Phantom Mickey
Active Member
So you replace the stacks with new fake stacks, it isn't hard mental pathway to follow. If guests want to touch moving machinery and end up winning the Darwin Awards more power to them.
LOL, the DARWIN AWARDS......
So you replace the stacks with new fake stacks, it isn't hard mental pathway to follow. If guests want to touch moving machinery and end up winning the Darwin Awards more power to them.
A modern paddle boat?
Also I would say the Boathouse is themed to Yachting as well. surely Fultons should have gone after a paddleship theme, just to differentiate from the boathouse!
It fits the Disney Springs theme. Old industrial buildings that have been reworked into modern restaurants and shops.
I thought most of THE ISLAND had been demollished? Are you saying they kept the buildings?
When the sternwheel and the stacks were removed, they were planned to be replaced. They were not removed with the intention of leaving them off for as long as they've been gone.Not to bust the warm cozy feeling that seems to be building here, but the DIZZY I seem to know isn't really impressed with warm and cozy. More of an inventor to snare your dollars any way they can.
... Do you guys know WHY the stacks and the paddle wheel was removed in the first place???
It wasn't because they wanted FOLTONS to be a more stand alone looking building.
... THE PADDLE WHEEL is made of wood and from inception had become a big maintenance issue. DIZZY had to routinely remove the paddle wheel and rebuild it, replacing the rotted wood. you know if it costs money, DIZZY usually has one cure....
... The stacks had a sort of similar issue. They were built to last a long time but time was taking its tole on them. Around the time DIZZY wanted to be relieved of the food service and having the burden of all the other pluses that are associated with a big theme park the STACKS became an issue. During a paint / inspection they found the stacks were rusting and from what I read it was pretty bad at the base of the stacks. The article stated there were severe concerns about the integrity of the metal. Since FOLTONS was coming in, DIZZY just eliminated that maintenance issue.
... The only way I can see DIZZY reversing this decision is if they are REALLY pushing the propaganda for the DizzySprings as a whole. I really don't recall DIZZY reversing a decision like this, once its gone...........
When the sternwheel and the stacks were removed, they were planned to be replaced. They were not removed with the intention of leaving them off for as long as they've been gone.
She - the boat/building - will still be (and always has been) the Empress Lilly. The restaurant is named Paddlefish.
I think SHE is losing her identity. The custom scrolling is being removed, the period railings gone. Her custom arched windows are being torn out and she is being reffited with huge store type windows... Her riverboat look is being reshaped but the added decking and the walls are being pushed out and she is being completely refitted with a modern look. What little that will remain may suggest a boat of some type but her new modern boxy shape will suggest a building.
She lost the monikor EMPRESS LILY when Fultons took over and after the refit the period riverboat look is gone.
Yup. Walked by it today and they are tearing the thing to shreds.That's a view you don't get every day. 45 years stripped back.
Needed it.I wasn't expecting to see that level of re-construction.
I really wish they would've been able to put some type of scrim up.Photo update as of Friday, August 5. A better perspective of the deconstruction work. You can just about see though the entire ship.
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Photo update as of Friday, August 5. A better perspective of the deconstruction work. You can just about see though the entire ship.
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