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Yes. Disney still has to pay back principal when the bonds mature, plus interest, to the investors (I would institutional players mostly). It is attractive for them as the interest payments are tax-free, at least in terms of federal taxes, being a tax-exempt municipal type bond, and this makes...

Based upon Lee's aerial photo and filling in blue for where it looks like the water would go based on depressions in the ground and the known location of the bridge, I see a little span where a log bridge (theoretically) would go (light brown), based on the size of the people, the span would be...

I was assuming that if there was a log bridge, they might well take a big of artistic license and kinda "bend" the log a bit. Of course, if the log segment is short, i.e. only 5-8 feet to get a cross a small "creek" . . . then the curvature wouldn't be as pronounced. The concept art seems to...

The blue shaded area is where I think the faux mine train entrance will go, (I put the mine entrance in blue, and shaded in some yellow where I think the rock work will go, more or less). I really couldn't tell what the "stump" is, but I highlighted it in red.

We'll know soon enough, the faux-mine entrance won't be covered with that yellow mesh they use for the rockwork.

Can't tell if it is a log bridge, or just a big oddly shape stone . . . if I built a lodge bridge, it would kinda have to be "squat" to accomodate the train, like that . . . can't even tell if thing crosses the water. Don't see anything remotely like a standard man-made bridge in this area . . ...

If anybody is still interested, I found a shot of the D23 7DMT model with probably as good a shot as any of the putative log bridge as I've seen: (Doesn't look like the upper bridge which is made to look dwarf-made, more like a log/stone.) On Laughing Place, there is a photo of the...

That tar paper is not the tar paper in this photo, a big hint is that this stuff isn't nearly as long as the massive piece put on the roof for that hill, this is about 15-20 feet . . . and is much closer to the track. The tar paper in your photo (much earlier construction), is probably about 150...

I never said at the top of the lift the car goes into a showbuilding, obviously it does not. The mine train goes up lift #1, down through a series of outside curves, and then enters a showbuilding with its own roof well underneath the small patch of tar paper, not sure if you were trying to...

Nice picture, but it does show that post-first lift (and post-outside loop), the mine train is pretty much in a showbuilding with its own roof, prior to re-entering the building, hence a little bit of tar paper way up near the zenith of the first lift has nothing to do with the train itself.

It also seems that the show scenes portion on the east end of the attraction already have their own secondary "roofs" underneath the rockwork: Based on this, the mine entrance seems to be a good 30-40 feet north of where the mine train re-enters the large mountain structure after the show...

?? Not per your drawing where I take it that the second lift is pink, and the orange circle is in the location of the very small sloped roof . . . under the main roof yet to be added. The second lift also wouldn't extend that far, if you compare it to the size of the first lift . . . way too...

Or briefly last year when they were filming this movie! I love seeing 1950's/60's clothed people in Disneyland, the park hasn't changed much, but it gives a sense of how enduring Walt Disney's vision in Anaheim has become. I wonder if the Tomorrowland movie will have some recreated shots...

Is this assessment of the possibility of a log bridge just based on the pre-vis, or top secret insider diagrams? Given the pretty detailed theming around 7DMT (they make the ground look like piles of dirt/rubble around the track), I think we can assume that the track going over "lower bridge"...

I think the "tar paper" floor/roof (which has a second roof over this, is the mine shaft, and it appears to be north of the second lift, and more over the maintenance area. Still it is very short in length, perhaps 15 feet, if this was all rockwork then there would be no need to build a second...

That's true, the car will actually be going up the curve, I was just thinking along the lines of a log crossing a water feature with a waterfall somewhere in the background. Based on your drawing (filling in blue for water), and the aerial, I think that water might be pumped up to a high...

The picture I posted, is on the construction walls around 7DMT. I think there is good reason to believe that it is more or less correct as it isn't rough concept art, but more or less "attraction art" produced specifically to advertise 7DMT and to look like concept art. It sure isn't in a...

There was concept art that showed the Seven Dwarfs on a log above the track, what I'm talking about is a "log bridge", a naturalistic facade for where the track crosses over water near ground level.

I would add that putting/not-putting a mine entrance is kinda a trivial matter in terms of cost of construction. Rock work, versus a small (I'm estimating the sloped floor of the mine entrance is 15 feet by 8 feet) area with rockwork built over it. Virtually the same cost. Water will blow in...

Looks to me like rockwork is going up around the putative mine entrance. I think some of the yellow mesh for rockwork indicates a 'ledge' for the entrance, as per the model, and also some of it looks like it is curving inwards around the proximate location of the entrance. I can still see the...