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Mermaid Track Arrives On-Site
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Thrill Seeker
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Since most of the work is only visible backstage (especially Mermaid), no pictures can be posted (unless that CM wants to be fired).
I don't know about pictures just a rumor floating out there. Although I guess a very tall guest would have little problem reaching over the wall.
Why all the secrecy at WDW while at the same time DLR proudly shows off the progress in their parks? :shrug:
BigThunderMatt
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Because unlike DLR, where construction on TLM is taking place smack dab in the center of the park, MK's is in an area that most guests haven't been to in nearly 20 years. Not only that, but many of DLR's guests are AP's and fanatics who drool over this kind of coverage.
Most of WDW's guests are oblivious morons who walk past the construction walls thinking they're a normal part of Fantasyland and completely ignore the murals explaining what's coming. I guarantee you even more of them are ignorant of the giant castle being erected in front of their very eyes.
Rob562
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Also, at DCA they know they have a giant ferris wheel right next door to the construction site, making it pretty much impossible to hide what they're doing, so they didn't really try very hard.
In the Magic Kingdom, they've got Dumbo... (and overhead planes...)
-Rob
castevens
Member
I work in an emergency room, and some of the nurses were talking about a trip that one of the nurses had taken, where she said "it was too bad that they are re-doing Toontown Fair, I'll have to take my kids again when it reopens"
-proof that some guests have no idea what's going on
castevens
Member
As I learned at a conference in Anaheim Convention Center this past December, you can see all of DL (and DCA) from the outdoor patio area on top of the convention center. And it's pretty hilarious that the Christmas tree - as well as the Matterhorn, Space Mountain and Thunder Mountain - all looked taller than their castle.
Cosmic Commando
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Am I the only one who just thinks it's because DCA's opens in 2 months and ours opens in about 12?
Actually, DL posts pictures and such as the project has unfolded. From the track install to the uncrating of the ride vehicles to all aspects of show installation and they even post videos. It is not just fanboy sites like westcoaster etc. That is how I have kept up with the timeline. WDW does treat their projects with more secrecy.
BigThunderMatt
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Again, I don't think it stems as much from secrecy for the sake of secrecy. I'm sure if WDW had a similar fan-base to DLR with the majority of guests being interested in the progress of an attractions' construction, you would see the same kind of coverage coming from WDW.
At DLR they know this kind of coverage is an investment. Showing their progress and the change that's coming gets the AP's foaming at the mouth and ready to be there on opening day along with buying up any associated merchandise.
WDW believes (although I feel somewhat incorrectly), that people are going to come to WDW regardless of what is new or being built, so they don't need to go to the extra expense of producing segments on the progress of the FLE.
RAXIP
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jmick71
Member
the track is definitely there! along with "chips" (or steal frame) for rock work. over the wall picks show boxes? labeled RIDE TRACK, and mountains of twisted steal lying on the floor in front of the show building
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RSoxNo1
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All things considered that's a pretty fair understanding of what's going on.
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flynnibus
Premium Member
More like DCA's has already been going on for years so all the Disney Parks blog activity (which is relatively new) has been posting mostly DCA construction.. there is still to show there. Most of FL's work is boring ground work. Notice the blog hasn't posted tons of Carsland construction except for RSR? Again.. little to show. As the FL expansion gets closer to completion.. you'll see a lot more posted.
unkadug
Follower of "Saget"The Cult
well either Disney had them taken down or the jmick71 was threatened by lawyers to remove them.
Possibly both? :lookaroun
These aren't the photos you are looking for......
JustInTime
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It was just a box with the words "ride track" spray painted on the sides. Nothing major.
TP2000
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WDW also doesn't have a Preview Center like Disneyland does, which is something I will NEVER understand.
And every 6 to 8 months the Preview Center gets updated with new exhibits and artwork and models. Almost all of the information we know about Little Mermaid; from the fact that it has 108 clamshell vehicles to the exact layout of the ride and way the vehicles descend and ascend through the show building, we know because of Disneyland Resort's Preview Center and the two separate Little Mermaid exhibits they've had in there in the last year.
If it weren't for that Preview Center and the Disney Parks Blog reports coming out about the DCA version, we'd know very, very little about the WDW version.
SeaCastle
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Well, when you have four parks with not a lot going on in any of them, there really isn't a need for a preview center.
You've stated in other threads that the California Adventure renovation really is an outlier in the whole of theme parks history. It's a massive, $1 billion plus undertaking, with multiple projects going on at once; it's quite incomparable. The last project of that scale in WDW was EPCOT, which did have its own dedicated preview center. Disneyland Resort didn't have a preview center for years until the one in California Adventure showed up (and the one in California Adventure is solely for California Adventure. Its fate isn't known once the expansion is over.)
Thus, I don't think it's necessary for WDW to have a preview center. I'd love to see one, but the only significant project that's publicly known is the Fantasyland Expansion, which is tiny in scale compared to what's going on at California Adventure right now. Unless they decided to make a preview center about projects that TDO has cancelled and put on hold, there really wouldn't be much substance to a preview center in Florida.