doctornick
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What will become of Wet N Wild once the new water park opens? I'm guessing it will be replaced by a new hotel.
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Disneyhead'71
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Or 3 with a shopping and dining complex connected to the main campus with some sort of elevated track transport (monorail, peoplemover, prt).
lazyboy97o
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There is a part of me that thinks they might hold on to Wet 'N Wild for a little while. It is already developed and operating as something that is not really considered part of the resort. Jumping across I-4 is going to be a big endeavor that, even with Universal's recent speed, will take some time (look at how long we've been talking about the water park). Might as well keep the land generating revenue in the mean time.
DDLand
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I missed this. Are they actively moving dirt right now?
Disneyhead'71
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Well, the water park and Sapphire Falls are going to take up the last of the available land around the main campus. And after Saffire Falls, they still want to add about 5K more hotel rooms. So, I think that, while they may take a breather after Saffire Falls and WonderSea open. The WnW plot is next up for repouposing.
Disneyhead'71
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Lee
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And the plot thickens...
Sorry, Bob...perhaps the Chinese liked that article more than you did...
DDLand
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Looks definitive enough for me! LolTons!
From Twitter:
BrianLo
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Thank you!!!
No real sympathy about the Golden Mickey's. It had a good run, but is becoming quite long in the tooth, and cheesy.
When you mention next attraction after Iron Man, are you not referring to TSMM? Or do you mean the attraction after that?
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Spirited Smoking Gun?
Let's put some links out, explain a bit and then see where things go ... but this might explain why Bob Iger was so quick and so willing to have his lovely wife, Willow Bay, censor an Op-Ed in the HuffPo ... or, if you would prefer to believe otherwise, then perhaps this might explain why it was so important for the column to simply vanish.
Read this one first:
http://www.fcpablog.com/blog/2015/4...fficial-detained-for-alleged-shanghai-di.html
Now this one:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/128...gation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Also, apparently, even the WSJ has mentioned this major case of graft accusations, although leaving out his role (which I believe to be substantial) in Shanghai Disneyland's approval and development. Chinese language only news outlets in the mainland have reported, in somewhat of a departure from protocol, greater detail of the exact allegations.
Dai Haibo, who was part of the infamous Shanghai delegation to Disneyland Paris in 2006 that I personally witnessed and watched as Karl Holz almost single-handedly destroyed work that had begun in the 1990s when he was still managing food and beverage at Pleasure Island, was reported to have been taken into custody on March 2nd in the government's efforts to crackdown on graft.
On March 17th, the Central Government issued a news release formally announcing a ''serious violation of the law'' by the one-time Deputy Secretary General of the Shanghai Municipal Government.
At one time, and until the arrest, Dai was second only to the mayor of Shanghai in the structure of the local government -- and a rising star for the Party -- with the primary role of heading the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and, more importantly, the Pudong Tourism Development Area of which Shanghai Disneyland is the cornerstone castle.
The investigation as near as I can tell through sources in China and mainland media centers on Dai's role in improperly benefiting from real estate acquisition, demolition, and construction at the very site on which Shanghai Disneyland is now rising.
All of this, largely, occurred just after Gary Snyder's HuffPo column was wiped off the 'net by the freedom loving folks at The Walt Disney Company (I'm sure you 'net savvy people might understand why a tech neophyte like me has decided to write things out versus abbreviating.) In China, this is being viewed as one of the most high profile of recent arrests in the anti-graft campaign.
And to think, it involves The Walt Disney Company ... Bob Iger's Disney ... imagine that ... I can see why Disney CEO Fumbles Entry to China really couldn't stay out there.
Wonder how many news outlets here are opting to ignore this, something widely reported in evil, vile, Godless, Commie, Pinko China, because they are afraid of the Walt Disney Company and Robert A. Iger. I also wonder what that Snyder character, who was spotted by my own little minions of Disney destruction hanging out on Lantau with a couple of Party officials to celebrate Easter or Passover or neither, really knows and if the beloved (by the Chinese Party elders) and well-connected Redstone family was tipped off that this was happening and what more might be coming.
Again, I'm not saying I have all the facts, the news is coming out of China, after all. But things sure are starting to slide together into place ... I'd be very worried if I were Bob Iger. Very worried.
No, I don't expect Brooks Barnes to be writing about this. But I'd love it if someone emailed him this post ... any volunteers? When the China Daily, CCTV, Xinhua and others are reporting what the New York Times and basically every other news outlet in this country don't believe is something you should see or read about ... it does give one pause yet again about our wonderful supposed American democracy and free press.
Or, if you would prefer, it just makes you wonder what Iger has gotten himself and Disney into over in China.
Let's put some links out, explain a bit and then see where things go ... but this might explain why Bob Iger was so quick and so willing to have his lovely wife, Willow Bay, censor an Op-Ed in the HuffPo ... or, if you would prefer to believe otherwise, then perhaps this might explain why it was so important for the column to simply vanish.
