Matterhorn and Pinocchio getting refurbished starting July 30th, 2018

[JD2000]

Looks like they figured out that Summer is now the off season.

Is this really true?

 

[Twilight_Roxas]

I hope Pinocchio gets the same treatment as Alice, Peter Pan, and Snow White with projections, and animation.

 

[mickEblu]

Is this really true?

Yes. Specifically late June to late August when the lower tier APs are blacked out.

 

[TP2000]

I stayed up waiting for you @TP2000 and you’re not on. Guess today you decided to not be a little wild and stay up.

Awww... I'm sorry. I got caught up in a Netflix binge session last night after dinner. Anyone wanting a good laugh, I highly recommend Documentary Now.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

Just don't mess with the painted sweets on the floor in the Pleasure Island room. That's so charming.

 

[TP2000]

Is this really true?

Saturdays in summer are some of the best days of the year. Lowest crowds, but the place is open until Midnight and they do all the entertainment; multiple parades, two Fantasmic! shows, fireworks, World of Color (oops, never mind that last one.)

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

World of Color is more boring than Algebra 2 anyway. So long!

 

[vancee]

Awww... I'm sorry. I got caught up in a Netflix binge session last night after dinner. Anyone wanting a good laugh, I highly recommend Documentary Now.

Damn... Netflix!? You are really hip. I wish there were more older people like you.

 

[TP2000]

Damn... Netflix!? You are really hip. I wish there were more older people like you.

Full Disclosure: My college aged nephew set the Netflix thing up for me through this whiz-bang 4K TV I bought last year. I also had to have a Technology 101 course he led me through, including several follow up phone calls to him up at Stanford during the first 30 days of ownership.

But now? I'm a techno hipster who doesn't need a monocle.

 

[VJ]

But now? I'm a techno hipster who doesn't need a monocle.

Let's be real: you'll always need a monocle.

 

[Curious Constance]

Full Disclosure: My college aged nephew set the Netflix thing up for me through this whiz-bang 4K TV I bought last year. I also had to have a Technology 101 course he led me through, including several follow up phone calls to him up at Stanford during the first 30 days of ownership.

But now? I'm a techno hipster who doesn't need a monocle.

 

[PB Watermelon]

I hope Pinocchio gets the same treatment as Alice, Peter Pan, and Snow White with projections, and animation.

Snow White at Disneyland got an f/x uprgade like Pan and Alice?

 

[SuddenStorm]

Snow White at Disneyland got an f/x uprgade like Pan and Alice?

They added a couple projections. Far less than Pan and Alice.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

They added a couple projections. Far less than Pan and Alice.

The Alice updates really ripped off the Cat in the Hat ride. None of these classics needed any tampering. The weird skinny mannequin of Alice became a more on-model chubby looking version making o face.

 

[truecoat]

Sure, its just what I've heard. Similar to Disco Yeti, some areas are not accessible without tearing out sections of the mountain.

The tearing up the mountain to fix the yeti was debunked quite awhile ago by Mr. @marni1971 and one or two others.

 

[Rich T]

I hope Pinocchio gets the same treatment as Alice, Peter Pan, and Snow White with projections, and animation.

The Monstro scene could be made pretty great. The problem with Pinocchio, though, is the calm, peaceful concluding sequence is like, half the ride. They should turn the village scene into Monstro's stomach, the "Wake up" scene into an escape from Monstro (projections would be okay) and the clocks/fireplace scene into the Wake-Up scene.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

I think it's perfect the way it is.

 

[PB Watermelon]

I think it's perfect the way it is.

Pretty low-attendance version of perfection. Pinocchio should be the zenith of dark rides, given how much material they have to celebrate and such a journey of a story. Instead, it's dull, outmoded, and lacking in emotion.

 

[George Lucas on a Bench]

 

[Disney Irish]

The tearing up the mountain to fix the yeti was debunked quite awhile ago by Mr. @marni1971 and one or two others.

I'm basing it what Joe Rohde had said about it at D23:

"You have to understand, it’s a giant complicated machine sitting on top of, like, a 46 foot tall tower in the middle of a finished building. So, it’s really hard to fix, but we are working on it. And we continue to work on it. We have tried several “things”, none of them quite get to the key, turning of the 40 foot tower inside of a finished building, but we are working on it….. I will fix the Yeti someday, I swear. "

If there is different information, I'd be happy to look at it and change my opinion. However until then it appears the issue is still trying to fix a tower inside a finished building which can't be turned.