The Spirited Seventh Heaven ...

[hpyhnt 1000]

I am here right now, although I am peacing out for the night very soon. At least I feel like I can talk about some things now that won't have 21 pages of filler in between (BTW, the Philly steak sandwiches on DCL are tasty, but they most definitely are not the real deal!) ... I like to post late when I can, but I am often free at all sorts of hours (although I did sleep 11 hours last night as I am still exhausted from five weeks of fun! ... I am getting OLD!!!!!)

Need more pixie dust in your diet.

 

[sshindel]

I am here right now, although I am peacing out for the night very soon. At least I feel like I can talk about some things now that won't have 21 pages of filler in between (BTW, the Philly steak sandwiches on DCL are tasty, but they most definitely are not the real deal!) ... I like to post late when I can, but I am often free at all sorts of hours (although I did sleep 11 hours last night as I am still exhausted from five weeks of fun! ... I am getting OLD!!!!!)

I'm curious in one thing you posted about the mine train sizes, and forgive me if this is common knowledge I'm a typical American and don't follow the foreign parks too much.
You mentioned the carts being built to the size of the Shanghai (I think) customer. Does this mean that it was actually designed for that park and cloned (though built first) in WDW, and if so, did the costs get spread between the two?

 

[Soarin' Over Pgh]

I'm curious in one thing you posted about the mine train sizes, and forgive me if this is common knowledge I'm a typical American and don't follow the foreign parks too much.
You mentioned the carts being built to the size of the Shanghai (I think) customer. Does this mean that it was actually designed for that park and cloned (though built first) in WDW, and if so, did the costs get spread between the two?

My response seems to have...disappeared... But I was wondering similarly. It wouldn't surprise me if the cost was either divided or the MK was a test for how it would run in shanghai.

Is anyone concerned about crowds/line sizes in shanghai? Because uh, that's an awfully large population with fresh money. I understand they're already putting "phase two" rides and lands in to open at a later time than the rest of the park, but one has got to wonder what kind of capacity the SDMT will have in shanghai, if built identically to the MK one and how the new park will handle the lines that'll surely follow.

 

[WDW1974]

I am in agreement with @sweetpee_1993 in that we need more of your DCL experience and news. How about putting your DCL comments on a DCL thread when you have time rather than bury it here with all the theme park stuff? I promise to add some of my opinions. I was on a cruise ship over 70 days last year including the DCL Panama crossing and DCL Hawaii R/T. I am getting on Fantasy for my third cruise this year in the morning, 5/31. By contrast I visited the MK twice last year when family came for a visit and live minutes away from WDW in Central Florida. So you see my focus. Sweetpee may not agree to waiting, but take your time, I'll be back in a week. She can learn patience. I will admit to faux 5% maybe but bow to your faux 1%. For me about 22 cruises and over 70 countries visited in my work and travels. Staycations are very over rated. I have had a few of the DCL Captains tease some very interesting future possible cruises at the little Castaway Club reception they host. I don't know if they are serious or just having wishes themselves.

I appreciate the sentiment, but would rather keep the DCL stuff right up here with everything else. Since DCL is run out of WDW, I think it is quite astounding the difference in quality and service between the two. I think I also may entice some folks to try cruising who otherwise wouldn't and don't read the cruise forum here.

You have certainly outdone me on the seas. I have about 18 (possibly 19) cruises over my life. Last year, I was at sea for but a scant 10 nights, so I am already five ahead of that now.

Have a great cruise. I have yet to sail the Fantasy, although that will likely change in the near future.

 

[WDW1974]

I suspect my French associates in the business world would consider McDonald's to be a far worse assault on French culture than MyMagic+.

And yet McD's, Disney Village locale excepted, is so much better in France than it is here ...

 

[WDW1974]

Oh great. Now I have Papa WogWog making me be a patient girl, too. Ha! Seriously, I would absolutely love to hear more detailed info from @WDW1974. We could use some insight over on the cruise section. A little golden spoon treatment to spice things up wouldn't hurt either.

What would you like to know? I am an open book when talking about my adventures ...

 

[WDW1974]

@WDW1974 you must get an amazing amount of inbox messages and alerts

I don't even pay much attention to the alerts anymore ... I can't go through hundreds at a time.

But I do read every word of every message sent to me, even the hate mail.

 

[5thGenTexan]

I appreciate the sentiment, but would rather keep the DCL stuff right up here with everything else. Since DCL is run out of WDW, I think it is quite astounding the difference in quality and service between the two. I think I also may entice some folks to try cruising who otherwise wouldn't and don't read the cruise forum here.

You have certainly outdone me on the seas. I have about 18 (possibly 19) cruises over my life. Last year, I was at sea for but a scant 10 nights, so I am already five ahead of that now.

Have a great cruise. I have yet to sail the Fantasy, although that will likely change in the near future.

People dont read the cruise forum?? Next you will be telling us that people don't know there IS a cruise forum here.

