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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...

There's something to be said for leaders actually leading by example and having to park in the same place their employees do.

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...

Glad to hear that. The source I heard it from probably saw the gate and didn’t look into it any further.

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...

Is the mount ‘done’ enough that we can laugh at it now?

I’ve always seen it linked through here (just checked it still works): https://boingboing.net/2012/06/07/ray-bradburys-original-conce.html/amp

I know it’s a wacky idea, but maybe there could be some… err.. animation? in the animation courtyard? There’s probably some drywall in launch bay that’s original to 1989 and has the essence of Walter Cronkite still flowing through it…

Public. Leaked. Called attention to. Regardless, they left a lot to be desired. But, they did hit the 'story points' that are being sold and seemingly coming to fruition. Hopefully they got a heavy rewrite.

There were sample 'scripts' leaked from the casting / audition process several months back. I recall the hope and presumption was at the time was that they were very generic because they were audition scripts, but the way everything else has been falling into place I'd put money on those falling...

I mean, I’m hoping the story is honestly just ‘we asked Lucasfilm to help but they didn’t have the resources beyond reviewing some early art, so we wound up sort of making it up on our own’… because that’s definitely what it feels like is going on. Lucasfilm can’t have much active hand in this...

I don’t think the numbers scale for it to be a self-sustaining hotel at normal rack rates. The usual gig is for structures like this around property is to be outright mothballed, or to become long term storage / operations office space. If it were to close, you can bet HS operations would be...