News Disney Lakeshore Lodge (Project 89 - Development near Fort Wilderness)

[Agent H]

You should go listen to the Disney Dish where Jim Hill and @lentesta spend the last 40 episodes on the history of Fort Wilderness and supposedly this new resort though they just finished the last episode with Disneyland Paris. I assume it's coming full circle any week now.

To be clear I believe imagineering understands. the new cabins in Paris are proof of that it makes it more disappointing that they were told to build the ones they did here

 

[Disone]

I admire your optimism, but every time someone says, "too soon to judge" or "let's wait and see," it turns out, once we wait and see, that it wasn't too soon after all. Things are pretty much as they look. There aren't last-minute surprises. (See Guardians Box, Poly Tower, etc.).

It's like when your basketball team is down 20 points with 3:00 left on the clock. You know it ain't happening. Sorry. Similarly, those pictures posted above are like, "yeah, this is over."

Being real but not optimistic! I clearly state I do expect it to blend and I meant it.

Just being real in that a few a see through building with a few concrete slabs and pillars with accents of rebar is not the moment of proof to say "see I was right!".

 

[Disstevefan1]

Can you still do tent camping there or did they get rid of that too?

 

[nickys]

Can you still do tent camping there or did they get rid of that too?

Yes you can still camp in tents.

 

[Disstevefan1]

Yes you can still camp in tents.

Do we think this will go away eventually?

 

[lazyboy97o]

To be clear I believe imagineering understands. the new cabins in Paris are proof of that it makes it more disappointing that they were told to build the ones they did here

The problem with the question “Does Imagineering get it” is that it starts with a false premise. Walt Disney Imagineering isn’t some small team where everyone works on pretty much everything. Fort Wilderness’s cabins look different not because there was some dictate, it is because completely different people were involved.

 

[Agent H]

The problem with the question “Does Imagineering get it” is that it starts with a false premise. Walt Disney Imagineering isn’t some small team where everyone works on pretty much everything. Fort Wilderness’s cabins look different not because there was some dictate, it is because completely different people were involved.

Correct. is there anywhere I can get an official list of every imagineer currently working for the company?

 

[Disgruntled Walt]

Correct. is there anywhere I can get an official list of every imagineer currently working for the company?

That's not a creepy question at all.

 

[Agent H]

That's not a creepy question at all.

How is it creepy?

 

[Streetway Again]

How is it creepy?

 

[lentesta]

You should go listen to the Disney Dish where Jim Hill and @lentesta spend the last 40 episodes on the history of Fort Wilderness and supposedly this new resort though they just finished the last episode with Disneyland Paris. I assume it's coming full circle any week now.

It's the increasingly inaccurately-named seven part trilogy.

We took this week off to do an interview. So March 10 should be the last one.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Correct. is there anywhere I can get an official list of every imagineer currently working for the company?

The size of Walt Disney Imagineering fluctuates but is generally well north of 1,000 people. They also make use of independent contractors and vendors, who themselves can be some very large companies. There are also a variety of other stakeholders on any given project that are also going to impact outcomes. It’s a bit creepy because it’s a lot of personal information that doesn’t really tell you a lot.

That said, one of the requirements to receive a Thea Award is providing a credits list. Unfortunately these lists are tightly controlled by various contracts like the credits for a movie, they’re based on the honor system and vendors will often just be listed by company, but they are something.

Thea Awards Digital Programs | Themed Entertainment Association

28th Annual Thea Pictures by Frank Dorosy

www.teaconnect.org

 

[JoeCamel]

Correct. is there anywhere I can get an official list of every imagineer currently working for the company?

Get a job with them and download the internal mail list

 

[Agent H]

Get a job with them and download the internal mail list

Ha! I wish but I don’t have anything close to the needed talent.

 

[JoeCamel]

Ha! I wish but I don’t have anything close to the needed talent.

Some of them don't either....

 

[CJR]

This may have been discussed already, but does anyone know the likely 50 year expiration for this resort?

Do you think they'll go off the original pre-pandemic date or when they restarted the project? Boardwalk for example, didn't open until 1996, but its expiration is set from 1992. If they went off the pre-pandemic, that would be like cutting it ten years short.

 

[nickys]

This may have been discussed already, but does anyone know the likely 50 year expiration for this resort?

Do you think they'll go off the original pre-pandemic date or when they restarted the project? Boardwalk for example, didn't open until 1996, but its expiration is set from 1992. If they went off the pre-pandemic, that would be like cutting it ten years short.

Firstly that depends on whether it’s added to the Cabins at FW resort or not. If that happens it’ll have the same date.

BWV is not a good precedent. It expires in 2042, which is when the very first DVC resort (OKW) expires. The first few resorts all had the same end date.

If it’s sold as a new condo association, it will be based on when it is registered as such. So around when sales begin.