Mine Ride Construction Update

[KLeigh]

I apologize in advance if this question has been answered already:

Do we know if the Dwarf's/Snow White's Cottage will only be a facade, or will it have a working interior (gift shop, m&g, etc) ?

Thanks!!

 

[NormC]

Spring 2014 is what Disney has been saying all along. That is between March 21 and June 21, 2014.

 

[danlb_2000]

I apologize in advance if this question has been answered already:

Do we know if the Dwarf's/Snow White's Cottage will only be a facade, or will it have a working interior (gift shop, m&g, etc) ?

Thanks!!

I believe the Cottage will have a show scene that you will pass at the end of the ride right before unload. Other then that it will just be decretive you won't be able to walk through it.

 

[Pixiedustmaker]

I believe the Cottage will have a show scene that you will pass at the end of the ride right before unload. Other then that it will just be decretive you won't be able to walk through it.

The "cottage" will be a large building (made to look small via forced perspective), which will have the show scene in the back for the mine car to pass by, and the "front" i.e. south side will have the exit and gift shop. I'm hoping they still go with the 'smoke' (steam) through the chimney.

 

[Pixiedustmaker]

Soft opening (unofficial opening to guests) guesses tally:

Pixiedustmaker - December 20th, 2013
hockeyfran - January 15th, 2013
jdmdisney99 - February 13th, 2014
G8rchamps - February 15th, 2014
Tom - March 1st, 2014
danlb_2000 - March 3rd, 2014
KLeight - March 7th, 2014
Goofgoof - March 20th, 2014
Scuttle - March 30th, 2014
Much-Pixie-Dust - April 4th, 2014
Jose - April 12th, 2014
Goofy6294 - April 15th, 2014
ShookieJones - May 2nd, 2014
croboy82 - May 20th, 2014

 

[danlb_2000]

The "cottage" will be a large building (made to look small via forced perspective), which will have the show scene in the back for the mine car to pass by, and the "front" i.e. south side will have the exit and gift shop. I'm hoping they still go with the 'smoke' (steam) through the chimney.

According to Lee there is no gift shop in the cottage and you don't exit through it...

Nah...you exit past the cottage, not through it. No shop there.

 

[Lee]

According to Lee there is no gift shop in the cottage and you don't exit through it...

Based on the diagrams I have/seen, that would be the case.
However, the way things have changed on this ride in the last 18 months or so, anything is possible.

I don't recall seeing anything official about the cottage being guest-accessible...

 

[Scuttle]

Here's a fun idea: Everybody put down a specific date when they think 7DMT will have soft openings.

Be fun to see who gets the closest.

Pixiedustmaker: December 20th 2013.

Put me down for March 30th.

 

[Much-Pixie-Dust]

Here's a fun idea: Everybody put down a specific date when they think 7DMT will have soft openings.

Be fun to see who gets the closest.

Pixiedustmaker: December 20th 2013.

April 4, 2014

 

[GoofGoof]

Here's a fun idea: Everybody put down a specific date when they think 7DMT will have soft openings.

Be fun to see who gets the closest.

Pixiedustmaker: December 20th 2013.

I'll go with March 20th 2014. Leaving a month before the busy spring break time to work out the kinks.

 

[KLeigh]

Put me down for March 7th - catching the college spring break, and (hopefully) opening in time for the (traditional) K-12 spring break during the first full week in April.

 

[Pixiedustmaker]

Based on the diagrams I have/seen, that would be the case.
However, the way things have changed on this ride in the last 18 months or so, anything is possible.

I don't recall seeing anything official about the cottage being guest-accessible...

Oh . . . I thought I saw something like that in concept art. Probably makes sense, why keep the Seven Dwarfs Mine shop next to the Princess meet and greet? Surely they'd like to use that retail space for Pooh and Princess merchandise.

 

[Tom]

I'll go with March 1, only because we'll be there then

 

[WishIwasThere]

Now they're working on the east and west sides of the mountain, probably to give time for the crew to pour any remaining foundation for the queue area.

I wouldn't go as far as calling it a mountain...even in the Disney version. Its more of a hill...maybe even a grassy knoll...or even a rocky mound. Certainly not a mountain.

 

[SirLink]

I wouldn't go as far as calling it a mountain...even in the Disney version. Its more of a hill...maybe even a grassy knoll...or even a rocky mound. Certainly not a mountain.

Ahh making mountains out of mole hills - that joke never gets old.

 

[n2hifi]

I wouldn't go as far as calling it a mountain...even in the Disney version. Its more of a hill...maybe even a grassy knoll...or even a rocky mound. Certainly not a mountain.

Wait! That's not a mountain? I need to get out of Missouri more.

 

[croboy82]

20th May 2014 (yes I'm not optimistic at all LOL)

 

[Jose]

April 12, 2014

 

[Goofy6294]

April 15, 2014

 

[G8rchamps]

I'll go with Feb 15th since we will be there that weekend.