Tower of Terror Bar

[scanmom]

Sounds fantastic, I recently was diagnosed with a heart problem, SVT, and can no longer ride TOT so I will just relax with a drink while I wait for my family to ride.

Do you have the SVT under control? I had a mitral valve repair in 2013, and now have episodes of SVT, which are pretty well controlled with medication. I've ridden TOT several times since, and had no problem.

 

[Catvondita]

It absolutely isn't necessary to have alcohol in the parks. Or funnel cakes. Or dole whips. Or cokes. Or turkey legs. Or Mickey ice cream bars. Or anything else for that matter. Everything is there for the pleasure of those who enjoy it and those who don't are free to walk on past and save their dollars for something else.

Totally agree. It isn't necessary, it's just fun to each their own.

 

[Lori Fuhrmann]

Looking forward to drinking my first TalkyTini!

Nailed it!

 

[DisneyMommyMichelle]

I absolutely love this idea and wish they would do more than just plop it at the exit. I would love them to carve out real space and make it the Tip Top club.....ahhhh....I would spend the whole day there! LOL. I'm excited to see it on our October trip!

 

[rastahomie]

Here now, and no bar yet.

Darn. Any signs of construction? Any scrim? Anything?

 

[PaintsWindColors]

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/04/photo...r-carrot-cake-cookie-goes-home-star-wars-etc/

WDWNT has a picture of a sign where things are being relocated in ToT (photos taken this week).

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

It looks like it'll go where my 16 year old waits for us to get off the ride. She loves to sit there and cool off while waiting.

As much as I like the idea of a themed bar, I'll miss her having a place to sit down and cool off and not be grumpy for a little while after.

She has already informed us that this is her last trip to Disney World. She plans on getting her drivers license and staying home to take care of the cats after the trip this June.

 

[dragonflydoll2]

Do you have the SVT under control? I had a mitral valve repair in 2013, and now have episodes of SVT, which are pretty well controlled with medication. I've ridden TOT several times since, and had no problem.

I have had 3 or 4 SVT's a year since I turned 18, my heart usually goes into regular rhythm on it's own. My cardiologist doesn't want to do an ablation unless they increase in frequency. I have only had to go to the hospital once, that happened this last year. 230 bpm, LOL. Tried the Valsalva maneuver to no avail. Home alone so I had to call an ambulance, was given 6 mg of Adenosine popped right back into regular rhythm. I am a little apprehensive to ride certain rides. Such as RNRC or TOT. I've never had an episode on either one. But a little more worried since the hospital visit.

 

[PrincessWithABlaster]

Agree with you on this one. In this situation it would be hard to make it 21+, but I like how Trader Sam's is adult only (21+) after 8 p.m. But to your point I am shocked at the number of parents who plop their kid in a bar stool and then order a drink. I guess Florida doesn't have a law about under 21 sitting at the bar. I've witnessed parents all over Disney have their kid belly-up to the bar. My parents never did that for us. Several years ago I was in St. Louis and the bartender was explaining to a very upset Dad that his child could not sit in a bar stool at the bar that it was against the law.

But you may want to check the new bar out, Disney does offer a lot of fun mock-tails for those that are non-drinkers. So maybe they will have some fun fruity less-spirited concoctions

Oh I agree. It's not legal in our state either, which is why it just amazes me. WHAT is the rationale for letting them sit there??

So I grew up in Wisconsin. There isn't a law there (or wasn't) about kids being in bars. You could. My whole extended family went on vacation in a very small lake town. My brother, cousin, and I spent many hours in a bar there playing video games, cards, and playing with the owners dogs with my grandparents, parents, and aunts and uncles. None of my relatives have a drinking problem and I don't remember anyone being drunk (I was a kid so I wouldn't have recognized it anyway). It was family entertainment. So to me it seems odd that kids aren't allowed in bars.

Granted, Disney is a different situation but you would significantly reduce the number of potential customers if no kids could even be there. I like the Trader SAMs approach where they can be there early but not late.

