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  1. Beacon Joe

    News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

    Wait until you see the "beach" and other waterfront, uh, decor afterthoughts. 😧 And the hanging green things that immediately bring to mind the aesthetics of the interior of an automated car wash combined with a cat tower/cat condo/scratching post. 🧐 Also willing to bet you'll lower your...
  2. Beacon Joe

    News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

    Fortuitous business trip gave me a few hours to drive onto property and see this. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
  3. Beacon Joe

    News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

    Maybe they'll make another bulk buy from Michael's fake foliage and fake flower section like they did for the Splash Mountain retheme, and drape that junk all over the concrete blocks.
  4. Beacon Joe

    News New Polynesian Resort DVC villas building to open 2024

    Based on the recent concept art, it looks like the former shoreline pathway from the Polynesian to the Grand Floridian (and then to the park) will not be restored. I'd like to assume they will at least build a pathway on the Floridian Drive side of the Hampton Inn so people can again walk...
  5. Beacon Joe

    Thoughts on whether Disney will add a 3rd theme park in the US (perhaps Midwest/east coast?)

    Sorry for taking this a little off topic, but that whole situation still sort of amuses me in a dark way. At the time, it seemed like everybody was up in arms and in a large part due to concern over how the park's presence would impact I-66 and ruin rural landscapes, creating sprawl and...
  6. Beacon Joe

    Your Favorite Resort For A Sit

    Used to be sitting my rear in the sand here: Or enjoying the view from here: I also spent a lot of time enjoying the band's music from here: Since everything else has been destroyed, I'm left with this:
  7. Beacon Joe

    So You Can't Stand The Small World Song, Eh?

    I'm disappointed that nobody seems to have put together a 10+ hour loop for this. But here's 50 minutes of "It's a Small World." Not well edited, and the ending leaves you miserably unsatisfied.
  8. Beacon Joe

    News 2024 EPCOT International Food & Wine Festival

    🤣Disney corporate just keeps coming up with new and more impressive ways to excel at mediocrity. Dying mall foodcourts are so hot right now. 😂
  9. Beacon Joe

    Actual Insiders vs Wannabe Insiders

    I think that anybody here who has spent time in a listless, unmoored, uninspired, malleable and trend-chasing instead of trend-driving cesspit of corporate America... is basically armed with enough experience, sarcasm, jadedness, and prescience to be considered a Disney corporate insider.
  10. Beacon Joe

    Swiss Family Treehouse Delete

    While I think it's a shame that the chain pump, sluices, and all other water works aren't kept functional and running, I loved the treehouse at Disneyland and still love the one at Disney World. Our kids are very much modern kids, but still loved it when they were small and made the trek up the...
  11. Beacon Joe

    “Project S” New Resort

    I hope Disney goes bold here and takes the opportunity, when they resurrect the Reflections Retirement Community, by making use of unutilized, non-profitable water. Fill in that entirely purposeless Bay Lake and recover over 415 acres of land for gift shops and timeshares.
  12. Beacon Joe

    Tom Sawyer Island

    Universal somehow managed to make a lot of progress from March 2021 through October 2023.
  13. Beacon Joe

    Tom Sawyer Island

    Not to mention the D23-released concept art and what was later shown in the Odyssey Pavilion preview room... versus what they actually did to EPCOT's Future World. They built an office park and a generic airplane terminal-like space 😂 The company's recent track record of environment building...
  14. Beacon Joe

    Tom Sawyer Island

    Well, now we know the reason behind that NOTAM/TFR exception he reported on earlier this year, and it wasn't about taking pretty, low-altitude photos like he had thought. :(
  15. Beacon Joe

    News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

    They should have gone with the Brother Bear IP, with the twist that when Koda (IIRC) asks, "why do they hate us," he'd be talking not about hunters (also IIRC), but about former shareholders and former park fans. edit to add: I think I may be the one person who actually sort of liked that movie.
  16. Beacon Joe

    News New Spaceship Earth Lounge Coming to EPCOT

    Honestly, since I never liked Figment or the OG Imagination pavilion, I had pretty much forgotten Imagination existed until one day ~ 15-20 years ago when somebody told me that its bathrooms were relatively empty and clean.
  17. Beacon Joe

    News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

    This consideration is one of the things that I find glaringly absent in discussions about this plan. Gaming it out from the perspective of Disney, it does seem odd that they are hell bent on repeating an Epcot "renovation" type of situation dragging on in the middle of their signature park while...
  18. Beacon Joe

    News Cars-Themed Attractions at Magic Kingdom

    Who wants to take bets that corporate will slap a couple of these bad boys around the new land, and some WDI flunky will wax poetic in a Youtube video about Walt's love of off-roading?
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