News Round Up 2017

[a4matte]

For some reason I thought you could? I was under the impression you could turn your tv to a channel to hear the fireworks music, am I incorrect?

We've heard yes and no from cast members on every trip. We've checked every channel and have never been able to find one playing the music (at Polynesian). You can hear it outside at the beach, and you can bbaarreellyy hear it from your balcony.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Geez...this was one of the things we missed on our Feb 2017 trip (which also included missing T2) and were planning on watching in Feb 2018. It's almost like Universal decides "What can we do to make sure skier_pete stays at Disney and never returns after his AP is up...

As much as I enjoyed T2, the 3D was really awful when we saw it last month. I wore the 3D glasses throughout the show and thinking it was just me I asked my husband if he had any issues with the 3D aspect and he commented the same things I was thinking. The 3D was off and not aligned thus causing a disconnect when you are trying to enjoy the show.

I rarely am on board for removing things but that is one that they really needed to update and seeing as it was based off of a probably past it's prime theme of Terminator I couldn't envison Universal spending the $$ to update and clean up the mechanisms behind the effects vs just doing a brand new thing.

We also missed seeing the Cinematic show this most recent trip and it wasn't there on our last trip.

 

[wnwardii]

For some reason I thought you could? I was under the impression you could turn your tv to a channel to hear the fireworks music, am I incorrect?

When I stayed at the Contemporary last year, I was able to turn my TV to a specific channel and hear the Wishes and the Hallo-Wishes firework music. Since I had a room with a theme park view, I just stood on my balcony with the TV up really loud and watched the fireworks with friends.

I don't know if any other monorail resort has this type of setup. I would have though the Poly would since you have a direct view of the fireworks. GF, maybe not as much.

Earlier this year I was able to be at the DVC lounge at Bay Lake Tower and they played the Happily Ever After music while the show was going on. We were all standing on the balcony/patio are watching the show.

 

[rteetz]

When I stayed at the Contemporary last year, I was able to turn my TV to a specific channel and hear the Wishes and the Hallo-Wishes firework music. Since I had a room with a theme park view, I just stood on my balcony with the TV up really loud and watched the fireworks with friends.

I don't know if any other monorail resort has this type of setup. I would have though the Poly would since you have a direct view of the fireworks. GF, maybe not as much.

Earlier this year I was able to be at the DVC lounge at Bay Lake Tower and they played the Happily Ever After music while the show was going on. We were all standing on the balcony/patio are watching the show.

Yes I believe the poly has this as well.

 

[rteetz]

News

Bus route changes at WDW

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/10/disney-world-changes-bus-routes-alleviate-traffic-buena-vista-drive/

 

[umichigan10]

DL is open, but I thought I'd shared these interesting pics:

http://www.iflscience.com/environme...tographs-as-wildfires-rage-across-california/

“The new plagues of Egypt land opens in Disney’s California Adventure this December!”

 

[rteetz]

News

New Coco themed Southwest plane

https://ohmy.disney.com/news/2017/1...ane-and-were-feeling-on-top-of-the-world/amp/

 

[rteetz]

News

More details about Marvel day at sea

https://disneyparks.disney.go.com/b...y-at-sea/?CMP=SOC-DPFY17Q4wo1005171011170024C

 

[MissGina5]

“The new plagues of Egypt land opens in Disney’s California Adventure this December!”

literally almost too real to joke about

 

[rteetz]

News

You can now gift people Disney vacations

http://www.wdwmagic.com/other/walt-...disney-launches-new-vacation-gifting-site.htm

 

[wareagle57]

“The new plagues of Egypt land opens in Disney’s California Adventure this December!”

I don't recall fire being one of the plagues.

 

[umichigan10]

I don't recall fire being one of the plagues.

Blotting out the sun was though.

(Feel for those people in California though, it’s been a rough couple of years out there with drought and now fire)

 

[rteetz]

News

Disney has cancelled Gigantic

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/10/breaking-disney-cancelled-upcoming-animated-film-gigantic/

 

[OhioStateBuckeye]

News

Disney has cancelled Gigantic

http://wdwnt.com/blog/2017/10/breaking-disney-cancelled-upcoming-animated-film-gigantic/

Very interesting, but not too surprising considering there was no word on it at D23.

Wonder how much actual work had gone into that and how much of the film was somewhat done.

 

[rteetz]

Very interesting, but not too surprising considering there was no word on it at D23.

Wonder how much actual work had gone into that and how much of the film was somewhat done.

Yeah, I was interested in the concept but it seemed it wasn’t going anywhere.

 

[bbmassey]

News

You can now gift people Disney vacations

http://www.wdwmagic.com/other/walt-...disney-launches-new-vacation-gifting-site.htm

So... for those who don't know what to get me for Christmas, please click the link above.

 

[Brocktoon]

Wonder how much actual work had gone into that and how much of the film was somewhat done.

I believe Toy Story 2 was well into production before Lasseter took over and had re-work everything. And didn't Lasseter do something similar with Bolt ... changing the story and bringing on a new creative team? If they're scrapping Gigantic there must have been some serious issues.

 

[rteetz]

So... for those who don't know what to get me for Christmas, please click the link above.

Yep, I take all forms of Disney vacations as gifts

 

[AMusicLifeForMe]

Early 2020 is the plan.

Do you think with Ratatouille and a possible UK attraction coming, could we see EPCOT opening World Showcase at the normal park opening in the near future instead of 2 hours after Future World?

 

[rteetz]

Do you think with Ratatouille and a possible UK attraction coming, could we see EPCOT opening World Showcase at the normal park opening in the near future instead of 2 hours after Future World?

It is possible. I don't know if everything would open right away but I can see many things opening with the park.