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[Gabe1]

Some random shots from yesterday from the DHS lot as construction continues
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Thank you for the photos. That is a lot of progress in the last 2 weeks since I returned. They sure are getting quicker sinking those poles.

 

[larryz]

1) The IG tower is green. Not any trick of the light, it is genuine go-away-green.

Thanks for the eyes-on report. I don't understand them painting only one out of all the towers they're installing...

 

[DisneyFreak]

With Disney's amazing new automation system and the bus lanes the twain shall never meet.
They will run like the German rail system

At least the doors didn't pop open.

 

[ParksAndPixels]

Trip from today:

1) The IG tower is green. Not any trick of the light, it is genuine go-away-green.

2) The little bit of silver tower peeking over the back of France looks easily fixable. Just bumping up that roof/facade a few feet would handle it - it's only an issue when looking across the lagoon.

I’m thinking the new facade behind France (RAT Expansion) will possibly be high enough to block the remaining visible top? But just a thought.

 

[monothingie]

Trip from today:

1) The IG tower is green. Not any trick of the light, it is genuine go-away-green.

2) The little bit of silver tower peeking over the back of France looks easily fixable. Just bumping up that roof/facade a few feet would handle it - it's only an issue when looking across the lagoon.

Picture of IG tower from Tuesday.

 

[wdizneew]

Gondola should just float into the Tower of Terror and then do the elevator drop to the ground and let guests out in DHS.

They should expand the gondolas in the future to go through Expedition Everest a la Disneyland's Matterhorn. That way we can get a better look at Disco Yeti

 

[lazyboy97o]

I’m thinking the new facade behind France (RAT Expansion) will possibly be high enough to block the remaining visible top? But just a thought.

Those facades are wrapping the existing walls. They won’t be adding much height. Even then, you would just get blank parapet walls sticking up over the pavilion.

 

[ParksAndPixels]

Those facades are wrapping the existing walls. They won’t be adding much height. Even then, you would just get blank parapet walls sticking up over the pavilion.

I think there is an additional facade that will block the backstage view from the new area, I could be wrong but I thought I remembered seeing that indicated in previous permits and concept art.

 

[lazyboy97o]

I think there is an additional facade that will block the backstage view from the new area, I could be wrong but I thought I remembered seeing that indicated in previous permits and concept art.

There will not be facades on the south side of the walkway, just on the backside of the existing building.

 

[wdizneew]

I think there is an additional facade that will block the backstage view from the new area, I could be wrong but I thought I remembered seeing that indicated in previous permits and concept art.

There will not be facades on the south side of the walkway, just on the backside of the existing building.

Here's the concept art for Ratatouille. Looks like the gondola's will have a clear view into France and vice versa.

Here's a recent photo posted on here by @marni1971 of a gondola tower standing on what would be the left side of the concept art above. Seems like the concept art presents what guests will see while riding the gondolas.

 

[lazyboy97o]

Here's the concept art for Ratatouille. Looks like the gondola's will have a clear view into France and vice versa.
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Here's a recent photo posted on here by @marni1971 of a gondola tower standing on what would be the left side of the concept art above. Seems like the concept art presents what guests will see while riding the gondolas.

The gondola will not be as high as the promotional art.

 

[marni1971]

The gondola will not be as high as the promotional art.

Indeed. Behind France it will be high enough just to clear vehicles and obstacles.

 

[Animaniac93-98]

Really weird question, but are they going to move the Eiffel Tower? It's current location is meant to imply a distance between it and the current set of buildings, but that's not going to work it people can walk around to the back directly behind it.

 

[Walt d]

That would be a interesting mode of transportation to say the least p

So im thinking that boby igor did not think this through very well , with all the Lightning in Florida , some one wil be owning Disney world or is that the Schmidt family park

 

[The real rescueranger]

Really weird question, but are they going to move the Eiffel Tower? It's current location is meant to imply a distance between it and the current set of buildings, but that's not going to work it people can walk around to the back directly behind it.

Don't worry! I heard from a bus driver that they're going to replace the Impressions de France movie with Honey I shrunk the Eiffel Tower. The movie will be about the evil Dr Monet who has started shrinking all of the landmarks. You will be then given a mission on your cell phone to locate him and stop him before he shrinks Spaceship Earth and uses it for a ball at Fantasia minigolf. Unfortunately, the shrink ray is damaged when you defeat him and the Eiffel Tower can not be restored to its original size. I believe the imagineers working the project are the same as the ones who developed Dinorama.

 

[LieutLaww]

Don't give them ideas !!

 

[lazyboy97o]

So im thinking that boby igor did not think this through very well , with all the Lightning in Florida , some one wil be owning Disney world or is that the Schmidt family park

Maybe you should call Doppelmayr and let them know that after decades of building aerial cable systems they somehow never encounter lightning.

 

[NormC]

So im thinking that boby igor did not think this through very well , with all the Lightning in Florida , some one wil be owning Disney world or is that the Schmidt family park

Lightning is not an issue.

 

[Tim Lohr]

So what are they doing in the parking lot, building a monorail station?

 

[danlb_2000]

So what are they doing in the parking lot, building a monorail station?
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New bus drop off area.