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Is the clock ticking on the Sorcerer Mickey Hat icon at the Studios? YES!
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flynnibus
Premium Member
The biggest issue is the small time window. If you only have 6-7 hours between when you are allowed to be onsite till you need to bout.. and you need setup time for all your safety systems, etc and then clean-up time.. It's not a huge window of work each day.
And the work site is small.. there is only so much you can scale the effort up before people are on top of each other or simply blocking each other. There isn't room for multiple cranes, etc.
I'm suprised by the slowdown recently.. as in 'is it really necessary?'.. and don't doubt for a minute this is a smaller than optimal crew for getting it down the fastest... but I'm not at the point of 'w t h' disney.
Given the amount of ground work they have to do, I'm not optimistic anymore about how long it will be till walls are down.
PirateFrank
Well-Known Member
I can't imagine that they would have erected this hat, where people would work and walk underneath, without some variety of heavy duty concrete footings -- on at least the three load bearing pipes coming down from the hat (and likely underneath the hands and ears as well).
With that said, they will have to destroy at least some portion of said footings, to pour concrete over them (or remove them entirely).....If they're being exceedingly cheap (which wouldn't surprise me in the slightest), maybe they just cut the metal at the footing and chuck a planter on top. I wouldn't be at all shocked....the rest of this project has been done uber cheap, why not the finishing aspect?
yellowrocket
Active Member
Then, what's going to happen when the this rumored makeover starts? At the rate this solitary structure is demo'ed, we won't see a new DHS until sometime in the mid 2030's.
Gator
Active Member
For real? The majority of people on this board have been clamoring to bring down the Hat for over a decade. Disney finally capitulates, and we hear complaints that it's taking more than a few weeks to bring down a massive steel structure that took half a year to build. Just be glad that the object of your disgust is being brought down.
Man, Mickey. Take off that ridiculous looking hat! We can't see the artistry behind you! That background was there first!
PirateFrank
Well-Known Member
You do realize my post was dripping with a healthy bit of sarcasm, right?
msteel
Well-Known Member
Looks to me like most of the cuts have been marked and (what I suppose are) crane holes have been opened up in the ears. I think we are very close to seeing pieces of metal come down. With the caveat that I have no appreciable experience in the demolition field.
RayTheFirefly
Well-Known Member
Agreed. It looks like they removed those chunks of plastic on the ears to cut through the metal in those spots. Maybe someone else more experienced can confirm.
SnarkyMonkey
Well-Known Member
This makes no sense. You have presented multiple posts on why you think they are taking too long. What is sarcastic about that?
PirateFrank
Well-Known Member
My point that they should just leave it up and let nature rot it down. That was what the poster quoted and that was what was dripping with sarcasm. I still stand by my point that they are taking the cheap way out here and as park guests, despite paying the same admission with walls up all over the place, we're simply forced to deal with it.
NYwdwfan
Well-Known Member
Just curious if you've actually visited the park since this construction began? I had imagined it would be a monstrous eyesore but in reality I seemed to be the only one that noticed there was even deconstruction going on.
note2001
Well-Known Member
Calm down kids or I'll have to have you put your heads down on your desks, and yes, hands laying flat
Progress with the hat will resume shortly (when compared to the amount of time the hat stood for) You should all just be breathing in the fresh air of change and enjoying it.
Progress with the hat will resume shortly (when compared to the amount of time the hat stood for) You should all just be breathing in the fresh air of change and enjoying it.
sshindel
The Epcot Manifesto
But, but, progress isn't going as fast as some guy on an Internet message board thinks it should be, therefore Disney is cheap and terrible and they contracted this out to a local group of boy scouts to complete the job!Calm down kids or I'll have to have you put your heads down on your desks, and yes, hands laying flat
Progress with the hat will resume shortly (when compared to the amount of time the hat stood for) You should all just be breathing in the fresh air of change and enjoying it.
DisDan
Well-Known Member
So there was an episode of Superhumans where Stan Lee found this fat dude who claimed he and his crew could demo an entire building with nothing but their bodies and karate skills. We should have hired those guys to demo the hat, would have been some awesome entertainment.
Episode is called Robo Men -
"It's rumored Wolfgang Manicke and his posse have the power to destroy buildings with their bare hands. Daniel takes Wolfgang to a scientist to analyze his strength."
Episode is called Robo Men -
"It's rumored Wolfgang Manicke and his posse have the power to destroy buildings with their bare hands. Daniel takes Wolfgang to a scientist to analyze his strength."
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jdmdisney99
Well-Known Member
A true shame that the common guest doesn't appreciate theme park design as an artistic medium. One that necessitates consistency.
Agreed but you can't always blame the guest when a lot of the time Disney doesn't even understand that.
pumpkin7
Well-Known Member
Sooo... was there no update today?
By the way, this list; http://www.coastalsteel.com/project_list.html
Posted earlier.... They've done a fair amount of WDW stuff! Same guys put up the Tree of Life, and Star Tours, and repaired Jaws. Pretty neat! Shame they are having to take apart their Hat butwho better than the guys who put it up eh!.?
By the way, this list; http://www.coastalsteel.com/project_list.html
Posted earlier.... They've done a fair amount of WDW stuff! Same guys put up the Tree of Life, and Star Tours, and repaired Jaws. Pretty neat! Shame they are having to take apart their Hat butwho better than the guys who put it up eh!.?
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jdmdisney99
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pumpkin7
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Thaanks! Though, not much done?