 

[scpergj]

Oh and since it is a Friday night, let me state that I am very displeased (but expected it) that ABC canceled The Neighbors and Trophy Wife for that matter while I was at sea ... yet greenlighted another Marvel show that only crazies like @Lee will watch.

Not very happy that CBS did likewise with The Crazy Ones while giving another pickup to Two and a Half Men or that NBC dropped Revolution after sticking it at 8 p.m. on Wednesdays when it was a 9 or 10 p.m. show.

Wife was quite unhappy with the way Revolution ended, and totally agrees with your assessment about when the show should have aired. Wonder if that is one that could make it's way to Sci-Fi or one of the services like Amazon.

 

[scpergj]

Flat out, the artwork sucks. And a large number of people are going to think those are kids at the bar ... wonder what braniac thought that was great art to place out there.

BTW, having been back to Trader Sam's, again I will state that with a few EPCOT exceptions, WDW's adult drinks might as well be kiddie drinks because they are so lacking in alcohol.

Anymore than two drinks at Sam's would have me severely buzzed and likely unable to walk a straight line. In other words, they're great!

I've not been to Trader Sam's (yet - current job situation keeps me pegged along the beautiful St. John's river 50 weeks a year, and with kids that does not leave much travel time), but totally agree with the adult beverages at WDW being of the watered-down type. Probably a good thing for many of the guests, though, especially around Food and Wine (where my kids have NEVER witnessed younger adults passing out drunk - never....ok, maybe four or five times, always accompanied by wife and I saying "see, there is nothing wrong with your dad and I having a drink with dinner, or to watch Illuminations, but THIS is why you don't drink heavily!")

 

[WDW1974]

Contributing factor to that observation may be DLR cast are entirely local to my memory of living in So Cal for decades. WDW has hundreds if not thousands of College program short term workers from the US and other countries. Some programs are as short as three months. Not the only reason for the difference but one of them along with the just greater amount of visitors every day at WDW.

20% of current DLR workers are residents of the city of Anaheim.

So, yeah, there absolutely is a feeling of ownership that both the cast and the local regulars/APers feel that is absent in O-Town.

 

[Stevek]

Spirit doesn't know everything. Ideas are always in motion. What he heard someone say on a boat ride could be fact one day and fiction the next.
Is what it is.
Cars land was happening....until it wasn't. Same with Star Wars.
Until you see something announced and shovels in the ground, it's all just rumors.
Even when something becomes fact, it still takes years and years to get built at Disney.

I didn't say it was fact. Someone asked, I answered using the info he provided.

 

[Magenta Panther]

Just throwing this out there but after seeing Maleficent today, (and by the way thought it was fantastic, Jolie owns the screen of course) I kept thinking wow this would/could have been an amazing addition to Animal Kingdom instead of the whole avatar mess that no one seems to give a flying fig about lol.

BRAVO!!!!!

If this flick gets the numbers, who knows what'll happen...

 

[StageFrenzy]

BRAVO!!!!!

If this flick gets the numbers, who knows what'll happen...

a sequel

 

[Magenta Panther]

a sequel

Well, YEAH.

But I'm thinking (hoping) that if Maleficent does well enough, maybe the Disney Villains attraction that so many of us have hoped for might actually happen. We could have Bald Mountain in Fantasyland and, as aladdin2007 suggested, a Maleficent attraction in AK. Perhaps a Haunted Forest, home of all the fantasy creatures Beastly Kingdomme was supposed to feature. Ah, it's nice to dream...

 

[the.dreamfinder]

Well, YEAH.

But I'm thinking (hoping) that if Maleficent does well enough, maybe the Disney Villains attraction that so many of us have hoped for might actually happen. We could have Bald Mountain in Fantasyland and, as aladdin2007 suggested, a Maleficent attraction in AK. Perhaps a Haunted Forest, home of all the fantasy creatures Beastly Kingdomme was supposed to feature. Ah, it's nice to dream...

We have an imagineering section here for a reason.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Saw Maleficent today and the mine train commerical was playing both before the movie and in the lobby/common area screens. I don't remember seeing that kind of marketing when NFL first opened.

 

[NoChesterHester]

I can't confirm the Miceage story, but it is sounding like that is the reality. When I know more, I'll say more.

Well.... Poop.

Nice addition WDI... A "land" with one ride doesn't really justify guests staying longer into the night. Well at least the bloggers will be there later and not creeping at the MK.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Saw Maleficent today and the mine train commerical was playing both before the movie and in the lobby/common area screens. I don't remember seeing that kind of marketing when NFL first opened.

They messed with the muppet preshow, ruining it with stuff from the new movie....

 

[lazyboy97o]

Saw Maleficent today and the mine train commerical was playing both before the movie and in the lobby/common area screens. I don't remember seeing that kind of marketing when NFL first opened.

I saw the 'revealed' commercial at my local theater.