One of the more notable times was when RoE's Inferno barge suffered damage from an unintended explosion back in 2005 and was out of the show for months:
https://forums.wdwmagic.com/threads/inferno-barge-explosion.62964/
I'm sorry for the negativity but I just look at this picture and see as a huge missed opportunity. This was a part of a half a billion dollar expansion project at the #1 theme park in the world, is a part of the show for multiple attractions and the entire future-themed land itself, and it looks...
I can imagine that Disney thought they’d be bringing some magical gentrification to this corner of central Florida. In reality it only has served to lower themselves to the level of I-Drive.
I have no strong feelings about the loss of this.
Honestly, I always thought it was an odd thing from the beginning. There aren't many attraction billboards on property to begin with, why was Tower given one when it opened and why was it allowed to persist for decades while other new...
Knowing Disney, I'm sure there was countless creative meetings and every pixel of content was carefully considered at considerable time and expense... which doesn't change the fact that it looks like someone simply opened up the "50th anniversary creative assets clipart" folder and threw this...
I agree the end result seems underwhelming for the canvas. But they may have to stick with mostly static images.
They are also probably pushing at the limit in terms of what can with content - I know there’s state laws that prevent motion video and graphics from being used on digital...
I would imagine the gardens course is easily the most popular / profitable of the 4 WDW mini golf courses.
Someone told me the other day that parking is no longer free for Fantasia Gardens since the opening of Swan Reserve?? If so, that’s going to kill off a lot of local traffic.
It was the...
That’s thinking from the guest perspective.
From a spreadsheet perspective… no reason to achieve ‘maximum’ guest satisfaction when ‘adequate’ guest satisfaction is far more profitable.
Relevant article in Variety last month covering these rights being up for sale and the scope that they cover:
https://variety.com/2022/film/news/lord-of-the-rings-hobbit-tolkien-zaentz-rights-sale-1235176036/
The rights for the Amazon series are as mentioned fairly restrictive in scope and was...
The even better part - who exactly, has ‘restored’ the ship? Because listening to those imagineering videos it’s apparenty, actually,…. imagineering itself…!? That painstakingly restored the ship and brought it back to its former glory?
I mean, if they spent half as much time building the 4th...
I know it’s a joke, but if there was a hotel with a pool set in a swampy glen with misters and an x-wing sticking out of it with R2 beeping his head off next to a slide that slid down the wing into the water… as a kid I would have simply demanded to stay there.
That’s all they ever had to do...