Rumors of Light (ROL discussion thread)

[tvsdisney]

I'm so frustrated!!! 12 days out and I can't finalize any plans because of ROL

 

[Astryd]

We are booked at POP --- 11/24-12/3.

Coming out from lurking to say we are booked for POP Nov 24 - Dec 3 also. Might see about renting points at AKV for part of the trip. Its my DH's first trip to WDW, trying to make it special for him.

 

[aimhi]

18 days and counting, I mean at this point it is what it is, we didn't book this trip more than 180 days out so I think we're incredibly lucky that we got all the reservations we wanted (and more, trust me haha), we've gone from just dinner at Chef Mickey's as our only character meal to 5 character meals since we've found ideal ressie times over the past month that fit into our schedule, one of which is an 8:30am ressie for TH breakfast on 4/22, so we'll get into the park early on Earth Day so we know will be in the park just in case it reaches capacity if ROL is a go, we grabbed the earliest dinner ressie we could (4pm at Yak) so we have plenty of time to hopefully experience the park and special activities before night time, if ROL is a go, great! If ROL isn't, we can leave right after dinner as we have nothing tying us to AK, either way our vacation is going to be full of good eats and fun, so we're ready either way!

 

[aimhi]

I did the same thing. I have no idea what the hold up is

 

[Disney Dreamer 24]

I hope you're all better now!

I am doing much better!! Thanks

 

[bluezy]

Crazy winds here today... house is rattling! No RoL news that I can see...

We're having the same crazy winds here as well. It was so bad during the night that we decided to sleep in the basement family room just to be safe. We lost power at 1:30 a.m. and it got quite frigid in the house with the wind just pounding the front of the house all night. We had our house wired and set up for a generator about 11 years ago but never actually bought a generator (kept thinking we wouldn't ever need it.). Because of that dragging of the feet, we had no power for 5 days after Hurricane Sandy (which I know was a brief outage compared to what some people endured). That still didn't push DH to buy the generator. But today when he woke up and discovered the house was 50 degrees and knowing that the temps will be dropping tonight, he spent about 3 seconds contemplating whether or not now was the time to get a generator. He threw on some clothing and drove to Lowes. Less than an hour after he left he was back and had everything hooked up. At least we have heat, water, some lights, tv, and internet. The power company can't even give us an estimated time for when power will be restored. Ugh.

 

[kellya222]

If you happen to be someone that didn't get a popular ADR you wanted like BOG or Ohana, I would check again right after ROL dining packages are released. Many of us seemed to schedule Ohana and others on our AK day because of the original short AK hours. I know that if I am lucky enough to grab a ROL dining package on my AK day, I'll be releasing my Ohana ADR for that night.

 

[ITALIANNYC]

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[bemccar1]

ROLers--do you think it's possible to do a Jiko dinner while still enjoying the AK night time activities and ROL? Maybe an early seating?

I was excited for Tiffin's, but it does not seem likely it will be opening before our AK day on 5/20.

Planning a Disney vacation has become a fun strategy game, it's as if I need alternative plans for my alternative plans

 

[tinkerhon]

Posted on the Dibb before ---- someone received call from the "now famous George" --- ( he is starting to trump Maggie!!).

Info WAS supposed to be released yesterday--- now supposed to be released "sometime" this week

 

[Indybill]

That's what is being discussed wildly right now because Star Wars land was not supposed to go there. If it is going next to toy story land phase 3 has to go somewhere else but where? This is going to be very interesting.

The rumor I had heard was the next phase for Pixar would be where Star Wars Launch Bay (the old Art of Animation bldg) is now. If you look on Google maps, there is a lot of space there, especially if they could relocate the service buildings back there as well. To me, the ideal would be to do that and then somehow tie them with a walkway into the RNR area so that wasn't such a dead end.

 

[dachsie]

ROLers--do you think it's possible to do a Jiko dinner while still enjoying the AK night time activities and ROL? Maybe an early seating?

I was excited for Tiffin's, but it does not seem likely it will be opening before our AK day on 5/20.

