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I think they started on the back because they'll be able to open the "Eric's Village" part well before the 7DMT opens, and this gave them time to finish installing the track. Now they're working on the east and west sides of the mountain, probably to give time for the crew to pour any...

Just my guesstimate, nothing official. Could open earlier, they were doing some of the work on the third shift.

Rockwork completion: Mid-September Snow White gift shop/queue completion: Mid-October Indoor show scenes completion: Early October, testing animatronic begins late October Horticulture/outside completed: Late October Testing: Early November to Late December. Soft Opening: Late December to...

You'd think it's a good investment: Lucasfilm brings in $850 million a year, including merchandising, ILM everything . . . and that probably works out to about $350 million in profits, after operating expenses. So, absent any new movies (and continuing licensing fees for characters), it would...

Not sure what you mean by "in the system." Disney only relatively recently started script writing for Episode VII, the new scenarios will have to be designed from the ground up, starting with storyboarding them. A single Star Wars film costs hundreds of millions to make. Star Tours films are...

Not sure why DHS would get a different version, not sure what the logistical redo is?

In all likelihood, the new scenes will feature new planets, or even new characters, from the new film. When Lucas was in control of everything, Star Tours kinda took a backseat, and there was this sort of negotiation with Disney, plus, Disney didn't make any money off of the last triology, so...

They toyed with closing half of Sunshine Plaza in DCA (right down the middle) to do BVS piecemeal . . . too expensive. You want to be able to have the entire site prepped so that you can put down utilities, and get the major structural steel down with minimal hassle. DHS pulls in about 10...

Disney and More reported that Star Tours (DHS and Disneyland) may be getting an updated version for the 2015 release of Episode VII. It certainly took a while for Star Tours 2.0 to happen, looks like Disney owning Star Wars may well lead to more timely updates...

Other than finishing NFL, and Avatarland (seems it would be convenient to drop Avatarland for the bottom-line as Disney is once again firing people and cutting back on perks for executives), the top brass have maintained that they don't have any major investments stateside for the next couple...

I think 7DMT will have a queue around it's perimeter. I'm guessing they'll go counter-clockwise when looking at an aerial view, so as to avoid the bridge area if at all possible. The "S" curves are really going to make the swaying motion pronounced on some part of the track. I would figure...

Thanks for the photo, but if you look on DaMouse, there are higher resolution pictures and you can see that these are just steel beams, very similar if not identical to the ones used to support "rockwork". It might be hard to figure out if these are next to this loop of track (though it...

How long was the original going to be? There's only so much space in the plot of land it is on, guess they could have built a bigger mountain with more show scenes, that would have definitely extended the ride duration. The log-bridge "concept art" was placed on construction walls while the...

Such a feature was in an early concept art drawing, it showed a log with the dwarfs marching over it, and the mine train going underneath it.

I kinda think that Tom Hanks did a generic southern accent that was too exaggerated in a Paula Deen sort of way, wasn't Walt Disney "southern drawl" a sort of Kansas type mid-western accent, and not necessarily from the deep south? I do think Hanks does a good enough job that I can enjoy the...

There's always a bit of artistic license. Why would a mine train have banked turns? And when the last time you saw a roller coast fly through a dinosaur skeleton: I think the Dwarfs using a large fallen tree for a little homemade mine cart system kinda makes sense, especially if the...

The top folks on Wall Street who go to Davos, and the other big shindigs, have more on their minds than profit, might surprise you that a lot of them are interested in changing the world for good. They discuss things like a vaccine for HIV/AIDS, world hunger, sustainability, design . . . While...

BVS is shops, and just one attraction that is cheap to maintain. BVS's Starbucks makes the company a ton of money (isn't the BVS Starbucks the busiest in the states?), and the place is certainly much busier than the old Sunshine Plaza . . . and there is a fine dining establishment in the form of...

I think the pathways often constructed around roller coasters in a themed environment are mostly used for maintenance to inspect the track, but maybe it is a long guest evac walkway from above? Is there a "break zone" somewhere up on the second bridge way up in the air? And guests would in...

Uh, yeah they do. (Walt didn't envision four theme parks, hotels and water parks . . . just a Magic Kingdom and a working, experimental city, where new industrial ideas would get a test drive.) The EPCOT codes (building, electrical, fire . . .), are meant to be actually more comprehensive...