Read this one first:
http://www.fcpablog.com/blog/2015/4...fficial-detained-for-alleged-shanghai-di.html
Now this one:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/128...gation/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Also, apparently, even the WSJ has mentioned this major case of graft accusations, although leaving out his role (which I believe to be substantial) in Shanghai Disneyland's approval and development. Chinese language only news outlets in the mainland have reported, in somewhat of a departure from protocol, greater detail of the exact allegations.
Dai Haibo, who was part of the infamous Shanghai delegation to Disneyland Paris in 2006 that I personally witnessed and watched as Karl Holz almost single-handedly destroyed work that had begun in the 1990s when he was still managing food and beverage at Pleasure Island, was reported to have been taken into custody on March 2nd in the government's efforts to crackdown on graft.
On March 17th, the Central Government issued a news release formally announcing a ''serious violation of the law'' by the one-time Deputy Secretary General of the Shanghai Municipal Government.
At one time, and until the arrest, Dai was second only to the mayor of Shanghai in the structure of the local government -- and a rising star for the Party -- with the primary role of heading the Shanghai Free Trade Zone and, more importantly, the Pudong Tourism Development Area of which Shanghai Disneyland is the cornerstone castle.
The investigation as near as I can tell through sources in China and mainland media centers on Dai's role in improperly benefiting from real estate acquisition, demolition, and construction at the very site on which Shanghai Disneyland is now rising.
All of this, largely, occurred just after Gary Snyder's HuffPo column was wiped off the 'net by the freedom loving folks at The Walt Disney Company (I'm sure you 'net savvy people might understand why a tech neophyte like me has decided to write things out versus abbreviating.) In China, this is being viewed as one of the most high profile of recent arrests in the anti-graft campaign.
And to think, it involves The Walt Disney Company ... Bob Iger's Disney ... imagine that ... I can see why Disney CEO Fumbles Entry to China really couldn't stay out there.
Wonder how many news outlets here are opting to ignore this, something widely reported in evil, vile, Godless, Commie, Pinko China, because they are afraid of the Walt Disney Company and Robert A. Iger. I also wonder what that Snyder character, who was spotted by my own little minions of Disney destruction hanging out on Lantau with a couple of Party officials to celebrate Easter or Passover or neither, really knows and if the beloved (by the Chinese Party elders) and well-connected Redstone family was tipped off that this was happening and what more might be coming.
Again, I'm not saying I have all the facts, the news is coming out of China, after all. But things sure are starting to slide together into place ... I'd be very worried if I were Bob Iger. Very worried.
No, I don't expect Brooks Barnes to be writing about this. But I'd love it if someone emailed him this post ... any volunteers? When the China Daily, CCTV, Xinhua and others are reporting what the New York Times and basically every other news outlet in this country don't believe is something you should see or read about ... it does give one pause yet again about our wonderful supposed American democracy and free press.
Or, if you would prefer, it just makes you wonder what Iger has gotten himself and Disney into over in China.
Cesar R M
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Cesar R M
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In before that Disney pixie snorters say how Universal is making mountains out of ant hillsTons!
From Twitter:
wogwog
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Drove right by that mountain yesterday. It is probably the highest point in the state that is all dirt. Anything higher has concrete or steel. That equipment going up and down the hill is not "little". Those are full size earth moving machines.In before that Disney pixie snorters say how Universal is making mountains out of ant hills
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Longhairbear
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Wicked Massachusetts accents...lol, mine comes back when I get tipsy, or when I'm wicked tired.
NearTheEars
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I wish I was more excited, but we already have several to pick from here.
Nemo14
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MonkeyHead
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I always enjoy The Spirit's posts... However you cannot compare the Kuka effect in Gringott's to the Yeti. First of all, it has NEVER been advertised as the star of the show. It's a great effect that if working correctly, guests will never even notice. The Yeti is the centerpiece. One that they STILL hype... After about a DECADE of being inactive.
Further, the Kuka screen effect is not permanently out of the show. It is actively being worked on. I don't get how two months = ten years. This is one of many reasons people aren't harping on the issue.
Personally, I'd rather them fix the in-vehicle audio issues well before the screen effect.
Further, the Kuka screen effect is not permanently out of the show. It is actively being worked on. I don't get how two months = ten years. This is one of many reasons people aren't harping on the issue.
Personally, I'd rather them fix the in-vehicle audio issues well before the screen effect.
Disneyhead'71
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As a local, I agree. But considering it will be walking distance of Uni's 3 largest hotels, it should go a long way into turning UOR into a multi-day destination for out-of-towners.
bhg469
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Trying to leave ny all the time. I just love my jib but refuse to move somewhere that has similar problems.
yeah I think more than anything the water park keeps people at Universal a day or so longer, brilliant on their part