Is the clock ticking on the Sorcerer Mickey Hat icon at the Studios? YES!

DisneyRoy

DisneyRoy

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ExtinctJenn said:
3-6 weeks isn't what folks kept responding with when I'd ask for the theories on how long it'll take. April/May was the time frame people were giving me and thus I was responding to that line of thinking. Either way, I was simply commenting that if they are doing nice and slow and very methodical then it sure implies they aren't just dumping it in a dumpster and are considering keeping it. In other words, they have other options, that are still methodical and don't involve a wrecking ball, that could probably bring it down quicker but it seems, based on the steps they've taken thus far, that they are trying to ensure it's intact. Was simply a comment, wasn't a debate in anyway.
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Take a look at the pictures from the other morning when only the tip was removed. You can see the top of the remainder of the BAH is jagged like they are just cutting it up. Definitely not too methodical or saving anything.
 
Goofyernmost

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DisneyRoy said:
Take a look at the pictures from the other morning when only the tip was removed. You can see the top of the remainder of the BAH is jagged like they are just cutting it up. Definitely not too methodical or saving anything.
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Methodical doesn't mean straight lines, it means sections at time that need to be removed in a sequence to do it efficiently or safely. Saving it for use elsewhere is a different procedure. It doesn't appear that future use is intended when seeing how they are doing this.
 
Clamman73

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hauntdmansion79

hauntdmansion79

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I'm sure someone has answered this somewhere but I can't look through all these pages.....
Is there any insider knowledge as to whether the hat will be re-purposed somewhere? I've heard rumors ranging from it being scrapped, going to Pop Century, by the entrance to DHS, over the mountain at Fantasmic!.....I just didn't know if someone had an real knowledge? Thanks y'all.
 
Brian

Brian

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hauntdmansion79 said:
I'm sure someone has answered this somewhere but I can't look through all these pages.....
Is there any insider knowledge as to whether the hat will be re-purposed somewhere? I've heard rumors ranging from it being scrapped, going to Pop Century, by the entrance to DHS, over the mountain at Fantasmic!.....I just didn't know if someone had an real knowledge? Thanks y'all.
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I'm no insider, but based on what I've been reading from others here, it is being scrapped completely.
 
DisneyGentleman

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Goofyernmost said:
Wow, it seems like if the hat itself weighs 27 tons, there has to be a lot more then just fiberglass. That's 54,000 lbs. excluding the ears and the support structure.
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Actually, this would correspond to a fiberglass structure that is about 1.5 inches thick, on average.

A 100 foot tall hat, 54 feet in diameter is pretty massive.

Now if you want to argue that it is steel, first of all it would probably be rusty by now. Secondly, steel is about 5 times more dense than fiberglass, meaning it would be 1/5 as thick. That would translate to 1/3 inch thick steel plate, pretty impossible to form into the hat shape and more for battleship construction.

Finally, at each level they use a replicating curved shape. That means one mold for many pieces. That's how they can make it cost effectively. There is one mold for the brim, 5 for the 5 levels in the hat, and one for the round cap on the top. The entire skin would have been constructed from 8 molds, with fiberglas/polyester blown into them.

There are a total of 127 panels (I think), each with an average weight of 425 pounds. Pretty reasonable (the weight of two hefty guys per panel).

So I stand by my conjecture that the BAH is fiberglass.
 
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heath.sneyd

heath.sneyd

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raymusiccity said:
I think Turner's involvement is just the tip of the iceberg for a decent refurb that should have been initiated awhile ago.
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As long as we don't have any throwbacks to World Championship Wrestling, we'll be good.
BrerJon said:
I hope the spotlights come back, but we all know Disney so even if they do they'll be around for what, six months tops, before being switched off again.
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That means they'll be on when I get there, so I'm fine with that!
DisneyGentleman said:
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So here is the real Chinese Theatre behind Craig Ferguson, who used to work for CBS but before that was Mr. Wick on the Drew Carey Show on ABC, the network that Disney owns, and he comes from Scotland which is in the UK which is a lot like England in EPCOT, so of course it all must be connected, right? So it's obvious that the newest icon for the Studios must be a giant animatronic Geoff Peterson, because (after all) his arm works which is more than you can say for the Yeti.

And that, my friends, is how logic works on one of these boards.
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I love you. I think I may be the only person who DVR'd his show just to watch it. And now it's gone. Unlike the BAH, I'll miss it.
 

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