 

[cgattis]

So I grew up in Wisconsin. There isn't a law there (or wasn't) about kids being in bars. You could. My whole extended family went on vacation in a very small lake town. My brother, cousin, and I spent many hours in a bar there playing video games, cards, and playing with the owners dogs with my grandparents, parents, and aunts and uncles. None of my relatives have a drinking problem and I don't remember anyone being drunk (I was a kid so I wouldn't have recognized it anyway). It was family entertainment. So to me it seems odd that kids aren't allowed in bars.

Granted, Disney is a different situation but you would significantly reduce the number of potential customers if no kids could even be there. I like the Trader SAMs approach where they can be there early but not late.

I just think it's weird when kids sit AT the bar, not "in a place that serves food and alcohol."

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

No signs of any construction or anything as of last night.

 

[disneyjunkie]

QUOTE="WIcruizer, post: 55541213, member: 33554"]Not a fan of more alcohol in the parks. And I'm saying that as someone who likes to have a few drinks now and again. In fact, now that we're a little older, our kids are adults, etc., one of our favorite things to do is bar-hop on the monorail loop. I just don't like alcohol in the parks. It's not like a 10 on the scale of things that bother me, but if I made the rules there would be no booze in the parks. Sorry to be a party pooper...[/QUOTE]


I'm glad you don't get to make the rules.LOL

 

[rastahomie]

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2016/04/photo...r-carrot-cake-cookie-goes-home-star-wars-etc/

WDWNT has a picture of a sign where things are being relocated in ToT (photos taken this week).

Well that's... interesting. Now if I just knew what the heck "CDS" is supposed to mean (as in, "Tower Cast: Tower CDS has been relocated....")

 

[Minnesota!]

It absolutely isn't necessary to have alcohol in the parks. Or funnel cakes. Or dole whips. Or cokes. Or turkey legs. Or Mickey ice cream bars. Or anything else for that matter. Everything is there for the pleasure of those who enjoy it and those who don't are free to walk on past and save their dollars for something else.

Exactly! Also, I remember you from when I first started posting here - looks like our join dates are similar. Anyway, I remember when your preemie, teeny tiny son was born - is that him in your avatar?? How do these kids get so big, so fast? Yours is a name I have not seen around here in a while, so I had to stop and say hello

The reason Walt didn't want alcohol at Disneyland was because his vision of his park was different from what passed as "amusement parks" in his day - which is to say, low-rent travelling carnivals and the like. As you can imagine, such places were oft filled with drunks, and Walt wanted no part of that. Hence Disneyland's Blue Law.

By the time Epcot opened in 1981, Disney had had some 25 years to establish itself as a brand for safe, clean, family-friendly fun. The addition of alcoholic beverage options at World Showcase wasn't going to change that. And in the main (excluding the "Drinking Around the World" drunks that are handled expertly by security before they become too big of a problem), having alcohol at Epcot and the parks hasn't changed that brand.

I see no problem with more alcohol at the parks, as long as Disney continues to handle it correctly (which of course it always has done and always will do).

SIDE NOTE: The first time I visited Pleasure Island, I was downright aghast at how freely and openly the alcohol flowed there. CM's were selling Jello shots right there in the streets, in front of Og and everybody. There was this one station where there was this big block of ice with a little trough carved in the middle of it - the purchaser would position her mouth at the bottom of the trough and the CM up at the top would pour the liquor down the trough - the ice would cool the alcohol as it slid down. Anyway, clearly Downtown Disney has dialed things back just a bit from those days, but still. Part of me felt like it was 1988 and I was back at Daytona Beach for Spring Break!

Ah, yes...I sure did love PI back in the day. The free roaming jello shots were fantastic. Even my momma partook

Agree with you on this one. In this situation it would be hard to make it 21+, but I like how Trader Sam's is adult only (21+) after 8 p.m. But to your point I am shocked at the number of parents who plop their kid in a bar stool and then order a drink. I guess Florida doesn't have a law about under 21 sitting at the bar. I've witnessed parents all over Disney have their kid belly-up to the bar. My parents never did that for us. Several years ago I was in St. Louis and the bartender was explaining to a very upset Dad that his child could not sit in a bar stool at the bar that it was against the law.

