Whatever happened to ESPN Club moving to West Side

[stoudt6]

thought this was more then just a rumor a while back, but guess I was wrong?

 

[Disneyman_10]

thought this was more then just a rumor a while back, but guess I was wrong?

I was wondering about this too. Beats me. I think they have other issues with DTD to worry about right now. (Hyperion Warf).

 

[nytimez]

My recollection is that this was a rumor rather than an announcement... but not 100 percent on that.

 

[Horace Horsecollar]

thought this was more then just a rumor a while back, but guess I was wrong?

Jim Hill published an article about this on April 25, 2006. However, Jim Hill sometimes presents rumors and conjecture in a way that wakes it seem as if something is almost certain to happen. And he's often been wrong when he does this.

See Game Over: WDW's DisneyQuest to close in early 2008 by Jim Hill.

The truth is that the ESPN Club at Disney's BoardWalk was never part of the ESPN Zone chain. Even if DisneyQuest at Downtown Disney had been converted into an ESPN Zone in 2008, as Jim claimed it would be, it's unlikely that this would have caused the ESPN Club at Disney's BoardWalk to close. The ESPN Club has its own following serving the guests staying in the resorts around Crescent Lake.

In June 2011, Disney Regional Entertainment shut down the ESPN Zone chain. Two ESPN Zones remain in Southern California, but they're not operated by Disney Regional Entertainment. See ESPN Zone at Yesterland for details.

Meanwhile, it's business as usual at the ESPN Club at Disney's BoardWalk and DisneyQuest at Downtown Disney at WDW.

 

[rodkenrich]

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[Horace Horsecollar]

I agree. On the other hand, he does present some factual knowledge thanks to some extensive data mining of what to expect than what the average discussion board member would have a difficult time gathering.

Jim Hill has tremendous knowledge of all aspects of Disney. His decades of reporting on Disney have given him insight and the ability to see cause-and-effect relationships and to predict trends in the Disney Company's actions. I enjoy his work.

I'm just careful when I read Jim Hill's stories about unannounced future projects. For example, I wonder how many details in his stories about Night Kingdom were based on leaks of actual work at WDI and how much was conjecture by Jim built on reports of guest surveys.

 

[nytimez]

Jim Hill has tremendous knowledge of all aspects of Disney. His decades of reporting on Disney have given him insight and the ability to see cause-and-effect relationships and to predict trends in the Disney Company's actions. I enjoy his work.

I'm just careful when I read Jim Hill's stories about unannounced future projects. For example, I wonder how many details in his stories about Night Kingdom were based on leaks of actual work at WDI and how much was conjecture by Jim built on reports of guest surveys.

I agree.

There's also the larger issue of unannounced plans that fall through. That's why they're unannounced. When Jim Hill or someone like him reports something and it doesn't happen, it doesn't always mean the report was inaccurate -- it often means plans changed.

Some readers don't see it that way, however, and that's why you get people who trash Jim Hill or others in the rumors/insider reports business.