Main Street U.S.A. hub redevelopment at the Magic Kingdom

[BernardandBianca]

I also think about how much money it costs to even underpay the CM's. What is there now, about 80K CM's onsite? If that number is true and even if they all only work 20 hours per week, a $1.00 per hour would increase the current amounts by $83,200,000 per year (not counting matching government requirements). The problem there is that $1.00 per hour really isn't enough to help the CM's financially. If you needed to do that it would, at the very least multiply that number by 4, at the very least! This is the one time that Walt was wrong. There is no blessing of size.

OK, let's multiple that by 4, for an increase of $4.00 per hour. Using your figures, that will require an increased outlay of $332,800,000. Or a reduction in the stock buyback of approximately 4.75%. Think about how much money Disney is NOT spending on wages, investments, capital improvements or anything else to make the company better.

 

[Cesar R M]

If you want to see the total butchering of an area look at what Cedar Fair just did to Carowinds entrance.

Before

Now

from classy looking to a big slap of "modern" concrete?

 

[Cesar R M]

*Uh, Disneyland, with its much smaller hub and walkways, still manages to have benches. Lots of benches. They care about their visitors.

unfortunately, benches require trees.
Do you imagine sitting in a broiling hot metal bench? D:

 

[betty rose]

from classy looking to a big slap of "modern" concrete?

I was thinking more "crap" then concrete!

 

[Brian]

New picture from today. Courtesy of Orlando Theme Park News via facebook.

 

[HRHPrincessAriel]

Maybe it's the perspective but that doesn't look nearly as big as I thought it would be.

Edit: I can't really word that much differently...

 

[Brian]

So they've covered them up more or do they just look black but are still green?

Side note: I really like the new light poles.

Yeah, they're covered up with some black-ish scrims with enough room to do some work behind them.

 

[Brian]

One more picture from OTPN via Facebook.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Yeah, they're covered up with some black-ish scrims with enough room to do some work behind them.

That looks dark green to me.

 

[PhotoDave219]

Sure! I don't mind at all.

And yes, the photo is definitely on the "artistic" side, in that I've chosen to accentuate more vivid colors to get a certain style/look to the shot. Yes, the fountains do have a red hue to them in real life, but I liked how it looked and I liked the color it added which is why I took the shot in the first place!

Didnt say I didnt like it. I was just explaining why it looked more red then people would have expected.

 

[HRHPrincessAriel]

One more picture from OTPN via Facebook.

Ok. Perspective was off for me in first pic ;-)

 

[Goofywilliam]

If you want to see the total butchering of an area look at what Cedar Fair just did to Carowinds entrance.

Before

Now

Ugh. I was worried about this when they reported they were redoing the entrance area. Hopefully they will eventually come to their senses and fix this. Modern does not always equal better!

 

[MissM]

Didnt say I didnt like it. I was just explaining why it looked more red then people would have expected.

No worries at all! I didn't mean to imply you had a negative reaction to it. My comment was just a general one to those who said they didn't like the red that yes it's red in real life which is what drew my eye, but I did tweak the photo to make it more vivid. (And thus, it's not quite as vibrantly red in person.) It's all good.

 

[PhotoDave219]

No worries at all! I didn't mean to imply you had a negative reaction to it. My comment was just a general one to those who said they didn't like the red that yes it's red in real life which is what drew my eye, but I did tweak the photo to make it more vivid. (And thus, it's not quite as vibrantly red in person.) It's all good.

Its like you were shooting with Fuji's Velvia film. LOL

 

[bhodge]

It's amazing to me that knotts and some of the other cedar fair parks are even owned by the same company. Here in cincinnati kings island has taken a park that once had charm, detail, thought and uniqueness and -through the bad Paramount years, really bad early Cedar Fair years and now new Ouimet Cedar Fair years stripped any of that charm away while Knotts has worked hard to bring it back. CF has certainly made improvements, but they lack any finesse or attention to detail like this new entrance at Carrowinds demonstrates. They look "nice" in a "wow that's a nice new reststop along the interstate" way.

 

[GetAPaperBag]

New scrim on the left today?

 

[wdrive]

New scrim on the left today?

Personally I think it's less noticeable being just plain dark green instead of the printed scrim.

 

[Sage of Time]

Yeah, that printed scrim is new.

 

[halltd]

A scrim of trees!!!! Everyone should be rejoicing for new trees in the hub.

 

[P_Radden]

It's amazing to me that knotts and some of the other cedar fair parks are even owned by the same company. Here in cincinnati kings island has taken a park that once had charm, detail, thought and uniqueness and -through the bad Paramount years, really bad early Cedar Fair years and now new Ouimet Cedar Fair years stripped any of that charm away while Knotts has worked hard to bring it back. CF has certainly made improvements, but they lack any finesse or attention to detail like this new entrance at Carrowinds demonstrates. They look "nice" in a "wow that's a nice new reststop along the interstate" way.

I live in KY, been to Kings Island many times in my life. I still love that place. It did seem weird to be there after they removed all the ties to Paramount. All the rides names were changed etc... Gotta admit, I miss the old park I grew up with, (yeah I was a kid running around Nickelodeon's Splat City...) but I still love KI and hope it doesn't lose any more of its character. ...Also, Diamondback is AMAZING.

Sry, back to the topic.