But you may want to check the new bar out, Disney does offer a lot of fun mock-tails for those that are non-drinkers. So maybe they will have some fun fruity less-spirited concoctions

That would have been me last week. My kids sat at the bar with me at Splitzville (waiting for lanes, so we all took in some beverages) and at POR....appetizers and some cold ones before we packed to go home. I grew up in Minnesota and Wisconsin...and see nothing wrong with it.

So I grew up in Wisconsin. There isn't a law there (or wasn't) about kids being in bars. You could. My whole extended family went on vacation in a very small lake town. My brother, cousin, and I spent many hours in a bar there playing video games, cards, and playing with the owners dogs with my grandparents, parents, and aunts and uncles. None of my relatives have a drinking problem and I don't remember anyone being drunk (I was a kid so I wouldn't have recognized it anyway). It was family entertainment. So to me it seems odd that kids aren't allowed in bars.

Granted, Disney is a different situation but you would significantly reduce the number of potential customers if no kids could even be there. I like the Trader SAMs approach where they can be there early but not late.

Ditto! MN here, who spent all my summer weekends at our cabin in Wisconsin. Can I ask - which lake town did you vacation in? We were in Siren/Webster/Danbury. Always at the bar, playing games, looking at hunting trophies, playing poker. Best way to grow up

 

[Shellyb84]

Sometimes we will sit at the bar when we go to a restaurant. DD likes bellying up and ordering herself a Shirley Temple. She had a blast at Trader Sam's. We went more than once and she tried the drink that came in the really cool tiki souvenir cup and also the one with the umbrella (I don't remember the names of them). We don't make a big deal of having a drink or two. To each his own.

Hopefully there will be some cool non alcoholic drinks at the ToT bar for DD to enjoy!

 

[ssreward]

Well that's... interesting. Now if I just knew what the heck "CDS" is supposed to mean (as in, "Tower Cast: Tower CDS has been relocated....")

I'm guessing Cast Deployment Services

 

[winterwhite]

Sometimes we will sit at the bar when we go to a restaurant. DD likes bellying up and ordering herself a Shirley Temple. She had a blast at Trader Sam's. We went more than once and she tried the drink that came in the really cool tiki souvenir cup and also the one with the umbrella (I don't remember the names of them). We don't make a big deal of having a drink or two. To each his own.

I prefer not to teach my kids to pretend drink (consume pretend alcohol) and order at a bar. I don't order virgin drinks at restaurants, either.

They're children. They don't need children's versions of adult things. There's plenty of time for them to experiment with alcohol without me encouraging it by letting them "belly up" to a bar and order drinks for themselves at 8 years old. Parenting is very individual but I prefer to send the message that drinking IS a big deal and it's something that kids don't do.

 

[Shellyb84]

I prefer not to teach my kids to pretend drink (consume pretend alcohol) and order at a bar. I don't order virgin drinks at restaurants, either.

They're children. They don't need children's versions of adult things. There's plenty of time for them to experiment with alcohol without me encouraging it by letting them "belly up" to a bar and order drinks for themselves at 8 years old. Parenting is very individual but I prefer to send the message that drinking IS a big deal and it's something that kids don't do.

I disagree that letting them order a virgin drink is encouraging alcohol, we don't call it "pretend alcohol". It's just a drink they can have outside of the usual water or milk. I think if I'm ordering something other than my usual water, why shouldn't she be allowed to have a special treat?

 

[Shellyb84]

I prefer not to teach my kids to pretend drink (consume pretend alcohol) and order at a bar. I don't order virgin drinks at restaurants, either.

They're children. They don't need children's versions of adult things. There's plenty of time for them to experiment with alcohol without me encouraging it by letting them "belly up" to a bar and order drinks for themselves at 8 years old. Parenting is very individual but I prefer to send the message that drinking IS a big deal and it's something that kids don't do.

I also think it's better for kids to grow up seeing what responsible drinking looks like instead of being exposed to drinking as a teenager or college kid when I'm not always in control of what she sees.

 

[texasroni75]

I don't usually drink alcohol when at WDW, but I might make an exception if it's open for our trip next month. I hope they design it in a way that it makes an interesting photo opportunity, too!