids in DCA and see that they CAN do a raft ride right.

 

[rteetz]

It's even more underwhelming if you ever get out to Grizzly River Rapids in DCA and see that they CAN do a raft ride right.

And I can only imagine what the Shanghai raft ride will be like...

 

[mollmoll4]

Quite the trailer for the upcoming Disney Documentary on PBS

Wow. Not exactly what I thought this would be given the initial press. Still seems interesting though. Is this woman suggesting that Disney should feature theme parks based on segregation and war so that America is not portrayed as "perfect"? I guess I don't see the issue with creating a theme park of an IDEAL world where there is no such conflict (though I DO recognize that this particular ideal is not very diverse). Isn't the entire point of the "Happiest Place on Earth" to be somewhere you can temporarily forget those things?

 

[rteetz]

Wow. Not exactly what I thought this would be given the initial press. Still seems interesting though. Is this woman suggesting that Disney should feature theme parks based on segregation and war so that America is not portrayed as "perfect"? I guess I don't see the issue with creating a theme park of an IDEAL world where there is no such conflict (though I DO recognize that this particular ideal is not very diverse). Isn't the entire point of the "Happiest Place on Earth" to be somewhere you can temporarily forget those things?

I agree. I see Disney as that place to escape the real world problems. A place to relax and forget that the world has problems. Some people take things a little too seriously.

 

[Ismo]

I saw that and was like "OH cool I'll be down there. That would be kind of neat to see. Might even buy something. It's at midnight so wouldn't even disrupt our plans."

Then I saw it was $50 to get in and my next thought was "F--- that!" (pardon my French)

I had literally the exact same train of thought. I have to pay $50 to buy stuff?

I agree. I see Disney as that place to escape the real world problems. A place to relax and forget that the world has problems. Some people take things a little too seriously.

Our thoughts as well. It's nice to have a place where you really can pretend like it's a very happy world.

 

[vandy]

Quite the trailer for the upcoming Disney Documentary on PBS

Well if you haven't noticed, presidential candidates paint a false vision of what our country is too, so maybe this so called 'historian' is saying Walt Disney should have been president!

 

[rteetz]

Eat to the beat concert series now allows Fp+ seating

http://www.orlandoparksnews.com/2015/08/fastpass-to-be-available-for-all-eat-to.html?m=1

 

[luisov]

Quite the trailer for the upcoming Disney Documentary on PBS

Hmm... isn't that the whole point of the Disney parks? To escape reality and experience something you wouldn't normally? Walt was an optimist. What's so wrong about that?

 

[ell13]

Quite the trailer for the upcoming Disney Documentary on PBS

Disney was never meant to be any of the things she seems to think it should be... and it could never exist that way either. We have museums for what she describes.

 

[Eoghann]

I agree. I see Disney as that place to escape the real world problems. A place to relax and forget that the world has problems. Some people take things a little too seriously.

While I would agree with that, I also think it's important that people call it out for that and not let it be painted as reality. When you look at Disney as not just a theme park but a media empire, (even back then) it's easy to see how this fantasy may start to look like reality to some people.

 

[rteetz]

Hmm... isn't that the whole point of the Disney parks? To escape reality and experience something you wouldn't normally? Walt was an optimist. What's so wrong about that?

That's the million dollar question. This is one old school professor.