New/updated timeline for FLE?

redfive13

redfive13

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There seems to be a few threads recently started about FLE's timeline. Does anyone have an updated timeframe for when the new attractions are opening up?

If I remember correctly the 2nd Dumbo, BaTB and LM should be opening this fall. Is this still the case? And what's the best guess on the month? It sounds like a lot of people are trying to book trips but are just guessing about what will be open when...

Thanks everyone!
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

Premium Member
redfive13 said:
There seems to be a few threads recently started about FLE's timeline. Does anyone have an updated timeframe for when the new attractions are opening up?

If I remember correctly the 2nd Dumbo, BaTB and LM should be opening this fall. Is this still the case? And what's the best guess on the month? It sounds like a lot of people are trying to book trips but are just guessing about what will be open when...

Thanks everyone!
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There hasn't been to much info on the rest of Storybook Cirucs but I would be surprised if it wasn't complete by sometime this summer.

BatB and LM around October 2012.

Mine Train first calendar quarter of 2014.
 
Frau Farbissina

Frau Farbissina

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With all the delays, I'm betting no LM or Be Our Guest restaurant until early 2013 with 7 Dwarfs coming in 2014. If you see the expansion from Dumbo, it doesn't look like it's happening any time soon. Storybook Circus will be done before the end of the year though.
 
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filmy3

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Frau Farbissina said:
With all the delays, I'm betting no LM or Be Our Guest restaurant until early 2013 with 7 Dwarfs coming in 2014. If you see the expansion from Dumbo, it doesn't look like it's happening any time soon. Storybook Circus will be done before the end of the year though.
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Wait what delays? I thought that someone said they were 6 months ahead? Who knows maybe I'm wrong.
 
Scuttle

Scuttle

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filmy3 said:
Wait what delays? I thought that someone said they were 6 months ahead? Who knows maybe I'm wrong.
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People did say that and someone actually told me it looked like they were ahead of schedule a long time ago. He actually use to work with WDI, so I valued his opinion and posted it, but it looks like he was wrong. I have heard that Mermaid is basically done, but it needs to wait until some more of the backside of the Mine Train Construction is completed before opening.
 
Frau Farbissina

Frau Farbissina

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filmy3 said:
Wait what delays? I thought that someone said they were 6 months ahead? Who knows maybe I'm wrong.
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LM is supposedly complete inside, but there are delays in other areas that make going to LM difficult. Honestly, to my untrained eye it looks like they could bring guests in after Casey Jr is up but maybe not. It would probably cause some crowd control issues.
 
Gregoryp73

Gregoryp73

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Scuttle said:
People did say that and someone actually told me it looked like they were ahead of schedule a long time ago. He actually use to work with WDI, so I valued his opinion and posted it, but it looks like he was wrong. I have heard that Mermaid is basically done, but it needs to wait until some more of the backside of the Mine Train Construction is completed before opening.
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Isn't the restaurant pretty much done too?? They were completing the mural over a month and a half ago....I definitely see an early fall opening for the back half of FLE...I sure am hoping they find a way to crank up the coaster so they can soft open sooner than 1Q 2014, but I doubt it.
 
danlb_2000

danlb_2000

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Gregoryp73 said:
Isn't the restaurant pretty much done too?? They were completing the mural over a month and a half ago....I definitely see an early fall opening for the back half of FLE...I sure am hoping they find a way to crank up the coaster so they can soft open sooner than 1Q 2014, but I doubt it.
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Except for mural the interior of the dining room looked pretty unfinished in that video. Still a lot of decorative painting and details to do which will take time. The other question is how long the site work around the restaurant will take.
 
cbconglom

cbconglom

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danlb_2000 said:
Except for mural the interior of the dining room looked pretty unfinished in that video. Still a lot of decorative painting and details to do which will take time. The other question is how long the site work around the restaurant will take.
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True, but in some of the other videos they posted of the exterior of lm you could tell the video was old. So maybe the batb mural video was old as well
 
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Ignohippo

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With construction, everything os scheduled at the beginning of the project. Even if they are months ahead in some areas, they may not have others scheduled for completion for months and months from now.

Still, it seems odd to me that they would have LM finished internally six months before it's set to open. From my untrained eye, I'd be surprised if LM and the external elements of BATB aren't open by mid-summer. We'll see.

They are really flying on SW. If it's true they can't open the rest of the FLE until the construction of SW reaches a certain point, then now we know why it's progressed so quickly.
 
bdearl41

bdearl41

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One thing that should be noted is that they will delay the opening of LM and BatB until they have gotten most of the heavy duty construction completed on SDMT, which should be this fall. Disney will probably want to complete the three LM buidings on the backside of SDMT before opening that part of FLE. I bet Circus and LM, and BatB are all open for next spring fully operational. Hopefully by then a great deal of the SDMT major construction will be complete allowing a complete circle to be walked around that attraction by the guests.
 

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