Planning a Disney vacation has become a fun strategy game, it's as if I need alternative plans for my alternative plans

I would think you could with an early seating

 

[DZNEMcCann]

The rumor I had heard was the next phase for Pixar would be where Star Wars Launch Bay (the old Art of Animation bldg) is now. If you look on Google maps, there is a lot of space there, especially if they could relocate the service buildings back there as well. To me, the ideal would be to do that and then somehow tie them with a walkway into the RNR area so that wasn't such a dead end.

Any way of knowing if you can get to Sci-Fi from Toy Story Mania without going all the way back around great movie ride/frozen theatre. They updated the HWS map on Disney web site. There are just a bunch of trees surrounding Muppet Plaza. Doesn't look like there is a walkway there at all.

 

[mocame]

We're having the same crazy winds here as well. It was so bad during the night that we decided to sleep in the basement family room just to be safe. We lost power at 1:30 a.m. and it got quite frigid in the house with the wind just pounding the front of the house all night. We had our house wired and set up for a generator about 11 years ago but never actually bought a generator (kept thinking we wouldn't ever need it.). Because of that dragging of the feet, we had no power for 5 days after Hurricane Sandy (which I know was a brief outage compared to what some people endured). That still didn't push DH to buy the generator. But today when he woke up and discovered the house was 50 degrees and knowing that the temps will be dropping tonight, he spent about 3 seconds contemplating whether or not now was the time to get a generator. He threw on some clothing and drove to Lowes. Less than an hour after he left he was back and had everything hooked up. At least we have heat, water, some lights, tv, and internet. The power company can't even give us an estimated time for when power will be restored. Ugh.

We lost part of our roof last night in this wind! Had to unload half of the stuff that was in our attic in the midst of it because it was raining at the time and soaking everything. Now if only the wind would STOP so we can get the roof water-tight. It's going to start raining tomorrow morning.

The good part of the roof coming off...Waiting for ROL seemed insignificant compared to losing our roof and being awake almost all night. I didn't care about ROL at that point.

 

[soniam]

We lost part of our roof last night in this wind! Had to unload half of the stuff that was in our attic in the midst of it because it was raining at the time and soaking everything. Now if only the wind would STOP so we can get the roof water-tight. It's going to start raining tomorrow morning.

The good part of the roof coming off...Waiting for ROL seemed insignificant compared to losing our roof and being awake almost all night. I didn't care about ROL at that point.

Good luck with the roof. I hope it gets fixed quickly and cheaply.

 

[LSUfan4444]

I'm so frustrated!!! 12 days out and I can't finalize any plans because of ROL

Your plans should never be finalized. For best success, keep them fluid always with room to change.

 

[TheFloatingBear]

We lost part of our roof last night in this wind! Had to unload half of the stuff that was in our attic in the midst of it because it was raining at the time and soaking everything. Now if only the wind would STOP so we can get the roof water-tight. It's going to start raining tomorrow morning.

The good part of the roof coming off...Waiting for ROL seemed insignificant compared to losing our roof and being awake almost all night. I didn't care about ROL at that point.

I'm so sorry to hear about your roof - that's terrible! I hope the wind stops and you can get things secure - so stressful...

 

[mocame]

Good luck with the roof. I hope it gets fixed quickly and cheaply.

There goes the Disney money...except that we need a vacation now after this.

 

[Ydnameht]

Just missed a call from Jenny (I'm on a train and service is spotty, plus my sister is sound asleep next to me and I hate not being able to move somewhere quiet to talk on the phone) and got an email a few minutes later. I'll call her back at some point when I'm not on a train!

I will, of course, report any findings though I don't expect I'll be getting any different information than the rest of you lot.

 

[Paigevon]

We lost part of our roof last night in this wind! Had to unload half of the stuff that was in our attic in the midst of it because it was raining at the time and soaking everything. Now if only the wind would STOP so we can get the roof water-tight. It's going to start raining tomorrow morning.

The good part of the roof coming off...Waiting for ROL seemed insignificant compared to losing our roof and being awake almost all night. I didn't care about ROL at that point.

Wow! Terrifying! So glad everyone is safe, and hope you get the roof taken care of easily!!