danlb_2000
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That is the date by which Disney has promised to spend $1 billion on the parks to avoid paying entertainment taxes.
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DVC Member Lounge Coming to Imagination!
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That is the date by which Disney has promised to spend $1 billion on the parks to avoid paying entertainment taxes.
Pumbas Nakasak
Heading for the great escape.
how fantastic, Disney is really starting to spoil us now. I feel truly blessed.
TheGuyThatMakesSwords
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Being a little ignorant.... hoping others will comment....
Based on the description of the new Lounge - is this targeted toward what once WAS the upper level of the "Journey into the Imagination" ride? I confess - once, several years ago - the wife & I snuck up there for just a couple of minutes, as we had never seen it
. Oh yes - we got booted out .
Based on the description of the new Lounge - is this targeted toward what once WAS the upper level of the "Journey into the Imagination" ride? I confess - once, several years ago - the wife & I snuck up there for just a couple of minutes, as we had never seen it
. Oh yes - we got booted out .They use the lounge in the land as training space and also character swap out for the garden grille
Next Big Thing
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Maybe I missed this being posted, but here it is anyway. Furniture plan/overall Lounge concept. You can see at the bottom it mentions 83 seats including kids and CMs.
Haymarket2008
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I realize this could be a bit far fetched, but is it possible that they are adding the DVC lounge here to keep the pavilion active/open while a possible ride refurbishment is going on? Just really surprised there are no rumblings of plans. The opening for the lounge is in October, when are they finally gonna close this thing?
flynnibus
Premium Member
Slight correction... to avoid having entertainment taxes charged to their product
Disney wouldn't pay.. it's customers would.. effectively raising Disney's prices. And no one should look at that agreement with the city as an indicator of completion dates. That number will be so fudged by what's included, etc.
flynnibus
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There is a lot of space in EPCOT that is not attraction-space any longer. Pavilions, lounges, offices, resturants, etc. This is a large inventory of activity space that while we don't see it all the time, I'm sure is quite actively used for various things.. so it's not necessarily so 'out of sight, out of mind' as we might think. I think this is more about the DVC initative and other things, than it is about Imagination Pavilion itself.
glvsav37
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Haymarket2008
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My bad, I misread the date on the bottom of that conceptual design. It says October 2015. So you're right, Spring 2016 seems right.
Goofyernmost
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Well, there is a difference between "from design to opening" and "from ground breaking and opening". With enough people it shouldn't take any longer to build a number of places simultaneously then just one. Each building with it's own crew, no already active theme park to work around, etc. To compare one to a whole park really isn't doable unless one knows exactly how the project was organized and if it was in the way I think it probably was, then three years to build an attraction is quite a while and not much different then it takes to do one now.
I know, I know.... Disneyland was built in one year (give or take), but, let's all remember that the original Disneyland was a much simpler, less technical and certainly contained fewer buildings of complexity then what happens now. Most of DL was water based or land based for things like stagecoach rides and boat rides. Open land takes very little time to build.
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FoozieBear
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Does this mean they will be gutting the remaining Imageworks items that are still sitting around? That'd be a real shame if they were.
glvsav37
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I don't think so...this is the area above that where nothing is living right now i believe
FoozieBear
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Well if you walk off a little to the side you'll find the remains of it. Its all on the same floor area
flynnibus
Premium Member
besides the rainbow tunnel.. there isn't much up there. Lighting up the tunnel would draw the fans up there big time
Cmdr_Crimson
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raven
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Just to clarify, the lounge will only be located in the upper pyramid area, correct? At least this is what is shown on that image. In that case, it shouldn't take long because that area is completely clear of anything and already has carpet. The other areas (old Imageworks) are all gone and look rather ratted.
Jwhee
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So this has been pretty much removed I take it?
Still there. Expect some temp style walls to be put up to cover the old exhibits area.
Cmdr_Crimson
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Maybe I missed this being posted, but here it is anyway. Furniture plan/overall Lounge concept. You can see at the bottom it mentions 83 seats including kids and CMs.
Okay...This makes sense now of what I was looking at..Everything else is being walled off and the only area that Basically is "Open" is the spiral staircase section...Here's the layout map from Epcot Legacy's site to compare...But, I'm sure that the obsessed curious will be trying to gander a peek up there due to how rare it is to be upstairs..
