Chinese Theatre spires

[Miss Heinous]

I'm so ashamed that I didn't even notice they were gone. I usually notice things like that. How long were they gone?

I believe about 14 years...

 

[Sage of Time]

Sorry that I missed this thread when running over to the BAH thread and putting up the photos there, @marni1971.

So much good news. Theater looks great.

 

[JustInTime]

So why are the plastics stars from around the hat still there??

 

[Sage of Time]

So why are the plastics stars from around the hat still there??

Because one hand doesn't know what the other 398457 are doing, especially in WDW.

 

[ToTBellHop]

Because one hand doesn't know what the other 398457 are doing, especially in WDW.

Or because someone likes how they look. Imagine, glowing stars in a park themed to Hollywood. They also serve as a backdrop for the character M&Gs there. Otherwise, it'd be trees in the background and no one wants that picture. What would you prefer between stars and animated backdrops like they have elsewhere?

It was a conscious decision to keep them, not laziness. They were removed during the Hat's demo then put back.

 

[Sage of Time]

Or because someone likes how they look. Imagine, glowing stars in a park themed to Hollywood. They also serve as a backdrop for the character M&Gs there. Otherwise, it'd be trees in the background and no one wants that picture. What would you prefer between stars and animated backdrops like they have elsewhere?

It was a conscious decision to keep them, not laziness. They were removed during the Hat's demo then put back.

I don't think they were ever removed.

 

[ToTBellHop]

I don't think they were ever removed.

The stars themselves were. You could see pipes coming out of the ground with the wiring intact, but the stars were missing. They removed an enormous hat and all its wiring. Removing the stars would have been trivial.

 

[dstrawn9889]

ys the stars went away during demo, but to protect them from damage, and were re-installed just as the final cleanup was being done

 

[Mouse_Trap]

There is something sad about us being excited at maintenance of a show building. And yet here we are.

Inevitable really when you take a place that millions of people love and put it in an extended period of managed decline and fail to add any decent rides for 15 years*.
(*That's the opening of EE in 2005 to the opening of the Star Wars E-ticket - unlikely before 2020).