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Just a thought, would it be too much like a wedding dress?
and then theres that too
Just a thought, would it be too much like a wedding dress?
As to the first of these items, it was Walt that put them in the park in the first place. They had them in DL before WDW's Magic Kingdom was ever built.
I'm also seriously doubting that Disney would "bail out" Universal. Why help out your competition? What would be in it for Disney? Couldn't Disney find a better investment of any funds?
same thing for us at test track. We always try to take a family with us who looks at the long line and turns to walk away. Makes it really nice when it is someone who has never been on TT.
As to the first of these items, it was Walt that put them in the park in the first place. They had them in DL before WDW's Magic Kingdom was ever built.
I'm also seriously doubting that Disney would "bail out" Universal. Why help out your competition? What would be in it for Disney? Couldn't Disney find a better investment of any funds?
"Yes, we could help you out. By the way, about all those Marvel characters..."
I can answer this one and why it makes sense....I have a friend that works for wal mart in their main office and she said that they have and will continue to 'bail' out kmart/sears...why for competition they HAVE to have it. So it would make sense in that context for Disney to 'bail' out Universal..I don;t know if they did or not but I thought I'd throw this in there.
ETA: Besides the more people that come for universal the more that come for disney and visa versa.
As to Disney financing the finishing of HP, I was shocked too, but that's what my friend tells me. FWIW, she has worked for Disney for 2 decades, first as a performer, now as a manager in MK and as a Traditions instructor. All employees (whether hired by Disney or working on property as an employee of another company) must attend these classes. She's basically in charge of indoctrinating new cm's, lol.
I said I wondered how Universal could do such a Disney-esque area....HP World is very different in theming than the reset of that park....she said "now you know why".
Oh could you find us in Sept I've been to Disney a ton of times (more than I can actually keep track of) but I have never been on TT just because of the lines. And now that we have littles that aren't that fond of EPCOT and HS we only spend a day each in those parks so definitely won't wait in line.
Well it would be nice, but someone who looks like a first (and only) timer would def benefit more.
2) The people who handle the events such as the Wishes Cruise are also the people who maintain and staff the resort pools and, at various points throughout the day, they have to take sample readings of the water in each of the resorts pools. Well, anyway, our driver told us that he/she (don't wanna get our driver in trouble) would be happy to stay at any of the WDW resorts, excepting the All-Stars. When I asked why, he/she told us about the daily pool samples and said that it's routine for any single All-Star pool to have a higher urine reading than all of the other resort pools combined. Sheesh. He/she said it was because of the high concentration of families with children that stay there. He/she then said something to the effect of, "You know, you can only shock a pool so many times in a day before you kill someone..."
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This is even more unlikely. If competition fails of their own accord, through no fault of Wal-Mart, Wal-Mart doesn't have a problem. However, if Wal-Mart is propping up competition in order to put up the pretense of competition, they are far more likely to get slapped.
This is counter to Disney's practices of making it more expensive to visit anything other than Disney on a trip.
Love this thread!
Did you know that Disney imagineers put a little nod to all of the rumors surrounding the Haunted Mansion into the new queue area? There is now a real ring embedded in the pavement!
Still, I don't think she'd be in a position to know these things. You're talking about something that happens at the corporate level, not at the park training level.
It's different than the rest because it is really the first fully-immersive park area Universal has done - and that' mainly because JKR had a LOT of say in it, and the movie set designers helped with the park design - and even the other way around.
Disney would NOT have wanted WWOHP to succeed. Instead, they realized they needed to spend money on their own parks or risk being seen as stagnant.
Not sure if your source is current or not, but there are a few others:
Hidden Tink (sorry to TheIncredibles who thought the Poly had the only one.)
at BTMRR from allears (I haven't seen this one, so I can't vouch as to whether it still exists):
This is true. I've seen it and taken a picture of it just recently!
A resort lifeguard told me this week that they call Pop Century "poop century" because of all the poop in the pool because it has so many kids.
OK, Jungle Cruise went in 1971. So where/why was the front half of a plane saved for nearly two decades to put in TGMR? I think the trivia is fun, but some details don't add up sometimes and it makes me go "hmmmm".
If you have netflix, there are several Disney documentary-type things, and the imagineers give lots of cool tidbits. There's like 5 of them, and I think they were made in 2010 all by the same company...kinda like informercials for Disney, but we watch them all the week before we go to get psyched up.
What a nice way to spread the Magic ~ My 5 yr old is looking forward to riding TT next trip (he'll turn 6 a few days before we go in April its a surprise birthday trip he thinks we're not going for another year) My DH or I will ride it first and see if its appropriate for him. Do you think 6 is old enough?? Unfortunately I can't use height he's been tall enough to ride almost everything since he's 3 yrs old. I have to use age limits.